The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1896, Page 1

.‘/(J;Jq;'] aq; wody yaxey aq oy +++ Vs THROUGH A BR Four Lives Lost in a Rail- way Disaster Near Arcata. PASSENGERS GO DOWN WITH A TRAIN. Engine and Cars Fall to the Bed of a River Forty Feet Below. NEARLY A SCORE AMONG THE BADLY INJURED. Men, Women and Children Pinned Under the Wreckage — But Three Escape Unhurt. EUREKA, OaL, Sept. 13.—By the col- lapse of a bridge on tie Arcata and Mad River Railroad, near this city, this after- noon, an accommodation train was pre- cipitated into the bed of the creek below. Four persons were kilied outright and a | nu: ber of others seriously wounded, some of whom will die. The dead are: ALEXANDER CAMERON, brakeman. Miss Ax~ie HoLranD of Riverside. Miss Kipgnay. AN UNKNOWN CHILD. The injured are: David Wood, Glendale, badly injured and cannot survive. Mrs. David Wood, wife of above, both legs broken and internaily injured. The two fittle children of David Wooa, baaly crushed and bruised. Georze Burke, engineer, severely scalded and bruised. Charles Burke, fireman, badly burned. Harvey Sammons, conductor, fatally inju.ed. Mrs. Kate Minor, arm and leg broken. Annie Vintera, face cut and leg broken. Mary Vinters, internally injured. Daniel Mahoney, dangerously bruised. Two children of Daniel Mahoney, seri- ously inju:ied. Rosie Budetti, Italian peddler, badly bruised and shaken up. Herman Sanders, cut on leg and in- ternally injured.” > A. Sanders, slizhtly bruised. Mrs. Gregory of Eureka, seriously in- jured internally, may die. Two children of Mrs. Gregory, seriously | bruised. Sven Johnston, badly bruised, may not recover. Grant Warren, cut and bruised about head. An unknown ltalian woman, uncon- scious and wiil die. Detailsof the accident are difficalt to ob- tain, there being no telegraphic communi- cation with the scene nearer than Eureka. As far as known the accident was caused by the collapse of a bridge spanning Mad River, about five miles from Eureka. The accommodation train which leaves Arcata at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon consisted of two coacl.es, one boxcar and engine, and carried about twenty passengers. Shortly after 5 o’clock a telephone message was received stating that the train had been derailed at Mad River bridge and was a total wreck on the river bed. A relief train with doctors, nurses and medical supplies was immediately dispatctied from Arcata to the scene. The three cars and engine were found lying beneath the bridge, a mass of splin- ters. The injured had managed to drag themselves from the debris ana were nurs- ing their cuts by the water side. | Buried beneath the wreckage were found the bodies of Miss Holland, Miss Kirk- ham and Mr. Cameron. The unknown child was alive when found, but died a few minutes later. . The injured were carried up a steep bank with great difficulty, and 1t was nearly 10 o’clock when the relief train started on the return trip to-Arcata, bear- ing the dead and wounded. The train was met at Arcata by the en- tire population of the town, and the scene was pitiful when the dead and injured were claimed by friends and relatives. The bridge that collapsed was several bundred feet in length and had hitherto been considerel safe. It contained one pier, about midway, and the approaches were high above the gravel bed of the stream. The train had slowed down to about five miles an hour, as is customary, and was moving at this speed when the crash came. Had not the rules in regard to speed been strictly observed every one on board must surely have perished, as | an additional twenty-five feet would have | Janded the entire train in the waters of the river. Mr. Louis Everding of the Riverride Mill Company, one of the passengers on the wrecked train, said in an interview to- night: “There were about twenty-five passen- gers on board and of this number only three escaped uninjured. T was seated in the smoking-car chatting with a number of gentlemen when the crash came. Ncne of us had the remotest idea of what had | occurred. We felt the car sink beneath us, and after a downward plunge, such as a person experiences on a rupxdly}slhng elevator, I felt a sharp jar and an instant iater I found myself crawling out through the side doo- of the car. The train had dropped adistance of fully forty feet to the hard gravel bottom of the river. “All the cars were smashed to splinters, and no difficulty was experienced by the IDGE TO DEATH rescue party from Vance’s Mill in remov- ing thedead and injured from the wreck- age. “‘Alexander Cameron, the brakeman, was riding on the front of the box car and his body was crushed to a pulp. Miss Annie Holland was struck on the head and must have died instantly. Miss Kirk- ham was smothered and crushed to deaths ‘A sad case is that of the family of jured about the head, his wifa has a broken arm and leg and will probably die and his two little children, a boy and girl, cannot recover. “*As to the cause of the accident I know nothing. We were moving at a slow speed as we approached the bridge. When the engine reached the first span of the structure about 100 feet of the bridge collapsed and down we went.” The injured are receiving the best pos- sible attention, and nothing has been left undone to provide for tneir comfort. The cause of the accident remains a mystery. The Mad River bridge has al- ways been rezarded as pertectly safe. The timbers have been renewed several times and the structure daily sustains the weight of freight trains treble that of the light passenger train which met the mishap to-day. The Arcata and Mad River Railroad ex- tends from Arcata to Korbel, a distance of twelye miles, connecting Eureka with Arcata by trestle and ferryboat. Tha road- bed is well constructed, and there was nothing flimsy about the Mad River | bridge. The road handles the product of five lumber mills, and is the best paying railway in the world in proportion to the capital invested. e | BACE CONFLICT BREWING heoting of a Georgia Negro Results in Threats of a Massacre. Whites in the Town of B'ythe Are Arm«d and Prepared for Em-rgencizs. AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 13.—A special | to the Chronicle from Blytae, in this | county, twenty-two miles irom here, says: Biy he is in a state of great excitement. | Several hundred armed negroes are sup~ | posed to be moving toward here and the handful of white residents are awaiting | them, pot, however, without some fear, though they are brave men and will make a firm stapd. If there is to be trouble it will be some time later than this, as it is not feared that the mob of ne:roes will come before midnizht. All day the whites here have been waiting with guns and re- volvers near at hand for an emergency. Sheriff O'Connor, with Deputy Sheriffs and a posse of men, left Augus:a this morning and arrived at Blythe at 8 o’clock. The cause of the trouble is the shooting of a negro, Steven Boland, by M. A. Clark, for which the negroes threaten 10 massacre several white men at the station. L e ANOTHER MASSACRE PLANKED. Sensational Information Received by an English Paper—The Sultan De- nounced From Many Puipits. LONDON, Exg., Sept. 13.—The Plym. outh Mercury claims to bave reliable in- formation that a massacre of the Arme- nians remeining in Constantinople1s fixed to occur in ten days or two weeks. It says that Armenians already de- ported have been murdered by wholesale, the ships on which they were sent out of the country having chutes from which the victims were shot into the water and drowned in batches. LONDON, Eve., Sept. 13.—Sermons against .he misrule of the Sultan and the massacre of his Christian subjects were vreached to-day in London, Liverpool and elsewhere in Great Britain. ab Segainst RED-HANDED WEYLER. Cables to Madrid That He Has Just Shot to Death Fifty-One Cuban Prisoners. MADRID, Spars, Sept. 13.—Captain- General Weyler cabled from Havana that bity-one insurgents who were confined in the Cabana Fortress and Morro Castle were shot to-day. = VAR SR IN HUNOE OF NANSEN, 4 Great Populay Fete at the Home of the Emplover. CHRISTIANTA, NorwAy, Sept. 13.—A great popular sete in honor of Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, was held to-day in Castle square. Bjornsen, the well- known Norwegian novelist and dram- atic poet, made a speech, in which he eulogized Dr. Nansen for his scientific work and his discoverics, The latter, in reply, lauded the Norwegians, who, he said, stood together in times of difficulty closer than other people and puliled better together when great occasions. demanded united effort. Dr. Nansen was greeted with enthusiastic cheers, which were re- peated at the conclusion of his speech. g Oration to Dynamiter Daly. DUBLIN, Irerawp, Sept. 13. — Seven thousand persons, including John Red- mond, M. P., and Timothy Harrington, | M. P., to-day assemblcd at the railway station to receive the dynamiter, Daly, who was released a short time ago from Portland Prison. A procession was formed which escorted Daly to the Wormens Club, where he made a speech. e Farewell Audience With the P, ROME, ITALy, Sept. 13.—The Pope has given a farewell audience to Archbishop Martinelli, the new papal delegate to the Unitea Siates. gl Short Cotton Orop in Tewas. AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 13.—Commis- sioner Ross of the State Agricultural De- partment has issued a circular saying: “Although publisbed cotton Treports put thepresent crop of Texas at from 2, 000,000 10 2,400,000 bales, I believe it will be ever Jess than 1.500,000, and I hazard the opinion based upon official information from other States that the crop in the Umited States will not exceed 7,600,000 bales, and in all probability will fall much below that quantity. I advise farmers to market their cotton slowly.” David Wood. Mr. Wood is seriously in-} PRICE FIVE —— AN » [RERAL ““Orue, I talk of dreams, Whick are the children of an idle brainm, RBegot of nothing but vain fantasy.’’ NAN 1§ CAPTUR Notorious “No. 1” Caught by a Detective in France. WAS TALKING WILDLY AT A BAR. With a Revolver Pointed at His Head He Was Speedily Secured. BURKE'S AND CAVENDISH’S FATE RECALLED. The Prisoner Concerned in Phenix Park Tragedy of Four- teen Years Ago. the LONDON, Exa., Sept. 13.—P. J. Tynan, the notorious *‘No. 1” of the Irish Invin- cibles, who was so frequently mentioned during the trial of the persons charged with the murder of Lord Frederick Cav- endish, Chief Secretary for Ireiand, and T. H. Burke, Parliamentary Under Secre- tary, in Pheenix Park on May 6, 1882, was arrested at Boulogne, France, at 4 o’clock this morning on a warrant issued in 1882, Tynan is also charged with being con- cerned in the manufacture of dynamite bombs for use in England. It has been learned that he arrived in Europe in Au- gust, when he debarked at Genoa, He proceeded thence to Paris, where, it is al- leged, he consorted with the Irish dyna- mite faction. On Friday he arrived at Boulogne and expounded Fenian views at a hotel bar. He had been watched since he arrived in France by an English detec- tive, who this morning placed bim under arrest. The officer poinied a revoiver at his head and threatened to shoot him if he made the slightest resistance. Tynan was speedily secured.” He subse- quently admitted his identity. In his possession were found a considerable sum of money and a number of incriminating papers. He will be arraigned before a judge in Boulogne to-morrow with a view to securing his extradition. It is stated that his arrest is connected with the ar- rests of Bell and Wallace, the former hav- ing been captured in Glasgow and the lat- ter in Rotterdam. Lord Frederick Cavendish arrived in Dublin on May 6, 1882, to be present at the formal entry of the new Viceroy of Ire- land, Lord Spencer. During the day he was engazed in official business at the Castle, and later he left the Castle on foot to walk in Pheenix Park, where he met Mr. Burke. It was a bright summer evening, between 7 and 8 o’clock, scarcely less light than at noonday, and there were many people in the park. The two men walked along the principal road until they were within a few yards of the Pheenix mouument. Bome boys passed them and went around the monument and when they returned found the Chief Secretary and Mr. Burke lying on the ground dead and covered with wounds. On examination it was found that Mr. Burke had received several stabs near the region of the heart and that his throat had been cut. His clothing was much torn and his hands bore marks of a fierce and protracted encounter. Lord Frederick Cavendish had been stabbed in several places about the chest, The crime was witnessed by several per- sons, who thought the participants were roughs wrestling. Four men, who were seen driving in a car toward the monu- ment, were known to be the murderers, but for some time their identity could not be established. The news of the assassina- tion caused 1ntense indignation and sor- row. A reward of $50,000 was offered to any one who should give information that would lead to the conviction of the mar- derers, and a further reward of $5000 for such other private information as should lead to the same results; with a free pardon to any person not the actual perpetrator of the murders and full protection in any part of her Majesty’s dominions. . Many arrests were made, but the brief- est examination convinced the authorities that the police were not even on the track of the murderers. At last clews were ob- tained and closely followed, and a large number of further arrests made. Among the prisoners was James Carey, a town councilor, who later turned informer. He had Jured other men to join the Invinci- bies, which was an inner circle of the Fenian organization, the object of which was to murder Government officials. Carey had arranged the Pheenix Park as- sassinations, ana had given the signal when the deed was to be done. Tynan, the man arrested to-day, was one of those appointed to organize a society in Dublin. gh- trial of the accused men re- sulted in a conviction:of Joseph Brady, Daniel Curley, Michael Faguan, Thomas | Caffery and ‘Timothy Kelly, all'of whom were, executed. Carey was reieased, and started on a voyage uuder an assumed name for South Africa on the steamer Melrose Castle. He was foilowed by an lrish avenger. who shot and killed him at Port Elizabeth, —Romeo and Fuliet: HAct ], Scene 4. TANCOUVER HDNORS LI The Great Viceroy Received With Oriental Pomp. CARPETS SPREAD IN HIS PATHWAY. Gorgeously Robed Mongolians Kowtow as He Passes Along. PLEASED WITH THE HOMAGE HE IS PAID. High Honors of His Native Land Are Conferred by the Barl Upon Two Canadians. VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 13.—L1 Hung Chang arrived in Vancouver by special train and in his private car, the Chetoo, at 11 o’clock this morning. The whole city was on the qui vive to do him honor, and long before the hour set for his arrival crowds lined the approaches to the depot and wharf, and masses of people crowded all the eminences around the haroor. The Chinese residents had erected a handsome and artistic arch on the bridge leaaine to the wharf, and a long line of Chinamen, in rich robes of blue, green, plum-color, olive and orange, stood in line befure the arch, waiting to kowtow to the great Viceroy. The bridge was carpeted for some yards on either side of the arch, ana on this carpet stood a carved ebony table, on which an incense of sandalwood was kept constantly burning in a richly carved bronze burner. The Chinese band played Chinese music that sounded like that of bagpipes as Earl 1i anghted from the train. A carriage, drawn by four white horses and draped with Union jacks, waited to convey him over the short distance from the train to the steamer. When the procession started the coach was preceded by his celebratea scarlet chair, carried by four men. Several bands and a division of marines from the warship in the harbor fell into' line behind the Viceroy, followed by a long deputation of Chinamen in their picturesque robes. Altogether it was a procession of such Ori- ental picturesqueness as the primeval mountains never before looked down upon—a procession in which Occident and Orient came together, curiously com- mingled. The great Viceroy seemed delighted with the demonstration in his honor, and es- vecially with the homage of his country- men, who fell on one knee and raised clasped hands to him as he passed smilingly by. His shrewd, kindly face beamed, his yellow jacket made the brightest spot in the sunless day and his cherished peacock feaber was displayed falling from the back of his cap. The gangplank of the Empress of China was carpeted as for royalty with scarlet; the ropes were wound with yellow and draped with flags. As he was carried up the plank in his scarlet chair the Chinese dragon flag was run to the mainmast and a salute of nine guns was fired from H. M, 8. Comus. The absence of cheering was noticeable, and gave an Oriental solemnity to the pro- ceedings. All the ships in the harbor were gayly decorated with rainbows of bunting, and many of the roofs around displayed kodak fiends blackly outlined with their instruments against the pallid sky. Many prominent c1:izens had cards of admission to the Empress, and crowded her decks to catch a glimpse of the Earl as he was car- ried aboard. For this one day the whole usual social order was subverted, and Chinamen every- where took precedence of their white brethren in the good-natured throng that lined the wharf. 1t was emphatically Chinaman’s day. Almost immediately on reaching the steamer, Li Hung Chang granted audi- ence in the salocn to a deputation of gor- geously gowned Chinamen, from whom he received an address read from a scarlet paper. During the audience nis servant several times put his pipe to his lips, and all but smoked for the great potentate. His suite is so ample that about all tiere is Jeft for the great man todvisto draw his own breath. He appears to be in excellent health and spirits and full ten years younger than his pictures lead one to expect. He was delighted with his transcontinental trip and expressed a high opinion of Canada, stating that he thought the Dominion had a splendid future before it. As a mark of, his appreciation of the courtesies extended to him by the Cana- dian Pecific Railroad he conferred the or- der of the Double Dragon upon A. E. La- lande of the passenger department, who accompanied him on the journey. A simi- lar honor was also bestowed upon Dr. Horsey, the Canadian Government repre- sentative, SHEERAN'S POSITION New York’s Ex-Lieutenant Governor Is Opposed to Bryan. A RACY LETTER GIVING HIS VIEWS. Says Radicalism, Not Patriot ism, Dominated the Chicago Convention. LOFTY AIMS OF DEMOCRACY ABANDONED. Can Never Fight Under a Banner of Repudiation and National Lishonor. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 13.—Ex-Lieu- tenant-Governor W. F. Sheehan yesterday sent a long statement of his viewsand atti~ tude in the campaign to J. B. Mayer of Buffalo, Mr. Mayer is a prominent Dem= ocrat in his city and was one of the dele~ gates to the Chicago convention last June. A synopsis of Mr. Sheehan’s communica« tion is here given: NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 1896. Joseph B. Mayer, Esq., Buffalo, N. Y.—DEAR SIe: Replying to your recent letter of inquiry as 10 my attitude in the present campaign, I beg leave to say: The' proceedings of the recent Chicago cone vention were unparalleled in Demncratic his- tory. Radicalism and not patriotism dominated its course. The guiding, and in a large measure the controlling, spirits of that body were Re- publican United States Senators—men whose votes made it possible to engraft upon the statutes of this country the objectionable ana disastrous McKinley law. When before were rock-ribbed Republican protectionists given in a Democratic convention seats of honor and permitted to dictate and shape the policy of our party? The patriotic advice of men who bad grown gray in Democratic service was spurned and the judgment of these new-found apostles of an undemocratic creed was enthu. siastically accepted. After reviewing the official acts of the convention and its platiorm in terms as scathing as any that have been used by others in the same vein, Mr. S8heehan con- tinues: Democratic prineiples taok root with the birtn of the Republic; they are assound and lofty to- dar 85 they were when first expounded by Jef- ferson. All Democrats should give their hearty support to candidates who stand upon a plate form which reaffirms and upholds these prin- ciples; but when these principles are aban- doned and set asiae and new doctrines at vari- ance with National honor and*National pro- gress are adopted, do we not cease to be Dem- ocrats if we fail to repudiate that which is un patriotic and immoral? What Democratic convention has failed in recent years to justly condemn Republican pae ternalism? Where is there a more wicked form of paternalism than for the Govern- ment to stamp. for the benefit of mine owners, 53 cents worth of eilver bullion as $1 in coin? Where in Democracy is a proposition that ale lows the silver of the world to be coined at our mints, free of charge, at a ratio far beyond its intrinsic or commercial value, and compels our citizens to accept this false and dishonest coin at its face value in extinguishment of their debts and in payment for their labor? The advocates of this platform hazard every- thing on the singie proposition that the enact. ment of a law for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without the aid or assiste ance of other nations, will bring silver and gold to a parity. We consider our silver dollar to-day as good as gold, because it has back of it the credit and faith of the Nation pledged to maintain its parity with goid. Under free coinage this credit and faith will be withdrawn from the new coin. These men propose, however, that the power of Congress shall be exercised to compel our citizens to accept in payment of their debts a dollar that is intrinsically worth but fifty-three cents, withont being able to compel corresponding relief to the American debtors when foreign creditors demand of them payment in gold. How long will the hum of industry continue; how long will the workshop remain open; how ong will the manufacturer continue to turn out the product of American genius and skill, if we have no foreign trade and are compelled to buy and sell to ourselves? We received for the year ending June 30 last for goods exported to other nations $863,200,« 467. This enormous sum represents American capitai, product and labor. ln our dealings with all people we should receive and pay the best money in the world. No law has yet been able to make all men honest, butno law should compel men to be dishonest. After reciting the debtorship of the United States for its outstanding bonds of $850,000,000, for which gold was received and for which, *‘unless the intelligence of this Nation b€ blunted and its patriotic impulses paralyzed,” redemption will be in the same coin, Mr. Sheehan continues: Nor can the apologist for the Chicago plat- form pettitog or beg the question. When they rejected the amendment offered by Senator Hill, to the effect that any change in the pres- ent stindard of values should not apply to existing Government bonds, they nailed to the masthead of their ship the inglorious flag of repudiation and dishonor. Against the perpe- tration of such a crime in the name of De- mocracy I protest. Who are the ownersof these bonds? Not foreign hankers and home syndicates, not the so-celled bloated bondholder, but the ward whose education has been provided for in the supposed inviolability of & United States bond; the widow whose sole support may be the in. come thus received and 5,000,000 of Ameri- cans who have placed their deposits in our savings institutions. The deposits are not stored away in the vaults of savings banks. That which is not loaned is invested, and most of it in Government bonds. I have heard it said that no attempt would be made to affect any outstandlng obligations if the work of the Chicago convention were ratified at the polls. The answer is two-fold., The proposition not to repudiate these obliga- tions was overwhelmingly defeated by the convention after Mr. Bryan had concluded the speech which resulted in his nomination. Under free coinage silver would become the money of the country. The revenue of the Government through its customs and internal revenue would be nothing but silver, or, if the dream of the Populist be realized, unlimited fiat "paper money with no coin. behind it for redemption. With silver or fiat paper money as our only means of revenue, how, I ask the