The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1900, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1900, CARRIAGES, AMBULANCES AND WAGONS CARRIED AWAY THE INJURED, THE DYING AND THE DEAD l Eager to Se¢ Fo q H the mighty wave of | of the maimed, as they writhed in agony to escape the torture of the inferno b neath, there mingled the sickly odor of burning flesh that grew crisp in the blasts - from the seething furnace. And dead eyes, with those of the living, looked kiy on every scene of horror. = every side lay the crushed a J “rom the features istorte the agonies that ath, the blood trickled to form adows, but scene atop irap the iron i held its vic- 1eat. One body m the fall, rolled L furnace top and r ow flame, wi beneath to mo! 2 owly hissing shaft of flax ate its way th h the flesh of the un- ate beneath, and the flesh even death resented at first appalled soon rushed to b g and care for 3 . 8 bodies were dragged from - d aside that & All_the while t able a terrible fight for fought. Half a score of s »se plunge toward-death . . e been stopped for the instant by & s f. Oye broken girder. to its broken . K building Slowly it bent beneath the weight. upon heights palsied of the victims » m f the bu and they plunged seven £ to swell the list of dead ne who had fallen uppermost and es- ed practically uninjured rushed terror- stricken from the scene. The maimed and with hands before their faces the terrible scene of death. Around vaulted fire pit iron’ band, »ugh to resist the efforts of the ted gas to burst the furnace rt, was bent and twisted by the weight of failing bodies shut the strong bravos great ventilat- r roar be P 5 cds of cager | IMPRISONED ON THE FURNACE. » nt to cries of hor- Iron Bands Hold Victims to the Heat Until Aid Arrives. 3 It was behind this iron band t > E DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. Ventilator Gives Way and Crowd Plunges to Death and Injury. Yown the pit of the g the g many relief b Four-inch timbers, supporting the plat- form frame that surrounds the furnace, ! t factor; wing fu s mass of humanit the -living, the crie: urses and the nleadings jeks of s, the < and even splintered bones showed where death or frightful injury had come to one of the many unfortunates. The Hub (CHAS. KEILUS & CO.) | On top of the furnace, where still played | of flesh scorched | the a shreds Tron ofl bla sput ered. braces stretching were bent .and twisted, buckets turned to shapeless masses of iron, boxes were crushed and broken, and everywhere roughout “the factory were mute evi- d % of the tragedy. ph Gumper, whé - resides at 1013 n streef, was amon%thnse on the roof who escaped falling. He hurried below i i e | into the furnace-room, and was among the 1t v first to go to the assistance of the in- swell tailor jured d have your clothes made— “There were over fifty - persons eitier at’s right deai or injured iving among the wreckage ' s futeid’ gviug | when I got down.” he <aid. *I helped pu | . some of the victime from the top of the | furnace and did all I could for the wound- | ed until the police arrived and drove me and others back to the lines. No man can describe the scene of horror. They feli in a mass. None nad a chance for life—not even those who caught the broken beam. It slowly gave way beneath the weight upon it, and had those whom it held for a moment failed to relase their hold jts weight would have been added to theirs and the list of dead would have greater. As it was, those who fell from the broken timber, with the exceplion of one or two, escaped instant death, though all were frightiully wounded. “Blood was everywhere, but even those who fear to see death coming to those of thelr kind and to whom the sight of blord is a horror would not have left the scene. All worked with frenzied haste, | and for this many escaped death who | otherwise would have roasted alive on the A ” { furnace.” ein-Bloch & Co.’s, | Hackett, Carhart & Co." Sv;'{l‘ts; ('lnlahesv aadid TENDERS AID THE DYING. You can do much | Workmen &v;imii?m Death by better here in both | v s by § Fire and Drag Bodies From Flames. | The horror ot the tragedy came to Charles Yotz, Clarence Jeter, Tom Sim- mons, Tom Hallinan and Willlam Burke, tenders of the furnace, tenfold. They heard the last groans of the dying, the | cries of the maimed, and saw all_the ghastly scenes of this act of death. Yotz was standing peering into the molten mass under his charge when the ventila- tor'gave way above him.” He sprang back and try on some of our clothes. Exclusive High-Grade | Clothiers t . We handle the celebrated BB KEARNY ST. THURLOW BLOCK. 13 othall Game Crowd Defies Owners of Glass Works and Fights Its Way to Top of Yentilator; - Which Crushes Beneath the Weight——Charred Bodies Lay Among the Maimed. | ng vietims of the tragedy who had away from the furnace to the floor lay or sat or kneeled and | out | of the victims were caught and held’ finitil | me and I 1 rescue or death came to them. | how long. were crushed by the falling bodies, and | here and there blood clots, bits of flesh | from one side of the furnace to the other | were | Liv been | just in time to escape being caught in the ling mass of humanity. | cers to the scene. Hayes was among Mounted Officer J. A, the first on the scene, For an instant he was helpless, but just | and he procured a ladder, with which he before him on the furnace there L 1| took down a_number of men who were > the flame from the oil blower eat- | clinging to a broken rafter in the front of g its way through the flesh. Yotz | the building. sprang forward and, gaining a hold on the “From information later received I am burning clothing that covered the dead. | satisfied that some one collected money dragged body over th n guard out | to permit_some of the crowd to get oh 1 ndea f Stmmons, Halli- | through the gates or over the adjoining nan, Burk also hurrled to the | fences. M are now Investigating a rescue, The t from the furnace was |report t zn offering seats for sale t but rned off, by an act of providence that the brick capping did not give way be- the shock falling bodies f the e= in the molten 3 five tenders of the furnace ctim had be It he 1pon ¥t STATEMENTS OF WITNESSES. Young Man Lies Facing Dead Body | Until Relief Arrives. | his fac shen from his awful ex- | told story. | body, fell right there beside me,” ne Ly mendous was posted on one of the fences, and that disappeared after the accident. We are ¥ 8 algo looking for several parties who claim from = the™ furnace | to have known of this practic d the fiesh of the victims and it was SYMPATHY FOR OOM PAUL KRUGER IS VOTED Resolution Is Adopted With Tre- Cheering by the French Chamber of Dsputies | PA Nov. 29.—In the Chamber of | Deputies to-day M. Cochery, the acting president of the body, announced -that M. Denys Cochin, Conservative, repre senting a ¢ t of the Seine, had pre- sented an_ interpellation as to the inten- tions of the Government regarding arbi- tration in favor of the Boers. he said. polfting to 2 clot of blood that | - The Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Del. lay near the head of the furnace. “An- | casse, replied that there was no use in other dropped right between the furnace | Opening a debate on this subject, as in ang the oil blast and the flame had eaten | foreign policy, especially, such discus- almost through its very vitals when I |Sions were useless and often dangerous, would forget them, they will come back and I in."” oung man, who refused to give his even to the surgeons who treated also told a story, tragic in its de- T felt_myself falling,” he said, “then I felt the heat of what I now know was the furnace. Then consciousness in a stupor I do not knc When I regained consciousness 1 was lying on the ground. My head hurt me and I was unable to stand, but I turned over on my side. As I turned [ looked into the open eyes of a dead man. His face was bloody and distorted and his glum eyes were fixed on mine. A feeling of fear and horror crept ovér me, " tried to turn again, but lass was gone. 1 screamed for nelp, 1. felt that T would go mad Iying beside the dead. 1 closed my eyes only to open them aga fes age until the police picked me up and carried me to the ambulance.” Such was the scene of this aPpalllng tragedy. All of the terrible details will never be known. Those who witnessed the tragedy say this is well, for some things are better tntold. GOOD WORK OF THE POLICE. Licutenant Anderson Tells of Meas- ures Taken to Succor Injured. Lieutenant of Police Anderson had charge of the police squad of sixty men which was detailed for duty by Chief Sul- n at the football game. Of these forty were placed inside the grounds and twen- ty, including a number of the mountéed and there I lay it seemed to me an | policemen, were detailed to" patrol the surrounding streets. “It was just after the game had start- ed.” sald Lieutenant Anderson, “that I heard a crash and ‘an agonized roar that I shall never forget. I was standing talk- ing to Chief Sullivan, Captain’ Witfman and a numoer of officers and we rushed together from the grounds. I got through the crowd, saw what the difficulty was and immediately telephoned for all the patrol wagons and ambulances T could get. The outside men, officers off duty Who were viewing the game and hundreds of willing helpers were soon on the scene and assisted in caring for the dying and the dead. I suppose that within ten min- utes after the accident I had fully forty men at my disposal. In the meantime an alarm of fire was rung in and the mem- bers of the various companies responding aided -the police in rendering assistance. As fast as the patrol wagons, buggies, hacks and other vehicles -came up they were pressed into service and as many of the injured as required treatment. were sent to the various hospitals. uwhile we were doing this a telephone message was received by Sergeant Perrin at the Seventeenth-street station, and he ordered Officer White, who was -on the desk, to go out and send all avallable offi- will live through all this horror | | Teft 1 was fascinated—fascinated with | they tell me about fifteen minutes— | found my strength and was able to drag| At M. Cochery’s. request, M. Der { it away. They fell all around us. It was | Cochin withdrew his interpellation and awful picture the sceme. My | proposed the following motion: memory I ained scenes 1 shall never | “The Chamber of Leputies on the oc. ge ou ow eir dei 1 of the arrival o e sident o: faEpal. though Ehe -Thih Ssaale e Transvaal in France, 1s happy to ad- clouded in my mind. Theif horror has | > him a ‘sincere expression of its dulled my mind, but I suppose they will | respectful sympathy." come back: In the night, 1 guess, when 1| M. Cochery then announced that he had recétved So divis jther motion from-M. Four- t, representing one of the 18, couched in the following niere Aisne Chamt mp: r of Deputies, while ex- thy for English Demo- pressing cracy Here the reading of the motion was In- terrupted by loud protests, but M. Coch- proceeded: Sends its greeting to President Kru- | ger. | " Continuing, M. Cochery begged the | Chamber to refrain from demonstrations, | which, he said, could be badly interpre- ted. He also asked that a vote be taken without any discussion. The motion of M. Denys Cochin was then adopted unanimously and the 559 | voters cheered when the result was an- | nounced M. Fourniere, after declaring that the | democracies of' all countries were ani- | mated by the same pacific sentiments, withdrew his own motion. Mr. Kruger will leave here Saturday for Cologne. The hour of his departure has not been fixed. He will remain at Cologne over Sund: and west. On Monday he will go to Madgeburg and thence to Ber- lin, Where he. expects to arrive Tuesday morning. Mr, Kruger passed the day receiving a number of deputations, including delega- tions from the Chamber of Deputies, who after the vote in the Chamber immediate- 1y proceeded to the Hotel Scribe and com- municated it to him. Mr. Kruger, who was much touched, warmly shook hands with the Deputies. a7 A Man of Mystery. One of the oddest characters in this great city died yesterday in the person of Dr. Henry Moreton, a man of msytery, graduate of a Paris college, seventy years a practitioner here and for decades a physician of the Four Hundred, writes the New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispateh. The late Mrs. Paran Stevens was under his care for years. He former- ly ran a queer little drug store, but_since 1384 it has stood idle, with dust and cob- webs on the bottles and shelves. In this queer abode the doctor spent the time a recluse, surrounded by his early century medical books and a gaunt gray cat as his only companion. When asked why he let 2 valnable drug store stand idle so long he would reply: “I Keep it for the cat. All the elements of a romantic novel were in hes life. He received an annuity from a noble estate in England, and just be- fore his death he destroyed a bundle of papers which were kept in a secret draw- er in his cabinet. Many times his fash ionable patients asked curfous questions regarding himself, but no one knows his story. —_———— Nations Not Unhappy. There remain in Europe four nations Stops the Cough An'\’wwr’ll‘ublol! the Cold. Laxative d.x;mu}; inine Tablets cure a cold in one day. ure. No Pav. Price 25 cents. . VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY PLUNGE THROUGH SPACR T0 DEATH ON SEETHING FURNACE ———————————————— » which continue to make history—namely England, France, Germany and Russia According to Montesquieu they ought ta be unhappy; it is a moot question whether they are. England’s contribution to the ‘%; i 3 # ! i) ¥ 3. 3 record of the world's doings has been dur- ing the last twelve months a pr le one; vet the most prejudiced ob- r would fail to see an: pression among Russia and Germany have been revising and amplifying their history rather tha chapters to it; so d spirited.—Lc adding new that period " DEATH REAPS A DREAD HARYV Continued From First Page. EST OF LIVES. So great was the heat of this fur- that perspiration streamed from the faces of the workmen, and as th: thundering crash came and human bods were flying downward through the alr to death and tormenting injury these men stood aghast. | They were paralyzed in horror and no* | blankets before the clothing of those tl furnace was burning and agony were sounding throu did they recover se enough to by one they dragged the suffe ures from the furnace to th floor of the buiiding. , Quickly the fi put out from their clothes. One by the unfortunate victims of the upon the pla act. g creat- concrete one disaster were laid upon the floor until more than sixty, the dead with the dying, those that were writhing in the very ecstacy of pan and those that were still In insensibility, were side by side. nd all endeavors were made sistance. Messages were sent Haspital, to St. Luke’s Ho: to obtain a to the County pital and to the Southern Pacific Hos pital; doctors were summoned, the Cor- | oner was notified, and physiclans from every part of the city were importuned to come in all haste to the place. V. hicles of every description were pressed into service to carry the unfortunate ven- turesome ‘men and boys to the various hospitals. Express wagons bore away their burdens of suffering beings. Car- riages were given up by indulgent own- ers. Men on horseback lifted up uncon- scious boys and _carried them where medical aid might be obtained. It was an appalling sight. The news of the disaster had spread with the rapid- ity of wildfire. Thousands in eager, dread- ing anticipation begged the privilege of getting near so that they might satisty and rest their minds that their loved ones were not among those of the dead. Mounted policemen beat back the crowd, | and now and again the silence of the dreadful place was broken by the echoing cheers from the field where the university athletes were striving for victory. Punc- tuating - the groans and the occasional shriek of some man or boy were the shouts of people who knew nothing of the death that was so near to them. In an hour there was nothing In the place to tell of the terrible accident ex- cept the gaping opening in the roof, the broken rafters, the twisted stanchions and the blood-stained fioor. Nurses, phy- sicians and the Coroner had come and gone, and San Francisco was beginning to know of the most horrifying accident in the history of its people. When the ter- rible event had become generally known in the city terror reigned. Thousands upon thousands of people had a right to fear that some one dear to them had met death. Every hospital was surrounded by black masses of people, kept back by the police. There was weeping and pleading and threatening for the privilege of en- tering and inspecting the wounded and dying until far into the night, when the names and identity of the wounded .anq dead had been established. At 8 o'clock last night the thoroughtare in front of the Southern Pacific Hospital at Fourteenth and Mission streets was impassable. It was black with agonized men and women. They pleaded in vain to be admitted to the hospital, where in ev. ery room there was some suffering being Wwho was paying his price for seeing the football game. The accident happened at 2:30 o'clock. Within fifteen minutes after that a man with blood-stained hands ap- peared at the hospital and asked assist- ance. In his insane excitement he was barely able to tell the single doctor in at- tendance that a terrible accident had hap- pened and assistance was needed. The physician In charge instantly telephoned for the entire staff of physicians anad nurses, and within half an hour the hog. of the glass works had sold tickets This report upon investiga could not be tran There is no evidence to show that any- y at the glass works, either a proprietor or an emplaye was able to meet the wagons and carriages and everything fents In the hospital, s in readiness »m room to room, hastening with and their pillows to places where the Injured could be re their cries of | thirty-five men into that hospit sought the patronage of any dangerous a place on the roof. were carried under the sad | nees it is a congratulation that the officers, physicians and nurses of the led headlong death upon and so conscien- They deserve a tribute from the | thoroughly The Heart of a Marquis. The Marchioness of Bute, with her only Stuart, are route for Palestine. have with them the heart of the late Mar- quis of Bute, for burial on Mount O in accordance with the desire of th ceased nobleman. E Robert the Bruce, who was an ancestor of the Marquis of Bute In this accidedt, in which a dozen people their lives and several have been dangerously wounded, the ques- to blame arose instant When the accident became known Mayor | Phelan went without delay to the of the disaster and made investigation, tion of who is The heart s conveyed by as given by the Pops be extracted ccording to A Special permission interviewing the proprie- a superintendent He went then to the interviewed those The police, under and the workmen. various hospitals and who had been injured. the direction of Chief of Detectives Sey- | mour, made a similar investigation, and | their opinion is that those who met dis- | tress and death have themselves to blame. It was reported that one of the watchmen were attacked by the Saracens in S a battle Douglas flung the c the enemy, “Onward as thou we killed, but Bruce's hea: iy _recovered and taken to Melros e it was interred.—London » was subsec We are having a sal They are a lot of all si which we purchased from a manufacturer, who made them up to sell for soc each. We boizht in big quantities and by making them a special we can sell them: for >5= each. The ties are in our Geary-street windows—you can see for yourself that they are worth s0c. e-of 50c neckties, but the sale price is 23¢. Ik tecks and bows—silk lined, up-to-date— Out-of-town orders filled—write us. SNWOooD! 718 Market Street.