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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ESTABLISHED 1823. MADAME NILSSON Arrived in the city Monday noon, and at once ordered a HAINES BROS’. JPIAJNT O Sent to her room from BALDWIN’S MUSIC PARLORS, Nos. 64 and 66 N. Penn. Street. CROWN! LWEL FLOIJIL T AN IT E EMERY WHEELS AND GRINDING MACHINES. E. C. ATKINS & CO., CLEMENS VONNEGUT, INDIANAPOLIS. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. ELLIOTT <Sc BUTLER, NO. 3 JRTNA BUrLPtNG. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. CHARLES MARTINDALE, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Prompt attention given to collections and liti gation in .State and Federal court a. PATENTS OBTAINED. Correspondence in relation to pat ents solicited. Office, .Etna Building. REAL. ESTATE AND INSURANCE.^ ALEX. METZGER’S, INSURANCE and LOAN, REAL ESTATE and STEAMSHIP AGENCY, Second Floor Odd-fellows Hall. TRUNK MANUFACTURER. IAULL ASSORTMENT. TRUNKS MADE TO . order. Repairing neatly done. JAMES BOGERT, No. 52 Washington street. Bates House. MISCELLANEOUS. J. W. FORT. W. M. JOHNSTON. J. 11. DONALDSON. FORT, JOHNSTON <fc CO., General Commission dalesmen of Live Stock, Union Stockyards, Indianapolis, [ud. PATE NTS I PATENTS! PROCURED FOR INVENTORS. Patent cases attended to. CHARLES F. JACOBS, Patent Attorney. Indianapolis, Ind. Wholesale and Retail. BOOKS and PAPER. BOOKS and PAPER. MERRILL. MEIGS Jc CO.. Successors to Merrill. Guimard A Cos.. b E. Washington St. and 13 S. Meridian St. H" ERCULES POWDER, THE SAFEST AND strongest powder in the world. Powder, Caps. Fuse, and all tue tools lor Blasting Stumps kept by C. H.JKNNE, Sole Ageut, 29** North Pennsylvania street. QTTTMDQ Blast your stumps with 2Rtna OI U IVII O. Powder. For full informa tion address 8. BECK A SON, General Agents yEtna Powder Cos., 54 8. Meridian street. Indianapolis Oil Tank Line Cos., DEALERS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. Corner Pine and Lord Streets. ~ S A. W S. ' W. B. BARItY, Saw Manufacturer, 132 and 131 S. Pennsylvania St. AN TILBURGH A JANE®. " Successors to Geo. W. Sootts. F LOUR. GRAIN AND FEE D. 5G A 53 North Illinois street. Smith’s Chemical Dye-Works, No. 3 Martindale’s Block, near Postoffice, Clean, dye and repair gentlemen’s clothing; also, ladies' dresses, shawls, aacqucs, and silk and woolen goods of every description, dyed and re -11 mshed; kid gloves neatly cleaned at 10c per pair. Will do more tlrst-oiass work for less money than any house of tue kind in the State. JOHN B. SMITH. THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER IN THE WEST, I’HE WEEKLY INDIANA STATE JOURNAL ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. Ninety oents in clubs of five and over. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking the place of ali others in fac tories, Foundries, Machine Shops and Mills. Parties having tlielr own power can procure au Electric Generator and obtain much more light at much less cost than by any other mode. The Incandescent and storage system has been per fected, making small lights for houses and stores hung wherever needed, and lighted at will, day or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form companies for lighting cities and towns, can send to the Brush Electric Cos., Cleveland, 0., or to the undersigned at Indianapolis. J. CAVEN. Wkyv rooks. Anew edition of Hawthorne, to be completed In 12 vols. musses from an old manse. TWICE TOLD Tales. Now ready; price $2 per vol. HUNT’S TALK ON ART. Second series. Price, net. SI.OO. BACON’S "PROMUf?.'’ Illustrated, with pas sages from the life of Shakespeare. l vol. $5.00. For sale f>y BOWEN, STEWART & CO., No. 18 W. Washington St. CKO TO JEWELFLO UR. WHEN INDICATIONS TUESDAY.— Warmer, fair weather, variable winds, mostly westerly. CUSTOM OVERCOATS. We have yet some of those beautiful Sili< and Satin-lined Overcoats, in medium and heavy weights; Fur Heaver, Meltons, Worsteds and Cassimers. These goods are all of our own manu facture, and sold to the retail trade at manufacturers’ prices. WHEN CLOTHING STORE. THE COLD WAVE. Sizty-Tliree Below at. Kokomo, Col, r and Fifty-Eight at Regina. Chicago, Jan. 22.—The intense cold, which lias prevailed since Saturday morning, con tinues. At 3 o’clock this morning the ther mometer was 23° below zero. The only per sons on the streets are those compelled to be out. Among these there were several frost bites, frozen ears, noses, etc. The wind has packed the snow in solid drifts, which im pede railroad trains. On most of the roads they come in behind, and two locomotives are necessary to each. The cold wave seems to be moving East, and the temperature ris ing at points where it has passed. The blizzard or cold wave appears to have been the severest for years. Stock suffered badly, but no loss of human life is reported. Trains everywhere in the West and North west were abandoned, and were only enabled to start upon the fall of snow. The extremest cold weather is reported from Nevada and Colorado. At Elko, a spirit ther mometer indicated 54° below zero. Ponds and water-holes are frozen solid. The cattle are dependent on them to quench their thirst. A dispatch from Kokomo, Col., showed the temperature was 63° below, with no indica tions of moderating. At Regina the mercury registered 58° below, and the worst storm ever experienced is raging throughout the entire Territory. Many severe and a few fatal cases of freezing have occurred. In Illinois, the thermometer fell as low as 40° below ze*o, that figure being reported from Rockford. There was a change of 80° in ten hours. The Coldest of the Season. St. Paul. Jan. 22.—Last night was the coldest ot the season. The Signal Service thermometer registered 30° below, and pri vate instruments in exposed parts of the city ranged several degrees lower. Dispatches from northern points to-night give the fol lowing reports: Fargo, 38° below; Bismarck, 58° below: Brainerd, 40° below; Grand Forks, 58° below; Winnipeg, Co° below. The weather is a little milder to-night Moderating In the West. Omaha, Jan. 22.—The weather begins to moderate perceptibly to-day, the thermome ter averaging 9° below zero over the State. This morning, the main railway lines are opened. The cattle on the ranges have not suffered. ROBBERY AND MURDER. Five Men Rilled by Bandits While Robbing Express Offices. San Francisco, Jan. 22—A dispatch to Wells, Fargo & Company, from Carson, says the store at Gold Mountain was robbed on Thursday or Friday by mounted and masked men. The proprietor and two clerks were killed. The road agents then went to the store at Silver Peak and robbed it, killing the proprietor and one clerk; two of the rob bers were also killed. Gold Mountain and Silver Peak are in southwestern Nevada, distant from telegraphic communication. Loss at Hope, Ark, Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 22.—A Hope, Ark , special to the Gazette says: "Fire last night at Washington, Hempstead county, destroyed property valued at $50,000. The principal sufferers are, JettA Simms, general merchandise; loss SB,OOO, insur ance, SI,OOO. I)r. W. 11. Holts, drug store; loss, $5,000; insurance, SI,OOO. C. D. Conway, grocery store, loss $4,000; insurance, $2,500. Wright, liquor dealer, loss $2,000; insurance unknown. Thomas J. Williams, merchant, loss $1,500; insurance unknown. Southwestern Press printing office, loss sl,- 500; insurance unknown; W. J. Browning, grocery store, loss $2,500; insurance, $1,500. George Crosnoes, confectionery, loss $500; insurance unknown. Ice Bridge at Niagara. Niagara Falls, Ont., Jan. 22.— An ice bridge formed to-day, and hundreds crossed safely. During its formation the ferryman's house was lifted bodily and turned over on its side. The inmates escaped with difficulty. Forty feet of the inclined railroad on the American side was torn away and carried be neath the ice. Failure of a Grocery Firm. Chicago, Jan. 22. —Boies, Fay & Conkey’s wholesale grocery house is in the hands of the sheriff, on judgment entered against them to-day for $95,000. Assets stated to be $300,000; liabilities unknown, but reported to greatly exceed assets. Reception to Red Cloud. New llaven, Jan. 22.— Red Cloud was given a reception to-day. President Porter and the faculty of Yale College were present. L. Tanner, druggist, Tanner, Marshall county, fciiyn, “Brown’s Iron Bitters sells well and gives good buiisfuoiiou.” INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2.3, 1833. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Prospect, of a Clash Between the Lumber and Sugar Interests. The Advocate) of the Former Propose to Have Sugar Placed on the Free Luc lu Company with Lumber. Fifteenth Annual Convention of the Woman Suffragists. Mr. Calkins'e Amendment Providing that No New Paymaster Appointment* bhall Be Made for tho Navy. —■— ! LUMBER YB. SUGAR. How the Lumber Men Propose to Retaliate on the Sugar Interest. 6pecial to the I mlianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 22.—“A lively day,” was the commeut of one member to another this evening, in speaking of the work of Congress. In the Senate, after a day of argu ment, lumber was put upon the free list, to the outspoken disgust of the Representatives of the lumber-producing States, character istically expressed by Mr. Conger, when the vote was announced, in these words: ‘‘Well, now, I’m ready to take up another bill.” A senator who vigorously opposed this proposition, which strikes at the principal industry of his State, remarked to-night: "Wait; we will see if our Southern brethren will stand up to the rack and their consis tency; wait until we put sugar on the free list—and why should we not do so? Sugar is a substance in universal use, and whose use there is no public reason for discourag ing. As our own planters produce but eleven per cent, of the quantity consumed in this country, the duty is a tax upon every men, woman and child in Amer ica, and it is a tax that operates to force upon the market great quantities of inferior and deleterious sub stances—salt of zinc, glucose, and the like— which are disguised to pass as sugar. The operation of this duty for the past twenty years has caused no increase in the amount of home production, but on the contrary a diminution, as is shown by the statistics. Louisiana produced during the ten years im mediately preceding the war 2,974,012 hogs heads of sugar under the operation of free trade, while for twenty years since the war the entire product has aggregated only 1,986.215 hogsheads, and this notwith standing the supposed stimulus of a protec tive tariff*. In the case of sugar, there fore, the duty is clearly not protective for the purpose, and the result of a genuinely protective duty is to increase the amount of home production. The con tinuance of this duty is as objectionable as were the duties upon tea and coffee, and, as the recent experiences of the treasury prove, it offers as much premium to fraud and de ception as any other duty in the tariff, if not more. Why, the people of this country have been paying in sugar duties, each year since the war, five times the total value of the entire Louisiana sugar crop, and have paid in good faith, from the patriotic motive or sustaining the revenues of the government and protecting a native industry. Glass houses are bad places from which to throw stones. If this propo sition is seriously made, we look for such a deluge of Southern and Democratic eloquence as lias not been encountered ‘befo* de war.’ Plate glass will cease to disturb the North Carolina senator and the would-be cham pion of American labor, and the poor man’s interests will find their stereotyped argu ments worse than useless.” To-day’s action by the Senate hast raised grave doubts as to the possibility of passing a general tariff bill, as every such amend ment increases the number of those who will vote against the bill if it ever reaches the point of action upon its final passage. THE SUFFRAGISTS. Opening of the Fifteenth Annual Session of tho Association. Bpecial to the Indiauaxiolls Journal. Washington, Jan. 22. —For the next four days the ladies who believe that the provi sion of the constitution which declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside, is broad enough to include them, and that citizenship carries with it suffrage, will divide with Congress the honor of distracting public attention. The fifteenth Washington convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association was inaugurated at Lincoln Hall this evening. The large hall was crowded, and the famous “Zekle’s Wife,” by Amy T. Dunn, of Indi anapolis, in costume, was tho feature of the evening. The programme for to-morrow will be: First session, 2 o’clock p. m.— Prayer; open ing address, "Why We Came to Congress,” by Susan B. Anthony, vice-president at large; "The Work of the Hour,” by Rachael G. Foster and Ellen R. Sheldon, and the treasurer’s report, by Jane N. Spoftord; ‘‘The Lesson of the Nebraska Campaign,” by May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis. Second session, 7:30 p. m, —“ls it a Crime to Bo a Woman?” by Lillie Devereux Blake, of New York city, and “A Woman Without a Country,” by Phoebe W. Couzins, of St. Louis. The programme for the other days is of interest. A large number of the delegates have ar rived and have quarters at the Riggs House. Among them are Miss Susan B. Anthony, Miss Phoebe Couzins, Mrs. Rogers, of Troy, N Y.; Mrs. Sewall, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Me. Kenney, of lowa. Mrs. Poll, of New York. Mrs. V. L. Minor Miss Shut tuck, and others. THE HOLY LAND. Interesting Resume of the Present Condition of Palestine. From Report of Consul Merrill, Jerusalem. Tbe condition of Palestine during the past year and up to the present time has been one of general prosperity. The rains, upon which everything depends, were ab undant and the ciops were excellent. There has been an increase in the population of this district during the past year, which can be attributed chiefly to Jewish i mruigration. This increase Is confined wholly to Jerusa lem Jaffa and Hebron, and may be estimated at about 7,000 souls. Os this number Jerusa lem has received 4,000 or more, Jaffa less than 2 000 and Hebron 1,000 The condition of these Jewish immigrants is pitiable. They belong to the poorer classes, and come here to escape persecution in Russia and elsewhere. They find to their sorrow that they are not * anted here, and that the government Ims actually issued an order prohibiting the landing of Jewish immigrants. Very many of those who came, or attempted to come, have gone back, while large numbers of those who remain are in distress. Much has been done to relieve their immediate ants, but still their condition is wretched. Among matters which deserve to be brought to the attention of the department are the signs which exist of the material prosperity of this city. Perhaps the most marked of these is the impetus that has been given to building operations during the year. So much is going on in this direction that a person might easily be misled into supposing that Jerusalem was a city of wealth. Who ever builds anew house, or makes repairs or additions to an old one must first obtain a permit from the authorities. I have obtained from the office of the municipality the fol lowing list of permits for the six months of the current year from March to August. The total is fifteen repairs, sixtj r -three additions, and sixty-five new houses. With regard to the last figures (sixty-five), it is necessary to explain that in many cases several houses are built in common, or as one small block, in which case one permit covers the whole, and hence the actual number of new houses is considerably greater than tbe figures indi cate. It will be of interest if I state further that of these permits of all classes, two-thirds were to Jews. Considering all the obstacles in the way, the growth of Jerusalem during ton or more years oast has been remarkable. I made ray first visit to this city in the year 1869. In the years from 1875 to 1877, I spent, as some members of the department know, two full years in the work of explorations in the country east of the Jordan, and during that time I frequently visited Jerusalem. 1 left for America five years ago, and since that time the growth of the city, outside of the walls, has surprised me. Small and neat, or large and beautiful houses, built in mod ern style, have sprung up, and gardens of fruit and shade trees have been planted, so that the suburbs of Jerusalem are beginning to present an aspect of comfort and thrift. Five years ago the ground where some of these houses and gardens now are was rocky and barren in the extreme. The little that has been done is sufficient to show what, un der favorable circumstances, might be done for a large part of the entire country. Not withstanding the number of new houses erected, rents have steadily advanced during the year, and it is very difficult for foreign ers to obtain suitable places for residence. DISAGREEING JUDGES. Decision by the Supreme Court In an Im portant Constitutional Case. Washington, Jan. 22.—A decision was rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States, to-day, in the important constitutional case of the United States against R. G. Har ris et al., brought upon certificate of differ ence of opinion between judges of the United States Circuit Court for the district of West ern Tennessee. The particular question pre sented here is the constitutionality of section 5,519, Revised Statutes. The decision is as follows: “If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire, or go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, for the purpose of" depriving, either directly or indirectly, any per son or any class of persons of the equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges under the laws, or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the con stituted authority of any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or Territory equal protection of law, each of such persons shall be punished by fine of not less than SSOO, nor more than $5,000, or by imprisonment, with or without hard labor, not less than six months nor more than six years, or by both. Such fine and imprisonment, 'the court holds in an elaborate opinion by Justice Woods, as that provided by this section, is not supported by the authority of the Federal constitution, and that enactment is beyond the powers of Congress. ■ - GENERAL AND PERSONAL. Doings and Movements of Indiana Repre sentatives and Senators. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 22.—1n the House, this morning, a favorable report from the mili tary committee was submitted upon Repre sentative Holman’s bill donating two con demned cannon and four cannon-balls to Alois O. Bachman Post, No. 20, Grand Army of the Republic, tube placed in the cemetery owned by them at Madison, I ml. The debate upon Representative Calkins’s amendment to the naval bill, providing for the virtual abolition of the pay corps of the navy, bids fair to be decidedly spirited to morrow. Both of the Indiana senators were absent to day, Mr. Harrison having gone to New York to visit his sick wife, and Mr. Voorhees to attend to some business. New Regulation* for Chinese. Special to the Indiauapolis Journal. Washinutcn, Jan. 22.—T0-night the new Treasury regulations relating to the recent decision allowing Chinese laborers en route to pass through this country were submitted to the Secretary of State for any suggestions he might make in order to harmonize them with international law and the Chinese treaty. The latter has returned the papers, suggesting slight changes in a few of the sec tions. They will be printed and sent to the collectors of customs and others, probably some time this week. An Order to Purchatte Silence. Washington, Jan. 22. James P. Brown and JohirCarey, of Oregon, testified in the star-route trial relative to the route from j Canon City to Fort McDermott. Ore. Dur ing Carey's examination a letter from Minor to witness was read, wherein he is directed t j purchase the silence of the person in Oregon who had been sending to the department pro tests against tbe continuance of the increased service. Petitions In the Senate Washington, Jan. 22.—This morning Mr, Cameron, of Pennsylvania, presented in the Senate eighteen memorials, signed exclusive ly by laborers, skilled and common, in Penn sylvania steel and iron works. Mr. Pendle ton presented a memorial from the Swift Iron-works and seventeen other corporations and firms of Cincinnati, asking a duty of two and otic-half cents per pound on tin-plate. Notes and Personalities. Special to the ImbanaDolla Journal. Washington. Jan. 22.—A. C. Harris, of Indianapolis, and A. W. Wiley, of Lafayette, are registered at the Ebbitt House. The outcome of tbe pending postoffice ap propriation bill will probably be two-cent letter postage after July 1, 1883. Frederick A. Polke has been commissioned postmaster at Oakland, and Marion Pulley at Union Grove. The star service upon the route from Elkins ville to Guthrie has been changed to the fol lowing schedule: Leave Elkinsville Tuesdays ami Saturdays at 1 p. m.; arrive at Allen’s Creek by 4 p. m.; leave Allen’s Creek Tues days and Saturdays at 8 a. m.; arrive at Elkinsville by 12 m.; leave Allen’s Creek Mondays and Fridays at 12 m.; arrive at Guthrie by 2p. m.; leave Guthrie Mondays and Fridays at 2:30 p. m.; arrive at Allen’s Creek by 4 p. m. The House agricultural committee this morning agreed to report favorably Mr. An derson’s bill creating an agricultural com mission to inquire into the subject of trans portation and other matters pertaining to agricultural products. Clara A. Scott, of New York, presented, through Speaker Keifer, a petition asking for SIO,OOO of Congress, partly because of her services as a nurse during the war, and part ly because of the persecution of a certain United States senator, not named, who drove her from the department in 1860 be cause she would not yield to his tempta tions. SENATORIAL. No Election in Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb,, Jan. 22.—Tho sixth ballot for United States senator, to-day, stood: Stickell, 22; Thayer, 15; Millard, 15, Saun ders, 13; Cowen, 13; Brown, 9; Manderson, 7; Morton, 5; Savage, 4; Conner, 4; Munger, 3; Lake, 2; Livingston, 2; Dorsey, 2; Crouse, 2; Weaver, 1; Doane. 1. The entire vote cast for Ashby on Saturday gives Stickell his ballot. A seventh ballot was taken at once, with the following result: Stickell, 19; Millard. 16; Thayer. 16, Cowen, 12; Manderson, 8; Saun ders, 13; Brown, 5: Morton, 4; Conner, 3; bal ance scattering, The convention then ad journed. A later dispatch says there is a strong probability of a settlement of the senatorial question to-morrow. Strenuous efforts are being made for a Republican caucus to-night, which will probably be successful. There are seventy Republicans in the Legis lature; sixty-seven will elect. A call for a caucus was signed this afternoon by fifty members. The fight is growing tire eotne, and it is tame and spiritless. Six or eight of the leading candidates are unobjec tionable, and no bitter feeling can be engen dered against any of them. If the caucus is held to-night tho election will probably take place to-morrow, though the caucus may not agree. One Ballot in Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 22.—0n1y one ballot was taken to-day, resulting: Windoni, 44; Wilson, 20; Coie, 16; Dunnel, 10; Hubbard, 9; Kindred. 5; Farmer, 4; Start, 4; Davis, 3; Wakefield, 2; Berry, Start. Castle, Gilman, Armstrong, each 1; total, 123. Mr. McPherson Secure* the Nomination. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 22.—John It. McPher son was nominated for United States Senator by the Democratic caucus this evening on the first ballot. The Colorado Caucus. Denver, Jan. 22.—Following is the last ballot for Senator: Pitkin, 17; Tabor, 0; Hamm it, 10; Bowen, 20. Those Mutual Union Papers. Jersey City, N. J., Jan, 22. —The eleven boxes of papers seized here, Saturday night, at the instance of Jay Gould, have been placed in the keeping of a master in chancery pending litigation. An ofiicial of the Mutual Union Company sw T ore the property did not belong to his company. The cashier of the firm J. G. Moore &Cos. testified that the boxes and contents belonged to that firm. Mooro Si Cos. are the contractors wdio built the Mu tual Union lines. A Whisky Eire. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 22.—A Coal Center, Pa., special says lire broke out early this morning in Boyles’ distillery, located on Pike’s run near Belle Vernon, Pa,, and be fore the tlames could be mastered the dis tillery the warehouse and the store-room, together with 6,000 gallons of whisky, were destroyed. Loss, $75,000; building insured for $71,000. _ Obituary. Troy, N. Y., Jan. 22.—George C. Burdett, a prominent stove manufacturer of this city and Chicago, died suddenly this evening of heart disease, aged sixty-two. Mr. Burdett was at one time chamberlain of this city, ami was a member of the Assembly in 1865. He was also a member of the Constitutional Commission of 1873, Over Niagara Fall*. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan. 22.— Thomas Wilson, of Philadelphia, expressed his trunk ami valuables to Edwin Selwage, New York, this morning, then jumped from the bridge aud was carried over the falls. Residence Burned. Cincinnati, Jan. 22.—The residence of J. R. Smith, of the firm of Smith Si Nixon, on Glenway avenue, Clifton, burned early this morning. The inmates escaped. Loss $10,000; insured for $6,000. Ex-Treasurer Polk’s Bond. Nashville, Tenn. Jan. 22. Judge Quarles, of the Criminal Court, has fixed ex-Treasurer Polk’s appearance bond at SIOO,OOO. The Need of Cheap Postage, Harrisburg, Jan. 22.—The House to-night adopted a resolution granting each member SIOO worth of postage stamps. Hines* of Reuben R. Springer. Cincinnati, Jan. 22.—Reuben R. Springer is seriously ill with catarrhal pneumonia. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE RECENT DISASTERS. Statement from the Captain of tho Vessel Which Sunk the Cimbria. Rescue of Sixteen Additional Passengers of ihc Cimbria -A High Tribute to Devolkou of the Officers. Additional Details of tho Accident on the Southern Pacific. Investigation Kevealfi the Fact that About Forty Live* Were Lost bv the Oak land Ponder-Works Explosion. THE CIMBRIA DISASTER. No Traces of Survivors or Bodies—Statement of the Captain of the Sultan. New York, Jan. 22. —The agents of the steamer Cimbria received the following dis patch this morning from the Hamburg agents: "Our steamer Hausea has returned from her cruise, She saw the wreck of the Crirabia, five miles northwest of Borkum lightship, the topsail yard above water. She saw no trace of survivors or bodies, although the weather was clear. She inquired at the Borkum lightship, whore nothing is known about any boat or persons saved.” A London dispatch says: “The Cimbria lies sunk in ninety feet of water. Three boats were launched before she sank.” One of the boats which the crow succeeded in launching before the foundering of tlie ship Cimbria, capsized im mediately, and it is feared all the persons at present missing have been lost. A Vienna telegram says there were seventy two Austrians and Hungarians on board the Cimbria. Eye-witnesses of the disaster that on all sides were men, women and children wildly imploring aid. A Berlin dispatch says that, according to accounts published in that city, the women and children on board the Cimb.'ia were placed first in the boats. Boats No. I and 7 got off clear, but No. 5 as so overcrowded that it capsized. The first officer held burn ing torches while the passengers were enter ing the boats. He was drowned. The third and fourth officers and the second engineer were saved. The survivors describe the moment of sinking as a terrible one. The air was filled with the cries of the drowning hundreds, who remained floating a short time until be numbed by the icy water. In a few minutes all was over. Os the women on hoard the Cimbria only three were saved. One was a young Polish girl, who was on her way to join her parents in America, with her aunt, who drowned be fore her eyes. Another girl saved herself by holding fast to the edge of a boat. She could only be dragged into it after an hour and a half’s immersion. Up to the last moment the survivors en deavored to rescue all they could, but as silence came on they found no more alive, but only met occasionally with the bodies ot the drowned. Os the eight boats of tbe Cimbria only four could be lowered. In answer to telegraphic inquiries at Bor kum and Nordeny, the reply received is that no further rescued * are known at those places. There has been some feeling expressed against the officers of the Sultan. A reporter who went on board complains that he could not extract any ex planation from the officers or crew, who ail observed a rigid silence in reference to the questions he put. Christian Bahm and Joseph Quotes, Amer icans, are missing. STATEMENT FROM THE CAPTAIN OF THE SULTAN The captain of a steamer which has ar rived in the Humber from Hamburg makes the following statement, at the request of the captain of the Sultan: “The Sultan had made an unusually rapid passage, and sighted Borkum light between 1 ami 2 o’clock Saturday morning; the weather was hazy, and soon after became very foggy. The engines were eased to dead slow, and the steam whistle was sounded every few seconds. The captain and chief officers were on the bridge, and two of the hands were looking out forward. Suddenly the green and masthead lights of a steamer were seen two points on the star board bow, and the captain of tho Sultan thought ttie approaching steamer would keep her course and go clear. It was noted, however, that she evidently posted and came around rapidly. Itwa3 too late to do anything but stop and reverse, which was done. By the time the engines had revolved once the captain noticed the other steamer’s port-light coming rapidly toward the Sultan, and the next instant, with the great way she had on, she caught the Sultan’s bowsprit in her port fore-rigging, bringing it right around. There was great consternation on board the Sultan, as it was feared so much larger a vessel would sink her. The Sultan’s crew hailed the Cimbria to stand by, but no reply was received. The vessels parted in the fog, and a few seconds later the mate of the Sultan saw the Cimbria coming up on tho other side. lie called to the German master to go full speed astern. This was done, and the Cimbria again crossed tlio Sultan’s bows and then disappeared. ‘‘An examination of the Sultan’s damage showed that the upper part of her hawse pipe and everything forward had been driven through the collision bulk-head into the forecastle, where the crew lmd a narrow escape. The Sultan remained on the scene five hours, and the captain heard no sound during the whole time, and was severely blaming the German captain of the Cimbria for leaving without having ascertained the damage to the Sultan. He had no idea the Cimbria had foundered until he arrived at Hamburg. Before the collision occurred lie heard no sound from tho Cimbriu’s whistle. When he first saw tier the Cimbria was going nt full speed. He supposes tho Sultan’s beams ripped open the Cimbria’s plates.” STATEMENTS BY SOME OF THE RESCUED. A Hamburg dispatch says: The Diamante, one of tho steamers sent in search of th< missing passengers and crew of tlj2 Cimbria, arrived this afternoon with sixteen passen gers and a fireman of the ill-fated vessel. The rescued passengers state that after hav ing left tho Cimbria sinking, their boat also capsized ami they sought refuge in some rig ging of the Cimbria which was still abovr water. They remained in this position ter hours, freezing from cold and expecting every minute to be their last, until they weie res*