The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 86. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PERISH N A BURNING HOUSE, Frightful Holocaust Attends the Destruction of a Residence. SEVEN LIVES ARE LOST. The Flames Spread Rapidly and Prevent the Escape of the Inmates. ONLOOKERS POWERLESS TO AID. Heroism of Firemen Saves Several From Cremation—A Woman’s Plunge to Death. BALTIMORE, Mp., Feb, 23.—A fire in the fashionable district of North Balti- more about 8 o’clock this morning caused seven deathsand sent a thrill of horror into bundreds of homes in the city, where most the unfortunate victims were well known. Thedisaster occurred in the home of James R. Armiger, one of the best- known men Baltimore, at 1865 North Charles street, and, owing to the mistake of two policemen in breaking open a front door and giving draught to the flames, was greater than it have been had proper precautio: been takcn and fore- thouzht exercised. The dead are: James R. Armiger, aged 55; William B. Riley, his son-in-low, aged would i3; Richard Ril ed 4, Marian Riley, aged 214; J hamberlin, aged3; Mrs. Marian Chamberlin, aged 30; Harold Manuel, aged 50. before 8 ored servant w and Lou Whiting, a col- was employed next door, the flames. Gaining an nce over a rear fence, he dashed rough the building, arousing the in- most of whom were still in their quick as was his action, the imes were more rapid, and egress by the stairc shut off before half of the sixteen occupants of the dwelling had left their rooms. The sleepers on the fourth floor could get no lower than the second story, where they were driven into the sleeping-rooms of the other inmates of the house. With closed doors bebind them to keep ount the fames and swmoke, the servanis,. too, rushed to the windows crying piteously for help. Two maid servants, who were in the kitchen when the fire was discovered, escaped by the rear door. There were discovered first then penned up in the building fourteen | persons crying or shrieking for assist- ance. As soon as the Fire Department arrived nets were stretched beneath the window and the firemen called to the terror- cken persons at the windows to jump. crowd in the street, not realizing the extent of the fire and smoke within the bouse, yelled: *Don’t jump!” The be- wildered inmates held back. and some of them disappeared from the windows. Ap- parently they went back for clothing, or vs for some treasured or valuable ion. It was a fatal move, and in instances © Jst a life. Policemen Carlos and Crewe, in an at- tempt to rescue those whose lives were in danger, broke in the front door. It wasa mistake, for it only gave the fire, which had begun in the basement, the draught it needed, and it roared through the halil ways and up the stairs with greater fierce- ness. The policemen could not reach the imperiled persons, for the stairzwas then a mass of flames and the smoke was plind- ing. The firemen had by this time thrown up ladders against the front of the house, and District Chief McAfee climbed up to the second-story window, where Mrs. Armiger | was crymg for nelp. The ladder did not quite reach the window, and there was the wildest excitement in the crowd below as McAfee stood on the upper round of the ladder and grasped the window sill for support. He encouraged Mrs. Armiger to swing herself out of the window. As the chief grasped her with one arm he steadied himself with the other, and had taken one step down the ladder, when it slipped, and McAfee, with the woman in one arm and with the other holding to the window frame, dangled in the air. A cry of horror went up from the crowd as it saw the peril of the daring fireman and his human burden. Fortunately for them McAfee caught the top rouna of the ladder on his toe and pulled it back into position, released his hold uvon the win~ dow and quickly descended with the woman to the sidewalk. A great cheer went up as rescued andgescuer reached terra firma. At one of the third-story windows a man with & look of agony shouted to the multi- tude below. It sent bim back an encour- aging shout, and be a moment later, before a ladder could be run up, disappeared. When the firemen reached the window the man was found lying beneath it, suffocated and badly burned. It wasHarold Manuel, a New York stockbroker and banker. In his arms was little Richard Riley, a grand- son of Mr. Armiger, also deaa. Alice J. Williams, one of the colored servants, appeared at one of the fourth- story windows, shrieking for help. BShe leaned far out over the pavement. “Don’t jump! don’t jump!” yelled a hundred voices. She stepped back, wringing her hands. Then she leaned out again and appeared to be trying to call something to those below. Again the cry went up, “Don’t jump!” Too late the terrorized woman drew half back in the window and with an ewful shriek launched herself out into the air. Down, down she shot, her body turn- ing over several times and striking the marble steps of the residence. The crowd stood transfixed with horror, as the woman’s body rebouncded and rolled to the pavement. For a moment no one moved. Then a man rushed forward, fol- lowed by a score. The woman was moan- ted in the basement shortly | ing pitifully, her hands clinching and un- clinching in agony. She was carried to Dr. Batchelder’s office, opposite, and sub- sequently removed to the City Hospital, where she is now dying. Another colored servant, Mary White, was rescued from a window in a semi- conscious condition by the firemen. ‘While the scenes of excitement and bravery were being enacted in front of the burning residence other acts of heroism were bemng performed in the rear. Mr. Armiger’s two daughters—Virgin aged and Eleanor, aged 15—occupied the second-stor. room. With the great- |est presencl of mind Miss Virginia, assisted by ler young sister, made a rope of the bed linen and with this Eleanor was lowered to the ground. Fearing to trust her weight upon the slender cord, Miss Virginia dashed back to the bed, grasped the mat- tress, pushed it through the window to the ground, twenty feet below. She then jumped snd landed upon it, uninjured with the exception of a slight shock. The only other person of the sixteen who were in the ill-fated house to be rescued was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armi- ger, Mre. Lelia Riley. She was carried down by the ladder by tne firemen, hav- ing been overcome by the smoke. When the fire had been got under control and the firemen made a search of the ruins of the residence, Mr. Armiger was found in the hallway. When Whitins dashed upstairs with the alarm of tire, Mr. Armiger had left his wife in the care of the | colorea man and went upstairs to awaken the other inmates of the house. He had been overcome by the smoke and flames | and breathed his last as he was carried | into the open air. i William B Riley, a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Armiger, was found dead near | by. He, with his wife and two children, had been seen at the third-story window, and Mrs, Riley had been taken out by the firemen, but before tife rescuers could re- turn to the window Mr. Riley, with his two children clasped in his arms, suc- cumbed to the smoke and flames. On the floor above were found the bodies of Mrs. | Marian Chamberlain, a widowed daughter | of Mr. and Mrs. Armiger, and her three- | year-old child, James. The last person to be found in the wrecked building was Hatold Manael, aged 50, a guest who arrived from New York. last Thursday. He was a member of the broker firm of Turner & Manuel, 35 Wall street, New York. Mr. Armiger was an importer of dia- monds and fine jewelry and did a big business in this city and throughout the Southern States. For thirty years he had been one of the best-known merchants of the city. The scene in the parlors of Dr. K. B. Bachelor's residence, ‘where the charred | and bruised bodies were carried, was har- | rowing. Mr. Armiger was burned to a | cisar around the upper part of his body. The white hair around his venerable head was matted and clotted with blood and | einders. His face and-forehead were so badly burned that the ends of his hair were clotted in the flesh. -His face, al- though terribly blackened, was easily rec- ognizable, and old friends turned away | sick at heart. | Mr. Riley died from burns and suffoca- tion. He was rather stout and muscular. Fhe burns were chiefly about his face, neck and shoulders. His face was terribly dis- torted and wore an expression of awful agony. Mr. Manuel was also terribly burned and his horribly scarred face was dis- torted, as though ne had died only after making a supreme effort for life. Gleam- ing in startling contrast with the burned and blackened fingers of Mr. Manuel’s left hand shone a handsome diamond ring. The body of James Chamberlain was a blackened cinder. His throat and nos- trils were burned inside. The two Riley children were killed by the suffocating smoke. They were not so badly burned as the others, but their faces were blackened from the bursting of blood- vessels, and the red fluid made crimson stains on their blackened nightgowns. The house is completely gutted. In the dining-room and pantry the family silver- ware is a blackened and misshapen mass | of metal. The monetary loss is estimated at $25,000. . The news of the catasirophe spread throughout the city by means of the pul- pit and press, and all day and late into the | night great crowds loitered about the fire- swept ruins and the house wherein the poor victims lay. Coroner Alexander Hill,| | impaneled a jury of inquest, which viewed | the bodies of the deceased, and to-night | rendered a verdict in effect that tne fire | was caused by a badly connected hot-air | pipe. eulogized the Fire Department for prompt service, and gave especial credit to | District Chief McAfee, who heroically saved the life of Mrs. Armiger. Of those who escaped death to-day, Alice | Williams will die from a fractured skull, Others will probably survive their in- juries. ABYSSINIANS REPULSED, Italians Defeat a Force of Six Hundred Dervishes With Heavy Loss Near Kassala. ROME, Itavy, Feb. 23.—A dispatch from Massowah states that 5000 Dervishes are hovering.around the town of Kassala, in the northwestern part of the part of the provines of the Tigre. An engagement has taken place between the Italian out- posts and a force of 600 of the Dervishes. The latter were repulsed with a loss of | eighty killed. Tho Italianslost ten kiiled. Kassala is a well-fortified place and no anxiety is fe!t for its safety. e e Stockinger Succceds Havemeyer. VIENNA, Avustria, Feb. 23.—The Of- ficial Gazeite announces that Herr F. Stockinger, at present director of the Com- mercial Chancelleri of the Anstrian bassy at London, has been apnointed Con- sul-General at New York, in succession to Lheodore Havemeyer, wno recently re- signed. - Baron_von Leonhardt, the Vice- ©onsul at New York, will be transferred to Chicago. Sl Rusain’s Move in Korea. LONDON, ExG., Feb. 23.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg states that Russia has no intention of acquiring Korea, but that she regards it to be her right and duty to guarantee the freedo m of the country. Favored by Royalty. Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the a special distinction of excellence, have appointed G. H. Mumm & Co. purveyors to their courts. No wonder the importa- tion of Moumm’s extra dry to the United States, where always the ‘best is wanted, aggregates 79,049 cases in 1895, about one- third of the total. German Lmperor, and other monarchs, as | { The Commander Enthusiastically Re- Huntington—Hello, a chance to freeze on to another water front! BOOTHS AR WL SECEDE American Salvationists to Become an Independent Organization. PLANS OF THE LEADER. Orders From England Will Not Be Recognized in the Future. CHEER THE ANNOUNCEMENT. ceived at the Headquarters in New York. NEW YORK, NJY. Feb. 23.—Com- mander Ballington Booth of the Salvation Army last night announced to the mem- bers of his staff that he had decided not to relinquish command of the army in the United States, and that under no circum- stances would'he take orders from Kng- land. This was taken to mean that he will reorganize the army in this country on an independent basis, and it was received with cheers and other demonstrations of approval. Commander Booth appeared atthe army headquarters last evening and held a council of war with his staff superintend- ents and declared it his intention not to relinquish his command until compelled to do so. Colonel Alexander N. Nicol, the personal representative of General Booth in the present difliculty, and Colonel Eadie, who has assumed to exercise the authority of acting commander, were called to the council-room and given to understand the commander’s position. | They went into his presence pale and trembling and they emerged from the room looking very much troubled. During the session a message was re- ceived, purporting to come from London, 1o the effect that Commander and Mrs. F. de la Tour Booth-Tucker had been ap- pointed to succeed Mr. and Mrs. Balling- ton Booth in the United States. This was promptly bulletined by Mr. Nicol, but its truth was denied by Commander Booth The New Bridge Over Which the San Francisco and San Joaquifi Vall islaus River To-Day and Eercafter—Miss Fmma Long, Who Was the First to Cross the Bij (Sketched from the river bank by a * Call” artist.) 2 | pointment of such importance except in Ba | sioner in that service in the Punjaub. | appointment *and went back to India in | 1880 as a pioneer of the Salvation Army | work there. V) g %\%Mm LS 1 and his friends, who declared that the dis- | patch was bogns and was issved by Eva Booth, who is in this city, to create a false impression. Commander Booth’s statement that he would not recognize theé message as offi- cial was received with applause. It was argued that the message could not be authentic, because General Booth is not in London, and would not make an ap- the regular way and from the London headquarters. Commandant Booth's arrival at head- quarters was entirely unexpected and took the opposition by surprise. The regular Sunday evening gospel service was in wogress and the largze hall was well crowded. - - BOOTH’S SUCCESNORS NAMED. Commissioner and Mrs. Booth-Tucker to Command the Army. NEW YORK, N. Y.. Fehi24. —This bul- Tetin was posted to-afght €& the Salvation Army headquarters on West Fourteenth street: | NOTICE. Commissioner and Mrs. Booth-Tucker have been ointed as successors t0 Commander and M! ington Booth, and may be expected to arrive in this country with all dispaten. Arex M. Nicor, Colonel. The news came by cable from the inter- national headquarters in London. Com- missioner Tucker is on his way from India, having accompanied General Booth thither. Mrs. Tucker, who is General Booth’s second daugnter, is in London and may get here earlier than her hus- band. Commissioner Tucker was at one time in command of the army in India. He was formerly a Judge in the Indian civil service and an assistant commis- He had done some missionary work | among the natives, when he saw one day in a copy of the London War Cry, an ap- peal -from General Booth for officers to work in India. He got a furlough, went | to London, made himself acquainted with the army’s work, and then resigned his BULLETS FOLLOW A BLOW. Albert W. Sullivan, @ Prominent Mississippi Lawyer, Fatally Shot by Moody Swain. MEMPHIS, Te~x~., Feb. 23.—Albert W. Sullivan, a prominent attorney of Oxford, Miss., was fatally shot by Moody Swain near Dallas, Miss., yesterday afternoon. Sullivan, in company with Edward Wat- son, a young law student, went to Dallas to take part in the trial of a case. 'In the progress of the case Swain, who was drink- ing, interfered several times, and Saltivan requested him to be quiet. At the con- clusion of the trial Sullivan and Watson started to their buggy, when Swain came up to Sullivan and cursed him. Quick as a flash Sullivan struck Swain with his fist. Swain pulled his pistol and fired, the ball striking Sullivan in the head. Then, asif benton slaying, Swain shot twice at Sullivan’s companion, Wat- son, but his aim was bad, and Watson was not hurt. Theu Swain fired a final shot, striking a bystander, John Cofiey, in the arm. A. W. Sullivan is a nephew of ex-Senator W. V. Sullivan. s L Denth of Judge Cochran. MARTIN’S FERRY, Omuro, Feb. 23— Judge Robert H. Cochran, whe was born near here, died last night at Toledo, He | was a soldier, jurist, orator, financier, railroad builder, Mason and a Knight ot Honor. He was 59 years of age. WILL CROSS THE STANISLAUS RIVER, The New Bridge of the San Joaquin Valley Railway CONNECTS TWO COUNTIES ‘The First Train Will Go Over the Big Structure This Morning. TRACK-LAYING TO BE RUSHED. California’s Competing Railroad Ex- pects to Enter Fresno by June of This Year. BTOCKTON, CarL., Feb. .—Unless Division Engineer McFarland has some reason for postponing the event another day or two the first train of the San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company will cross the Stanislaus River and enter Stanislaus County early to- morrow morning. . - This is looked upon as an event of con- | fiderable importance and some of the offi- cials and directors of the road will prob- ably go down on the construction, train to inspect the big bridge. Its entire length | i8 510 feet and the big middle span that stretches from the heavy piers on each side of the water-way is 180 feet in leng*h. The structure is built of very heavy tim- bers and braced by steel rods. It has taken lots of time and money to build and has, in & measure, delayed the work of tracklaying south of the river. Stockton people remember when tne | hope of man for the realization of the Val- ley Road project ran no further than the Stanislaus. ‘“Wait till they reach the river,” it: was said. Well, the track reached the river some weeks ago, and there it halted, at a distance of twenty-six miles from this ‘city, until the bridge should be completed. Now the bridge is finished and will be crossed to-morrow. Then the tracklaying will go on with un- diminished speed, and by June it is ex- pected that Fresno will be reached. The officials who are to cross the Stanis- laus River bridge to-morrow morning may in after years look back to this day and remember with not a little gratifica- tion, perbaps, that they were the first men to cross the big bridge. But they will al- ways have to qualify their boaat by their gender, for already one member of the tender sex has walked from San Joaquin into Stanislaus County over these big timbers. This was little Emma Long, the pretty daughter of Conductor Long, who, in the future, may also remember with satisfaction that he was the tirst conductor on the first competing railroad that en- tered the San Joaquin Valley. Saturday morning a party left .Stockton and went down on the construction train i\ JRRX] 7’1‘%; %) P 4 ey Railway Will Cross the Stanis- tion. as far as the river. Though the ballasting of the road is not completed, the construc- tion train sped along very smoothly at the rate of between thirty and forty miles an lhour, making stops all along the line and yet reaching its destination inside of forty-ive minutes, Lzaving Stockton, the course is almost due east, inclining a little to the south, running through a rich grain and fruit country, until the station of Escalon is reached. Here the road turns more to the south, and keeps turning until the engine almost faces the equator—or Fresno, which is nearer., Arrived at the bridge several of the party braved ~the terrors of dizziness and walked partly across the structure. The only one in the number to reach the Stan- islaus side, however, was Miss Long. For amile on each side of the river the road runs through a most picturesque country, rolling and timbered land, where a good deal of grading had to be done, Beyond the river the grading has been done for ten or twelve miles, and across Tuolumne and Dry creeks the piles have been driven and the framework of the bridges completed, so that all is in readi- ness for pushing the work of tracklaying as soon as the construction train crosses the river. At the material yards in.Stock- ton the cars are loaded with rails and ties and sleepers and spikes and plates and what not in that line, and these be rushed out by Tuesday or Wednesday morning at the latest, and the Valley Rosd will grow in length as no other railroad in this valley ever grew before PRINCIPLE BEFORE PARTY. Colorado Republicans Will Indorse the Presidential Electors Pledged to the Silver Cause. DENVER, Coro., Feb. 23.—A general desire exists among ths ColoradogRepub- licans to delay the holding of a State con- vention until after the Presidential tickets are in the field. It is admitted that the State cannot be held for the Republican party without a silver plank in the Na- tional platform, and the State Republican ticket would also be defeated, as it was the last time, when Waite floated into the gubernatorial chair through the silver agi- tation. The managers in this State have a plan to indorse for Presidential electors the nominees of the party whose platform is for free silver, and thus leave clear the Re- publican State ticket to go on its own merits. Chairman Howbert has issued a letter of inquiry to sound the feelings of mem- bers of the State committee on this sub- ject. He proposes that the delegates to the St. Louis convention be selected with- out the usual formality of a State conven- Commenting on this letter the Re- publican sa; “Under ordinary conditions it is possi- ble that the members of the committee would consent to allow the executive com- mittee to make the appointment for dele- gates and set the date for the convention, but much feeling has been aroused throughout the State régarding the recent utterances of Senator Wolcots on the Mon- roe doctrine. Several of the committee who believe they are voicing the sen: ments of the great majority of Republi- cans in this State, have written to the chairman regerding some action being taken to repuaiate the Anglomaniac sen- timents of the Junior Senator. Should a majority of the state committee decide in favor of holding a meeting, the Wolcott matter will not escape attention.” _—— SHOOTS THROUGH A WINDOW. Two Women Fatally Wounded by a Cow- ardly Assassin. HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 23.—John Priest, a farmer, rejurned home from this city last night and fcund his mother and his wife dying from gunshot wounds. While they were attending to domestic duties about 8 o’clock some one fired two charges of buckshot through the window. The elder Mrs. Priest was shot through the body and legs and Priest’s wife in the back and head. EOGERLY AND HIS ELIXIR A Son-in-Law of Mrs. Davidson Founds a “Live-Forever” Society. Claims to Have Discovered a “Glome” ‘Which Will Insure Perpe- tual Life. BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 23.—Again are the notorious ‘‘Lawyer” Edgerly, once of Lypn, Mass., and Mrs. Mary A. Davidson, now under arrest in San Francisco for blackmailing, brought to the attention of the public by Edeerly’s establishment of a new sect, the underlying principles of which are unbounded confidence in Ed- gerly and his profession ‘that he has found the secret of living forever. The sect calls itself the Ralston Health Club, and, some- times, the Live-Forever Club. Edgerly is also the proprietor of Martyn College and the Martyn Press Association, both of which are branches of the Live-Forever Cfub. Edgerly’s headquarters are at 1231 G street, Washington, D. C. To become members of the club one must buy Edgerly’s bovks. They are 149 in number, and the set costs $300. The books deal in generalities, after the man- ner of “Motor’” Keeley, and tell of a new substance called “glome.” discovered by Edgerly, and which is contained in the atmosphere. Only the truly good can ob- tain it, says Edgerly. Edgerly also runs the Martyn College of Oratory. Here, he says, he discovered the wonderful “glome.” He says his sect has 110,000 members, and that their member- ship cost them $300,000. This money, he says, is used in experimenting and in propaganda. Itisa fact that he receives large quantities of mail. Fiiteen yearsago Edgerly was one of the most prominent lawyers in Massachu- settes. Then he married Cora Davidson, a daughter of the woman held in San Fran- g Structure. ‘l cisco, with whom he lived two years. Later he secured a divorce and was dis- barred. Then he resumed his relationship with his mother-in-law, and was associ- ated with her up to the time of her leay- ing Chicago for San Francisco. il g e Suicide of an dged Minister. LEXINGTON, K., Feb. 23.—The oldest Baptist preacher in the State, Rev. Henry Maher of Powells Valley, committed sui- cide last night. He would have b-en 100 years old in June, and has been a minister ever since he was 25. JAMESON'S MEN - REACH ENGLAND, Transvaal Freebooters Not Given an Enthusiastic Greeting,. SENT TO THEIR HOMES Widely Divergent Stories of the Fight Told by the Captive Troopers. SAY THEY SLEW MANY BOERS. They Claim the Republic’s Defenders Lost 182 Men—Uitlanders Bit- terly Denounced. PLYMOUTH, Feb, 22.—The Brit« ish steamer Harloch Castie, from Port Natal January. 28, arrived here at 3:3 o'clock this morning, having on board troopers, who took partin Dr. Jameson's raid into the Transvaal and who were compelled to surrender to the Boers. These men were turned over to the English authorities by the Boer Govern- ment, and the former ordered that they be brought to England. The officers of the expedition, including Dr. Jameson, | are on the transport Victoria, which is ex- pected to arrive some time during the night. Among the men on the Harloch Castle six were sick. Shortly before 11:30 o’clock a tender went alongside the Harloch Castle. The troopers were all mustered on the deck of the steamer and their transfer to the ten- der was quiekly accomplished. It was thought that much enthusiasm would be displayed on their arrival here, as there is scarcely a doubt that their raid, illegal though it was, caused much popular aa- miration in England. The fact did not bear out expectation. There was no crowd present to witness their disembarkation from the tender, and there was no cheering. A majority of the troopers were attired in the police uniform of the British South Africa Company, but a number of them wore nondescript garments. Overcoats and other clothing suitable to this climata were suppliedto them,and they then looked far more comfortable than they did in the early morning. They are a hardy looking lot of men. . Their ages range irom 20 to 35 years. Many of them belong tosome of -the first famiiies in England, having gone to South Africa, where they could do work. Had they worked here it would have caused them to be looked down upon by their acquaintances. The representative of the United Piess interviewed a number of the men. Their stories of the fight, which ended in their surrender at Krugersdorp, varied widely. Some of them stated that when they sur- rendered to the Boer force their ammuni- tion had been exhausted, while others declared that there was no lack of ammu-~ nition. They all agreed that the Boers lost from 170 to 200 men killed, though this has been denied by the Boersthemselves. 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