The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1896. TURNEY DIED AT THE THROTTLE The Engineer as He Was)| Found in the Wreck at Sausalito. DEATH BY DROWNING. Medical Examination Shows That the Body Was Not | Crushed. HAULING THE ENGINE ASHORE. | The Work Was Completed by the Wrecking Crew Last Night. What Officers Say. | William F. Turney, the engineer who lost his life in the wreck at the Sausalito ferry slip early vesterday morning, died with his hand at the throttle. | 1 to run his engine off the collapsing wooden apron when taken down in the crash, and tnere is no indication that he made any attempt to escape from his cab before he was caught and pinioned by the falling machine. He could have jumped when the first warning of the cracking timbers was heard. That was done by Fireman Williams, but the en- gineer made the fatal delay of an instant for the sake of doing his duty. Turney was a brave man, as his asso- ciates declare, and the railroad officers tes- tify that he had always been faithful in performing his work. He made an error of judgment in running his engine upon the apron that connected the wharf with the steamer, but he did all in his power to | ‘\\'U,LI_A,“ F. TURNEY, THE ENGINEER WHO WAS KILLED AT SAUSALITO. [From a photograph.] that attempt cables were attached to the tender and a locomotive tugged at the cables. That effort was unsuccessful, how- ever, and the work was not accomplished until after 6 o’clock, when the big shears picked up the broken engine and slowly raised it ont of the water and on to the ex- tension of the railroad track. A crowd of from 200 to 300 people watched at the scene of the accident all day long, and many persons went from San Fran- cisco. The body of Turney was examined by a physician, who ascertained that the only serious fracture or bruise was just above one knee, where the leg was had resulted from drownifig. After the examination the body was removed toSan Rafael. Mrs. Turney, the widow, is an invalid, roken. Death | occurred to him during the dozen years on the North Pacific Coast line. ‘‘He was our only brother and only near | relation living,” said Miss Maggle Turney | last evening, “and we three were a little | family even more closely drawn together | than brothers and sisters usnally are. He | s very kind to us and to his wife, and we idolized him. “Only a few hours bsfore the accident I | | was over in Sausatito and he was talking | | about poor Jack Keyer, the engincer | killed at Baden Sunday evening. Will | knew Keyer and the fatal occurrence made | | a deep impression on his mind. He said a railroad engineer could not be over- | | cautious, as danger was about him all the time. He seemed to be thin ing of his own constant peril | lin that calling and kept commenting | gine he was knocked insensible and the water revived him. Turney had been unfortunate in recent years. His wife's physical ailments and troubles bad crippled her and her husband bad made a great outlay from his savings to meet the expenses that crowded upon him. 3 Turney’s parents were from the province of Ottowa, Canada, where two of his cousins, the Murray brothers, are members of the Ottawa Parliament. TAILORS ORGANIZING. Will Form a Union and Stand for Higher Wages. About 100 tailers assembled last evening to discuss their condition and the condi- tion of the trade. The object in reality Was to organize a custom journeymen’s union. Very little was done toward this end as the tailors so far are not sure of their ground. In this City there are nearly 2000 in this line of business, and among this number there exists but little fraternal fellowship. With them it is a case of every one for bimself. During the past few weeks a number of the custom tailors hgve been discussing the advisability of forming a union, and it was a surprise to the leaders to find so many present at last evening’s meeting. One of the prominent members explainea the situation in ianguage that could not be misunderstood. §{e said that the con- dition of the tailors of San Francisco is worse than those of other cities. s One reason is that every man desires to bea boss, Consequently there are nearly 2000 bosses in this City and the whole- salers and merchant tailors take advantage of this state of affairs. Nearly all the journeymen do their work at home, as- sisted by their wives and daughters. At first they made fair wages, but gradually the merchant tailorsand wholesalers began to reduce the prices paid tor work. Asthe pay dropped lower the men and women worked longer, until now every tailor and his family works late into the night in order to make a living. For example, the wholesale dealer gives out the material for a coat and pays $2 25 or $2 50 for its mak- ing. In other cities they pay $§6 for the same work. Consequently here a tailor and his family have to make up two and a half coats to get as much pay as the tailor in the East gets for making one coat. The speaker went on to explain that the reason for this state of affairs was that in the East the tailors work together in large factories and stand together against un- just reductions. Here they work at home, and suppose if they do not accept the work at the prices offered some one else will get the work. He urged them all to form invo a club or union and resist any further attempt to cut the rates. The mat- ter was discussed until a latc hour, but OAKLAND CHURCH GIRL MYSTERY, Miss Fannie Parker Has Been Missing From Home a Week. NO REASON FOR GOING. Relatives or Friends Cannot De- vise a Theory in Regard to the Case. FEAR SHE HAS BEEN KILLED. Miss Parker Was Twenty-Seven Years 01d, Not Romantic, and Would Not Have Eloped. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCIScO CALL,) 908 Broadway, Jan. 28. | The First Baptist Church is in a fever of excitement over the strange disappearance | of Miss Fannie Parker, one of the best | known and most popular singers in the | church choir. Not since the early chapters of the Durrant disclosures has so much in- terest been demonstrated asis being shown | in the present case. | Nearly a week has passed since Miss | Parker left her home, and aithough search has been made in all directions in all the public institutions in Oakland, San Fran- cisco and adjoining cities where news ot her might likely be obtained, not a trace | of the missing girl has been discovered, and her relatives say that she has disap- peared as absolutely as if she had been swallowed up by the earth. Not one of her relatives can suggest the slightest reason for her disappearance, and i R W ) | A | e i { THE SCENE AT THE SAUSALITO WHARF YESTERDAY WHEN THE WRECKERS WERE AT WORK. [F'rom a sixctch made by a “Call” staff artist.] sorrect the error at the instant of hisdanger. It was not by being crushed between the engine and the tender that the man was cilled, as had been supposed, but by irowning. That was ascertained by the medical examiner after the body had been taken out of the water yesterday evening. When the actual plunge came Turney was :aught by one leg between the engine and stender and the leg was broken, but that njury would not have been sufficient to :ause death, and the engineer did not _re- lease his hold on the lever even while irowning. At low tide yesterday morning, about 5 s'clock, a force of about twenty men began {he attempt of removing the engine from Ihe ferry slip. It was at_the freight slip that the accident occurred, and so there was nointerference with the regulartrips of :he passenger ‘steamer. A huge derrick »as stationed on the wharf at the end of ‘he track, but that would not sustain the power that was needed to move the huge machine tbatwas then half buried in the water. All that could be seen of Turney was the right hand, which rested on the :ab window. As the derrick was not powerful erough ‘0 remove the engine a huge lifting-shears was rigged up on the wharf, the prepara- ory WOTK occupying the entire day. The irst object of the railroad men was to get ihe engineer’s body out of the wreck. In and it is feared that she will not survive the shock. their little child, had recently moved into their new home in San Rafael. At 1:30 o’clock yesterday morning, when the accident occurred, Mrs. Turney was visiting at the home of her neighbor, Mrs. Cochrane. She was waiting for her Lus- band to return, as usual, at1 o’clock, and while she was ‘waiting she fell asleep in the rocking-chair. Her husband, knew, was Jate. Just after she had fallen asleep a mes- senger arrived to tell her that her husband had been killed. The members of the Cochrane family re- ceived the message. They thought best not to awaken their invalid friend to tell | her of the accident,and so Mrs. Turney slept till nearly morning. The news pros- trated the woman, and it is feared that the resul: will be fatal. Mrs. James Morrow of 436 Fifth street is a sister of the dead engineer, and Miss Maggie Turney, another sister, resides with her. Their mother died two years ago. William Francis Turner was born in Corte Madera, Marin County, 33 yearsago. He learned his trade as engineer in the narrow-gauge railroad shops at Sausaiito and has been in the employ of the com- panv over twelve years. He was considered an unusually careful man, taking no chances of an accident, which goes to account for the fact that no mishap ever Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roral Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE She and her husband, with | she | upon the accident. He and his wife and little girl had_just moved into their new | home at San Rafael, all paid for with his | earnings on the road durng his twelve | years, and everythirg seemed bright and fair. Now he is dead and his invalid | widow is heartbroken. *‘One paper yesterday morning unkindly | said that he was to blame: for the loss of his own life. That was unjust, because he was so careful and was always afraid of tbe wharf at Sausalito. He would not have gone on the ferry-boat with his | heavy engine unless be was obliged to do | so, I know.” Turney was a member of the United Workmen and the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers, in which orders he had | his life insured for $4000. | Assistant Superintendent W. H. Han- | non stated yesterday that the company had issued strict orders to all conductors and engineers under no_circumstances to allow-locomotives or tenders to run on the apron in backing up to the boat for freight- cars. The apron itself, Mr. Hannon said, was capable of sustaining a dead weight of seventy tons. The engine and tank, or tender, together, weighed but a little over forty tons, the engine alone having a weight of twenty-five tons. Both engine and tender, he said, were run successfullyj on the apron, Conductor Murray having signaled to Engineer Turney to back down to make the | coupling. As the engine had taken on three empty freight cars, Conductor Murray thought it possible to make the connection without running on to the apron anything but the empty cars. He was not aware that the cars on the boat were so far irom the apron as to make it impossible to couple with the render at a safe distance. In leaving the boat, and in the strain and pressure incidental to starting the train, the weight and force of the engine were enormously increased and at that moment the crash came. Fireman Williams said that he scarcely knew how he escaped and his friends be- lieve that when carried over with the en. only a temporary organization was formed. It is likely thai it will be made permanent within a week or ten days. Several of the leaders declare that if the union is formed with a majority of the tailors on the roll, a stand will be taken for higher wages. S ‘Woman Under the Old English Laws. In England less than ninety years ago it was not unusual for a man to sell his wile into servitude. A common-law hus- band and wife were cne person and that one person was the husband. Upon mar- riage the husband became entitled to all his wife’s goods and chattels, also_to the rents and profits of her lands. He was her lord, bound to su ply shelter, food, clothes and medicine. He was entitled to her earnings and the custody of her per- son. He had power to choose her asso- ciates, separate her from her relatives, restrain her religious and personal free- dom, and, if necessary, chastize her moder- ately, as though she were his child. The father of legitimate children was bound for their maintenance and educa- tion, and was entitled to their labor and custody. He had power to dispose of them until they were 21 years of age by deed or legacy, and the testamentary guardian’s right to the children’s custody superseded that of their mother. The mother was en- titled to no power but to reverence and re- spect from her children. She had no legal authority over them nor right to their service. Only the mother of an illegiti- mate child was entitled to its control and custody. e Acknowledged by All. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S Teas, Coffees and Spices Best and Cheapest. Tty Them. Pretty presents given away free. 52 Market st., S. F. Headquarters. BRANCH STORES EVERY WHERE. ——.————— A large brown eagle is reported to have been recently taken near Liverpool, Eng. The measurement of the bird is said to be three feet high and seven feet from tip to tip of wings, and it weighs thirty pounds. although every effort has been made to ac- count for the girl’s absence through all the usual channels in which information of missing girls is generally obtained, nothing has been learned, and her relatives are as much in the dark as to her whereabouts and the purpose, if any, of her disappearance as they were the first morning after her disappearance. Detec- tives have been at work, the large number of friends in the church of the missing young woman have exhausted every means at their command, but with no result. Miss Fannie Parker lived with her par- ents at 1213 Fourteenth street. Her two sisters and brother reside there, and the family is said to have been a peculiarly happy one. All attend the First Bap- tist Church, and the missing girl’s sister, Emma, also sings in the choir. Fannie is described by all her frienas and relatives as a rather dignified young lady, about 27 years of age and of such a de- meanor as would command respect from ‘every one. Her outward bearing was rather austere and would repel a stranger rather than attract. She was strict in h er religious ideas, but frequently attended a private party and seemed to enjoy life. She was not given to spells of moodiness and was of a cheer- ful and pleasant disposition at home. She ‘was a dressmaker by occupation and earned a comfortable income at her busi- ness. On no occasion had she ever been known to stay away from her home before, and ber character in every regard 1s stated by everybody to be absolutely above re- proach. Last Wednesday night she left her home, and, as it was the regular prayer meeting night, nothing was thought of her going out. She did not return and.from the NEW TO-DAY. SPECIALSALE OF" 200 PIECES NOVELTYBOUCLE DRESS FABRIGS! 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It is a perfect mystery to us all,” said he, “and we do not know which way to turn. We | have been everywhere that we can think | of and have communicated with every- body that we thought could throw any light on the matter, but our efforts have been useless. Nearly a week has now passed and nothing have we seen or heard of Fannie. She went out as usual and w hen she failed to return we did not know what to make of it. «At first we thought, as everybody does under such circumstances, that she had | gone home with some of her girl friends. But when the next day passed and no trace of her conld be found we began to fear that something had happened. We can- not even suggest a reason for her going away. S “Whether it is foul play or whether it is | entirely voluntary we cannot and do not care to think because everything we can ossibly conjecture is uncertain. We Ennw nothing except that she has gone. She made no preparations for her de- parture, and everything in her room is the same as if she expected to return. “Nothing happened the last evening she was at home to cause us to suppose she would go away. Everything was the same as usual, and there was no unpleasantness. There is nothing in our knowledge and, so far as we have been able to learn, nothing in the knowledge of others that will throw any light on the sad affair. Fannie was | one of the most retired girls I know. “She was not keeping company with | any young man, and was not at all partial to the company of young men. She was not a girl of a romantic nature that would be likely to run off and get married, be- cause she was 27 yvears old, and was quite at liberty to please herself in such mat- ters.” The night previous to her disappearance | Miss Parker was at the house of Miss Co- burn and Miss M. Holmes, who live next door to the Parker family. She attended a party and was as gay and lively as ever. No one would ever dream of Fannie disappearing,’’ said Miss Coburn to- night. “She was such a staid girl to strangers and not at all roman- ticc. We fear that something has| happened and we cannot gusss what. Fannie is not staying away of her own free will, and unless something that we cannot imagine bas happened she must be restrained somewhere. She would never look at a man and was oneof the most reticent of all the girls in the church. “She was here last Tuesday night and made a promise to be at a meeting at Mrs. | Schreiber’s, on Linden street, to-night. Whe{l, we parted she was just as bright as ever. Everybody describes Miss Parker as a girl who was no more affable toward men than propriety made necessary, and all are surprised that she should have so sud- denly disappeared. _The meeting ut the Schreiber house to- night wasa very somber one. It was a business meeting for the purpose of trans- acting some business with the church work, but ~the absence of Miss Parker seemed to throw a gloom over the proceedings. Everybody was aware of the unhappy news, and when the time for prayer arrived all joined fervently in a pe- tition to the Almighty that the mystery might be solved and the absent sister be npeedll{)resmred to her place. Fev. Dr. Hobart, pastor of the church, was present, and the earnestness of his words showed how keenlv he shared the grief of the missing one’s relatives. A very close friend of the family said to-night that a few months ago a conver- sation was held in the Parker home in which Fannie took part. The conversation turned on suicide and this subject was discussed in its many phases. 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