The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1899, Page 1

Call VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 149. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEATH AND RUIN IN THE CYCLONE’S PATH IRKSVILI 7.—The sky emptied its m a K cyclone upon o’clock at 6:20 to- hen the east side of the was wiped from the map oad, clean path, nearly a of a mile wide, rough the town as smooth as Ler lies the virgin prairie. Probably 400 homes, where an hour mi- ago f ies were asking the divine bl on the evening me scattered somewhere beyond the tc woodland and pr s pmlv:a\"\‘v a were killed, the kno B Mo, Apul THE STO April. 2 ractor JODORE BRIGHAM, mer- @ b ¥ S M ; M A ® : Y R A M ARKIN SR. (3 (3 PECK MR. ANDERSO! MRS, STEPHE 92000000005000000 RM’S DEAD. ¢ = 'Sending Documents to Army — Those REPORTED KILLED. so far known to have been C. A. GIBBS. MRS. C 3 . C. BE. . JAMES CUNNINGHAM. MRS. MITCHELL. MRS. T. MAHAFFEY. MRS. C. WOODS, MRS. A. LITTLE. A. LITTLE. JOE WOODS. MRS. JOE WOODS. DR. BILLINGS COLONEL LITTI nd family. Sin MRS. P CHOTT and child. @ 6 o’clock rez v . S il KNOWN INJURED. ‘ . and Mrs. Deniston. Sam Weaver. e vill be long a ( Hobson Will Par ® - Harry Mitchell. Two Ingalls brothers. 4 R Mary Mitchell. Willis Kellogg. le ! S s Evans Hollis Kellogg. e ‘ H REPORTED INJURED. ad T € Maud Waddell. Andrew Roberts. o e BRI @ Mrs. T. B. Bullock. Jsther Little. o € 1es are upon @ Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kirk Ina Green. s linsi. Bach blanched A. L. Peal. William Bragg. Smith. rs. John Barley, the stree yrts new ca- Hennons. Bowman. s. Million Mary Rohran Duain Mil B s ) Mrs. A. J. Miller. Beeman, child. : 1 Aubrey Green. ople who es- ty 1ed out to 008000 i ar out the C ® L tk 1 surgeons, | Half a dozen wrecked dwellings took a suction from both sides r 1 stu- | fire immediately after the cyclone had the advancing column, while a and f the Ameri- | passed. The fire bells rang out a call | steady crunching, crackling, grinding | £ ( which for help for Kirksville'’s needy, but as of a monster mowing down g all the there w e none with time to stop these ts, sounded out of the death din. the town, have | isolated fires. They were left to their | These undertones were the houses and | and | own lesser work of destruction. Lurid | trees that shapped befor clone, | rain are hunting | lights from these bonfires now illumi- and the sound of their grinding to pow- | ’ te tured | nate death’s wake and help the rescuers | der was heard distinctly out of the roar ¥ to carry on their errand of mercy of the elements a mile from the path I ed This | Kent's undertaking establishment is | of the cyclone. s by Mayor | being used as the charnel house, and cyclone approached Kirksville | Still, Dr. | a score of the dead are now there, southwest. At a distance it and David | some of them unidentified. to be making for the Fair The homes just outside of death’s path Grounds and people at the American are open to refugees and people filled | School of Osteopathy, on the west side | with gratitude for the deliverance of | of town, W its coming for two loved ones and themselves are doing | minutes in that it was bearing g 1 vain work to give comfort to other down upon them. B hearts bleeding with bruises of the reaching the town limits it flesh and immeasurable woe for ward and cleared the State fathers, mothers and children Who xorma1 School without touching it. priciane gone. 9 g Patterson’s extensive nursery, just are all | The storm king drove his chariof of | wect was swept down to clean i“”_ s wind and cloud in awful grandeur. His | mpe course from that on was through | coming was announced with a roar like | o el built-up section of the town, a fast mail train crossing a railway | nade up mainly of new houses and viaduct, with the deep, muffled rumble | i & & | | of distant thunder behind it. There | Continued on Second Page. L R R R R A R R R TS TR OR DN Y KAUTZ VERY CLOSE | TO BEING RECALLED | and to several of the generals of the ADQUAR- ERS, WELLINGTON V AS HING- of the T'he secret is morning of the San Francisco of teleg ders to stop the Badg im portant dispatches, and the sub- equent dispatch of a message to et the cruiser proceed, 1 visited Navy Department to-day and ned that Rear Admiral Kautz ithin an ace of being re- of the office of comman- ef of the Pacific station and recalled immediately from result of the publica- 1 - he sent to his eve ti f the let cot Cincinnati. President and S¢ Long were very angry with the admiral for writ- Ing a communication showing his dislike of the Germans in S moa. Tl at hrst he administration mtend action was shown by the fact that orders to the Badger were coun- termanded; then she was di- rected to proceed. These orders were again countermanded and ain she was given sailing or- ders. Finally the Navy Department telegraphed to have the Badger recalled, but this telegram was revoked by another sent after- >articular exception was war taken to the adgniral writing| these words: ) take prompt | @ oiooeie man Consul had that position up to my ar- rival, but since then he has been a very Si- lent partner. [ am very much afraid he does not like me; in fact, 1 am not at all popular with the Ger- mans.”’ I am not king here, ! I was assured that the German but just plain boss of the ranch. The Ger- Embassador had made' no com plaint against Rear Admiral REAR ADMIRAL KAUTZ. Bt it it i S Sl S SR SO SO S R R SECER SO SN ) + OO0 D> B S e e S , Kautz on account of the letter, | ilmt the attaches of the embassy | regret that another officer of the | American navy should reflect on | their country in the same way | that Coghlan did. The Presi-| [ dent and Secretary Long were | especially displeased because of the publication of the létter im- mediately following the Coghlan episode. 1 understand that Secretary Long will caution Kautz about writing any more such letters. In this connection there is talk Continued on Second Page, | an interview W | in | could have | publie.” ATKINSON TS IE 15 in the Philippines to Pro- mote Discontent. AND HE GLORIES INIT | Hopes He Will Succeed in Getting the Soldiers to Refuse to Fight. Special Dispatch to The Call BOSTON, Mass., April 27.—Edward Atkinson, the famous Boston million- ire, anti-imperialist and economist, in th your correspondent to-day defiantly announced that he personally, the alleged traitor who had been flooding the American army the Philippines with letters and pamphlets tending to promote discon- tent and insubordination and to pre- vent the men from re-enlisting. He also said he would keep on sending them. “Have you been charged with dis- ; for conducting this work?" he ked. by the editorials in the news- you any reason to suppose that your documents will be stopped “T hardly think the authorities would venture on such a base attempt to prevent soldie: who are voters from | being informed as to the state of pub- lic opinion .at home.” “Have you taken any other means to reach the troops? M AGUINALDO ASKS FOR CESSATION . OF HO STILITIES Series of Disasters and Defeats at the Hands of Americans Has Probably Broken His Spirit. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. ANILA, April 28.—General Luna, Aguinaldo’s Chief of Staff, has sent an insurgent colonel !through the lines under a flag of truce to ask for a ‘cessation of hostilities. Colonel Funston was overcome by heat. JOHN F. BASS. [ R R S R S R R R R COLONEL FU - HERO 0 How Brave Men et etieNeti et e e e et et et ele DRl NSTON THE F CALUMPIT of Kansas Car- I ried the Bridge in the Face 2 of Rebel Fire. ‘Oh, no; T do not think it is neces- | It would be very easy to send documents to correspondents in Europe and have them mafled under foreign postage, but I do not think any such measure is nece: “To what extent have been circulated, and hav documents been sent out?” t to my knowledge. I think that the speeches and letters >nator Hoar, Judge Edmunds, former Gover- nor Boutwell and othe are to be sent in large numbers, to the end that the privates in the army. may know. the direction in which sound public opinion is moving rapidly in this country.” Might not this produce insubordina- sar sour pamphlets any other of § tion?” “Yes; the kind of insubordination which, I hope, with Tolstoi, will ere long pervade all armies, to the end that criminal aggression may be made im- possible by the refusal of soldiers who think for themselves to carry out or- ders which are as abhorrent to them as th are inconsistent with any moral, economic or political principle. “I sent my own pamphlets on ‘The Hell of War' and upon ‘Criminal Ag- gression’ to the members of the Peace Commission, including Admiral Dewey, army whom I believe to be persons of humane disposition—perhaps as much shoc 1 by the orders from home as we have been here. I also wrote to the Secretary of War for a copy of the army register checked so as to indicate what regiments and now in the Philippine Islands in order that T might send a very considerable | number of pamphlets to their ad- dresses. 1 should be very glad to re- ceive mailing lists for this purpose, as I have not secured the army registers. Being in communication with Secretary Gage on other subjects I informed him | of my purpose, hoping that the facts nted in Cabinet meet- might be pr ing.” ABSOLUTELY PROVES DREYFUS’ INNOCENCE Demand Made for the Delivery of a Document Found in French Guiana. PARIS, April 27.—A great sensation has followed the publication by the Figaro of the supplemental deposition made be- fore the United Chambers of the Court of ation by M. Paicologue, one of the nent officials of the Foreign Office, idence establishes g The Soir, an anti-D: lently attacks the Minister Affairs, M. del Casse, under whose order M. Paleologue’s second deposition s made. It charges M. del Casse with giv ing the Figaro the evidence offered be- fore the court, particularly that of M. Paleologue, dec “nobody else had any interest in making it perm whose e aro also publishes Commandant depositions, merely covering ground he had already himself covered in interviews and articles. A rumor was circulated early this even- ing that Colonel Paty du Clam had been arrested. It turned out to be untrue, but it is understood that at his own re- quest he will be examined on Saturday. The Temps will announce to-morrow that the Court of Cassation has applied to the Minister for the Colonies, Georges Gullain, to deliver the document which was found in French Guiana in 1897 among other Dreyfus documents and sent to the Colonial office under the strictest precau- tions. It is alleged that this document absolutely proves the innocence of Drey- fus. 3 BRAZIL SURPRISED OVER THE SOUNDINGS American Minister Called on to Ex- plain the Wilmington’s Action in the Amazon. Special Cable to The Call and the New Y. PO ferald. Copyrighted, 1%, by James Gom don Bennett. RIO JANEIRO, April 2.—The Minister of Forelgn Affairs has remitted a note to the American Minister expressing sur- prise at the behavior of the American gunboat Wilmington, which sailed up the Amazon and took soundings without re- questing the usual authorization from the local government. The American Minis- ter inurespo?lstihmfidema satisfactory ex- planation an e incident is now clos d ‘definitely settled. o 'oreign | ble to The Call York Gor- ANILA, April 27. — Colonel Frederick Funston of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers is the hero of Calumpit. He crossed the Rio Grande this morning with a small force after his brilliant but un- successful attempt last night, flanked the insurgents and drove them from | the strong position they held. | The crossing was effected under a tremendous fire from the rebel trenches, which were manned by the strongest force the insurgents could assemble to guard the railroad bridge, their line extending for a mile on either side. | This was the most daring enter- | @etie! AR SR SR R S 0 S S By Carrier Pigeon From the Front. | prise of the entire campaign in the | Philippines. It was Colonel Fun- | ston’s second attempt to cross the river. On the opposite side lay, sup- posedly, the whole of the insurgent army heavily intrenched. They were armed with artillery, but the control of the river was of immense strategic value and it was necessary to cross. Colonel Funston's attempt to get over last night failed because the barking of dogs disclosed the movement of the enemy on the oppogite side, but he was entirely successful this morning. Kansas and Montana Voluntee the entire town of Calumpit bridge. Heavy insurgent forces occu- pied trenches at the further end of the bridge, extending for a mile on either side of the railway. The entire s of the insurgent army was belic R R he aeas ity ] be holding these trenches. They had one or more artillery pieces, with which they threw schrapnel into the Ameri= | can line % In regard to their artillery, however, it sible that they may have had only one piece and that they moved this con= stantly from place to place before fir- ing, with the object of conveying the impression that they had several | The American and insurgent lines were separated only by the width of the river—100 yards. There was a con- stant scatte! When night came Colonel Funston made a dar= ing attempt to surprise the insurgents. His plan was to lead fifteen men across the bridge under cover of darkness and surprise and attack the insurgents. The bridge is long and much exposed. Colonel Funston sent.Corporal Fergu- son of Company E of the Kansas Vol- unte to reconnoiter the bridge The corporal stripped and crawled along the girders to within twenty feet of the op=- posite shore, and an insurgent sentry approached within ten feet of him without discovering his presence. Ferguson reported that the plan was | impracticable, because, the rails having been removed, walking would be dan- gerous and the wounded would fall into the river. In other respects than the loss of the rails the bridge is intact. Colonel Funston then decided to lead 120 men across the river a mile to the westward and enfilade the insurgents. is pos: ng fire. His purpose was to surprise and rout them. Eight companies of the Kansas Volunteers furnished the deta The march was down the river bank, but it was moonlight, and the barking of dogs LR R R e e g A ade A AR R SR S L RS RS ) NO TRACE OF STARR HAS YET BEEN FOUND officers may be | GELES, April 27.—The dis- appearance of H. S. Starr, em- ployed as superintendent of the Oak Knoll ranch, near Pasadena, rer an unsolved mystery | The officers who have sought to un- | ravel the clews of the man's where- | abouts are baffled and find nothing so | far to aid them. The deeper the affair is probed the further from - solution does the problem become. The only theory now remaining is that Starr, if he was assailed for the | purpose of robbery > partly insane from the effe andbag band that he has wandered away. This | supposition is based on the fact that no blood has been found in the trail he and his a ilants took that led to a buggy hitched to a tree, and that he i W left there, but wandered away | after regaining consciousness. | To stimulate the searchers Sheriff | Hammel offered a reward to-day of 1 $100 for the recovery of Starr, dead or | (o5} alive, who is described as 5 feet 81 inches tall, weight 100 pounds, dark | brown hair, dark gray eyes, light brown mustache, dark complexion, peaks deliberately and is of a retiring | R O R SR disposition and a native of Germany. Starr, who was a member of Com- pany M, Seventh Regiment, National Guards of California, desired to enter the volunteers, but was deterred owing dto family cares. While he bore a high P e |t Charles Starr, Brother of ‘ the Missing Man. ® * & T @ i + . ® > . B O O R R = HILLARY S. STARR, appeared Last [ R AL SCR SR reputation he was known to be of a dreamy, moody disposition. At a late hour to-night it is learned that Mrs. €. E. Mendenhall, who was visiting near the house of Starr on the night of the disappearance, heard two O R O O R e . ] Who Mysteriously Dis- Monday Night. e S T S S S R e e S R e R e = B i B e L e B B B B e R SEOEPGRCIPA S 1 sereams from a buggy as it was being rapidly driven down the streets, and that August Franke saw a man leap into a ravine near the Oak Hill ranch. The heel marks found there fit the size of Starr’s shoes.