The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1899, Page 1

to be take Y e 7\:6LL:\IE LXXXVI-NO 108 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 16 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS, o 3 o a = % 3 SOV UBSHOU "> BEFORE GENERAL SHAFTER AND STAFF AT THE PRESIDIO psjaBeRaReBagaFaFeFaF=FaR:FuFsFaBaF=la3 Officers of the First California Regiment and of the Heavy Artillery Give a Military THOUSANDS OF TROOPS, READY FOR WAR, PASS IN REVIEW i : Reception to the Governor. Brilliant Scene as the Soldiers of the Regular Army Parade Before Cheeting Crowds of Enthustastic Men and Women. | | | 4 early 4500 Men, Equipped in Every Way for mmediate Service in the Field, March in ast the Reviewing Post. |A Gay Throng Accepts the Hospitality of the Volunteer Troops of the State, and Closes 2 Day of Manv Incidents of Military Interest. Array JUNIOR SOL They Are Tendered a R and Banquet by Two CENVERAL SHAFTER REVIEWS WILL BANQUET VOLUNTEERS. The Young Men’s Institute to Honor Their Brave Companions. D of ARTYLERY (QUUity (O/rI/NG opy THEFIELD INCIDENTS OF THE BIG PARADE AND REVIEW. Ho John P. Jac me ENGINEER, FIREMAN AND BRAKEMAN ARE CREMATED ‘Three of the Crew of @ Train Meet a Fearful Death | in a Disaster Near Nebraska City. —Missouri Pacific freight No. 124 was wrecked at 4:30 this afternoon midway City. Three of the crew were instantly killed There will be at the b llowing who will re: W. Muller, Hc J ting, Hon. T. O. Toi < i son, Hon. iC. TCHISON, Kans., Sept. between St. Paul, Nebr.,, and Julian station, near Nebraska and their bodies cremated. The killed are: ENGINEER TOM GILLAM. FIREMAN T. M. RUSE. BRAKEMAN W. H. FOSTER, all residents of Atchison. The train was in charge of Conductor E. W. Montgomery, who, with Rear Brakeman Wamsley, escaped. The train c isted of two loads of grain, one load of Government supplies for Leavenworth and enty-three empties. It was headed for Kansas City, and as the engine struck a trestle the structure gave way, precipitating the engine into the ravine, twenty feet below, with the three men beneath. The tender and twenty-six cars all piled up in a mass of wreckage and at once caught fire. A high wind prevailed, and it being a mile from water the whole train W? consumed. MEDAL DISTRIBUTION. G. | Programme of Exercises at the Pre- = sidio This Afternoon, When Sol- diers Will Be Decorated. ® E7EF 2 FOUR MEN ARE INJURED IN A e - COLLISION AT CLARKS, NEVADA b [ome ception was held in the grand General T. H. (‘-,.m.iman, Hon. n An- parlors onp(he Montgomery street side, derson, Harry Gray, Peter McGlynn, Jos- 1 e Governor SRR < | lander, Henry Gray, Rudo and began promptiy ot 9 ua-d‘e?;“f“c‘;h},e_‘. RENO, Nev., Sept. 15—An extra traln|a quarter of a mile east of Clarks, after | scratched. He was among those who res- | S bt 5o e Sajor B J. Farher "4 i Al Hotua i I trance. The | made up at Wadsworth to run on No, 2's | having emerged from a cut and ‘curve, | cued Firéman Williams from under the| parie Kilbirn, William D. English; bl ey B neivts ent sred ihe |time and an eastbound engine were| Which had obscured the View ahead, he | coal pile. Pl W Barrett, Major Giay o, of the Fortl-| jong iline of 3 e wrecked at 8:22 o'clock this morning a | Crushed into No..2. The engines of both| Engineer Penny stated that he had had | J' Beane, Colonel C. M, p o duty | end of the parlors and o mile enst of Clacke Stattes @ | trains were badly smashed and the cars | trouble with the cylinder of his engine | Tyler, Colonel V: the Goxerno.h it ik present- quarter of a mile east of Clarks Statlon. |,n No. 2 were wrecked. but, strange to | and forgot to stop at Clarks. Neither he | S E. Potter, Major B. & committee, zhri- Sovernor 1 e Engineer Jesse Penny of Wadsworth | say, nothing went off the track and no | nor his fireman saw No. 2 until the col- | §. Martin, Mrs. E. L. Yy, Paymas- | 905 & . rt-martial has been | 10§ theM 10 B8 B mittee was composed | and Fireman George Willlams of Love- | one was killed outright. 5 liston_occurred. : ter and Mrs. Barry, U. W. B. Wil | §500 0 the Nat he Presidlo on | J R TeCeRtO o W. H. Seamans, |locks, with light engine 1678, left Reno at| Fireman Willlams was buried in his cab | Engineer Wright sald: “I saw the light | shire and_wife, Davenport and | S ception co o ; : of: General and Mrs W. M. Scamans. | oot 7:40 a m. for Wadsworth. Regular | beneath a pile of coal, Which was thrown | engine as It came out from the curve, and | wife, Governor John Lind of Minnesota, | TSCePHOn © for the trial of | Captain an TS. ;| westbound overland No. 2 was several | by its own impetus from the tender into Immediately applied the air, reversed my | wife and staff; Governor Lee of Sout ¢ ® pecial benefit of the weed-lo main di 0 had eamer, orator of Native Dausg! ing formed at T ~ : and Mrs. Charles | b be brought be-| Lieutenant Commander | e Jate, but a substitite, composed of | the cab when the tralns came together. | engine and tried to get off, but they came | Dakota and staff, Frank McLaughlin, F. | Lvn... Cox g e ams, Hon. and Mrs. Joseph S. Spear t . £ th D e | Dake : i ! Siaff, General he court is: ‘l!\ A\fTs. Barnes, Captain John A. Koster, | engine 1®8 and two coaches, with Con- | When dug out ft was found he had four | together before I could get out of the en- | S. (,nadb‘v{;mfl J. n%ox%—f,"l‘f*?aghr;ég F. | o eral Dickin: fonel and Mrs. Victor D. Duboce, R.|ductor Harry O. Steele of Sacramento, | ribe, his left arm and left thigh broken. | gine. Bf“f{m e hors e . W. Wri | H s sent to SanFrancisco by a.special | It was Engineer Wright's prompt action | R. ell, J. S. Young. A. Andrews, F.|G i Captain Frank West, | McK. Duperu, members of the stafl of the E{r;fgn:rflb{ugvof D e e | e e ill probably mot recover. En- | that mreveniot the. Sees Jomalition of | & Vall, G, It Plogy. Siation M. Ogden, | the ; First Lieutenant- John P. %9\':&1]?;, General Dickinson an eral as the first section of No. 2, on time. glneer Penny was ngt;leriguslxy Eum Con- | bfl";. trains. Av?ncmngh“a‘g bmugihi { Mr. Doolittle. | PL O near future the medal committee Third Arti First Lieutenant e % v Penny should e sidetracked his light | ductor Steele was badly bruised and cut | physicians from Wadsworth and a special T e =t ; to how to distribute th Tq Arcllers. iess| At the conclusion of the reception the| Eenny SROLT *Y5 e says he forgot, | about the head and face, Engineer Wright took Dr. Gibson from Reno. The injured| BANQUET TO COMPANY A.. | will decide as to how @ disimipute, e signal was and plunged right ahead. As he struck | was also badly bruised, while Fireman men, except Williams, were sent to their | W. F. Randolph, everal ¥ dio. ‘lssfir; leF, :’enGi :‘rdfi?r& Tfim;: "“I - ;fl%m;‘or‘: ':em'“:;'&;::n&:—;d“qe_ the St along the river bank | Mezger jumped and was-only slightly | respective homes. 4 Everything is in readiness for the bap- | teers from Callx