The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1899, Page 2

VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 145. FRANCISCO, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1899, PRICE FIVE OCENTS. OT FIGHT WITH ENEMY AT QUENGUA Filipinos Routed, but the American Loss Heavy. Colonel Stotsenburg @mong Slain. w York | Gor P R OTIS’ REPORT ON ANTLA, April ment of thé Fourth Cav- = \der orders to reconnoiter WASHINGTON, April 23.—The g A fig g A R R followin ssage regarding the east ot Malolos, leit camp at 4 fight at Quengua was received i marning. The de- at the War Department to-day: 2 oA MANTILA, April 23.—Adjutant : GEtelaioy ), Washington : A re- tre by gents and pro- 10issance on Quengua place, S : six miles northeast of Malolos. e wit neeting opposi- ) g 5 ““,‘ E ot made by Major Bell and a troop 1 t was ddenly sur-|<4 of cavalry this morning resulted in contact and a battle in which four battalions of infantry and four pieces of artillery became engaged. Enemy driven from lipinos poured a heavy g ments at Quengua with e sn American considerable loss; our casualties tained severe loss. quite severe. Colonel Stotsen- ¢ = bu and Lieutenant essions, ¢ ments of Ne i braska, killed: also eral enlisted men. Considerable number wounded, not yvet re- ported OTIS. 24 HE 444444404 4 44444444444 AR et e e e e e e e e e el | R R e e e e e e e e e e as | though the fight was unexpected, continued at | , it was the most severe and des- still 1 two pieces of ar Al- COL. STOTSENBURG KILLED IN BATTLE D s s e e e e el e - 4 - + * * @ . - . + ® . + ¢ ! + 4 * + . Ps ® 3 + . 04 - o ¢ 8 * @ S . . @ & 03 . & > 1 . k) 'S + - < 6 . 3 @ . . P 6 . ¢ + Brctreisistreietereisd et ebeiebesbeies i@ ASHINGTON, April 23.—Colonel John Miller Stotsenburg of the First Ne ka Infantry, who h rank of captain in the regular in the reconnoissance at Quengua, was born in In- mber 24, 1858, and appointed a cadet at the Military v, 1877, and graduated No. 41 in his class. He was ap- P nd itenant of the Sixth Cavalry in 1881 and became a captain De 22 8. He Serv with his regiment in Arizona and New Mex- foc the close of the latter year participating in the 8 war at Wounded Kne He was at Fort Niobarara »d € nonths at Fort Myer, near Washington, going thence to the 1 1( ry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where he 1 h = honors. Colonel Stotsenburg then served with nber, 1897 1d from that time fessor of military science and tactics at the mustered in as a major of the First nd as colonel of the same regiment No- d with his regiment for Manila June 15. hort and slight and had rather an aesthetic coun- due to the fact that he was always a very studious avenworth until De % n and the recruits he had to break in his command of the First Nebraska resented s procured the passage of a resolution of . Nebraska Legislature. Once they be- however, the merits of his course became > to a very strong demand from the people of the wemselves, the resolution of censure, by a formal the legislative records. tsenburg was in command of the First Nebraska result of illness of an officer and the detachment a went to Manila in command of Colonel nd took part in the operations south of Manila k and capture of Manila on August 13. £ anothe ¥ att and 1 ate forts nd the attac In the selection of officers for serlous positions in the organization of the government for the i by Major General Merritt and put into execution by Major (¢ Otis, Lieutenant Colonel Cotton of the First Nebraska was made D ¢ Collector of the Port. Later Colonel Bratt became {1l and was co a medical board. General Otis ordered himhome and then, as * are to take Colonel Cotton out of the Cus- tomhouse, where he was doing excellent work, decided to select some other of- ficer for the command of the regiment. Cholce fell upon Stotsenburg of the Sixth Cavalry and he was named. At first there was strong opposition from within the command, many of the other officers thinking that those n the regular lines should be promoted 7 Colonel Stotsenburg endeared himseif to eyery man in the regiment and brought the command to a high state of efficlency, Lieutenant Colonel Cotton still holds his commission with the regiment, but Is now Collector of. Customs, having succeeded General Whittler of New York, when the latter was relieved as Collector, e D e e B o I S S L e e Y ACOMA, April 23—The steam- ships Glenogle and City of Kings- ton came into collision ‘with a tremendous crash at 4:30 o'clock | this morning off Browns Point. The Kingston was struck just back | of her boilers and cut almost | squarely in two. divided into two parts and were drift- |ing about. They were subsequently | towed ashore by the Glenogle and tugs. Nohocy was killed, though the escape of the Kingston's passengers and crew | was nothing less than miraculous. | The Kingston was entering port from Victoria and the Glenogle leaving for Victoria, en route to Hongkong. 3rowns Point is at the north end of Tacoma harbor, six miles from the | ocean docks. | end ble. The officers on each were | surprised to see the other steamship so | near in shore. The two vessels whistled at about the same time, each signaling to pa The Kingston attempted to pass the Glenogle on the port side, and then, realizing the certainty of a collision if the Kingston attempted to get across the Glenogle’'s bows, her engines were reversed. It was too late to avert the disaster and the two vessels came together with a crash. The Glenogle cut the Kingston in two and the two parts qu eparated and drifted apart. The purser and night watchman went through the Kingston’s deck, awaken- ing the sleeping sengers and the crew. D | | The firemen poured up out of the fire- | room and the engineers escaped quic |1y from the engine-room to the decks, crowding and jostling against each other in their excitement. y of the crew escaped in only _their night clothes, while those sleeping lightly or nearer the deck were able to seize some clothing. Men and struggled with each other for places in the rigging, realizing that the steamer was sinking. The officers of the Kingston got out the lifeboats and the Glenogle’s crew had one of its lifeboats into the water before the big liner had been stopped. The sound of the crash and the shrieking of whistles of the two boats aroused the c¢ on-the ships in the | harbor. Captain Powles of the ship | James Kerr ordered out a boat and | men to the wreck with First Mate | Hole. The second mate was sent on a | bicycle for a tug, and the tug Victor put off to th ne. As the Kingston's passengers were | being taken off, one of the masts top- | pled over and fell across the deck- | house, where a number of persons had | congregated, and the frail structure | gave way beneath the weight. Several of its inmates were slightly injured. A cabin boy floated off on a piece of wreckage and was picked up by the boats Passengers on the Glenogle were much alarmed and rushed scantily clad to the deck, ready for a plunge into the | sea. Many of them were unnerved, and the ship’s stewards plied a lively busi- with spirits and wraps. The hock to the Glenogle was severe and woke every one instantly, nearly | throwing them from their berths. The | Chinese crew was excited, and, al- | though kept under strict discipline, the Mongolians chattered and squealed as }lhhugh they were mad. The discipline was almost perfect aboard, and had | the vessel been in danger every one J\\'nu\d have been cared for by the | | n | ness boats, which were manned also. | A. F. von Ettlinger of Portland was | one of the sleeping passengers aboard | the Kingston, His cabin was near the | point where the Glenogle struck the | Victorta liner, “As soon as the Kingston was struck,” sald Mr, von Httlinger, “the purser and night watchman were In ten minutes her | | hull had sunk and her upper works had | Both steamships were | avoring to pass as near the point | more | women | Point. | about breaking window lights and smashing in the doors to awaken the passengers. Every one was notified of the danger and ordered to get on deck as rapidly as possible. The noise of the crash had awakened most of the | passengers, and they poured out of the staterooms in various attire There was yet time, and most of the passen gers were able to put on their clothes.” The chief engineer of the Kingston and his first assistant were asleep and escaped in their night clothes only. Rev. Horace H. Clapham, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, occupied the stateroom struck by the Glenogle’s | prow, and was pinned in the wreck- | age for several minutes, being released only by the parting of the ship. His forehead was cut slightly. He said: “My cabin was No. 41, almost ex- amidships on the lower tier of | staterooms on the upper deck. I was ke, looking out of the window. and saw the Glenogle for fully half a min- | ute before the crash. I saw she was coming straight for us, but felt sure at first she would steer away. The next moment there was a ¢ . and T was imprisoned in a pile of splinters. I was pinned in fast and struggled hard, but to no avail. I w certaln- then I had met death at 1 and resigned myself to God. “Then as the ships slewed around an opening appeared in the debris and T was freed. I took a piece of board to a way out, and intended to use it life preserver. Reaching the out- side, I was standing in the walk be- tween the staterooms and the rail. and had no trouble clambering aboard the ilenogle.” Ben Volkenberk, the captain’s “boy,” | was the hero of the collision. He awoke Captain Anderson by breaking in his door. a | | | W e bumped,” comically ex- claimed Volkenberg. The captain demanded an explana- tion, but the boy cut him short with ]fl\n exclamation that the Kingston was sinking. “Orders, sir,”” requested Volkenberg. “Awake the glory hold,” returned Captain Anderson. And the “boy” went forward to arouse the sleeping crew. He returned and assisted in getting out the passen- gers. A man went overboard and Vol- kenberg saved his life. T. W. Wright, who w ton’s deck, tells how down as follows: “Her hull went down like a shot al- | most immediately after the collision, the masts disappearing below the sur- face like an arrow shot into the water. People came out in all stages of dress and undress and climbed -~ high above the water as they could. Only one man, that I saw, jumped overboard, but three or four were in the water. I think two women went down in the hull, but am not sure of it. - It was clear enough to see everything plainly and the trouble seer o be a lack of caution. The Kingston was not = ex- pecting the Glenorle and got rattled.” The Glenogle was in charge of Cap- tain Gatter of the North American Mail Steamship Company. The most plausible theory advanced, after a study of the stories told, is that the Kingston was proceeding toward Ta- coma under the impression that the Glenogle was lying at her dock. When the Victoria liner rounded the point and the Glenogle loomed up just ahead the Kingston’s officers were, at least momentarily, confused. It is said the Glenogle signaled the Kingston to pass outsid~ and had this been done, witnesses say, the accldent would not have occurred. The King- ston’s officers were probably unable to distinguish the whistles, and in the attempt to pass Inside -ran directly across the bows of the Glenogle, The Glenogle was probably acting on the theory that the Kingston would pass as ghe had been signaled to do, The re- sult was that both vessels were headed - e Kings- her hull went L e B B o e SO R e O R SO The City of Kingston and the Glenogle Crash Together Off Browns | STEAMER CUT IN TWO IN A COLLISION, YET NOT A LIFE IS LOST B L L o Gt X SR S R -+ [ e S e o + >+ 0® fn the same direction, and when the Kingston's engines were reversed it brought her directly ahead of the Glenogle. In another instant the Kingston had been cut in two as if by a gigantic knife. The City of Kingston was built in Wilmington, Del, for the Hudson River trade. ‘She was bought in 1889 by Captain D. B. Jackson and is now registered ag owned by W. G. Pearse. She was valued at the time of the acci- dent at $150.000, and was well insured in forefgn <companies. She Jwas 146 feet long, 33 feet 5 inches broad and 12 deep. Her net tonnage was 697.96. She was one of the most commodious and elegant passenger steamers in the Northwest, having three decks and stateroom accommodations for 300 per- son She has been on the Tacoma- Victoria run ever since she was brought to the sound, and had been selected as the mail boat to Port Townsend when the route is re-estah- lished June 1. She carried a crew of nearly seventy men, all of whom were accounted for after the collision. The Glenogle is one of the largest steamers ever in port. She is iron from keel to bridge, and this-accounts for her fortunate escape in receiving but slight damages in the collision. She is 440 feet long, net tonnage 2399, horse- power 700, maximum speed 14 knots. The great ship made her first trip to Tacoma in November. The ship had been in the China-London and China- ew York trade for fifteen years, and was famous for carrying the first of the new crops ™ market. The crew numbers seventy-two. The Glenogle was libeled to-r*~“t for $140,000 by the Northern Pacific Rail- road Company. The '~# ges the collision 'was causcd by the careless- ness of the Glenogle's pilot in failing to make proper signals An investigation late this afternoon after a part of her cargo had been re- moved showed that five or six plates on the Glenogle's port side were stove in by the Kingston's guard rail. A por- tion of the rail is sticking out of a great rent in her hull, through which the cargo in her forward hold is visible. But for her collision bulkheads the Glenogle would have sunk before get- ting ashore. Unloading will continue all night. By morning her bow will be sufficiently out of water to show the exact extent of her injuries. Shipping men estimate that the cost of her dis- charging, docking and replacing of plates will reach at least $60,000. In the hold of the Kingston was a big ram, kept to lead flo-*- of sheep-on and off. This animal was untied and swam ashore as the boat was sinking. BILLOT'S TESTIMONY IN DREYFUS CASE Former Minister of War Censured the Course of Lieutenant Picquart. PARIS, April 23.—The Figaro, continu- ing its publication of testimony offered before the Court of Cassation in the Dreyfus revision inquiriy, gives to-day the deposition of General Billot, recently Minister of War. General Billot denied absolutely any knowledge that Ester- hazy had rendered services to the gen- eral staff or had had interviews with staff officers. He declared that the al- location of 80,000 farncs to Esterhazy would have been impossible because of the restricted resources of the Intellf- gence Bureau. He admitted he had recommended Colonel Picquart’s prudence in the in- vestigations aiming to incriminate Ester- hazy, and had refused to authorize Gen- eral de Boisdefree to send Picquart to Tonguin. He told of the latter's en- deavors to entrap Esterhazy by inviting him to write a leiter, adding = that he (Blllntf opposed this plan. Finally Colonel Picquart seized one of Hsterhazy’s letters while in the post, and on representations by General Gonze of the danger of such seizure, he (Billot) declined to send Pjcquart into exile. The witness repudiated, however, any idea of sending him on a perilous mission. General Billot denied ever having sald that D{extun ought to be assassinated. In concluding his evldenue‘rhe maintained the seriousness of Colonel Picquart's con- duet, NEGRO TORTURED AND BURNED TO DEATH AT STAKE Two Thousand Maddened Georgians Witness the Horrible Lynching of a Murderer, [ TOU U OO UUee e U ee e e s T rvev Y PALMETTO, Georgia, April 23.—Elijah Strick- land, the negro preacher, was captured by a mob of people from this vicinity three miles out of town to- night. He was brought to Palmetto, and at midnight was placed on trial for his life by a court composed of those who had arrested him. Speeches for and against his character were made. The trial took place in an open square in the cen- ter of the town. There was no Judge nor jury, the people acting in those capacities. Many wit- nesses were heard and sev- eral speeches were made. At 1 o'clock no decision had been arrived at, but it was ‘decided to adjourn the court to the woods, one mile out of town. The sober element is making an effort to save the negro’s neck. A num- ber of strangers are here from Atlanta and other towns, and they are trying to force a lynching. Strickland denied com- plicity in the crime. He is 60 years old. a + + + 2C + + + + + + + o + o8¢ + + + 3% 2¢ + + + o€ 2z ¥ + + ¢ E + + + + + ¥ [ OO+ 4444444444444 444444 EWNAN, Ga., April 23.—In m.."“rrn crushed into small bits and even presence of nearly 2000 people, | the tree upon which the wretch met his who sent aloft vells of defiance | fate was torn up and disposed of as G++44 4444044444444 444444+ H 444444444440 i ® o ° R e e e e e e e e et and shouts of joy, Sam Hose, a negro | souvenirs. who committed two of the basest acts| The negro’s heart was cut in several known in the history of crime, was | pieces, as was also his liver. Those burned at the stake in a public road ! unable to obtain the ghastly relics di- LR o TR S S e e S o A et = ) R R S o g 494000090 EX-GOVERNOR WILLIAM Y. ATKINSON OF GEORGIA, Who pleaded with the mob not to lynch the negro assassin, Sam Hose. During the course of his address Atkinson was shot at by a man in the crowd. B S e e S B e S R S SO S SR SORY S CRS SaCER SICRS SO S SO U DA S SO S S S PO eGP OO0 - & one and a half miles from this city. The torch was applied to the pyre, the negro was deprived of his ears, fingers and other portions of his anatomy. The negro pleaded pitifully for his life while the mutilation was going on, but stood the ordeal of fire with sur- prising fortitude. Before the body was rect paid their more fortunate posses- sors extravagant sums for them. Small pieces of bone went for 25 cents, and a bit of the liver crisply cooked sold for 10 cents. As soon as the negro was dead there was a tremendous struggle among the crowd which had witnessed his tragic end to secure the cool it was cut to pieces, the bones |souvenirs. A rush was made for the Q+O+O+04T+04+0+ FHCHOI0404+ 040+ 0+ 0+ 040+04 0 ¢ ATLANTA CONSTITUTION PLEADS JUSTIFICATION + D4 ATLANTA, Ga., April 23.—The Constitution will say to-morrow: “The terrible expiation which Sam Hose was forced to pay for his crime will arouse a flood of discussion, carried on by those who know the facts on the one side and by those who do not care for facts on the other. But, while the form of this criminal’'s punishment cannot be upheld, let those who are dispcsed to criticize it look into the facts—and by these facts temper the judgment they may render. “An unassuming, industrious and hard-working farmer, after his day’s toil, sat at his evening meal. Around him sat wife and children, happy in the presence of the man who was fulfilling to them every duty imposed by nature. At peace with the world, serving God and loyal to humanity, they looked forward to the coming day. ‘‘Noiselessly the murderer, with uplifted arm, advanced from the rear and sank an ax through the brain of the unsuspecting victim. Tearing the child from the mother’s breast he flung it into the pool of blcod oozing from its father's wound. Then began the culmination which has dethroned the reason of the people of Western Georgia during the past week. As critics will howl about the lynching the Ccnstitution will be pardoned for stating the plain facts. x “The wife was seized, choked, thrown upon the floor, where her cloth- ing lay in the blood of her husband, and ravished. Remember the facts. Remember the dark night in the country home. Remember the slain hus- band, and, above all, remember that shocking degradation which was in- flicted by the black beast, his victim swimming in her husband’'s warm bloed as the brute held her to the flcor, Keep the facts in mind. “When the picture is painted of the ravisher in flames, go back and view that darker picture of Mrs. Cranford, outraged In the blood of her murdered husband.” +O04+0+0404040+ SHO4CHO+ O 40+ O+ O 40404040 43440404 0404+ O 4040404004004 0+040 4 O+ 0404040