The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1900, Page 1

to be taken from the e et This Paper not Lih."ary, ‘e VOLUME LXXXVIII—NO. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, PRICE FIVE CENTS. LORD ROBERTS MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT Field Marshal’s Horse Fall mander in Chief Is Sev But No Bones and the Com- ely Bruised, Broken. lis ver Are { | COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF TH A, WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE 1 accident to Lord KRUGER AT MARSEILLES. The Gelderland Entered the Harbor Early This Morning. SEIL 22, 8:20 a. m.—The lerland, with former President ger on board, is entering the MASKED ROBBERS 'HOLD UP THE CANNON BALL TRAIN Failing to Blow Open | FIERCE SWEEP OF ‘THE STORM. @ qu-H-H+++H+H-H+h-H-4fl+H—H-H++++4+H+PFH+I-H—FH+H—H’F. Lo e DI:ATH AND IN TORNADO'S WAKE Loss of Life in Southern States May Num- ber Hundreds When Full Details of Widespread Storm Are Reczived. RUIN ASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. N patches indicate that last night's 1 \ storm, which swept over North- o= ern Mississippi d Central and Western Tennessee, was one of great ¥ Advices to the As: ted Press and from special correspond- ents show that the loss of life in the ter- ritory visited by the tornado already amounts to sixty-four and the number of injured to over fifty. Telegraphic com- cation to the regions visited by the se muni cyclone is sus when the full detalls are known the list of dead will be lengthened. The following list shows the loss of life, together with the injured, compiled from dispatches forced through by courier and telephone from the devastated territory: Killed. Injured. Columbia, Tenn. ese 40 26 La Grange, Tenn AT 6 Laversne .. S.0m 3 Thempson . .e 1 o Nolansville IR | s Love Station o 3 12 Tunien, Miss (LN o . 4 o0 . z o lhlll"\"l 'y Miss .o 0 s Roxleys & 1508 0 Frankli .e z Totals .. a5 A spectal Lake Cou mrnmm torr ittle town f its fearful intensity ten and as a result persons were killed outright and twenty were The dead: JACK KELLUM, aged 10 years. WILLIAM KELLUM, aged 12 years. NICHOLAS BLAKE, aged 24 years. MRS. WILLIAM McKAY. FOUR CHILDREN of Mrs. Wiliam Me- NKENOWN NEGRO. NEGRO INFANT. The injured: Press Blake, serfously hurt John Parker, internally, seri- ous; Mrs. John Parker, seriously crushed; John Blake, right leg broken; Alpha Bakewell, leg broken; Charles Roshell, serfously hurt in back; G. L. Thomason, injured in head: Willlam Scroggan, hurt ernally; | in back; C. A. Parker, painfully bruised; Mrs. Toombs, painfully hurt; Miss Bunch Bradley, bruised, not seriously: five chil- dren of Robert Pickles, painfully injured; | Gus Alridge, bruised; Miss Lottie Pickens, the Through Express| Safe Their Haul Is Very Small. News was recetved of the bound five times making a oft portions of into the | not be effected. | | \ | tricated with much difficulty. seriously hurt; Ann Jackson (colored), seriously hurt; colored boy, may die. The storm overwhelmed the town abour 5 o'clock in the afternoon and in a few minutes nearly every bullding was de- molished. Many of the victims were pinned under the wreckage and were ex- The tor- The robbers finally announced that they | nado passed to the northeast and caused no more dynamjte, and then th gave up the task of forcing open the door. Then, picking up the local express box and several packages, they ran to thelr y away. No attempt was turb or molest the passen- to inquisitive Avery was badly hurt about and face by flying splinters ut by the dynamite explosions. f his face was terribly lacer- 1 teeth were knocked out. me train. nd one side of the express car d to =plin orin riff of Hot gs County or- | lansville and Gallatin also felt the wind se and started at once in | fury, the storm finally losing its force f robbers. The train crew | against the Cumberland Mountaln rangze. bandits are amateurs, as they | Columbla’s casualties number twenty-five went at their work in a bungling fashion. | dead and some fifty injured, the list. so All wore masks. | far as known, being as tollows: The | nmen say the small box carried the robbers contained about $500. It is positively known that the robbers se- cured several sacks of silver coin, con- taining $90. TO AMEND WAR REVENUE LAW. | Committee Decides to Make Reduc- tion of Thirty Millions a Year. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2L.—The Republi- of the Ways and Means such progress to-da: members ittee made w that it is expected that the first draft be completed by to-morrow night he committee decided to-day to make a reduction of $30,000,000 a year. This is the amount suggested by Secretary Gage yes- and it s understood meets the views of the President In fact, the mem> rs of the Ways and Means Committee ho saw the President last evening say at before Secretary Gage appeared be- the committee the whole matter had lly considered by the President een car 4 Secretary. e of interested parties are being re- no hearings and will not do so. osvenor was not at the meet- 1oy, having gone to Ohio for a few BS54 Seck Reciprocity Treaty. SHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Negotiations n progress between the State Depart- and the Russian Government, as sresented by Special Commissioner Kas- and Embassador Cassini, looking to ¢ making of a reciprocity treaty under terms of the Dingley tariff act. As tries are large producers or raw terial, and as Russia is making enor- 15 strides in the development of manu- tures cat difficulties that the plenipotentiar- can find articles to form the basis for riff reductions for such a treaty. A vex- ions commodity, for instance, is sugar, which is produced in rapidly increasing guantities, and is now marketed in the Iinited States. the bill to amend the war revenue | and considered, but the committee | »f metals and textiles, it is with | GALES ON OCE.AN AND LAKE. | Vessels Wrecked or Disabled by the | | Fury of the Winds. | ST. JOHNS, N. F.,, Nov. 21.—The new steamer Fife, one of Mr. Reld's fleet of | gers except for an occasional shot at an | as sent to his home at St. Louis on | | the counties bordering on Mi | i | - | w l | | | eight mail boats running in the coast | service, was lost in the Skraits of Belle | | Island Sunday during a dense snow- | storm. The vessel was worth $100,000 | and it is belleved that she was not in- sured. No lives were lost. The crew of ty men took to the boats and had a | terrible erfence before reaching land. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 2L—The Red | Star steamer Friesland, Captain Nichels, | which satled from New York November 7 for this port and Antwerp, passed Hurst Castle at 9:35 this morning in tow | of two tugs. | ai The Friesland’s rudder was bled. She was taken by the s(eamer in the vicinity of the Secilly | Islands on Monday. NEW YORK, ov. 21.—The White Star liner Oceanic, which arrived this after- noon from TLdverpovl and Queenstown, was somewhat delaved by adverse winds | and rough seas. Nearly all the passage northwest gales, rough and squally weather, with very high seas, were en- | countered. Nothing was seen of the de- | layed steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. The Holland-American steamer Amster- | @am, from Rotterdam and Boulogne, which was due to arrive in this port last | Sunday, was sighted off the Sandy Hook lightship at 6:50 o'clock to-night. CLEVELAND, Nov. 21.—A heavy west- erly - gale, which at times reached a velocity of sixty miles an hour, swept | over Northern Ohlo to-day, prostrating telephone and telegraph wires in all di- rections. In this city the wind played havoc with chimneys, trees and plate- glass windows. The temperature is fall- ling rapidiy. | much damage through the country dis- tricts. VICTIMS IN TENNESSEE. horses which had been hitched near by | Lists of the Dead n.ud Reports ofDe- struction of Hundreds of Homes. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 2L—Teanes- see was swept last night by the mes senger who peered out of | gestructive storm ever known in the | State. More than fifty people were killed and a hundred more injured, whila the damage to houses, timber and other prop- | erty will reach large figures. The storm *entered the State from Norihern Missis- sippl and swept across in a northeasterly direction. Great damage Is reportad from ssippl and further on. Columbia, in Maury County is the heaviest sufferer. Lavergne, ) dead: MISSES FLORENCE and EVELYN FARRELL. CAPTAIN and MRS. A, F. AYDELOTT. GUY AYDELOTT. PAUL AYDELOTT. JAMES CHERRY. MISS LIZZIE FORSYTHE. MRS. TOM GAREL. MISS M. J. VILES; all white. — WINFIELD and child. TOM HACKNEY. JOHN SCOTT. GLASS BROW: PETER ADAMS. — FRYESON, cook at the (‘-.rels Five unknown negroes in the Emer- gency Hospital. The injured: Clayton Tucker, badly bruised and in a dangerous condition; Jo- sie Reed, fatally hurt; Belle Cooper, Mrs. Jones, Maggie Reed, Lulu Bostick, Mrs. Sarah Russell, Susie Lovell, all white and | are bruised and have scalp wounds; Will | Hickman, colored, broken thigh; Bob Howell, colored, seriously hurt in back; Jim Johnson, Dan Howell, John Fryer, | Lueius Walker, Philipson, Bill Hick- man, all colored, Injured badly, bruised and scalp wounds. Lee Farrell was blown out of the window and badly hurt, but will not die. The path of the storm was about 350 yvards wide and was through the north- western suburbs of the town. In its path everything is completely wrecked. Not even the iron and stone fence of the arse- nal grounds is standing. The houses of Captain Aydelott, the Farrells and other large residences were demolished. With the exception of these four houses the storm’s path was through a section of the town populated chiefly by negroes and the poorer classes, and the houses were hovels. It is estimated that 150 of them were totally destroyed and a larger num- ber damaged. The suffering of these peo- ple, rendered homeless and bereft of all their goods, is pitiable. The number of houses destroyed in the Nolansville neighborhood Is sixteen. There were two fatalities as follows: 21.—Dis- | ded and it is feared that | MISS NEL 2 HAMPTON, aged 25. MRS. RAMLETT, aged 6. Those injured are: ,J. B. Hampton, aged 70; Miss Luella Hampton, aged 23; Mrs. | Malinda Jemm, aged 0; Aubrey Hamp- | ton, internally hurt; Thomas Hampton, | badly cut and bruised; Emma Hampton, arm broke Mrs. P. C. Vernon, collar- bone and rib broken; Ernest Stevens, in- | ternally injured: Leslie Stevens, slight bruises cn head; Allen Fly, internal in- Jjurtes; Mrs. J. v.. Fly, internal injuries; | Miss Fly, badly bruised. All of the sixteen houses were totally destroyed. Mr. Hampton had $400 money and this was blown away and on a part of it has been recovered. The baby of Jim Chrisman, colored, re- | ported lost, was found 300 yards from the | house at 10 o’clock Iving near a branch | uninjured. One of the family dogs was Iying by its side At Lavergne, sixteen miles south of here on the Nashville, Chattancoga and St. Louis road, the velocity of the wind was from best reports lasted only about twenty seconds. In this short time about thirty-five dwellings turned into kindling wood. The loss of | life is small compared with the miracu- | | lous e made. The wind made a marvelous and were apes swath about 2% yaras wide through the| ! middle of the town. The Lavergne Hign ! School and tt ation, the two largest laid flat. The railroad lost buildings, wer four section houses also. The victims of the tornado are GEORG ROBERTSON and his six - months-o! id. Mr. Robertson’'s house, which was a strong log structure, was in the middle | of the path of the storm and was laid flat | on the ground. At the time Robertson and his child had retired and his wife was sitting near the bed reading, and be- | fore the latter could even warn either her | husband or the child death claimed them. Mrs. Robertson’s escape was marvelous. When found the unfortunate man was | pinned across the back by a large timber and a great scar was on the back of his | | neck. No mark could be discerned on the | body of the chitd. ,Both are thought to | | have met instant death. In almost every home there were sev- eral injured, those most seriously being: | Mrs. Charlton, collarbone broken; six- | ! year-old child of Mach Jordan, cannot re- | cover; Elmore House. seriously injured. | In Willlamson County great damage | was done, but the town of Franklin | escaped with a comparatively small loss. | Houses and timber in Sumner County also suffered considerably, but first reports sent out from Gallatin were exaggerated. | | Great suffering is being experienced by those deprived of homes at Lavergne and | | Nolansville. | The rise in the Cumberiand River at | | Nashville is the most rapid known in | | twenty-flve years, the water having | climbed twenty feet in gauge since yester- | | day morning. o P LOSSES IN MISSISSIPPI. Hundreds of Houses Razed and the | Death Roll Increased. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 2l.—Advices re- cetved to-night from the storm-swept sec- tions of Mississippl, Arkansas and | Tennessee indicate that the loss of life and damage to property s far greater than at first reported. The difficulties in | the way of securing information from the devastated sections are mountable. The places affected are re- | mote and isolated and at the best they are not well equipped with means of com- munication and the storm which last evening carrfed devastation across the | country at the same time swept away the | wires, so that the telephone and telegraph wires alike were put out of service. De- pendence has necessarily been placed on rallroad men and travelers coming from affected parts. In Mississippi the greatest loss of life | and damage to property occurred pear Tunica, Lula and Hernando. A report by courier from a point thirteen miles from Tunica says that the tornado’s de- vastation was so great that it will take almost insur- | weeks to calculate and repair it. Five negroes lost their lives on the Hamlin place. In Tunica the church and a number of bulldings were totally demolished. More than fifty negroes are missing and it is feared that several of them perished, Corn is reported badly damaged. At Hernando a white man was killea and a negro fatally Injured by fiying debris. Numerous sawmills, several residences and hundreds of negro cabins ware blown away. At Love Station J. S, Doney, a white man, was crushed by fly- ing timbers and is expected to die. The tornado passed down Coldwater River, leveling trees and houses in its path. At Batesville much Dproperty damage was wrought and several persons were serfously Injured, but no fatalities are re- ported. Several dwelling houses, a num- ber of outhouses and many miles of fercing were torn down and scattereqd. The roof of the Methodist Church wag twisted off and was blown some distance from the building. News of terrible havoe southwest of Batesville Is expected, as generally the houses In that section are not securely built. At Moscow, ten miles west of Ta Grange, several bulldings were swept away by the wind. No fatalities are re- ported, although many persons were in- jured. In Memphis there is heavy loss as a re- sult of the storm. Culverts were washed out and small bridges were swept away. Lumber firms on Wolf River suffered se- verely from the destruction of logs ana 1t is estimated that thelr losses will foot up between $300,000 and $500,000. m | | rear Point Bonita and was battered into | | kindling wood. | tied for their lives and won. i HONOLULU, H. T., Nov. 14.—Honolulu and the Hawalian Islands have just been visited by ome of the worst wind storms that has been experienced for yecars. is making its way to the Pacific Coast, where it is likely to be severe. a continuous gale blew over all the islands, making heavy se; of the island vessels to remain weather bound in safe places. Kinau lost one native sailor overboard and They were engaged in a fight on the after when a violent lurch threw them over. steamer Maui and were rescued. was not able to recover Both were natives and strong the vessel till they were picked up. The weather bureau says that the storm in the channels and compelling many No damage Is reported. i For three days from the 9th The steamer Two men fell from the deck of the steamer, swimmers and they swam after him. | \ | | i | | THE SCHOONER D. NIGHT DURT | | | E ISY ROWE AS SHE THE HURRICANE BOUND OUT FOR COOS BAY W, APPEARED ON THE R AND HER CAPTAIN HEN SHE WAS DRIVE =N K8 NEA R POINT BONITA LAST TU SAN FRANCISCO IS STORM-RACKED BUT ESCAPES WITHOUT INJURY In a Fury of Wind and Rain a Schooner Lost on the Bonita Rocks. Raging Elements Create Alarm. AN FRANCISCO is drying its i clothes, mending ks fences and tryiIng to recover from the shakes. | The storm of Tuesday night, in its fury of wind and rain, was severer than any other which had visited the city in years, but the weather prophet assures us that it is all over and that the people of the East and Southcast are now suffering the experience which so agi- | tated us. Fortunately comparatively Iit- tle damage was done to property. Houses rocked and swayed, but not as badly as the imaginations of nervous men and wemen made them believe. Fences were blown down and here and there the roof of an unstable structure was blown away. Sewers were demolished, telephone | and telegraph wires played pranks and havoc reigned all over the city. At the Presidio the soldiers suffered from the onslaught of the elements, and it is esti- | mated that 32500 damage was done to tents | and bulldings. At 1 o'clock yesterday | morning the furfous wind was at fts| | hetght and then the gauge on the Milis | building registered forty-four miles an hour. It was a wild night on the bx but | tunately no serfous damage was done. in the darkness of the night, with the wind raging seventy miles an hour, the schooner Dalsy Rowe went an the rocks for- But The crew of six men bat- San Fran- cisco escaped fortunately, therefore, from one of the most furious storms in its ex- perience. —_————— DRIVEN ON THE ROCKS. Schooner Daisy Rowe Lost During Great Storm Near Point Bonita. Six men had a battle with the elements on Tuesday night that they will not soon forget. All of them escaped, thanks to a friendly wave, but two of them were so exhausted when they reached the beach that they would have died had it not been for the kindly assistance of the lighthouse keepers at Point Bonita. The s¢hooner Daisy Rowe arrived from Coos Bay last week and was taken direct to Vallejo by the tug Frolic. After dis- charging her cargo of lumber she was towed down the river and as far as Lime Point Tuesday afternoon. Captain Ny- man at once made sail, but there was little wind and the last of the ebb tide was running. A sudden eddy caught the boat and set her in for Point Bonita. When near Diablo all control of the schooner was lost and she rapidly drifted in toward the rocks. An attempt was made to hold her with an anchor, but there was no holding ground on the rocky bottom. Suddenly the Daisy Rowe struck and ai- most stmultaneously a heavy swell came in through the Golden Gate and the wind began to rage. One of the crew got over the side with the intention of swimming ashore. A roller came in and threw him bruised and bleeding on the beach. An- other member of the crew attempted to take a line ashore and he also was neariy killed. The captain and four remaining members of the crew went to secure their effects, but they found both the fore- castle and cabin full of water and ab- solutely no chance of saving a single thing. All hands lost everything they had aboard, except what they stood in. After many vain attempts the four men left on the Daisy Rowe got a line ashore to the two men who had reached land. Then the desertion of the scnooner began. Captain Nyman was the last to leave the boat and while he was making his way ashore the Dalsy Rowe went to pleces and be was left struggling in the water. His | ors named Olsen got over the crew pulled nim ashore, but be had 2 nar- | | TOW escape. k Within an hour there was uot enough of | the Dalsy Rowe left on or near the beach | to make a morning’s kindling wood. At 11 p. m. it was blowing seventy miles an hour at Point Bonita and how must harder it blew after that nobody kn as the wi gauge was c: vay “I never saw a vessel break up so quick- in my life,” said Captain Nj seemed as though men broke loose the moment we struck the rocks. When we left Valiejo for Coos Bay in tow'of the Frolic all seemed fa ng and when we made sail Point I had n hought of ns: was a fair sailing breeze ani we ha:l the last of the ebb with us. When off Diablo the wind fell light, but I thought nothing of it, never dreaming it was the calm be- | fore the storm. ly “While I wondering what was the matter I noticed that the ti ng us down Into that little cove J nis side of Bonita. in which the City of New York was wrecked. Even then I did not think of danger and when we got as far as I thought we ought to go I let xo the anchors. They would not hold aad we went on the rocks. Then one of t side perched himself one the ro Ks among which we were imbedded. With- out a mement’s warning the sea ot up and a heavy roller that cam the Golden Gate swept him « ily it carried him ashore. “That roiler threw the scnooner so hard against the rocks that her seams all opened up and she began to fill. T went down into the cabin 1o secure my siothes | and some $30 in money, but found the | cabin flooded. The forecastie was also | flooded and I saw there was no hope for | the vessel. I told the men to save them- | selves. H. Anderson, one of the crew, | volunteered to swim ashore with a iife line. He succeeded, but aad a terribie | time of it. The remainder of the crew | got ashore on the line, but when I was leaving the vessel broke up and I was caught in the wreckage. “The Dalsy Rowe went ashore at 7 p. m. and two hours later there was not | enough of her left to make it worth | while packing it away. After the wreck | we made our way to the lighthousa sta- tion and there the keeper 2id everything in his power for us. All that he had was at our disposal and all night long ke min- istered to our wants. Yesterday morning we walked to Sausalito from the light- house and just succeeded in catching the 1 p. m. boat for San Francisco. 1 dGon't want any more wrecks In mine.” The Daisy Rowe was built on Humboldt Bay in 1579. She was 117 tons net burden, 94 feet 5 inches long, 29 feet beam and 7 feet 5 inches deep. George H. Coll'ns was her managing owner. She was one of the best-known schooners In the lumber fleet and has weathered many a storm in which larger vessels went <own. A shert time ago she had new masts put in and was otherwise fully overhauled. Her loss will come on the owners as she was not insured. FURY OF WIND AND RAIN. A Night of Dismay and Danger in the City and on the Bay. The wind and rain created havoc all over the city according to the reports re- celved yesterday by Commissioner Man- son of the Board of Public Works. The force of the water caused twenty-three breaks In sewers, twelve of which were in the old fashioned cement pipe sewers which were constructed twenty-five years | on Luck- | Mail Company's sheds. | sel was damaged. ago. Eight breaks were discovered in the small ironstone and three in the brick sewers. A large number of storm water inlets at the street crossings were clogged, especially where the streets are rot paved or are only macadamized Fences were blown down at of Fillmore gh, Valen ket ard Fifte T that in all cases where fences were blown down they were twe: feet in height and this he considers a good argument against the corners h and Mar- high fences. Two sections of the fence around Branch Jail No. 3 were blown down, and it is likely that a low cement e will repl it. The wind blew the skylight off Judge Hunt's courtroom and his cases wers tried in Justice Barry’s courtroom. Man- son states that the City Hall roof aid not leak and the man who is keeping it in re- pair for $2 per day thinks he, had a good chance for his money, a condition of his contract being that the roof must keep out the rain. There was a wild time on the front Tues- s dragged their anchors, & to and fro averting telephone and telegraph poles were thrown to the ground, yachts were driven ashore and in several instances houses partially built were leveled to the ground. The bark Edward May was tled up at Oakland wharf. The gale caused her to part her mooring and she was thrown across the dock against the new The bark was considerably damaged and a portion of the new sheds is wrecked. The British ship Cawdor had a narrow | escape from going on Goat Island. She was anchored off Pacific street and went adrift early in the gale. The tug Alert caught her just as-she was going ashore, In another minute she would have been on the beach and nothing could have saved her. She had forty-five fathoms of chain out and the tug had to hold her up against the gale until all that was hove in. Then the Cawdor was towed into safety. The French bark Lamorciere drifted from near the Presidio to off the bell on Alcatraz, where her anchors held. The brig Harriet G came in from Grays Har- bor with a load of lumber and when she attempted to anchor off Black Point the wind took possession and she landed alongside the Lamorciere. Neither ves- In fact, considering the number of narrow escapes on the fronmt, the amount of damage Is trifling. The ship Pericles drifted from off Black Point to near Alcatraz, where her anchors held. An unknown pile driver was in collision with the ship America, carrying away her topsall yards. The bark Charles Gounod was run into by a scow schoomer. The bark was not damaged, but the scow was dismasted, The yawl Royal broke away from her moorings and collided with the Sausaiite ferry slip. Her port side was stove in and she is now at the bottom of the bay, ‘There was hardly a telephone, outside of the nickel-in-the-slot machines, on the water front In working order yesterday. It seems a strange kind of a wind that would carry away the wires of the regular subscribers and leave the wires of the nickel-in-the-slot subscribers standing. But so it was and there was in conse- quence a big demand for nickels on the front yesterday. All the telegraph poles on the crest of disasters, line Continued on Second Page,