The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1898, Page 1

The Tall VOLUME LXXXIII.— SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1898. "FORT WRECK OF THE BARK HELEN W, AMY AS IT APPEARED WHEN % et S et The Old and Unscaworthy Bark Helen W. Almy Found Derelict and Going to Pieces Ofi Point Bonita. Not a Man of the Twenty-Seven Prospective Miners and Thirteen Members of the Crew Has Reached EN MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF the Shore to Tell the Tale. T BONITA. POIN MANY CONGRESSMEN NOW BELIEVE THAT WAR IS INEVITABLE Whatever Comes, the President Has Made Up His Mind to Intervene i Behalf of Starving Cubans. NEW YORK, March 22—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Herald sends the following: Concisely, the pol- | icy of President McKinley to-night in regard to the Cuban question is this: Spain, being unable to stop starvation in the island, President McKinley ha fully determined that the suffering Cu- bans must have prompt relief. Since it cannot be obtained through private con- tributions, it is to be given by the Gov- ernment of the United States 3 Spain may consider this intervention and may declare war. The President hopes not, nevertheless, believing it to be his solemn duty, he has conferred with the leaders in the two houses of Congress for the purpose 9(» getting their co-operation in cbtaining an ap- propriation of half a million dollars to be expended in succoring the recon- centrados, and this relicf will be fur- nished even if it is necessary to use war- ships to convey it to Cuba It was stated here to-night that Spain had finally consented to this Govern- mental relief provided merchant vessels are used for the transportation of sup- plies. 1 am.unable to confirm this re- port, but I am told it is the intention of the President to begin with the .use of merchant ships and if trouble ensues to hamper the work of succor. war ves- sels will be brought into requisition. The belief is rapidly gaining ground among members of both houses of Con- gress that war is inevitable, unless Spain backs down and relinquishes her sov- ereignty in Cuba. Witn recognition of independence out of the question, it is ognized that some form of interven- PCOOPOOOPOPPVOPPOVP00000900000000060000 SPAIN IS PREPARED FOR WAR WITH AMERICA. L4 @ @ United States legation, the Maine disaster. tressingly mum. A young Journal correspondent Mundo Naval. of, 'and that Spain felt no fear. “I talked with one here,” he said. war. The United States has the ma the revolution or prelong it. and decisive. Spain hds plans wel ner which will come as a surprise.” 0006000606066 6 MADRID, March 22.—There is a ‘great display of activity at the accompanied by inviolable secrecy, where notification is being prepared tothe Spanish Government in relation Minister Woodford ment of an interview with Senor Novo Colsona, Deputy and editor of He met a tart answer. far better prepared for war than his historical periodical had any idea of the representative newspaper proprietors “Tell your people that Spain absolutely does not want She can force war upon Spain, and the latter, if pushed, considers she could prolong hostilities in a manner which would disconcert all ideas that hostilities would be short, sharp to is temptingly busy but dis- undertook to-day the naive experi- He was told that Spain was tter in her own hands. She can stop 11 matured and worked out in a man- 0909009009090 PP09900000069 POV OOVPO0VPPPPPO009090 0000000000000 0 tion to stop the war. will be necessary unless Spain backs out of Cuba, which is hardly regarded as probable by most Senators and Representatives. There are some, however, who believe that when Spain is confronted by the knowl- edge that the United States is.ready for war and is determined that peace shall be restored in Cuba, the Sagasta Minis- try will find some way out of the diffi- culty without a fight. The sending of relief supplies in war vessels is intervention. It is not forcible intervention unless Spain, by: blocking the measures of relief, should make it such. It is the only form of peaceful intervention that-now suggests itself to the President, and the one form which would be likely to meet with the ap- proval of the entire world in case the humanitarian attitude of the United States should ultimately force us into forcible intervention and hostilities with Spain. Congress, recognizing that this is an advanced step in the direction of end- ing the war in Cuba, and of bringing about independence, will. in the opinion of the President, as a result of his con- ference with the leaders, yoin with him in providing the relief desired. There is-some talk of Tongress tak- peaceful intervention for the purpose of | preserving the lives of Spain’s starving | subjects will not be accepted as a casus | | | Continued cn cond Page. PPe0000e00000000600 4 & & NEWS OF THE DAY. @ ® @ | & Weather forecast for San Fran- & | & cisco: Fair on Wednesday; light & | & northerly winds. @ & Maximum temperature for the past & | & twenty-four hours: @ | & San Franeisco 53 degrees & ® Portland .. 43 degrees & & Los Angeles .61 degrees @ | & San Diego. ...60 degrees o | FIRST PAGE, Wreck of the Helen W. Almy. Los Angeles Express Robbe President Will Intervene in Cuba. SECOND PAGE. To Mount Guns Without Forts, Maine Moored Over a Mine. THIRD PAGE. McKinley Consults Senate Leaders. ‘Washington Men Volunteering. Sicard to Be Relieved. Blanco Refuses to Talk. FOURTH PAGE. Powder Explosion in Marin, Croly's Assailant Confesses. Mayor Koch's Veto Interferes. Fratricide Clark to Hang. Mob Threatens an Ingrate Son. Troops to Explore Alaska. Fight Fusion in Oregon. Cost of the Big Canal FIFTH PAGE. Overland Freight Rates Increased. A Cunning Chinese Trick. Plea for Murderer Hill. San Jose's Fight for Reform, ‘Work at San Pedro Blocked. ‘Thirst Trips a Constable. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. California’s Semi-Centennial, Suppressing the Poolsellers, Methods of Ocherites. The Rellef Bill at Last. An Important War Measure, Publishing the New Charter, By Balloon to the Klondike, Stories From the Corridors, Answers to Correspondents, SEVENTH PAGE. Ferry Scandal Developments, Shafter Inspects the Guns. EIGHTH PAGE. Big Fraud in Time Checks. Better Quarantine Desired. ‘Aged Couple Die by Fire, Frost Damage to Fruit Crops. New York Herald Protects Tts News. Los Angeles Police Scandal, NINTH PAGE. Experiences of a Tramp. _ Electricity Users and Their Losses. TENTH PAGE. The Commercial World. < ELEVENTH PAGE, News From Across the Bay. Real Estate Market Review. TWELFTH PAGE. Racing at Ingleside. . THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. FOURTEENTH PAGE. Jackson Bested by Jeffries. Swindle 'in"Paving Contracts. Missing Irene Lynch. . 20000000000000000 PP9000P00000P0PP0PPP09000IVPIPPVPPPP0P0000PPP0V9000PP000P0OOPOOHO S P0000000000000000000060000060060000600060066 @@@@@@@@@@@@@é@@@@@@@@@@(v‘ @ 4 L0S ANGELES EXPRESS HELD UP BY BANDITS | Blow the Express Car to Atoms, but Hurt Nobody. - The Strong Box Opened and One of the Mail Pouches Rifled. Robbery Takes Place at Cross Creek, Six Miles South .of Goshen. POSSE .NOW IN ' PURSUIT. Train Was the One Due to Arrive at the Oakland Mole This Motning. Epecial Dispatch to The Call FRESNO, March 22.—North- bound train No. 18, from Los Angeles, was held up at Crow Creek to-night, six miles this side of Goshen. by-two men. They blew the express car to atoms and opened Wells-Fargo’s strong box. One of. the madil pouches was rifled, but nobody was hurt. ; : A posse was organized here as soon as news was ob- Continued on Second Page. POPOPOPRPOPPIVIPICVPPPPPVO00PIPPPP0000Q OO $0000060000600606669060 : PASSENGERS BY THE ALMY. . : ® Barna Cinotto, Colgate, In- dian Territory. John Snell, Colgate, Indian o Territory. & R. Nicols, Colgate, @ Territory. % J.T. Gotsky, Colgate, Indian @ Territory. John Walker, Colgate, In- dian Territory. William McCray, Colgate, In- dian Territory. William Snedden, Colgate, Indian Territory. Julias Gilli, Colgate, Indian Territory. : Theo Craber, Colgate, In- dian Territory. -James Ronald, Colgate, In- diap Territory. James Saxon, Colgate, In- dian Territory. % Adolf Waldeo,Colgate, ln(iian Territory. C. B. Spike, Los Angeles. @. D. Beach, Los Angeles. T. Reason, Los -Angeles. David Anderson, Monterey. John Levick, Monterey. John Westerwick, Monterey. E.H. Currier, San Francisco. M. R. Linley, San Francisco. A. Anderson, San Francisco. John Bunce, San Francisco. One passenger whose name was not taken. Charles R. Smallwood, San Francisco. * Oscar Bjersander, Francisco. Fred franks, San Francisco. Gus Joumier, San Fran- cisco. @ Indian San R R R R R RO N R R RS R C RO CRCRCR R CR SR ORCRORCROROROROROR S @ PR R R R R R R R R ORORORY The old bark Helen W. Almy, bound for Prince Williams Sound with thirty gold hunters destined for the Copper River country, capsized off Point Reyes either Sunday night or Monday morn- ing. The passengers and crew, forty souls in all, are supposed to have been lost. If they tried to escape in small boats they were probably swamped, as none has returned. News of the disaster was first report- ed by the steamer Santa Rosa, which sighted the wreck about nine .miles off .Point Bonita. While it was known that a terrible gale was blowing Sunday 0000000000000 00 CREW OF THE ALMY. W. J. Hogan, Captain. V. B. Crantz, Boston, 35, first mate. F. Machio, second mate. John Higgins, setts, 30, cook. P. Brownson, U. S., 30, sea- man. J. P. Underwood, Jersey, 24, seaman. Charles D. Leach, Pennsyl- vania, 24, seaman. Ernest Tallant, England, 29, seaman. William McKeon, New York, © 27, seaman. © Antone Nichols, Austria, 38, © seaman. © W. C. Hopkins, lllinois, 48, © steward. © Ira Cook, Connecticut, boy. © Fred Cromwell, Pennsylva- g nia, 20, boy. ] 0000000000000 0000 night and Monday morning the general belief of seafaring men is that the bark was unseaworthy. It is said that she was in such a condition that she was not insurable, and that leaks were so numerous, in spite of recent repairs, that the trip was a dangerous one. There was a great deal of excitement along the water front and among the relatives and friends of the lost when the news of the wreck reached the city. Hundreds anxiously awaited the re- turn of the tugs Vigilant and Sea Witch from the scene of the floating bark last night, and there was sorrow in the hearts of thousands when no word of cheer came from those who had made the hopeless search. The sudden loss of the crew and passengers of the famous old “black- birder” adds one more sorrowful ma. rine disaster to the long list that has characterized the history of the Pacific Coast. That the news of the catas- trophe came by circumstantial evi. | dence alone is proof that there was little chance of survival for any one who embarked on the ill fated vessel. The floating wreck told the whole story. Whether the unfortunates went down amid bellowing seas and over- powering gales, without a moment fox considering escape, or whether the old bark first sprung leaks and gave all aboard a chance for their lives in smal) boats, no one knows. While some ot Q000000000000 0000000 California, 26, Massachu- 0000000000Q0000000000000000000 CAPTAIN W. J. HOGAN 0 F THE HELEN W, ALMY,