The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1896, Page 1

/\—— VOLUME LXXX.—NO. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1896. LLINOIS DEME the Great Presidential | Struggle. SENATOR TELLER FINDS FAVOR. But Leaders May Head Off the| Boom With a Platform Favoring Silver. | | BOIES MEN ARE VERY ACTIVE | AND SANGUINE. | | Governor Aligeld Will Control The | Convention, However, and Dic- f tate All Action. | IA, (1L, June 22.—Perhaps the | nificant feature of the gathering | he Democratic clans for to-morrow’s Conve the strong under- in favor of the| or Teller as a Presi- n an out and out free the National Con- ing and swelter- | reached the as- pro and ts of candi- aind other de- | f con- 0. thermome the er morrow it wonld respectable gestion s geld machine, and e it is not to be | floor. During the day Hinri the likely lo Senator and his follow ed with more or less vigor and n of the Na- th the silver result the of the white metal n November. , however, the se y tended that dorsement of ago would | olt of the gold-standard dele- | in turn wo nold a | Ir own and nominate a ouid be heralded as that of e Democ: v, and that such ve the support of the ocratic ral and elements, to om ‘he silver or support, and to swallow Teller ¢ Reppblicanism, even if 1 a silver hook. e a silver Democrat at sen’s conclud- again repeated, blicans want and good; if not, let the: ieir own ticket and carry their will do the same, and just as well in the Electoral As to the ¢ ntion to-morrow, FOVerno: geld and that to 900 or y the operat kewise will he stand spons v plank of the platform and de y nominee upon the State t his own renomination for the Finally be will go to Chi- i he vote of the entire delegation cket, to be cast or not to be cast, 1 it. It is the story of t 1blican Convention retold, the place of Teller. It is convention, and the dele- the proportion of three to one, seem satisfied with the situation. The Iowa promoters of the Boies boom ade little impression during the day, al- though they worked hard. delegate and party wor E Each arriving r was furnished h a picture of the ex-Governor and & phlet sketch of the public life and | public services over the cavtion: ‘‘Stlver | must be restored is the issue of 2 But the literature lacked poten Gov- ernor Altzeld, when talked to in the in- terest of the Iowa candidate, was decidedly non-committai. He characterized as an 1tion of the ‘‘goldbugs” the story t he was opposed to Mr. Boies because the latter had made a speec ifying dent Cleveland in sending Federal troops to Chicago during the labor troubles, 1 ted having said that this speech »t against Boies among the la- element in the event of his being nominee. On principles he ght the ex-Governor’s attitude on the | jic questions of the day should entitle to consideration at the hands of the hicago convention. Lithographs of Bland of Missouri were di-played in the National Hotel this even- hg. but he had any sponsors they | ed to put themselves in evidence. s for ex-Congressman Morrison, not ! long ago regarded as a “favorite son,” his 1 tioned even in under- » for delegates at Jarge greed upon_at a conference of the rnor and his lieutenants this evening. | headed by the Governor himself, | chsen, Judege Bam P. | and General Lewis | tk zer is th Secretary Hin 'Connell of Chicag 3. Parsons of Florida as his associates. ; e latter is 80 years bld. T ,mas H. Gakan of Chicago hasbeen | 1 to succeed National Committeeman | ) R. Cable. The platform will in the in be devoted to State affairs, the Na- | tional planks being confined to declara- | 1s for free-silver coinage and revenue | Tiff | tariif. glan SNy 1 GOLD MEN TO CONTROL.| Cleveland’s Friends Appear to Have | Captured the Wisconsin Convention. MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 22.—The ‘was | er: ators Voorhees and Turpie, B. F. Shively ! of South Bend and J. G. Shanklin of| Evansville. The nominee for Governor will be ex-Congressman- Shively of South Bend. The permanent chairman will be R. C.'Bell of Fort Wayne. The platiorm | declares for the “immediate restoration of silver to the place it held in our monetary gold men and friends of Cleveland appear | system before the act of 1873, and the free to have captured tme Wisconsin Democ- | coinage of both metals at the ratio of 16 racy, and at the convention of the party, | to 1.” It declores for a purely revenue which will assemble at the Bijou Theater | tariff and the election of Senators by the to-morrow at 11 o’clock, the gold men will | popular vote, and contains a strong reso- be able to run things their own way. The | jution favoring Cuban independence. silyer forces of the State are not organized gunsireind, and the victories wou by them in the pre- | NEW YORK’S DEMOCRACY. minary skirmishes about ten days ago | e alarmed the gold men and only tended to | Leaders Have Selected Delegates spur them on to more vigorous efforts. | and Alternates for the Natlonal very sound-money man in the State | Conventicn: led upon to make a special effort to | NEW YORK, N.Y., June 22.—Several e the election of the gold duzugi:lleh& | of tne prominent Democratic leaders are t was that in some ‘; ‘be;in Alvbany to-night. Chairman Binkley es which were thought to - 9( - | of the State Committee arrived this even- T:;ih:;}n;( wu‘x:li:;-.(.l:;‘:snvr;‘ ({‘\OL::;:;\X: | ing and Urocc;;ded ?1‘ once to Senator Hill’s ill be 359 delegates i - | home, where he will spend the night. Ex- tion and a careful estimate shows there | goo atore of the Na‘vy \\'hitne)‘rz accom- w_\!l»be. as far as :\mtrd hom.]l»l:l gold men, | panied him. Senator Hill, Mr. Whitney 87 silver men and 62 doubtiul. | and Mr. Hinkley will start to-morrow for CRATS GATHER: secur and the re: counties wh Thomas F. Frawley of Lau Claire, 8| saratoga. A long conference between the sound-money man, Will be temDOrary | .oqers ensued at Senator Hill's home. chairman. BT Sy | The discussion was, of course, mainly on DEMOCRATS OF TEXAS. |theplatformto be‘adopted and the fignt ik | to be made for honest money at Chicago. Sound-Money Men Will Be Beaten } It is understood the four delegates at by the Champions of the | large to the Chicago convention will be White Metal. Senators Hill and Murphy, ex-Governor AUSTIN, Tex., June. 22—The Demo-{¥lowerand Frederick B. Goudert, cratic State Convention to elect delegates | M- Whitney reiterated his desire not to to the National Convention meets to-mor- ;.',‘0 as a dele a"ef and Mr. Coudert YVES de- row, and indications are that there will be | €ided upon. It is well known that Senator ahot fight in the free-silvér ranks over | Urphy, although he will be elected a % Toohtan i Sta o delegate at large, does not intend to go to the delegates from the State at large. The | Ghics Fo. A hisialtornatenitwo Nsmes’are convention will undoubtedly be dominated | mentioned — ex-Postmaster - General Bis- by the free-silver element. sell of Buffalo and ex-Mayor Grace of New The State Convention of the sound- | MARCUS AURELIUS HANNA AT HOME, Next to McKinley He Is the Most Popular Man in Ohio. SHREWD BUT JOVIAL. Cosgrave Tells of the Character- istics of the Great Political Manager. DECIDEDLY A BUSINESS MAN. But Indomitabls Good Humor Keeps His Mind in Equipoise and Serenity. CLEVELAND, Onio, June 22.—Marcus | Aurelius Hanna, next to his friend Wil- liam McKinley, is the most popular man to-day in Ohio. When he came home from St. Louis last Saturday he was received T products of Europe under the Democratic system of tariff which has ruined agricul- turists in California and which would in time bring wages and the standard of liv- ing down to the low level of European paupers and Asiatic coolies. He knew that the masses of tne people of the East and the West and the middle West were a unit on this proposition, the feeling, if anything, being strongerin the large man- ufacturing districts than it even is on the Pacific Coast. He knew that this was a matter which went beyond mere partisan polities, because it concerned the bread and butter of the laborer and the mechanic all over the Natien because the laborers and mechanics have become educated by bitter experience into the knowledge that if a man sends his money away from home he will in course of time be allowed to send his labor away from home also. It was apparent to bim that the forego- ing state of affairs, if allowed to prevail, would so diminish the purchasing power of the masses of the people that the sales of goods would decrease, prices would cheapen with the cheapening of their price of labor and the margin of profit would become smaller and smaller. Mr. Hanna, no doubt, knew from the his- tory of this country that the high-priced times were the most prosperous. The tramp and the industrial army were un- known, factories were running full time, and with full sets of hands, good prices provailed for farm and all other home products. But by and throngh the intro- duction of foreign competition, whick the Democracy welcomed with open arms and } beating heart, the nickel becomes split up | into cent pieces and the Democracy achieved its heart’s desire of cheap goods made by cheap men, women and children. | It was necessary, in order to restore the old condition of things, to nominate and Ielect a President wio would be in touch money Democrats also meets here to-mor- row, and will probably send a contesting delegation to Chicago. The call was for | this purpose, but. the development of the free silver strength in the National Con- vention has thrown a damper on the propo- | sition. B Aa WILL IGNORE CLEVELAND. Sliver Men Propose to Rule the Ohio State Democratic Convention. COLUMBUS, Onio, June 22.—As the ad- vance guard of the delegates to the Demo- cratic State Convention arrive, it seems the sentiment for free silver coinage is even stronger than anticipated. It isal- most impossible to find an advocate of the singie-gold standard among the Demo- | present to-night. There is not the | slightest doubt that the delegates at large will be free-silver men, and it is likely that the convention will declare in favor of the | = unit rule and instruct the delegation to Chicago to cast the entire vote of the State | for free silver. | To-night it was announced that the State Central Committee,of which a major- ity is for the gold standard, would name a gold-standard Democrat for temporary chairman of the convention. This so ex- asperated the free-silver men that they is- sued notice from their headquarters that if this was done they would ignore the s3- lection and choose a chairman of their The Wreck and Ruin Made by the Collapse of the Lodging-House at Fifth Street and Mint Avenue. own. They have agreed upon Thomas E. | Powell of this city for temporary cbair- | | Several Pcople Were Killed by the Fall of the Building and Some Were Injureld. man. The free-silver organization has de- cided that the convention shall notin-|York. If Mr. Coudert is puton as a dele- dorse any candidate for the Presidential | gate Mr. Bissell, rather than Mr. Grace, nomination. | will probably be selected for Senator Mur- This will be fatal io the aspirations of | phy’s alternate. John W. Bookwalter, who was to ask for |~ Hon. John Boyd Thatcher, Mayor of | rh_a indorsement of the convention. Hns;Albmy, will be temporary chairman of friends still say that a motion will be | the State Convention and it is settled that | made to @ve him this indorsement. The | the temporary organization shall be made platform is to be short. It will declare in | permanent. "hle pluin&:t :”msf’;{ “H-'lff?(‘ cvinuge‘gf | The financial plank of the platform will siiver in € ratio of 5 to 1, denounce e i iai i work of the present Legisiatureand the ad. | 1010w the lines iaid down in previous ministraion of Governor McKinley; criti- | State platforms and declare for the gol ize the Congress at the last session and | standard. Blmet?lhsm will only be recog- nores President Cleveland entirely. nized through an international agreement. AT P ——— MATTHEWS THZIR CHOICE BELMONT COMING HOME. Indiana Democrats Ready to Elect | Will Shorten His European Tour in Silver Democrats to the Chi- Order to Attend the Democratic cago Conventlion. National Convention. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp.,, June 22.—The PARIS, Fraxce, June 22.—A representa- Democratic convention, which opens with | tive of the United Press to-day questioned the district meetings to-morrow night, has | the Hon. Perry Belmont regarding a attracted a big crowd to the city. Various | statement that he intended to bring his meetings have been held to-night, and this | European tour to a close and return to the much is practically assured: The platform | United States. Mr. Belmont confirmed | will declare for the free coinage of ‘silver | the report and added that he intended to | at the ratio of 16to1. Governor Mattnews | sail for New York in a short time 1n order will be put forward as the choice of the | to attend the Democratic National Con- Indiana Democrats for President. | vention as a delegate trom Suffolk County, The four delegates at large will be: Sen- | New York. in a manner befitting Cssar on his return from the Gallic wars, and there was almost as much enthusiasm over Lim in Cleve- land as there was over Major McKinley in Canton. The American people admire a clever man, and they are inclined, perhaps a little too much; to worship success. Mr. Hanna is both clever and success- ful, and that is why he is admired. Ido not know of any other person living in the shadow of the smoke from the factory chimneys of the East or West who can show the same executive ability or who can show the same capacity for handling varied enterprises. He 1s a thorough bus- iness man, apd his prominence as a politi- cal manager is due to the fact that when he has a campaign to make he looks upon it just as he would look upon any business enterprise—simply as a piece of work to be doné and to be done well. It was part of his business to sea that the large investments which he has made should be protected from the danger of a currency which fluctnates in value and | which is recognized as bullion by those nations with which this country has the most intercourse. It was also a partof his business affairs to prevent the flooding of this couatry with’ the cheap labor with the best interests of the people, both employers and employed, Such a man had been in Mark Hanna's eye for many years, a man devoted to the principles of protection and whom the people of his own and surrounding States honored for it. That man was William McKinley of Cantoun, Ohio, only sixty miles away from Mr. Hanna's home., Here was the work to be done to save the industrial nterests of this country, and bere was the man who could do it. Mr. Hanna comprehended the many serious difficulties in the way. He was aware that Platt of New York and that Wall street wanted Levi P. Morton for the Presidency; that New England was under the magnetic spell of Tom Reed; that Quay of Pennsylvania, with his lever on that State, was a foeman not to be de- spised, he being one of the subtlest and most energetic of politicians. Then there was the silver rock away out West on which Teller and his adherents had taken theirstand, A man with less steam-power, with less will force and courage than Mark Hanna, would have faltered in the face of so many obstacles, but these seemed only to inspire him. 2 Mr. Hanpa proceeded to do business on Continued on Fourth Page. | | 'precipitate\l into the excavation. ATH CAME WITH A CRASH, Terrible Collapse of a Fifth= Street Tenement-House and Restaurant. TWO KILLED AND NEARLY A SCORE WOUNDED. The Frightful Casualty Said to Have Been Due to Gross Negligence. FIREMEN AND CITIZENS WORK GAL- . LANTLY SIDE BY SIDE. Thousands View the Ruins and Cheer the Rescuers in Their Noble Efforts to Save Those Pinned Down by the Timbers. By the collapsing of a three-story frame building at the northwest corner of Fifth street and Mint avenue at a quarter to 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon death and suffer- ing came to several people in the ruins. THE DEAD: ERNESTINE SILVERSTEIN of 234 JESSE MAY, laborer, of 1162 Stevenson street. | street. THE INJURED: JOHN LYON. PEARL WOODWARD. J. HANSEN. M. A. C. CHRISTENSEN. CORNELIUS CRONIN. THOMAS MALANDRY. MRS. J. H. M2 HLER. BESSIE WILSON. Market PATRICK McKEOWN. MRS. JOSEPH BYRNE. MISS SARAH BYRNE. MRS. K. McKEOWN. RICHARD BUCKLEY. EMILE LEUENBERGER. H. SHEPHERD. DENNIS GRIFFIN. SIMEON DEANE. MISSING: GEORGE CONNEN of 220 Dora street. CHARLES RIORDAN of Dolores street. —— STEIN. JOHN McCARTHY, bricklayer. MICHAEL ROURKE, hodcarrrier. The disaster came without the faintest premonitory warning—a sudden creaking of timber, a cracking of glass and then a thundering crash, and the tall frame structure sank in a cloud of dust. Presently the scene was one of wild excitement with crowds pressing forward to see what had happened, and a band of heroic volun- teer rescuers working amid the debris. The building was used as a lodging-house and coffee-saloon, at 20 and 22 Fifth street, immediately opposite the United States Mint. The dust from the shattered plaster and walls rose high in the air, and before it cleared away loud shrieks and calls for help were heard, and these told the crowd that there were unfortunate people under and within the ruins. The members of No. 17 engine, on Mint avenue, a few doors west of the fallen structure, were among the first to rush to the scene of the disaster to render asdist- ance to those imprisoned within the ruins or pinioned underneath the broken timbers. Volunteers went to their assistance and the work of searching for those who needed help was commenced at once. The first to be removed was a woman, who was on the sidewalk, having been struck as she was passing by. She was conveyed into the undertaking establishment of McAvoy & Gallagher, in the building adjoining on the east, and when examined it was discovered that she was dead. Then came the sound of the alarm bells and whisties, summoning the firemen to signal station No. 47, and when Chief Engineer Sullivan ascertained the occasion for the alarm-he directed his men in the work of rescue. This was done as quickly as it possibly could be. Men with axes cut away the roof timbers which were hurlea to firemen and volunteers who passed them from one to another until out of the way. Directed by the heartrending cries of the imprisoned people the men plied the axes and tore away protruding scantling and boards, and every now and then some one was taken out and conveyed to the patrol wagons in waiting to convey them to the Receiving Hospital. Thus the work continued until ten had been removed and taken to where willing | hands were waiting to give them the attention they required. While this was going on there was another horror. It was discovered that the ruins in the upper rear corner had caught fire from the kitchen range, which had been The already appalled onlookers seemed for a time varalyzed at the sight when they realized that there might still be some people in the building, and if not dead they would be smothered to death. A hundred suggestions were offered as to what the fireman ought to do. Calmly and coolly the officers directed some of their men to attack the burning mass with streams from the chemical engines, while the others continued in the work of res- cuing. Pile after pile of wood disapveared, when suddenly there was a cessation of labor, Half a dozen men kneeled and took up the form of a man, bruised, bleeding and covered from head to foot with plaster. He was hurried to a patrol wagon and laid on the stretcher. A physician who clambered on the hub of one of the wheels feit his pulse and told the officer in charge “ there is life in him still; rush him to the hospital.” The police were on band and had much difficulty in establishing lines to keep back the great crowds that had gathered from ali sides to gain a view of the ruins and the work of rescue. It was along time until there was order sufficient to enable all who were willing to work to proceed uninterruptedly. Before the firemen arrived the crowd | burst into a seething pile of finmes. For- had dug from beneath the ruins on the | tunately at this moment Cbief Sullivan, sidewalk the mangled corpse of an old | vfxth half a dozen engines at his back, ar- woman—a mere passer-by who had met | rived. A steady flow of water for a fs.w i< s moments sufficed to assure those who still death through the criminal economy of 2 b | lived within the ruins that if death was to those whose business it is to be careful of | come before they could be rescued, 1t life. would not take the form of flame and “She is alive,”” shonted the man nearest | smoke. the motionless form and his ery was taken | Then the real work of relief began. Fully up by the thousands who had gathered, | halfathousand determined hands, spurred more from an indefinable feeling that |On by the good-will of thousands, attacked something terrible had bappened rather the huge mass of splinters and shattered than from any true knowiedge of the ex- timbers. The heavy smoke and still heavier act condition of affairs. steam rising from the incipient fires below half blinded and strangled them at first, but thers were hhves to be saved, and they stopped for nothing. Timbers flew right and left, and in ten minutes Fifth street resembled closely the remains of the building which had so sud- denly mained or killed nearly a score of people. Near the top of tne pile were probably a hundred men, many with axes, and all with a tool of some character, seek= ing to cut through the roof and ceiling. They knew that death alone did not walk in the shattered structure, for heartrend- ing cries, faint, but clear, could be heard. Finally the timbers were cleared away, and Miss Pearl Woodward was lited from “You are mistaken, my friend,” said a white-haired old gentleman vho had joined the rescuers, “she is dead.” Then the cry was taken up, and long before the body was clear of the debris the people in that vast throng for blocks around were telling to each other how an old woman had met death. What was worse, she was unknown. No one seemed toknow whence she came or whither she was going. But the dead woman was forgotten momentarily at least, in the mad but earnest desire to rescue the iiving, if there were any, from thQe mass of smoldering ruins, thirty, yes, forty, feet high, which threatened with each gust of wind to | her treacherous position. The multitude