The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1897, Page 1

'LXXXIL_NO, 'SAN FRANCISCO, THUR SD G = £y A T e i 2 L5y o el ,\'\’\,"" P e Boate SEPTEMBER 9 PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE FOOB Unlucky Ones at Dawson City Will Have to Leave for the Winter. MR. HAMILTON TALKS ABOUT THE WEARE. Says He Does Not Believe That the Healy Left the Stranded Steamer on the Yukon River Sandbar. SEATTLE, Wasn, Sept. 8.—Charles H. Hamilion, secretary of the North Ameri- can Transportation and Trading Com- ¥ . in an erview to-night admitted the provisions at Dawson City at ssent, together with those that will go b the river freezes over, will not e sufficient to preven! starvation in the K country this winter. Lut he be- eves there will be no death He says: In my judgment, the miners now at e that the food supply nd that they will bave to Our river steamers 700 tons more food That will feed 1200 There will still be time s to act, and they will, in f hen as they did in ie food was expected by r Asctic. She broke down, | he miners realized at they would ave to act. They drew lots as'to who | uld be allowed to have the food. ose who won remsined in the country, o lost went to St. Michael for the 1 think the same thing will fol- nig year. The next steamers that arrive from Dawson will have hundreds of aboard, who will winter at St and return to Da tof ihe interview given iton to-night is a demial of ka, Cal., vester- amer National City from St effect 1hat the steamer Ex- San Francisco, will have y all of the gold and passengers on the Cieveiand, and ibat the nd will arrive in a local port with atively nothing. lton believes the Excelsior w 9,000 apoard. Hamii The Eurek ticle says that when the National Cit t. Micbael the steamer Cleveland was taking in ballast, and ex- pected to sail for the nd ports August passengers who nd took passage tatement is, I e. W \d passenzers who came d ver on steamers of the Nor ican T jon and | ny’s ste. or when the rtake passage had tickets on 1d was about ive not later than Ixcelsior in ave plenty of mone spend it. The North Transporiation and Tradin: ine cascs out of ever its passengers tickets from D. to Seatile. Now and then a man gets one from Dawson to St. Michael, obut that he not desire to trave to when does “The F a story states that on the down the river the Healy met the Weare hard and fast on a bar, that the Weare’s passengers and freight were trans- ferred to tbe Healy and that the Healy proceeded toward St. Michael, leav ing the unfortunate boat hard and fast aground with small chance of getting off before the river closes. I don’t believe that story. It mav be all right, but it is not reasonable, and any one who is ac- quainted with the condition of affairs there must realize it. The Healy oi our steamers. She is good- ctrong. According to the Eureka news she encountered the Weare, which had been aground for some aays. The only ng she did, we are toinfer, wasto tr. her passengers and freight. Weare had no freight. teamers on the Yukon do not have fre.ght when bound for the mouth. ®They carry plenty of it north, but not to St. Micha It s very strange to me that the Healy shoutd not have at least made an effort to get the | Weare from her position on the bar. As | a matter of fact she could have dragged | her off without any great amount of | trouble, and I telieve she would have done it the first thing. It would require no great work to rescue th+ Weare, no matter how bard she wasaground or what ser condition might be. Certainly she | did not go up to leave her there for the "he winter. «The Eureka dispaich states that with the exception of the three passengers on | the Naticnal City all the passengers brought down by the Healy took passage | on the Excelsior. It further states that he Weare when met by the Henly had board 150 passengers, ail of whom were ransferred to the Healy. The Healy ust have had some passengers. Say she Lad fifty,the Weare’s passengers increased Ler list to 200. If all the passengers of the Healy with the exception of the three who arrived at Kureka tcok passage on the Excelsior, then we may expect the leveland to arrive here without any pas- «ngers, But the Eureka telegram, alter . Bristol | reached the harvor. [ far from being a wreck. making this stztement, bobs up with the statement that the Excelsior left St. Michael on the night of August 26 with eighty p It t are all the Healy, what became of those other 120 souls we have been read- ing abou another matter that is not expl the telezram: The Ex- celsior y the Alaska Commer- cial Company. t north, not to connect with ou er steamers, but with the Bella and Alice of the Alaska Com- wercial Compa These steamers were passen expected to arrive at St. Michael and bring passengers for the celsior, but the Eureka story has nothing to say about their arrival,” e ol WARNING NOT HEEDED. More Than O~e Hundred Men Leave on the Queen and Expect to Reach the Klondike. PORT TOWNS D, Wash., Sept. 8.— The steamer Queen sailed for Alaska at a late hour to-night, and, notwithstanding the fact that on her return from the north only four days ago she brought thirty-five disgusted men from Skaguav, she carried vorth 110 bound for the Klondike via a. Tiey all expressed themseives s nfidert of their ability to cross the pass and reach Dawson City this fail. Stor! of the miszrable condition of the pass ap- pear 10 have no imfluence with the peopie in their mad rush for the gold fields. While at her dock here this afternoon the en was subjected toa rigorous search by the customs officers in quest of contraband intoxicants. sthing, aside from a small amount of private stock, As a resuli of the fact thata regular saloon ou was seized on the steamer Al-Ki yesterday, all the ships now bound for Alaska will be subjecied to a careful search before sailing from this port. Collector of Customs Heustis has issued orders to search every boat closely bound for Alaska. The collector acts un- cle 152 of the Revised Statutes of tie United States. Teis trick ot searching Alaska-bound vesscls here for whisky is comparatively new in custom practices, as it is well known that previously whisky and other intoxicants have been indiscriminately shipped to Alaska, and no worty has been caused by it at either end of the route. g PASSENG:=RS ARE ANGRY. Those Taken Back on the Bristol Threaten a Manager for Ob- taining Money by Faise Pretenses. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 8. —The steamer returned to port this morning. She started a week ago for St. Michael with 200 miners, who were to have been taken up the river by the stramer Eogene. The latter vessel sprung a leak, however, and could not procee! on her voyage, hence the trip had to be abandoned. Passengers of the steamer Bri-tol, which had to abandon her trip to St Michael as the Eugene, which was to take the passengers up the Yukon, could not continue ber voyage, say they will have E. B. MacFarland, manager of the Port- land and Alaska Steamship Company, ar- rested for obtainicg money under false pretense They say that he knew the Eugene could not make the trip. McFar- land was kept under guarc on the Bristol, he having tried to leave the ship at Alert Bay. The Eugene, which is wanted for a breach of the Canadian laws, cut loose from the Bris ol just before that vessel It is supposed that she proceeded to the Sound. S RETURN OF THE EUGENE. | Escapes Going to Pleces In Alert Bay and Will Probabiy Be Seizad by Customs Officers. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasi., Sept, 8— Not a little surprise was crea.ed here this evening at 6 o'clock when without pre- vious announcement the stern - wheel sieamer Bugene, Captain Lewis, steamed into port and tied up at the uock. The cause of the surprise was that only 1wo days ago she was reported to have been deserted in Alert Bay, where she was said to be rapidly going to pieces. The olua craftis indeed in a bad condition, but is When she started from Comox, B. C., to St. Michael in tow of the steamer Bristol it was hoped good weather would prevail, but the first night arough sea was encountered, and the Eu- gene having a flat bottom with but twenty inches draught began to pound the sea beavily, and 1t was realized that she had started on a perilous vovage. Firsta few heavy seas served to stave in some of the ship’s bow timbers, and as she began to leak badly it was decided that to save her it would be necessary to run to harpor at once. Shelter was found in Alert Bay. Continued on Second Lage FRARFUL Workmen Ballasting the Last Hundred Yards of Track of the San Joaquin Valley Railway at Visalia. RAILROAD DISASTER Fast Santa Fe Trains Meet Head-On Near Emporia. TEN OR ELEVEN MEN KILLED. Boilers of Three Locomotives Explode and Add to the Horrors. FLAMES BREAK OUT IN THE WRECK. W. J. Bryan One of the Passeners, and He Assists In Rescuing the Injured. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 8.—A spe- cial tothe Times from Emporia, Kans., says: One of the worst wrecks in the his- tory of the Sante Fe Railroad occurred three miles east of here at atout 7:30 o'clock to-night. were killed and as many more badly hurt. The fast mail train, going east, and the Mexico and California express, west- bound, collided head on. Tie Mexico and Callfornia express was pulled by two locomotives, and when they struck the | engine drawing the fast mail the boilers of all three engzines exploded and tore a hoie in the ground so deep that the smoking-car of the westbound train went in on top of the three enginesand two wrecked mailcars and balanced there without turning over. The passengers in the smoking-car escaped through the windows. The front end of this car was enveloped in a volume of stiling smoke and steam, beiching up trom the wreck below, and the rear door was jammed tight in the wreck of the car behind. Tie wreck caught fire from the engines. The cars in the hole and the smoking-car burned to ashes in no time. In climping from the smoking-car several men fell tiirough the rifts in the wreck below, and it is impossible to te!l whether they escaped or were burned to death. The westbound {rain carried eight coaches and its passsengers included many excursionists who nad been to hear Hon. W. J. Bryan speak at the county fair at Burlingame. Mr. Bryan himself was on the train, but was ridingin the rear Pullman some 400 feet from the cars which were wrecked. He siates that nothing but a heavy joit was experienced by the passengere in his coach. Mr. Bryan was one of the noblest men in the crowd of rescuers. He helped to carry out the dead and wounded and gave the greatest attention to their care. One poor fellow who was badly maimed callea to Mr, Bryan and said: “'I went to hear Ten or eleven persons | you to-day; I am dying now and want to | shake your hand and say God bless you. | If you possibly can, Mr. Bryan, get ma a | | drink of water.” | Mr. Bryan went into the fast mail car, | | one end of which was purninz, and came out with a drink of water, which he gave to the suffering passenzer. He brought | out cuczhions for others of the injured and | was everywiiere present to minister to | the wants of the suffering. | At midnight it bccame apparent that | | the early estimates of the number of dead were exaggerated, and it now seems that it wili not exceed ten or eleven. During | the excitement early in the evening it was reported that nearly all the six postal | clerks on the trains were killed or miss- |ing. Two of the clerks were killed. All | of the others, save oue, are more or less | seriously injured. The list of the dead as known at mid- night follows: James Brennan, engineer, Topeka. Nate Hollister, fireman, Topeka. William Frisbey, engineer. | — Gonzates, fireman. | ! J. F. Saurs, express messenger, Kansas City. | R. A. Dorsn, postal clerk, Emporia. | M. J. McGlade, postal clerk, Emporia, died at 11 o’clock. Shurlev, fireman. Daniel McKennon, boy, Kansas City. | Unknown man, tramp. | Ben Walters, fireman, of St. | is missing. 3 The mail cierks who are hurt are W. ¥. Jones, R. 0. McGee and Claud Holliday. | The latter may die, as both his legs are broken and he is otherwise badly hurt. | Clerk E. C. Fletcher escaped serious in- jury. The dead were brought to Emporia. At midnight a special train left Emporia, bearing seventeen oi’'the injured to To- peka, where they will be cared for in the | J wospital, Joseph, | Amongthe seriously injured are: R. C. | Erter, Kansas City, exnress messenger, | legs broken, will die; John Dagan, To- | peka, face smashed: Jj. T.-Butler, County | Attorney Cbase County, hip broken, may ) | die; William F. Jones, Kansas City, leg and arms broken; B. P. Metik, Atchison, | badiy bruised; Phil Schier, Kansas City, | nip crushed; C. A. Van Fleet, brakeman, Karsas City, badly bruised; William Patrick, Kansas City, leg and arm broken; | €. D. Adam, City of Mexico, painfully bruised; Mike Sweeney, Gainesville, Tex.. back hurt. The engineers of the westbound train had received orders to meet the fast mail at Emporia and were making up lost time. The twoare the fastest trains on the Santa Fe system and the westbound train must have been rununing ata speed of at least forty miles an hour. The westbound ex- pre-s was going around a slight curve. Of the seven or eight cars making up the Mexico and California exoress only the mail, paggage and expressand smoking cars were destroved. The coach foillowing the smoker was badiy spliniared. There were not more than-a dozen pas- sengers on the mail, all in one coach, and while none of them were seriously in- jured their shaking up was terrible. Every seat in the coach was torn from the floor and many floor planks came up with the seats. One man, Jobhn Sweeney, was thrown over three seats and through a window, but escaped with only scraiches and bruises. The other cars of the fast mail train, a baggage and an express, were totally wrecked. Itis stated that the wreck was caused by a miscarriage of orders from the train- master. At Emporia the eastbound fast wail train received orders to pass the California express at Lang, seven miles east. An order was sent 10 Lang for the California express to take the siding there, but this order was not delivered, and the westbound train passed on, the trainmen expeciing 10 pass the fast mail at Em- poria. TRAIN N0 FIRED OPON BY ROBBER Southbound LosAngeles Express Stopped Near Morrano. TIES PILED ON THE TRACK. Outlaws Send in a Volley of Bullets and Then Dis- appear. TRAMP RECEIVES A BAD WOUND. Robbers Mistake a Party of Hobos for Armed Guards and Are Scared Away. RIPON, CAL., Sept. 8.—For the second time within a week an ineffectual attempt has been made by robbers to hold up Los Angeles Express 17, which leaves San Frangisco at 4:30 o’clock in the atternoon. To-night, near Morrano, at the identical spot where the attempt of last Saturday night was made, the outlaws again stopped the train. Ties were piled upon the track and set afire, but for some reason the robbers, after the train had been brought to a stop, fled from the scene, after firing a volley at the coaches, without attempting to molest the express car or the passengers. A tramp who was stealing a ride on top of a car was the only prson struck'by the bullets. He received a serivus wound in the thigh. Morrano is a flag station between Ripon and Lathrop. It has no buildiugs of any kind and there is nothing to denote that it is a railway station except a ridetrack, at the east end of which is piled a lot of ties used by the trackmen as occasion re- quires. There are county roads at a dis- tance of a quarter of a mile to the east and a mile to the west. The nearest dwelling is'a mile away. As on the occasion of the previous at- tempt 10 wreck the train but {wo men were to be seen. Evidently they were in- experienced at this particular vocation. That they will te captured seems only a matter of time, for Sheriff Cunningham of San Joaquin County had been informed early in the day that the attempt to rob the train would be made, and it 1s prob- able that his informants know who the bandits are. Cunningham bad carefully planned to balk the robbers. On the train were two of his most trustworthy deputies. One rode on the tender of the engine and the | east end of the switch other was in one of the coaches. The train is usually a long one, having about twelve cars with the mailcar next to the locomotive and the express-car immedi- ately following it. As the express was flving through Mor- ranc, and when within 200 yards of the the enzineer saw a blaze leap up suddenly in the center of the irack, revealing an obstruction. He quickly did what he could to bring the train to a standstill before reaching the obstruction, which, as he drew near, he saw was a pile of ties, about ten in num- ber. The train was brought to a stop when within a few feet of the burning ties. The engineer had divined what the presence of the blazing pile upon the track meant, and, as soon as he reached forthe throttle, he sang out to the Deputy Sher:ff on the tender. The latter started down toward the cab with his sawed-off breech-loader, charged with a load of buckshot, ready for instant use. He had hardly m ved from his posi- tion on the tender before, bang! bang! bang! bang! pang! in quick succession five shots were fired frcm a point to the right of the track, about 100 yards away. Looking in that direction the deputy Sheriff saw two men running across the field. They were then so far away that to shoot at them would have been a needless waste of ammunition, so saving his fire he dropped off the locomotive and went back toward the cars. He came upon several tramps wbo had been stealing a ride. On seeing him with a gun in his hands they shook with fear and one ex- claimed: “Please, Mr. Robber, don’t shoot. {'m only stealing a ride.” By this time the trainmen and the other depuiy came up and began an in- vestication. Trkere did notappear to be any. confederates ol the two outlaws on the train, or, if they were, they did not make their presence known. It was found that one of the tramps had been struck by a bulletin the hip, but they could not tell at that time how badly he was hurt. He, with several of his companions, had been lying on top of one of the coaches. As the train was being brought to a sudden stop they arose to see what oc- casioned the action of the engineer. It s surmised that the robbers, seeing them on top of the car, supposed they were guards sent to defend the train, and, emptying their revolvers, fled withoutattempting to draw nearand enter the express-car. It being evident tiat there were no other robbers in the vicinity and thatit would be useless 10 attempt to pursue without horses the two who bhad fled, the trainmen remioved the burning ties from the track and the express proceeded cautiously to Ripon, arriving twenty-five minutes iate. _ No attempt was made to follow the rob- bers from Morrano, the deputies confining themselves to securing the tramps. who are being held. Sheriff Cunningham, who was at Lathrop, was notitied as soon as the train arrive! here aud at once proceeded to Morrano. He was well equipped for a pursuit, and as the moon is shining clearly, it is probable that heand his men will be able to follow the tracks in the fields. The robbers were on foot at the time of the aitack upon the express, but no doubt they bad horses conveniently near. After leaving the fields it will be difficult to follow them along the traveled country roads. In the attempt of last Saturday nightto stop ihe express, at which time the rob- bers were frightened as they were to- night, one left part-of his coat sticking on a barbed wire fence he climbed over. This has given the officersa good clew to his identity. At that time the train tontinued on Second Page. WILL FEANT, AND DANCE, AND SHOUT To-day Visalia’s People Welcome the Valley Railway. ALL CARES ARE PUT ASIDE. Thousands of Visitors Will Assist in the Merry- making. FIRST TRAIN DUE THIS MORNING. When It'Arrives Every Be!l and Whistle In the City Will Sound a Greeting. VISALIA, Car., Sept. 8.—Visalia has finished her decorations and all other arrangements for the celebration to-mor- row in honor of the completion to this point of the San Jozquin Valley Railroad. All conditjors, including the weather, are propitious for a splendid day. Thesun has stopped scorching and the umbrageous- streets of the town are ideally comfort- able. Dust has heen laid by generous sprinkling. Caterer Noel set his beeves and mutton and hogs to roasting over the spits this evening for the barbecue. He is a skilled artist at this kind of work and guarantees a savory feast at noontime to-morrow. The militia and fire laddies have their halls ready for their visiting comrades. The baseball team practiced up to ithe hour of darkness, and the small boys wagered like vaterans on the footraces which are to take place on Main street while the basepall game is in progre:s elsewhere. The town is full of visitors already and Main street is thick as spatter with per- ambulators. The hotels caught a big im- portation during the day. Chief of Construction Williama of the Valley road had his men smoothing off the ground adjacent to the track to-day for the reception of the passengers to- morrow. Passengers will now arrive quite as comfortably as any initial crowd ever arrived at the terminus of a new rail- way. The arrival of the first through train over the Valley Railroad takes place at 9:30 o’clock in the morning. Assoon as big No. 3, with Gardner at the throttle, pokes her nose inside the town limits and whistles when she passes the sign post the town is to pull the rope and iet go with all the noise she has. Factory whistles are to blow, bells are to ring and a dozen or more anvils in different parts of thecity are to act as substitutes for cannon. Enough powder will be exploded toblasta fortune out of a Trinity gold ledge. Pussengers from the incoming train will be disembarked at School street, two blocks above the depot, that being necessi- tated by the existence of an unfinishea bridge immediately north of the depot. The grand parade of the day is to follow immediately. Shenif Merritt will officiate as grand marshal with Marshal Collins of this city and Chief of Police Woy of Fresno as chief aids, There will be a band from Tulare and one from Hanford. The visit- 1ng militia and officers from Fresno will participate in the parade, as will visiting firemen from Porterville, Tulare and Han- ford. The destination of the parade will be the barbecue, which is to be spread at the corner of Acequia and Locust streets, Eight beeves and fifty-two sheep and hogs now roasting are to supply food for all who care to eat. To accommodate different classes of people the sports have been divided, and a baseball game between the Fresnos and the Visalias will take piace simultaneously with the footraces. Bicycling will come in for its share of attention in the middle of the afternoon. In the evening, before the courthouse, where a big stand has been erected, the commemorative exercises will be held. Hon. William H. Alford of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee will de. liver the oration, and speeches in re- spons are expected from Claus Spreck- els, Judge Nye of Oakland and A. H. Pay- son of the Valley road. The festivities will terminate with a grand ball in the evening. A design representing a chick breaking from an egz has been struck oftf for an envelope and letterhead by the committee of arrangements. The chick is repre- sented as chirping, “Free at last.”’” Visa- lians feel that this adequately describes thesitnation. The business and social de- velopment of the community has been in bondage to the railroad difficulty for folly twenty years. Originally it was the natural center of trade and industrial and agricuitural growth. It remained so dur- ing the first twenty years,of its growth, from 1853 t0 1873. In1875the trouble with the Southern Pacific began. Visalia then had about 1500 inhabitants. Had things taken their natural course and the rail- road been run to Visalia the probability is that the city would have grown within the next ten or fifteen years to a popula« tion as large as that of Fresno. But un- der the duress of the Southern Pacific the city suffered from extortionate freight rates and became virtually unable to cone tinue as a jobbing center. By steady fighting aund resoluie co-oper> ation Visalia managed to increase slowly in population until 1t reached 3000. At that point or somewhere near it Visalia has remained for quite a stretch of years. The Southern Pacific bas endeavored a number of times to change the county seat, and failing in that to found new towns and to boom other towns, such as