New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
Liner Arrives in Manila
After Ureventful VOy-
age from Nagasaki.
MRS. BURTON HARRISON
AMONG PASSENGERS
Steamship Was Reported Ashore
on Island Off Formosa in
Grave Peril.

Manila, May 2-The Pacific mail
steamer Siberia arrived here at II
o'clock to-day. Her captain reports
that the vessel had an uneventful voy-
age from Nagasaki TO Manila
Captain Feeder Of the Siberia ex-
pressed the belief that the reports In
circulation yesterday and last night
that his vessel was in distress off the
coast Of Forrnosa and had sent out
calls for assistance arose over confu-
sion IN the call letters Of the steamer
Persia. M B. s." being mistaken for
IS o s." the marine wireless request
for aid.
Tho wireless operator on board the
Siberia said the atmospheric conditions
Yesterday had been bad. making the
sending Of wireless messages dihlcult'
The first report that the Siberia was
IN distress was a wireless message re-
ceived at the station at OseZcakai'
Iapan. II was said to have come direct
from the Siberia early Friday morn
ing. and said that the steamer had
met with an accident and was in dis
tress. The message was mutilated
and no further information could be
cleaned from IT,
This message was communicated TO
IN. Great Northern steamer Mime
sofa and the British cruiser Minatour.
The Japanese government ordered the
Kanto Maru from a Forrnosan port and
several warships to the scene OF the
reported wreck.
Manila. May by wireless late TO-
night from the Pacific Mall steamship
GUERRA the following dispatch was re-
ceived:
"ciber,a IN no trouble. On her course.
Feeder"
This set at rest the rumors that had
.oo, riye here all day that the ship had
stranded. perhaps foundered. with ~
neople on board. The most concerned
~ those who waited anxiously Tor news
.,, the vessel was Governor General
r,rarc,s Burton Harrison, whose wife
uas reported as having taken passage
at Yokohama, though when she left the
,.,o,ds several weeks ago, she planned
a. atav away until the latter part OF
May.
r,, massage also furnished apparent
oorrohoration Of the report earlier In
~. dav that the Siberia was making
49,. ,cbedule and would reach Manila
about $3.50 o'clock Saturday morning
This message was relayed by the
Ir,,,od states cruiser Galveston, which
80. civ miles from Formosa, near
which island the days reports had
n,oced the Siberia in peril.
,,.,. Nav Among the passengers on
c,,oria are Mrs +. r. Harrison, wife
- Governor General OF the Philippines.
-, Mrs John g. Renters the wife or
~, .oc.ntIy named British Consul at Ma
.u, The complete passenger list reported
:, q, The first cabin, 80 In the second and
III IN tnc no. x-..s. -,..ao-
-, an IN the steerage. Captain Leecer
49, CREW Of about 30 men, all Chinese
except the of1cers
From the capital OF Formosa came late
tonight the information that the plight OF
,ho siberia might be laid 10 Ihihese
.,,r,,as This view was accepted In Tai
ra-,u the capital. and the American Con-
-, ., Tamsui. Formosa. reported that he
feared the ship had foundered.
T,a Japanese Navy Department was
,r,,,,ad TO discredit the reports OF piracy,
o>pressing the opinion that they had
,ro,yn from the exaggeration OF the re-
o@,t ,ooting OF an English vessel by
pirates -, -.
The siberia's regular course lay pc
.,,.oo, San Francisco. Honolulu. foko-
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