The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1900, Page 3

Reports of Widespread Damage Continue to Arrive and Railroad Traffic in THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1900. TRANSPORT LEELANAW PASSES THROUGH A GREAT STQORM OFF THE CHINA COAST Southern California Is Still Impeded. OF HER CARGO OF MU ING ILLUSTRATION SH LES. SHE HAD A SIMILAR EXPERI OWING HER PLIGHT AT THAT TIME. NCE LAST JANUARY, THE ACCOM- EAU, LLINGTON WE or the use of unfortunate i ch involve the loss Mantia and Three coal alf, five and nine feet und at Chignik Bay, 325 k Pass, by pros- to determine the t of e Sov. 22—Lost in s, with a blinding snowstorm George Melvin despaired of Hansom left him to t news of his part- fc. A relief party T and found Melvin's He had placed a revolver in and pulled the trigger. The was warm when discovered. Melvin eer of the reservation ARE YOU BOTHERED To make ends meet? If 8o, try the right place to Jay out money and see how easy it will be to keep out of debt. Tennis flannel, right good quality. Tennis fiannel, bigh grade.. g 100 French flannel, styles pretty 18e Eiderdown, wool, il colors. 35e Wool yarn, the §1 kind, 5e Little folks’ 10-cent stocking b4 Lattle folks’ agons and carts 3 A Jple’s pretty shoe Soe ere best calf-lined shoes. 00 Men's serviceable shoes, lace or 1.25 hite bedspreads, full size........ 1.00 ray blankets, not wool, g00d size. 2 ¥ cape overcoats to 1 styli Men's fine winter Overcoats. 0 1l underpants. Se ¥ Gor Little gray undorpants 188 2% doz gray underpants, la; 15e 15 Gos gray pants, girls, 25¢ Ladies’ $1.00 pants (vests out) Boe Ladies’ 50c pants (vests out)... 25¢ STORE THINGS. Our last offer of store fixtures from upper h will be seen on Bteuart-street en- 1 rold, includes: ass case, 6 ff. long 4 ft high, 4-thick glass, %, now $65. 1 store butter and meat re- or. latest improved, cost 38, now $45; =t _an 1 thirty-five-dollar smokehouse, iron, now $1 1 piler 1ist, $12. Tea canisters, large and packing cases, paper hold- , chairs, at junk prices. e includes 60 prospector rockers, sold at B row 25e and 5Oe; they do the work. items, goods and fixtures not now nominal prices. We want your reg- alar business in family supplies at SHITHS ASH STORE Jesders will ‘be glad to know that this T€isbie house & mow yunning full blast © management of the EMITHS' ¢ D ¥OR FULL PRICE LISTS. 25-21 Market St., San Francisca, Cal, P.C working there sev- | the coal meas- | 1 EMPHIS, Tenn., Nov, 22—The / \ number of deaths from the storm Iin Willlamson County I\ Wednesday night is seven an e property 1l amounts to ¢ thousands of dollars. One death, on Tucker, has occu aking the total-in t Three pe s in- are tn a critical con- nbers of the Ellis fam- t Lake, 2 d by Tuesday’s storm. ay with th Thomas, living near , Was c led away of him has been fo e eople of La Grange, I Ly 1t an appeal for help. They s Corinuth, utions be r of the town, 1o ffered by r ch swept the 1 mdred miles along the b n yesterday and The wires were blown down a h great caution in raphic orders, seri- u ying trafic. Many freignt cars had their roofs blown off, station build- ings were damaged more or less all through the storm reglon and the track: trewn with wreckage, which further ded the movement of trains ueblo % 5 hou COLORADO SPRINGS, ( Che cf k! rapidl serfous fires oceurl re burning to-nig 1l dark o5 are still ¥ in__many places etreet railway traffic will not be r some time to-morrow. Abou houses and business blocks are damaged and 150 trees are uprooted. No lives were lost in the storm, and Col- onel E. T. Ensign, who was struck by a | telegraph pole and suffered a broken leg, | has the most serious injury. The storm was not attended by rain or snow. The gale came direct from Pikes Peak, which is west of the cf and it blew from 1 p. m. to2a m. At p. m., when the wind gauge at Colorado College was destroyed, it had registered a velocity of 82 miles | per hour. The weather to-day has been fair and warm, with little wind. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. | path of the storm in Arkansas is strewn with wrecked farm houses. The. fatali- ties in Lee County will not exceed six and | are confined mainly to negroes. BUFFALO, Nov. 22.—Inspection of the Government breakwater shows that a sec- | tion about 1100 feet in length was demol- ished by the.storm of last night. This | section was being repaired and the waves | which pounded upon it dashed away so much of the structure that extensive re- pairs will be necessary. The damage 1s | estimated at $200, SALINAS RIVER RISING. Does Considerable Damage Through- out Monterey County. | BALINAS, Nov. 22.—As the result of | the recent rainstorm throughout Monte- rey County the Salinas River has been rising rapidly and doing damage ‘n. sev- eral places. At the Spreckels sugar fac- | tory, which /s situated on the river bark, walchmen have been kept constantly on the lookout for any unusual turbulence of the stream. The large jetties have d to thelr utmost,” and if the much more will undoubtedly greatly. The river is report- ed as being higher now than for many | years. YP5hsent the machinery at the factory was closed down and the night shift laid off. Up to the present time it has rained 5.59 Inches for this storm and 6.16 for the season FULLERTON, Nov. 21.—The heavy rain of last night caused high water over the | entire valley. The water ran into the | stores and all buildings on the lower end of Sparda street the railroad was washed out in many places. The town is ered with mud and ofly slush. The water ran into Stern & Goodman's de- artment store, causing heavy damage. he lumber vard is under water and sev- eral brick bulldings were undermined. SANTA ANA, Nov. 22.—The Santa Ana River Is out of its banks to-night and flooding valuable farming lands in a new course to the sea. Low-lving celery lands south of here are partfally submergea and much of the crop will be ruined. | Stock is being removed to higher ground, as the water is still rising. | . LOS OLIVOS, Nov. 22— Fne great storm that began here last Friday morning came to an end last night. A stage was overturned in Naples Creek and Mr. Par- ker of Vemtura and two horses were drowned. A wagon containing three | drummers turned turtle in Santa Ynez River, but jts occupants escaped with a ducking. S e Shoots Her Husband. VENTURA, Nov. 22.—Last night dur- ing a family quarrel Mrs. James Dav: discharged- a shotgun at her husband, inflicting injuries which are thought to be fatal. One side of his jaw was torn away, the shot lodging in’ the back of his neck. The woman is in jail. Coun- r house, | by the wind and | | 22.—The | — | | OS ANGELES, Nov. 22.—The storm | that reached its culmination last | night was the most severe that | has been experienced in Los An- | geles since thc great deluge of | 1889, | The local reported ty-four Weather Bureau this morn- | the precipitation for tae hours preceding 5 a. m. to- | inches ¢ been e The Th a Gownpour such as aled in this part of total for the storm was | 3 inches. ded th slight precipitation that | torm swelled the total for €.79 inches. 5 p. m. last night and 6 a. m. e than two inches of rain fell y. The consequence was such a flooded condition of the streets as prac- | vented local traffic. Many of | . nts w mpelled to secure | shelter down town, where the deluge had caught them. The lotels were packed wita | d guests, some of whom live | e from the center of the city. | et-car systems were tled up on ns. e D lihe were ‘drawn. through G | flood at the corner of First street and | Fremont avenue, where the water poured in a torrent the full width of the street | and a foot deep. | The principal divisions of the rallway | systems centering at Los Angeles were completely tied up by the storm. Wash- | outs were known to exist, but no deta{led | statements could be obtained to-day as | the wires were down in all directions. Construction trains were sent out on the | various divislons. Not a wheel was turn- | ing on the Santa Fe lines, and the San | Pedro and Santa Monica divisions of the | Southern Pacific were the only ones open fic this morning. Several washouts e Redondo Rallway Comnany's nar- auge line held the road inactive un- noon. The Terminal Railway beach line was running trains this afternoon, | but the Pasadena and Glendale branches | were only open to traflic to-night. Wash- | outs rendering it unsafe to send out trains were reported on both divisions. | "East of Barstow on the Santa Fe no trouble was experienced, but serious dif- | ficulty was apprehended in the Cajon | Pass ‘and on the Surf line. | Los Angeles County has had a minia- | ture Gaiveston disaster of its own. At beautiful Terminal Island, heretofore one of the ideal summer and winter resorts of Southern California, more than two blocks present a picture of desolation, roperty being damaged to the extent of 'he high seas with a heavy southwest wind deshed angrily against the bulwarks that protected the pretty cottages and homes. By 7 o'clock this morning the breakers were seven feet high and the spray was above the second story win- dows. When the sea began rolling higher | and higher, the protecting jetties in front of Terminal Tavern and of the cottages were washed away and it was evident that there was no hope of saving two of the cottages from the fary of the great waves. The islanders rallied to the as- sistance of the inmates of one of the cot- tages nd made quick work of moving out | the furniture. The occupants of the sec- ond cottage had taken but a part of the furniture from the house when the waves swooped under the two doomed cottages. | In_the boiling, surging surf were heavy logs and timbers that had been washed from the jetties. The timbers and the | angry sea together beating against the | slender supports soon knocked them out and the front ends of the cottages went crashing down. The buildings creaked and trembled, while the water rushed into the rooms, destroying everything in its way. From Monrovia comes the story of the worst storm in the history of the settle- ment. Colonel Baker's beautiful orchard is badly damaged and the home of W. F. Marshall is a sorry looking place. It is entirely covered with rocks and debris and the lawns and flowers completely covered up. The grounds are as bare of vegetation as the middle of the street. Miss Anna Pettit and her niece had a miraculous escape from death by drown- ing this morning while attempting to cross the middle stream of the San Ga- briel River. The back seat of their car- riage came out and dropped them into the stream and they were carried down by the swiftly runninf current sixty feet be- fore being rescued. Frank Thrasher, at the risk of his life, rushed into 'the stream, the rocks knocking him about like a piece of wood, but he reached the women almost exhausted and gallantly | carried them to the bank. POMONA, Nov. 22.—Six inches of rain fell during seven hours in this region last | ight, and the severest Injury ever known | has been done by the flood to all kinds of real estate. All day vesterday rain fell, but as evening came on the downpour be- | came a torrent. The storm ceased at about 2 a. m., At dawn everybody in this region was up to see how great damage had been done to property. In some localitles the Injury to what has cost years of tofl and a lot of capital to create is pitiful. The severest | destruction in Los Angeles County has been along_ the foothills in San Gabriel, Azusa and Pomona valleys. P. J. Dreher, secretary of the San An- tonlo Fruit Growers’ Exchange, has been out on a tour of inspection among the itrus-growing localities to-day. *T pe- lev said he, “that the da to the orange and lemon groves of this region 1s rufiy §1,000,000. A great, many men wil] have to spend hundreds of dollars to re- pair the damage to their property. Many TO! have been damaged from $1000 to MERCED, Nov. 22—The cverflow of Bear Creek last night inundated the en- tire eastern portion of the town, filling B sibic For sestdents of ther paiibdt im: or en: 3 “Fet to their business houses this mor ng. | Southern Pacific and Santa Fe companies | | and tangled into a thousand knots. Great | tion i There were seventeen different wash- outs between here and Los Angele These were hurriedly repaired, and at —— ULL telegraphic communication with the outside world, disturbed by thbe recent storm, has once more been restored. The big storm which raised such havoc with the telegraph and telephone wires all over the State appears to have exhausted, tempor- arily at least, 1ts supply of ammunition, and while meditating whether to burst forth afresh or shift its course, humanity is endeavoring to calculate to what extent the benefits from the much-prayed-for rain will be offset by the damage that has been wrought. It is safe to say that not in many yvears has Southern California experfenced & fiercer demonstration from the elements, and those who have felt the storm’s fury most—whose property has been wrecked— marvel that there are no fatalities to record or catastrophies to describe. According to reports received by the | yesterday afternoon, the storm showed no | mercy for the lines of either of these big | roads. Seemingly solid earthworks, upon | which tracks were lald, were undermined | as If they had been loose piles of soft | sand; rails were torn up and carrled along | with the rushing torrents like toothpicks | floating in a basin of water; telegraph poles were rooted out of the earth or snapped in two, while wires were twisted gulches were mowed out of the ground thirty feet deep and several hundred feet long; massive stone abutments were car- ried off like so much chaff and even the stout spans of iron bridges failed to with- stand the wind and water. Thousands of dollars’ worth of damage has been done to raflroad property in this State alone. Officials of the two roads | say It is many years since so much injury was caused by a single storm. It wiil take many da to repair the damage in | some sections.” Every available workman | has been put to work and the companies | are doing everything in their power to prevent total demoralization of their | roads. | 3 Another Storm Coming. A second storm is reported to be on its | way. There has been a decided change in | the temperature in Northern California, | and according to Weather Prophet Mc- Adie this section may get some snow for a change. The second deluge which may strike the coast has been sighted off Van- couver Island. Its path is a little uncer- tain, but Mr. McAdie says there is a fair chance that at least a section of it will | strike San Francisco. Shortly after the noon hour yesterday the SBouthern Pacific Company’s ‘telegraph operators were able to communicate with the outside world in a satisfactory man- ner. BEefore that time the lines for more than twenty-four hours were either en- | tirely or partlally out of order. A raft of | telegrams began to pour info Manager | Fillmore and G. F. Richardson. master of | ortation, late in the afternoon, and | ads of these departments were kept | busy until a late hour sending out instruc- | yesterday afternoon the first train for the day was' sent out. | The limited through train which is due | here at 10:156 a. m. was, according to last | | reports received sterday afternoon, | stalled at Pomona, east of Los Angeles. Between Pomona and Bassett terrible | havoc was raised with the road. Rails and tles were broken and standing ver- | tically for a distance of many hundred feet. The “fill” at San Demas is washed out to a depth of thirty feet. A stretch of | §I| half a mile of track has been washed out | f! on the Santa Ana branch track and some of the rails were carried ten feet. ¥ Tore Up Rails and Ties. I A stretch of 1450 feet of track was wash- ed off the bed a mile west of Puente; also | 300 feet at Yerbas crossing, and ten minor |} washouts between Puente and Oil Siding. | There were also washouts at Burbank, Ravena and Merced. ! Some damage is reported on the new | Coast division. Word reached the local offices yesterday that the inspection party | l | | composed of Vice President H. E. }plunt-: ington, Chief Engineer Hood and General | Manager Kruttgchnitt had left Salinas to continue its ifspection. The party was | stalled at Pajaro, where a tunnel col- | lapsed and blocked the track. | The Santa Fe did not suiter quite as | | much as the Southern Pacific, though | || grave fears are entertained lest the storm | §| continues to work east, where it would be | § | likely to injure the Santa Fe most. N i General Manager W. G. Nevin, whose | headquarters is in Los Angeles, arrived | in the city yesterday on a specfal train. He reports numerous small washouts | along the route. | ““‘We have spent a great deal of money | of late.”” sald Mr. Nevin last evening, “in | }| fortifying ourselves against storms of this kind, and but for this fact I think the damage to the Santa Fe lines would have been much greater. “‘But it is bad enough as it is. It would take a terrific storm to hurt us at all, so you can judge for yourself the severity of this storm. It ecemed to me more like a cloudhurst. We hope to have all our trains running on time again by Friday. | Train No. 5 from Bakersfield, due here at | 8 a. m. did not get in until 4:30 this after- | noon.”” L At Le Grande the Maflgoéa Creek flood- | ed the tracks to such a depth that it was | impossible for a train to get through. On | § | the Santa Ana road worsmen had just | | finished the construction of a new bridge; | yet, despite its newness, the storm swept away one pler and two spans an- w.a other damage that will take some time to | repair. | The Rain That Fell. The following table shows the ralnfall | in inches in several California towns dur- | ing the twenty-four hours ending at 7| o'clock yesterday morning; also the tem- perature: ‘ I | Ther. ——Rain—— ‘I'A. M. Last 24 Totl for i Station— N 2. Hours. Season. ! San Franclsco. .02 5.67 Oakland .16 6.92 i Livermore 45 7.95 i Stockton .22 B.46 | Berenda .90 6.93 1 Fresno 60 6.42 | Bakersfleld 1.50 | Porterville 3.48 i Beats His Daughter. SANTA BARBARA, Nov. 2—A local section boss named Green went home last | night in an intoxicated condition after a prolonged spree. He met his daughter, a girl of 18 years, and attempted to shoot her. The revolver he drew missed fire, though he snapred it at the girl's temple a number of times. He then beat and atlemgted to strangle her. Green is a powerful man when sober, but was tos drunk to hurt her much before help ar- rived. A charge of disturbing the peace was placed against him and he pleaded guilty. Had there been other witnesses than his own family the charge would have been heavy. et A, Talbot Arrested. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 22.—Sheriff John- son has caused the arrest of Walter Tal. bot and May Graham, a domestic, on suspicion of hnvlnf taken part in the robbery of $1000 in jewelry and diamonds from the residence of Frank Ruhstaller, the wealthy breweryman, on street Monday night last. The family was at dinner when somebody entered the house unobserved and rifled a jewel box in a front room, escaping without detection. May Graham had been a domestic In the Ruhstaller house, but was discharged some hours before the robbery. She was known to gvn kept company with Tal- bot, who ‘until recently was a hotel walter. Conductor Robbed. SEATTLE, Nov. 22—Within six feet of his own door at 7 o'clock this evening Albert Miller, a conductor on the Great Northern Railway, was held up and robbed by two masked men. One of the robbers made him keep his hands in the r while the other desperado went through his pockets and took $60 in cash and a valuable gold watch and chain. Blue Serge Suits The picture shows a line of clothing that we have been talking about con- siderably of late, and which is proving to be quite popular with money-saving folks. On the extreme. right is a black kersey overcoat of stylish length, with vezlvet collar and durable linings ; it bears the union label—a guarantee of good workmanship ; sold here not long ago fcr $10 oo—we had too many, so thought it best to close them out when people were in need of overcoats ; price reduced to $0.45 In the center is a box overcoat, union made, from fine covert cloth, weli lined and tailored ; colors: tan, olive and brown—every one stylish, formerly $12.00 ; sale price now because of overstock $7.50 To the left is a single-breasted sack suit of blue serge, which is the most popular suit we ever sold ; it is union made, serviceable and, as vou know, stylish—blue serge is always proper ; though the price is low, remember that the making is good and the color is fast ; price but -$10.00 As all our ready-to-wear clothing is union made, you can count on excel- lent workmanship. We protect you thoroughly—any customer dissatisfied through owr fault can have his money back ; every garment kept in repair free for one year. Boys Top Coats This week we have a particularly good value to offer in our children’s department—a line of all-wool, blue thibet top coats for boys from 4 to 12 years old. The material is a smooth-finish goods that will wear well; velvet collar, four rows of stitching on bottom of coat and sleeves, vent in back like in men’s overcoats ; price of the coats only $3.45 Boys’ waists, ages 5 to 12 years, all sorts of patterns and colors, 25¢ each. Boys’ all-wool sweaters, all sizes, solid colors and stripes, $1.00 each. Boys’ golf caps 15¢c each or two for 25c, Automobile coats for little girls from 3 to 13 years of age, made to order from covert cloth, satin lined, $10.00 each. Baseball outfit, consisting of ball, bat, cap and belt free with every boy’s suit or overcoat. Out-of-town orders filled—get into communication with our mail order department and you will save money on your clothes and furnishings. SNWOooD 718 Market Street.