The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1900, Page 1

T VOLUME LXXXVII— 0. 152. ——. to the This e g Paper not ken from ary.++++ be ta Libr SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GROVER CLEVELAND | TERRIFIC AND FATAL EXPLOSIONS OPPOSED TO BRYAN Authorizes the Publication of the Statement That He Does Not Support Free Silver. A SR N Special Dispatch to The Cgll. HICAGO, Oct | say. to-morrow morn President Grover Cleveland has at last declared tha is opposed to Bryan anfsm, and that he atign of ¥ views. ny g former and authorized the the former to Walter atch to his paper “Don M e former Postmaster President Clevefand's Cabinet bis morning and this even- the following eived from ma Prin wh eton, N says 3., Oct. 2 My dear sir: T Reform Club rt of my rec- Democracy. 1 = £ te from 1all not ob), ke of i Yours IVELAND al speaker URGES VIOLENCE 20 —The Times-Her- | things “Let wit bhe said: us be honest with each other and 1 ourselves. If there are any among us who, though not actually and actively cnlisted in the cause of free silver and its accompanying vagaries, can look with complacency upon their growth and tri- umph, or if there are hny who, not fear- ing IndiviGual loss are heedless of the honor and glory of their country, or if there are those whose childlike and sim- ple faith in their ccuntry's, blinds them to all public danger, inacticn and neglect on thelr part may be account- ed for if not excused But nothing can explain excuse inaction on the part of those who can make no compromise with the advocates of unsound money or who love their country’s honor more than | ivantage or.who are convinced that | ypo¢ 5 citigen rushed into the house of | self ¢ stable and unsafe currency inevita- bodes the greatest depth of loss and e to all the pecple of the land. Mr. they dread is directly impending.” Cleveland also said: *“‘Above resounves | ese should not delude themselves. The | ali | things. true Democracy insists that the | stable, neither shriveling in purchasing power in the hands of certain value driving cnterprise and pro- ctive energy into hiding.” . AT THE ELECTION Special Dispatch to The Call. do that ati way tc to Demo: congreg YORK HOODLUM y of a misdemeanor." persons who entered polling places would bie to punishment for misdemeanor. v Republican was tion hailed to-night as the g advice that had been given B. Hill, two years ago, re- ferring to McCullagh's deputies, sald: “If any man attempts to stop you from vot- ing take a club and knock him down.” Mr Croker's advice was given {n the zsslon of the political out- . in which he said Bryan was sure of ¢lection if the Republicans did not steal it from him “Bryan will not only carry New York State” said Mr. Croker, *but he will carry tbyab majority. and he will run the Il over the country. He will certain as his name is Bryan. t so confident of a thing in my { leaders Mr. Croker's rec- | 1 \ 1 ASSAULT GOVERNOR ——— ROOSEVELT TALKS auited personally and a bitter fight In the places of mebting the Gov- ernor had no interruptions. After it was over he said hed { | | 1 | hospital. It was nasty conduct—the conduct of hoédlums. Six men from Corning were badly hurt, being severely bréised “The fight at Victor,” sald Secretary loeb of the Governor's staff, “was not 1alf so bad as that here to-night. At Vie- tor no blood was shed, but here blood | flowed quite freely = CORNELL STUDENTS 29 —Governor day his this State of the home of the Demo- date for Governor, John M At Ithaca the Governc: v of a most {riendly nature a compliment to one of the col- n of Richard Croker, by re- s he has generally d make a personal attack on At Van Netten he ss. His welcome in great political demonstra- nearly a thousand ers and the Lyceum theaters were crowded eager to hear the Governor verflow outdocr meetings 20,000 people were in y leader. e were agk ew peopie and r to-day at ail three of his f principally to & de- | administration. ir arrived at Ithaca time The greatest en- of the entire trip was manifest- and at the train. y 10 the presence of Cornell Col- ge students g for the party at the stdtion, and as it .ssed own the main streets toward the g place it had to go tirough lines dents exhibiting the wildest enthu- One squad of students had dinner r hands and wore blue jump- A pa was formed, with three « and a great crowd of students and The nor dwelt upon the jres of the McKinley administration. «aid to one of the committee, “'1 shall all questions in a good-natured Go ner. the crowd circulars had been distrib- ®Med asking him his record as to asser- This was | | of that character. Now I trust that paper |” A trolley car was in wait- | | tions he was alleged to have made regard- ing farmers and laborers and containing | piece of verse called “Ruffian Rider | Roosevelt.” | It was about an hour after the Gover- |nor arrived at the stand before he got well into his speech, the boys insisting upon singing college airs to campalign and giving their yells. The Gov- said: | "I want to-call your attention to one or | two phases of the campalgn, but before doing so I want to preface what I say by a correction of a local Democratic news- paper. The paperystated in appropriate headlives that 1 had said four years ago that I would Jead an army to Washing- ton to prevent the inauguration ‘'of Bryan | if'elected. It seems to me, speaking seri- ously, a little humiliating even to have |to deny what is not merely a falsehood | but a preposterous falsehood, and those } who cried it either do know or ought to | know that there is no truth in ft: not | merely that I never said it, but that I never dreamed of it. I never said any- thing that by the most violent efforts | could have been twisted into a statement | will not think that that is an evasive an- swer. If 1 can make it more positive I will.” In speaking of the probable enfranchise- ment of negroes in Porto Rico and of dis- franchisement in North Carolina he said: “Mr. Hougrton, your doach there, will remember and perhaps™some of you who know the conditiens of the past will re- member how one of the best, if not the best, centers the Harvard team ever had was a colored man. Now, gentlemen, it would have been perfect folly to put him on the team because of his color, and it would have been equally as foallsh to have kept him off on account of his color. Is not that so?” money of the people should be sound and | oor nor by its un- | - | plosion had filleG the street in front with very man | therefrom by an inspector of election, is | uld Mr. Croker’s advice be followed | SHAKE NEW YORK LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE Seven-Story Drug Establishment Hurled_lgifile'Air, Leaving Many Dead in the Ruins, and Two Blocks of Buildings EW YORK, Oct, 20.—The long list Set on Fire. of fire horrors that have occurred | in and_around the city of New York was added to to-day by a fire_and explosion which shook the lower end of Manhattan Island like an earthquake, hurled a seven-story building into the air and set firé to two blocks of buildings, with a loss of life that only the efforts of hundreds of men who were rushed to thé work of digging away the ruins as soon as the fire was extinguished will reveal. 4 It is believed. there are thirty bodies in the ruins. The property loss is fully $1.- 500,000. The big building of Tarrant & Co., mak- ers of medical specfalties, standing at the northwest corner of Greenwich and War- ren streets, and filled with chemicals, took fire in some way that may never be known at about 12:15 o'clock this after- noon. Tt was sixteen minutes after noon fire engine No. 2, on Chambers street, near Greenwich, and shouted that Tar- | rant’s drug house was on fire. He had seen a volume of black smeke coming from the | third-story windo An alarm was turned Soon second and third alarms were turned in. One fire company had just arrived when a terrific explosion occurred and threw the entire engine crew down the stairway. The firemen, realiz- | ing the danger of their pesition, rushed from the building to the street. The ex- in afterward a shower of falling glass and small debris, which rent the crowd which had gathered on the opposite sidewalks. Firemen Are Injured. Engineer Rocksbury and Fireman Brown were injured by falling glass, as was an- other fireman belonging to the company. Captair TARRANT 8 <O GREENWICH & Devanney of the company or- WARREN STS,.- s i T G e > T S Y= | | t | | THE SCENE OF THE TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AND FIRE IN NEW YORK, WHERE NUMBERS WERE KILLED | AND MANY INJURED:; THE HOSPITAL TO WHICH THEY WERE TAKEN, AND THE NINTH-AVENUE | ELEVATED RAILROAD STATION THAT WAS ALSO WRECKED. dered his crew back into the building | to leap into the air, and in a moment|ang by a countless number of smaller | again. They were dragging the line to the | masses of brick wall, timbers and stone | ones. By this time the fire apparatus was | doorway for the second time when came | were falling into the street. The forr:e; arriving from every . direction. Deputy | another explosion, more terrific than the of the explosion tore away the walls of | Chiet Ahearn came about two minutes | first, and the whole crew was hurled | the big commision storehouses fronting | after the second series of explosions, and | ross Greenw'ch street. Devanney was ] on Washington street and caused them to | he at once ordered a fifth alarm sent out, badly injured that he was sent to IT collapse, falling all at once in a mass of | fgllowed by a general call for ambulances. timber, boxes and barrels, from Which the | mpo axniogion and fire together now as- In the meantime the other engines that- flames, which burst out from the Tarrant sumed the proportions of a great catastro- had' responded to the alarm had collected | building like the belching of a cannon.| pne and it was thought that hundreds of and the firemen were busy rescuing people | broke forth. lives had been lost. Throngs of people from surrounding buildings. The firgmen Great Catastrophe Feared. were running about in the near-by streets, had already taken many girls down the Across Warren street to the wpposite | many 8f them panic-stricken, fleeing from only fire escape upon the building, and | puildings the flames leaped, setting them | the fire. They mingled in the crowd that more persons hed been carried down the | afire at once, the worl®of the explosion | was rushing down from Broadway to see escape of the Home Made Restaurant,|demolishing windows and all wooden | what had happened. next door, and the buildings adjoining | structures about the houses. In a moment| Half an hour after the explosion the upon Warren street. Warren street was choked with a mass | streets for blocks around the fire were The second explosion occurred about five | of debris and the whole place was in| crowded with fire apparatus and a score minutes after the first. From the ac-|flames. The great explosion was followed | of ambulances, while hundreds of police- counts of witnesses the building seemed | by a half-dozen more scarcely less intense | men were being rushed fromeall the lower : :-Hr:—!~H—H—l-lr'l;H44+X—PH—H-?++++H°H-H-PPHfl++H++i+H+. McKINLEY WILL CARRY NEW YORK AND THE NATION — . tofofoelomfontlnferfonfosfodit =t v EW YORK, Oct. 29.—All the members of the Republican National Executi¥e Committee in charge of the McKinley campaign in the East united yesterday in a formal prediction that the majority for the Republican national ticket in New York State will not be less than 100,000. Their state- ment of the situation is substantially as follows: “In order that our friends throughout the country may not be disturbed by the Democrats’ claims, the New York members. of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee, being perfectly certain of their facts and figures, formally declare that New York State is absolutely sure for McKinley and Roosevelt. The committee is as certain of Néw York as of Vermont. From concurrent and indilpufibln sources of information it is enabled to state positively and officially that the majority for the Republican national ticket in the State at large will not be less than 10Q,000. “These figures are based on a careful and thorough canvass of all parts of the State, resulting in positive assurances to the above effect in possession ‘6f the Republican National- Committee ‘and the Republican State Committee. The Republican managers have considered New York the pivota] State. They have therefore paid the closest attention to all details requisite for carrying the State. , “Preliminary polls and inquiries have shown that business men, farmers of rural districts and all others who believe in an honest dollar present a solid phalanx against Bryan and Bryanism, Croker and Crokerism, and in support of McKinley, Roasevelt, Odell and Woodruff. “CORNELIUS N. BLISS, g “JOSEPH H. MANLEY, “NATHAN B. SCOTT, “FREDERICK GIBBS, “FRANKLIN MURPHY, “Executive Committes Republiéan National Committee, New York."” Benjamin B. 0dzll, chairman of the Republican ltthcqmmima, claims a plurality of mare than 100,000 for McKinley in New York. Joseph H. Manley said the Republican National Committee ex- pects 204 electoral votes for McKinley, including those of Kentucky. ool e b e o e e e | 2 O e e o o 3 e o B I L L M B e e e S B B D D foute | precincts of the city | many priests from near-by parishes were NEW YOoRw HOSPITA L.~ to form lines, and going here and there in the smoke-ob- | soured thoroughfares seeking for injured who might need their ald. From the burn- ing buildings a column of smoke was ris- | ing high in the air, mingled with fames | that could not be controlled by hundreds | of streams thrown upon them. The Second Explosion. The second exploson carried destruction in every direction. wholesale loss of life was due to the fact that almost ten minutes’ warning came after the first cry of fire, and fully five minutes occurred betwren the first- and within hearing distance, and the second one. Just after the outbreak of fire from | the windows of the building a down town bound train stopped at the Warren-street | Ninth-avenue elevated | station road. explosion and the few people who were of the left on the platform of the station are | thought to have all escaped before the great explosion came. The station master fled across the structure, carrying with | him the receipts of tke day and Mis un- used tickets, while two women, who had stopped on the platform to watch the fire, frightened by the first explosion, fled down The blg explosion vompletely carried away the station. Immense masses of masonry. pleces of | cornice, great beams, window casings and an ' Indes®ribable mass of wreckage of every description tumbied suddenly Into the street in front of the builuing all at once. The force of the explosion below had thrown the firemen bdck across thé street so that they were not caught, but their escape from the rain of debris across the street was almost miraculous. Confusion in a Bank. The wreckage was thrown across through the windows of the building in which is the Irving National Bank on the northeast corner of the street. The offices in the Brothers, bankers nearly wrecked. Vice-Presidents Charies H. Mattlage and John W. Castrel, Cashier James A. Dennison, Assistant Cashier Bcnjamin F. Werner, “Paying Teller - William Dunlap and Adjuster Van Zeidt were In the bank. | At the first explosion an attempt was made to gather all the money and paper that was-lying on the counters together and to'throw them into the safes, and it was supposed that *his had been dons, when the second explosion brought flying glass and plastering from the sky-lighted and Dbrokers, were | | ceilings down About the heads of every- | body .and caused them to escape in a | hurry. Captain McCluskey of ‘the De- tective Bureau, who hurried every avail- able man of his staff to the fire, was appealed to to protect the funds of the | bank. he being told that they were in | the vault, the door of which was sup- posed to be unldcked. When the captain and his men went in, nowever, they found about $10,00 scattered in gonfusion over counters -and floors. "This was .hastily thrown into the vault and the door was | locked. The bankwill be open for busi- | ness to-morrow. ¥ In Mecklem Brothers offices in the base- ment there were H. H. Mecklem and his brother Willlam, with Frank Hecken- berry, a boy; Thomas Hackett, a clerk; another man named Bruce and some | girls, among them Eilen Vandeen and May Dunklemann. When the fire broke out $90,000 in money lay upon the counter. Heckenberry was stationed at_the door, while this was gathercd together for put- | ting in the vault: The first explosion filled the place with sulphurous smoke chat nearly asphyx- jated everybody. The second explosion blew in the -windows and cut the two Mecklems seriously. . The bov, Hecken- berry, found the two girls lying in a Heap, fainted away. They carried them out to a pldce of safety.. The others, when' they came to their senses, gathered tHe money from the floor, put it in cigar boxes and carried it to safety. The umer’ tenants of the building, g/ That it did not cause | It passed on in time to escapé the | the down town tracks In safety. | Irving Bank and of Mecklem | | number of lawyers and brokers, all es- caped injury. The " explosion Sompletely demolished windows on Greenwich street on both | sides for three blocks in both directions. | The street was covered with fine bits of glass. Buildings Blown Down. The force of the explosion was exerted | horizontally across the street, skylights | being carried away as if by a storm and the casings of doors broken away wit | the glass. The explosion d1d not spare | the interiors of doors, everything being heaped up in confusion. | The explosion tore down the bulldings to | minor explosion, which warned every one | the west, the walls of those on the Wash- | Inston-street side being hurled outward to the- streets as if an explosion had taken place locally instead of away at the i Greenwich-street end of the block. It was thought, indeed, that the expiosions had followed in these buildings, but no cause for them could be found. The im- | mensé buildings of J. H. Mohiman & Co., fronting on Washington street, stmply col- lapsed, a deluge of barrels and boxes, filled with fruit, rolling out and forming |a pile that stretched half-way across the | street. At the time of the explosion blaz- ing barrels were hurled clear across Washington street and set fire to the buildings to the west, threatening an ex- tension of the conflagration in.that divec- tion, but the firemen deluged the build- ings and saved them. Number of Dead in Doubt. The first news of the fire"sent out was that the Tarrant building in its fall hal crushed down upon two crowded restau- rants and buried a hundred or mgre in | each. Subsequent examination showed | that if any persons were caught in thess | places it was the kitchen help and very | few outsiders, if anybody. The patrons | of the Home Made restaurant, kept by a | man named Buckley, ‘Were in the utmost danger, but witnesses say all escaped and after ‘the flames subsided a clear view could be got iInto the dining-room and no bodies could be seen, the place being un- touched by fire, though \much damaged by the collapse of the restaurant building. A man who watched the fire from across the street said that the crowd in the res- taurant was evidently warned and swarmed out after the first explosion, everybody being out when the second ex- plosion came. A restaurant on the south side of War- Ten street was In as much danger nearly and the building was totally destroyed by the fire, but it was said that the crowd got out of this also. It was thought that the cooks in the Buckley restaurant and some of the guests who tried to escape by a rear alley might have deen caught. Outside of a few who were injured in the streets the loss of life by the fire and §the explosion must have occurred in the | Tarrant building mainly and possibly n the other buildings destroyed by the fire. The number of persons in the Tarrant building was estimated to be in the neéighborhood of fifty. Secretary Allen of the company sald that there were forty- five employes and he thought all got out with the exception of one. People who saw the fire declare, however, that more | must have been Jost. In sthe basement were the engineers’ department and the shipping-room, where four men were employed. All those prob- ably escaped. On the first floor were the offices of the company and the retail dispensing de- partment. There were about half a dozen persons on this floor at the time of | the fire. On the second floor was Breiten- | bach’s Pepsin Chewing Gum Factory, where ten girls and six boys were em- Mployed. The third and fourth floors were | storage floors for the Tarrant Company. { There were several porters o the two floors. The fifth was used as a bottling | department for one of the fitm’'s speclal- ties. Six girls were employed here. The sixth floor was the place of manufacture, where three men were usually employed. One of these, a porter, named John Phil- ipps, is known to have escaped. Another, Continued on Second Page