The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1899, Page 13

HEFIH4 443555384454 4409¢ FegesiB2. Whye @iall Pagesision, A bt JE E S I RS VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 24. SA FRANCISCO, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1899—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGE FIVE CENT THIRTY-FIVE MEN - BRITONS DETERMINED TO BURIED IN A MINE MARCH ON TO PRETORIA Entombed by an Explosion, the Unfor- Following a Lull in Fighting Comes a Story That an tunate Fall Victims to Deadly . Imperial Army Corps Has Disembarked at Lourenzo Marquez and Is on the Way tothe Transvaal. . ‘ Firedamp. | = R Y B N S N Wb DU AP AP DN MPAP MDD NP P S, R e e e ] at the top waited a! One of the m fictals who spent al- o . < rking {n the pit, | ® p | . w alive " xa ight 1s almost completa | o T A ) " * hope that the men are | o b Tney w ve. e cars are wrecked beyond | | . K wouth ¢ ognition plled on other. | “ ¢ the ¥ Stone and woox . riy-f " controlling alr currents are called pe blown down like much paper. . ) [ r have the pa n the main shaft to . pplted | the alr f . but beyond that T * . or twice | cannot g 1 we cannot get the air into | 3 . " er damp. the mine any further at present, although £3 e T hard and making slow progress. | ¢ . ¥ air is not in the main shaft beyond | ¢ P this point 1 see pr: ally no hope for j . s X ¥ the entombed men." P The k As the night grew blacker the scene at | | » SE¥ ¥ r the shaft became more sorrowful. The | J . g rain came down in pitiless torrents I 8 i - No ¥ foot of each moment the air was mo & ¢ A % ed to the | Back of :he fateful pit rose a sc | ¢ \ . . ter damp of mountainous darkness. In fro 14 . 2 & s w far across the rallroad tracks, were the | § » AN ' flickering 'ights of the homes of the min- | ¢ . » 5 ers. At one side’ of the mouth the | o PS shaft some huge lumps of coal mad: a | . N B blazing camp fire and nd it were scat- | £ + s AS ed a score Jf workers. Many were speech- ratt less over the calamity, while others taiked | ¢ 5 in whispers the t * doom meted nions with | + all the stoicism of men engaged .n dan- | * k gerous e yment. On the board plat . form that covered the mine grimy mufn- (4 . . . ers sat with ears bent to hea: the faint- | [ ) wr " est call for succor f; the depths. By Stone | W the bot. &N upper window in a house beyond ma\t * £ 1t R t ¢ wreck. | ITACkS could be seen a mourn . X Boss | ag her bowed head visible in the | - AdclifT we s a rude It was Mrs. Meese, whose t . n was lying in death's embrace pe . . r 5 provided morgue 4 i ) ¢ " s 5 . Samuel Meese. was one : g pritde D exninaten had dead waiting transfer to 4 omes ana thead | the surface. She was watching for tne | % . - y irce. | Men to bring up her h X Be- | ¢ o » f t o ple weeping | ¢ ¢ m'lj Other . the shawls abi heads giviag | ¢ )4 s . : i taatiy v(;wlvn from ‘m. cold: but | § ] A aces showed the intense ) 4 s ¥ t o endured. To hope was | $ + ch nurtured that hope that | ¥ * . dead lies before the mourn- | ¢ . \ tremer x s 4P r. Each husband, father or brother | ® e, % ) 1 t T S cold in death far down in the mine 1« . AR * 1 i vet each tried to cling to some imj > | & . p v t ¢ rescuers found the | Fémnant of hope | ) § » ] nat had bee No complete list of the dead can be com- ’ : ek , AT e | s ot e e | General Joubert’s Headquarters Camp Near Ladysmith. t e 4 sck to-night the work of res- | have the payroll, but it has been impos- | s - % cue ¥ gressed so far that Superin- | sible for them to discover all the surviv- | o rarn i Drawn by Gerardin for Le Monde Illustreé froth ‘a photograph. . ¢ . Blower expected to have some | Ors. There is general agreement that ¢ p & - 1 t midnight. Mine Inspector | from thirty to thirty-five men are n- | @400 004000+ 00000+ 000 060-0-006-0-005+50-00-0-00o P-o->o-D-0-@ + S+ IsB et eistetstesieieteteteld LONDON, Dec. 24—4:45 A. M.—Beyond the statement that a tombed. About half are Americans and the balance Hungarians or Slavs. Soon after the extent of the accident be- Is working away in the n shaft at the head of gan en, who are strai heliograph message from Ladysmith ¢ fhere are | came known undertakers were summon~d | PGPOPtS *‘all well to Friday afternoon, with no fighting except outpost skirmishes,’’ absoiutely no news » . Blick, who | from Brownsville. A new building just has been received from the seat of war during the night. had not received any war dispatches. aid back of the mine, intended for a black- smith shop, was converted into a morgue. The War Office officers at midnight said they re s no doubt | Her ine b ds trestles were sh: d . 3 - i e e b is ror i i Sl CAT fen From a Continental Dutch source, however, comes the uncreditable rumor that a British army corps vie part of ine | readiness for the vicims of the mine has disembarked at Lourenzo Marquez and is marching toward the Transvaal frontier. ventilate when broug e surface. and 1s proo- hoked with de: after- | There was an explosion In the Braznell NDON,® Dec. - 24.—VYes-lis e eal of that| “We are too good Amerieans to leav they had signed nurses and consider ) human being can live | mine last July. It adjoins the Empire ONDON, Dec. 24. s-|is felt _tlmt a great deal D] that ! sick friend here for any one!” | themselves treated as private soldiers. g A ve mot been able to con- | mine, in which elght men were killed last terday was another blank | sort of thing has been going ON| As the incident occurred, at the last | -~ Ives from the after- | year the day before Christmas by a simi- | z ; . : 3 romer or Cabelle o ¢ e 1o | they are ey - | AT et { day, so far as news of any |and that the British have not|™moment _;‘,‘; A ashedtime ) FRENCH FOMENTING 2 g e el S o |interest from the seat of war was | been half strict enough in keep- | it ; e At g min- TROUBLE IN SOUDAN Jree R s 1 2l gt : 2 £t | ute to declare that they would leave STEAMER SINKS AND TEN PERSONS KILLED IN MRS. SUSAN A. MAIN ‘um(cnl\m]. (1)n§l thm;;.ltllmt1 no]\\ ‘m;i a bclllcr.]noluu‘llltur their OWN | making_general e A T U e M N seems beyond all possible doubt |sakes. It is considered possible | Some of s 2 = ooy g | = e ALL HANDS LOST THE AMALFI DISASTER| ASKS FOR A DIVORCE : A | 2 FPoset | o secpaners. calldithiem ‘ordes v e Ot ot by - 17E | ik s that the British guns aband- |that young Lieutenant Churchill,’ AP Rty Al i e e b a Marico, a Loss of Life Not as Great as| Wife of the San Jose Newspaperman | oned at the Colenso battle were | who is not a man to go about | dec was reached at the last cems i ) : . e . .1y | ment and lef 10 time to find a solu- was still i Ashore RepmtedAln the Eastern Makes Clharges of le:fldeuty, really captured and are in the|with his eyes and ears shut, will| tion. Theretore T Lad o opind Lo defeat I by Colo- o 20ME s Jegloct and Qruelcy. hands of the Boers. The only | be able to tell something valuable #ccept their nd_order s, canth of thie K NAEN vy The | ROME. De ow appears SAN JOSE, Dec. 2.—Mrs. Susan A.|Dands o S ) d SOHISHInEg Valtianic ashore, certainly ple of Cairo, when the disaster Matn to-day began suit for divorce from | consolation felt here is that,|of the extent of the Boer re-|is unjustifiea.” oot o 1 t were | | ':,,:.:::p;:’ ik I"J'h:”::o‘u’;d:‘:rn‘-(nn:‘g': | though General Buller lost them, | sources. pATbenctine pane ms that N > S . | lect, infidelity and extreme cruelty. It is | the Boers cannot turn their muz-| The event of the day here un- e ‘,t”'&""“']’ 'I'“."r'l“\' "‘{:“'; . « 2 ““"':w"“";,hd":?:‘;:‘ ”"":""‘:“""""‘l’ ar| zles against the British as they | doubtedly was the departure of though they 5 na 'd e Ma S wWers arried some - 3 o S - . will not re NG % twenty-five years ago, and have a family | have no shells to fit them and all | Lord Roberts for South Africa. | The assistant, who Is sic hore. of six grown children. For many years |the ammunition on the British | The determination that he should Ea¥o:the pest Zedical o s - until recently Main was the owner of the | . RIREWREAN : ! e o eemtie. New. York,at, thi, ommit the general (the writer McHUGH'S INJURIES FATAL. Evening Herald, side was exhausted before the|go to take the post of commander | expense. The dispute was an incident | pomey ha tons The suit promises to be sensatfonal in | which was known only to a few B st guns were left t6 their fate. in chief was o L in the Light- sudden and his de-| the extreme. Shirley Groat, a young : : The Maine dep, r favorable | ter obliterated the Mine woman well known to the semi-fast set, It now appears that General | parture has been as quick. On | auspices. Red flag floated | *I can tell you that the j AN 8 « > T ¥ figures in the family quarrel. About a | A4 . X : 9 & . | from her foremast, 1een’s ensign | confronts Cairo is nof g Smith of | "°K 280 Mrs. Main caught her husbana | Buller himself had a very narrow | his leaving Waterloo Station his | from her main and the stars and stripes No sooner has ¢ ¥ of occupa- % e a e Of| and Miss Groat dining n a restaurant and | poon e s hi ssisaclde a8 witnesch ; an | from her mizzen d the Egyp end to the ¢ t attempted to horsewhip the couple. Marn | €5cape. He was h‘n on his sxdcldtpartnre was witnessed by '.mi TNy NEASTOR: Obutahlil s b e »'s rebellion than ch have e 4 s considerable property, and a restrain- | by a spent bullet from a shrap- | enormous crowd, who gave him |stateroom, on the main deck. The stat to foment a X . I s se Clark's letters and | Ing order has been secured to prevent | - room was filled with floral decorations of t trouble going o | him from disposing of it. CAPTAIN MURPH SHOOTS M. MARCEL Brother of Lale San Francisco Millionaire Avenges Sturs Cast Upon Queen Victoria by a French Editor, O'Nell | grace. aniel tsco mil- y Wols Michael Lord 1 perhaps of La Captaln Storza, with a message that if Marcel did not give him eatisfaction he would go of La Carfcature. . This of course brought the Frenchman to time and a duel was arranged. Captain Murphy nted to fight with Winchester rifles, but consented to compromise on dueling pistols at twenty paces. k t All the preliminaries arranged the com- t for insulting | batants with their seconds and physicians col- | went to a spot near Basle, close to the & hole | border of Germany. This was done in or- al der to make certaln of a duel. e have been The combat was of the briefest dura- rtoons—not | tion, for Marcel was put hors de combat n the English pa- | at once. As he fell his revolver went off ridicule of France | and the bullet grazed Murphy’s arm. The = \\'n:.‘n ka-.nz:;‘l- editor lies in a precarious condition In ag editor, calling him | ::m’l’::i-:‘:hn‘];lll: the Irishman is out 1 thelr ¢ a dog When Frenc mm:-‘lhey don't gome out with good |ahout his cncouater he merely remar] Marcel being coy, Murphy sent to | him two Roumanian princes, the brothers | {n | story was circulated that Samuel Mur- When & correspondent asked Murphy|Sam Murphy had fought a duel and re- celved & wound in the arm, ) “It is tl'{a poorest shooting I have done many days. I aimed for his head and nearly broke his collar-bone and put a | hole in the wrong place. . down and make mashed potatoes of the | s i theayita) editor, his staff and all the paraphernalia | lows will stop insulting women now; if not I will have more of them out.” Murphy says he thought of the woman more than of the Queen. Still, it {s said the Prince of Wales thanked him for so chivalrously defending his mother, and | Mr. Chamberlain has sent a kind word of acknowledgment because punishment | had been Inflicted on behalf of her Ma- Jesty. il Members of the Murphy family in San Francisco were considerably agitated last night over the news from Burope. A phy, brother of Daniel Murphy, and son of the founder of the house of Murphy, Grant & Co., had been shot and killed. Later on another version was given at the Pacific-Union Club to the effect that nel shell, but it only cut his skin and did him little harm. There seems to be no change yet on the Modder River so far as can be ascertained, nor is it expected that there will be for some time to come—not until the arrival of reinforcements which now are well on their way. News from Sterkstrom would seem to indicate that there has been no fighting of any kind there since December 10, and that General Gatacre is just wait- ing for the full complement of | his troops before continuing his | advance. The Derbyshires have now arrived at Sterkstrom camp. In the absence of other news the chief talk in clubs and else- where yesterday was again about Lieutenant Churchill's escape. He surely is one of the heroes of the hour. The story which appeared in the Herald and Call yesterday about the traffic in ammunition, guns and stores and foreign re- cruits for the Boers passing through Delagoa Bay, wired over here and produced in the evening papers, has been much talked tjabout and commented upon, It a greater and more enthusiastic send-off than perhaps ever has been witnessed at a London sta- tion. But, of course, “Lord! Bobs,” as he is nffcctioxlatel_\'3 called, is not only one of the most | popular men in the army, but| with the general public as well. | At Southampton it was the same | thing. Now that he is on the sea | |and England will not see its idol iagain till all is over the question | naturally in the people’s mind is | | when that will be and how much | more slaughter will be suffered before the British flag is hoisted | over Pretoria. ———— | AMERICAN HOSPITAL [ SHIP MAINE SAILS | LONDON, Dec. 22.—The American hos- | pital ship Maine safled from the West | India docks for Cape Town at 2:30 o'clock | this afternoon minus five of the male as- | sistants supplled from the New York | hospital. One of these men is said to | have expected promotion to a non-com- | missioned officer’s rank. He succecded in enlisting four friends who a moment be- | fore the ship sailed notified Major Cabelle | of their refusal to go, saying one of their | number was ill and they had determined to stay. Major Cabelle informed them that their friend had been left in good hands, and that there was no reason to desert. The men, however, made other complaints, whereupon Major Cabelle in- formed them that they had plenty of time to_consider this beforehand, but if they refused to go they must sign off the rolls and leave the ship. This the men: did, and standing on the dock they shouted, | of this | goes, I go.’ the Maine and Red Crosses, while holly and mistletoe overhung the doorway. Mesdames Ronalds, Blow, Van Duser and others of the committee were pres- ent. The nurses, in blue capes and soft felt hats, and the surg %, in the ne designed seml-United States uniforms, added color to the scene. Lady Churchill said to the representa- tive of the Associated Press: “I know of no better way to spend the Christmas | than on an American hospital ship bound for South Africa. The Maine is splen- didly equipped and worthy of her people and mission. 1 go with a grateful heart to all who have so munificently alded the committee. I hope we may prove worthy cred duty. Wherever the ship The final signal for “all ashore” was foi- lowed by many handshakings and fare- wells, and as Maine moved into the river three cheers were given for the ship, then for Lady Churchill and finally for the United States. Then those on board gave three cheers for the union jack, and the sailors on the surrounding craft cheered the United States as the white hull disappeared in the thickening fog: The Maine will coal at Las Palmas, Canary Islands. She expects to reach the Cape In three weeks, and will return with her first consignment of wounded late in February. S. T. C. Speer, one of the nurses who left the ship, said to a representative of the Associated Press to-night: ance for 1 comrade, ¥ Prince of Wales Hotel. He has been there for two days without medical attendance. When I reported the facts to Major Ca- belle he told me the American ladies would care for him, but I decided thar T would not leave him. My comrades com. | case without protest, and is Iy griev- | | statement of the facts touching tne | the expense of the tre the front in the las Khedive is rearing u the Tommies. C fection exists among them wi French inciting the natives ag British, and with such existing among the Kh can, imagine how Catro. Because of state of affairs the general has shifted his quarters and taken refuge the resi- dence of Lord Cromer, live's troops iting things are very troublous at the British Agent Consul. The latest report as I write that they are mobllizing the Eig fourth Battery of Ro Artil army of occupation certain ms y to have some work ahead of them for the most of us out here, and to me as though the Soudan will soc scene of much more bic Sidar in his final battle in putting the recent rebellion killed ov vishes, the Khalifa being am; together with his though, we had quite a tu got away with them, for t are devils to fight. The declared open, and the it looks be fighting down | tlan troops are in occupation The recelver of the letter, reasons, refuses to give the n of the write: ‘SEIZURE OF FLOUR. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The partment has received from t . vania Milling Company of New Ye ure of two cargoes of flour belor that concern bound for Portuguese in East Afric ing ports The seizures were made by British warships on the ground that the flour was ifitended for the Boers. The company's letter Is a pre stion of the vidently in- plain that Major Cabelle sent them to St. | tended to serve as a basis of a claim for George's barracks, with its damp walls. where we were treated as English pri- vates, and they could not stand it. no further confidence In Major Cabelle." In conversation with the other nurses, the Associated Press They | were removed to the hotel, but they had | representative | here to-day. gleaned that the maln complaint was that ! forwarded to-morrow. It is pecuniary dam. inst the British Government. ookl Ao . RECRUITS FOR THE BOERS. CINCINNATI, Dec. 2.—Thirty-five re- cruits for the Boer army were examined Those who passed will be belleved Dr.