The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1897, Page 1

. ME LXXXIL—-NO. 141. {‘ : — FEVER SUSPECT SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, PRICE FIVE CENTS. SENT BY TEXAS TO CALIFORNIA The State Board of Health Is Fully Alive to the Danger. - STEPS TAKEN TO KEEP OUT)| \ THE SCOURGE. A Can Never Gain a Foothold Here, but That| Will Not Be the Fault of the Officials of the Lone Star State. * * * x x * * * * * that = * * e e e e e sk i 4k ke ke ek e e ke e e sk sk ke ke e ok ok ke 4k ok ok ek s ke Dr. Ruggles of the State Board of Health has received information that a man of the name of Judson, who had been exposed to yellow fever, had been given fr tation from Louisiana through Texas to California in order there might be no danger of spreading infection by stopping in the Lone Star State. ¢ transpor- D s * R e e s e P T R S TR S S eI s e e s e s STOCKTON, CAL., Oct. 18.—Ac- rding t received by Dr. | Ruggles is city, esident of the S ard of Health, Tex endeav- r yellow fever at of California. In view of physician has authorized t of an in or to ex- sengers coming into this ,and that official is now inspect of C He is Dr. Hill of San State Board natter entirely incomers ton, San the man between Drs. Ruggles ago that thére inspector 1s no need of appointing an u the yellow fever had into Texas, but that as soon as any cases were reported from t State Dr. Price should be sent to tk r immediately all passengers coming into ; m that direction. the president of the board m from Colton, signed some one whom he did not know, | urging the board to tal mediate action ut of the State. ly, in which he agree that had been made elf and Dr. Hill. Since then ed a communication, signed i Colton and of that vicinity, their own ee transportation is be- orities through Texas 2 to California, in order that been exposed to the dis- ver Texas and als of know, of te board has together with t as he is con- cerned, for the intment of an jnspec- tor. The inspector will have power to de- tain suspected c: or. Hill, n, as the authori far - ONE HUNDRED DEATHS. That Is the R cord of the Plague ' at N w Oreans Up to 18.—Before 6 o’ciock this evening the hundred mark of deaths auring the present y fever prevalent had been r the Board of Health closed its night there had been nin ies. Between | night to-day seven deaths were repor century of deaths has occurred less than nine hundred cases been reported to 1he board sinc September, when the first c; appearance in New Orleans. however, to-day's record has been swel by the terrible criminal negie: poorer classes. The record to-duy was by no means reassuring. Early this even- ing the new cases exceed thirty, and the deaths had reached seven. These were the deaths to-day Fanny Winters. Antonio Barrone. Paul Caruso. Miss Adelaide Roberts. J. Gorolafo. P. Gounolon. John Goode. Two lives might have been saved if | v attempt had been made to give the Mients attention. Early this morning | Coroner Lemmonier found the dead body | of Pepino Goro'afo in a room in a house on Burguady street. The body was lying on the floor, and those in the place said ,,Bllhe man had gone to bed and rolled ut upon the tloor in a stupor. It took Dr. Lemmonier about two minutes to de- cide that the man had died from a gen- | uine case of yellow fever, and a subse-I quent autopsy confirmed lue'diuguosix.l When books last -three fatal- and nights This mong Le | just arrivea by The body was immediately buried. on during the day the Coroner was called to view the bodv o onio Barrore. The Coroner diagnosed the case also as one of yellow Both of these cases had been absolutely concealed from the au- thorities and tue men had died without a doctor being called in to give relief. The first case of yellow fever at Baton Rouge, the capital of the Siate, was reported to- day. The case was that of Willie Rivas, who lives on the ontskirts of the city. MONTGOMERY, Ara, Oct The Board of Health has issued this builetin: *“The Board of Health of Montgomery County, with the concurrence of the State health officers, report the existence of two cases of yellow ‘ever in the city of Mont. somery—Pat Whiie and Thomas Craydon. There were a few suspicious cases under observation.” — PLAGUE SPREADING. Yel'ow Fevar Has Made Its Ap- p:arance in Baton Rouge and fever. at Montgomary, Alab:ma. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, —The yellow fever situation 1o-day, as reportei to & geon-General Wyman, was the disease hay nade at Baton Rouge, L1, where case, and at Monigom: which places heretcfsre b from the disease, From t favorable, apuearas there is one both been fre ve Mobile, A six cases, one ceath. Scranton, twelve cases. Pascagoula, Miss., two cases. wards, two cases, three deaths. Cayaga, Miss., three cases, one death. A dispatch from Past Assistant Sur- geon Magruder at Galveston, dated yes- teriay, says no cases of fever have been reported since 1 Monday. The Board of Health and advising board—two mem- bers who had diugnosed vellow fever ha ing resigned—declared unanimous!y Sat- urday that there was no yellow fever in | the ¢ The quarantine has been raised by Health Officer Swearingen. At the Fontainbleau detention camp to-day thirty-two persons were admitted and thirteen discharged. e 1 NATIONAL QUARANTINE. Senater Caffery of Louisiana Runs Against Som - Rastrictions That .Set H'm Thinkng. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. — Senator Caffery of Louisiana, who has just come to Washington with his family, to remain during the winter, came from his | home and passed through New Orleavs. His trip from that city north until he reached Allanta was interrupted very frequently by State agents, who inspected his bill of health and asked him many questions. He will confer with Surgeon- General Wyman and endeavor to prepare a bill which il place under Federal con- trol all quarantine regulations and the management of epidemic diseases., He speaks very hichly of the management of the recent epidemic by the Uniled States Marine Hospital Service, and says the local regulations os to quarantine are dif- ferent in the various town«, and that even towns differ from counties, resulting in mnch confusion FRINCE KRAPO fl/.'lf ARRIVES. The Distinguished Russian Anarchist Is Visiting His Fellows at Kew York. _NL\\' YORK, Oct. 18.—Prince Peter Krapotkine, the Kussian auarchist, bas way of Canada. His friends are keeping his place of residence in New York very quiet. Prince Krapotkine has been attending the session of the British Scientific Asso- ciation at Toronto. From New York he will go to Boston, Pniladelphia, Baltimore and other large American cities, where he will deliver addresses on anarchy. Krapotkine will speak at Chickering Hall next Sunday. He was arrested in 1872 for be.ng concerned in an aitempt on the Czar’s life and was sentenced to life im- prisonmeunt, bul escaped. Later | Montgomery D- Wyman’s in- formation was that faver lLad been re- | | ported bv State Health Officer Sanders, thouch the number of cases was not stated. Dispatches froia other places show new 2s and deatns as follows: ‘ A SMALL BOATS ~ ARE SHASHED Crush of Craft About the Battle-Ship Mas- sachusetts. | Vessels Wrecked and Loss of Life Narrowly Averted. | sertous calamity Forestalled by the Presencs of Mind of Lieu- tenant Smith. | Special Dispatch to THE CALL. | BOSTON, Mass,, Oct. 18.—A thrilling accident occurred in the vicinity of the and but for the presence of mind of Lieu- tenant Smith, officer of the day, and of Captain Rathbun - of the excursion steamer Surf City, scores ot lives would | have been lost. As it was a halfscore of rowboats were | crushed to pieces, the tug Klondike was | badly injured and over a dozen persons had vecy narrow escapes from drowning About a dozen tugs were clinging clo-e to the Massachusetts, and sandwiched in among the larger craft were about a The Klondike was squeezed in between the Surf City, which was crowded by the tug, and the war vessel itself, The accident came without an instant’s warning. The quarter-deck of the war- ship was crowded with hundreds of sight- seers. Suddenly several piercing screams were heard. Above the screams of the la- | dies on board 1the various craft could be heard the awiul crunching, as one after another the small craft were squeezed and stove in and rapidly filled with water. | A panicensued. Tue ladies in the row- boats were graspea bysready hands and were carried on board the iarger craft. | The Klondike was squeezed agains: the hull of the battle-ship by the Sarf City, | which was in iurn squeezed by th- Fanny | Lennox. It was feared that an explosion | of the small boiler on board the Klondike would occar. Just in the nick of time Lieutenant Smith came to the side of his vessel, and the Klondike was thrown out of the way of the danger of the accident. All the debris was cieared up, and the larger craft, consisting of the tugs and ex- cursion steamers, were ordered by the offi- cers of the deck to keep farther away from the pattle-ship and swine around. WALKED FHGM A HOVIsG TRAIN, Los Angeles Man Steps From the Rear | Platform in the Darkness of a Tunnel. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18.—R. K. Mec- Creary of this city went up the Southern Pacific road a shoru aistance to meet the delegations of Odd Fellows coming from the north to the meeting here. afternoon he was going through the south-bound train aistributing circulars to the fraternal visitors. He was thus en- gaged, passing from car to car, as the train entered the San Fernando tunnel, to traverse which takes seven minutes. While in the darkn-ss of the tunnel Mr McCreary walked off the iast platform of the rear car, thinking he was stepping to another coach. He feil (o the ground and received numercus serious bruis not supposed to be dangerons. To the fact that the train was runuing siowly was due his escape from death, battle-ship Massachusetts this afternoon, | score of rowboats and small launches. | This | Which Killed One Woman, Seriously Wounded Thirteen People and $100,000 Worth of Property. RUINS OF THE CALIFORNIA FUSE WORKS. Scene of the Explosion Destroyed ( TOMAN BRUTES =37 [ | | | TORTURE SYD Fiendish Cruelties Are| Inflicted on the Big Elephant. | Devilish Devices to Subdue | | | i the Anim 'l for Assailing | Two Men. ’ While Blood O z:s Frcm Many | Wounds, Fra Is Used to Burn | | | { | { ‘hs Hide From he Flesh. | saslag B S pecial Dis, teh 10 THE CALL. C., Oct. 18.—Syd, the | big elephant, belpnging to Robinson and | Franklin Bros. circus, became angered | yesterday. Keeper Smith went up to him | and the animal seized him with its trunk | and hurled him twenty feet through the air. The master of animals, Jenks, rushed up and was seized and thrown to the ground. Syd has killed two men before. The master of animals decided that he must | b2 conquered. Svd was led into a thicket, Here his front feet were bound wi:h chains to two trees. Then a block and tackle | was fastened to his feet and to another | GREENBORO, tree, and thirty men began to pull. The elephant plunged forward and the rope | snapped like a thread. Finally the ani- | | mal was securely fastened and the men lfell upon him with spikes, pitchforks and clubs. The animal trumpeted and lunged while the men beat and prodded him. Blood oozed from a hundred wounds, A tork thrust throngh one of the elephant’s | | ears was putled out of the handle. The | | elephant caught the fork, drew it out | bimself and threw it away. The men had | betatored him until they were exhausied. | The elephant was still unconquerea. | Then they brought siraw and piaced it under him and fired it. The flames r. the suffering beast roared and struggled. | Three times the straw was rearrangea | |and the flames curled about his body. Finally the tough hide bezan to loosen | from his sides until it hung in sheets three feet square, exposing the smooth | white flesh. Then the master of the | animals bad a'tent erccted over him and | galions of vaseiine wers appiied o his scorched and burned sides, It issaid he | will e kilied if he ever aitacks a -man | again. | = | ~CHOLERA AM-NG SGLDIERS, | | 1t Attacks a British Battalion Stationed i | at Sitapur and Forty lien % Succumb. | LONDON, Oct. 19.—The Daily Mail this | morning says it has information from a | reliabie source that cholera has attacked | a battalion of the Shropshire reglment, | which is stationed at Sitapur, Northwest India, and that forty non-commissioned | oficers and privates have airesdy suc- | | cumbed. WITHDRAWS HER HORSES. | St | Cwing to Edward Langtry’s Death the Lily Will Aot Take Part in Turf Events at Present. | LOXDON, Exe, Oct. 18—Mrs. Lily Langtry, owing to the death of Edward Langtry, who died last Friday night while contined in the asylum for the insane at Chester, has withdrawn for the present all her horses from the turl, | River train blew his whistle and drew | | the engine and cars jumping the track. | pared tank timber destroyed. TRAINS COLLIDE | -~ AT A CROSSING: | Reckless Engineer the f Cause of an Arcata | Disaster. Pushes Ahead in a Fog With- ocut Stopping at a Junction. Several of the Passengers Injured and Englnes and Cars Demolish :d. Special Dispatch to TRE CALL. EUREKA, Oct. 18.—A disastrous rail- | way collision occurred near Arcata this | morning at the crossing of the Eureka | and Klamath River and the Arcata and | Mad River railroads. A logging train on the former road was on its way up the river, and a passenger train on the latter | was coming to Arcata. It is customary for the trains io stop at the crossing, but as it was past the time for the Mad River train to pass the engineer of the Klamath ahead. A dense fog prevailed, and train men could not see each other. The Mad River train was late, and the result was that the trains coliided at the ciossing. The Klamath River train was badly smashed, The engine was wrecked and the cars broken. The Mad RiVer traln was made up of four cars of timber, the engine and | passenger cars, the latter on the rear of | the train. The engine was badly damaged, the 'front car ditched and valuable pre- | Engineer George Teal of the Mad River | train was mjured, but not dangerously. | Tuere were a number of pa-sengers on the | Mad River train who were severely shaken | up, but none were seriously hurt. | The work of repairing the tracks begzan | immediately, each company sending a | | crew to assist, and traffic will be resumed | 10-MOrrow. 70 CUNFEW DEGREES. ‘ i 1 Biennial Session of Supreme Council | Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. WASHINGTON,- D. "C.," Ozt 18.—The | Supreme Council of the Ancient and Ac- | cepted Scottish Ri e of .Free Masonry for | the Southern jurisdiction of the United | States, wcluding all States west of the | Mississippi River, opened its regular bi- ennial session 1n this city to-day. Thomas Hubbard Caswell of San Francisco, grand | commauder, presided. Work on revision | of statutes will begin to-morrow. The | thirty-third degree. will be conferred | Friday night. Tne attendance of active and honorary members of the Supreme | 3 . 1 Council is quite large. | e e R | MUNITIONS OF WAR S+1ZED. i | Ihe Colombian Govermment Takes Pos- sesvion of a Schooner. NEW YORK, Oct. 18—A World cable from Colon, Colomb:a, says: The Gov- | ernment seized 1500 rifles and 15,000 | rounds of ammunition on the schooner Colombia, near Davis Bay. The veaul‘ was going to Nicaragua and the guns and cartridges were invoiced as machinery. The schooner was taken to Panama. ADVANCED 0N THE CALENDAR Durrant’s Case Will Be| Decided Within a Month. Regarded as Unl kely That the Supreme Court Will Interfere. Attorney-Generald Fitzgarald Will Remain In Washinzton Until a Decision Is R:ndered. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The fate of Theodore Durrant will in ail probability be determined ‘some time in November, and - possibly soon after the 15 n. The motion made by Fitzgerald, Attorney- General of California, to advance the case on the docket was to-day grauted by the United States Supreme Court. November 15 is set for the hearing. Fiizzerald said to THE CALL correspond- ent to-night that it was entirely probable the decision would be nanded down a day or two after the hearing, or sbout thirty days from thisdate. It is regarded as un- likely that the court will interfere with the sentence. ald will remain here untii the decision is made. The Chief Justice to-day made the an- nouncement that the case had been id- vanced. He merely alluded to it by num- ber, and no one ouiside of Fiizgerald and Warden Hale knew what it was about. FOREST FIRES ARE FIERCELY RAGING Flames Spreading at an Alarming Rate in Two States. MuchValuab e T mbar Land Burned Over, and the Loss Will Ba Very Heavy. Special Dispatch to THE Cavr AUBURN, N. Y, Oct. 18.—T e north- | ern part of Cayuga Counuy is ablaze with forest fires, which Lave been raging for the past two days, and nearly all the timber in the vicinity of Red Creek, Lo- ville, Sterline ana North Victory bas been | destroyed. Many iarmhouses, barns, hay- stack< and animals bave been burned. The tarmers sre fizhting the flames night and day, but zs there h.s been no rain_ in the viéinity since lust July, the parched condition of the ground and in the swamps make their effor!s almost futile. CONNEI.LSVILLE, Pa., Oct. 18, —Al! the upper Youguiogheny region is ablaze to-night, caused by the extensive moun- tain fires raging in hundreds of places. Across the Yougbiogh*ny from Connells- | vilie, Limestone Hill is a lurid slope of fire, and south or the town the fiercast fires for | many yeurs are eating up the shrubbery, endangering bomes and destroying hun- dreds of fences and barns. Gaue of all kinds 1s fleeing down into the valieys, where hunters to-dav secured hundreds of squirrels and pheasants. Reports from Mill Run, Ohiopyle and Indian Head say the fires there are worse than in this vicinity, Attornev-General Filzger- | DEATH [N A POWDER EXPLOSION California Fuse Works Totally Destroyed by Fire Last Evening. ONE KILLED, THIR- TEEN INJURED. eck Buried in the Ruins and Burned to Ashes. I Mary B |SIX OTHER GIRLS BADLY HURT. Two White Man and Five €Chinese Recelve Serlous Injuries In the Falllng Walls. KILLED. Mary Beck, aged 30, residing at Twenty-Fourth street and Treat avenue. INJURED. Amelia Hamilton of 5812 Mis« sion street, badly burned and cut ‘uhout the hands and face. | Blanche Barber of 13092 Dolores | street, slightly injured on right shoulder by piece of flying timber. | Emma Steffens, Ninth street, be- tween Bryant and Brannan, hand | burned. Annie Flanagan, all cut up, se~ | vere cut across the nose and hair singed. Nora Murphy of Ocean View, injured internally. Mary Amsler of Ocean -View, right eclbow dislocated, hands burned and hair singed. William Tregay, Ocean View, bone in ankle broken and badly | shaken up. William Baldwin, badly burned about the hands. ' Louis, Chinese boss, badly burned | about the hands and face. Four other Chinese slightly in- jured. sy | The Catifornia Fuse Works, located on | the San Jose road, between Ocean View and Colma, in San Mateo County, blew up yesterday afternocon at 5:20 o’clock, killing one girl, Mary Beck, and seriously injuring thirteen other people. The buildings and contents, estimated to be worth $100,000, were totally de- stroyed. The damage was caused by the dropping of a hot incandescent bulp on some loose powder. The plant of the California Fuse Works consisted of six buildings, which stood a short distance from the San Mateo electric road. The main building, where the fuses were manufactured, was 120 by 100 feet. It was | a two-story affair, the lower part being oc- cupied by the machinery, shafting, steam- | pipes for drying, etc. At the rear end | and separated from it by a partition was the boiler-room. The engine-room was above this latter and on the main floor. In front of this building was a one-story structure, which contained four rooms and was used as an office and dressing-rooms for the girls emplcyed at the works. To the left was a warehouse, where the fuses were packed, and a short distance behind the warehouse was the Chinese bunkhouse. | A short distance to the right wasa large coalhouse containing about seventy-five ons of coal. The other building was a powder magazine, and held between four and five tons of black pewder. It was a | dug-out, and was the only building of the entire plant that was saved. It was lo- cated about seventy-five yards to the rear, its distance adding to its safety. At the time of the explosion there were in the spinning-room of the main build- ing, which ran the lengih of it, Mary | Beck, James Eva, one of the proprietors, and tive Chinamen. It was in this room that the explosion took place. It was here that the powder was placed in the tape and rolled into afuse. There was more or less powder spilled on the fioor, | and it was this powder igniting the rest 1 | | | | | | | that was the cause of the explosion. There were three rooms leading off from the spinning-room. One of these was | what is called the 1aperoom, and is the place where the tape was wound on the spools. At the time of the disaster there were six girls at work in the taperoom. They were: Amelia Hamilton, Blanche Barber, Emma Steffens, Annie Flanazan, Nora Murphy and Mary Amsler. Next to the taperoom was the tarroom, and in this room the Chines: were at work. The other room was known as the whiteroom and was unoccupied when the building blew up. Kaiie Foy, Lizzie Beck, Mary and Mag- { gie Caliahan and an [talian girl known as Virginia were in the warehouse, and they escaped without injury. The buildings were all of wood and were completed last Merch, when the piant from the old factory at Eleventh and