Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-02
Steamer off Japanese Coast
Flashes Plea for Help
to Save Passengers
CHINESE PIRATES
UNDER SUSPICION
Jap Government Dispatches
Warship to Scene of
Supposed Wreck

Hong Kong, May 1.-lnforma-
tion was received here today that
the Siberia is ashore on Samassana
Island off the Formosa coast.
The British cruiser Yarmouth
left at once in all haste to go to
the assistance of the liner.
Toxic. May Wireless calls for as
sis,ance from the Pacific Mail steamer
Siberia, heard on the Japanese coast
today, indicated that she was in grave
peril off the coast of Formosa, The
liner left San Francisco April Z for
Manila. She carries II salon passen-
gers, including Mrs. Francis Burton
Harrison, wife of the governor general
of the Philippines and Mrs. j. B. BEN
tiers, wife of the new British consul
at Manila.
The exact nature of the accident has
not yet been determined nor have any
details been received here up to late
hour tonight. An early wireless report
said the liner was sinking" while n
later message conveyed the informa-
tior that she was ashore six miles
off the southeast main land of For
mosa island.
The Japanese government dispatch
ed the steamer kanto Maru from For
mcsa to the succor of the Siberia as
soon as the news of her trouble was
received. The Siberia left Yokohoma
Arril q and Nagasaki April 70 for
Manila. She had passenger list OF
II persons in the frst ca bin, about 90
In the second and 400 IN the steerage.
She Is under command OF Captain
Feeder and carries crew OF about 200
men.
At a late hour tonight report was
current in Toxic that Chinese pirates
NAV heve been connected with the in
cident to the liner. This fear was held
at Taiu-Pa-Fu, the capital of Formosn
whence it was conveyed in a cable
gram.
The gravest anxiety prevails owing
to the fact that the wireless calls for
help from the Siberia have ceased. A.
A. Williamson the American consul al
Tamsui, Formosa. telegraphs he fears
this means that the vessel has gone
down. When the first wireless calls
for help were heard, the nearest ship
was six hours away.
The Passenger List.
San Francisco, Cal, May 1.-The fol-
lowing passengers boarded the Siberia
for the Orient.
For Manila: w. B. Beard, Geo. NJ,
Egan, Miss Eleanor Gillisey, Arthur
Hallberg, Miss Amelia P. Kline, How
ard Long, Mrs. Jane G. Palmer. Lieut..
l.. W Reece, o. G. Whitaker Mrs. 0.
C. Whitaker,
For Hong Kong: J. Donald Demarest,
Bruce D. Ellis, Mrs. Bruce D. Ellis,
Danforth B. Ferguson. j. St G. Hunt.
Mrs. J. st. G. Hunt, John Hunt, Miss
Lulah Hunt. Mrs. Grace G. Lawtor.
Francis Fl. Love, w. D. Whitmore.
Mrs. w. D. Whitmore, DR.. Wong Him,
Miss Catherine A. Wong Him,
From Honolulu: Mrs P. L. Cherry.
e. B. Kellam. Miss Adeliza Morton
Murphy, Miss Francis d. Murphy, Mrs.
Z. B. Pierce, Henry Russell, Mrs. Hen
ry Russell III,
The following passengers boarded
the Siberia at other points;
Yokohoma; j. W. Doris.
Kobe; Mrs. H. G. Guttridge, Miss
Harriet Guttridge. o. Fl. Guttrldge,
Mrs. D. II. Greenbaum, Miss Katie
Dukes. Mrs. NJ. Bremen.
Nagasaki; Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Rich.
ardson.
Yokohoma; Mrs. Francis B. Harri-
son.
Officials on Board.
Washington May 1.-George M.
Egan who is one Of the Siberia's pas
sengers, has recently been relnstated
as governor Of Batanes in the Phillip
pines, and is on his way to his post.
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