The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1900, Page 1

Tall, PRICE FIVE CENTS. Qe ot eiteiodedetode @A~@4-Ho«@+e~’@+s ties et et eiebeteteteies e @ HUBUKEN’S flEAn MAY Elghteen Bodles Recovered . at the Scene of the | Conflagratlon PRUPERTY LOSS IS TEN MILLIONS Waste of Smoldering Ruins Marks 32 - SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1900. GERMAN MINISTER WAS SLAIN BY CHINESE TROOPS Reported Murder of Baron| Von Ketteler Confirmed by Official Advices. ONLY THREE LEGATIONS SPARED —_—— & A e R sei e e b e -‘»0&0@090@0;»0:\0&-0 UNITED STATES LEGATION PEKING ., BURNED BY THE CHINESE \\.c [ st Heard From Other ;e pason fl&?,”m.r'fi'afilk%fifim ra sie H o R b A le THE BURNED AMERICAN LEGATION AND THE MURDERED GERMAN MINI TZR. 2 the Site the North German T AV N p reg e | 6 O-f m n RE P] esentatives i | The United States Legation buil now known to have been destroyed by the Chinese, was a handsome house ¢ . r D P l o in the center of a fine garden and was often tLc scene of merry gatherings as well as important consultations. “ L ) W l\m: W in Dire Peri AP s I s e i e onessserd loyd’'s Wharves. ST o 090060060000 : : QGetiotoNotetiotioNetio N oN et eRNeR et R +K Lo ® 0_90‘-07.0'3»'.¢’;0';0°.~Vn~’.0V.0‘.0fi0‘3"30'-’!20.’”-'0-. . 3 F ° el con =2 o p 4 - 4\ AMERICANS WHO ELL lN PSE EW YORK, July 1.—The s sustained in the fire at 3 ¢ 0 48 ® b the docks of the North German Llovd Steam ; v g ” '. . I H E l l A I IEN I S l N 5 Company in Hoboken yesterday are to-n consert - @ ys— Bk ® tively placed at nearly ten million dollars; ss of life & ° . k- . ) ar 7 . .4 that ) unh Iu h/(— Y'Y WASHINGTON. July 1—The follow b A ¥ Tha b e i Ay Dt rtiients D, —merely guess work at even this late howr—will reach proba- & - 2 3 re safe that + ° R shington: The following telegram is from Kempff: @ * 0lyas high as 200, and there are over 300 men in the, hospitals * § he doubted zvhether ¥ KILLED. ® in this city, Hoboken.and Jersey City badly burned. 4 . S sle ® * - - - . e hold urs longer, as he and g BOATSWAIN'S MATE THOMAS. GUNNER'S MATE BENSON. APPRENTICE BROMAI. R Up to 11 o'clock to-night eighteen bodies had been recovered. & ¢ t e LANDSMAN SEVERSON. e 4 i of these were placed in a row_at the morgue in this eity - o r L4 ( ’ s 2 5 3 2 s received by the con- || @ WOUNDED. @7 and numbered, this bei ing 1 the only means the ‘mI/.w ities have of - S dated Shanghai, July '@ Boatswain's Mate Holyoke. Quartermaster Conway. Seaman McKervey. ® 3 maintaining any sort of identity over the corpses, as they are so & . ’ port of the butch- ¢|f Machinist Handford Coxsmatn Mallos a0 ¥ onss fibalon ® badly charred and dismembered that identification will be made * £ ¢ ® Landsman Kellisky. Fireman Flaherty. Apprentice Johnson. - 3 % - pi Keit ( on June 18. + @ Cadet Taussig. Seaman Lloyd. Apprentice Rasmussen. ol un[A\'. by trinkets or pieces of clothing that were found about the pi . 7 i ition street when he was at- g Captain McCalla. S:aman Child. Apprentice Welch. ¢ bodies. The only way the steamship officials have of approxi- g ( St i Boxers, dragged from his horse o ® Fireman Rowe. Seaman Anderson Private O:u e mating the loss of life is by comparing 1 3 - 5 , > . - Landsman Garrity. Seaman Jansen. P < L s v P 2 body wwas hacked to pieces The ’. ® Coxswain Ry Seaman Bolmuller, “ROGERS."” e 5y safe with the list of the emplo on the P . uildings were burned and a ¢ Coxswain McClay's name could not be found on the rolls. Possibly he had been transferred from some other & ate to-night Gustave Schave ke pens i » . anads = ’,‘ e Jlls were returned. The name McKervey also is not to be found on the rolls. The records of the killed, [ Jb 'I‘”_‘ to-might (’“"“_’ ¢ Schwab, the general agent of the b ¢ i their bodics thrown ¢ Navy Department, as foilows % North German Lloyd line, gave out a Im‘t showing what men on - S e as Thoma i at Mare Island In 1599. He was born in Copenhagen'in 1880. His next of kin is Mrs. T. Lan- @ o S al T i b i 3 Sath t, Philadelphia. o cacl: vessel had been missing up to that . . f siness has created ¥ @ SEE Dl i AEndan), NOPIToar S SE. Of K S Ruine’ Dinsen; mofher, Uving e On the Saale 255 men wwere employed and only 127 of these * - , ; . 3 i 2 N " R 2 G ara * > & 2 e 4 1 General of the % Py b it Dulith, Minn., 1n 1585 N8t 0 kin I0a 2. Broman. mother, living at Uz West Su- o5 lad been accounted for up lo 11 d'clock, leaving 128 men acival- & .p - Minn. % 3 b . rpressed s car a loutrance will be de- o < born in Norway in 1878 and enlisted at Chicago. Next of kin Laurence Severson, father, liv- * \ un/‘/mu{ as officers, sailors, stewward. ers, coal pass- - ~ . -, hins! enue, Chi ] p s g th ng Government. The Consuls entertain ‘: - AuEL LR i ers, oilers and trimmers to be accounted for. R t any foreigners are left alive in the capital. There »|®—8—©—0—0—0—0—0—0—0 0. o084 l.l.“ .d .xh.d .d. f. 00 0 0 0-¢00 The Bremen had 204 men on board, but only 127 of these the aie BE re as nothing now | tsin to Taku are simply lined with dead | of Port Arthur and commander in chief ; 4 ¢ igners the legations, fifty in the :_ S out Ithal edites the] ORlisaetls [ of the Horstay fosd commander in chie!| % have been found. The Main had 137 employes on board at the - giis ican tourists and others to th 4 irtment has already adopted, | The landing party from the first-class | arrived on his way to Tlentsin, taking s ¢ these y seventy-six have been redoited safe; . & e 000 CIeLT M 2, ¢ the United States Con- | Britixh barbette ship Barfleur sustained | supreme commard of the Russian forces time, and of these only Sevenlyay have been reported safe o 5 500 legation guards. & suls put mmuh es into communication | the heaviest casualffes of all the British }landed to date. A spectacular but horrible sight wwas presented to-day. p e - s of the provines, treat- | chips. | “Germany has 44 officrs and 140 men 2 : i ; 2 e Nankin, June 30, says: @ 1l government at Peking as| The Chinese fort on Pel Ho, twelve | Great Britain 184 officers and 1700 men. Where, two days ago, piers reached hundreds of feet out into the i . o obi . for administrative work, | miles from Taku, has been blown up by | Austria 12 officers and 127 men, Americ G : S T b ed reports from Peking that 4 all in their power to, the torpedo hout destrover Fame under | 2 officers and 320 men, France 17 office river and rose like great hills alive with outgoing and incoming ot 2 F forsk haire Book o aareic tahce 7ok % gners ir r respecti Co ander Key and 387 men, Italy 7 officers and 131 men, - . -cat e . J 5 ¢ a een in progress since J cigners in thei pective | Comman A ommerce, lay a great waste of burning and _vmn.:{ ering beams, . % : : i e R amicable disposi- | The correspondent of the Times at| Japan 119 officers and 5708 men, and Rus- | ¢ .- s 3 f dpsiniy pery i 5 1 s con runners from French [‘l iests at Pe- & these Viceroys is | Shanghal, telegraphing on Sunday, says: | sla 117 officers and 3817 men, with a total o with here and there a remnant of a high brick wall. The three 3 1 . the he 4 T “Dispatches from Tsi Ts ort a 53 field s and 36 mac 3 8. . s . , > s 4 A wa stered 2 to the con- Dab) s tar (e o v e “’;,",‘: e s o e ot SE il suns SN iadiine. Sun + immense piers of the North German Llovd line were burned to i 1k provinces in order | neers at Ka The Europeans escaped, * “The 2witley S e3bd ovall i k" 3 B e R L e e i ALL THUUGHTS GE"TER : ihe Lnf. s’ ripple, the Thingvalla /‘rrr /uj\ Ssmi¢ /dLl ing, and a bles, dc say that Viceroy "2 tically against the Peking Govern- pe destroved. The memorial art of the Hamburg-American pier, which had just been add- B " Y ceadgh S R has been burned ] legram from General Yulu on Satr ster had been murdered at Peking Fu, also wired. veion troops victorions 0'40'.0'.0'.“‘0"0'30" | text is withheld, b June gation buildings were still standing iay stat- ]m" ore your help. Foreign troops of to the number of 30,000 or iceroy of Yun- ree of the le- the 26th of WIS I L0SSES N ThirLy-Seven Men Were sfonaries at nent has not vet regarded E dered to leave by the Mandarins. The ad- the lack of cavalry transport.” = b e e 5 TIENTSIN ARSERAL s and danger. of the condi- It is understood determined upon. Marines CapLu]’e Power‘- Publishing Company. fm ZPesilion Erom e e o e e s during the rt of China ST. PETERSBURG. July L—Vice Ad- Aliexieff telegraphs to the Minister | man from the ships is being taken ashore. Arthur, June 30, as follows: arsenal of Tientsin, which of- powerful ba ON RELIEF OF PEKING {Every Available Man From the Ships Is Being Landed. ining have been o ops from Taku is hampered TAKEN BY ASSAULT Il and New York Special Cable to The C 0, by the Herald Hera Copyright, 1 and energies of commanders at Taku are now concentrat- | ed on the relief of foreigners in Peking, { who have been shut off from the outside world since June 9, and every available the Boxers. | moving on Peking, as it is estimated that 50,000 troops are required. The Tsung Li Yamen on June 19 ordered - of operations for | 7 The lo. of the Saale has been searched. beloww decks. Various tughoat thirty or forty persons in one Saale went down. * B . B » e . @ . & * 3 - e @ . P R 3 [ companies estimated to-night is approximately as follows: The steamship Main of the North ed to their great piers, were in ruins. Four large storehouses of the Palmer Campbell Company are wrecked, and thes the picrs, went to make up the appalling mass of debris, :mokm" sizzling and steaming. It cove ches out into the river for over a thousand feet. of life will probably prove greatest when the wreck hawve been taken off, and as soon as the fire in the hold has sib- sided there is every probability that many bodies will be found , with s over four city blocks and Already a number of bodies captains claim to have seen compartment just before the . B3 . . ] * @ . B . B . B - Ed . - - 4 - B . e * B . B . o . b . e . sRININeNeNeNINeN IR IRNINIRININIRN IR KeQ angh . . i sEYMflUH S GDLUMN 2 General Kouroptakine, from | rThe allied forces now at Taku and Tien- EW YORK, July 1.—The loss on the | Minor losses on floating property. burned ,.‘ ki under date of June 29, via Port|(sin are awaiting reinforcements before steamship properties and other | at the fire proper or set on fire by burning driftwood, will amount to about $20,000. The personal I istained by those aboard the Lo iy : who have greatly damaged 1 ks 2 German Lloyd line cost $1,500,000 outside of | mised, as there is no way of ascertainin; s readvell A il Killed and Ninety- European town, has been taken by | the Ministers to leave Peking the mext | (ormat Mot o0 g O g | e, A et time. e . y | v refused to go and threw the | piaced at $1,200,000 for the vessel and about Freight Manager Bonner said to-night Two Wounded. of « ere safe. ., where the prin- have occurred) stating that ghai from different LONDON, July patch from Admiral Bruce to the Admir- | Tsung Li Yamen. It is be via Chefu under date of June 30, powers will threaten to destroy the im- 1 for their safety on the eved that the a. m.—A . dis- | responstbil $400.000 for the fitting and stores and the | cargo that was aboard of her. the North The steamship Bremen of had about 5000 tons of cargo Of this there were 2000 tons ain, 1000 tons of slag, about 3000 bales 3 > | perial tombs if injury befall the legations. German Llovd line cost $1.250.000 and her | tton and general merchandi: lcate t . i Y be and general merchandise. The 1 hat Prince Tuan, father “The conduct of Commander Stewartof | The foreign force in Peking for the pro- fitinze and cargo were val t $300.090. | ga0ie had a full cargo, incluc rent, seems to be absolute- . . K Saale had a 0. including copper t Pekin. and that h:: atti- @ e and Commander Hause of | tection of the legations numbered 428 men rgo and stores were entirely con-| ,.3 general merchandise, but the Bremen ; e worst possible and most hc an gunboat lltis at the bom- of whom fifty ans from nd the loss to the el Proper | poq hardly any cargo aboard. 1 edict ch has so VIGEBUYS EXPEGTED - foreigners. It is even said that he far back as the 20th of 1l of the Viceroys to attack 1 their respective provinges ar not been | LONDON, 1 its special c | were Cs —These advices f: ondent are published by | lh(' Il.m\ 'Ir.(:rqm e miles from Taku, i now open. railway The road inw and communication with Tientsin is . July 1.—The Brit- | Py Seymour's column | 37 British killed and § val marine ar- ".\ fort thirteen milés above Taku was deserted by Lieutenant Com- | bardment of the Taku forts was magnifi- | the Oregon and Newark with Colts gun, The other officers M. Lippitt. cited the admiration of the under Captain Mevers. The river route to Tientsin, | are Captain F held is now e s WILL NOT PERMIT THE RESCUE OF AMERICARS nt to at lea She is d off Weehawken to-night and still smoldering. apparently destroyed ex- o hrr machinery The Saale, the steamship which wili | ave the most horrible story of death to unfold when the divers go down In her, cost the North German L $1 ‘lued at $30,000. The Saale is beached at yd Company | and the fittings and cargo gvere | “I believe,” Mr. Bonner sald, “that the <s to the carzo on the three ships will exceed $L000.000. As to the loss of carxo on the piers, it is difficult to estimate, for there was both inward and outward bound cargo there. “The gre t damage.an the cargo of the Saale will be that done by the wa- ter. I believe the hull of the Saale below the waterline all right and also her Soi | tinery of harbette ship Cen- and was blown up, lea % 2 < Island and still burning. The dam- ines. In a visit to the Bre Tu HEM‘I" NEUT"AL turion, pain J. R. Jelll- | ing the passage up the river free. Licu- | Spectal Cable, to The Caliiqnd New, Tork | age to the vessel proper is placed at about | (0T 0o+ Whie the hull is In good shape, | coe . of the same vessel was | tenant Commander Keyes reports that| pblishing Compan 3 | 3500000, % : apparently, the cargo is lost. The Bremen R | dangerously Licutenant Poweil | the arsenal at Tientsin was captured on | —_ The damage done to the Kaiser Wilhelm | j,55 4 list to port and there is some dan- [of the armored cruiser 4 was se-|June 2 by the naval brigade. The losses | SHANGHAL July 1.—General Yuon Shih | der Grosse is estimated at $25.000. | Plan to Deal Directly ’\'n v killed. Lieutenant Colomb | Kan, who is bitterly anti-foreign but com- The three doc the German line, | ser that she may break if she lists fur- tuer. The Main, like the Bremen, was mour wmurrd)my Maxim | slightly wounded and a gunner and twen. ‘ mands the best foreign-drilled troops in | which were burned to the water's edse, | (ii\i burning when I was there. T W”/h Then] W]“ Be ‘punr. 8 immense | ty-one men wounded. There are no!China, has notified the German Governor | are estimated to have cost $300.000. The | Guctav Schwab, the agent of the North hough some reports frym | stores of ammunition. The allies burned | further details. b | of Kiao Chan that he will not permit a|dccks were filled with merchandise just | three weocs Carried Out. 1l from Tong WASHINGTON, July 1.—To-day's bombardment vices to the State Department, made up | two cablegrams from Consul General | dnow at Shanghal, brought the For- | £n Ministers at Peking along one day &0-(& The ba [ 1ges between Taku and roy cover for the enemy. of Pei Ho River from Tien- A E e s s e Sn E e a e e S e oe e ae eeae ae e ae oS “Warrender is in charge of all our forces | German party, as proposed. to proceed on the river and lines of communication. Vice Admiral Aliexieff, Governor General ' aries there. to Wehsin to rescue American mission- | burg-American line dock, which had jus | received from abroad and valued at $350,- | 000. The Thingvalla pier, which was entirely consumed, was valued at $50,000, counting the stores which were on it. The Ham- | German Lloyd Stemship line. said: | “Things are in a very unsettiéd condi- | tion as yet and I have been hard at work | to-day gathering up the ends. I have been on a tour of inspection this morning and In a tug visited all three of the wrecked vessels, as well as the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She will leave on | her regular trip Tuesday at 10 p. m. | been compieted as an extension to their | | great pier and which was destroyed in shot natives and looted ¢ ‘ 3 H v the spread of the flames, | .. oot s estas o st * ‘ | order to prevent P! ‘The Saale was the first vessel we vis- - ng the European houses t in safety, showing that they were | 3 was damaged to the extent of $15.000. This | jred. From there we went to the Bremen for miles around | y accept the ler has bee ve uncertainty & members of the le- on the latter ¢ {to tecting them. On the other hand. Ordered Vicel’oys to At_'}'rinrc Tean wi tack Foreigners in \'mfl_; fhe e . | ings of the p All Provinces| . cat ms_ were rec ay from United Statel Consul 1"Goodnow at Shanghal. The date 3& understood to be that of last night. The eigners. ive with the probable exception of | German Minister, who, it seems like- b been murdered. Some encourage Nrawn by the officials from the that the other Ministers were alive | te, for the officials belfeve e — that the diplomatic corps at Peking could RINPE not have been preserved through the fury P“L‘Gc u H | ot first stages of the outbreak only t1l victims to sober second thought. QL'PREME AT PEKI“G | There s also at least the indication that ol the Chinese Government itself was pro- .—o—o—o«»-oflo»—oflo—oa-oflao* | statementthat the notorfously anti-foreign in complete control at Peking was regarded as an exceedingly grave development, and as tending to fix nsibility for the happen- st three weeks directly upon the Peking Government. An ameliorating condition is the refusal of the great Vice- WASHINGTON, July 1.—Two fmportant | roys, themselves of almost absolute pow- ved by Recretary |er in their provinces, to be controlled from Peking in their attitude toward for- A high official of the State Department NORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAMSHIP BRflEN BURNED IN THE HOBOKEN FIRE. While the loss to the North German Lloyd Company is a tremendous one in money and three of their vessels are destroyed, Mr. Capelle, the resident agent, says that there will be no Interruption of their service, and that passen- gers who had secured berths on the vessels destroyed will be provided for as if mothing had happened. AR E S A s e s e r s e AR as As e e Al ae ae e aa e et ea s e e e e e e n e RS ) was the only loss they sustained, as the steamer Phoenicia, contrary to reports, | was not even scorehed. The warehouses of Palmer Campbell, | houses E, F, G and H, were burned. Mr. i. Campbell said to-night that he could not give a definite estimate of his losses, but | the damage to buildings alone would amount to at least $50,000 and the contents to $1,250,000. Had the fire occurred at any other time in the year, he said, the loss | would have been much greater, as just at the present time the imports are very ‘Hgnl and the houses were not well filled. | This statement accoupits for the compara- ely smalil loss on the three piers of the | North German Lloyd line. ne lighter containing 3000 bags of sugar was de- stroyed, the loss being $27 Barges and Canal Bontl Lost. Eight barges and eleven canal boats were either burncd or sunk with their car- goes. Total valuation, $125,000. The Hoboken Shore Railroad had a num- ber of cars burned and other property damaged. Loss $7000. and the Main. Both of the vessels are | still burning. I should not say that any | of the vessels would be a total loss. They | look worse from the outside than they | really are. After they are pumped out we can tell better what the loss will be. Both the Bremen and the Saale are, how- ever, pretty badly damaged. Wreeking companies are working on the Saale and she will be pumped out as soon as possi- bile. “I will not give any figures, nor can I estimate what the amount will be. The it on the ships will be estimated by the home office. We received a cablegram from them asking for information. The home office knows the value of the ships. I can only guess roughly at ..e cost. The plers in Hoboken are all insured in_local companies, but I do not feel that I can gm the names of the companies. lere was on the pier a quantity of cardb. which, of course, was destroyed. wee are not responsible lor the cargo, either on the ship or on the piers. “The cargo on the pier comprised eot- ton. machinery. measurement goods. to- . cement and general merchandise.”