The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1899, Page 1

The — VOLUME LXXXV-—NO. 96 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 6 1899, PRICE FIVE CENT NATIVES IN AMBUSH FIRE ON AMERICANS Engineer Winship Badly| Wounded While Lead- ing Landing Party. General Otis Confers With Com- missions on the Situation in the Philippines. While & number of men of a boat’s crew in charge vy Winship of the gunboat Bennington were 4 in at Malabon yesterday they were some natives w vere in ambush near by. All the shots 1 the exception of one, which hit Engineer Winship, in- S village of Pena Francia, near Paco. Ge Otis ed Professors Schurman and Worcester, mem- \ilippine Commission, who arrived yesterday on from Hongkong. They discussed at length the situa- 1ere in the Arch lago. \ of the Twenty-second Infantry died on Thursday. h 6, 10:30 a. m.—In |ing has already started for Manila and | 1s been a very | the Vixen will go by the last of this | Forithe be) = h. The department may send | 3 others. val of rein- The authorities were glad to hear AN troops. | that General Lawton would arrive at| upon the | Manila about March 10, as he will then | of business | be put in control of military opera- s marvelous. | tions, thus giving General Otis an op- = a | Portunity to aid the Philippine Commis- = sion as well as take care of many qu first | tions constantly arising. After General d the band | Lawton rrival one of the brigadier | < played a |generals at Manila will probably be sent | hard to be- | to 1l0ilo to relieve General Miiler, who | will go on the retired list March 27. | sted. th th , and at vs hnoters ‘ OF TRANSPORT OHIO Pedro Macate | e = AN "'fl'[h'g‘\} WASHINGTON, March 5—The War by the Washington troops, al- | Department to-day received a dispatch it - g from Genera Otis concerning the ar- val of the transport Ohio at Manila, 1 them. fact s follows: 4A, March 5.—Transport Ohio M £ ay. One casualty. Private g continuously Company G, Twenty-se#.nd t e \parative | Infantry, died 2d inst., spinal menin- E liers dislike | gitis.” | d ar active SPANISH DESERTERS , ON FRENCH FRONTIER MADRID, March 6.—The Carlists are wing signs of reviving activity. A m of the | health | | | impro a | band of 2000 deserters from the Spanish z 1 near the French br the interi frontier, refusing to return to Spain, supplies the natives | pive®taicen place at Valencla, but no ar ious h the work | detalls are procurable here. ur Germany is said to have renewed the negotiations for the purchase of the | Caroline Islands TO CATCH FILIBUSTERS |SILVELA T0 ATTEMPT ‘ SWEEPING REFORMS ashing- | The | | m]h\mr'mm’ MADRID, March 5—The Cabinet Admirag | council to-day decided to suppress the | Depart. | pensions of all former Ministers. Senor | "% = tght | Stlvela, the new Premier, says the Gov- mumber. | €TMent has begun at the top in set-| natives | ting an e ample of economy. | \siatic| Admiral Camara having declined the | of munitions of | POSt of Minister of Marine Senor Sil- | - St S0 e vela tendered. it to Admiral Gomoz d Imaz, who has accepted. | mber of- warships at| Senor Sagasta has promised Senor | such Ve The Whee ich can follc water. Continued on Second Page. DOWN BY TORNADO Three Persons Killed, Many. In- jured-and a Dozen Houses Destroyed. ATHE —A tornado, about seventy yards wide, | e lle last night, killing three persons, wound- ¢ | ire ten or tw s and completely destroying twelve or fifteen houses and several The killed MR. AN JACK MOS | & ED. L. HORTON, | 2 Wo d: Miss Willie Ervine, Miss Della Mason, Mrs. E. L. Horton, & | % Mrs. L. A. Robinson, Mr. L. A. Ropinson, Hobert Robinson, Miss Rodg- & | &£ ers, Mr v Kellin. 3 | o The on and Robinson residences are both complets wrecks, not one timber being I-ft above another. The escape of the inmates was % miraculous, some of thom being blown a distance of a hundred yards and % only receiving slight bruises. " 4 W. F. Ervine’s residence had one end torn away; Dillon Rodgers’ §8 | %' house is almost wrecked; Erskine Lowry’s residence moved the distance | % of ten feet and was almost wrenched out of shape. Telephone and tele- & graph wires are blown down and all communication shut off. | The storm came up with alarming suddenness and swept everything ? in its path. It was accompanied by a terrible roar. Frightened inhabit- ants rushed for their cellars and places of safety. In the country great damage was done to orchards and crops by the wind and hail that foi- lowed. It is reported that further casualties resulted in outlying rural ® districts, but no particulars have been received. Jack Moser met a horrible death He was hurled a distance of 700 yards, until his progress was impeded by a wire fence, which completely gevered his head from the body. The 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Moser escaped. In addition to the loss of life and destruction of residence property many barns were swept away and stock. killed. The woodworking and milling plant of J. H. Burleson, containing costly machinery, was dam- aged. Most of the damaged property is uninsured. At upper East Tennessee points heavy rains did untold damage to ¢ orops and it is conservatively estimated that this torrent, coupled with the recent freeze and bad weather, will mean a loss-of $1,000,000 to farmers in that section. RSB 155 8 RO OO MOSOREORION o 8 B ! £ I YK ST SEQ 8 Id [ $202E08020 800 8301 8 U830 8308 3 STOR OROEAVRCIR 0 RN U 8 U RAURVRONONOA g & rc s desuitors | OTIS REPORTS ARRIVAL | GIRLS CATCH A AFTER A LIVELY CHASE ANTA CRUZ, March 5—Miss Ma- mie Mirandl is the heroine of the hour i{n Santa Cruz, and from sun- ap to-day till dark the plucky young lady has been receiving the congratu- lations of friends and neighbors on her remarkable feat of bravery yesterday, when she encompassed the capture of a burglar whom she detected in the act of robbing the home of A. Jennings, in the residence portion of the city. It was an act of daring seldom dupli- cated by one of the fair sex in any city in any land, and all Santa Cruz is proud of pretty Miss Mirandi. Three other young ladies who assisted in the pursult and capture of the culprit are coming in for their share of praise. They displayed the inherent grit of Cal- ifornia girls, and in a manner not often equaled for its daring. The Jennings family was away from L o L e S . © gl ® ? it ) > * ® . » + ® + @ + ® + L 4 + ® + & * + [ oo o e o e o L AR s e an e ) home vesterday. It resldes at the cor- ner of Clay street and Broadway. The Mirand! home is about 100 vards from that of Jennings, with no house he- tween. It was at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and Miss Mirandi was sit- ting by the bedside of a sick brother. She chanced to look out of the window and saw a well dressed man walking around the Jennings dwelling and look- ing into the windows. A little later she saw the shadow of a man pass the window on the inside of the neighbor's home. “There is a burglar in that hous gaid the young lady to her brother. With grit and bravery not often dis- played by one of the fair sex, the girl ran to the Jennings home. The front door was found to be open, as the in- truder had gained an entrance by pry- [ R S PSP S ing off the lock of the door with a chisel, which he afterward threw away and which was subsequently found. She ran through the parlor and sitting room right into the room where the et 2o ok 2o ok 2 D e e e S e . ] BURGLAR claimed: “Get out! What are you doing?"” She then ran out of the house and cried “Thief! Burglar!” and contin- ued to the home of Mrs. George Heard on the next corner. Mrs. Heard was hurriedly informed of the burglary and telephoned for the Chief of Police. After Miss Mirandi left the Jennings house the burglar fled. Three girls who reside on Clay street—Hattie Fitzsim- mons, Olive Twombly and Bessie EXPLOSION OF A NAVAL MAGAZINE La Goubrana, France, the Scene of a Terrible Disaster. Twombly—who had heard Miss Miran- di's cries, started in pursuit of the man, Miss Mirandi joining them after emerg- | ing from the Heard home. They kept | close at the burglar’s heels, running from Clay street on Broadway to Ri B e S e ] [ R o R e R SR - e DB eBeDeDeOeb oD o Lo s e 2 444 * o0 P o erside avenue, down Riverside avenue | to Barson street and from Barson to the Cut Bias bridge. There the fellow ran plump into the arms of Charles | Fitzsimmons and was captured. Chief of Police Rawle was soon on the spot, and within fifteen minutes after hav- in jail. _ The fellow protests that he is inno- cent, but his story carries no weight, as all the young ladies identify him. In fact, after he was first detected he never was lost to sight. He refused to | give his name to Sheriff Bess. The culprit is a man of good appear- | ance, has a smooth face and ruddy complexion and was very well dressed. On his person were found burglar tools and two discharges from ships. One, in the name of Thomas Dickson, was a discharge from the ship Ventura, dated | at New York: the other, with the name Harold Dickman, was dated at Hong- | kong and was a discharge from the ship Bedston Hill. TwomBLY B o R R o St e 2 burglar was emptying bureau drawers and overhauling them thoroughly in search of valuables. When she confronted the man Miss Mirandi stamped her foot and ex- CHINA REFUSES TO YIELD TO THE DEMANDS OF ITALY EKING, March 5.—The Tsung-i-Yamen (Chinese Foreign Office) has returned to the Italian Charge d’Affaires, Marquis Salvago Raggo, his dispatch containing the demand of the Itallan Government for a lease on San Mun Bay, on the same conditions as those under which Ger- many holds Kiaochau Bay, accompanying it with a letter declaring that the Chinese Government is unable to grant the request. The demand of the Italian Government of a ninety-nine years' lease on San Mun Bay, province of Che Kang, as a coaling station and naval base, included also a demand for the concession of three islands off the coast of Che Kang, with the right to construct a railroad from San Mun Bay to Po- Yang Lake and to preferential and railroad and mining privileges within a sphere of influence covering the southern two-thirds of Che Kang province. According to a dispatch to the Associated Press from Peking last Fri- day the action of the Italian Government had caused great excitement there, not only among the Chinese, but also among the foreign diplomats, the Chinese being convinced that Great Britain was chiefly responsible for the demand, and that it had been made to emphasize Great Britdin's dis- pleasure at the turn which the northern railroad question had taken. The representative of the great power, according to the same dispatch, was reported to have said that the moment had arrived for international control of China, and it was also asserted that if the policy of “spheres of influence” was to be inaugurated the United States would doubtless have a say in the matter, with the probable preference for the province of Chi-Li. ROME, March 5.—Little attention is paid here to the refusal of the Chi- nese Government to grant the requested lease of San Mun Bay, to be used as a naval base and coaling station. No doubt is entertained that the con- ion will be made after further negotiations.” Rear Admiral Grenet em- barked to-day on the Italian cruiser Stromboli at Naples to take command of the Italian squadron in Chinese waters. 5 LONDON, March The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail says: The Italian ships have landed marines at San Mun Bay, thus virtually Ttaly will pay nearly £80,000 for the concession. The hes to reduce the lease to fifty years. According to the Peking correspondent of the Times the Tsung-li-Ya- men supports Great Britain against the protest of the Russian Government regarding the terms of the Niu Chwang Railroad extension loan, recently subseribed in London; the ground of Russia’s objection being that the clause appointing a British subject chief engineer of the line is in confiict with the Russo-Chinese agreement. The Peking correspondent of the Times says: It is asserted that since the Tsung-li-Yamen returned Italy’s dispatch Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister to China, has presented a note supporting Italy's demand, and it is probable that Italy will now take possession of San Mun Bay, encountering practically no resistance. RIVERS OVERFLOW CHARLESTOWN, HARLESTOWN, W. Va., March 5.—The Kanawha Valley was visited to-day by one of the worst floods in local history. After several days of heavy rainfall the Kanawha Elk River, in an unprecedented short time, has covered almost the entire valley. Charlestown is almost en- tirely under water, four feet surrounding the State Capitol. The Mayor and Jeading citizens have opened a relief station and are distributing provis- fons and clothing among the suffering. Considerable damage has been caused to the local coal property and a dozen barges swept away. The Black Cat coal tipple, near the east bank, was destroyed. To-night the water works, both gas plants and the electric light works are shut down and the city is in darkness. Hundreds of families are quartered in the Capi- tol, Courthouse and other buildings. Much distress prevails. For a consid- erable distance the Kanawha and Michigan Railway, between here and Point Pleasant, is under water, and it will be four or five days before traffic is resumed. The indications, however, are that to-night the flood has reached its height and will commence to fall by morning. CINCINNATI, March 5.—During the last two days there has been a heavy rainfall, principally south and east of the Ohio River, extending from below the Kentucky River up to Morgantown, W. Va. To-night two- thirds of Charléstown, W. Va., is under water. The river at that point at this writing is forty-one feet and two-fifths of an inch, which equals the highest previcus record at that point. The United States engineer says it will likely reach one foot higher, making forty-two feet and two-fifths of an inch. On the north side of the Kentucky the streams are full, but not dangerous. Above Parkersburg to the source of the river the streams are high, but . not at all dangerous to the extent of those in West Virginia and Kentucky. The Weather Bureau at this point sent out to-night danger signals to Point Pleasant, Catlettsburg and Portsmouth. The heaviest rise is in the Great BANKS. .VA., SUBMERGED Kanawha, but the Little Kanawha, the Big Sandy, the Licking and the Ken- tucky rivers are pouring in tremendous floods. Nothing yet has been heard from the Tennessee and the Cumberland, but from reports of the rainfall in the watershed of the rivers it is presumed that they are keeping pace with the rivers above them on the left bank of the Ohio. A saving clause in the situation is the fact that everywhere south and east of the Ohio River the weather to-night is windy, clear and cold. Still another condition favorable to a comparatively slight flood in the Ohio is the fact that during the warm weather of the ten days preceding this storm all the snow was melted in the mountains and the floods there have been carried well down the river. At all points on the Ohio River from Gallipolis down to the Kentucky River the Ohio is rising. At Catlettsburg, where the Big Sandy comes in, it is highest, forty-nine feet, and rising six inches an hour. There seems to have been a trough of very heavy rainfall in West Virginia between the base of the Alleghanies and the Ohio River. At Cincinnati the river was forty- eight feet at 9 o’clock to-night and has been rising three inches per hour for the last fifteen hours. Unless the floods in the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers should prove much greater than anticipated and thus cause back- water the maximum stage here at Cincinnati will probably not exceed fifty- six feet. Should it reach that stage it will stop cars from running into the Union Central Station, which will be a comparatively slight embarrassment. No other roads here will be affected in the slightest by the stage of the river. This prediction is based on the presumption that the weather will remain fair for four or five days. RICHMOND, Va., March 5.—The water in the James River is up twenty- nine feet at Columbia and is still rising. There is a heavy flush here and fears are entertained of a disastrous flood to-morrow when the up-country _waters come down., Merchants in the lower part of the city are removing ing first been detected the burglar was | | | | Fortunately the neighboring ymaga- |2 MANY SOLDIERS ~ KILLED Force of the Ignited Powder Felf Long Distances and the Coun- try Swept Bare Within a Radius of Two Miles. Special Dispatch to The Call. OULON, March 5—The naval ' magazine of La Goubrana, be- tween Lazyne and Toulon, in the department of Var, Southern France, exploded at 2:30 o'clock this morning. All of the soldiers on duty at | the magazine were killed and a number of inhabitants of the district buildings, which were razed, also fell victims. Forty corpses have already been recov- ered. The cause of the explosion is not known. Fifty thousand kilogrammes of black powder exploded. It looks as though a volecanic eruption ha¥ occurred, the country being swept almost bare within a radius of two miles, houses destroyed, trees overturned and distorted, fields devastated and covered with stones and impalpable black dust. Some of the stones are enormous. One weighing fifty kilogrammes fell in the suburb of Pone de Las. Signs of the explosion are evident in all the suburbs of Toulon and in the city itself. Even at St. Jean de Var, five miles distant, windows were shattered and doors bat- tered in. Later reports show that of the seven sentries four were Killed outright and the others severely injured, the corporal being literally scalped and the scalp overhanging his face like a veil. A large number of soldiers are now employed in clearing away the debris, but the work is very difficult. It is impossible to ascertain accurate- 1y the number killed, but it is. believed that no fewer than a hundred were injured. Although it was a clear night, the explosion was so terrific as to produce a slight rainfall. zines escaped. It is now believed that the explosion originated in chemical decomposition in smokeless powder. There is no suggestion of foul play. To-day the whole city is in mourning, flags are at half-mast, the theaters are draped and the casinos closed. Both the government and municipal authorities are forwarding relief funds. M. Lockeroy, Minister of Marine, has telegraphed 10,000 francs toward the maintenance of the families of the vie- tims, and a public subscription has been opened here. Four of the injured have succumbed to their injurie: It is believed that fifteen are still buried in the debris. All the bodies found or recovered are terribly mutilated. Sixteen were found in the rocks near the shore and it is feared that others were precipitated into the sea. A vehicle moving along the road near the sea was lifted bodily into the water by the force of the ex- plosion, two of its occupants being drowned. The scene at the village of La Goubrana was appalling. Telegrams from Nice say the ex- plosidn \vawere. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT TO A CAR BUILDER Be- Made Into a Human Roller tween a Coach and a Door Jamb. SAUSALITO, -March 5.—Daniel Whaley, a car builder in the employ of the North Pacific Coast Railway Company, was the Victim of a terrible accident yesterday af- ternoon which will probably cost him his life. The accident was of a pecullar na- ture and due to carelessness on the part of Whaley. A train was pulling out of the shops and Whaley jumped on the rear of a coach to deposit a nackage before the coach emerged. from the doorway. He was caught between the coach and the door- way and literally made into a human roll- er. Four ribs and a collarhone were brok- en and severe internal injuries were re- ceived by the unfortunate man. As the train left the doorway he dropped to the ground and was carried by his fellow em- loyes to his home, where Drs. Mays and rumpton rendered medical assistance. Whaley has steadily grown worse, am this evening Dr. Wickman was summon: from San Rafael. The unfortunate man is married and has two children. BATTLES WITH BURGLARS. Policeman Probably Fatally Shot and Clubbed. LOWELL, Mass., March 5.—As a result of an encounter with two burglars, whom he surprised while they were attempting to crack a safe in the office of Scanneil & Wholley, at midnight last night, Officer John F. Healy is probably dying from three bullet wounds and a terribly bat- tered head. After shooting and beating Healy, the burglars relieved him of his handeuffs, club, revolver, watch and $30 in bills. They then made their escape. Burglar Fatally Wounded. BRADFORD, Pa., March 5.—Thomas Nolan, aged 18 vears, son of a well known oil producer, was shot and probably fa- tally wounded last night while trying to effect an entrance into the house of former Senator Lewis Emery, whose fam- {ly is out of town. The shooting was done by J. M. Houghton, who was guarding the jouse. e Esterhazy’s Revelations. LONDON, March 6.—The Dalily Chron- kt:le“ thlst n;on;lxlng publishes another in- stallment of alleged revelatic by C Ferdinand Ester! as toqgils lyell:(’:l:: with the French general staff. It adds but little to what was already known. omte Esterhazy himself is in Paris, = : — —