The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1900, Page 23

Besere rororen ummmnam», 0 2310 3 CHOROIOTEOE SHOXE A PN SLOXGOXSX0Q @ P renonen PRIKOHOXIX 2068 23 @all, [hesBo3] SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1900. ) FHHSHSR SRR 20 - DEATH CLAIMS ONE MORE VICTIM OF,THE DISASTER Horrifying Rumors of a Robbery| of the Dead Carried to the Officials. Coroner declare that th stories of operated in the roof humanity. virtue seem too terrible hing more substan- circum- attention to the warn- g was searched $11 was found, and when they saw ad $%0. The in- . - Nothing, to glve proof to The Morgue told by people rowd on Friday revented a man om the finger of from the roof and police officer done this cannot be must pass 2 one rumors which give 2z decided to bold the morning, instead s he at first announced. effort will be made ble shoulders the has as- the wit- saster - will 3 Proprie- es of the glass bysicians and whole will be told a:un tained, how noth- e agents of the glass one to enter r for pay. While cate that the own- the glass works were ADVERTISEMENTS. THE ARMY OF HEALTH. The Army in the Philippines Insigni- ficant Compared With This One. ain who make vepepsia Teablets gether 1t would uld outnumber our ousand by at least m who ere broken down a part of the thousands »pular preparation; the people who are in fair o know that the way to to keep the digestion per- Stuart’'s Tablets as regularly comee to insure good diges- oper as tion of food. n is always better than cure, nd no foothold if the in good working order of Stuart’s Dyspepsia mas Seale, Mayfleld, Cal., says: ed Stuart's y, 4620 Plummer street, , writes: “I wish everyone 1o know how grateful I am for Stuart's spepsia Tablets. 1 suffered for a long did not know what afled me. right along, uptll one day I bought & b0-cent I am only on the sec- gaining und something that nt."” ed, dizzy very suddenly her of the past sum- x re and am Bamsy Bl ysiclan, who sald I had everheated 1 me for two weeks ment. I finally = Dyspepsia Tablets ng before for various | the first three tablets in fairly by taking them s contain no cathartic or in- he natural peptones | tives which every weak stomach | | Tablets are blame there be. | of that the | the | ertisement of these tablets, | box | in flesh and | | hope. Sun Prairie, | < constant dizziness | s0ld by erywhere in the United 2 and Great Britain | ND OTHER L | writers’ Fire ¥ roll. That number of deaths would swell the total to twenty-five. Besides these Edward Duggan and Willle Conyolly have less than even chances to live. The report that Fred Garrehty, aged 18, of 104 Devisadero street was fatally in- jured was a mistake. He received a frac- ture of the ankle and numerous bruises auley of 514 Leavenworth street is one of those who escaped with aratively slight injuries, though his right wrist is brcken and the flesh terribly »d, and he has numerous his body and head. He a driver for the Under- atrol. “l went out expecting to pay mv way |In to see the football game,” McCauley we Pt B 1“]\?} said yesterday; “but at the gate I was r f the clty NAVe | turned away, as I had no ticket. On ac- w re the last Service | ccunt of the crush at the gates they was power give 1N | weuld not take mone Another young n errit Affafy The | ¢ v was turned away t the same time, vic ive been | ang together we went around and entered however | ibute of them. At a time | most impera- willin vesterday ts. Many more will take place to- thousands of the people of San will pay to those who death’s visitation. have suffered e ONE MORE VICTI’T DEAD. Charles H. Cummings, 15 Years 014, Expires at the Southern Pacific Hospital. The nineteenth death du works tragedy occurred at terday morning when “ummings, 1 terrible to the glass o'clock yes- Charles Henry his Bouthern Pacific Hoepital taken injuries. He died at e accident. “ummings was with her son when athed his last and her heroic effort bear urses and physiclans. Quincy . the boy’'s father, worn out b: had béen forced to seek when death came The injuries recelved by young Cum- mings wer such that he remained un- conscious to the last. His skull was frac- d his left lung was punctured by itered en messenger in the office of T. H. Goodman, general passenger and ticket agent of the oye of the Crandall, a thirteen-year-old schoolboy of 1104 Market street, s lying at St. Luke's Hospital with a compound fracture of the thigh, from which he can scarcely recover. Amputation of the leg will be necessary and in such a case am- putation is nearly certain to cause death. His father and mother are both with him at the hospital. The other boys at St. Luke's Hospital, Lester Prior of 770 Lydia street and Thomas G. Smith of I are both improving steadily and will be ready to be discharged within a few days Edward Duggan, at the City Recelving | Hospital, is showing improvement. He is now in 2 semi-conscious state, hospital surgeons and Dr. J. M. William- son, the family physician of the Duggans, say that he has a chance of recovery. Mrs. Duggan and Miss Florence Duggan, mother and sister of the injured boy, have remained tirelessly by his side. John Hassman of 23 Mint avenue, an- other sufferer in the accident, applied at the Recelving Hospital yesterday morning for treatment. He had recelved an In- cised wound of the right foot, but was taken home by friends and did not re- ceive proper surgical care until yester- day. Thomas C. Pedier, Fred F. Lilly and Charles Fulton are all in a precarious | condition at the City and County Hospt tal. An operation was performed on Ped- ler's fractured spine yesterday morning by Dr. Stanley Stiliman, assisted by House Surgeons Thorn and Osmers. A segment of the spine 'was removed. The spinal cord itself was found to have suf- fered some destruction, and little hope of his recovery is entertained, though his condition was entouraging during the day. The entire lower portion of his body is | paraiyzed. Fred F. LAlly, the son of a well-to-do New York merchant, is apparently ap- proaching death. He was conscious Fri- e United States, | 4ay, though his skull was fractured, the | frontal bone having been caved in. Yes- terday he lay unconscious and there is hardly any doubt that his name will be added to the list of dead. Dr. Thomas D. Maher, house surgeon, says that his death is practically certain. Charles Fulton, 24 vears old, whose home is at 3 Hermann street, has a com- pound fracture of the thigh, a broken arm and & contused wound of the head. He rested fairly well yesterday. It Is not known yet whether or not amputation of the leg will be necessary. If it prove to be necessary the patient’s chance for life will be very small. A brave fight for life against the crushing odds of fever and internal in- jurles is that being waged by Hamilton Woods of 151 Thirteenth street, one of the most severely Injured of those left alive. The boy, who is but 11 years old, knew the full force of the fearful fall to death. Against the brick floor, he just missing the oven In his fall, the base of his skull was crushed, his chin was fractured, he was horribly cut and maltwisted about the face, his legs were broken and every inch of his little body was bruised. Yet he lives and his stepfather, A. M. Wal- tens, says that while there is life there is The little sufferer was one of the brightest puplls of the Peabody School and a general favorite with all who knew him. ‘Willie Connolly hovers betweenglife and death, with the balance 2 little bit In favor of the former’s victory, at 1923 How- ard street, where he is being tenderly pratse | g ¥ to the duty 1ding incidents of the | now begun. The first | ne of the victims took place | from the home of his stricken | the tribute of their | vears of age, succumbed to | the | where he was | from the death-trap immediately | under her great sorrow moved | rest and 8o was not at his son’s bedside | d of a tractured rib. Be- | es these the boy received many minor | s anc bruises. ung Cum: gs was employed as a passenger de- | 78 Albion avenue, | and the | the glass works premises. There was no one stopping the men and boys, who were going through by hundreds. We climbed | 58 VIOUE TS > =) A % hin 7 E2 g up the ladder and crossed over to the oth- er building. ventilator roof I felt that it was not a safe proposition, and I told my chance acquaintance so, and proposed that we should leave. He consented, and just then, not a minute after we had clambered up, the roof collapsed. “I must have struck a timber just be- low the roof, for I remember nothing after the first instant When I came to, 1 was 1lying in a heap of injured men and boys, and my clothing was wet with their blood. I freed myself from the tangle and was among the first taken to the Southern Pacific Hospital. T do not know whether my chance acquaintance was killed or not, but I am certain that he fell with the rest of us.” Thomas Curran, an ironworker who lives at the corner of Twenty-sixth and Mission gtreets, had an almost miraculous | escape from death, and he gives a graphic description of the catastrophe. He said last evening: “I was with a young fellow whom I had met on the roof. He was a mechanic, and 1 think he must have been Thomas Rip- pon from the descriptions given by the papers. We were on the very peak of the roof. Suddenly, without any creaking or cracking to give us warning, the roof sank beneath us. I went over backward, struck a beam, which changed my direction, and fell about twelve feet further. That brought me to the level of the cefling joists, and as I fell T managed to seize an iron rod, vertical in position, a brace for one of the joists. I clung to it with all the strength of my arms and finally man- aged to throw one of my legs over it. My | experience in clambering around over the framework of buildings no doubt saved my life. . “As I clung there I saw the poor fellow who had been chatting with me strike the furnace. He curled up just worm in that heat, and I saw the tender come out and turn off the flame and then drag my companion off the furnace. “Bodles were falling like a hail, and I could hear them strike the furnace or the concrete floor. Then I could see thLe struggles of the poor maimed fellows. One poor boy was trying to pull himself off the furnace by an iron brace which L CHARLES H. CUMMINGS, NINE- TEENTH VICTIM OF THE GLASS WORKS TRAGEDY. happened to be within his reach. He pulled himself along bravely and was nearly off when his strength gave out and cared for by his aunt, Mrs. McCraigh. He is an orphan, 15 years of age. His injuries consist of cuts and burns about the face, legs and arm He may be hurt inter- nally. He lies in a stupor, only calling out sometimes for “‘Clements,” the name of his particular chum, who Is a devoted | attendant at his bedside. In addition 1o the nineteen men and boys already dead the following will prob- ably succumb to their injuries within the next two or three day: Ellery Crandall, Thomas C. Pedler, Fred F. Lilly, Charles Fulton, Hamilton Woods and Peter Car- he fell flat on the hot surface. One of the rescuers caught him and lifted him off, but it was probably too late. “The horror of those minutes during which I clung to that rod will never leave me. After a while I recovered my pres- ence of mind and worked along to thé studding of the wall and then clambered down, right into the midst of a windrow of killed and injured. I did :hn I could 1o help £ hem s a0l (o hsplas residing at 1815 West among the group &pectatars As soon as we got up on the | | The plucky little fellow was | City and County Hosplital yesterday and | was treated there. John Hassman was treated at the Re- | | ceiving Hospital yvesterday by Dr. Bauer | for an injured foot a piece of broken glass and recelvei a | laccrated wound. was less fortunate than cn last Thursday, as he was one of those who mounted the He saved himself by | | catching hold of one of the rafte-s and | | glass works roof. like a | | is the first of those killed in the disaster a boy 12 years old, |in the funeral Stioaion sireet, was | seription was 8180 th Of apeciators Whe had | Dioves. of T R IR s LA 0 IVES ARE HANGING IN THE BALANCE Police Will Su mon Witnesses to the Inquest in an Effort to Fix the Blame. have prevented that part of the crowd | chapel at 2425 Mission street, near Ywwws from encroaching on the glass works | ty-first. Interment will be in Laurel Hill property,” Gumper sald vesterday, “and | Cemetery. it was plainly their duty to do so. They | Funeral services for William Henry Bek- ought never to have let the boys dig under the fence. As a matter of fact, they could have prevented the crowd from get- ting inside the glass works yard at all if they had tried to do so. The manager or owners should have applied to them if they were anxious to keep the crowd off their premises. Gumper was one of those that climbed up on the roof of the north furnace house and from there witnessed the tragedy, afterward climbing down and giving what ounted the roof of Wollwert got the others and w the glass work". caved in. He received a dislocation of the right shoulder and several contused wounds about the head. Fearing the anger of his mother he concealed his in- | ocated shoulder gave jurfes until Mis disl him too much pain to be longer endured. On this occasion swung out of danger. et BORNE TO THE GRAVE. | Hector McNeill the First Victim to ! Be Carried to His Last Rest- ing Place. Hector McNeill was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery yesterday. The death which was abroad on Thankgiving day found an early victim in him, and his body to be consigned to the grave. It was a simple funeral. Simple, that ls, | in all but the flowers, in wreaths, crosses | |and bunches which filled | which the lad's the room in coffin lay at 2 Post street with fragrance. There was a great wreath of violets and maidenhair, the gift of the boy's fellow employes at the White House, and another of white roses and ferns from the attacheg of O'Connor | & Moffatt, where the dead boy had formerly worked. On the cofin lay a wreath of sirpple white roses. It had been placed there by the bereaved mother. At 1 o'clock yesterday those friends and relatives of the deceased who were to be present at the last rites had met and heard the funeral services read by the Rev. M. M. White. Among the mourners were Raphael Weill and Benjamin M. Joseph. The former is proprietor of the White House and the latter foreman of | the department in which young McNeill worked. There were twelve pallbearers from the White House and O'Connor & | Moffatt's. Though only fourteen years old,’ the boy had earned In no ordinary degree the confidence and esteem of his employers anfi the love of his fellow-workers. He was a, member of the Y. M. C. A. Night School, where he was accredited an apt scholar. He contributed largely to the support of his widowed mother and little sister. His mother is mourning for her dead boy with a grief that can know no palliation; her little daughter does not fully realize what her brother’s loss is to mean. Mrs. Josie McNelll brought her little family from Texas to San Francisco but a few months ago, little dreaming that the step meant death to one of them and that one her only son. On the fateful Thursday night, while the dead were being carried to the Morgue and many were breathing their last in the jhambles of the glass works, Mrs. McNeill and her little daughter sat walting at the Thanksgiving table in their home, waiting for the boy's return. He had set out in the afternoon with fifty cents in his pock- et, gally declaring that for the sum he would see the great game from some point of vantage. “‘Good-by, mother,” Mrs, McNell says he cried as he left the house. “I’ll be back to dinner,” and so they walit- ed for him until a police officer came to the door and told them that their boy was not coming home that night and per- e Wit “The- te House employes generously raised a purse of $100 to ald. Mrs. McNefll bearing- A sub- e em- Hector on to the ventilator with down when the roof ent to the | He had stepped on he - | | I i | as the first to be buried of the victims of San Francisco's most dire calamity. BOYS DUG THEIR WAY IN. Police Officers Charged With Having | Permitted Fifty People to Enter | the Grounds. | Jcseph Gumper of 1013 Green street states that shortly after £ o'clock on the day of the catastrophe he walked along | | HAMILTON THE INJURED BOYS, WHO WOODS, ONE OF MAY DIE. - % 2 Fifteenth street from Harrison, looking for an opportunity to get up on the roof of one of the furnace houses of the glass works. Two mounted policemen were at the corner of Fifteenth and Harrison streets, chatting with each other. In plain sight of the policemen were two doys at work digging a hole under the glass works ferce on the Fifteenth-street side. One of the boys crawled through the hole when it was dug and opened the gate which gives entrance between the ware- house and the south furnace house. Im- mediately there was a rush for the gate and fully fifty men and boys entered. “Those mounted policemen could easily 1McNe|ll i8 dead, but his memory will live ! assistance he could in carrying out the dead and injured — FATE OF TWO BROTHERS. Cne Was Stanford’s Mascot and the Other Plunged to Torment, Perhaps Death. One of the most remarkable coinel- dences of the glass works fatality was that involving Peter Carroll, a 'ad 17 vears of age, who lies in St. Mary's Hos pital with a fractured skull and for whase life the doctors hold out little hope, and his little brother, Jimmie. - While the elder brother was plunging to what may | prove his death the younger, clad in cardi- nal sweater as the mascot of the Stanford | team, was helping the rooters cheer his heroes. Jimmie Carroll has been the mascot of the Stanford team for two years. 1 On his removal to $t. Mary's Hospital, Peter Carroll was found to have sustained a fracture of the skull. Prior to being taken to St. Mary’s the injured boy w. driven to the rafiroad hospital. -H the ellence of our mother, Mrs. Lee. and his stepfather, & & R John Lee, take turns in watching at his | $a50 and $3.50 shoes for bedside. The doctofs do not hold out | ladies is to visit us—see for much hope of the lad’s recovery. | yourself their many good CITY'S DAY OF FUNERALS. Twelve Hearse-Led I;lne- of Carriages Will- Thread Streets to Cemeteries. More than half of the victims of the Thanksgiving day tragedy will be buried to-day, and in almost every district of San Francisco the sad ceremony over the body of some schoolboy or youthful bread-winner will cast a still deeper gloom over the people. San Franelsco has felt the awful horror of the accident, but of its people comperatively few have seen the .actual scars. To-day every one will see some one of the lines of car- riages with grief-stricken parents, broth- ers, sisters, schoolmates, following a small coffin to the grave, and the grief of the time will be brought home to each. Funeral services, short and simple. in the homes; a few with moré of ceremony in churches; a dozen lines of hearse-led carrjages creeping along the thorough- fares to cemeterfes—it will be a day of sorrow, such that if a San Franciscan should come 'home in ignorance of the cause of it he would yet see it in the faces of pedestrians and would notice less of mirth in the cafes, along the drives and in the public parks. The funeral of John Brough, aged 18, of 1835 Mission street will be held at 10 o'clock this morning from the mortuasw feldt, aged 12, will be held at 1:30 p. m. from the residence of his parents, 1920 Howard street. The body will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Edgar J. Flahavan's funeral will be held at 1 p, m. from the home of his parents, 1807 Howard stret, thence to the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, where services are to be held at 1:36 o'clock. The funeral of Lawrence Miel, aged 0 years, will be held at 2 o'clock this after- noon from the home of his mother, Mrs. Marion Miel, a teacher in the Horace Mann School, of 3530 Twenty-third strest. Interment will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Robert Miller's funeral will be held at 10:30 o’clock"this morning from the under- taking parlors at 97 Mission street. In- terment will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery Funeral services for Dante Monaco will be held at 9 o'clock this morning from the mortuary chapel of the undertaking par- lors at 2429 Mission street. The funeral of William Valencia will be held at 1 p. m. from the residence of the grandfather of deceased, Joseph Scheide- ler, 106 Capp street. thence to St. Bomiface Church for services. Interment will be In Holy Cross Cemetery. Funeral services for Charles: Henry Cummings will be held this afterncon at 2 o'clock from the family residence, 1012 Page street. The body will be taken to Sacramento to-morrow morning for in- terment in Helvetia Cemetery. 4 The funeral of Thomas Rippon will ba held this morni at 8:30 o’clock from his late residence, Halght street, and at 8 o'clock a solemn high mass for the re- pose of his soul will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church. Hundreds of the schoolmates and boy and girl friends of Virgil L. Newby ited the undertaking parlors at 228 M Allister street yesterday from 9 a. m. 1:30 p. m: to take a last look at t of their friend. to e face The sad scene was peated with added intensity at the ferry re- depot at 4:30 o'clock, when the body was shipped to Dixon for burial. The grief- stricken parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin ¥. Newby, and a number of friends ae- companied the body Cornelius McMahon's funeral will be held . to-morrow at 1:30 o’clock from the residence of his parents, 2611 Post street, and thence to St. Dominic urch for services at 2 o'clock. Interr will be { in Holy Cross Cemetery PROBABLY FATALLY INJURED. James Quinn, Aged 12 Years, Was | Taken Home From Glass Works. | James Quinn, aged 12 years, of 468 Clem- entina street, is lylng at his home in a critical condition from injuries received | in the Thanksgiving day tragedy. He | suffering from internal injuries which, it is feared, will result fatally The boy is a son of Hugh Quinn, an old fireman, now a watchman in the corpora- tion yard. He has been a pupil in the Lincoln School. After the accident Thurs- | day he was taken home by four boys, one of whom had recognized the little fellow. Jamsie, as the boy is called, was uncon- | scious. The boys carried him to a Folsom- [ street car, and from the car across to his | home on Clementina street. The boy has been conscious part of the time since, but his condition is serious. His case has not been Included inm pre- vious lists of, casualties. Barler's odorless oil heaters leave the air pure and wholesome. Just the thing for the nursery and sick room. Chas. i Brown & Son, S$07 Market street, near | 1 | | Fourth, San Francisco. - = 2 | 14 Lund Suit Dismissed. SAD SCENE WHICH MARKED THE BURIAL OF HECTOR Mc: | Capitalist William Lund and his wif AND THE FIRST FUNERAL OF A VICTIM OF THE TRAGEDY OF . | | Margaret, whose troubles were aired | THANKSGIVING DAY, | | the Police Court at a recent date, hav by 3 NG DAY. . stipulated that the divorce action institut- | | ed by Lund missed. An order was - A BiE T - —————— | yesterday made accordingly. ADVERTISEMENTS. 1$2.50 The best way to know points. You can buy lots of shoes for $2.50 and $3.50, but what are they? 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