THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER,-VOL. XXXIII.. >O-

Juried <pPttite.SPECIAL PRICES TODAY.

FRENCH PRUNES?2', t per pound; same areusually sold st 6c to 8c per pound.

\u25a0FINE BARTLETT PEARS?Sc per pound;

considered «ood value at 10c to 12c per

pound.PITTED roUWES-6c per pound; regular 10c

value.I BLACK FIGS?3c per pound; regular price

6c to 8c per pound.

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SEATTLE. WASHINGTON, MONDAY, AJPBIL U, 1898.?FOURTEEN PAGES.

Between Life and deathon icy Chilkoot trail

Sixty-Eight Bodies Are Re-ported Recovered.

THE THRILLING EXPERIENCE TOLD.

Steamers Australia and City of Seattle Arrive Yesterday asFuneral Ships, With Flags at Half Mast, Bearing theBodies of Some of the Unfortunate Victims of the Dis-aster and Bringing Sad Tidings to Many Families inSeattle?List of the Dead as Far as Reported?Nar-row Escapes?The Worst May Be Yet to Come.

THE DEAD AND MISSING.Tke Hat of dead ap to Weiaeiiar CTeilaf follow*. It la of

eearee aakjeet to eorreetloac

f A. CHAPPELL, Seattle.

| R. L. ESTERHKOOK, Seattle.

MBKU GARRISON, Seattle.

9 COX GEPHART. Seattle.

| EL P. HAINES. Seattle.* C. P. HARRISON, Seattle.9 KU COOK, Seattle.

j, UKORtiB OVERTON, Seattle.

£ W. L. RILEY, Seattle.

I COS RISER, Seattla.

$ STEVE STEVENSON, Seattle.I FRANK SPRAGUE, Seattle.

I C. R. HOMER, Seattle.

9 A. D. BISSELL, Seattle.

| I. SPRAGREE. Ballard.ED DORAN, Tkcoma.

9 ALBERT ENGLUND, Taroaa.

| S. M. GRIMES, Tacowa.*

HARRY HOLT. Tacoaa.

I A. F. KING, l<aeoaa.

| J. R. PIERCE, Taeoaaa.

fif <l. W. SMITH. Wool ley, Waak.

| O. A. ULEN, Wool ley.

| T. GLENN. Tekoa.

f:

E. It. JOHNSON, Spokane.? TOM CULLIEDEN or COLLINS,

f Portland, Or.

TIM GLINN (foreaaa). Port-'

laad. Or.

) S. T. HUDSON, Port laad. Or.

NAXFOHD McNEILL, Portland.*

JAMES SMALLWOOD. Portlaad.

9. ANDREW ANDERSON, Saa

£ FrancUeo.

W. CARL, Saa Fraaelaeo.

9 _____ WARNER. Saa Franelaeo.

I WM. FALKE, Saa Fraaelaeo.

JOHN MERCHANT, California.

| C. D. ATWOOD, New York.

9 C. BECK. Staaford, Fla.

F- TOM CLARK, Idako.9

J. P. CLARK, Idaho."

JEFF SALEY, Idaho. <$W. V. DAHLSTROM, Lincoln, I

Xeb. JW. GRIMES, Atklas, Idaho. $RASMIS HEDEGARD, Baker |

City. Or. |C. H. KINNEY, Preseott, Arts. *

CEO. LEWIS, Stoae Hoase, 4Alaska. $

J. R. MORGAN, Emporia, Kaa. %MRS. AX SIB MAXON, Jefferson £

Coaaty, Pa.

MRS. RYAN, Baltimore, Md. |FRAXK MILLET. Batte, Mont. '<£

C. L. McNEILL, Elk River, Minn.J. C. MURPHY, Sen York.

Aims PROSTON, Grlsaly Blaß, $Cal. &

GEO. RITCHEY. Cbloa*o, UL

G. SEABORN. «falcaeo. 111. |STEVENS, Mew York. |

\u25a0 WILHELM, Mealo Park, $

Cal. 4a

L. WEIDIELIN, Kansas City. jcJ. RIESSE, Wlseoasln.

MATT SCHOMO, St. Paal, Mian. |G. J. MILTON, St. PaaL £COX RASMUS. Colorado.

\u25a0' ATKINS, residence un- fknown. 4

DU RBER, residence an-known.

G. LEON, residence aakaonn. 4JOHX REDDY, residence na-

known.

STEVENS, residence an. *

know a. j

THOMAS WOLL, residence na- Jkaown.

H. YAGER, resldeaee unknown. |\u25a0y

Loatradletory reports h»Te come down regarding the (ate o( £

J Walter Chappey, of Sew York. 'Me Is aald by some to have beea 3? at the head of the crowd of «rn and women that were tied on the f.'.ji

ropp and to have pushed his war oat, thonish badly Injured. Others £

J say that he died soon after setting oat of the slide.« Kome of the names may he dapllcated. hot the list as above Is "?

believed to be suhstaatially correct. It was obtained from persons j|? who retarned on the steamers yesterday and who had visited the

V Sheep Camp murmie.

* d « v>* <4..*

The horror of the series of avalanches on the Chilkoot pass Sun-day last increases with every hour that the army of 5,000 rescuersspends in dicing into the tumbled mass of broken ire cakes andchunks of snow that blockade the trail for several hundred yards.

The number of human beings dead or missing is 175. The listof identified dead up until last Wednesday evening numbered sixty-eight. More than 150 names of jKTsons missing and supposed to l>eunder the slide had Ikkii left at the Sheep Camp morgue by despair-ing friends and relatives.

No attempt had been made up to Wednesday to dig into thedeath dealing slide at the point where it was piled up tin- highest.Tin- searchers were working through the lighter portions of the slidein hopes of taking out some one who was still alive. It is believedthat a cemetery in miniature will be found when the big pile is duginto, as several tents were pitched just at this |>oiut. No one can In*taken out alive from Wednesday on. There seems to be no doubtbut that the muster roll of death will f*»ot uj» considerably over 1«h».

How eighteen of the employes of the Chilkoot Railway & Tran-

portation t'ompaav came to perish in another slide at the foot ofI»ng hill willprolwbly never he known. Their bodit * under a solidlypacked mass of snow were not discovered until late Monday evening.

Thousands of people had walked over the slide which was tlo*ir ieysepulchre without even imagining that the pile had slided fr«»m the

mountains. A chance discovery started the rescuers digging, and

in a few hours fourteen bodies had been taken out. Four others were

recovered later.

Two of the fastest steamers on the Alaskan run sailed into port

here this morning within a few hours of each other, both with their

flags at half-mast and with mute evidence of tlie terrible disaster in

Continued on & &.

General Lee and hisParty leave Havana

Four Vessels Carry AwayDeparting Americans.

SPANIARDS JEER AT THEM.

Havana Dazed at the Departure,Not Believing Crisis Had Come.

The Nmjt OMclal Lies Told aad Pab-

linked la the Local Papers That

the lalted States Was Harking

Dona Indrr Prraaare From the

Enropeaa l*o«ver« Had Left the

People laprrpared for Sock a

Itrasg ladleatloa That War Was

at Ha ad?As the Fleet Passed the

Malae Wreck All Uncovered.

KEY WEST. April M.-'Tell the Oli-

vet te to get under war once, Cipt.

Cowies; signal the Bache that the tfnltedStates fleet is ready to clear out of Ha-

vana and please follow the Bache out."

These were the words of Consul GeneralLee yesterday at 5:15, as he stood on tb«poop of the Fern, with a group of corre-spondents around him. was evident toall that Gen. Lee was to be the last toleave. The Evelyn had already passed

Moro Castle when the Olivette weighed

anchor. The Bache was close behind andthe Fern was the last of the line. Thewharves ami boats on both sides of thenarrow entrance to the harbor were crowd-ed with Spaniards, who hissed and jeered

as each boat passed out.As the Fern rounded to. heading for the

open sea, she passed pear the Mainewreck. The group on dtjok had beenlaughing and talking, expressing their sat-isfaction at leaving Havana. With oneaccord, each man dotted his hat In saluteto the brave dead, while silence fell onall for the s.paee of a few minutes.

Gen. Lee being on board the Fern, madsthat boat a target for redoubled fussing,groans, catcalls and whistle* from thacrowds cn shore. ?

"Get out. Tankee awlne," was about thamlUJeat expression used. This seemed tostrike every one cm board as ludicrou*.Vice Consul Springer, who had been onthe Wand thirty years, waved his hat toai particularly abusive group, saying, fhtones loud enough for all to hear: "Wait,wait, my friends: we shall ail be backsoon."

There was one pretty incident. On theCabanas shore a British steamer was un-loading at her wharf. As the Fern i*a.s*ejthe T'nion Ja< k was dipped, while the Eng-lish crew gave a hearty cheer. It is need-le** to nay that the compliment was re-turned with air jKiesible gusto.

Havana seemed dazed yesterday, whenthe people found that Gen. Le* was real-ly goirg, and the American citizens withhim. Not to see the United States flagfloating from the staff at Oasa Nuevostruck many residents as little less thana calamity. The corre.=«pondents were be-sieged with eagi r questions as to the In-tentions of the Americans, and when thofleet was to be expected and a bombard-ment was likely to commence. The gov-ernment officials seemed as much at alos« as ail the rest. A Spanish officer ofhigh rank besought a correspondent totell him if he had any news not made pub-lic and affecting the future of the city.

The fact that Mr. Golan, the Britishconsul, called with Gen. Lee on Capt. Gen.Blanco also puzzled many, some believing

that this meant that an English alliancehad been settled. The truth is. the Ha-vana papers have been under such closesurveillance for months, have been madeto publish so many untruths, and haveprinted so many tales of the I'nited States

backing down at the demand of Germany,

Italy, Austria and that tii* resi-dents tnka no K whatever in anything

published. Consequently when they sawthe Americans leaving, despite the state-

ments of the papers that they had no In-tention of going, the people beiieved acrisis was at hand.

Under Instructions from Gen. Lee, who

went on l>oard the Fern immediately aft»rhis farewell call on Capt. Gen. Blanco, theconsular people and ?he> correspondents

went quietly on board in twos and threes.No one was molested or insulted, but thepeople stared curiously at the newspaper

men. to who* pres-nc*» alt had grown ac-customed, as they rode down to the dockwith their can* s and other handbaggage. showing their intention to de-part. In fact, Havana, was kinder th:i-ithe ore ;n outside. All arrived at Key

West tod y in a state of wreck. Every-

body was sick, st>m« more so than others.Even the nav.il men did not escape. From

the crowded decks of the Olivette hearty

cheer* went up the Kern, wi'h the cor-respondents and consular ag?-nt on board,

put ashore. Several hundr«vi parses onthe dock aided their snout* to thin lusty

welcome, and for some hours stood gazing

at the Fern, on which Gen. Lee could be

seen pacing the deck. At about 11 o'clock(Jen. Lee ca?r<* ashore and received an an-nwer from Washington to his request fororders, sent earlier. After a brief recep-

tion. Gen. !>* w«nt on board the Olivette,

which had been kept waiting, and sailed

CocUsued on Pift &

PRICE FIVE CENTS.

m GOES 111 MITOUT MIS EIIM

Spain's Last Clumsy Effort toSecure Delay Disregarded.

TWO CABINET MEETINGS OYER IT.

An Offer of an Armistice, Without Any Conditions Imposedon This Country, Presented by the Spanish Minister inthe Hope of Securing a Little More Time, Fails of ItsPurpose, for the President Is Determined to Lay theWhole Matter Before Congress, Recommending Inter-vention by Force, But Not Recognition of Cuba.

SPAIN IS READY TOPROMISE EVERYTHING

TRIES TO DEFER THE MESSAGE.i| An Abject Plea for Delay and One§ More Chance in Cuba.

Special Dispatch to the Poat-latelllseaeer.AIHIXGTOSI D. C., April LO.? !(?( ilart the dread daya Of

1H«1 has a cabinet anttag beea la aeulaa aa Kaitcr Sniay,

Today aot oacr, bat twice, haa the prealdeat *aanoae4 Mt ad-vlaera to eaaaaltatloa.

Toalght the momeataaa «aeatloa at peaee ar war wad <ceMWkTricky Spala laaalted thla eoaatry yeaterday with her prwpnaal.coapled with a threat to arraat aa analatlee oaly aa ooadltlaathat the Amerleaa ffeeta ahoald he wlthdrawa froia the vicinityMt Phlllpplaea. Thla waa for effect at Roae aa4 ?- Tprovocative of load acclaim ffroai the Spaalah populace.

Today she acada, throach Mlalater Uoodford, a aeeret aoto ah.Jecl la KM lerma. praying tor farther delay, to- b# slvea Jaat oaomore ehaace la Cuba, aad promUlag every thla* bat ladepead*encc. Thla haa aot bcea pabllahed la Spala. To eoaalder thla thacablaet met toul*ht. What effect thla pleadlas will have apoathe conalderatloa of the prealdrat'a plaa la eaa«reaa haa aot yet

beea foretold.

A aide rang* of Iniervlewa obtalaed today ladlcata aeaerallythat coagreaa will aot dally. «ame, however, profeaa to hellevo

c e re wee w c aacd la the aeaate la dlaeaaalaff qaeatleaa

of armed latcrvcatloa, with ar wlthoat ladepeadeaee far Cabaaa.The Repabllcaaa will ataad by the prealdeat. The Democratswaat both propoaltloaa aalted.

The prevalllas oplaloa amoa* Waahla«toa v. «-iala l» thatSpala'a offer of a. armlatlce I. merely a .cheme f«r iv.

lay aad la the aatare of a diplomatic trick to force the tattedStates la the poaltloa of aaklag aa aajostldable war.

Delay la the Spanish watchword. When threata caald aot aoearaIt pray era were offered. Efforta are aow beta* reacwcd to ffeg

t'abaaa to parchaae their ladepeadeaee. No far the Cabaarcpreaeatatlves have rejected all aach propoaala.

ALLAft B. KL.A( SOSI.

ABUIXJIUA, April 10. ?The president's message on f'abawill go to congress at noon tomorrow. Whether it will make arecommendation on the situation a* presented by Spain, andif so. what form this recommendation will take, is a matter uponwhich war or peace ma? rest. If the president should take tlieposition that Spain's armistice cornea too late, or that it does notmeet the requirements of the nation, congress probably will act witha belligerent resolution calling on tbe president to us** the army andnavy of the Inited States bring an end to the condition of affair*in ' üba, which he declared to the six ambasxadors of the p »wers whocalled i»|*»n him Thursday as being "insufferable."

Should tiie message take flic ground that endeavors seemtending in the proper direction, and that justice should jwrmit hepan opportunity to a trial of her stated desire to eud tin* insurrection,'or should the president simply refer the whole subject to congresswithout recommendation, a condition would urine of which no onetonight could possibly see the outcome. Ho few eougreKMuien knewthe exact status of affairs, that no pr«*diction could be made a* to !what action congress would take.

Easter Sunday brought little rest to those who are dealing withthe Spanish situation. With the president's message ready to go tocongress tomorrow, Spain's grant of armistice had brought about anew Condition, which compelled the president and bis adriaoK* tomeet and consider how far the situation was affected by Spain's con-cession. As a result the unusual, if not unprecedented, conditionarose for two cabinet meetings on Hnnday, one at noontime, lastingan hour and a half, and another at 8 o'clock tonight.

While the streets were thronged with people going to theirEaster services early in the day, the carriages of public officers wen)centering at the White jjpwna to take op the latest phases in tht