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

. to be the Library.**** taken from - WP § H i 3 "YOLUME LXXXIIL.—NO. 174. ¢ SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BATTLE IS NOW LOOKED FOR HOURLY « Schley’sSqua to Be L Santiago. Naval Experts Disagree as to the! Safety of Cervera’s Vessels While in t WASH Nicholas last night. however, looked for Santiago some time suspected that Schl - COo00OGOOOOCNO0000000000000 Key West or Havana hours. There are diverse opinions expressed h 1 al experts as to ral Cervera in will have the rcy. The cha g of one big man-of-war, date the pas and the hostile fleet, emerge, could be starved into su not daring to sion, while Blanco was 1 treated by our blockading fleet in of Havana. But other naval offi I opeful view of cers do not take elieve Spain’s an tion of sending her reserve (Cadiz) fleet to the I ppines is a ruse, and that in stead she will send them across the © RUSE TO DRAW e THE AMERICAN ® SHIPS AWAY. ® ® ® NEW YORK, May 22.— ©® The Herald’s Washington @ correspondent says: The ® Naval War Board believes C:; the report that Admiral @ Cervera’s fleet is to return © to Martinique for coal is @ another ruse designed to draw the American ships away from Santiago de ' Cuba, a point off which Commodore Schley’s squadron is now believed @ to be lying. @ (O] Atlantic. [CJOJOJOIO] @ OC® [OJOXO} (O] (OOXOXOXO] It is true, however, they de @® & [CHONOXO, O ® clare that Admiral Ccrvera may be “bot- | ” ! tled up,” but he will at the same time bsolutely impreg- | be safe in a harbor nable, defended by four forts and with | so narrow a channel entrance that any attempt to force it would be hazardous. Sut he will keep ourfleet there on block- ade duty and thus render them useless in case Spain should send over her Cadiz fleet to harass the Atlantic coast. While our two fleets are hunting or attacking the enemy on the sea two military expeditions will b~ under way. Captain Dorst of the First Infantry, who failed to land his troops from the Gussie, is to make another attempt, if he has not already done so. ported here that the expedition sailed rom Tampa on Wednesday. It is said ‘tnat these troops were to be landed at & point not forty miles distant from Ha- vana to prepare the way for other ex- peditions soon to follow. CALL OFFICE, RIGGS HOUSE, At the Navy Department this morn- ing there was posted an official denial of the reported engagement off Mole St. miral Sampson is due to arrive before fighting squadron preceded Sampson from It is not believed, however, that Schley would proceed to Santiago until Ad- miral Sampson joined him. s only wide enough to accommo- | (O] ©® @® @® © (O] (O] @ ® ®| ®| & | It is re- NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IS SOON EXPECTED dronReported ying Off Copyrighted, he Harbor, INGTON, May 22. Spanish fleets. News of a battle is, at any time. Ad- to-morrow, and it is Spanish colliers are on their way to Fort ey’s division of this at least twenty-four ham carries 4oo0 tons of coal. 0000000000000000000000000 | The Secretary of War said to The | 5 | correspondent to-night that by gext | aturday night over 7000 coast of Martinique. of the Terror and the Alicante is moment: troops will | de France. arily expected. CANNONADING HEARD AT SEA But Confirmation of Reported Fight Off Mole St. Nicholas Is Yet La_cking. 1858, by James Gordon Bennet\ MOLE ST. NICHOLAS, HAYTI, May 22.—The numerous heavy and frequent reports resembiing heavy cannonading which were heard in the Windward Passage Friday afternoon and yesterday morning gave rise to the rumor that a naval engage- ment was in progress between the squadrons of the United States and Spain. No man-of-war has been seen outside the harbor, however, and none has entered it. have not been able to learn whether or not a naval battle actually took place. PORT AU PRINCE, HAYTI, May 22.—It is rumored here to-day that there was an engagement yesterday off Mole St. Nicholas between the American and I have so far been unable to verify the report. ST. Pi.ERRE, MARTINIQUE, May 22.—Admiral Cervera’s squadron, it is reported on good authority, will return to these waters to coal. It is known that a number of The British steamer Twickenham having been refused the privilege of coaling the Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Terror and the hospital ship Alicante in the Fort de France harbor, it is thought the vessels will coal from her at sea and that she will then go to meet Admiral Cervera’s squadron for the same purpose. The Twicken- Late this afternoon an unknown man-of-war was sighted off he southwest The Alicante has again changed her moorings, and the departure [ have sailed from San Francisco for the | Philippine Islands. By Tuesday night the first three troop ships, the City of Peking, Australia and City of Sydney, will e steamed through the Golden Gate with from 2500 to 3000 soldiers the The Pacific | escorted by a man-of-war. | the service of the big Pacific aboard. It is barely possible that ably be accepted by the department. | of June. Peking will get away before to-morrow | If so these vessels, with the Zealandia | der to equin any of the troops with the al- | new Soudan uniforms which are being made to have them all three sail | ready been chartered, will have a carry- | being made, and especially for the Phil- and the Centennial, which | have night, as she is ready, but an effort is together, inasmuch as they will not be |ing capacity of from 4000 to 4500 troops. | ippine soldiers. It is the expectation of the Secretary of | sent later. Mail Steamship Company has tendered | War that the seven vessel: will be on liners, | their way before the week is out and China and Colon. The offer will prob- | will have reached Manila by the middle There will be no delay in or- now The uniforms will be It is expected that General Merritt, the commanding officer of the | expedition and military Governor of the islands, will sail on the China. All of cisco, including the Centennial, which Continu.d on Second Page. Q P N7 > 2 UU U /" l Miges SHOWING RSN ’ POSITION OF CARS AND N \\\3}{\\\&”}/\/»/ . % ENGINES AFTER THE \\S oy ACCIDENT .. THE CROSS ; MARNKS THE SPOT WHERE TENDER LEFT TIE Frach O ) | | | | | | THE WRECKED TRAIN ON TH‘EAIA ME DA MOLE ‘Oakland Loca meda gineer an Fireman John H. Hickey lost his life [and over two hundred passengers on a | [ Southern Pacific train narrowly es- caped death in a wreck on the Alameda narrow gauge mole yesterday after- noon. That no others were killed is almost miraculous, considering the terrible havoc wrought by a derailed engine go- ing thirty miles an hour and drawing flve coaches loaded with passengers. The Oakland narrow gauge train that leaves this city at 1:45 p. m. pulled out of the depot on the Alameda mole on time, Engineer Ed Baldwin at the throttle and Conductor Fred Toye in charge. The Oakland narrow gauge boasts of but one train, which must make the round trip from the Fourteenth street terminus In Oakland to the mole in time to connect with the half hourly boats, consequently the speed main- tained is higher than that of the other | locals on the east side of the bay, and the light coaches go speeding up the long trestle and across the marsh lands to the Webster street bridge at top | speed. The local had just reached the end | of the trestle and was about to begin | its journey over the newly constructed | ground that supports the rails on the | ! easterly end of the mole when the | water tender in front of the engine | jumped the track and began bumping over the ties. The engineer tried to | stop the train, but the accident had | rendered the air brakes useless and the train plunged on with the derailed ten- der in front. | Had the derailment . occurred 100 | yards further back a terrible loss of life | could not have been avoided, as the | first coach must have gone off the | trestle with its load of thirty passen- | gers, and the chances of any of them | escaping from drowning would have | been small. | As it was the tender ran over the | | ties for some distance and then toppled | | over the bank. The engine with its then upset. Turning in the opposite direction from the place where the ten- der had fallen the engine jumped the | track, driving the pilot under the rallsi on the Alameda side and tearing the | track and ties up as though they had | been matchwood. When the crash came the engineer | was thrown out of his cab and onto | the mud north of the track. His fire- | man was not so fortunate, the toppling | machine catching him beneath its pon- | derous weight and crushing his life out in an instant. That the first two or | three coaches in the train did not tele- | | scope on the wrecked engine is due to | the fact that the run over the ties had | reduced the speed until it was almost | at a standstill when the engine tipped aver. | Inside the coaches pandemonium | ;relgnedA The screams of women added | | to the excitement. In all the coaches a wild rush was made for the doors, | but before any of the passengers could reach the outer air the danger was over and the efforts of the cooler heads kept the excited people from jumping into greater dangers. The forward coach suffered most, | plunging into the derailed engine and becoming a total wreck and only the | high banks of gravel that had been built on the north side of the track to | hold the roadbed in place prevented it | from going over in the marsh. Brakeman Jack Bird of Ala-| meda was sitting In a front | seat, and when the bumping over the rails warned him that an ac- | cident had taken place he grasped the | rods between t’ e seats and held himself | from going headlong through the win- dows on the opposite side. He escaped with the loss of a few inches of skin ar 4 a wrenched back. \'thers inside the front coach were not so fortunate. W. H. Raymond was sitting near the brakeman and was thrown across the car with serious re- sults. Violent contact with the arm of | the seat broke the bones in the back | of his right hand, and another jolt bruised his right leg so that he was scarcely able to stand. Several other passengers were also injured, one man being badly cut by falling through a window, the "roken glass cutting his | hands severely. i In the second coach, which also left | the track, the passengers escaped with a few minor '~uises and were calmed down by CBnductor Toye, who was here, there and everywhere to prevent | a panic. . The third, fourth and fifth coaches did not leave the roadbed, though the | only trucks that remained on the rails were those of the rear smoker, which escaped without injury. When the train, or what was left of it, was at a standstill the passengers streamed out by scores to witness the destruction and to congratulate themselves on hav- | flesh-builder, and nerve tonic. | of Houston. Harris THE FIREMAN WENT DOWN TO DEATH | Train Badly Wrecked on the Ala- Mole. Two Hundred Passengers Nar- rowly Escape-—-Cause of the Accident a Mystery—En- d Brake- man Injured. ing escaped with their lives. The wrecked engine lay across the track where it had fallen when the ties re- fused longer o support its crushing weight. Beneath lay the remains of, brave Jack Hickey, his hand still grasping a bunch of rags with which he had been wiping the delicate parts of the machinery. Directly behind was the forward smoker, torn, broken and wrecked be- yond repair. The trucks, airbrake pipes and other paraphernalia had been shorn oftf the bottom of the car as though with a knife. Beside it lay the pilot of the engine that had been torn off by, THE 'DEAD FIREMAN. == the transports will sail froin San Fran- | crew ran along for a few yards and | JOHN H. HICKEY, the Fireman Who Was Killed in the Train Wreck on the Alamz=da Mole. contact with the ground. Torn and twisted rail, pipes and iron work lay about, evidence of the terrible force with which the train had plunged from the track. The pilot of the engine in its wild ca- reer had thrown the opposite track en- tirely out of place, and trains from the mole and from Oakland and Alameda were flagged by the injured brakeman, ck Bird, to prevent furtl rccidents. Dazed, bleeding and scald: about the head and hands, Engineer, Baldwin was standing on the mud ching with ADVERTISEMENTS. The measure- ments of death are a few inches of trivial dis- orders, multi- ?lied by many eet of neglect. If a man or woman will take careof the little trivial disorders, there is no need to fear the bj ) maladies, an &4 long-life and § happiness will @ be the reward. B3 The little dis- St orders that cause the majority of big sicknesses, are the trivial derangements of the digestion that most people pay no heed to. Good digestion feeds and builds up a man ; bad digestion starves him in every tissue muscle, nerve-fiber, and brain-cell. Bad digestion leads to consumption, blood and skin diseases, and nervous ex- haustion and prostration. 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