South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-05-01
Fragments of Wireless S. 0, S.
Calls Give News of Wreck OF
American Vessel Off Coast
Of FormoSa.
JAPANESE RUSH AID
70 WRECKED VESSEL
Many Prominent Persons of
Pacific Coast Section Aboard
Washington Gets News
of Disaster.

TOXIC. May 2-( Saturday, a. m.)
While three warships and small
feet OF merchant vessels are rushing
20 the south coast OF EormoSa To- help
the Pacific mail liner Siberia or rcS-
cue her passengers. If the steamer has
sunk, the most powerful wireless sta
tiOns OF the japanese gOVernmcnt are
attempting To learn the extent OF the
accident with which the vessel has
met.
All night the wireless calls for in
formation a. TO the fate OF the ves-
sci. which carries 93 first cabin pas
sengers, 47S other passengers and "A
crew of 900. total OF 721, have been
flashing out over the sea without Se-
curing any definite facts as 90 wheth-
er the vessel il ashore near the island
of kashO on has gone To the bottom
with all on board except those who
might have been able 60 leave in the
small boats.
The anxiety over the vessel was
was doubled by the fact that ner wire
less failed TO send out any messages
after the early -. q. =" calls Ira
gave the location OF the siberia anu
asked for help.
Shortly afser the first news OF an
accident TO the Siberia had reached
here the Japanese navy department is
"hTe governor general Of Formosa
cables that a Japanese cruiser ON way
10 the Okinawa. off the island or XII
yisu, reports that the Pacific mail
steamer Siberia met disaster this
morning in longitude 12I.10 east, lat
itude 22.40 north. She sent repeated
signals Of distress which finally be-
came indistinct No details OF the dis
aster are known. The KantO Maru
has been ordered to the scene"
Intense anxiety was caused by the
reports OF an accident TO the Siberia
among the Americans in Toxic be-
cause of the fact that Mrs. Francis
Burton Harrison. wife OF the govern
or general Of the Philippines. took
passage on the boat for Manila when
it stopped at Yokohama.
There were vague reports current
here this morning, founded on a dis
patch received from the capital OF
Formosa, Tai-Pe-Fu, that Chinese pi-
rates. who recently burned the British
steamer Talon, off Macao. might have
figured in the Siberia's plight These
yet.
Sailed April %.
The Siberia left Nagasaki for Ma
Mia by way of Hong Kong on April
%. A wireless station on the Japan
ese coast which picked up the dis
tress signals OF the Siberia relayed
them to the liner Minnesota OF the
Great Northern Steamship company.
which was within radio range and
the captain Of the liner reported that
he would go 10 the assistance Of the
stricken ship.
A wireless IS. o. S" call from the
Siberia was also picked up BY the
British monitor Minotaur. which re-
ported that she was rushing 90 the
assistance Of the Siberia
As soon as George ". Guthrie. the
American ambassador. heard OF the
disaster he communicated with the
japanese government asking that
warship be dispatched from the near
est naval depot he was informed
that the navy had already sent the
kantO Maru.
The Siberia, commanded by Captain
a. Feeder. left San Francisco on April
Z. Mrs. John 3. Renters. wife Of the
newly appointed British consul at Ma
Mia was another passenger