Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-01
Wireless Tells of Grave
Peril to the Siberia of
Pacific Mail Line, With
72l on Board.
MRS. HARRISON, WIFE OF
PHILIPPINES HEAD, ON SHIP
Calls for Help Cease Suddenly
and May Mean That Vessel
Has Gone Down-Dispatches
Say Chinese Pirates May
Have Caused Disaster.

TOXIC. May Wireless calls for
assistance from the Pacific Man
steamer Siberia. heard on the Japan-
ese coast today. indicated that she
was in grave peril off the coast OF
Formosa- The liner left san Fran
cisco April I for Manila. She carries
seventy-one passengers, including
Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, wife
of the governor-generaI of the Philip
pines.
A dispatch from Formosa hints
that Chinese pirates may have had
something to do with the disaster.
The exact nature of the accident
has not yet been determined, nor
have any details been received here
up to a late hour today.
An early wireless report said the
liner was sinking" while a later
message conveyed the Information
that she was ashore" six miles on
the southeast mainland Of Formosa
Island.
Rescue ship on Way.
The japanese government dis
patched the steamer Kanto Maru
from Formosa to the succor of the
Siberia as soon as the news of her
trouble was received.
Among the passengers on the ST.
IBERIA are Mrs. Harrison and Mrs.
John B. Renters, wife of the new
British consul at Manila.
The Siberia left Yokohama April
I 27 and Nagasaki April % for Manila
She had a passenger list Of sevenfy~
one persons in the first cabin, about
fifty in the second and 400 In The
steerage. She is Is command .of
Captain Zeeder and carries q crew
OF about 20g men.
A report was current in Toxic that
. Chinese pirates may have been con-
nected with the accident to the liner.
! This fear was held at Tai-Pe-Fu, the
capital of Formosa, whence II was
conveyed in a eablegram.
wirelesse Calls Cease.
The gravest anxiety prevails. owing
to the fact that the wireless calls for
help from the Siberia have ceased.
A. A. Williamson. the American con-
sui at Tamsui. Formosa. telegraphed
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.
SAN FRANCISCO. May THE fol-
lowing passengers boarded the Siberia
here for the Orient; For Manila--W.
! 3. Beard, George NJ. Egan, Miss Ei
eanor Gillisey. Arthur Hallberg, Miss
Amelia ?. Klein, Howard Long. Mrs.
Jane G. Palmer. Lieutenant V. G.
Reyes, o. c. Whitaker, Mrs. @. G.
! Whitaker.
| For Hong Kong-J. Donald Demar-
est, Bruce D. Ellis, Mrs. Bruch d.
Ellis, Danforth B. Ferguson, J. st.
c. Hunt, Mrs. ]. st. c. Hunt, John
/ Hunt, Miss Lulah Hunt. Mrs. Grace
iC. Lawton, Francis H. Love, W. D.
/ Love, W. D. Whittemore, Mrs. w.
D. Nhittemore. DR.. Wong Him, Miss
Catherine A. Wong Him.
From Honolulu-Mrs. P. L. Cherry,
/ e. 3. Kellam. Miss Adeliza Morton
4 Murphy, Miss Frances d. Murphy.
Mrs L. B. Pierce. Henry Russell.
] Mrs. Henry Russell.
] The following passengers boarded
the Siberia at other points:
! Yokohama-J. ". Doris.
/ Kobe-Mrs. H. Guttridge. Miss Har-
riet Guttridge. Q. H. Gutridge. Mrs.
/ D. n. Greenebaum, Miss Kate Dukes,
4 Mrs. NJ. Brewer
Nagasaki-Mr. and Mrs. w H.
! Richardson.
Yokohama-Mrs. Francis B. Harris
son.