The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1895, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1895. A USION OF MILLIONS AND A TITLE Consuelo Vanderbilt Be-| comes the Duchess of Marlborough. WEDDED AMID FLOWERS. Immense Crowds Block the Streets Leading to the Church. WILLIEK. IGNORES HIS EX-WIFE The Predicted Reconciliation Between | the Parents of the Bride a Failure. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 6.—The much- talked-of wedding of Miss Consuelo Van- ilt and the Duke of Marlborough took place to-day in St. Thomas Church. The hour set for the beginning of the ceremony was 12 o’clock. At that hour the church was thronged with the representatives of d New York's smartest society, gathered to | The church was | witness the ceremony. decorated gorgeously for the occasion, the floral display being without doubt the most lavish that New York has ever nown. The precautions to keep out of the church 1 uninvited guests and to hold back the owds which it was expected would gather inthe streets were amply justified. As The Duke of Marlborough. early as 9 o’clock a number of men and women b n to walk about the neighbor- hood of the church 2nd to eye curiously the scene of the approaching nuptials. A squad of fifty policemen was on hand to keep the entrance to the church clear. By 10 clock the blue coats had their hands full to keep the fast increasing crowd mgwing. Atthat hour the church doors were thrown open, and fifteen minutes | jater the first of the guests, intent on se- | 2 good places to witness the bridal 1ce to the church was gained by in doors on Fifth avenue. At10:15 k carriage after carriage rolled up,’ their occupants quickly passing into the church. As the bour for the ceremony drew near the crowd became larger and ger. The steps of houses and the side- s up and down the | around its sides were garlands of orchids talyes palms and trailing vines were placed on the window ledges on the back of the chancel. In the rear of the chancel was a mass of palms and white and pink flow- €rs, such as roses, azaleas, lilies and chrysanthemums. On the altar were four tall vases filled with various kinds of lilies. On either | side of the chancel rail were banks of fern With growing bushes of bridesmaid roses interspersed. The choir and organ stalls were almost hidden by banks of roses and | lilies, fringed at the bottom with pink and white alpine violets, taking the place of | choir curtains with arches of pink and white roses. Vines were twined about the columns, flanking the organ, springing from bushes of roses growing at their base. In the pulpit was a century-old palm, and | and a drapery of ferns. At the entrance to the center and side aisles gates of lilies and roses were placed. The ushers were at their posts the mo- ment the doors opened. They were Messrs, F. Brockholst Cutting, Richard T. ‘Wilson Jr., Reginald Ronalds, Herbert D. Robbins and Hamilton W. Carey. The full choir of the church was in the choir | alcoves. George William Warren, the or- | ganist of the church, assisted by a harpist, had charge of the music. At 10:15 o'clock the concert began and continued until 11:15. The following programme was ren- dered: Last chords and fugue *Mount of Olives” . > Beethoven Offtertoire in _. Batiste “Ave Maria roaelt-Liszt Lemmens The. Mozarg Magi e Wedding m xtemporaneous. s “March du Sacr: AR, Meyerbeer The full New York symphony orchestra was stationed in the gallery at the north- eastern corner of the church. Under the direction of Walter Damrosch it filled in marriage register. At the same time each of the bridesmaids took a basket of nose- gays and marched back up the aisle, dis- tributing them among the guests. As the Duke and his bride re-entered the church the orchestra played the wedding march from *‘Tannhauser.” The bridesmaids re- turned to the chancel and the bridal party marched down the aisle, the ushers lead- ing. The bridesmaids followed them and then came the Duke and his bride. After them came Mrs. Vanderbilt on the arm of Mr. Guest. The party immediately en- tered carriages and drove to Mrs. Vander- biit's house, where the reception and breakfast followed. One feature of the wedding which has excited much comment was the fact that few of W. K. Vanderbilt’s family were in- vited either to the church or to the break- fast. CUT RATES TO PUGET SOUND. Southern Pacific, the Oregon Railway and Naviyation and the Pacific Coast Com- pany in the Fight. SEATTLE, Wasw., Nov. 6.—A cut-rate war between the Northern and Southern | Pacific cosstwise roads on one side and the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com- pany, which operates the steamship line between Portland ana San Francisco, and the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, maintaining another line between Puget Sound and San Francisco, is announced this morning. The railroads fiave notice that a $15 first- class rate would prevail. The fight ap- pears to have been precipitated by the Southern Pacific reducing the fare be- tween San Francisco and Portland to $10. BACES AT BAKERSFIELD Cloudy Weather Kept Many Away From the Country three-quarters of an hour before the ar- selections: Overture. Ave Marla” As the carriage drove up to the curb the crowd cheered. As Miss Vanderbilt stood she looked very pale. acted impatiently and pouted when the | dress was caught. As soon as the gown was loosened she smiled and, assisted by her father, walked into the church. The party stood in the vestibule of the church, | and there the procession was formed and | marched down the aisle to the chancel. | When all was ready for the ceremony the | | church was closed, and no one was allowed | to enter whether or not he was proyided | § with a card. | | Mrs. Vanderbilt was escorted up the center aisle to the front pew on the north side, which she occupied with her other children. The bridal procession formed jin the southern vestibule. Mr. Warren then began the wedding march from *Lobengrin.” At 12 o'clock the officiating clergy, attired in their clerical robes, entered from | | the vestry-room. Bishop Littlejohn, who | | officiated, followed by Bishop Potter and | the Rev. John Wesley Brown, rector of the | church, took their stations at the chancel | and waited the arrival of the bride and bridegroom. A few minutes before 12 o’clock carriages | containing Mrs. Vanderbilt and the brides- | maids drove up to the church. Mrs. Vanderbilt was accompanied by her two sons, William K. and Harold. Shecarried a large bouquet of lilies of the valley. The Duke and his cousin, Hon. Ivor Guest, his | best man, arrived at the church at 11:35 o'clock and entered through the vestry door. elect, as she did not arrive at the church until 12:15 o’clock. Miss Vanderbilt was accompanied by her father, William Vanderbilt. As Miss Vanderbilt was about to step on the sidewalk her gown caught in the step of the carriage and she was avenue were | held there until maids had unloosened it. | won by Rowdy Wilkes in 3:08, giving him There was a long wait for the bride- | Club Meeting. rival of the bridal party with the following | Trotting Race Won by Rowdy Wilkes in Spite of a Foul Against Him. BAKERSFIELD, CaL., Nov. 6.—The second day of the meeting of the Kern County Country Club was ushered in with clouds that threatened rain. Track heavy and attendance only fair in conseauence. The first event was the first heat of the | trotting race, which was postponed from yesterday. There were tive starters—Harry Geers, Doc Burwell, John Macgrezor, Rowdy Wilkes and Jay Jay. Lucy and Humming Bird did not start. Doc Burwell led at the start, and had it till the three-quarter pole was reached, | when he was passed by Rowdy Wilkes, who won in 3:00 Harry Geers second, John Macregor third, Jay Jay distanced. A claim of foul against Rowdy Wilkes re- sulted in the judges making Harry Geers first, John Macgregor second, Rowdy Wilkes third and Doc Burwell allowed to start again. The first race on to-day’s programme, half-mile running, was postponed until to-morrow. The second event was a five- furlong running race, with four entries; won by Geronimo in 1:1214, Miss Wid sec- ond, Fenella third. In the mile running race Dr. John Snook’s Daisy and T. H. Dudley’s Bessie started. Bessie took the lead on the start, but was passed by Daisy | at the first-quarter pole, who won in 2:0014{. In the second heat of the trotting race Rowdy Wilkes led at the start and held it, winning in 2:54, Harry Geers sec- ond, Macgregor and Doc Burwell dis- | tanced, the latter breaking badly. The two-mile hurdle race opened with four en- tries, Hello, Mendocino and Lassie being scratched. In taking the eighth and last burdie Pa- vilion fell, but without injury to his rider,, The race was won by N r in 4:10, Onti Ora second, Pickpocket third. In weigh- |ing it was discovered that Onti Ora had lost her weights and she was disqalifi-d. The final heat in the trotting race was THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH AS SHE APPEARED IN HER e = success and are apparently prepared for all comers. ——— NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR PRUMOTED. Lawrence Spear Leaves Mare Island for Seattle. VALLEJO, CAL., Nov. 6.—Orders were received by the commandant at the navy- yard, Mare Island, to-day detaching As- sistant Naval Constructor Lawrence Spear, United States navv, from duty in the con- struction_and repair department and or- dering him to proceed without delay to Seattle and assume duty assuperintendent of the construction of the gunboat to be built by Moran Brothers. Mr. Spear en- tered the service as assistant naval con- structor July 12, 1892, since which time he has had considerable experience in iron- shipbuilding, and in 1893 was on duty at the Union Iron Works. San Francisco. For the past few months he has been sta- tioned at Mare Island and assisted in superintending the construction of the steel tug recently launched at the navy- yard. Heis considered well qualified to perform the duty he is assigned to at Se- attle. —_— On Eastern Tracks. LATONIA RACETRACK, Onro, Nov. 6.— One mile, Strathrol won, Major Dripps second, Certainty third. Time, 1:423 Five furlongs, Clissie B won, Shuttlecock second, Helen Mar third. Time, 1:0237. Mile and seventy yards, Kasper won, Jane second, Birmingham third. Time, 1:4814. Six furlongs, Begue wom, Nanuce second, Charley Weber third. Time, 1:16. Six furlongs, Zufallig won, Twelve Fifty second, Martin third. Time, 1:163;. Six ‘furiongs, Bessic Nichols won, Mary Keene second, Siluria third. Time, 1:1514, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 6.—Three-fourths mile, Stariing won, Billy Jordan second, St. Augus- tine third. Time,1:16. Thirteen-sixteenths of a mile, LaSalle won, Sidkel second, Hester third. Time, 1:22. Eleven-sixteenths of & mile, Young Ario won, Cavespring second, Red Cap taird, Timn 481, & Seven-eighths of a mile, Simmons won, Linds second, Figaro third. Time, 1:29. Mile ‘and three furlongs, Billy McKenzie won, Tasco second, Uncle Jim thira. Time, 2091, 2:22)4. FALL OF A LUS ANGELES PAINTER. With a Scantling Saved His Life. LOS ANGELES, Car., Nov. 6.—H. Swan had a narrow escape from instantdeath to- day. He was painting the three-story brick building going up on Sixth street, between Olive and Grand avenues. He fell from the roof, descending two stories, a distance of thirty feet. His body struck a scantling which broke his fall, and also broke the scantling. 3 His body was turned over in this con- tact, and Swan landed on his feet. He | was severely injured, but will recover. The fact that he landed on his feet saved his life. It will be some time before he will be able to work again. e POWER FOR VISALIA, Contact Work Being Prosecutod on the Kaweah Company’s Ditch. VISALIA, CaL., Nov. 6.—Work is being pushed ahead rapidly on the ditch of the Kaweah Power and Electric Company. | There are to-day about sixty-five men at work and a large number of teams. It is estimated that the ditch will be completed | within 100 days from the date of com- WEDDING GOWN. jammed until it was almost impossible[ for the pedestrians to obtain a passage through the crowd. Traffic on Tifth ave- | nue was at a standstill by noon owing to | the crowds which filled the street. The | police succeeded by hard work in keeping | clear a passage for carriages. | The church within was decorated to the perfection of the florist’s art. No expense was spared to make the interior of the | edifice as beautiful as possible. The vesti- bule was converted into a bower of tropi- | csl vines and foliage. The walls were | lined with the rarest palms and the} ceiling hung with vines. In the dome of | the church massive strands of foliage | and flowers, lilies, roses and chrysanthe- mums were hung. Around the six| columhs suppbdrting the dome broad | sashes of pink and white chrysanthemums and ferns were wound from base to capital. Medallions of mavle foliage were fastened to the front of the galleries, while gar- | lands of white and pink cosmos were so thickly festooned along the gallery railas to almost completely hide the woodwork. Pendent from the gallery rail about the entire church were orchids, pink, greenj and mauve, with dark green foliage. Across the chancel stood three high Gothic arches of bride roses and lilies, with a background of asparagus ferns. The chancel rail was concealed by lilies of the valley, while the gates were hidden under Farleyeines, ferns and white Ca- The Duke of*Marlborough, with his best man, his cousin, the Hon. Ivor Guest, en- tered the church from the vestry-room and took their posts at the right of the chancel and awaited the coming of the bride. The Duke wore a frock suit of dark gray cloth, | a white Ascot tie, patent-leather shoesand white gloves. The ushers marched up the side aisles i and took their stations in front of and at | either side of the chancel. The brides- | maids led the bridal procession, walking two and two. Then came Miss Vanderbilt, | on the arm of her father and carrying in her left hand the bridal bouquet. ‘The bridal gown was a poem in cream satin tulle, point d’Angleterre and point | applique lace. The skirt was of unusual length, as it just cleared the floor, save when the long train, five yards in measure- ment, swept the aisle. The bridesmaids took positions at either | side of the chancel. The bridegroom stepped forward and took the right hand of Miss Vanderbilt and led her to the chan- cel steps. The marriage rite of the Epis- copal church then followed, Bishop Little® john officiating. Immediately after he had pgiven his daughter away Mr. Vanderbilt quietly left the church, ignoring Mrs. Vanderbilt's presence. When the marriage ceremony was over at 12:35 o’clock, the Duke and his bride went to _ghs vestry-room and signed the the heat gnd the race, Harry Geer second money. The last event of the day wasa quarter- mile running race, with three entries. It was won by Ten Cents in :25%, Kittie second. To-morrew’s programme is as follows: Half-mile running race for two-year- olds; open one-mile trotting race; mile and a half hurdle race; quarter-mile pony race: six-furlong running race for horses and the half-mile race postponed from to- day’s programme. g T.os Angeles Defeated Oaktland. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Nov. 6.—A good | attendance was drawn to the ball game to-day. The spectators were rewarded by | the best, liveliest and most closely con- tested game of the series. The Los An- geles team maintained the Jead they have gained and defeated the Oaklands by a score of 11t0 9. Los Angele: 2001004 31-11 Onklands... 0000016029 Buse hits—Los Angeles 17, Onklands 14. Errors— Tos Angeles 2, Oaklands' 5. Buiteries—L. A., Kuell and Lohmen; Oakland, Jones and Wilson. - RELIANCE WON AT SEATTLE. It Was @ Walkover, With a Score of Twenty-Eight to Nothing. SEATTLE, Wasn., Nov. 6.—In the foot~ ball game here to-day the Reliance of Oak- land nad a walkover with the Seattle Ath- letic Club, The score was 28 to 0. The Reliance boys are in great glee over their mencement. In another 100 days power will be delivered to the people of Visalia and Tulare for manufacturing purposes. No time will be lost in the prosecution of the work, and when the power is secured in Visalia it will increase the prosperity of the city. B e BANK SUIT AT TULARE. Twenty Thousand Dollars Borrowed Money in Dispute, VISALIA, CaL., Nov. 26.—The Bank of Tulare bas filed swit azainst W. B. Cart- mill, J. W. Mackie, A. P. Merritt, J. F. Gibson, E. DeWitt, R. Linder et al. In its complaint the plaintiff corporation alleges that the defendants on May 8, 1891, bor- rowed from the plaintiff on a promisso note $20,250, bearing 1 per cent per montl interest, payable guarterly. and gave as collateral security forty-five bonds of Tu- lar» irrigation district of $500 each. Plaintiff prays judgment as follows: That the pledge be revised; that there is due $20,250 with interest, costs and fees; that the bonds be sold by the Sheriff and the plaintiff authorized to purchase the same; that the proceeds be applied in pay- ment of the note; that execution may issue against the defendants ior any defi- ciency. e Stricken With Apoplexy. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Nov. 6.—Walter Goodall suffered from a stroke of apoplexy Yelurduy. He is at the Hotel 8t. Angelo. n 1883 he was private secretary of Tewtik Pasha, the then Khedive of Egypt. TWO SCORE VICTIMS OF AN EXPLOSION Many People Perish in a Frightful Disaster at Detroit. KILLED WHILE AT WORK. The Office of the Daily Journal Reduced to a Mass of Debris. DEATH WITHOUT A WARNING. Sickening Scenes While Rescuers Are Delving for the Mutilated Bodies. DETROIT, MicH., Nov. 6.—The battery of boilers in the building of the Evening Journal exploded at 9 o’clock this morn- ing, wrecking the buildings, 45and 47 West Larned street, and killing at least forty persons, wounding twenty others more or less seriously and causing a money loss of $60,000. The list of identified dead is as follows: Lizzie Tapley, aged 20, Davis & Co. Henry Waish, a boy, employed by the Kohlbrand Engraving Company. John J. Reuter, aged 17, an apprentice in the employ of the Dunlap Company. George H. Soule, engraver. George Shaw, 16 years old, mailer. ‘Will C. Hawes, 16 years old, mailer, De- troit Journal. James Ross, stereotyper, Detroit Jour- nal. W. Dunlap of the Dunlap-Rogers Typo- graph Supply Company. Henry Lariverie, mailing clerk, Detroit Journal. ‘Walter P. Saxby, machinist, employed by Dunlap & Co. L. Reiger, machinist, employed by Dun- lap & Co. The body of the twelfth victim recovered is that of a boy, unidentified. The missing employes of the book bindery are: George J. Miller. Kate Hiller, forewoman, Hattie Hiller. Minnie Liese. Anna Ublik. Rose Morgan. Bertha Weidbush. Anna Weidbush. John Breitenbecher. Adolph Schreiber. Jennie Neugaur. Charles Lind, a boy. Carrie Baur, bookkeeper. Rosa Bretz. Emma Lichtenberg. John Koerber. 7 John Bommer, 165 Chestnut street, em- ployed by the Kohlbrand Engraving Com- pany. Michael Ward, 627 Seventh street, stereo- typer, Detroit Journal. Kittie Leonard, plumber, employed by Davis & Co. Nelson Lacroix, employed in Journal engine-room. Miss Lue Fretz, aged 20, 939 Eighteenth street, apprentice, Dunlap & Co. James Thomas, 394 Junction avenue, machinist, Dunlap & Co. John 8. Derby, 440 Sixteenth street, car- penter, working at Dunlap & Co.’s. Joseph Bradley, carpenter, 289 Abbott street, married, two children. Ernest Parkins, 45 Beech street, mail clerk, Detroit Journal. John Gordon. Lizzie Lavlor. Eugene Wilson. John Campbell. William Reynolds. The list of the injured is: Cornelius George, foreman of the Journal mailing- room, seriously scalded about head and breast and injured about the hips; Charles Hergert, employed at John Davis & Co.’s, bruised around head and body and scalded by acid; Annie O'Donoghue, legs and tace crushed, badly injured on body, condition serious; H. G. Foye, cut about head and face; Albert Weber, pressman on Journal, badly burned on hand, arm and feet, scalp lacerated and unconscions, injuries proba- bly fatal; A. D. Lynch, stereotyper on Journal, hand, arm and face burned, con- tusion of scalp, injuries not serious; James Holt, 16 years old, employed by Speaker Printing Company, deep gash across face, other injuries, but not serious; Martin Meyers, cut in the neck, not serious; Miss Carrie A. Speck, face cut by flying glass; Andrew Hilderschlid, lacerated by splin- tered glass: Thomas Williams, assistant foreman of Journal composing-room, struck on head by steampipe, injuries not serious; Frank G. Heiner, artist Calvert Lithographing Company, seriously cut about head with glass; Joseph A. Beres- ford, bookkeeper P. F. Collier & Co., slightly injured; Lucy A. Holden, 466 Lafayette avenue, stenographer P. F. Cql- lier & Co., slightly injured; Margaret L. Robinson, stenographer P. F. Collier & Co., slightly injured; Joseph Vinter, book- keeper Davis & Co., painfully injured, but not seriously; Walter Ott, artist Calvert Lithographing Compeny, hands and wrist cut; Herman Miller, office boy Calvert Lithographing Company, knocked down and severely cut by falling glass; T. Thompson, engineer of the Journal, badly cut and bruised. The Detroit Journal was located at Shelby and Larned streets, occupying for its main offices a seventy-foot front on Larned street. East of its building and a part of the same block, were two twenty-foot fronts, which constituted the scene of the disaster. One of these, No. 45, was occu- vied by John Davis & Co., saleratus manu- facturers and dealers in grocers’ supplies, while in the basement of the other were the two boilers which exploded. Just above the hoiler-room on the first floor was the Journal’s mailing-room. The second floor was occupied by the Kohlbrand En- graving Company and W. W. Dunlap’s agency for Rogers’ typograph supplies. On the third and fourth floors were J. George Hiller's bookbindery and on the top floor was the Journal’s stereotyping room. There were three stereotypers at work on the Journal’s floor, about thirty girls in employed by the bookbindery, besides the proprietor, a machinist, and several others in the typo- graph supply shop, several engravers and assistants in the Kohlbrand Company’s rooms, and a force of clerks in the ground- floor mailing-room. There were six per- sons in the Davis building. In the base- ment were the engineer, fireman and sev- eral pressmen. The first intimation the neighborhood got of the disaster was the tremendous re- port, followed by a blinding cloud of debris, smoke and steam, and before this bad cleared away the whole five floors and the people working upon them were in one inextricable wreck. The force of the ex- plosion had thrown down the wall between 45and 47 Larned street, and the joists which rested on it came tumbling down, tearing themselves away from the adjoin- ing wall. A heavy firewall separated this building from the main building of the /Journal Company. The weight of this was sufficient to withstand the shock of the explosion, and although several holes were blown through it, the wall remained strong. The firemen were there in a minute from the next corner. Near the top, Annie 0’Donough was found, her bddy a mass of bloody flesh. She was carried to the hos- pital. Then began the harrowing details of the awful calamity. One poor fellow, stunned and helpless, lay just upon the edge of the pile. He was taken out and passed to volunteer helpers. Then another, whose feet were pinioned, was reached, but it was found that he could not be released. Constant digging finally effected his release and he was dragged out and placed in one of the ambulances. 3 - Thousands of people gathered, and the police were on hand in large numbers. Near the top of the ruins, one arm and the leg of a man protruded. The re- mainder of the body was burried beneath the rubbish. At intervals the arm was feebly waved. The rescuers centered their efforts upon this point and worked like heroes to effect a release as quickly as possible. Many mo- ments elapsed before he was lifted into an ambulance. At that time it was not de- termined whether life was extinct, but he Wwas unconscious. Then came the horrors of the calamity. As the workers dug into the debris and the air got into it, the furnace fires set the debris from the bindery ablaze, and the workers were driven back by smoke, through which, from time to time, came muffled cries for help. The firemen worked on heroically, and streams turned on the blaze soon checked the fire so that a gang of 200 laborers who had been collected could get into the debris and pull itinto the street. At 9:45 Charles Hackett was found in the third story of the ruinsin the rear, to which approach was had through the alley. He reported there had been four or five girls on the floor with him. He did not seem to be seriously injured. As the diggers continued their work in front of the wrecked building the upraised arm of a man was uncovered on the side- walk, not far from where four other bodies were taken out. It was necessary to move huge pieces of stone windowsill and frag- ments of machinery before the body could be released. The victim had escaped the steam and smoke, but his head was crushed into a shapeless mass. He wa identitied as Henry Lariviere, a Journal mailing clerk. Two more bodies were found at the northwest corner of the building at 12 o’clock, making four taken from that spot. They presented an awful sight as the hot bricks and smoking timbers were pulled away. One was sitting bolt upright, with his back to the street; the other was just below him and had been caught as he plunged downward headlong. This was Dunlap, the typograph supply dealer. The other was George Shaw, a Journa! clerk. Another body was found at 12:30. It was that of a young man in blouse and overalls, and it lay under all the debris on the sidewalk, the head toward the build- ing and the feet near the curbstone. A great block of stone had fallen upon his head, crushing it flat. The seventh body, apparently that of a machinist, was taken from the sidewalk in front of the building soon after 1 o'clock, and then the workmen were driven back while a rope was thrown over an over- hanging wall and it was pulled down by a gang of men stationed on a building across the street. Up to 5 o'clock twelve bodies had been recovered, eleven of which have been identified. They were carried to a vacant storeroom of Mayor Pingree’s on Jefferson avenue, In che afternoon the city officers had electric lights strung about the place so that work might goon to-night. The nope of finding any one alive was abandoned and threatening walls were pulled down. At 7 o'clock a new gang of workmen renewed the work, but up to 9:30 o'clock this evening no more bodies had been recovered. By to-morrow noon the whole mass of ruins will have been explored and the twenty-seven or twenty-eight bodies which still remain in them recovered. While the work of recovery was at its height two rival undertakers had a quar- rel over the possession of a body. While the two undertakers were pulling at the body the police, whose attention was at- tracted to the inhuman spectacle, rushed up and separated the men. Another assistant came up with a coffin and he put the body in the box and commenced screwing down the lid. Fireman Sullivan interfered. He had assisted in dragging the body from the ruins and said the man, although burned so as to be almost unrecognizable, was still alive. The man in charge of the body refused to open the coffin and Sulli- van, now thoroughly enraged, threw every- body aside and unceremoniously kicked the coffin lid off, smashing in one end at the same time. A hasty examination proved that Sulli van was right. The man—for it was e’ dent that the body was that of an adult— was still alive, and he was taken out and placed in a Marine Hospital ambulance. The driver and an attending physician hastened to the hospital, but the man died on the way. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. Thomas Thompson, the engineer, came out of the wreck painfully injured. His clothes were half blown off and he hore Iittle resemblance to a human being with the dirt grimed into his face and hands and the blood running from a score of cuts. “‘How did it happen ?”” he was asked. “‘Great God! I don’t know,” was the re- ply. “I don’t know any more about it than you do. How many were killed 2" Then he disappeared in the crowd. Of the injured Cornelius George and Annie 0’Donoughue are the most seriously hurt. The body of Carrie H. Bower, one of the missing, was taken from the ruins at 11 o'clock to-night. The body had hardly been touched by the flames. The body of the boy taken out of the ruins this after- { last noon was identified as that of John Bow man, whose name appears in the list of missing. The latest theory of the cause of the disaster is that the oil tank, instead of the boilers, exploded, and it is believed that this will be shown when the basement isreached. The body of Hattie Hiller was recovered shortly after midfiight, making fourteen in all. Late to-night the bodies of Minnie Liede and Michael Ward were recovered, making sixteen taken from the ruins. TACOMA BANKER ARRESTED. He Was Charged With Falsifying the Books of the Defunct Columbia KNationa. TACOMA, WasH, Nov. 6.—W. G, Pelers, cashier of the defunct Columbia National Bank, was arrested this afternoon on a warrant sworn to by Bank Examiner Clary, charged with falsifying the bank books. United States Deputy Marshal Bridges served the warrant. Treasurer Mc- Cauley is also connected h the trouble, his name being used as the fictitious de- positor to which a credit of $10,000 is given in a false entry. Peters was unable to !n"(;cure $10,000 bail and was remanded to Jail. SHOT AT HIS WEETHEART. JMike Concannon Examined and Held for Trial at Ukwah. ®KIAH, Can, Nov. 6.—Mike Concan- non, who fired two shots at Annie Torffy at Mendocino last week, was examined vesterday before Justice of the Peace G. Canning Smith to answer a charge of as- sault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. The bail was fixed at $1500 and in default Concannon was lodged in the County Jail. Concannon isa well-known stage-driver in the employ of Frank Laz- arus. He was engaged to marry the woman, and shot at her through jealousy. s s et Charged With Murder. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Nov. 6.—A Coro- ner’s jury to-night found that Francisconi Samuelle, who was shot near Courtland on Sunday night, came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by Baroni Zef- ferino with murderous intent. It is claimed by Zefferino that the shot was fired at another man who had stabbed him, and that the killing was accidental. ——— Wants Damages From Hawaii. VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 6.—Captain F. D. Walker, formerly of Honolulu, is seeking $5000 damages from the Hawailan Government for wrongful detention as a suspect during the revolutionary excitement. His claim will be presented in the form of a petition to the British Government by Barrister Frank Higgins. e Killed by a Train. SEATTLE, Wasu., Nov. 6.—While at- tempting to cross the track in front of an engine Charles Wooding, 35 years old, un- married, was run down by a passenger train on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Bast- ern Road at Latona, a suburb of this city, evening, aining injuries from which he died . Christian Convention at Selma. SELMA, CaL., .—The State Con- ference of the United Brethren Church and the California branch of the Young People’s Christian Union are now in ses- sion here. Delegates are present from all parts of the State. Ward to Be Extradited. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. At the request of the Secretary of State, the Gov- ernment of Honduras has promised to ex- tradite A. K. 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