The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1901, Page 1

°_ ze - ! UEm" 25 ol — VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 92. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS QUESTION OF PRECEDENCE CAUSE OF CONTROVERSY AT INAUGURAL CERETIONY Unless Given Seats in Senate Ahead of Jus- tices of United States Supreme Court Embassadors Will Not Attend. Special Dispatch to The Call. a ntro- part ke in of Ma- n hment. 1 of the marine de! in the Line. ted 1o participate in have been assigned the first brigade of the third divi- scction of the pageant. 0. Howard will command the much in . The first arrive reached here of Governor who with a delega- RIO’S WRECKAGE CAST UP ON SAUSALITO SHORE IS LOOTED BY EAGER VANDALS Military‘ Guard Placed Over Flotsam and Jetsam ' Frustrates Further Plans of Wreckers—Official Inquiry Goes On. BOER FORCE CAPTURES EIGHTY OF THE SCOUTS OF GENERAL KITCHENER After a Prolonged Battle in Which They Lose Twenty T'len the British Are Finally Compelled to Surrender. Special Dispatch to The Call, Was on Her Way to Washington to | Participate in the Naval Display. WASHINGTON, March 1.—The training ship DI on its* way to Washing- ¥ pate in the naval display, | r ff Maryland Point this aft- s she was still hard s L R DEATH’S HARVEST IN RUSSIAN BLIZZARD | Thirty-Seven Persons Killed at Odes- sa and Many Bodies Found on Road. March 1.—The recent blizzard t seven persons here and -six bodies of persons frozen to ave been found between Radzal- aia and Tiropsal e oo Steamship Combine. LWERPOOL, March 1.—Shipping circles | here are interested in the reports of an | extensive combination of the steamship the double the | ir the <l s of statehoed. COLOMBIAN REBELS ARE AGAIN DEFEATED In & Battle Near Maria La Baja They | -Lose Thirty Killed and Ten COLON, ¢ 5 received bloody bat- thirty killed Government t i seven men killed ana USES FUBN!TUEE VAN TO COLLECT TAXES | | | | Treasurer Hennings of Omaha Makes | _, Steamship Compaty has already acquired Lime Point wreckage was cast up yester- Raid Upon Delinquents With Batisfactory Results. OMAHA, March 1—City s is ready to start upon his sec 1 tour of downtown streets in quest of deld nt tax money. He takes a £ re van and several deputies distress warrants and forces pay- of d large with m Treasurer lines terested in the Brazilian trade, with a capital of £1,000,000. The Booth > N 1A | 1A | P | 7 | 2408, Z M £ ! 1177 7 | —~ | BNl ; | ~ | | i | ’ st | R A 0 AL AR AN Lok lved, | TKE the wreckers of old unscrupu- ‘ by Pilot Jordan as being where the ves- lous persons at Lime Point have | sel sank l in the past few d stripped por- | - Many people in Sausalito and its vicin- tlons of the wreckage of the Rio | ity are hauling wreckage of the Rio to | v Buadie de Janeiro of everything of value, | their homes and using it for firewood. A e Dt as- uncoll and military rule was enforced yesterday | large. plece of a stateroom s anchored | in order to protect the flotsam and jet- | at the wharf at the foot of one of the | “On | sam cast up by the sea from the remains| principal streets of the town. . Life-pre- | there | Of the vessel which met her doom on Feb- | servers and portions of life-rafts -have | $50,000 of delinquent - persona) | fuary 21 on Fort Point ledge. been cast up on the ‘beach and a lad We expect to collect it all, - We | A large portfon of the deckhouse, con- | named Frank Sease exhibits a ¢oat from DR ONEILL ) e The records show | tai & was washed up | {he Wreck. A captain of a bay steamer TELLS OF P [uencies reaching far back prior | near Sausalito two days ago. Nels Nel- |18 accused of having. stripped. a portion RS WILRMAN | T of office: and wé slmply &7é |'don and “Fred Nelson tried ‘to. bring: the o8 -deckbouss: of ity electrie ‘wires: nnd ATTEMPT To the Tecord in our work. ~We | wreckage ore In tow.-of ‘the. laundh | SPRHSntes. Ons. man . BEusslite has éi‘?‘;’g e | furniture yet, but | Gazelle, but the current proved too strong | Poosted . of . having secured. seventeen i v delinquent | and carried the flotsam away. Yesterday.| SACKs of meat and othier provisions. There | . that portion of (he Rio's upper works was | AT6 hundreds of persons n Sausalito and i e ——— : i€ : | its vicinity who expect that the -ocean | carried ashore at Horseshoe Bend, direct- ¥ | POPE WILL CELEBRATE i ‘ainoeite ML WOt L | currents will cast a rich harvest attheir | NINETY-FIRST BIRTHDAY The: -vandall. . the.: viekdts - ob that feet, and from morn till night the waters | - | Dr. Mazzoni Says His Holiness Is at | wreckage swooped down upon it and in ;;":‘_::Y are watched by eager and hun: { Present in Marvelous Hluff order the staterooms were stripped | " [n the meantime the soldiers at Lime Health. of everything of value. One man secured | Polnt are patrolling -the besch and keep- l } ROME, March 1.—The Pope will cele- | a typewrlter in good order, gthers cir-!|ing.wnteh-affiwar . aust e e 1 brate t rrow his ninety-first birth- | ried off opera-ghisses, jewelry, Japanese|of the Rio del Janeiro which the sea is st [ Tobes, a silver ice pitcher and a set of |SIYVE WP . o : Dr. Mazzoni sald to a correspondent to- | false teeth. It is supposed that many D i oot vsious | ottt asiliies: of vatua’ were’ secorél ty| VEESOEL SANK health. He shows mo sign of diminishing | the wreckers. R R | vigor—a miraculous thing in a man of his| The portion of the deckhouse cast VERY APIDLY " | ashore bears evidence of having been torn | Pl Y it says that the Pope and rent by xplos T nt savs that the Pope and rent by a terrific explosion. The | Testimony at Official In=- had a serlous accl- | boards are torn apart and the partitions Bt o on- Wednes- | between the staterooms look as if they vestigation Is Con- day through the taf falling of a | had been cut through with a sharp instru- . + S 35 heavy brass ca ment. The {ron supports are badly !Wl!(etl‘; f“Ctlng’ [ INSPECTOR BULGER ASKS CARPENTER CRAMP IF MORE LIVES insecurely placed on the altar. and bent ] — WOULD HAVE BEEN SAVED IF THE ENGINEER'S CREW HAD e e | Alone the entire shore in the vicinity of | The testimony. presented yesterday at REACHED DECK. CRAMP THINKS SO, IF TIME PERMITTED. | TR. 5 { o 5 | IS HARD AGROUND e | b " | + | KA the Red Cross line o RN Edward to Lexve Kronberg. KRONBERG, Mareth 1.—King Edward will leave Kronberg a¢ noon to-morrow, -+ day, and in the opinion of many mariners it is thought that the hull of the Rio was torn apart by an explosion of her bollers | when she plunged to the bottom of the | | BoIng direct to London sy way of Cologne | Golden Gate. This theory is partly veri- and Flushing. To-day le decorated sev- eral members of the hyusehold of the |and the day inquent personal taxes under ] Dowager Empress Frederick, : fled by the fallure of divers yesterday before to find the slightest trace of the vessel at the point indicated S SOLDIERS EXAMINING PORTIONS OF THE WRECKED STEAMSHIP CAST UP NEAR SAUSALITO. o the investigation of the wreck of the steamship Rio de Janeiro conducted by United States Inspectors of SteAm Ves- sels Bolles and Bulger was devold of any sensational feature. The most important points brought out In the inquiry were the conflicting state- ments as to the length of time which elapsed between the striking of the ship and the final plunge or the vessel to the bottom. Nearly all the witnesses placed the time at from seven to ten minutes, while Pilot Jordan and Chief Engineer Herlihy claim that twenty minutes elapsed between the time the vessel went on the rocks and the moment when she went to the bottom of the Golden Gate. It was also developed In yesterday's in- vestigation that though hoat and fire arills were frequent on the Rio de Ja- nefro they were of little practical value as the crew simply responded to the alarm and went to the various stations assigned. The boats were never moved from the chocks at any drill given in the past elghteen months, Carpenter Frank Cramp and Watchman J. Russell are entitled to great credit for helping to save many lives when the Rio de Janelro went below the surface, Their testimony glven yesterday in a plain ana straightforward manner showed that they had been instrumental In getting many of the Rio de Janclro's passengers into - the small boats and but for their devotion to duty the death list ‘of the Rio de Ja- neiro’s wreck would have been far larger than it was. The technical examination of the various witnesses by Inspectors Bolles and Bul- ger yesterday brought out strongly that not an officer of the ship thought the Rio de Janeiro was in much danger of sinking when she struck. All stated yes- terday that they had little idea that the ship would slip off the rocks and go to the bottom. - On the evidence of the surviving offi- cers, the greatest credit must be given to the Chinese créw of the Rio de Janeiro. Every witness yesterday testified under oath that the Chinese had acted with great coolness and bravery, many of the men displaying remarkable ability under the sudden circumstances of ship- wreck. Left to Die in a Trap. Inspector Bolles conducted the exam- ination in chief, and Inspector Bulger presented a series of questions tending to show by the answers that the Chief En- gineer, P. H. Herlihy, was grossly negli- gent in his duty, when the Rio started to come into port, andgat the time the vessel went on the rocks. Inspector Bulger sought information from the witnesses to show that it was a groes violation of rules for the chief engineer to be absent from his post when the ship started to come Into port, and also to prove that the men of the engi- neer’'s department were never ordered to the lifeboats by their superior officer, Herlihy, but were allowed to remain on the lower deck, without a chance to save their own lives or help to save the lives of passengers. 7 Carpenter Frank Cramp created some excitement when he refused to append his signature to the shorthand notes of his testimony. He stated that he pre- ferred to sign a plain statement and did not care to put his autograph to a lot of dots and dashes he did not under- stand. Inspectors Bolles and Bulger informed the earpenter that it was his privilege to refuse to sign the shorthand notes, and that he could sign when the notes had been transeribed. 5 The first witness of the day was Third Officer Charles J. Holland, and his evi- dence was In line with that presented by him at the Coroner's investigation, Boat Drills Useless, The examiration of Holland chiefly dwelt with the question of boat and fire drills, and it was brought out by the an- swers of the witness that in all the time he had been en the Rio de Janeiro he had never seen the life beats swung frem their davits and that they always re- mained in their chocks, The witness fur- ther testified to hearing long blasts of distress seunded en the Rio's whisties before she went down, He was positive that the vessel sank in ten minutes after | Holland was sure | going on the rocks. that Captain Ward did everything in his power to save the lives of the people on the ship and that the Chinese crew uwn derstood well the orders of the officers given in English. Quartermaster Frederick Lindstrom testified that ®ie was on the lookout of the Rio from the time she started to enter port until she struck, with the exception of ‘a few minutes he spent In the pilot house to get a cup of coffee. The witness stated that he heaved the lead after the vessel struck, but could not get bottom. ‘When the witness so informed the pllot, the latter requested him to tell Captain Ward to get his boats out and warn ths passengers of thelr danger. Quartermaster Fred Matheson testified that he was on watch below when the Rio started from her anchorage. Wgen tho Rio struck he went on deck and the cap- tain ordered him to his boat. The witness felt sure.at the time of striking that the Rio was hard on the rocks and that there was little danger of her sinking. Mathe- son belleved that only five minutes elapsed from the time tbe Ric struck untfl she sank. Doctor Gives Evidence. Dr. A. A. O'Nelll, surgeon of the Rio, then took the stand. The doctor could throw little light on the cause of the wreck. He was In bed asleep when the 'vessel struck and went to his boat when the pllot and quartermaster on duty told him to do so at the captalin’s orders. Dr. O'Netll told of how he lowered his boat and how the Rio sank, in precisely the same manner as he testified before the Coroner’'s jury. The doctor placed the time between the striking and sinking of | the Rio as being not more than seven minutes. The witness did not think at the time that the ship was in danger of sink- ing. Carpenter Frank Cramp was the most Important witness of the day. He was | suffering from severe hoarseness and could hardly be heard. Cramp testified that he examined the lifeboats of the Rio before she started from the Orient and had found them In good order. He de scribed the structure of the wrecked steamship and sald that when she was bullt all requirements of law had been carried out. The Rio had thres complete watertight compartments and two Incom- plete bulkheads. In the opinion of Cramp the steamer had been cut open ir two of her complete compartments when she ran-on the rocks, The witness testi- fied that after the ship struck he had taken soundings in the forward and after helds and bad found ten and twenty-two feet of water respectively, He so re- perted to Captain Ward and the captain had ordered him to his boat. The wit- I ONDON, March 2. e date of yesterday General er tel- egraphs the War Office from Pre- toria General Dewet has been fcrced nort the Orange | River and is now outside of Cape:Colon that He adds that 200 prisoners -have been taki | A Boer force ked “eighty of Gen- eral Kitchener's sco longed fight, in twenty men, | The Dany | stands that, | render of General Lc tary authoritie contracts with s pites. A special from Cap Alfred Milner start to take up his the Transvaal Colony. Balfour’s Obscure Reply. During ques | Commons to-a asked Mr. B leader, at what tim: and after a pro- the British. lost me. f new and the Orange River eral, e C ment was informed that if war ensued be- tween the T as the result of th rences which were made apparent at the Bloemfontein ference the Orange Free State wo! nd reat Britain d w throw her lot with the sister | republte. Mr. as ‘taken down by the stenograp! was as fol- lows: “All the Informatibn we have on this | subject is necessarily a matter of qpinton and therefore conjectural in its character, or else is co 1 In statements of ex- | President Steyn, ‘which case, unfortu- inavoxy, it 1s mendacious.’ | i This statement brought forth erles of “Oh" from the Irish and other members opposite and Balfour dropped the subject. Balfour’s reply was regarded as ex- tremely obscure and it was explained in his behalf that he was not referring to | anything specific, but alluded generally to | Mr. Steyn's statemen | To Keep Big Force in Field. | Mr. Broderick, the War Secretary, has | jssued a statement of the army estimates | for 1901-02. The total is £97,915,000, of | which £58,250,000 comes under the heading | | o war services, and is based on the as- | sumption that for the first four months of the new fiscal year the fleld force in South Africa will be malntained at its | full strength, and that thereafter a gen- | eral diminution will occur. The sum also provides for the transport home of troops, for war gratuities, etc. | The number of men providea for s 450,000, | betng 230,000 above the normal army estl- | mate and due to the war in South Africa ‘and to operations in China. LAY BARE PLOT TO [ i1 KILL KING OF ITALY | 2 | Two Italians Say That Lavecchia In- | tended to Blow Up the Quirinal. RIO JANEIRO, March 1—The police have arrested here two Italians, Cecirra | and Donato, who sent a letter to the King | of Italy announcing that a conspiracy had been formed to take his life. - Both prisoners denied at first that they knew anything about the letter, but the Chief of Police pressed them until they con- fessed. They said that a man named Lavecchia, who had sailed for Monte- video with the object of embarking thers for Genoa, had planned to put dynamite beneath the Quirinal and expiode the pal- | ace. The Brazilian authoritles immedi- ately cabled to Rome and Genoa. The Chiet of Police of Genoa replied ' that Lavecchia had been arrested. STEAMER INDIANA DAMAGED IN A COLLISION Members of the Crew Landed and the Vessel Beached by a Tug. LONDON, March 1—The British steam- er Indlana from Venice, January 15, via Messina, for London, was sighted off Worthing at daybreak this morning, in a sinking condition. A strong sea was run- ning and a lifeboat which was sent out failed to discover any sigh of life on the steamer. It is believed she has been in collision in a fog. The beach Is strewn with fruit for miles. The German steamer Washington, from Rotterdam, for New York, which was making Dover, was driven ashore at Nor- folk during a gale and had a narrow es- cape from golng on the rocks. Her bows had been stove in In a collision. It was subsequently learned that the Indiana and Washington had probably been in collision. The Indlana was | beached near Worthing by a tug. Her | crew had previously been landed at New Haven. The Washington's port. bow is damaged above the water llne and several of her frames are bent. She anchored In | the Downs, - CONFRONTS MOB WITH CRUCIFIX AND REVOLVER Senhor Jose Pestana, Leader of Cath- olic Party, Attacked by Anti-Qlericals. OPORTO, March 1.—Senhor Jose Pes- tana, who is accused of belonging to the group that attempted to abduct the daughter of the Brazilian Vice Consul, and whose house was attacked by an anti-clerical mob last night, is the leader of the Catholic party and an extensive wine grower, When the mob threatened his mansion, Senhor Pestana came to the door with a crucifix in one hand and a | revolver in the other. He fired three shots without result. A force of police, on foot and mounted, dispersed the demoustrators. Cavalry detachments stiil patrol the streets in which are situated the residences of the agitators and their | foltowers, —