The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1897, Page 2

PR ] E F ONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 189 o TH RANCISCO CALL, -——-——-————————————_—'————————————_—————__'__—_-__—__— Acker of Peekskill, who was in his com- partment, eight Chinese en route trom the Canadian border to New York and a middle-aged man, svpposed to be Thomas Reilly of St. Louis. All of these, except- ing the baggageman, perished. The day coach contained eighteen or twenty pas- sengers, many of whom were women and children. How many of these escaped is not known, but at least twelve were drowned or killed in this car. Behind the coach were the six sleepers, with about sixty-five passengers. The total cargo of human freight consisted of something over 100 people. At Fisnkill the train lessened its speed, as it1s the custom to run from that point to Tarrytown at the rate of about twenty- five miles an hour. Most of the passen- gers were asleep, those in the sleepers be- ing in their berths, while the occupants of the coach and smoker were, for the most part, doubled up in their seats, Just how the train met its awfal fate will never be fully known, for the men who first felt the danger, Engineer Jobn Foyle and Fireman John Tompkins, to-night lie dead in the cab of their locomotive at the bottom of the Hudson River. Conductor Parish, who was in charge of the train and who was making up his report in one of the cars when the crash came, was ren- ered unconscious pv a blow on the head. One of the few occupants of the coach o escaped was Frank J. Degan, a wood- tinisher of New York. His left eye was by broken glass and his body was tly bruised, Mr., Degan made this ment: With my friend, W. aic, N cu H. Myers of , who was kiiled in the car which I escaped, I had been to ughkeepsie. We boarded the train at hat place and took a sear in the coach. [nree other peopie got on at Poughkeep- c. One was a woman and the two others ere men, one of whom looked like a rail- oad man. As near as I can judge there ere eighteen people in the coach, most of them being women and children, and nearly all were asleep. “Myers and I sai in the miadle of the car. When the crash came the car gave a greatlurch and rolled over on its side. The water rushed in, and almost instantly the lights wentout. Iknew that we were in the river, and the car seemed to plow through the water for some time after it was submerged. The car wae tilted over on one side, and I managed to reach the fan 1i-nt overhead and cling to it until elp came. T heard people in the back part of the C.r groaning as if they were pinned fast. It was so dark that Icould see noone, and I think the passengers must have been drowned like rats. After a while, it seemed like an age, I heard people on top of the car and an ax crashed through the roof. The noise of that ax made the sweetest music I ever heard in my life. A man and a boy (father and son) were also rescued in the same way, but I know of no other occupants of the coach escap- ing. The car at this time was floating, but fast filling with water, and we were 1ut ashore in a rowboat. 1 am sure that my friend Mvers was drowned.” Augustus Kab, a German, living near the scene of the wreck, gives this descrip- tion: “It was about five minutes before 6 when I was awakened by some one in my vard calling for help. Looking out of my window I saw a sleeping-car porter, who sboutea: ‘For God’s sake, if you own a boat come quickly. Our train is in the Tiver and people are drowning.’ I dressed myself, and accompanied by the por.er zotinto my rowboat and rowed around the curve (o where the train was in the er. When we reached ihe cars, which were submerged nearlv to their roofs, the cnzine being entireiy out of sight, the crews of the tugboats were making efforts to save passengers. ‘Lie first man [ saw ihem take out was the sgentof the ex- press-car. The first persons we succeeded in rescuing were two Chinese, who were situing on the roof of the smoker. One bad his arm broken. We put them stiore and then took three persons off the op of another car. At the sama time people in their underclothes were being en out of the sleeping-car by the crews of several tugs. One man on shore with an arm cuat off was dying, and we made his jast moments as comfortable as pos- sible. Iwant to say that the porters, al- though frightened, showed great bravery, and saved many lives.” One of the trainmen who survived ‘the disaster ran to the first signal tower to telegraph for help. The place where the wreck occurred is rather isolated. It is just at the entrance of what is known as King’s Cut, three miles south of Garri- sons and five miles nortn of Peeksk.ll. Two other express trains were following close behind the ill-faied State express, and the en ine of one of them was sent to Garrigons for General Manager J. M. Tou- cey, who lives there, while the other en- gine hurried to Peekskill for medical aid. Mr. Toucey was the fiist official of the reilroad at the sceme, arriving there at 7:30. The engine which brought him there steamed to Cold Spring and re- turned with Drs. Winslow, Fiilebrown and Murdock. In the meantime Drs, Charles and Perley Mason, J. M. Tiiden, P. C. Suowden and E. D. Lynn had ar- rived. | Of the dramatic horror of the situation in the combination car when it left the track and struck thie water perhaps the best account is had irom the story of Herman Acker of Peekskill, the bag- age and mail sorter. Acker was sffering badly from the shock w .en seen, but the scenes he graphically described. He said: *John Snaw, agent of the Westcozt Ex- vress Company, and myself were in the compartment when suddenly there was a terrible bump and then a rush of water that forced us toward the ceiling. The car seemed to turn com,letely, over and baud filied with water to within about a. foot of the top. When we struck the car whirled completely around, the end which the Chinese occupied being under water, while our end was tilted up. We swam around and got a ventilator open, noting the situation, got an ax from a toolbox which was afloat and smashed a panel in the end of the car. We crawled through the hole to the roof of the car and a row- boat came and took us ashore.”” Acker has been a railroader many ye: and uas escaped from three serious acci- dents. Hisarm is badly cut and his body broised. Shaw escaped injury. The first vicim of the disaster was found lying on the shore dying. He was badiy bruised about the hsad and body and his right arm was cut off near the shoulder, the bleeding stump alone show- ing. The member was not found. The mean was placcd on a train and taken to Peekskill, but diea on the way. Five men wer- rescued from the top of a floating car a few minutes after the ac- cident. They were put on a train and 1aken to Peekskill, about .en miles down the road. They were admitted to the Helpwng Hand Hospital, where their wounds were dressed. OI the five three were Chinese, and none were fatally in- jured. The Americans were: John E. Rvan of Jersey City, shoulder and knee bruised; Clarence Morzan, Aurora, N. Y., aged 26, broken shoulder. The three Chie nese were suffering from scalp wounds. Morgan escaj from a floaung car rom through a broken panel and swam ashore. Though badly hurt he helped another assenger out. W. 8. Lingford of Bayonne, N. J., was in oneof thelast coaches which remained on the track. He secured an ax and chopped out a panel of one of the partly submerged carsand helped to rescue four people. At 8 o’clock one of the express trains left the scene with the man who had died on the track and about twenty-five injured persons. The dead man and five injured were left at Peekskill, where the injured were taken to the Helping Hand Hospital, while the train proceeded to New York with the rest of tie injured. This train had hardly left the scene of the disaster when a special engine arrived there bringing Division Superintendent McCoy and Trainmasters Wyck and Stack frcm Tarrytown, and almost simultaneously a wrecking train came from Poughkeepsie. The officials saw at once that the wrecking cars would be of little avail in raising the cars from their position in the river, where they were almost completely submerged, so the Chapman Wrecking Company of New York was notified to send a river derrick and floats to raise the cars. General Manager Toucey gave out the following statement as to the cause of the disaster: “The accident was caused by the bed of the railroad being washed out in some in- explicabie manner. -In this undermined condition the track sank as fsoon as the weight of the irain was put on it ana the embankment giving way the train was of course precipitated into the river. Such conditions as this we have never looked for. Trains have been running over this spot for years and years withou accident or difficul'y of any kind, and this piece of track was cousidered as good as any sec- tion of the railroad. Notonly was ihe roadbed the hardest kind of an embank- ment, but it was strengthened by a retain- ing water wall of solid masonry three feet thick.”” Other railroad officials were of the opin- ion thata quicksand foundation of some kind below the water line was responsible for the sinking of the roadbed. Before 10 o’clock this morning a large number of curivus spectators had gath- ered at the scene, coming from nearby towns and villages by trains, wagons, bicycles and boats. The number of mor- bidiy curious steadily increased as the day wore on, and excursion boats even came from places far up and down the river, all loaded down to the water’s edge, until at midaiternoon there were fully 10,000 about the wreck. It required the utmos: exertion of Chief Hammond of the rail- road police and his corps of detectives to hold these peopie in check to allow the railroad men to proceed with their work. Chief Hammond did good work in recov- ering valuables, and if there were auy thieves about they got no opportunity to piy their trade. Tne American Express Company had a number of its agent: on the scene, but they were powerless todo anything, and no attempt was made to raise their car. It was sa:d that this car contained thou- sands of doilars worth of valuabies, but the officials said that all would pe recov- ered, as «he valuables were in a stationary safe attached to the car. Among the railroad men it was gener- ally believed that A. G. McKay of Har- lem, private secretary to the general superintendent, Van Eiten, had lost his lite in the wreck. He was a passenger on the train and was lastseen at Albany, where, it was said, he boarded the loco- motive to ride with the engineer. If that is true he sliared the fate of the engineer and fireman; atany rate be was missing up to a late hour. The terrible evidences of the wreck were visible at a point two miles below here to- night under intensely spectacular circum- stances. The great wrecking-car torch threw a red glare over the men busily en- gaged in tearing apart g2t at any bodies ti.at might be under it. The men worked with great energy und ever and anon would bring to the surface a body cramped into an abnormal posi- tion. On the top of the partly sobmerged cars’ a gang of men choppea away with axes and the huge derrick from the wreck- ing train tore out the mahogany tr.m- mingsand ceilings and berths in the en- deavor to recover somebody’s loved one rom the wreck. On shore a great gangof men worked to get the inside, or up track, so repaired that there would be no trouble in getting trains through. Before noon Generai Manazer Toucey bad formed an estimate of the number of dead, which he placed at twenty-eight, and no change in this estimate was made during the day. A. E. Bracken, conductcr of the Wagner cars, was able to account for all his pas- cengers excepting five, and he was not sure that they were in tbe wreck, as they might have escaped and gone to New York without his knowledge. When a diver arrived from New York this afternoon tne first thing he dia was to go through the three subm-rged sleep- ing-cars. He reported that he found no bodies, but said that oneor more might be under the berths, which were in great confusion. It was 3 o'clock beiore the derrick and hoisting engine could raise the combina- tion car consisting of smoker and baggage compartments (o such a position that the top of it was out o! the water. Slowly the big load began to rise, and in a few minutes it had been turned over so that the windows were clear of the water. The body of a man came out of a window as the car was being brought to the shore. A boat was near by, and the oaremen se- cured the body. It was the first lifeless form of any of the passengers to be res- cued. A passenger coach without seats was close at hand and the body was carried thither and deposited on the floor. The man was about 55 years old. The rescuers dia not have time then to make any in- quiry as to who he was, but simvplv tore off a slip of paper, wrote ““Body No, 1”7 and pinned it on his coat and left him to look for others. By the time they had re- turned the derrick had drawn the car to the bank and the work of getting the vie- tims was under way. The searchers were oniy able to find eight Chinese. They were also carried to the morgus car, laid in a row and numbered. Trederrick next pulled the day coach to the shore and the searcning parties were able to reach it. Although it is known that there were many more per- sons in the coach, but six bodiss were re- covered and two of these were women. The last body was recovered at 5:45 p. M. Coroner Woods of Cold Springs was on the scene and he and several ussistants were soon at work at the task of identify- ing the bogies. A man whosaid his name was Frank J. Degan of New York suc- ceeded in escaping from the car, He said his brother-in-law, W. H. G. Myers, had boarded the car at Poughkeepsie and oc- cupied a separate seat from him in the day coacb. Dezan was asieep when tho accident occurred. He escaped miracu- lously, swimming ashore. Later he iden. tified Myers among the dead The Coroner ana his the wreckage to | | Hawick was in the wreck. the dead bodies in the hope of finding | some clew to their identity. Nothing positive was found to ideatify the Cbi- nese. By letters and papers found in the pockets of No. 1, he was identified as Thomas Riley of St. Louis, a G. A. R. veteran, No. 9 was a young man, about 30 years of age, well dressed. A letter addressed to L. A. Green, care A. W. Otis, architect, 275 Dearborn street, Chicago, and the business card of the latter were found on him. Nos. 12 and 13 were women, and noth- ing could be found on them to identily them. No. 12 was a woman about 30 years of age. It was a sight that will never be forgot- ten, the fifteen dead forms on tize floor of the car. The face of each bore cutsor contusions ot some kind. The suppe- sition that the Chinese had heen smug- gled into this country seems to be errone- ous, as they were all dressed in clothes of American make. The Chin boarded the train at Malone, N. Y., and there were fourteen n the party, so that there are three s ill missing. At 9 P. M. the coroner gave orders for the removal of tae volies to undertaking rooms at Cold Spring, where tiey will be embalmed and held a day for identifica- tion. James J. Corbett and company were de- tained at Albany and thus escaped the wreck. IT IS om et INL XPLICABLE. Pres'dent Chauncey M. Dep-w | Cannot Account for th: Ter- rib'e Disas:er. 1 NEW YORK, Oct. 2&.—Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New York Cen- tral, says: “There is no accounting for the accident, It was one of those things apparently that no human foresight could prevent. The Atlantic express passed in safety over the very spot where the acci- dent occurred fifty minutes before the Baffalo special came alone. *To show how inexplicable is the whole | occurrence, at 2 o’clock the main office in this cily received the usual notice ‘that | trackwalkers of that section had just re- | ported all right. I am very loath to st- tempt to explain what happened nearly a hundred miles away and can only sur- | mise, “The embinkment is built from the river on & ledge of rocks, The ledge may have given way and the embankment slipped off. Possibly the action of the water had something to do with it. There have never been slides at that point be- fore.” Mr. Depew was asked if the section did not require especial watching from the fact that the tracks ran over made ground. “Naturally,”’ he replied, ‘and there is a most perfect sysiem, and that makes the | whole occurrence more incomprehen=ib e, The whole road was put in perfect condi- tion three months ago, e Escaped From the Wreck, NEW YORK, Oct. 24 —Lord Douglas of He was com- ing from Toronto with Edwin Wilkinson of London. When the crash came and the | coaches wers thrown into the water Lord Douglas, assisted by Mr. Wilkinson, man- aged after great difficu’ty to get out of | the coach. | It was much more difficalt than \t would otherwise has been bLecause of a lame lew which Lord Douglas suffered from, the result of a receut accident. He came to this city and 15 now with frienas at a vrivate residence. Among those who escaped and reached | this city was Frea A. Marriott, son of the proprietor of the San Francisco News Let- ter. He was unburt by the crash, but bore a few bruises received while working with the rescuingz parties. FORCED TO UNITE A YOUNG COUPLE. | D-puty Collector Ross Compelled by Miners at Circle City to Per- form a Marriage Cerem ny. TACOMA, Oct. 24.—George W. Ross, deputy cellector of customs at Circle City, was comypelied by a miners’ meeting to marry a ccuple last spring against bis | will, and thouszh he had no authority to perform such ceremony. Ross is just out and says: “Miners at Circle City have queer idess as to the duties of an officer of the Govern- ment in that country. Last spring they were called upon to settle a case between one of their number and a young woman, and, to do full justice to the latter for ihe wrong she had sustained. it was decided that the man must marry her. There was no one in the country authorized to per- form the ceremony, so the miners came io me and told me to do it. I tried to ex- plain that as deps collector I was not vested with authority to marry people, and declined. The miners simply insisted that Ishould, and, when I still refused, ordered me to do it, as 1 was the only offi- cial in the countiv, and the mandate of the miners’ court had to be carried out. “To satisfy them I drew up a coniract in writing setting forth that both the man and woman agreei to bscome husband and wife. This was signed by the parties, duly witnessed, and then I swore the con- tracting parties to the truthof the same and affixed my seal to the certificate, It was only a contract marriage, but it took with the miners, and since then other par. ties who wanted to get married were wili- ing to do so by the same formula, and the business proved quite remunerative. *“Yukon miners have a decisive way of | treating those who have proved dishonest. When a man is charged with steal:ng, the charge is carefully inquired into by a mi- ners’ committee, If the guilt of the man is prov. d, he is not sent to jail or struns up. Instead, he is furnished with an out- fit sufficient to carry him out of the coun- try and told to go and never come back. He never returns. There has been no stealing at the mines, One could leave his sack of dust outside his cabin with se- curity, but how that the rush has com- menced, bring ng_ail manner of people there, it will be different.’” el TRIBESMEN GATHzR IN FUORCE. The WNext Serious Conflict With British 7roops Will Gecur at Sphaga Pass. SIMLA, INpia, Oct. 24—According to dispatches received to-nizht the tribes- men are collecting in great force on both sides of Sphaga Pass, where the next serious fighting is expected to take place. They are removing their women to safe points. A B Divasters on the Great Lakes. CHICAGO, Oct. 2¢—Dense fogs and heavy seas all over the great lak-s brought disaster to several vessels to-d:.y. Eight men reachea Chicago to-night after a ter- rible experieacs, leaving their vessel as it sank out of sight in Lake Michigan. Four ves-els ran on the rocks and banks and one suffered from a collision in the fog. It was the Chicago steamer F. W. Gifford that foundered. After thres hours the crew was rescued by the sieamer City ot Sheboyga PSS G S To Cure a Cold in One Day ‘gnke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Drug- istants searched | Tisis refund the money if it fails to cure, 2: SILVER'S PLACE - IN CURRENCY 'Variety of Suggestions to the Monetary Commission. Every Phase of the Financial Problem Treated in Detail. Work Will Soon Begin on Measure to Be Submitted to Congress. the Special Dispateh to THE CALL WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—When the Monetary Commission reconvenes on No- vember 3 it will be ready to begin the preparation of its currency measure and the report that will accompany it. The measure itself will not bs one of great length, and 1tis probable that the report, instead of atiempting to givea digest of all the suzgestions and testimony before the commission, wil! confine iiself to a | clear statement of facts and terse argu- ment in support of the measure agre«d upon. 3 The people generally have responded very freely to the invitation of the com- mission to contribute their views, and it has received in this way a very fair index of public opinion upon the subject in every section of the country. The ‘‘crank” letters have been very Jew. The great mass of the suggestions has been from men who have evidently given much care- ful and 1utelligent thought to the cur- rency question. The suggestions range | over every possible phase of the subject, and almost every writer has some sug- gestion to make as to the place that siiver should bold in the currency of the coun- try. A numb:r of men suggest the accept- ance of silver in unlimited quantities with the issuance of certificates at a market rate for the bullion, with redemption of these ceriificates when presented at rul- ing market rat But the plain effect of this plan would be to make the silver cer- tificate nothing more nor less than a ware- house receipt, with the Government act- ing as the warehouseman. O.hers suggest that no paper money of less than $10 de- nomination b: issued in any form, thus requiring a larger circulation of s.lver do.- iars und subsidiary coins. But the expe- rience of bankers has been that the smail notes have an enormous popuiarity. Sev- eral men suggest the coinage of a mon - tary unit composed of a combination of gold ani silver, and others suggest simply the issuance of certificates representing gold and silver ingots. The commission asked a number of questions of a number of tinancial experts and men of /ar.e experience in financial affairs. The tenor of the replies received is conservative and demolishes the rather widespread notion that there is a desire among men of this clas« for the with- drawal of greenbacks and treasury notes. One of the best-known financ.ers cf the | coun ry said to the Associated Press rep- resen ve in di-cussing the work of the commisson: j “1 think the revenue and finance de- partments of the Government should be compictely separated. Revenue 1s one ques ion and the problem of currency and banking is another, and in their details they have no proper connecticn. I should like to see our variegated paper currency unified into two section<—coin certificates and si'ver certificates—ine coin certificates | to be confined to denominations of $10 and over and the silver certificates to $5, §2 and $1 bills, gradually withdrawing ail silver certificates of dencminations higher than §5 The Treasury should hold a goid reserve equal to 25 per cento! the coin cer- tificates and the Secretary of the Treasury should be autnorized io cancel all coin certificates when paid ingold. He <hould have authority to maintain the gold re- serve at all times by purcua-iig go.d with sufpius cash in the Treasury and shori- time oblizations of the Government. Tariff laws should be so adjusted as to insure a ~mall surpius revenue, and when they do not the Secretarv ot the Treasury should ve authorized io borrow enough on short- | time obligations io cover any deficiency in the revenue. “The uational banks should be per- mitte! to issue notes to the par value of { the Government bonds held by them. | Canada bas a fairly pood system for tne regulation of bank circulaiion, and it mignt be studied with profit. I do not believe the American people are prepared for the wi hdrawal of the greenbacksor treasury notes, nor wiill they be until a banking aci establisies an absolutely safe bank-notecirculation and ' he peopie come | to recognize it as such. Such a bank cur- rency must be national in character. It would. be idie io talk of a State bank is- | sue Th s country has ad biiter expe- ricnce in that direction, and the people understand its evils.” DISC.URAGED BY - BLINDNESS. Estre/la Belinfante, the Singer, 4t- tempts to Commit Suicide by -tarving. NEW YORK, Oct. 24—In a little room in the Meiopolitan Hotel a woman according to ber own story dellberately set out to commit suicide by starving her- seif todeath, She is no ordinary unfor- tunate. She is an artist. As Estrella Belinfante, contralto, she sang in leading roles in some grand opera companies in Europe., Bne is young, beautiful and accomylished, but the be- came blind and ner artistic career was merelv a dream of the past. | Shearrivad at San Francisco from Japan over a year ago. One of the passengers on the ship was Willis Edminster, who courted and afterward married her. She sang a number of times in San Francisco and had many friends there. She had gone without food for tour days, if her statements are to b: believed, and during all that time there was a European draft for $75 awaiting her at the banking- house of Brown Brothers. She wen: to tae Metropolitan late Wed- nesday and re:istered as Mrs, Wynne of Boston and paid a dollar for her room. She was exceedingly pale, and the clerk noticed her ghastliness, e S Burglars Kiil an dccomplics. WEBSTER CITY, Ga., Ost. 24.—Three masked burgiars robbed the State Bank of Blairsburg this morning at 8 o'clock. They used dynamite, and the explosion shatiered the large plate glass window and badiy wrecked the bank buiiding. They obtained $6000 worth of securities and a smail amount of cash. 1n escaping they shot and fatally wounded Edward Gillicoin, who wus one of their pals,whom they mistook for an offic —_—— Coming to Me-t Jefries, CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—Jjoe Choynskileaves fcr San Francisco in about ten days to fulfill his enzagement with Jeffries. After that contest Choynski hopes to get another maich on the coast. Failing in that he will return to Chicago ana try for a m with “Tay” B;’ln.“‘ % e | SURPRISE FOR REORGANIZERS Competition Certain in the Union Pacific Sale. There May Be Active Bidding to Secure the Link in a Great Line. Much Money €p:nt by Racelvers Makes the Road More Valuable Than Is Supposed. Speclal Dispatch to Tis CALL. OMAHA, Nepr, Oct 24.—Speculation in local railway circles is very animated at present over the Union Pacific sale, which will oceur one week from to-mor row. Oune element asserts that there isa surprise in store for the reorganization committee, snd that it will come in the form of strong opposition when the time for bidding comes. It is said the competition will come from the Russell Sage syndicate, which is really the Huntington crowd, who are anxious to ge: the road to run in connec- tion with the Southern Pacific. It is pointed out that that corporation can a‘- ford to pay as much for the property asa connecting line as can the Vanderbilts in order to use it in connection with the Northwestern. It isfurther said that the bidding will probably te so spirited that the price brought will be much in excess of what is expected. The reorganization committee, it is pointed out, has much secret information about the road’s con- dition which no other bidders can have, that Is, as to the exientcf improvement made under the receivership, etc. There is no disputing the fact that vast sums have been spent by the receivers in improving the road during the past three vears, and all this improvement in road- bed, rolling-stoek and bridges will go with the balance. It is poinied out that the Government has — unintentionally per- baps, but nevertheless—given the reor- ganization committee a powerful advan- taze by not requiring the receivers to make public all these improvements that other bidders might know what they were bid- ding on, This, it is said, will l:ave a power- ful effect on the result. It isdeciared that if the Saze people get the road they will probably build a new line to Chicago and thus control the situation from :he city turough to the coast. It is further said that if the Vanderbilt« fnil to ge: the line, it will mean the ineviiable extension of the western line of the Northwestern, which now reaches far into Wyoming through to the coast. In fact, this has been talked or for some time. NEW YOKK, Oct. 24.—Indications point to the formation of a second svndicate to bid for the Union Pacific Railway at the foreclosure sale next month, but this syndicate is entirely distinet irom ihe much-advertised one attributed to Russell Sage and General Thomas, which both of these men deny having got up, but con- cerning their participation in which there is «ndall room ior aoubt. Twd ceruified checks for $2,000,000 each have passea through prom:nent New Yerk banks made out to the order of W. D. Cornish, speciat master in charge of ine Union Pacific sale, and one of those con- versant with the reorganization plans stated to-day that these checks woula probab'y form thé basis of a second bid, as it is necessary to make a deposit of 10 per cent belorchand as a guarantee of good faith. The reorzanization committee made its deposit several months ago. This person said that so far as be could ascertain neitber Russell Sage nor General Thomas had anything to do with the drawing of the checks, and he kad not been able to ascertain from what source they came. In this connection it is sait that severai prominent interests, among whic were men said 10 be associat-d with the Rocke- feilers, had signifi:d their intention or willingness to heip form asyndicate to bid for the road, and the checks may have been to their order. It became known to-day that the alleged agreement which Russell Sage was cred- ited with getting up and circulating among bankers was really prepared by u put-and-call broker who "appears to have an office in his hat. Seme unkindiy .is- posed per-ons in Wali street insinuate that both Mr. Sage and General Thomas had benefited greatly by stock-j bbing stories that had been circulated by this man and ihey even went so far as to -uggest that these men were not averse to using the vendor of “fakes” so lon: as the rejorts refl-cted on certain Wall-street interests to which neither Mr. Sage nor General Thomas 1s very we!l disiosed. ARRAIGNS CRUEL ENGLAND. Miss Gonne Tells of the Tyranny That Is Depopulating the Irish Race. NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Miss Maud Gonne, the *“Irish Joan of Are,” in a sweet, modulated tone recited anew to- night at the Grand Opera-house the story of the wrongs of I:eland, “When 1 left Ireiand,” she said, “my iriends told me I would not be a stranver in America. My reception in New York demonstrates this truth. I do nov merit this praise that has been be-iowed upon me. I am simply performing the duty every Irish woman owes ber country. “In spite of the demoralization of the last few years,” continned M:ss Gonne, *‘the Irish are as determined es ever that their country shall be free. The Queen’s jubiiee, that hidcous mockery, was cele- brated 1his year. ‘‘ireland will celebrate its jubilee next year. Ingland’s jubilee marked sixty years of piuader, rapine and piracy. Ire- land’s jubilce wiil refl et the mnoblest struggle for independence the world has ever seen. Ireland had no reason 1o jubilate this vear. “*But next vear she will honor the mem- ory of the men of '98. Constant rev.iu- ticn and bloodshed for the last hundred years would have been less disastrous to Ireland tban the peaceful way in which England has depopulated the coantry. In that time 1,000,000 people have died from starvation 1n a country of pientv, At the beginning of this century Ire- land had 8500,000 population. To-day he has 4,500,000, My country’s poverty through English tyranny is a byword among the nations of the earth to-day, and stll England sneer-~ ingly voints to Turkey as a barbarous na- tivn beciuse it has not the fine artof civilization which it arrogates to itsef. It is the duty of the Irish race to tear off the veil of hypocrisy and show England asthe 1+, 5 “Why, England still flogs its prisoners in the juils until blood gushss from their wounds. Seven out of sevenieen Irish vohtical prisoners in Portland prison were driven mad.” i g Lord Justice of Appeal. LONDON, Oct. 2¢.—The Hon. Richard Penn Collins, Judge of the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court, has been ap- pointed Lord Justice of Appea: in succe- sion to the Right Hon. Nathaniel Lindley, recently appoiuted masier of the roils, YELLOW FEVER NOT GHECKED Three Deaths From the Plague at New Orleans. Twenty-Four New Cases the Record for Sunday at One City. In Mississippl and Alabama Towns the Disease Continues to Find Many Vict ms. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24—The usual variation was shown in the yellow fever sitnation to-day. Yesterday there were fortv-nine cases and seven deaths. At7 o'clock this evening the new cases had reached twen:y-four and the deaths were three. Five of the new cases were re- ported in a bunch in Carrollton. The deaths occurred during tue morning. Eupbrasie Larargue, who died to-day, was reporied on the 20:h., Among the new cases is that of Thomas R. Richard- son. Major Hamilton, a well-known iq- surance man, and who had been nomi- nated oy Muyor Flower to be Chief of Police, was reported this eveaing to be in a critical condition, but later had im- proved somewhat. Major Hamiiton won his spurs in the Confederate army and is a well-known man in New Orleans. Up to this evening the Board of Health had not received information that the steamer bringing some thousand Sicilian emigrants had arrived in the river. The ship will be detained in quarantine and after her release the immiarants wiil be landed on the coast. Most of them are coming to work on the sugar plantations. JACKSON, Miss, Oct. 24 —The Etate Board of Health, in ii: official statement to-night, reports eight new cases of yellow fever at Bay 8t. Louis, one at Edwards and one at New Albany. Two new_cases are reported from Clinton, Nitta Yuma and Cavuga. MOBILE, Ara., Oct. 24—Eight new cases were reported to-day. The best- known among the sick 1s Mrs. Stephen Croom, sister of PBellamy, the writer, Total cases, 209; deaths, 28; recovered, 146; under treatment, 35. MEMPHIS, TexN., Oct. 24.—The Board of Health officialiy announces four new cuses of yellow fever to-night. They are in the Coben family and are traceable to the McFerrin residence. The Cohens are tailors and had delivered a pair of trousers to McFerrin, when the latter was taken down. The weather is cooler. The people seem to have contidence in the ability of the Board of Health to hold the disease in check. s MONTGOMERY, Aza., Oct. 24—Two deat.s and eigiiteen new cases are Mont- gomery’s baa record for the day. Alder- man John W. Deming and Mrs. David G. Junes are the victims of faial attacks. SELMA, Ga, Oct. 24 —To-day has been the niveliest Sunday Selma has seen since tie Wiison raid at tbe close of the war. The day opened with a departure of a refuzee train for Rome, Ga., with fully 1050 people on board. The exodns has continued unabated, hundreds going to the country in wagons. Three new cases developed to-day and there are two sus- picious cases. ~ The infection is badly scatiered. H. L. Chapin died this morn- ing, the first atality. SUFFERING ON TRAILS FRON DAWSON CITY Continued from First Page. me from giving up. I encouraged Fred and he boosted me. While we were in this condition we were aroused by a shout from Dugas: ‘There is plenty of grub in camp.’ He came in carrying three salmon, which Gillis had caugit. I n:ver tasted unything so good in all my life. We were revived and strengthened. It wa 20 degrees below zero that night, and the creek froze near!y solid. “All we could shoot or spear were two more fish. Again we started out to hunt the trail. Again we became so weak irom hu'ger that we could hardly travel. Fred had a rawhide packstrap. He got it at Selkirk. Isuggested that there might be some substance in it. We put it inthe frying-pan, boiled it and it made a sick- ening broth, but we ate it. At another time we shot a porcupine and made a broth of him. He was good. In this way we stumblea along, found the trail and, to make a long siory short, reached Dal- ton post, where there were tons of grub, “There was no one at the nost but an NEW TO-DAY. LEW s LEADING CASH GROCERS. Great Specials for Thiy Week ! TELEPHONE SOUTH 292. COFFEE—Mocha and Java, whole or croun !, r-gular 40¢ 30c 1b TEA—New cron, 50c kind, Uncolored, English Br akfist, Gunpowder, ve 1:n, Oolong 3 1bs 81.00 BUTTER—Fresh Creamery, squares. 40¢ SOAP—Cutahy Dismond C. 15 cakes S0¢ PRUNES—Freach Cal forania......... 23-1b box 81.00 LONG-LIFE WHISKY.......65¢ bot. OLIVE OIL—I.al an Impo; ed, galion SRRNC s o nene -§2.00 CIGARS—Royal Princess, Clear Ha- ST SRR S S i hese i g S¢c ‘We ship goods to the country f.ee of within 100 miles, b SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 1824-1326 MARKET STREET. AND 134 SIXTH STREET. Radway's Ready R | migts, Lumbaco! Internally for ait samp el l Arthees, dysentery, cholers morous, VckDess uaused, eic. All Drugyista. Lo old woman, from whom we got the kev, and we went in and helped ourselves. “_’e made a list of the things we 100k and will jeave money here for them. At the post the Burns and Woods party came up with us. Tuey had horses and an Indian guide. From the Daltgn post to the Haney mission and Juneau was a sum- mer outing compared with the other part i our journey. ’ - "Lcnlsuf ugl-l is very nice, but lifeis swe-ter. I would notadvise any man to gointo the Yukon with less thanone year's provisions. If he had two or three years’ provisions he would save time, trouble and money. My brother un_d g 4 came out about even on the trip. I like the life of a prospector and expetft to re- turn to the Yukon and Sixiy-mile next spring. DIl take plenty of grub and a blanket next time.”’ L. B. Holder of 314 West Seventy-eighth street, New York, went in with the Trippes, but came out in July by way of a steamboat,down the Yukon to St. Michael, acdis thought to have reached home weeks ago. He was not captivated by life in a wilderness. Three men, whose names have nog yet reached here, have been arrested at Skag- uay for stealing provisions from caches along the trail. They will be taken to Sitka for trial. Flour has sold ai Five Finger 4t $52 per sack. Gili1s and Dugas have a claim on Do- n Creek for which they have refused $15,000. The steamship Farallon, which is the first southbound vessel to leave here in over a week, suddenly advanced her sail- ing time six hours on account of the tide at Wrange! narrows, and a good portion of the population of Jureau hurried to get letters aboard in the hour that r * mained before she cast off her lines. Han HorrMam Drowned in Summit Lake. SKAGUAY, Aruasga, Gct. 12 (via Steamer Farallon to Seattle, Wash., Oct. 24.)—Silas H. Hamilton of Seattle was drowned Friday morning in Summit Lake, sixteen miles from Lake Bennett on the Skaguay trail. Hamilton, Wesley Youang and A, N. Radfiell, also of Seattle, were going down the lake in a small Loat, heavily taden. The morning was very foggy, making navigation difficnit and dangerous. A heavy squall sprang up driving the boat into the breakers along the edge of a small islet in the lake where it was capsized. Its occupants were thrown into the water, and Hamilton sank like a stone. Young and Redfieid swam to the shore and were rescued by a passenger boat. Hamilton's body has not been recovered, and owing to the intense cold of the lake water it is thought it never will be. His parents reside in Iowa. priabdibeli Baniiot s A it o o NEW TO-DATY! $425 Worth GIVEN AWAY, 4 Gifts in AL 14 AT OUR Great Premium Shirt And Underwear Sale. EAGLESON & CI. 748 and 750 Market St., NEAR GRANT AVE. 242 Montgome v t CORNER PINE, NO'I;ICE. 2 Taxes Due Upon Assessments Made by the State Board of Equali= zation. Conrolier’s Departmen:, State of California, Sacramento, Oct.ber 12, 1897. In accordance with 8668 of Lhe Polltica he provisions of Seetion Uode, no ice i hereby given from tie State Board of q Lupiica e Record o Asseas ments of Rallways” und ihe “Duplicace lecord of Apportionment of lailway Assessments,” cone tainine the assessnien s upon the property of each of the following named associations or corpora tony a8 fixed b sald state Hoad of Bquaiisa tion for the year 1887, to wit: Calitornia Pacific italroad Company, Central Pacific Kiilroand Company. Northern ¢ alifornia Raliroad Conpany, Northern Rallway Company, South P.clfic Coast Kailro«d C mpany, ~outhern Pacific Rairoat Company, Southern California M tor Koad Company, Sonchern Pacific Railzoad Company (Atiautc and Pacific Hairoad \ome pany Lissees), San Francisc) and North Pacifis Haliwav Company. Southern Catifornin failway Qumpany, ~an Francisco and san Joaqui: Vaiey Ralway 'Company, Alameda and ~un Joaquin Raliro d Company.'Culifornis and Nevada Kall road Company, Carson and Colorade Ruiirosd Company, Gualaia Rivir_ Relroad - ompany, Nevada-California-Oregon Rai wav Company, Not vada Countv Narrow Gauge Raliroad Company, North Pacific Coss Rairoad Company, Pacifis Coast Rall - ay Company, Pajaro Valiey Ratlroa i Company. San Francisco aod = Rallway Company, Sierra V paoy aud Puil Palace The Siate and Countv T Mateo (£lectric) ys Kaliway Come Company. es on all persenal property, and one-half of the State and County Taxes onall real property, are now due and pay- abie. and will b: de lm’uenl. on the iast Mondsy in November nex:. at § o'clock P. ud ualess naid 10 'he ~tate Ireasurer, at the Cap tol. prior there- 10, 5 per cent will be added (0 tne smount thereof, aud uuiess 2 paid on or before the last Monday in April_next at 6 o’10ck P. M. au additional § per cent will be added to the amonnt thereof, The remalning oue-half of he State and County Taxes ou all real property wil be due and payable 8t any time aftr the first Monday in Jaiuary Bexi, and will Le delingueat on the last Monday i pril next, at 6 v'clo. k P_ ., and unless naia to the State Treasurer, at thi Capltol, prior the © per cent wiil be added to tue amount thereof. E. P. COLGAN, + ta.e Controller, EASTERN PRICES' WILL HEREAFTER APPLY TQ AT CHAMPAGNE % PALACE HOTEL Pints, $2. Quarts, $3.90