The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1899, Page 1

- The SEVENTEEN PATIENTS PERISHED Insane People Met Death in a Burning Building - at Yankton. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BURNS' CAUCUS PLAN MEETS WITH REBUFF Grant, Barnes and Bulla Forces Will Not Be Whipped Into Line by the Railroad. 0000090 0-00-006006000606006003 0600006060 CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 12.—O0n January 11, the day following the taking of the first ballot for United States Senator, The Call published the following: “Burns polled his full strength to-day. The twenty-four votes given him on the first bal- lot are all he has been able to secure by means of his political influence, the influence VOLUME: LXXXVNO. 75. COMPLETE VICTORY IS PROMISED Otis Regards the Situation at Manila as Very Satisfactory. E Now Known That 2500 Filipinos Were Killed and the Wounded Exceeded That Number. One of the Cottages @Attached to the Asylum Destroyed—@A Third of Its Ipmates Cremated. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. MANILA, Feb: 1 Bpecial Dispate h to The Call. YANKTON, S. D., Feb. 12.—A most | horrifying fire occurred this morning at 2 o’clock at the State Asylum for the | | Insane, when one of the cottages was | completely gutted %and caused the loss of the lives of seventeen inmates. The | names of the missing are: AUGUSTA BOERST. JULIA ERICKSO: upon the direct pressure from the tank. But two streams of water could be thrown on the building and these did but little good. Fifty-two persons were in the build- ing—forty patients and twelve attend- ants. The structure was three stories and an attic high and had two en- trances. There was one stairway from | —Major General Elwell S. Otis 4o- very satisfactory. The a firm grip on the positions they ements in which they de- The ultimate and > defeat -of the Filipinos is now merely a matter of ation | lere e + : LT £ 2 ELLA LOKKEN. the second and third floors which led time. - Upon' the an;\.:xi .\'; reinforcements the\;\n}enl(;{an's | MARGARET LYNCH. into the matn halls, s giving but one of W. F. Herrin of the Southern Pacific Com- are conhdent ot making their victory over Aguinaldo’s by o g < o g . 4 A0 | e 5 . = | MARTENIA T NYSON. Patients and attendants fled with ter- | The apprehension that was felt over the & | ELIZABETH s, TOLPE. ror, confusion resulting, espectally | pany, the offer of patronage under the control ssation of the s water supply has been en- @ | MRS. KAMPANL among those on the upper floors. Many MAGGIE FLYNN. LUCINDA GOSSAGE. ADELINA HURLEY. CHRISTINA JOHNSTON. JENNIE KRONIG. LUCIA KEENE. CAROLINE LINDBORG. KATIE PLAVITZ. GAINI SWANSON. The cottage was erected of stone and granite walls with wooden interior and intended for laundry purposes. Owing | to the crowded condition of the main | | building forty of the female patients{ T at night is now cool and showers are frequent. Private |were placed here in the laundry base- | e Montana Regiment died in the hospital yesterday. ment. The fire originated in the dry | room of the lJaundry. Here was a coil | of steam pipes, and the theory is that | either fine particles similar to lint set- This dispatch stated it “was re- |tled on the pipes and ignited, or that | 1 that the insurgent representa- | clothes which were thickly hung close | at Washington telegraphed Aguin- | by dropped on the pipes and were fired. | heart-rending scenes were enacted as | the inmates, clad only in their night| clothes and barefooted, rushed down the narrow flight of stairs and finally out into the snow. The temperature was 23 degrees below zero, and further loss of life from freezing was prevented alone by prompt work of the attend- ants from the main building. The at. tendants escaped, as did the others| who were saved, with none of their per- sonal effects, many losing all they pos- sessed. Portions of charred remains can be seen in the debris at the bottom of the basement which appear to be near the northeast wall. The work of removing the remains and debris will begin in the | morning. The four walls of stone still | stand, black and grim, and will make | the work of removal dangerous, as a | tirely. removed. FOTOROR LI DORIRUSNON of Governor Gage, and intimidation offered by acrowd of political highbinders whose repu- tations are as unsavory as that of their mas- ter. From this time forward any accession of strength must be gained by bribery. To learn the names of legislators who accept the money of Burns and the railroad company in return for their votes, the public has but to watch for the names of those who from this REBELS FIRE AT LONG RANGE. MANILA. Feb. 13, 10:35 a. m.—Pursuing their customary tactics the urgents on the extreme left of the line opened fire at long range on ne ‘American troops last night, maintaining their fire for a few min- s before settling down. None of their shots took effect, however, and Amiericans did not reply. -0-90-0-0-0 00000000 006000000090 The wea Meisick of lained by a dispatch sent by Gen- | MANILA, Feb. 12, 4:50 p. m.—Cc i eral Otis to the War Department to- to drive out the Americans before the proble wee , many not ago litio fighting, --but advanced,.carryin It is now known that the Filipino oss is fully 2500 killed, with wound- in excess of that number, are held prisoners. All 1as been achieved at the cost of i led and 27+ wound- were 25 Americans miss- unaccounted: for. No fewer e native villages have i captured. Sev- oyed because 1 men, frequent- tire, who roofs at the nd a ton of As as been but it has out d vastl ing and than ten of ale 1a and lootingin t not been outskirts, neral and °n the tha ‘ar- t-class cruiser. lated report n war- salt at most Aft mained ‘at r th last, as the hodies Ware u ¥ ounded by sty cartritges, while in the-trenches, herever :thé'e were dead, there was ittle and ‘oftér no ammunition Among - the distinguished . prisoners aptured-in Manila since the break. : stflities are Captain A. G. Escam- Aguinaldoh privaté . secre gurth, :Colonél M 1nd Senor Tomas -del h AGONCILLO ADVSED AGUINALDG TO ATTACK NEW YORK, Feb. 12\-The Washing- n correspondent of tle Herald tele- fraphs: -Agoncille’s pneipitate flight | rom Washington to Canaia is officially | | that been done | to remain on duty on the-Asiatic sta- ¢ arcival of reinforcements.” The | uthorities through the secrét service obtained information showing the character of practically all the dis- patches sent to Aguinaido. They re. | ilipino as too insignificant | ice, and besides, the Presjdent did ish to influence the action of the n the treaty of peace. Agon- | s therefore allowed to believe | t he was sending dispatches to Phil- cill tha ippine Juntas and t6 Aguinaldo, but few of them reached their destination. Anticipating that his advice would e followed, he left this city on Saturday | night, February believing he would | have ample time to reach Canada be- fore hostilitie: commenced, and from | Montreal proposed to cable the result | of the vote on the treaty of peace. It | was deemed wise to let him get out of the country, and so far as can now be lea ntended at present, , to make any representations British Government to obtain Xpu n of Agoncillo from Canada evidence be obtained | showing that he Besides Gene: tch that it D is repor cillo sent » telegram. ar" ur specific information the authorities not take action. So far as the Filipinos here are' concerned, they deny that they had any knowledge that such a’ dispatch as that attributed tod Agoncillo was sent. " They are being sharply watched and their’ telegrams and r are thoroughly examined be- fore d ry. It is not proposed by the authorities, however, to permit them to aid Aguinaldo in this country, and | if they should attempt to do so they | be expelled or placed under arrest. | s the expectation of the authorities General Otis will take measures to attack the force gathering twelve miles north of Manila on the railway, as the plan under which he is proceed- ing is to destroy every organization of insurgents reported to him. IN PURSUANCE OF HONGKONG ADVICES WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—A dispatch from General Otis received at the War Department this morning says he has been informed that the attack made on | the American forces by the rebels was | in_ pursuance of advices recelved by Aguinaldo from Hongkong. SAMPSON WILL NOT BE SENT TO MANILA NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—A Times spe- cial from Washington sa The Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department manifests amused surprise at the ru- mor that Admiral Sampson is to be sent with. a fleet to Manila. The flett at Manila, or Asiatic fieet, is con- sidered to.be quite large and strong enough for any possible démands on the station. There i8 no intention to make a gen- eral order to change the present fleet of Admiral Dewey for another to be picked out of the North Atlantic squad- ron. The Navy Department has offered to Admiral Dewey to recall him and grant him a leave or new .orders, but the Admiral’s request to be permitted tion has been promptly complied with. NATIVES READY TO JOIN AMERICANS NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—A Journal special from Manila says the Macabebes and natives of Panpanga province, near Malolos, capital of the . Filipino so- called government, are ready for de- fection. They have sent in by a trusted messenger ', General Otis an offer to desert Aguinaldo and join the Ameri- can forces. They assert that they have 3000 or. ganized troops well prepared with arms The fighfing of the fire was greatly | hindered by loss. of power: The only source of water was an artesian well 400 feet distant, the pipes for pumping which ran through the cottage. The intense heat soon caused these pipes to burst, thus leaving the firemen without power and ° dependent entirely & moment’s warning. An inquest is now fn progress. Tt is not thought that blame will be attached to any one for carelessness. The institution was destroyed by fire | in 1882, when six lives were lost. The pecuniary loss at to-day’s fire is $18,000, uninsured. and ammunition and need only rations. | They also state that they fought Aguinaldo as allfes of ‘the Spanish. | & An escaped Spaniard who has been more or less g willing prisoner among the Tagallos, brings in the report that Aguinaldo is still celebrating his al- | leged victorie: R LAWTON AND STAFF 3 HAVE REACHED SUEZ SUEZ, Feb. 12—The United States | transport Grant, bound for Manila, having on board General Lawton and staff, has arrived here. General Law- ton has telegraphed the United States | Consular Agent that fifty members of | the expedition had deserted at Port | Said and would be brought to Suez by train. A guard of Egyptian soldiers | was marshaled in the depot to prevent | their escape. But only two men ap- | peared. These said that neither they | nor any of the others wished to desert. <They had gone ashore and got drunk, but were willing to return. The trans- port will wait for them here. ———— Pueblo Theater Burned. PUEBLO, Colo., Feb. 12.—A fire at 3:30 destroyed the Deremer Thea- ing, causing losses aggregatin, . Frozen water plugs interferes with the work of the fire department. It was 26 degrees below zero when the fire ‘was burning. — BULLET FINDS JOE LOWE. | Killing of a Coloradan With a Re- markabl. Record. DENVER, Colo., Feb. 12—Joe Lowe, keeper of a roadhouse near this city and a professional gambler, was shot and killed early to-day in a saloon in this eity by Charles A. Kimmel, an ex-policeman, There had been bad feeling: between the two men over an arrest of some friends of Lowe by Kimmel, and the shooting re- | gulted from a drunken quarrel. Lowe was 72 years old. In the 'f0s he conducted dance halls at Fort Riley, Newton and Wichita, Kan., andfat Fort Worth, Tex, Before coming to Colorado in 1878 he had killed three men. He had been married seven times. - Steamship Captain Killed. NEW YORK, Feb. 12—~The Hamburg- American line steamer Adria arrived last night after a stormy voyage. On January 30, Captain Levetsow, while trying to go from the bridge to the cabin, was throwm down into the cabin passageway and killed. CAPTAIN ALBERT H. OTIS, Company A, First Regiment Wash- ington Volunteers, Wounded During the Fighting Against Filipinos at Manila. e ® total collapse is liable to occur without ;E [ ] ® (-] banner.” '* more? SON of Siskiyou. time forward enroll themselves under Burns’ Since this true statement was published two men have changed their votes to Burns. HOWARD E. WRIGHT of Alameda and C. B. JIL- Both have confessed that before voting for Burns they received money from an- other Senatorial candidate. Will there be any They are CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| the candidates who are not highest on MENTO, Feb. 12.—There is every ren-| son to believe that the Southern Pacific i:\ Senatorial caucus in hand, will at- tempt to force the members of the Leg- islature to do what the corporation | wishes. | 1In other words, if the dictates of Col- { lis P. Huntington, the list. For more than a month Dan Burns Company, having taken the matter of | has sought by every means within his power, and with the atd of the South- ern Pacific Company and the Repub- lican' State Central Committee, which latter organization has been turned in- | to an agency for the promotion .of as promulgated in | BUrDS’ Senatorial ambition, to secure R | hi 'y T - the Record-Union and other railroad NS own election as United States Sen organs, are followed out it will be ap- owned and controlled by Collis P. Huntington and his ‘political agent, ‘William F. Herrin. Huntington has directed his ringmaster, Herrin, to crack the lash and line up for Burns every slave of the corporation in Cali- fornia. The issue of the Senatorial contest is now clearly defined between the people on one side and the railroad on the other. Simultaneously the or- gans of the corporation, beginning with the Record-Union of Sacramento, fol+ lowed by the Oakland Tribune and sup- ported by every paper in California that is controlled by the road, cry for a party council or caucus to settle the Senataorfal contest by dropping the lowest man in the list on each ballot. The scheme emanated from the corral of Burns and when the word was given out to the touts that the railroad had at length thrown off its disguise and openly proclaimed for the caucus. the parasites began to boast of success. The Burns shouters even go so far in their misguided zeal, or their supreme confidence in the power of the railroad. to call off the names of Senators and Assemblymen who must and shall be whipped into line by the lash of the ringmaster. The names of Senators Simpson, Morehouse, Luchsinger and Dickinson, Assemblyman Cosper and five others are mentioned as men who will not be allowed to further exercise the right of individual choice in the selection of a Senator, but must go into a council engineered by Dan Burns to promote the election of Dan Burns. Last evening there was a good deal of talk in the Grant, Bulla and Barhes camps in favor of some reasonable movement to break the deadlock, but since the railroad managers have shown their hands the sentiment has under- gone a marked change. To-night the Grant men are as resolute as ever that Burns shall not be elected United States Senator. The Barnes men and the Bulla men will not be hoodwinked into the support of a scheme that prom- ises to exclude by a machine process | ator. He has been unable to do so be- v of the Repub- | @use nine men out of every ten in the Paeniithane melarly Legisiature ars | State of California believe it would be a lasting disgrace to the State if Burns were selected to represent it in the up- per house of Congress, and a majority of the legislators who have been sent to Sacramento have not dared to cast | their. votes contrary to the wishes of the peorle whom they represent. Now that all other means have failed, | Burns has notified his political backer, | the Southern Pacific Company, the hope of that election must be aban- ....ICOOQOOOOH....——.H.‘—H..~.. 0000000000 Q9090 0000600000000 00006006066060606060 sent to go in, but one factor that has developed during - the past few days stands in the way of any such dgree- meént on the part of a good-many of the balance.” That potent factor is Thom- as R. Bard of Ventura, for whom Thomas Flint, president of the Senate, has been voting since the first Jjoint ballot. Nearly a dozen of Grant's sup- porters. who hail ~from the counties south of and-including Santa Cruz are pledged to - the Venturan as second choice, and they are largely ‘inclined to stand upon their pledges: Until they can come to some agreement that will assure Bard of a fair chance in: cau- cus they will not consent to any such proposition. Grafit knows this as well as any one in his camp, and when he says he will caucus he. speaks solely for himself, although ' it. is probable tthat Assemblymen Crowder and Works | making. doned unless the Republican legislators | can be forced into a caucus where the secret ballot and the superior filibuster- | ing abilities of such of his lieutenants as Johnson and Dibble might enable him to achieve that which is beyond his power to achieve on the floor of the joint assembly, where every move he may make is open to the scrutiny of all who care to see. Heedful of its own interests, the cor- | poration that boasts of Burns as its Senatorial candidate has responded to this appeal by putting the screws on all the members af the Legislature who can be reached by its underground methods, and has supplemented its ef- forts in this direction by calling upon the members, through the editorial col- umns of its organ, the Record-Union. to go into caucus and agree upon a can- didate for United States Senator. Ulysses S. Grant says unequivocally that he wiil agree to caucus. but that it must be on the floor of the Assem- bly and with no secrecy. He further stipulates that the caucus. if one be had, shall bé preceded by a general con- | ference in which all the clans shall par- ticipate, but that none of them shall be bound by any decisions that shall come of it. Mr. Grant does say. how- ever, that he will abide by any decision obtained by the open caucus and will consent to stay in it until the present difficulty is settled one way or an- othér. The San Diegan, however, arrived at this conclusion alone and single-hand- ed. His present followers are not with him; not as a unit at any rate. There may be some among them who will con- and Senator Nutt will stand: with- him on any proposition he .is forcéd into Concerning the balance of his votes, Mr. Grant. in an interview has the grace to say that he -does not think he can control them if he should. try to. At the same time he says that he will pot try.. If he cannot win he will. not try to direct his strength. ‘Sé much for Mr. Grant. - Senator Bulla,.on thé other. hand, says he will not caucus if it be ‘the price of his election as Sénator. The doughty candidate from the southland says he does not see .what can. be galned by a caucus, secret or-otherwise, more than has already been won on the open floor in the half hundred joint ballots that have been taken.-- Like Mr. Grant, Mr. Bulla’ does. not speak. for his supporters. .There are a half dozen of them who are anxious for anything that will settle.the. matter for one ‘or the other of those in. the field. Melick of Los Angeles has gone so far that he is broaching a plan of caucus that is meeting with considerable favor, albeit it is as unique a political pro- ceeding as has been brought out in the open. Melick wants a general clean- ing up, a dice-shaking proposition, with the low man out, or one tie all tie. He proposes that first a general confer- ence, which shall bind no.one to any- thing, shall be held and.some agree- ment reached iupon the proceeding to follow. Then he.'proposes that on the floor of the Assembly the -clans shall come together in the fullness of their strength,.agree to be bound by the ul- timate decision and then hold succes- sive ballots until all but one of the con- testants is frozen out. s On the first ballot, according to* Mr. Melick’s plan, the one receiving the lowest number of votes is to retire from the field, leaving his strength to g0 where fancy dictates. The second ballot will drop the next low man, and S0 on until they are all bowled down but one and he will be proposed as the caucus nominee in open session and duly elected. It is said that Valentine of Los An<’