The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1896, Page 1

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VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 183. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1896—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FOUND DEATH AT THE FEAST| | — | | Fatal Panic Among Russian Peas- ants Who Assembled on the Hodynsky Plain. MOUIJIKS MADE MAD BY FEAR CRUSHED THE WEAKER IN THE STAMPEDE. Hundreds Perished in the Only Calamity That Has Attended th§ Brilliant Festivities Connected With the Coronation of the Czar. MOSCOW, RusstA, May 30.—A terrible accident, resulting in the loss of a large number of lives, occurred here to-day. The popular fete of the coronation cere- monies was held to-day on the Hodynsky Piain, opposite the Petrofsky Palace, and it is estimated that fully 500,000 persons attended. For days past the city has been full of peasants from many partsof the country, all awaiting the free feast that was given to-day. Many peasants had walked long distances in order to be pres- ent, while others, more fortunate, had ar- rived in the city in vehicles of every de- scription. Expectation had reached the highest point, for it was known that to-day’s fetes would excel anything of the kind ever given in connection with the coronation of the Czar. Long before daylight the death by being trampléd upon. The cries and shrieks of the injured could be heard above ‘the tumuit of the crowd, and the effect was heartrending. Additional troops were called upon to assist in quieting and dispersing the peo- ple. This they finally succeeded in doing, when every effort was made to succor the injured. Cossacks were placed at the en- trances of the 500 booths on the plain, and into these structures were carried the bodiss of the dead. At the time of sending this ‘aispatch (4:50 p. M.) it is impossible to say how many persons were kiiled, but the repre- sentative of the United Press, who was an eye-witness of the whole affair, saw heaps of bodies in the booths. While the crush was most intense and | the curses, shrieks and howls of pain were crowds bezan pouring in the direction of | at their height, an unknown woman was the plain, while at an early hour all sorts | delivered of a child on the field. No at- of merry-making was indulged in. The | tention was paid to them by the maddened scene was one to be -long remembered. | crowd and the mother and the infant were Great booths had been constructed on the | trampled to death. plain and from them were distributed free | Every facility was given for the identi- food, free beer and also mugs as souvenirs | fication of the dead, but in most cases it of the occasion. was impossible to recognize them, sc This free.feast, which has always been | badly were they crushed and disfigured. the popular feature of coronations, has | A large number of tue dead were carried hitherto been the occasion of a great deal | @way in ambulances and on fire trucks, of crowding and good-natured fighting for | but many bodies are still in the booths. places on the part of the hundreds of | It is highly probable that many of the thousands of gnests in the city, but no | victims who came from a distance will such gathering was ever witnessed on the | never be identafied. These bodies will be Hodynsky Plain, whizh has alw: been | interred by the Government. In fact, it the scene of popular entertainments end- | is believed that most of those who were ing coronations, as that which assembled | killed were moujiks from the provinces. to-day. Everything progressed smoothly All the victims belonged to the peasant until the distribution of the food and gifts | class. The number of injured is very began. | large and it is thought many of them will Then the people in the rear began to |die. In some cases men had their arm ¢rowd forward, but the police and soldiers | legs and ribs broken, and seversl had ‘1 eir checked them, and for a short time there | skulls fractured by the heavy wooden was comparative order. Soon, however, | shoes of the peasants. Tue authorities the crowd in the rear again became impa- | &nd members of the Russian Red Cross tient and surged forward despite every | Society are takingthe best of care of the effort to hold them back. Barriers had | injured. heen erected in the vicinity of the booths The ‘disaster has cast a gloom over the to prevent excessive crowding, and under | festivities, these being the first fatalities ordinary circumstances these would have | that have occurred during the coronation been sufficient for the purpose. The peo- | cersmonies. ple in front were swept against the bar-.| The Czar and Czarina, when informed riers, where the enormous weight of the | of the extent of the disaster, expressed surging mass in the rear was thrown di- | profound sorrow, and the Czar zeve orders MEMORIAL DAY CEREMON-lVES IN SAN FRANCISCO. Scene at the Presidio yesterday during Irving M. Scott’s address to the multitude that had assembled to attend the Memorial Day exercises in honor of the dead heroes of the Nation. The platform from which Mr. Scott spoke was built in full view of the Bay, and thousands listened as he spoke of the mournful yet proud observance of the day set' aside to honor those who fell in the defense of their country. rectly against them. Mad with pain and fright the people who were crusbed against the barriers struggled to get away, but their attempts were fruitless. .Their shrieks were heard, and this had the effect of further inciting those in the rear to get forward. rush the immense throng swept forward. Hundreds of men, women and children were thrown down, and to stumble or fall meant death or serious injury, but nol power could check the crowd, many of whom were in & condition of panic. The | authorities were helpless, and for atime the sceme baffied description. Many persons were killed by being crushed against the barriers before they gave way, and a great number met their Sud- denly the barriers gave way, and with a that everything should be done to alle- viate the sufferings of the injured. The calamity was not due to any lack of precaution on the part of the authori- ties, but arose entirely from the eagerness of the people to enjoy the hospitality of the Czar. The fete was held in the presence of the Czar and a distinguished company of guests. His Majesty, after visiting the booths, the theater in which free perform- ances were given and the saloons, ap- peared at’ 3:30 o’clock 1b a large pavilion that had been especially erected and | elaborately decorated for the occasion. | As he appeared the choirs present sang the National anthem to the accompani- Continued on Sccond Page. Kate Field, the Talented Writer, Who Died at Honolulu on the 19th Inst. VICTINS PLACED AT AL ST, Hurried Burial of Many Who Met Death in the Tornado. SERVICES MADE SHORT. Undertakers Unable to Keep Up | With the Demand for Suita- ble Interments. DESTITUTION IN EAST ST LOUIS Hundreds Who Escaped the Fury of the Elements in Danger of Starvation, 8T. LOUIS, Mo., May 30.—One hundred and twenty-eight victims of Wednesday’s horror were laid to rest to-day in the ceme- teries of this city and East St. Louis. The total of interments would have been larger but for the fact that the facilities of the undertaking establishments were inade- quate to the sudden and pressing require- ments of the situation. Quite a number of these establishments were in one or an- other of the numerous paths made by the tornado, and hearses, carriages and coffins by the score were reduced to kindling. Hence the demands upon those of the mortuarians whose plants were in order were doubled, and as a result there was more or less confusion and painful an- noyance. No pretense was made of observing a time schedule, and 1n many cases the be- reaved relatives and mourners sat from early morning until late in the day await- ing the coming of the funeral equipages. Hearses did treble and quadruple duty, the hearses being driven at breaknecik speed and returning to the devastated dis- deposited at the door of the vault or by the side of a grave. In several instances a single hearse bore three caskets, one con- taining the remains of an adult and the others those of little ones. At tne graves the religious rites were abbreviated and addresses of enlogy or condolence were dispensed with. The in- terments in this city were divided between Caivary, Bellefontaine, Saints Peter and Paul, Picket and Hebrew cemeteries, the tricts as rapidly as their loaas had been |- two first named receiving the greatest num- bers. Between 8 and 9 o’clock and 3:30 ¥. M. two processions passed over ‘Grace avenue, the thoroughfare ieading to the graveyard of Saints Peter and Paul. Denominational lines were closed up, and there were times when the solemn words of the committal service of Cath- | olics and Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Methodists, Baptists and Congregational- ists, German Lutherans, Unitarians and Universalists were being repeated in dif- ferent cemeteries at the same moment. { Each funerai had its concourse of mourn- |* ers, and many patbetic and heartrending scenes were enacted as the mortal remains of loved ones that but a comparatively few hours ago gave promise of long and useful lives were lowered to rest. A quarter of a million people visited the scenes of the disaster about aristocratic Lafayette Park during the morning and afternoon. At least a fifth of these were strangers from points in Missouri and 11li- nois, who had taken advantage of the Na- tional holiday and the reduced railroad rates to see for themselves the havoc that the tornado had wrought. The crowds were quiet, orderly and sympathetic, and not a single case of pil- laging or disorderly conduct called for action on the part of the police authori- ties. Furnmture-movers and'general team- sters reaped a harvest in removing house- hold effects from the dismantled residences in this section, $10, $15 and in some cases as high as $20 a load being demanded and paid without demur. In those pocrer parts of the city where the force of the Jisaster had also been. felt the willing hearts and hands of the more fortunate | went out and were extended to their stricken neighbors, and men, women and children, sometimes at risk of limb and life, aided in removing the humble con- tents of tottering houses and tenements to a place of safety. G The interments will be resumed to- morrow, and by nightfail it is expected that all of the identified dead will have been laid to rest. The unrecognized bodies will be held until Tuesday, when such dis- position will be made of those not claimed as the Coroner may direct. Three of the principal real estate deal- ers in this city to-night stated to the United Press that they figured that the actual real estate loss in St. Louis would not exceed $10,000,000. The damage to household property, bric-a-brac, paint- ings, statuary, etc., will, however, swell this amount nearly $2,000,000 more. The loss in shade trees and ornamental shrub- bery is beyond computation. Lafayette Park, for two decades the pride of the aristocratic “French residents,” is but a memory. Not a tree is left standing in all its broad domain, and it is surrounded by a quadrgngle of demolished houses, many of which can only be located by the numbers on the adjoining houses that escaped. The following additions to roll of death in this city were made to-day: Additional dead 1n 8t. Louis—William F. Anderson, 88 years, found in ruins at 606 South Seventh street; Adolph Goodman, Wil- Continued on Second Page, KATE FIELDS | SUDDEN DEATH, Succumbed to Pneumonia While Visiting the Ha- waiian Islands. MADE A NOTED RECORD. As a Writer and Lecturer the Talented Weman Attracted Much Attention. VERSED IN MANY SCIENCES. Few Newspaper Workers Were Her Equal in the Wide Field of Journalism. | | CHICAGO, 111, May 30.—Kate Field is | dead. The sad news was received this evening in a cablegram reading as follows: YOKOHAMA—FKohlsaat, Times-Herald, Chi- cago: Kate Field died May 19, Honolulu, pneumonia. ‘THURSTON. The sender of the cablegram was the ex- | Minister from Hawaii to the TUnited | States. Miss Field was born in £t. Louis in 1854, Her father, Joseph M. Field, and her ~mother, who was Eliza Lapsley Riddle of | Philadelphia, were able to give her rare | educational advantages and through them she inherited brilliancy and versatihity, her mother being a charming actress. Kate was educated in Boston, Italy and England and traveled all over the world. She was essentially cosmopolitan. After her classical education she gave special attention to musical studies, be- coming a pupil of Garcia and William Shakespeare, the English tenor. She made several long visits to Europe, and during her - stay abroad became corre sbondent of the New York Tribune, Phila- delphia Press and Chicago Tribune, be- sides doing work for periodicals. In 1874 she appesred as an actressin Booth’s Theater, New York, where her dramatic talent asserted itself. Since leaving the ‘stage she has devoted her talents and encrgies to lecluring and journalism, in which she achieved the greatest success, Among her published works are: ‘Planchette’s Diary,” “Ade- | woman’s name. | use of the boats. laide Ristori,”” *Mad on Purpose” (a lcomody). “Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens’ Readings,” “Haphazard,” “Ten Days in Spain,” ‘‘History of Bell’s Tele- vhone.” She founded .the National Review sev- eral years ago, and in 1890 began the pub- lication of her famous Kate Field’s Wash- ington in the National capital. She remained the editor, publisher and sole owner of the urnique weekly publication, the only one in the world which bogea An attack of the grip in the winter of 1894-95 left ber unfitted for her editorial work, and on this account she was com- pelled to suspend publication of her paper and travel for her health, doing occasional lecturing and light journalistic work. Last fall Miss Field was sent to the Hawaiian Islands by the Times-Herald as special correspondent, and was so engaged when removed by death. During her visit in San Francisco, while en route to tke islands, Miss Field was given her last public reception at the Press Club. She was entertained by the ladies engaged in active newspaper work in the City, and the reception goes into the history of the club as one of the notanle events held in its rooms. SUNK AT A LAUNCHING. One Man Drowned by the Capsizing of a Pilot Boat After Leaving the Ways. & NORFOLK, V., May 30.—An accident at the double launching at the Newport News shipyard to-day caused the loss of oneiife and the sinking of one of the steam- ers being launched. In going down the ways the pilot boat Smith was first. The blocks came from under one side of her, turning her over on her side. Ske went out into the witer about 200 feet and filling rapidly sank. | There were about thirty men.aboard and | everybody but one man was saved by the The Plant Line steamer Margaret was successfully launched later on. el ety CHARGED WITH GRAND LARCENY. Arrest of John L. White, Former President and Treasurer of the White Loco- motive Works. NEW YORK, N. Y., May. 30.—John L. ‘White, former president and treasurer of the White Locomotive Works, whose main office is at Buffalo, N. Y., was arrested last night charged with grand larceny and durgery to the extent of $80,000. To-day he was arraigned and remandea until Monday, when be will be given a formal examinaiion. The arrest was caused by the present president, Mr. McKenzie, and involyes transactions while White was president. The delay granted to-day was at the instance of the prosecuting witness ———— PLEASURE BOAIS UPSET. Accidents Followed by the Dyowning of Several Persons, NEW YORK, N. Y., May 31.—The police set in the Kills late last night and that several people in it were drowned. An investigation is being made. A steam launch which. was filled with a family party that had been out on a few days” pleasure cruise ran into one of the buttresses of the Second-avenue bridge, overthe Harlem River, late last night and was upset. Five of the party were rescued, but two, Manol Wolfert and Kate Murray, are missing. Eoaige Portugal’s Good Offices. LISBON, PortucAL, May 30.—The news- papers here state that Portugal has offered her good offices to Great Britain and Brg- zil to bring about a settlement of the dis- pute regarding the ownership of the island of Trinidad. NEW TO-DAY. EVERY KIND HUMOR FROM PIMPLES SCROFULA Speedily cured by CUTICURA RESOLVENT, greatest of humor cures, assisted externally by warm baths with CUTICURA S0AP, and gentle applications of CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure, when all else fails. Sold thronghout the world. Price, CUTICURA, S0c.i EsoLvENT, Sic. aud #1. PoTrEe DRUG Cowr., Sole Props., Bost LEYI STRAUSS &COS COPPER RIVETED OVERALLS - AND SPRING BOTTOM . PANTS. of East One Hundred@ and Twelfth-street station have just iearned at 1 o’clock that a yacht with several people in it was up EVERY PAIR GUARANTEEDR SOR SALE EVERYWHERE.

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