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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, VIERRY-MAKERS DASHED TO DEATH AT TACOMA D e B APPSR A ] T B A R R . NE OF THE WRECK AT DELIN-STREET GULCH. . . THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1900. . mth Tacoma. G. BERTOLI, Hillhurst. OTIS LARSON, Parkland. OLE RANSEEX CHARLES DAVIS. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Sout E-EEEE-EEEa. WILLIAM NIESE:! , Lake GRIFFI AL HEALY, Lake Park. UNKNOWN MAN. W. H. DAVIS, Lakeview. JOSEPH M'CANN, Ballard. NEWTON, South MRS. J. J. SHA J. D. CALHOUN UNKNOWN WOMAN. EE-N-E-E-E-N-F-HEEEEEEEE-E-E-EiE THE DEAD: MISS LOIS DRAKE, employe of telephone company, lives at ANNIE GLASS, South Tacoma. LETTIE SUITER, South Tacoma. DORLEY DINGER, Lakeview. LOUIS DINGER, Lakeview. EDWARD BRAY, South Tacoma. | CARL MOSER, South Tacoma. ALBERT MOSER, South Tacoma. RICHARD LEE, South Tacoma. MRS. GROSSMAN, McNeil's Island. N, Lake Park. JAMES BENSTON, Hillhurst. JOHN PAULUS, South Tacoma. ROBERT STEELE, South Tacoma. —— SEIDEBERG, South Tacoma. REV. HEREERT GREGORY, Lake Park. VANDERSHELDEN, Reservation. G. MMULLEN, South Tacoma. JOHN J. SHAUGHER, Parkland. South Tacoma.: RICHARD SANBURN, South Tacoma. . ‘WILLIE HASTINGS, 102 Tacoma avenue. MRS. GEORGE ELLIOT, 1317 South I street. GHER, Parkland. (conductor), Besldes these there are about sixty-five more or less seriously injured. h Tacoma. Park. Tacoma. Tacoma. into a deep ravine instead of to the city was No. 116 of the United Traction Com- pany’s cars and was on the Edison line. It left Edison at about 8 o’clock in charge of F. L. Boehn, motorman, and J. L. Cal- houn, conductor. The car, which is one of the big boxlike affairs, was crowded to the doors and every inch of space.on the platform was taken. Men hung on to the railings and were glad to be able to get a ride to the city, for, like those inside, they were anxlous to arrive early so as not to miss any of the Independence day exercises. Cause of the Accident. The car ran merrily along, the passen- gers chatting with each other, for they were nearly all acquainted, and every- B-R-g-5-E-8-E-0-E-E-§EA-E-E-E-E-E-E-EEE thing was pleasant unti] it reached the | apex of the hill just beyond Tacoma ave- nue. From this point the stories differ. One is that the motorman, after starting down the hill, turned on hi§ current in- stead of shutting it off, and whén the car had gained such a momentum as to threaten to get away from him he turned off the current, but it was then too late, for the car was going at lightning. speed and there was nothing to bring it to a standstill, for the incline is steep. Pas- sengers on the front platform who saw the sharp curve on the bridge as it leaves Delin_street endeavored to jump. Sev- eral of them succeeded and reached the ground in safety, but others were as bad- ly injured as they might have been had they remained in the car to the bottom of the chasm. duced great desponden ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Al- though 500 feet in midair, he dashed to the earth so quickly that people be- low could scarcely get from under him. leES OF FOUR CHlLDREN Before the thousands of spectators realized what a terrible fate had be- fallen the daring aeronaut he lay lifeless at their feet. L 3 ; [ B B B B B B o o o B B B B b Dl o) PSS Vo Tk CLOUDBURSTS DO MUCH INSPECTOR GENERAL OF DAMAGE IN BAVARIA FRENCH ARMY RESIGNS Several Lives Lost in the Vicinity of | General Jamont Resents the Inter- Fired a Pistol Into a Collection of Fireworks and a Disastrous | ... 5™ | | o o St e bursts and thunderstorms are reported |the general staff by the Mi from a number of places. Warzerburg, | General Andre, which caused Gens G+ et eiebeeeteiese@ Morgue Filled With Dead, Homes Are In| Mourning and | the Hospitals| Are Crowded With Man-| gled Vietims. unmw . . cane, which destroyed a large bullding | his resignation, culminated in the resigna- and killed six persons. | tion to-day of General Jamont, inspector DO IEDOIOEDIIIPOEPIIDENeD army and vice pres A hurricane did great damage in the | general vicinity of Elberfeld, especially at Kron- | the superior ¢ 1 of war. G ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, WHERE THE INJURED WERE TAKEN. e >0 - o HILADELPHIA, July 4—A cart-| some severe burns on his legs. His face = g s’ w & ke s obbies R e e e e S e e ] ridge fired at close range by a also suffered. His eyelashes and hair enberg and Ohligs. Several lives were | dre announced s fact the lobbies i | “h eputies, and added t e ) % i 5 - | were burned and he presented a sad ap- | lost. | the Chamber of Deputies, of July. called on for his services. The Fanny | small colored boy into a large col- | TO0F, \ITMCR S e R on the operating | In the wicinity of Cassel, cloudbursts | General Brugere, the military governor B i i e T S e e S Heavily Laden| Trolley Car| patriotism to spend the | < | Thetr journey was = nd when | Paddock and S oph's v - | Falls From a]|; A T end whitn | Paddock ana Bt Jompl's Hisiitals mare lection of fireworks of a highty ex- | FpII 107 (Featment: destroyed the harvests and drowned sev- | Paris, had been appointed his successor. e G g amserg oo s = l;";»l; uv:r(\r ;Quem]s v;h: eu;o_a‘ plosive hr“;mue;u;s‘:-d l[‘}’]ecr;)bab‘e rflsn(lin Krueger of 1324 Eddy street suf-|eral persons and a large number of cattle. | General Jamont called at the Elysee and right manni f m Its ore were in njoy- | lives of four c! ren, c P red a iumhot wound. of his left wrist. Light~ing struck eighteen laborers in | saw President Loubet. He afterward her man, woman ment of their health. Hacks, express|death of three others and severe burns| Chester Hammersmith of 420 Ivy avenue said he looked into a powder can just when another boy threw a lighted fire- | and kil cracker into it. It was necessary to cover | Ski at Groose Lelarnitz Bridge Rolls to Krojante i, near Konitz, and also_struck | wrote to General Andre tendering his res- ed'a whole family named Mikow- ]ignation on acount of the War Minister's ar Dantzie. | alleged interference with the s Crushed, maimed | wagons and all sorts of conveyances were | and lacerations to twenty other persons, vmfnrzunalr{(s were ssed into service; but there was an- | only two of whom were adults. wrec of the vehicle that was in use. It was the The dead: his face with a mask of cooli i g = R ng cloths. | inistered to them ad. It came to take away | CARMEL DIANNO, aged 11 years. When he left he admitted that his mother | be had to carry nce of the destruction | CHARLES FERUZZI, aged 11 years. would not know him and the bovs on his | 990000000 E2020008090000089 » the homes of the wreck. It made journey | Two unidentified children. street might want him to play clown in were laid on the their next circus. Myer Boog of 624 Locust er journey and it was always full | Those who will probably die are: 5 e 3 ew in the crowds s irls and men Bnd women were | Isabel Derites, aged 8 gvenue also suffered powder burns on his ight. The morgues of the various | Jennie Dianno, aged 5. | ,.Monte Attell, aged 14 years, residing at | rtaking rooms were |scarcely large| Frank Nacitro, aged 9. 255 Third street, had his face and hands | @ rs and rescuers who gathered ugh to hold ail. The egplosion occurred in front of the | badly burned vesterday. IHe was treated at that time who knew who nd who were 1 | . | small shop of Antonio Mammerello, on | at the Receiving Hospital. The boy Ravine With |z Fatal Results.|: Searching for Friends. Ty firlng a toy cannon on Cla | And then when the dead had been sort- | Eighth e L thickly populated | Riteh, and a spark Sy Bt e ed from the living and the last one had | BeCUOR 0 e ent, and consisted largely | €an in which he carried his stock of pow- . moved from the wreck excited | of giant firecrackers, torpedoes, rockets | der exploding it = > o ik << g n and children besieged the | and “‘chasers.” A crowd of children wers | _Claytor. a_10-vear-old boy lving | r witnessed such a sight before. e i e A S reund the stand. A colored | on Olive avenue. was treated at the Re- Mangled by Debri g friends. | clustered around U0 & een to point the | celving Hospital for a severe wound in Mangled by Debris. me were successful in their sad quest | DO SSTES Eairettion of the nreworks | hiS right hand. He was playing with a as of such as is | and others who were not successful turned | D% 0 toy pistol on the corner of Seventh and for car | away with every evidence of joy upon | The force of the explosion which fol-| Minna streets and the gun exploded, driv- - timbers | their faces. Thousands of people visited | lowed shattered the Windows of many ng the wadding Intg his palm. bullet | the bridge where the accident occurred | stores and residences In the ¥ImOUE: OO0 e durlng the day. They watched the men | ‘\{‘4‘;1:,‘,'('{‘,,2,5“{?;1;;"\?:‘}4‘l;}m;‘ - ':;;.,,:mn,';,; TWO LIVES LOST IN The Orcanizers of the H lay o wor caring away the debris of the | 4 score © were found lying_on | bottom | car and at the red stains ?hé‘i{geefi Bhed. Wna bleeding. Erhe A FIRE AT OXNARD| = i T heavy s tattered pleces | owner of the fireworks was arrested. Fol- S s Jowing the explosion the police confiscat- '® ‘erl about three wagon loads of fireworks | Mexican Prisoners Burned to Death | 1 : - ® ¥ i&. 90w :‘1'(";\ in the neighborhood. Before Their Rescue Could 1 : r 4 t her leading a lit- | Be Effected. the hand. The chargea of these| B PAINFUL FOURTH Special Dispatch to The Call. { ® women were foundlings of the wreck. No- | FOR SOME PEOPLE| OXNARD, July £—The burning to death | L 3 1 2 t >, . body had come to claim them. Perhaps | of two Mexican prisoners in the calaboose | their mother and their father as well was | at Oxnard at 4 o'clock this morning had : heir foste : Have arranged with the CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND @ m their foster moth- Patching the Wounded of In- | Oxnard celebration early in the day. The @ TRUST C()g_\IPA\.\'Y to hold sufficient securities in trust for the pur- E rt of the wrecked blocks awa <l .\'l't 8 ("r"""' But they ‘:* I found friends and | Hospital Surgeons Were Kept Busy |a tendency to dampen the ardor of the | mse! . if nobody it regard | ers will that they do not Mexicans were locked up at ‘elock | : - S Nt gis o e dependence Day. owing to drunkenness. They set fire io| @ chasers of Ophir Oil Stock to INSURE HOLDERS OF THIS STOCK John Roach; a fireman on the steamer | the prison, and before the fire department | AGAINST LOSS. re quickly Th the wreek be at he Fanny Paddock Hospi- | They seem to be deserted, but it s | Walla Walla, and residing at o2 Davis ST DAy S kel Wdeath, | That is to say, if the Ophir Oil Company shall fail to produce oil in able that some relatives w i et, was the left shoulder, the % e d th me relatives will look af- | street ::,;:ns:;l i, W A e wea Burned by a Firecracker. | paying quantities sufficient to bring its stock to par value (one dollar TISEMENTS. TIRE AMOUNT PAID IN BY THEM FOR STOCK. The securities thus held in trust are adequate, and AN INVESTMENT 3 ««IN .. : ° ® OPHIR OIL STOCK Is as secure as a United States Government Bond, and vastly superior to deposits in § Banks of Savings, for the reason that it s $ per share), purchasers will receive back, with accrued interest, THE EN- § mind and body was the Roman perfect health. They de- s balance as i body.” to its own level. Iy ealth and the ke care of itself. The health epends mainly on two 1d stomach and pure e's Golden Med- preserves the bal- because it makes combines H bsolute Security «s WITH .. [ 4 IMMENSE POSSIBILITIES OF GAIN 3 WHEN OIL IS STRUCK, e There is no “reading between the lines” in this propesition. i Whatever happens to the Ophir 0il Company YOUR INVESTMENT IS SAFE. H v W m which direc- quently does not know from w eral manager of the Laurentine P e . ‘fhe police think ntine Pulp tion the bullet came. e D Mills, had his right hand blown off by/the PR Davis streets last evening. How the af- | seven-year-old son of Hon. T. R. Flem- near the edge of the sidewalk talking to | it. Before he could be rescued both feet i gurgeons made an examination they found | road race to-day. was killed this morning | | Hospital. Injured by a Firecracker. . . Others Fatally ln]ured at a bt SO D rebrate the day fired the | premature explosion of a giant firecracker > e | O happened mo one knows, but it is | ing, while watching- some older boys | a man, whose name he does not know, | Were serlously burned, he having no shoes | that a bullet haa entered the man's body. | by an electric car. It is not known just great aanger. How nhe came to be shot F. i w t v' ini Shot to-night > Ire m west virgimia, A ] L i | E ! l surmised that the leaden pellet came from | shooting firecrackers near an old cellar, when He suddenly became conscious of a | OB &t the time. i Surse was downward from the shoul- | po % S 8G e Tl G0 g, O e T Has B Yd0es not know. Thele was such | MONTREAL, July 4.—A telephone mes- e, was struck in the eye by fireworks Killed by Dynamite. | Therevolver of some person celebrating | where some rubbish was burning, saw a & stinging sensation in the back. At first he Bicyclist Killed. { | = ad struck him and did i % 3 fi [ thought some one o & shot, but the | LOS ANGELES, July 4—A. E. Har- A pcflcc' Ba!ancc ‘ ” | e e and he nnally Visited the | rington, bookkeeper of the Evening Rec- | der and it became imbedded in the left| rington formerly worked for the San ket In the nelghborhood at the time | sage from Grandmere, Quebec, to-night i k3 while playing in_front of her residence, | ogIcO, July 4.—While preparing a dyna- | : ® [ 3 which carried its human freight | standing at ghe corner of Pacific and | BIGGS, July 4—Raymond Fleming, the | the Fourth of July. Roach was standing | firecracker fall in and he jumped in after | D Tbor lecelving Hospital. When the [ord and a contestant in the Santa Monica i d d ‘ lung. After having the wound treated | hiego Sun. ix Men Biown {o Afoms and Three) s, 25 5% 58 oy it 55 \ At last reports he was in no fhat he heard no pistol shot and conse-| gtates that Russell A. Alger, who is gen. {hat some person whiie emptyiug a loaded 33 Clay sireet. She was treated at the 7] 7. WV —_ v Hospital. The doctors [ mite cap for use in digging a vault, m :Y lf(z»(;‘x:lh‘l‘e. c?xla-n;nl{:lyu‘{m :::l(nhnr“u!:ql['wr;elfm l?loeml}rlrir;:mr(:n ;Exl:: nz{:?; {'ifff“zi‘“f mjurg' will not impair Charlles Mn’lr_:hnll was instantly killed this Ciy ever witnessed oceurred | the sldetrack, colliding with the tank car, | hef SIBRt (| o resident of Fair- | hud M body was vadly mansled A i s morning at 7:20 o'clock, In| iy the top part of the tank and th. | mount street, burned the ear of Joseph |ow survives him. which six men were blown to atoms | jgnited. This happened a few mlneulc;l;l Tottom with a toy pistol yeslerfiny.l A —-—— John Chalk, so badly in- | after 3 o'clock this morning. It made a | VISt to the (Ilfi' r‘xm)]n ;g:]fl;)’ ospital The Bomb Exploded. soon dled, and two more | {:-‘u.rh.{l’ fire.” Master M:z‘chamc Lalime and fl{{,‘}m{"fl;‘{&e‘: of 615 Jessle Street inau- | LOS ANGELES, July 4—J. Mustacho ton, “were. called upon: 15 Aevice TAmil- | o rated his day’s festivities by having a | had a bomb which did not explode at the Teans of ridding the track G e, Some | B Shot wound of his right finger treated. | right time. He poked a redhot iron into T Hanks and extinguinine the purn-| §yiiie Connell of 1002% Minna street fol- |it.” He lost one hand and one eye. An effort was made to tip the car over, | lowed in his wake with a gunshot wound McDonald, who M aster mechanic. There were few people who w of his right hand. Georgie % 5 ol yora master, | fo T (A7, ue ol ke e S¢"lnnte | ek U Tangoon st tictusdy| DEWET'S DEFEAT BUT 3. 0. SHANNON . “Dick,” ex- | that this manner of disposing of the fire | WEis! v . ¥ u‘j]’:‘ Saoasl AR 1IN0 as given up. Pouring water on it had | & hasty m"“if;at:om %!gar‘x}zg‘x:“?yl?lcxvxvm’: A QUESTION OF TIME i . . ely no effe to. ax; absolutely no effect. While some of the | 8Dt 19 €XPOCS WL TSN Cer Siered a rs, nervous of body, ind, have been per- the use of "Golden sg the summer and fall of 1806 1 wn,” writes Charles H. v, Madison Co., ilision’ caused a hole to be bored | Tominy he ed to die any minute. : n « ut of order and stom- . B f order I wrote to Doctor Ficroe for advice. He said 1 had general » v ; vised Dr. Pierce's Golden YOU CANNOT LOSE. e ® H Only a limited amount of this SECURED STOCK is offered for sale. While it lasts it can be had for . © BV freight brakeman. | men were grouped near the tank aft 3 CHALR. s fireman, dled|o'clock an explosion occutred. . Tt eas | Sunshot weund o e e e A aiol; | Roving Ground of the Boer Column N ' s P R s H about noon a: St. Luke's Hospital. f!::xsef?udbt};rn‘l?:‘; lrfiJ:-x !finu‘lflgmthe“ Bas | :y‘fl’.!‘;leort 0‘501‘?'5"’ To his 1eft Index finger. Growing More and More | 31 RUTE, a reman caime With'a flash of fire and & deatening | ShArles, Qulnters, of Uy Kok SIS Contracted. FULLY PAID and NON-ASSESSABLE. WILL CAKR JR., engineer. Teport. oundiebration. Fred Wilson, an elderly | LONDON, July 6.—The varfous tele- | Sold only in biocks of $500 and upward. Common Stock, unsecured, can be had at FIFTY CENTS per share in certificates of twenty shares and over. cth, forty were badly hyrt and prob- | yere not affected by it at all. Th izh because he was slow in hers, many of them chil-| the bodies OF smen fying: in. the alc sy gl;g{":n the (hlgh becadEe b R bare bis | Where in Soulg ,:mca. while not giviug | more or less hurt. saw others knocked to the ground hz the | gun. Soe ‘Baffico, who lives at 14 Four- | 1 account of fighting, represent the con- | J{ the Ohio River Railroad | concussion as the tank went through the | feenth street, shot himself in the hand, | verging columns as making Dewet's rov- | ith_pieces of torn flesh and | air. It had parted and went in two di- | and Lillie Ryan, 217 Harriet street, was | ing ground more and more contracted and | a with blood. The scene is a ver- | rections. There were numbers knocked | shot in the right eye by a nelghbor’s boy. | the possibility of his defeat and capture | harre spot_and descriptive power | down by the force of the air. Those who| George Lowensteln of 26 California | nearer. Heavy artillery fighting was fails to give any adequate conception and | were killed were struck by the flying end | street was the worst sufferer of the day. | heard near Fricksburg on the 3d. impressior. of its horrors. of the tank which went in a southerly | He was pla; around a rwd:r.cm and-| The Boers are massing in great num- A car tank, containing 6000 gallons of | direction. It was 200 {&l‘dl distant from | it accidentally blew up. The boy's stock- | bers In the Llndleéedmnct. ofl, was the &lrd #rack for shipment. | the victims and came to the ground n ings were ignited and before he could be | State Secretary Reltz has gone to Ham- An engine with Will Carr as engineer and | the shops. The piece which went thrown into a near-by water trough by a | burg with a part of the Transvaal treas- Georze {wp as fireman, was pulling a' yards in the other direction killed no one. | cool-headed passer-by the boy suffered | ure. s 4 Dr. Pierce's Med- jcal Adviser, paper covers, is seut free on receipt of 21 one- o mps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. Pierce, Buffalo,N.Y. OPHIR OIL COMPANY - - - - San Francisco, Cal. Represented in San Francisco by J. P. MASSIE, Room 14, Fifth Floor, Mills Building. ® ® E @ Some people who were standing near | man who lives at 21 Tenth street, was | grams received from Pretorla and else- @