The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1899, Page 1

| I VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 127 SAN T e’ < FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BLAZING SNOWSHEDS LLUMINE THE SIERRAS nern Pacific Pmnertu Valued at 1housands of Dollars Ruthlessly Destroyed bu [ncendiaries. -0 N L L o | > | | * @ * ® . @ . * & . @ . . — SNOWSHED INTERICOR.. CENTRAL PACIFIC SNOWSHEDS, DIARY FIKE. VISITED BY AN INCE 11 P D+ 090400000000 0000006200 0066000600000 be resumed when the brid crossed Yet at both ends of the bridge the fires ad been started, and. though a ! stretch of fron 430 feet 1 ntervenéd, ine the sheds on both sides re madly that the com- A strong south wind was b z Jbetoreriats, ing the time, and pas: party will t d another | scribe the scene as magnificent to Greytown. the heave 'SALE OF HAWAIIAN | LANDS IS STOPPED President McKinley Issues the Order to Solve Difficulties at Pearl | Harbor. = towering pines of sur- s in bold relief against the detecte Navy De- ting fire to s trier side of th acquisition | Although a se: i actually nevded | ticulariy ‘in the ex- the men could of the ra fire will It will be ne harbor improvements, ed the following ex- t the case: the United States all proceedings taken position of Hawailan Islands and that if any | ts for sale of said pub- | ands have been made since the adop- | tion of the resolution of annexation the order President direc th: ge force of men w ork. The track is t and new rails laid, and on be running on schedule d September 11 last, < n hheld from publication til it reached Honolulu. FOR GOLD STANDARD Financial Bill, It Is Said, Will Be In- troduced the First Day the Senators Meet. ! iere u 'MAX REGIS SPEAKS ABOUT HIS ARREST Says He Is in No Way Connected | With the Orleanist Plot, but an Anti-Semite. Special Cable to The Call and the New York | Herald. Copyrighted, 15%, by James Gor- d in the | on the same will declare gold stand- . Oct. 4—Max Regls was interviewed here to-day. He said he and left Algiers on board the hey were overtaken by bad weather and transferred to a schooner, which landed them at Ibiza, whence they went to Barcelona by steamer. On their | i aictece were arrested as suspi- | cious characters and taken before the Prefect of ., Who released them detention. Two Lebel ion of the hat it may by session as po: CANAL COMMISSION. The Entire Body Shortly to Hold a Meeting in Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—Admiral John S, to [ G. Walker, chairman of the Isthmian | result of prosec st him is known. He will probably marry a young lady belong- ing to the aristocracy of Paris. | | 4449444444444 4 40400040 | on | Signor | with | Ponce and the Grande Duchesse. ACHIEVEMENTS N WIRELESS TELECRAPHY Marconi's Reports of the Race Will Be Sent to The Call | To-Day. NATIONS INTERESTED Germany and Japan Also Send Rep- resentatives to Witness and Report on the Resuits. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. 2¢ OeDeDeh e b NEW YORK, Oct. 4—The Mall and Express says: “All accounts agree that the thurough test yesterday in connection | with the yacht race of the Mar- + | of wireless te tem eg- coni raphy resulted in eminent sati sy faction. Not only were complete bulletins sent from the sea by Signor Marconi and his assist- ants to the highlands of sink, being tran the city by wir but turn messa. were received on ship- board cont ing the leading news of the The average time of the transmission of vacht news from the steamer far out upon the water to the wait- York is v seconds. significa tling nonstration of a new depart- ure in scientific achievement, the .ntual value of which may be As a journal feat da stic B A O e e S R I e o o + + + - + - s 2 + + - ot + + + + + + o + + + o5 + + + + 3 + - - > + of great and lasting merit th has never been surpassed. i st RS S S S S e e e e s o EW YORK, Oct. 4—From parts of the country, east, w north and querie co! tulatic poured in r Marconi a 1 results achie reporting by wirele: between bia the Shamrock for Id and The Call. | In San Francisco the-i-terest.in Sig- | nor Marconi’s work was greater than | that in the yacht race. From that city came a request that the Herald ‘‘tel graph whether Marconi met all expe tations.” From Atlanta, Ga., and from | New Orleans, La., similar re- quests for informat all of thes there could he made one reply. Marconi had exceeded every reasonable e ation. | One ult of wireless telegraphy | stations aboard the Grande | Duchesse and the Ponce is the greatly sed demand for tickets for these Excursionis desire to have the day result of the in Tuesda) 1y the first contest and double satisfaction of witnessing t contest between the two greatest yachts ever constructed and at the same time watching the operations of the latest marvel in the field of prac- | tical . Each of the two ex- cursion boats thus favored will to- | scien morrow carry the limit in the matter | | of passenger list. | The work of sending bulletins will | to-morrow be divided between the | Signor Marconi, as usual, will be on the Ponce, guiding from the chart- | room of that steamship the operations | of the four stations. From the Pon he will bulletin the start of the ra and describe the contest until 12:30 | o'clock, when the operators on the Grande Duchesee will take up the work | and follow the challen and cup de- | n around nder the first stake boat. There Signor Marconi will again o communication from the P work on the run home being d the same as in the run for the first mark. A red flag f from the tall spar above the mast of the Ponce will | indicate that Signor Marconi is flash- | ing bulletins to the shore. If no flag | flies at the masthead of the Ponce the operators on the Grande Duchesse will flash bulletins by those mysterious cur- rents which have just been controlled for the service of man. Bulletins will be sent from that ship to the receiving at Navesink Highlands and on e ship Mackay-Bennett In addition to four representatives of the United States Government, who have been detailed to give a careful study to the Marconi System, there will be on the Ponce a lieutenant attached to the German embassy in Washington | and a Japanese naval officer. These | gentlemen have been detailed by their | governments to p by the work be- | ing done by Signor Marconi. They will | report upon the r accomplished. The work done Tuesday, important as it was, will no doubt be far sur- passed tO-mOrrow. A Call representative in the Herald's | telegraph room forward Marconi's bulletins by special ov nd wire di- rect to The Call’s business office. He | is seated between two operators. On his left the Marcor reports are re- ceived from the Navesink Highlands wireless telegraph station and at his right hand is an operator working the San Francisco wir By ‘‘reading copy” over the shoulder of operator No. 1 and dictating orally to No. 2, the messages reach The Call bulletin board on Market street onl a word or two behind their receipt in the Herald office. and only one or two minutes after they are filed by Signor | Marconi on the steamer Ponce, which | follows the racers. | FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH A HEAP OF CHARRED RUINS Sacred Edifice and Contents Totally Destroyed hy Fire and Other Proper@ei Damaged. When the Supports of the FEast Steeple Burned Away It Plunged a Fiery Mass Into the Street, Severely Injuring Five Men. o0 @ s 00 e e® Do . ‘oebe s G e P S e e g . . WHEN: THE’ STEEPLE:- TOPPLED. INJURED. & circle. Out from the rear of the!chanan street | church’ the flames reached and left a LEO COSTELLO, engine 14, severe | charred path across the buildings near, | 1aceration of the scalp, with concus- | 2nd across the street in front the new- placed paint wjthered from the heat. sion. EDWARD McGONIGLE, 31 en- gine, severe laceration of the scalp, with concussion. WILLIAM J. KENEALEY, fore- man engine 14, severe injury to right hand. Two other firemen, whose names and the extent of whose injuries are Just how the fire started is a mystery. Although adjoining buildings were some- what damaged there is no doubt but that it first kindled in the church. Mrs. E. Jewel was perhaps the first to see the flames, She occupied a sulte of rooms in tne Normandie, 526 Eddy street, and looking out of the window saw the | | iames reaching out from the church to- | ward the hotel. She shouted an alarm were homes, and up had not_been given ou well and it is not tho will result from the the fire, although the jured firemén from miraculous. After the injured h work of extinguish newed with i through the corridors of the hotei, wnence the it was taken up and carried down after f unknown. street. Officer Harry Hook heard the | from the roof of s shout and rang in the alarm. A few min- | pied by Mrs. utes later’ Chief Suilivan arrived and or- house. [=NLAMES have licked their way|dered a second and a third alarm turned | hoj se. which were : : . The mo- Firs! tist CI in. This brought the en trom outly- | mént ‘fire was d ered next door the = through the First Baptist Church | i G, TOENG "Wkt en mi guests grabt bles and rushed from altar to the big steeples that | afier the flames were first a sian to places o f the inmates have kept vigil over the righteous | nozzle, fed by three engines, w. of the hou = time and for many decades and the house of | ('€ a4 stream into the burning their effe the “lie SUpports were too nearly eaten away, and MXSHER IR HoW 8 Real ot 1 slowly the one on the we: ruins. Fire broke out in this tab: plunged into the stree on Eddy street, between nd police | e and Leavenwerth, shortly bef. 5 d then the & ater it was seen 1o W voices of half a alarm it seemed thz o'clock last evenin The crumbling roof and time timbers crackled as the flathe tongue c¢rept throvgh and within minute just as the people shouted ar thousand t Police Offi five minutes the building was an inferno. | the_confined gases within the walls ex- | were hoth co Up the tall corner steeples the flames | ploded beneath this steeple and it went | hotel by illness. Tt crept, cut away the supports and with | PUrtling into the street. | to c from bed w It was too late for the firemen to flee, | tered and carried the the grace of divers the weighty spires|ang borne down by the fery mass five of | Jacob Imme irch, plunged out Into the street. ~Men were | them lay bleeding on the pavement. Will- | was in the edi started. carried away injured and bleeding from | ing hands reieased nozzle and hose and | The first ed that the scene; firemen, without regard for | hurried to their rescue. Lee Costello of | the building was on imparted life, worked up beneath the tottering €ngine 14 was among the first placed on | to him by a stranger who rushed into tho church and y was on fire. It the fire was ca his feet, and although suffering from a | e laceration of the scalp and con- | on he retained his consciousness and | to him that the roof walls and guided powerful streams into the flames while on every side tangled wires were spitting death-dealing electric ted by a fireman and Mayor Phelan | Hotel Normandie S fluid in fiery flashes. Now the smoke was taken outside the lines, placed in a | optnion on the f hat the ki n of belches forth from the burning church in | Carriage and driven to the hospital. Ed- | the hotel is on side of the building | suffocating clouds and again the fiames | Ward McGonigle of engine 31 was practi. | where fire first broke Immel was s . % ™S | cally unconscious. He was taken by four | alone in the church when the fire was dis- reach toward the outer supports and en- | firemen to the Ellis-street Clinic. Dr. | covered. velop them in their fiery embrace. It| Hereford ook twelve stitches in a lacer: Policemen guarded the adjacent houses was as thoush the arms of Halemaumau | tion extending almost, Iromhea;‘u(o car. | from thieves during the fire. In " the vere W 5 . Later he was removed to the Receivin, v of excitement caused by the im- were wrapped around the doomed struc-| Ho i ol and thence to his home s FinE | on that the flames could not be ture and had finally reached out and ence street. William J. Kenealey, fore- | drawn adjoining buildings with the burn-| man of engine 14, Who resides at §1 Bu- Continued on Second Page. 0200 Columbia-Shamrock Yacht Race To-Day BY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, oc0CO 0000000000000 0000000000000000O00C000000000000000000COC00000000000000CO Readers of The Call’ WATCH THE CALL’S BULLETIN BOARD TO-DAY. : - o SEE THE CALL'S BULLETIN BOARD T0-DAY. 0000c©00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000C s Bulletins To-Day Q Will Get Reports of the Yachts’ Movements S TWO MINUTES o After They Occur, by g SPECIAL WIRELESS TELEGRAPH.