The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1899, Page 1

Call 1899, VOLUME I.XXX"II—.\-’O. 25. The SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, PRICE FIVE CENTS. REPORTED ALLIANCE OF DEATH GARNERS NEW VICTIMS |DESPERATE FIGHT WITH ON THE HUNTINGTON ROAD Two Persons Killed, Three Fatally Maimed and Five Seriously Injured in a Rail Disaster at Pomona. ENGLAND AND TURKEY Great Britaifi—S_zfiflo Have Made Concession_s chthe Sultan. Obtains an Authorization to Send Regulari Egyptian Troops for Service in | South Africa. pHRIS, Dec. 25.—The Figaro this mornping pub- lishes the following dispatch from Constanti- nople: “The Embassador of England was received in private audience by the Sultan yesterday. The Embassador came to obtain the authoriza- tion of the Sultan for the sending of Egyptian regular troops to the Transvaal. “The outcome of this interview has been an Anglo-Turkish alliance, and important compen- | sations were accorded by England.” ONDON, Dec. 3. —Christmas mor ing brings no fresh news from the While the pc n is of a dead- | ng the | dicated that a fight was occu the town. It was probably anothe: big naval guns fired a few rounds f Iyddite shells Into the Boer trenches near Colenso. Major other, to say ary situation e out party, 1s unchanged would aps be h = would fight to the end, but correct. When oppos forces rema d must ultimately win. Sating abs ancther Sor any leagth of t Boer sald that the war would s had spent | ks, Be- hes upon sses wh ry or defeat will be al day t work General ral Meth the flats ¢ had n both sides t the width of nea most complicate wires water at - over also were con the river fords. | the Boers are, both and at Magers- ’ ontinually extending and i | ERIN'S SONS' ORGANIZE the strength of their intrench- . BB ILESI T Sk e At epin TO ASSIST THE BOERS her side probably will venture any te formard movement To.aay | | OMAHA, Dec. 24.—The Bee will say to- eng Ao S e e b <y B Thera Is something more than bt s stizat gl i v g »d that the pro-Boer agitation, ¥ LD IR LT TR, general throughout the United The Duke of ( aught has again suf- ad to the resuscitation of tered e He repeated his the once celebrated organization among er be allowed to go t Irish-Americs known as e Fenians, r e G nt deemed it in- | Which pla: executed an invasion . he request. MHis | Of Canads out of hatred of Eng- - et o " land because of the wrongs that for sev- J Hig' P od his ser- rs had been infiicted upon | L ] erts as staff officer, but nations have reached . Omaha | e the latter was ready from other citles that an address calling to avail him- tlon the G here to its ve ol -on r a renewal of the Fenlan organization and the Clan-na-Gael had been sent out from this eity to enthustastic Irish-Ameri- ! cans In other places; but inguiry s H in Lom e feeling as to the t Irishmen failed to discl outlook 1. 1 met yesterday ¢ any who, w out such an learned E very gloomy, < r the o hes of the this | o o Bigant although wre some men in | - who were proud of their member- To my mind situation in € the Fenlan organization Africa has aitered entirely for the better. | 1nq however, did develop the fact One man who has g is some sort of a secret n)n\n—" Roberts s a power in )0t among the Irish enthuslasts Colonel Praadrpits and neighboring cities which has e e ‘erL some ;l‘u‘:\;\. lige character g has made a study of the a simple aration of sym- | eon, which were simply e Boers far away in South his experiences movement here will be in- America will stand R. urated by a ng to be held n Second Page Continued “England has § to know how to figh tit is felt in England to-day, amid all our re- verses, that the Boers s going to pay very dearly for their Christmas festivi- “What pleases those like myself, who know the inner workings Boers, is the sight of Dr I of weakness. ave had eno ways of the is throwing out feelers to Fr at @ eer direct signs that the Boers gh an they are beginni war. When I last saw' the situation In a was preparad to sell my la terests. To- very ses ght and ge mining in- d not sell a sh re “Another sign of the beginning of the end is General Cronje’s sudden rudeness to General Metheu: slderable politeness after a period of con- rom this it is ap- parent that the victory of the Boers at Magersfontein was of such a nature that they would not like to have it repeated There is not the slightest doubt but the Boers are tiring of the war; that o dissensions exist between the Transvaalers and the Free Staters, due to the former accusing the latter of cow- that in many districts of both re- fcs crops are absolutely rotting, and a of semi-starvation exists ughout both countries | is & fact that the Boers are horribly 1 with the war, but still m dissatisfied with the attitude of England and the lack of support by the opposition party in this countrv. In the initial part | of the war the Boers folt certain that | they would win, and so they did. They based all thelr hopes on England giving in, and by means of a quick campaign gaining something llke their own terms. “England’s united attitude to-day has completely disconcerted the Boers. In the huge reinforcements which England 1s the very death aking the situa- much improved. now sending out they s w of thelr ambitions. n all around it is OMONA, Dec. 24.—Amid a crunch:ng | of wheels, a splintering of wood- work, a hissing of steam and a gen- | eral smashing of iron, glass and | rails, the Riverside accommodation on the Southern Pacific Raflroad in this city, ran off the track at 6:30 this evening. Two people were killed out- right, three will no doubt die before to- morrow morning and five more are seri- | ously injured. The train consisted of lo- comotive, baggage car and two passenger cars. All tut the last passenger car Is a complete wreck. The loss of property is probably $20,000. The train left Los Angeles at 5:30 with both passenger cars full of people who had been attending a baseball game in | Los Angeles and others who were gorg to spend Christmas with friends and rela- tives. Many carried packages of Christ- | mas gifts. The train went over Covina branch, nassed Lordsburg on time and heast toward Pomona. There ¢ grade between Pomona and Lordsburg and where the Covina branch meets the main track of the Southern Pa- cific route Letween Los Angeles and Yuma there is a sharp curve. This s close to Rebecca street in Pomona. The train sped swiftly down the grade toward Po- mona. Just as the locomotive began to round the curve it left the track and amid the roar, crash of iron and wood rolled | twenty feet to the side of the track. The baggage car went smashing 1o the oppo- | site side and lles there with bot- up and the roof torn away. The first | nger car was even more completely | cked and lies with the wheels torn sides stove in, roof gone, and | scarcely one whole timber left In the | wreck. It is wonderful that any one es- caped from it alive. The second passen- | ger car left the track, but no one In it was serfously hort. The accident occurred just as the Pomo- na people were starting out to attend and Christmas eve services. The | > of the smashing and crashing was distance away and every one knew what it meant. In a very short tume hundreds of people gathered at the scene P R R e e s e A A S S S S SRS | of the wrack and in the early darkness the dead and injured were taken from the | mass of brcken iron and splintered tim- | bers. Every doctor in Pomona was called and people ran to get conveyances for the | dead and injured. James Coyle offered | the use of his Pacific Hotel to any and all in the wreck, and thither the bleeding and malmed passengers taken. were speel:ly R R R o R R R R e e e o S 3 KILLED. Unknown woman, supposed be Shankler or Shanklin. FATALLY INJURED. LYMAN WHITE of Colton, skall to badly cut and internally injured. WILLIAM SCOTT of San Ber- nardino. AUGUST LAFARDIE of Norta Cucamonga. MILTON MONROE of Monrovia, two compound fractures. L. E. EIFTER, brakeman, shoul- der broken. E. H. McCLUNG of Crafton, badly bruised. FRANK DONNATIN, agent at Monrovia. LESSER INJURIES. Engineer Evans of Colton, shoul- der broken; A. M. Thomas of Los Angeles, ankle broken; J. A. White station Randall of San Bernardino, cuts; Mrs. J. Stolz of Chino; Garr- son of Covina; Monroe Thurman of Pomona, arm broken; —Mec- Clure of Los Angeles; Henry Mon- ahan of Chino. A o o RS There were many pitiful scenes at the | rushed ! wsbands and children who were supposed to be among | Some men and broken tered floor timbers so that ful they would not be res- A dozen women were taken out of the cars with bleeding faces and From the wreck of the hissing locomotive Enginecr n was taken out almost dead, with gashes about his scalp and his chest crushed. Fireman White of Redlands was | found beneath the wreck of the baggage scene of the disaster. Women about frantically calling for the dead and Injured. women were pinned in cars seats and s they were f cued allve. by clothes bedaubed with blood. David Johns car with his face so badly torn as to scarcely recognizable. He Is at the Po- 4 | mona City Fire Hall, whera he Is not ex- 4 | pected to survive the night. George Robinson was found beneath the wreckage of car seats and glass and is seriously injured internally. Pinned to the floor of the first passenger car was found the body of a well-dressed young woman, who, it is believed, is a schoolteacher at Chino, San Bernardino fractured. County. Her face is crushed out of all semblance and her feet have been made SERIOUSLY INJURED. shapeless. A young man who was taking | to his home a large package of toys and DAVID JOHNSON, engineer, ¥ | Christmas books was found near by dead from a weight of iron across his shoul- ders. Edward Stokes of Riverside was found unconscious and suffering with chest wounds, and across him lay Willlam Scott, a colored man from Fresno, who has since revived and will probably re- cover. Milton Monroe, the train brake- man, who lives at Monrovia, crawled out of a hole in the car roof and is suffering from a compound fracture of the shoulder and concussion of the skull. Miss Emma Price, who lives on Figue- roa, street, Los Angeles, was found uncon- sclous and bleeding among broken seats in the first passenger car. Men with axes and she was taken away to a friend's | house, where she recovered. Her uncle, of Los Angeles, injury to hea.; | who was on the traln with her, has not George Donaldson, chest; D, | yet been found. A. M. Tones of Redlands Mitchell of Rediands, back; — | got out with a crushed foot and a dis- located shoulder. Two men whose names cannot be ascertained were found in a heap near the ruined baggage car. | they got there is a mystery. | In the Pacific Hotel are fourteen {njured | people. All the Pomona doctors are there | and scores of other people are in and about the hotel rooms and halls rendering help to the dead and dying. Conductor Fitzgerald, who escaped all injury, says that a wheel probably broke just as the locomotive began rounding the curve. Other people say that the afr- brakes would not work and that the engl- neer could not check the speed sufficiently for the curve 4444444442441 24444444444 4444944 +! gers who escaped uninjured, says-the ac- cident came as quick as a flash and that no one had time to prepare for the wreck. He says that all at once the passengers felt a lurch to one side, then In a roar and smash the cars went off Into the ground at the side of the track. A special traln sent from Los Angeles to carry the injured and dead to their homes reached Pomona at 10 o'clock. be EW YORK, Dec. 24.—The Sun has the following from London: The Paris .correspondent of the Morn- | ing Post describes one of the great- | est discoveries of modern science, | which has just been made at the Pasteur Institute. He says Professor Metchnikoff is engaged in seeking ac- | curate doses of a serles of lymphs, each | of which will rejuvenate a particular organ of the human body. The professor objects to premature publicity, and insisted that the correspondent would say only that he had hope, but the explanation discovery may be taken to show that the main prob- | lem has been solved. The correspondent Professor Metchnikoff's experiments | show that the explanation of senile atrophy has hitherto been erroneous. The | theory was that certain blood cells de- ' ELIXIR OF LIFE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED voured others and the vital functions be- gan to weaken. The to remain in the s tem in old age, or, least, be less energetically ejected. These poisoned the finer cells, while without ac- The tion on those of conjunctive tissues noble cells died, became the prey other of plebelan cells, thus phosis occurred. has proved conclusively that the senility. “Moreover, they may be multiplied. assisted in their struggle with bringing atrophy to the organ where the metamor- Professor Metchnikoff noble cells are not dead In organs atrophied by plebeian “The discovery was made in the follow- ing manner: M. Bordet, one of the pro- fessor’s pupils, published the results of a curious experiment, which consisted of in- jecting the blood of a rabbit into a guinea plg. Later he injected the blood of this guinea pig Into the rabbit, and the latter died. Professor Metchnikoff sought the causes of the phenomenon, and soon was | convinced that the blood of a guinea pig injected into a rabbit or other vertebrate | animal elaborates the poison that weak- ens the red globules of the blood and makes them the prey of phagocytes. at of 1f % : . . “Starting from the fact that polso cells they contin! - to live actively as in| ., pRTUNE from the fact that potson youth, and, theoretically, the organism |jarge doses, he argued that action i wlill cease to grow old and life be longed. means of affording this resistance, a CHRISTMAS DAY AMONG THE WHALING pro- | Professor Metchnikoff has found | ja | Il doses must be stimulating. On this d the action of all medicines, such nd ! as strychnine and arsenic. FLEET IMPRISONED IN THE ARCTIC cut away the timber which held her down | How | Lyman D. Westfall, one of the passen- | the results already obtained are extraor- organic poisons | dinary. | thrown off readily in vouth were believed | A SUSPECTED MURDERER H.J. Hannan,Wanted in the East, Arrested by Local Police. R S R A O R 2 0&&«04;:75:19 > &04‘04-040 e e T S | | | H. J. Hannan, wanted in Greens- burg, Pa., for murder, was | ed early. yesterday morning in International ~Hotel, Washington and Kearny streets, by Detectives Reynolds and Gibson and Policeman Ahern. He was locked up In the tanks at the City Prison. He made a desperate struggle for his liberty, and when he was overpowered he attempted to bribe the officers. The man claims to be a plumber, and professes to have no knowledge the crime for which he has been arrested He will not admit that his name is Han- nan, and he positively declines to discuss | the ‘affatr. | Hannan is wanted for the murder of his | partner, John Cralg, a member of & prom- Iinent Johnstown family. The Pittsburg police have wir 1 to Chief Lees to hold the prisoner, and have notifled him that an officer from there will leave at once for this city. | On Wednesday last Chlef Lees recelved a dispatch from Roger O'Mara, superin- tendent of police of Pittsburg, which asked him to arrest Hannan, and gave a detailed description of him. he dispatch also stated that Hannan's wife had left for this eity, and would arrive either on No Friday night or .aturday morning. detalls of the murder were given. ‘The Chief detatled Reynolds and Gib: {on the e, and they got Policem: Ahern to help them. The trains were watched, ana a woman answering Mrs. Mannan’s . description arri ed Saturday arternoon on the overland. The officers Kept track of her, and followed her to the International Hotel. She ed the clerk If her husband, Mr. Paul, was stop ping there, and showed much disappoint- meunt when she learned that nothiug was known _about him. She registered as “Mrs. Ehzabeth Paul, Pittsburg.’ A careful watch wis kept by the offi- cers for any one calling to see her, and shortly beture 1 o'clock yesterd yrn- y m ing five men went to the hotel entran. and one walked in and wen t up to the clerk. He looked over the register and asking for a card wrote on it, “Lizzie, come down: I want tc you." signing i H." Reynolds st up to him and asked him what he !fi'fll\ ‘was more forcible han showed fight, grabbin locked them a made u break for the stairs leading to the ladies’ apartments. Reynolds grabbed him as he ran. and Hannan placing his knee tried to force struggled several KS against Reypolds' breast him backward. As they HAY NEW YORK, Dee. 2. Herald from Washington says: Secretary of State Hay will have a thorough Inves- tigation made of the reported seizure by British cruisers of several cargoes of American flour off Delagoa Bay, South Africa. Instructions have been sent to the American Consul at Lourenzo Mar- ques, Portuguese South Africa, directing him to make a thorough inquiry and do everything in his power to prevent illegal interference with American commerce by either belligerant. Embassador Choate has also been in- structed o make inquiries in London and may justify. ‘What action will be finally taken by he Government will depend on what is re- vealed by the Inquiries. The reports :hat reach Washington are unofficial and very meager. Forelgn Office acted on the theory that but they don't indicate what evidence the British naval commanders had to justify them In reaching that conclusion. It Is contended by the legal representa- to make such representations to the Brit- | ish Foreign Office as the facts in the case | They indicate that the British | the flour was destined for the Boer army, | DOPE FIEND WANTED FOR AN EASTERN MURDER. % i i : i | MAN whom the police believe to be | ENGLAND FOR AN EXPLANATION When Apprehended He Fought Frantically With the Officers of the Law for His Liberty. § | % | ‘0@0".0000'00000'0900'0‘599'.0"‘9'0'0""00"0‘9'0 i i | z es of the b and nt to the officer's was soon overs father 18 a g0 free ther r a word will and 1t ® ih it for you and L it Rey- iled and marched him out of the He begged to be allowed to see his . but the § was not granted. When searched City Prison a box of oplum w he admitte and had a his pocket, and to the drug his room at been living. the pipe and en they went to wi ng be- ed the officers to g but w there m yesterday 6 him in'it. At the prison some he was wanted for ked, “If 1 did kill & terday Hane bu ness. and since here had done about hote e had a brother, in and another an Is want- land County, rings ruck all the cour in the vicinit u harvest at Altos the divi Hot ds were exchar men did not come 1« later the days t, Greensourg, two men met on Main str during the Westmoreland County Centen< nial. This was some months ago. There arr+l was renewed and t came to blows. Mannan pulled a revolver and shot Craig In the abdomen. Cralg was brought to his home ir tsburg, whers he died three days later. In the excite- ment Hannan escaped, but an accomplice was arre He was another member and Craig would not say that he anythir lo with the shooting. Cralg w member of & prominent family Johnstown, which will likely push the case against Hannan. “Mrs. Paul” was seen last evening at her rooms in the International Hotel, but S talk of the man's arrest state that is of him she referted taken in the wrong party. Y not worried over the matter in .—A special to the | rior destination. If it can be shown that the flour was shipped from the United States for the express purpose of being forwarded from Delagoa Bay into the Transvaal it will 1 by the British t that ipment was te ternational law ontinu g at flour was as If it had been in tr to the Transvaal. This doctrine of contint ous voyage was adhered to very strongly by the United States during the Civil war. The most celebrated case under it was that of the h salled from British ship Springbok, whic a British port for Nassau, another British port, with goods intended to be reshipped from that port In another vessel and car- ried into the confederacy The Springbok captured _before reaching Nassau, a was taken to New York, where she was ad ed a lawful prizé and her cargo was ¢ »mned. This decislon was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United £ “It is true,” Hopkins, of the law firm of Hopkins & Hopkins, when I inquired regarding the case, “that we v shortly the Boers will feel Great 3 = . Britain's might, and Dr. Leyds will have o CHRISTMAS day in the frozen North is an occasion that brings a man The crews of four. steam whalers and one “wind jammer” will celebrate @ quite a fresh proposal of peace.” | e awfully close to the Eter said Captatn B. Cogan of the whaling Christmas day off the mouth of the McKenzie River this year. The steamers ¢ B | bark Alaska yvesterday The ship 1s frozen in and as far as the eye can are the Narwhal, Balaena, Grampus and Fearless, The first three belong to § s reach there Is nothing to be seen but an expanse of Ice and snow. The sun the Pacific Steam Whaling Company's fleet, while the Fearless is owned ana ¢ SHARP FIRING HEARD # has gone and the only light Is the Aurora Borcalis. It throws a bewitching commanded by Captain James McKenna. He has had a most remarkable ran 53 ND LADYSMITH | é light on hummack and stranded iceberg, while the imprisoned whalers stand of bad luck and when last heard from the vessel was still “clean.” McKenna 2‘8 AROU | % out boldly against the Arctic sky. Suddenly a sallor appears on the forecastle has a host of friends In San Francisco, and many of them will waft him a swish T | § head of one of the vessels and in a rich barytone, made doubly pleasing by the for good luck and good cheer on Christmas day. With Captain McKenna are & [Epecial Cable to the New Copy- | ¢ distance, he says, ‘Glory (o God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will Willlam Mogg, first mate; George W. Idson, second mate; John 8. Lucas, third ¢ y t, 186, by James G Re- | 88 toward men, from Heaven's all-graclous King.' In a few moments every man mate; William Starr, fourth mate; Theodor Pederson, Harry Slate, Stephen Pena 3 publication of nx‘;»mu\.\l-_::u”:d ;'t:.t‘:":r:‘a 29, in the fleet is on deck and there Is none but what bows his head during the sing- and Frank Bauer, boatsteerers; Charles Aske, ncw;rd:.’fl. Lalse, chief engineer; % All rights reserve: C 3 ¢{hat Christmas carol. C. Hedman, assistant engineer; O. L. Fredrickson and J. Dawls, fi Qi Prisain:] 3 18 o for me. I saw the plains of Bethlehem, the sheperds. keoping watch. over Fred Wilks, carpenter. gyt FA LONDON, Dec. %.—These advices from ‘: their flocks by night, the angels in the Heavens, saying ‘For unto you is born All the \ms&ll :ow in lthhe rArc(lc left _here E Marc)lli lnd"Aprll of this year. ‘¢ fts spectal correspondent are published in | & 11is qay in the city of David ‘a_Savior who is Christ the Lord.' the multitude B WIRISCig of the Towh Of the Meionale River, they will be able to take. g the Daily Telegraph: | & of the heavenly host praising God, and then again our Christmas carol, led bY on the spot will gain nearly a month over the vessels that will leave hera in the & CHIEVELY CAMP, Monday, Dec. 18.—| 8 ). ginger on the Grampus, gave Glory to God in-the highest.’ It was the gsprin The Balaena, Grampus, Narwhal and Fearless will return to San 2 Sharp firing was heard In the direction ! é most inspiring scene I have ever witnessed.” rancisco sometime in October or November, 1900. ob-Thpysite: e hoiar: R e | ° Wmomgg.s.mmmmmmmouWflmmfiofio&wfim‘fi'fim" tive: of the American shippers that the | have as counsel for Messrs. Flint, Eddy flour was shipped to bona fide purchasers | & Co.,'made certain representations to the in Portuguese fterritory, and that the | department of State as a result of the shippers had no knowledge of any ulte- | Mashona and Maria incidents.