The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LX SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, AUGUST 7 1899 PRICE FIVE CENTS, HARVEST OF DEATH IN TWO TERRI TROLLEY CAR . FALLS FROM A HIGH TRESTLE Two-Score Passengers dre Killed Near the Town of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Special Dispatch to The Call. was im- the ac ny stated that it im to account for Immediately after his at the scene he r 1 thorov spection of the tracks and trestl and could see nothing wrong, and car were running over the trestle as us soon af He denied that the cars we at a high rate of speed, that every possible pre n had been taken to prevent ac- tated t > theory advanced is that connection was responsible f now ere killed. T ad cident. At the point whe: < JOSEPH HOTCHKISS, Bridgeport, the road for the trestle it is al- e hat the rafls had sunk a little ( L, Bridge- ugh the forward truc took New k. 11 right the rear t s did 1 road, mem- , and jumped the track, >d the forward trucks to leave the iren. It is b ed that oper guard rails had been placed on the trestle the car would have been prevented from toppling ov sustained WILLIAM OSBORNE, Stratford per killed DANIEL GALVIN, Ansonia. ulls. William Kelly of CONDUCTOR JOHN ARROLL, :port, who was in company with B T Farrell, escaped death by jump- "HUR HOLMES, Stratford ing from the car as he felt it swaying S. BANKS, Shelton. to the flats bele Soon afterward the MRS. McDONALD, Bridgeport. car toppled over. He sustained a se- WILTON LANTHEAR, motorman, vere shock, but was not otherwise in- He stated to-night that the car .port Traction Company fure SIE TOOMEY, aged Bridge- | was not running unusually fast _ | that it was & ing considerably HARVEY, aged 37, | it struck the trestle and he real danger and knew his only safety G, Stratford mping. JLEW and two chil- orge Willis of Shelton was on the d girl aged Strat- Ay mot more than 100 feet from the scene and wit ed the car top- WILLIAM McCULLOUGH. Strat-| o over He said that there one ford Fois unearthly sh s it went down, and THOMAS age 3% | after that silence. By o "‘”‘m‘";'y“,""" Miss Frances Peck, who was dre 2 G, aged 28, Bri Fiiela g s ing in her room, saw the accident from CK McDERMOTT, d her window, and it is her impr e | that the car was running very fast “\Tr‘“ K BRENNAN. aged| q. o so excited that she could g ; £ePOrt but meager information, but avers that ALFRED PITT, aged 22, Bridgeport. WILLIAM COTTER, aged 25, Bridge- entification not perfect). VING DORUZ, aged 23, the car was ing considerably as it reached the trestle. One of the pathetic scenes was that of a lifeless baby reclining in the arms of a dead man, the infant appearing to be smiling and asleep. The three- year-old son of Mrs. John H. Rugg was frantically appealing to his dead mother. His sister, five vears old, had her left arm broken. The Stratford town hall, bodies were taken, was soon besieged by more than 1000 persons, some of whom had relatives or friends among the dead, and the deputy sheriffs in Bridge- HARVEY, nsonia. red at the are: Margaret d; Mrs. Sydney A. leg fractured leg where the about d left leg; the crowd of weeping women and anx » wound, bruised | jous men. Olvin, scalp All the bodies of the Bridgeport dead nerally and the few unidentified were taken 1t is midway | to the Morgue at Bridgeport late tc geport. The | night. nning to-| It has been ascertained that forty fares were registered, and these, with the young children that did not have to the motrman and the conductor, | SOk ot img and an extra motorman, who was be- man Hamilton of DBr ing taught, make the proable number escaped by jumpin The trestle is 440 feet fron, with stone foundati not protected 1 1 on the car fort even. HORRORS OF THE JUVISY COLLISION it ran on the stle the truc left tr PARIS, Aug. 6.—The official investi- 1tion into the collision last evening at| suburb of Paris on the south- | between the Orleans line 14 Nantes train and the Pari s Mediterranean train. shows | ) persons were killed and | y injured. collision occurred t the uck the four-t trucks crz _thr during a ter- | many o . 3 cians > | T Jjunderstorm, and it is supposed a short d electric current may have been re- for the defective signaling. first train was at a stand d came down upon it at the miles an hour. crash » former ar passenger ca as not injured. ams and cries for but the pas- nsible na | the ed on the mot tt to Bridgeport and a scene and brake d th : OVir Heart-r assistance n of the Town | and in a v ! bodies were 1 all ime tw waiting id The accident s S. Peck were crowded with excursionists, MOTORMAN KILLED i nessed by Miss | ide about 0 he was up: AND CARS BURNED car was passing. | running at an un- | ank Cramer, Who | SAUNDERSTOWN, R. I, Aug. 6.— bridge, statesthat | mwo cars collided to-day on the Sea ng and in | yiew electric road, running between s they passed | wickford and Narragansett Pier. Mer- ritt Lyman Abbey, a motorman, wa The road, which con- | killed. Of the forty passengers only | trolled by the F rt Traction | one was injured, M A Brown of Company, was opened for traffic last | Providence. Both set on | i | fire by the electric current and de- | st the entire medical force of | BFoYed: b o | geport responded to telephone | D e fihe dovtors oaq BERIRED: RHYSICIAN Sk et TAKES HIS OWN LIFE| engers who escaped instant car, after up-ending, sooq Dr. McIntyre Hangs Himself ir a| on its side, and there was Barn on His Ranch Near | Jty in removing the bodies e ne dead, as well as a: led. Motorman Hamilton is suffering from such a severe shock that it is impos- ~.lhln to learn anything from him to- night. President Andrew Radell of the rail- sting the SANTA ROSA, Aug. 6.—Dr. McIntyre, a | retired physician, hanged himself in a | barn on his ranch near Windsor this | morning. The cause of the suicide Is un- | known. He was well known in this coun!y.J An Inquest will be held. Dr. McIntyre was a middle-aged man and leaves a widow. D charge had much difficulty in handling | | moment meant . sus- | church. All who refuse to submit after pense. Mrs. Estey, one of the victims, | that day will be excommunicated from was one of those who, while only apart | the Catholic church. All who act as BLE DISASTERS EXCURSIONISTS VIOLENTLY THROWN INTO THE WATER Breaking of a Gang-Plank at a f Maine Ferry Causes Big | Loss of Life. Special Dispatch to The Call. AR HARBOR, Me., Aug. 6.—A | Harbor with four physicians and a score of persons were killed to- | special train was hurried from Bangor day by the breaking of the gang- | with physicians and nurses. President plank of the Mount Desert ferry. | Wilson of the Maine Central Railroad Seventeen were drowned, and | was near at hand when the disaster oc- three died from the terrible experience | curred, and he gave orders to spare no The sufferers from injuries will not of immersion in the water and in- ‘rvxsr(inn in relieving the distress. Many juries while struggling for life. | persons had been injured in the strug- The dead are: | gle on the edge of the wharf and in the MR WILLIAM MURRAY of ‘ water, and such these as needed im- Brewer. | mediate attention were taken to the TRVING BRIDGES of West Han- | high bluffs near the station and waited cock. ;nn by the physicians. | ALBERT COLSON of Levant. be as numerous as those who suffered MRS. ALONZO OAKES of Bangor. JC SPH MURPHY of Old Town. hock and exposure due to the MRS. HOLLIS ESTEY of Ells- rsion in the water. Of these sev- worth. 1 were reported to-night to be in a CLIFFORD CUSHMAN of Cor- ate. Miss | “eeney of Bangor inth. | was taken to the Hotel Bluffs, suffer- pneumoni —eorge Spauld- o at the Bluffs and Mrs. George Brooks | ing from ing of Orono is may not recover MIS LIZZIE WOOD of Bangor. MISS LOUISA BARTLETT of Ban- | o | B S8 GHAGH SUMNER of Bangor. | of Ellsworth will recover, althongn her CHARL W. DOW of Ells- | Case was once pron unced hopeless. worth. ;\1rx‘»>r 'h.~1lwlin< ;n ‘hhe érsi;:ht house = = = s L | had been identified, the Coroner gave m‘l:-’ l‘]-,‘:”‘l"':'?T R, traveling sales- | . iccion to have them removed, and | g gt | relatives and friends soon after took < Biarlorth | each in charge and attended them to , Brewer. their respective homes. H. BILLINGS, Bangor. Many were taken from the water un- R. STOVER, Elisworth. conscious and were revived with diffi- ORGE DERWENT, Ban- |culty. Doctors were summoned from 2 all directions, but it was half an hour NNETT, Brewer. | before the first arrived. The freight B , Hampden, Me. house at the fer was turned into a TNKNOWN WOMAN, believed to be | morgue, the bodies being taken there for identification as fast as recovered. The Coroner impaneled a jury and the inquest will begin in the morning. voman for Boston publishing a N s | ine Central Railroad to-day | ran excu ns to, Bar Harbor from all sections of its line in Maine, the at- | T traction being the warships which | \ were expected to-day. | | l All the morning long trains packed | ~ with excursionists were rushing to | T & — Bar Harbor. The train which left Ban- | gor at 8:25 consisted of twelve cars | jammed with people. At Mount Des- | ert Ferry, the terminus of the line, the train is left for the boat for an -ighteen-mile sail to Bar Harbor. From the wharf a slip, or gang-plank, forty feet long and ten feet wide ran out to the boat. The slip was hinged at the inner end, and was raised or lowered to | Aged Wesley Brown Slays suit the tide. The wharf extends on | X 5 both s flush with the end of the| the Wife He Had Driven | wooden gang-plank. Five timbers, 4x & | 12 inches, set vertically, ran the length From Him. | of the plank, and these were crossed by two-inch planks. It is said there was no support for the plank between the hinges at the outer end. Special Dispatch to The Call. DREYFUS RENNES,Au oo sfeeeferlreferieielel @ efeefeefeeferfecfoeforfeefeeforfe fefe e e €20 2 2 EREAORERR IR IR IR 3 i i 3 5 i 5 % 4 ofemfeefonfostosfeofeefenfe ecte ofe oo o ENNES, Aug. 6.—The town is ex- everywhere perfect tranquility prevails. Public interest is con- of various personages likely to figure in the trial of Captain Dreyfus. Among tremel animated to-day, but centrated upon the arrival from Paris these are Generals de Boisdeffre. Gonse and Roget, all in Mufti; M. Godfrey Cavaignac, former Minister of War. and M. Casimir-Perier, former Pre8i- dent of France. A large crowd which | | ‘ CASTELLA, Aug. 6.—Because his| | drunkenness and brutal treatment had | driven his wife from his home and he {could mot induce her to return, aged| | Wesley G. Brown shot and killed the | | woman this morning. Then he fired | a bullet into his own brain. | The Browns lived at Wolfe Creek, Or. | The maiden name of the wife was Sa- | rah Elizabeth Weeks, and her relatives | | resided at University Station, Los An- | geles. Brown was nearly 70 years of | | age. He had worked here for some| | time in the employ of Conway & Wil- son, merchants and forwarding agents. | Sixteen months ago his wife, who was | 60 years of age, left him because of his | drunkenness and went to live at Whee- the whart closed the outer end of the | 1€7'S sawmill, several miles away, with | opening. %hor daughter by a former marriage, | Afier the first moment of stupefacs | D25 W. C. Suggs. Brown had followed | tion the work of rescue began. Ropes | his wife from Wolfe Creek, working at and life-preservers were thrown to the | 2nY Kind of labor until he reached the crowd, but in the panic the people in | Wheeler mill near here on Saturday.| | the water clutched one another, and | There he found his wife with her| many sank thus in groups in a death | daughter. He made overtures for her | grip. | to return and live with him. As he was |~ The awful nature of the accident was | intoxicated at the time, Mrs. Brown not comprehended for at least a minute by those who \.ere the last to leave the train, although the scene changed in- stantly from one of holiday gayety to | a death struggle. When the first mo- | ment of the calamity had passed a | panic seemed to have seized those who were safe, and thev drev. back from the edge of the water, but only for a When the excursion train from Ban- gor arrived at the ferry there was a rush for the steamer Sappho. The first | few passengers had crossed the gang- plank safely, and it is estimated that 200 people were massed on the plank. | Suddenly they felt the plank give way | th them. The long timber sup-‘ porting the plank broke in the middle. The hinges held up one end and the chain the while the broken ends of the plank dropped, and a struggling, screaming mass of humanity was plunged into the water, fifteen feet be- low the wharf. A few clung to the in- clined sides of the plank, but at least 150 were struggling in the water. The piling of the wharf partly penned them on three sides, and the boat lying at | | feared trouble and agranged to take | the northbound passenger train at Cas- | tella this morning. ‘When she was nearing the county road in company with W. C. Suggs, Brown suddenly appeared from the | bushes and asked to have a word with her. As she stepped aside he drew | a revolver and began firing at her. The minute, as the cooler heads in the |first shot took effect in the stomach and crowd, especially amory the officers | as she tufned to run two bullets took and crew of the steamer, asserted |effect in her back, one lodging in the themselves and the work of rescue be- gan. Tye-witnesses differ in their estimate of the number of people who were car- ried down when the plank broke, but it was the vanguard of the crowd which was rushine from the train to the ,steamer. Those who fell into the Wwater last were mostly pulled out by main force, but not a few were got out by boats which were immediately manned. There was wild excitement on land, for each excursionisk was rushing in and out among his or her neighbors in quest of relatives and friends. In the hurry and bustle of alighting from the train husbands. wives, parents and children had be- came separated, and separation at that heart-breaking heart. Suggs, who was unarmed, was shot at twice, both missing him. Then Brown fired at himself, ‘he bul- let enterin~ just above the right ear. He lingered unconscious until noon. The inquest was held to-night, the testimony -inging out the facts here recorded. |BISHOP JANSEN WARNS , REBELLIOUS CATHOLICS ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6.—In all the Catholic churches of East St. Louls a letter was read from Bishop Jansen concerning the rebellion in St. Patrick’s congregation. The Bishop gives the parishioners until next Wednesday to recognize Father Cluze, his appointee, as pastor of the guards at St. Patrick’s Church, take part in meetings of parishioners, contribute financially or by counsel, to aid in the rebellion, or in any other manner identfy themselves with the opposition to the episcopal authority, come under the ban. ‘Excommunication in this case will cut off 700 Catholics from the church. They will not be allowed to attend church ser- vices even on Sunday and will be denled the sacraments, marriage and death cer- from her husband a few feet, lost her life, while Mr. Estey was saved. al- though thrown into the water. In the course of the next half hour several bodies were recovered and were taken to the near-by freight house and laid out awaiting identification. It was a grewsome sight and a pitiful one as identifications were made. The steamer Cymbria came from Bar around the railwa generals on alighting from the train with cries of “Vive ’Armee.” The re- visionist spectators responded Wwith ve 1a Republique,” but there was no disturbance of order. M. Casimir-Perier, who was much fatigued by the long railway journey, decided to walk to the hotel, hoping that he would not be recognized, but his identity soon became known and a large crowd followed him, as attired in a light summer suit he walked slowly along, chatting with the prefect of po- lice and the chief of the secret police, M. Viguer, who met him at the rail- way station and accompanied him to the hotel. The crowd made no demon- stration. The authorities, however, deem it wise to maintain the most stringent precautions for the safety of the former President, and six gen- darmes now patrol the front of the hotel where he has apartments, while had gathered | v station greeted the | SECOND RIAL NOW BEGINS Crowd Gathered About the Entrance to Dreyfus’ Prison at Rennes. |;04¢v¢¢¢¢¢¢¢v¢¢Q4:i PARIS, Aug. 6.—The socialists organized a demonstration to- day in the Place Maubert, near th> statue of _utienne Dolet, who was burned in the year 1546, dur- ing the reign of Francis I, for “Impiety and atheism.” A counter-der.onstration met the soc: demonctration near- 1y opposite the oftice of the In- transigeant, Henri Rochefort’s paper, and a scuffle ensued in which -_.cral people were in- jured. |+ i’ 1+ * |+ 55 | R e R R R S R ST B S & = = = SRS S o a number of detectives watch the en trance hall closely and scan all new arrivals. _It is now fixed that the trail shall| commence to-morrow. After the in- dictment has heen read, .it is thought | probable the president. of .the court- martial, Colonel Juast, will order the doors closed for the consideration of the secret dossier, which will be pre- sented by General Chamein. The con- sideration of the dossier, it is expected, will occupy two da so that the next public session will probably be -on Thursday, although perhaps not until Friday. | The general impression is that the whole proceedings will occupy at least three weeks. | class 6. 7.—The Dreyfus trial was begun at 7:10 A. M. % G ¥ X i b oo : : ZANGWILL CPEAKS OF ANTI-SEMITISM PHILADELPHI! Aug. Zangwill, the London novelist and critic, said to-day regarding the ex- clusion of Hebrews from the Oriental Hotel at Manhattan Beach: “If the Dreyfus germ should ever gain a foot- hold in America it would be due to such men as Austin Corbin. What does he mean by the phrase, 2" There is no such thing brews as a cl ' You might well say Americans or Englishmen ‘as a-class’ Let Mr. Corbin object to in- dividuals if he so pleases, but let him not label them as a cl , for there is no such thing. If he wishes to convey idea that the average Hebrew desirable guest of his hotel han the average Christian, I think he 6. — Israel | would have great difficulty in proving it. “This late Semiti: i st ‘manifestation of anti- it should gain any ground in America, would hurt America more than -the Jews, as it hurts the ideals which underlie the American constitu- tion.. A Jewish paper not long ago, in commenting upon the death of a prom- inent Jew, whose many good deeds were known to very few, and whose life was wholly inconspicuous, pertinently asked: ‘Why is it that a flauntin vaunting Jew is picked out as a typ rather than a man of this character?” “That is a question which I, too, should like to have answered. I be- lieve it would throw considerable light on this question of anti-Semitism and on the real motives which underlie it.” PREPARED FOR A HARD CAMPAICY Yaquis Have Long Been Making Ready for the Present Strugele. —_— to The Call. Special Dispat AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 6.—A special re- ceived here to-day from Terrazas, Chi- hauhau, Mex., which is located near the scene of the Yaqui rising, is to the effect that the Indians are arranging for a pro- longed war. The special says: “It is going to take the Mexican Gov- ernment a long time and require a big force of troops to quell the rebellion. The Yaquis are better prepared now than ever before for a long and bloody campaign. They are all well fixed financially, nearly all of them having saved the $200 per head which the Mexican Government paid them when they signed the treaty of peace two vears ago. They have been making money since then, too, and it is known to be a fact that they have been laying in big supplies of arms and ammunition for some time past. It has been common talk among the American prospectors in the Yaqui Valley that the Indians were pre- | paring for another outbreak, but as the braves had always shown a friendly spirit toward the Americans, it was thought they would not molest them when _they did go on the warpath.. They are deter- mined to recover all of their lost country, emonies and other rites of the church. | however, and will kill everybody they find within the limits of their old possessions.” | The special also reports that a number | of miners and ranchers in and near Cocorl | | had been slain and their property. laid | &= e. LT LOUIS, Aug. 6.—A special to the Republic from Austin, Tex., says: In- | formation received here to-day by pri- vate advices is to the effect that the Mexican army will open active and con- tinual warfare on the Yaqui Indians to- morrow. For a week the Mexican sol- diers already in the Yaqui territory have | been er:gaging the Indians until the main | body of men could be mobilizéd." In doin this they have lost quite a, number. o their soldiers, while the Indians have lost comparatively few warriors. It stated to-day, however, that the Mexican soldiers were about mobilized— at least, there are about 2000 men in the field, and that is considered to be a suf- ficlent number of justify the troops be- ing moved into the mountains with in- structions to push through and if possi- ble exterminate the Indians. The situation is worse even than it was | during the ten years’ war. The Indians are determined that they will fight until | they regain .every foot of the territory | taken from them by the treaty of three years ago, and the Mexican Government is determined to effectually exterminate the Indians so as to secure all the land from the Indians and prevent any further outbreak. The Indians waded rather deep in blood, according to official advices, having killed | something like one_hundred miners and as many soldiers. With both sides thor- oughly. aroused, the war, which will open in earnest to-morrow, promises to be pro- longed. | It is given out that, taking up the line | of march to-morrow, the Mexican troops | will advance directly into the mountains and try to reach the mountain fastnesses of the Indians, giving them no time to rest from one attack to another in the hope | that by this procedure they will be worn | out in short order and either surrender or | all be killed. 1 _OAXACA, Mex., Aug. 6.—The rebellious | Maya Indians in‘the State of Yucatan are | | giving the Mexican Government more con- cern just now than the Yaqui Indian up- | rising in the mountains of 'the State of Sonora. The Maya tribe inhabits one of the rich- est agricultural districts of Yucatan. They have never recognized the authority of the Mexicah Government and have waged a constant warfare against all who at- tempted to encroach upon their t during the past two hundred years. The first_attempt to conquer them was made ., when a large force of Spanish inst them. The latter ated. In 1849 another as sent against these 0. met defeat. Another made to subdue f several thou- large expedition Indians, and it al unsuccessful effort wa sand men being sent a Indians since then hav with the authorities until ago, when they made attac ber of Mexican settlers, who had located within _the confines of thelr territory. These settlers were murdered and their property confiscated by the Indians. Many raids have been made on innocent settlers since ‘then. The Mexican Government began mak- ing preparations several months ago for a campaign of extermination against the tribe. The campaign is now about ready to open. The details of the campaign have been formulated by President Porifiro Diaz, and he has directed his intimate personal friend and military adviser, Brigadier General O Monastero, to take charge of the military movement. General Monastero is now on his way to Belize to join the invading forces. Over fifteen thousand soldiers and ten small gunboats are being massed on the Indian frontier. The gunboats are being sent up the rivers Hondo and Belize. The concerted attack on the Indians will be- gin the latter part of this month. The Mayas are well aware of the gigantic mil- ftary movement that is being prepared against them and they are not idle. It is reported they are well armed and equipped for desperate resistance. =—The Government is establishing a base of sup- plies on Cozuniel Island for the cam- paign. = THUNDERSTORMS IN FRANCE. Eiffel Tower Struck and Many Build- ings Set Afire. PARIS. Aug. 6.—During a severe thun- derstorm last night the lightning con- ductor on the Eiffel tower was struck ten times. A thunderbolt set fire to the Jeannot factory. the Ceinture Railway was floods ed, many buildings were slightly injurea and scores of fine trees were destroyed, The day had been very hot, the tempe: ature reaching 104 degrees. Many sun. strokes were reported, some of them fatal. A dust storm preceded the thun- tory | derstorm at Versallles.