The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1899, Page 1

T all VOLUME I.XXX\'H-—V’;\:}). ‘lfl.fl SAN FRANOCISCO. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGES EXPLOSION OF FIREDAMP ENTOMBS EIGHTY MINERS Death’s Awful Harvest in a Colliery at Car-| bonado, Wash. Two Scores of Workmen Instantly Killed by the Shock or Cut off From Escape and Suffocated by | Deadly Gases. | DA44444444449444404044440 * PARTIALLISTOF THE DEAD * -looking arms and legs fchts like these have made almost unnerved cleared | | ties go e and often | me by firedamp. rescue the | » relieved by new | two or three hours. | volunteers. The 1 by Superintendent These pa lowm of men every The superintendent declares his inabil- for the {dent. The ed every few hours onformity with the sunt mining laws. does no the belleve in the first theory, miners broke into the old mine and encountered a large cham- clines to the belfef that r disobeyed the rules a match or unscrewed his rereby igniting some small gas This in turn set fire to others, and 1 instant the explosion had been GUSTAV H. KN ced » bod and turned over t The i ay and is A car load morning r on Monday anc THOMA e officer killed in the explo- pector Rees Jor e started to work every da quitting at 11:30 a. m. 1 day's work was finished and he was | standing ¢ the lower level, waiting to | | come out, when the explosion occurred. Wa Jones, aged 35, was the last chiid | of his widowed mother. Three other sons | { have been killed in coal mine accidents. | A few years ago her daughter and grand.- | child, her only other living relatives, werc killed by a tree falling on the [ Richard Dare was ore of Welshmen living here. He was nly a vear ago, and his aged | her.and mother had just arrived here | sit him his wife. | en the T rs came upon the dead | t the '\”‘lhlr 1 of the tunnel it necessary to carry them out at t the work of clearing the track | 1 might not be stopped were accordingly quickly | gunnysacks and hauled out. It | 1t the bodies yet to be found | ated even more than these, | them are covered with coal | RP. HAINAUT. NULLAND. the finest FEP L P4 4444444440444 4444044444444 4444444444440 0444404000004 R e e e e Y ) il R e e R R S R dles many The infiy ve b | » of the Southern Pacific, | of them w into the WALTER ROSSER SHOOTS A MAN AT NEW YORK The Pistoi-Wielder Is Thought to Be the Ex-Tennessee Soldier Who Killed Henry Hildebrand in This City. | | Continued on Second Page. 4 on Second Page. Continue on the brand in the eckels Market afternoon of September 13, 1S Like the Rosser mentic i medicine at | this city Aside from is connect Dr. Wyeth er g of people ¥. Ros, with the hospital corps e Regi noon of September 1 zed from drink, he fired at 4 boy emplc sllet went wide of its murderous soldler then brand. The bullet took effect § | the heart and unfortunate | dtea almost in There w made to lynch the Beéerietesietbetebeteisiebedeiriebetrseg o D who g g 2 § be s ebeve pe WALTER ROSSER - The Slayer of Henry Hildebrand. re is but littie doubt that the Walter | i’ Rosser who shot Slater is the | Rosser who killed Henry Hilde- B S AL S S S A S L g R e besrereie i@ . .| four miles out sighted a patrol | who sought cover. | Halse ascertained that the PRICE FIVE CENTS, BRITISH TROOPS STORM LOMBARDS KOP AND CAPTURE BOER GUNS. berley and Gatacre’s Adv ance Patrol With the Enemy. D oG eieioi e e e ebevereb e . * . o [1F fel Y FIGHTING AT LOMBARDS KOP. The position stormed and carried by the British on Friday last w £ame o pied by the Boers on the o sion of General Hunter's attack, 3 tober 30. (The picture is from a drawing made on the spot by the special artist of the London Graphic.) BOER HEAD LAAGER, Ladysmith, Friday, Dec. 8.— The British troops made a sortie between 1 and 2 o’clock this morning. They crawled up a ravine and stormed and carried Lombards Kop, which was held by the Boers, and on which were placed a Creusot gun and a howitzer. These guns wers destroyed with dynamite. The British captured a Maxim gun and then retired. The Lancers, Hussars and Guards made a sortie west of Ladysmith at daybreak under cover of a heavy artillery fire, which the Boers re- turned briskly. The British afterward returned to Ladysmith. The Boer losses are reported to have been slight. - strong Boer column has crossed the Tugela River at Colenso, with the object of attacking the British Estcourt columnn. Major Erasmus and Lieutenant Malen will be tried by court-martial in connection with the loss of the guns. eiei e el et ei et eiec sieieiei e e LONDON, Dec. 9.—A special dispatch from Preto-| ria, dated December 8, says 3000 British troops, preceded by an armored train, are advancing on | Colesburg from Naauwpoort. CAPE TOWN, Thursday, Dec. 7.—A hundred men - | of the Maval Brigade proceeded to the front to-night. It is known that the Boers have crosscut the ends of their Mauser bullets, thus producing an effect similar to the dum-dums. Halse and Warren and thirty men leit the camp at Carnevon to-day and when of twelve Boers, Two of the Boers were wounded. Boers were in strong force in a laager and retired to his base. This is the first brush of General Gatacre’s forces, and they are all eager to Yollow it up. LOURENZO MARQUES, Delagoa Bay, Dec. 9.—A dispatch from Pretoria dated to-day says: Reports have been received here of fighting early this morn- |ing in the vicinity of Schattnek, the British attack- ing General Cronje. Fighting is also reported to have occurred in the direction of Kimberley. It is pre- sumed this is another sortie. The Dutch-German Ambulance Corps has been enthusiastically received, and will be divided between Natal and the Free ' State frontier. ONDON, Dec. 10.—The papers yesterday afternoon displayed in big type dis- patches from Boer sources stat- |ing that a sortie had been made by the garrison at Ladysmith and that a big Creusot gun and a | howitzer had been put out of ac- @ORORIRORGOVRORNOLONONINONONINIROUONONORORNON VNONGNO%NOS WHITE’S REPORT OF SUCCESSFUL SORTIES LONDON, Dec. 9.—The War Office to-night issued the following dispatch from General Buller, dated at Frerc Camp, December 9, afternoon: ne following was received from General White to-day: * “Last night 1 sent General Huater with 50 Natal volunteers under Roynston and 100 of the Imverial Light Horse under Edwards 1o surprisc a gun on a hill. The enterprise wus admirably carried out and was entirely successful, the hill being captured and a six-inch gun and howitzer being destroyed with guncotton by Captain Fowke and Lieutenant Turner. A Max- im was captured and brought (o Ladysmith. Our loss was one killed and Major Henderson of the First Battalion of the Argyll Highlanders wounded. At the same time that Colcrel Knox seized the Lill one squadron of tnc Nineteenth Hussars rode around Pepworth Hill, burning kraals and cut- ting the telegraph lines. They hadc no casualties.’” ] RORORONO RORINOROR GRANORORO o000 R i e e R S S o I PSP 'An Attack Made On Cronje’s Forces, Fighting Proceeds at Kim- Has a Brush B R S T O O R R R S S S RSN g Y s 1 5 ® *3~ IR | | e (@t ieisiss sseisivsieiebheieieisisieieteg WILL NOT ARRIVE AT PRETORIA BY CHRISTMAS ‘Buller's Task in SouthiAfrica Is Not Such a | Picnic as He Expected, and There Is Much Hard Fighting Ahead. | Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press. | ONDON, Dec. | 9.—What with the glorfous victories that leave the till virulent n { conquering the n of the Bri ed. A really decisive British operations, or or L th, would q red even among the Ge a victory as, by mere of unrest is bound to iner ully admit widesy It appears that the British forward cal conditions prevailing in the te cation pass than by the Boer during the P ve the 1 | British territory it would be much an avowedly hos and shortly, is now ta is admitted that a de | plished. | of the war than t | * year of the Cubans | up, one after another ish gener: ack | tions equ ! tinue, it week ore e Boer their won, With carefully sel and retiring nd apparently previously prepared. tod hem possib into t | bility of the War Office. tion. Nothing to corroborate this news was received till a Jate hour this morning, when a dis- | patch from General White was given out. Everything seems to point to | the immediate advance of a relief column from Frere. A new tres- tle bridge to take the place of the destroyed one has now been fin- | ished and trains with war mate- rials are running over it. Another significant indication is the news from Durban and Pie- termaritzburg that 2200 stret-her bearers are being enlisted there by the military authorities. The greatest enthusiasm at the pros- pect of an action is manifested at | camp. The soldiers are said to | be in the highest spirits. General White's position seems now much improved as the re- sult of the dissension among the Boers, who- are quarreling over growing inclinatic Boers storm realization who hang nav mmunicatic untry 18 force neral Butler wou! to find excuses in the slown ble to fight disapproval becaus ties which dissatils s not likely tc nent - is ret rough which th e bulldogs on frequently observ with such fo ential to d wher That Ladysmith of course, though in the must be ntly b never ul mobility positions, | after inflic will possib h forces + months at his »f the 1a division of their loot, and the moral effect of Lord Methuen's successes. An early termination of the siege is now generally ex- | pected. Further confirmation has come to hand of the story about Boers shelling the hospitals at Lady- smith. That the numerous cas- ualties among the wounded sol- *dicr.\ and hospital attendants could not have been mere acci- dent was to-day considered cer- i tain. Indignation here has been raised to a white heat by the news | from Durban that General White sent a message to the Boer com- lmamler informing him of what {had taken place and that Jou- | bert’s answer was that the Brit- {ish had no right to use any bui'd- |ing in the town as a hospital, a | neutral camp having been set aside for that purpose. From Naauwpoort camp it is