The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1901, Page 13

0“.0!0&0.0 | 3 = i Pages 3110 CThe e 1‘_%.‘, — ? “3..raaé¥v531§i =1 Call, W"—M' SIS R SR ORI HORIQ Pages .MWOI !WO“ 022 VOLUME XC-NO. 93. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER. 1, 1901-THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAKES PLEA 10 DEFEND THE TROPHY Lawson Anxious to Keep the America’s Cup in America. S Declares That Any Yacht in the Union Should Eave Chance ta Compete. ¥ Boston Millionaire Is Willing to| Wager $100.000 That His Boat Independence Can Beat the Columbia. ~The World will from Bar Har- as W. Lawson nt to-morrow a , Me., in ence to the rpose of Ge- s cup against the t I that the t I am willing any man can I have Independence to Con- body of citizens, any represen- uld have a the Question. by a correspondent ionaire was on his Speaking of the Lawson two sides to this question, | From X that I he American people no reason why not be entered in races. Ofifirs a Bxg Wager fe PASSENGERS EET DEATH N FLAMES |Great Northern Wreck | Victims Number Details of Parade From | What Will Be Done in the “Garden No Carriages for Daughters. WITH TUSIC AND RED BLAZE NATIVE SONS WILL TARCH TO CELEBRATION CITY SATURDAY Native Sons’ H 1 to Dépot. ity.” | Two Score. | Fire Incinerates Unfortunates | Pinned Beneath the Debris. —— Men and Women Perish in Agony in Sight of Companions Who Are Powerless to Render Aid. G SPOKANE, Aug. 3L—All reports indi- | cate that the wreck on the Great North- | ern, forty miles east of Kalispell, Mont., | was the worst in the road’s history, | ot in the annals of | American railroading. Thirty-six llves | were lost and ten persons were injured. | Three of the injured will die and the oth- | erc are seriously hurt. By strenuous and heroic effort fifteen of the bodies were taken from the wrecked | cars. All of the other victims were cre- mated, including Superintendent P. L.| Downs and his son, T. Kirk Downs. | | There is a severe grade near the scene | | of the wreck. Two engines had taken a train of twenty-eight freight cars up this | grade and drawn off to take water. While doing this all twenty-eight cars started | down the grade. The runaway train| dashed down at frightful speed and | | crashed into the car of westbound passen- | | ger No. 3, near the siding at Nyack. Su-| perintendent Downs’ private car was at- |tached to the passenger, and next to it was a day coach filled with railroad labor- ers from Duluth. | | Flames Attack Wrecked Cars. i one awful the most As the runaway train sped by the switch | it struck a caboose and day coach on the | | #iding, wrecking them. Fire immediately | started from the oily lamps in the ca- boose. s a yacht should be ould make no |into the passenger was several hundred hatied from |feet away If it is an | hours before the flames reached the main ought to be allowed to | wreck. Meanwhile he beat built by.a for- of winning back | The wreck wis piled high has kept for | into almost hopeless spite of suverhuman Independence | burned their way to the wrecked cars e that I am |before the work was completed. ) to be devoted to| J. H. Blair, the colofed cook in Mr. e S o confusion ed in winning a |in a few minutes. afled against any | get at the bodies boats, Shamrock, | Downs and son. or all three put | Runaway Train’s Wild Dask. The runaway tore down the hill at lightning speed, rounding the most severe BECOME TOTALLY BLIND]"‘”"""" pL® ESte Wk Swwad OF WERRE: | miles an hour, where regular trains bare- Awuthor’s Eyes Have Been Failing for | Iy crawled along. With a roar it burst Some Time, and Sight Has Now around the curve, and what is most re- Disappea*ed markable, jumped a split switch which YORK 1.—A Paris special rding to mews | Cr2shed into the passenger. neither time nor opportunity for escape. Mr. Downs' car and that of the laborers | was smashed into kindling wood, the oc- cupants of the private car meeting in- stant death. The debris and shingles and lumber of the freight burned like tinder. The train crew was forced back from its work of rescue by the flames. One man penetrated as far as the private car, where, he said, he saw the bodies of Mr. Downs and his son and from where he dragged the body of the cook. In the laborer: pants were so pinned in that they could not be reached and burned to death be- It was impossible ta of Superintendent on, NEW e There was ns, Jules Verne, | vh(vy has become complete- had been fafling has complete- now dicappeared Professor Putnam Honored. HICAGO A —A special convoca- office of President ity of Chicago to- degree of doctor of red upor T. N. Put- of Californ Clark Appoints 2 New Editor. HELENA, Mont., Aug. 3L.—A. B. Keith, | fore the eyes of the spectators. of JTowa but latterly editor of | The fire was so fierce that the a, has been secured | slecper could not be saved, though it had lark as editor of the | not left the track. il in the near fu- | hurried into forward cz | hauled ahead out of | fire. formerly which ed and improved s reach of the The flames extended to the brush Twenty Rounds to a Draw. | telegraph poles. The point where the wild train crashed | and it was two and a half | frantic efforts were | made to take out the dead and injured. | and wedged | and in| efforts the flames | se, if the Indepen- | Downs' car, was taken out alive, but dled | would have turned it to the sidetrack and car many of the forty-six occu- { rear | Its occupants were | which were | alongside the track and burned down the HE final meeting. of the Native Sons’ joint ninth of September | committee, previous to the big celebration, was held in the Na- tive Sons’ building last night. The Exempt Fire Company expressed | regret in writing that owing to a previous | engagement it could not accept the invi- tation to take part in the celebration. The several sub-committees reported that all the work assigned to them had been attended to and that all was in | readiness for next Saturday. | Chalrman Harry 1. Mulcrevy of the pa- rade committee presented a lengthy re- port relative to the arrangements that have been made for the parade in this city on next Saturday night on the way | to the depot to take the train to San Jose. The various divisions will form on Ma- son street in front of the Native Sons' building and on Post and Geary streets. The start will be from in front of the headquarters and the line of march will be glong Mason street to Market, to Third, to Townsend, where there will be a review by Grand Marshal Edward J. Taafe and staff and members of the pa- rade committee consisting of Harry I. Mulcrevy, E. C. Crowley, R. D. Barton, BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 3L—Mose Lafen- A wire break followed, | yop, Tewis, H. T. Ansbro and William tise of Butte and Tom Tracey, champion | “"X"Ch with a storm, greatly retarded | Wynn at 8350 p. m. The following is the welterweight of Australia, fought twenty | 'cleBTaphic news of the wreck. The first| j\qor of parade that has been agreed rounds to a Araw at the Saucer Track to. | WICSSage sent went to Kalispell, whence | oo ° might. Both men took and gave a great | the Wrecker and all doctors in that town Order of March. Geal of | were ordered to the scene. The injured" punishment. ire Destroys Factory Buildings. Mich, Aug. 3L—The | 1 ctory of A. W. Clark & Cc., also & sawmill and shingle mill, were troyed by fire to-day. The estimated is $50,000 burden of dead, dying and injured was taken to Kalispell. | Colonel Downs Is Mourned. | Colonel Downs’ death has cast a gloom over the entire city. He was one of the @ | best liked railroad men ever stationed | here. A native of Ireland and 5¢ years L] BOERS BLOW UP [ of age, he had spent thirty-three years in railros$ service. To-morrow he was BRITISH TRAIN | to nave assumed the uties of vice presi- { dent of the Spokane Falls and Northern | and of the Kootenai Valley roads at the 'Klt.chenerReports Dlsaster* personal request of J. J. Hill. He is sur- | vived by a widow, now visiting in Bakers- in Which an Officer | sea. ve. ana one daughter, Mrs. Rupert Is Killed. | Biue of San Frasnciseo. | Mr. Downs and his son left on Monday in the private car with his guests, Lieu- LONDON, Aug. 2.—A dispatch from |tenant Victor Blue, an American -#aval Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria to-day, | officer. and wife. They accompanied saye: | their guests as far east as Minot, N. D., and were returning home when the wreck occurred. Kirk Downs was about 21 years of age and was employed as sec- “A train was blown up to-day between Waterval and Hamans Kraal by 250 Boers, who at once fired on the train, setting it on fire. Lieutenant Colonel Vandaleur of | cretary by his father. the Irish Guards, 2 most promising offi- J. Henry Blair, the cook, also resided cer, was killed. The other casualties have | here. He was about 40 years of age and not yet been reported. | had a wife and four young children. “G has captured Plet Delarey, hvmhr of the assistant cqn{nlndam gen- att No List of the Dead. ST. PAUL, Aug. 3L.—Advices received at the Great Northern headquarters in this city place the total number of dead as a result of the wreck at Essex, Mont., at thirty-six. The number of injured was thirteen, and at least three are fatally Continued on Page Fourteen. -day, causing a loss of $50,000. The ele- vator was filled with grain, ali~of which was destroyed. | were given every attention and as soon ! | as possible the train with its grewsome | Grand marshal, Edward J. Taafe; chief ald, Harry 1. Mulcrevy; chief Thomas F. O'Nelil. AIDS TO GRAND MARSHAL—Alexander-F. of staff, Colonel Williams, J. J. Miley, F. C. Gerdes, E. J. Robst, Fred Sainsott, H. G. Willlams, V. Orengo, 1. Lindeman, F. Barnett, J. W. Cush- ing, H. F. Ansbro, Martin J. O'Connell, Louis Nonnenmann, Frank Frietas, E. A. Duveneck John Ohlandt, Frank A. Lux, Oscar Krenz, P. E. Boulan, M. H. Wilkins, Eugene C. S de Sparr, C. D. Heywood, W. S. Schmidt, H. D. Clark. FIRST DIVISION—Marshal, military band; escort, Company I, First In- fantry Regiment, N. G. C., Captain Frank K. Moore, commanding; escort, Company F, First Infantry Regiment, N. G. C., Captain J. F. Eggert, commanding; Californié Parlor No. 1. SECOND DIVISION—Marshal, E. Lastretto; assistonts, H. Rodgers, W. W. Fairchild, Geo, G. Frazer; Alcalde Drum and Bugle Corps, Alealde Drill Corps and Parlor No. 154, Pacific Parlor No. 10, Mission Parlor Neo. 38, El Do- rado Parlor No. 52. THIRD DIVISION—Marshal, assistants, G. Nealey, Milton Oppenheimer; Golden Gate Drum Corps, Golden Gate Parlor No. 29, Stanford Parior No. 76, Yerba Buerla Parlor No. 84, Bay City Parlor No. 104, FOURTH DIVISION—Marshal, Edward L. Rittore; San Franelscc Otum and Bugle Con San Francisco Parlor No. 49; Niantic Parlor No. 105; Heeperlan Parlor No. 137. FIFTH DIVISION—Marshal, H. A. Mulll assistant, C. H. Schilling; Rincon Drum Corps; Rincon Parlor No. 72; Alcatraz Parlor No. 14 Sequola Parlor No. 160. SIXTH DIVISION—Marshal, Nathaniel Hal- linan; assistants, George Richards, Charles S. ‘White; military band; South San Francisco Parlor No. 157; Olympus Parlor No. 189; Pre- sidio Parlor No. 194. John Linehan; Fred Suhr Jr.; l l | - SEVENTH DIVISION—Marshal, E. D. Crow- ley; assistants, James Ryan, James P. Quinn; Precita Drum Corps; Precita Parlor No. 157; Army and Navy Parlor No. 207. EIGHTH DIVISION—Marshal, J. Rose; as- sistant, Edward Parry; Marshall Drum Corps; Marshall Parlor No. 202; Dolores Parlor No. 208. The committee on advertising an- nounced that The Call was deserving of commendation for the publication of fullest reports of the celebration pro- ceedings. No Carriages for Daughters. Committeeman Suzzalo of San Jose ex- plained the many new features of the celebration that have been added during the past week. When a representative of the San Jose committee invited the Native Daughter parlors of San Francisco and Alameda County to take part in the celebration he stated that carriages would be pro- vided for all the daughters who would attended. Last night Messrs. Suzzalo and | McComas of the San Jose commitiee an- nounced that ‘parade conveyances,” not carriages, would be provided, as the num- ber of carriages in their city is limited. The committee would provide -carryalls for the daughters so they would not have to walk. e S SAN JOSE PREPARING A ROYAL WELCOME Native Sons of the Garden City Will Make Admission Day Celebra- tion Memorable. SAN JOSE, Aug. 31.—The Native Sons and Daughters of San Jose are preparing to receive their brothers and sisters from over the State on Admission day, and the coming week will see the completion of the preparations for the greatest celebra- tion of California’s birthday. For months the local parlors have been making ar- rangements for the great event, and the welcome they are prepared to extend to visitors-will be a royal one. From the ar- rival of the first delegation until the de- parture of the last there will be one con- tinual round of pleasure. Money to keep this amusement up has been plentifully supplied by the -business men of San Jose. The entertainment committee has out- lined its programme. Beginning on Sat- urday afternoon, September 7, the parlors of Watsonville, Castroville, Salinas, Santa Cruz, Hollister, Livermore, Pleasanton and Haywards will be received, and these will join later in receiving the pariors from the rest of Central California. At 11 p. m. Saturday Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda parlors will arrive by the nar- row gauge and the parlors of Marin, So- nomsy San Mateo and San Francisco =ouTISE < - — OFFICERS OF COMMITTEES IN CHARGE OF ADMISSION DAY CELEBRATION. 1 = counties will come in by the broad gauge. Transportation over this latter line has been arranged for 10,000 people. Their re- ception will be a spectacuiar and brilllant one, as 2000 Roman candles and 1200 torchies have been provided, and there will be three wagons with various colorea fire. On. Saturday evening from 8 o'clock un- til- midnight there will be a continuous tand concert in St. James Park, which will be decorated with lanterns and elec- tric lights. At Native Sons’ Hall the Na- tive Sons and Daughters will recelve. There will be music, dancing, promenad- ing and réfreshments. A bullshead breakfast will be given Sunday morning for Native Sons at Agri- cultural Park. Tables will be arranged for 1200 at a time, and it is expected to feed 3600. An outing for the same time has been arranged for the Native Daugh- ters at Alum Rock Park, where there will be music and refreshments. A sacred concert will be held in St. James Park in.the afternoon, and In the evening a sacred concert will be given at the Hotel Vendome. A concert and dance have been arranged for both afternoon and evening at Shuetzen Park. Marshall Par- lor of San Francisco and San Jose Parlor will meet in a baseball game at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at Cyclers’ Park. Monday morning will be given over to the great parade of the Native Sons and Daughters. Forty-five full parlors will be in line and about twenty more will be represented by delegations. Ed Taaffe of South S8an Francisco Parlor will be the grand marshal, H. W. McComas the chief of stafft and G. Y. Bollinger chief aid. Each parlor will furnish an ald to the grand marshal. The start will be made at 10 o'clock, and besides the thousands of Native Sons and Daughters in line there - Continued - on Page Fourteen. VENEZUELA MAY FHIGHT COLOMBIA Castro Has a Big Army on Frontier Ready to Attack. Desires the Triumph of Lib- erals Who Aided His Last Revolution. United States Does Not Believe Sit- uation Serious on the Isthmus and May Soon Recall the Towa. PR o< el Special Dispatch to The Call. WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Aug. 31.—The Call correspondent has just returned from | San Cristobal and Maracaibo, after an | investigation of the situation on the Ven- ezuelan frontler, during which he saw | General Davila, who is commander in | chief of 900 soldiers. General Davila is | by several roads. Many men are joining the army. None except the chiefs in the | army and politicians believe that there is | to be an invasion of Colombia. The sol- | diers are inexperienced, and if war be- | gins it is likely that they will be quickly defeated. President Castro desires the abaolute:‘ triumph of the Colombian Liberals, who assisted him when he began his revolu- tion against the then President Andrade. He knows that the Colombian revolution- ists cannot triumph without assiktance, stherwise the concentration of such a large numbér of men on the frontier can- not be explained. General Davila was in charge of the expeditions which left La Guayra and Coro recently for the Colom- bian coast. The expeditions were carried | on Venezuelan war vessels and were to | aid the Colombian revolutionists. | Cost Venezuela Dearly. General Davila has got prestige in Ven- ezuela in view of his defeat and capture | of the noted Venezuelan revolution'st, General Hernandez (El Mocho). His| preserce on the frontier is one of the | signs that President Castro wishes to seize every strategic advantage. There are Colombian troops near San Jose, on the frontier. The Government is | drawing 20,000 bolivars daily from the | Maracaibo customs receipts, a sum which it is believed will have a disastrous effect on the country. The aid to the Colombian revolutionists which President Castro is giving is having its effect on Venezuela's finapces. The exequaturs of all Consuls of the | United States of Colombia in Venezuela | have been withdrawn. Liberals Desire a Seaport. COLON, Colombia, August 3L—Quiet prevails on the isthmus. The recent Liberal concentration in this vicinity | seems to have disappeared. Whatever | their numbers, the Liberals are poorly armed and without leaders, lack organi- zation for concerted action, and hence can avall themselves of no opportunity to damage the Government. Endless rumors are afloat, but the con- | sensus of the best informed conservative | opinion discredits serious hostilities or | anything more than a continuation of the | Liberal's guerrilla system of engagements | with the Government's force. The Lib- erals are anxious to get a seaport, and hence their recent approach to Bocas del Toro, west of here. The Government is not bringing reinforcements to the isthmus, There are about 400 men at Colon, and at Panama a thousand men are available if needed. The general situation in Colombia Is | divisible under three heads—the isthmus revolution, the progress made throughout the rest of the country and the situation | on the Venezuelan and Ecuadorean | frontiers. The revolution is progressing | in the rest of the country with varying | success. The Liberals hold various towns and districts, and decline to meet the Government punitive expeditions, with- drawing upor their approach and return- ing after their departure to engage in other and similar tactics, with occasional small engagements. Iowa May Be Sent Back. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W.. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3L.—Comman- der Sargent’s report on conditions in Panama and Colon and along the liné of the Panama Railroad, which was cabled to the Navy Department yesterday, was so reassuring that the battleship Towa may be ordered back to San Francisco from Acapulco. Officials of the Navy Department beliove | that the presence of the Ranger at Pan- | ama will be sufficient, in view of reports as to improved conditions, to protect American interests and prevent the in- terruption of traffic on the isthmus, but inasmuch as the State Department asked to have the Towa sent down she will not be ordered back without the consent of that department. Acting Secretary of State Adee was con- sulted about the matter to-day, but de- clined to take responsibility for asking the Navy Department to stop the lowa. He telegraphed Secretary Hay, however, expressing the opinfon that the Iowa would not be needed and if Hay agrees with him she will be ordered back to San Francisco, it she has not left Acapulco and is out of reach of communication, Machias to Remain at Colon, The Machias will rematn at Colon until all danger of trouble on the Isthmus has passed. Commander Nathan Sargent will be relleved from her command and will be ordered to Washington as a member ready to attack Colombia in a few days | e | eivil affairs. of Admiral Dewey's staff and also as a member of the general board, of which ‘Admiral Dewgy is president, He will be MARYLANDERS BOOM SGHLEY FOR PRESIDENT Put Forward the Ad- miral as the Demo- cratic Candidate. Will Await the Hearing Be- fore the Naval Court of Inquiry. Testimony of Admiral Sampson May Be Taken at His Home at Burke Haven, New Hampshire. Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. W., WASHENGTON, Aug. 31.—The Mary- land friends of Admiral Schley, assum- ing that the court of inquiry will trium- pbantly acquit him of the charges under which he has been resting since the Spanish war, are already quietly talking bringing him forward as a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomina- tion in 1904 Schley will retire from active duty this vear and in 1904 will be 65 years of age. With a robust constitution, | been well preserved, he is now in his prime and the years sit so lightly upon him that he might easily pass for a man 50 years, instead of 62. At a meeting of Maryland Democratic leaders held in Baltimore the availability of Schley for Presidential purposes was seriously discussed, and it is said every one present expressed the opinion that he was undoubtedly one of the very men in the ccuntry on whom the entire party could unite. No Political Enemies. He has no political record and there- fore no political enemies. He has noth- ing to explain, for he has not mixed in Should the court of inquiry acquit him, it is predicted his popularity will became so great as to make him the logical nominee of the Democratic party. So say Marylanders, and they are so earnést about it they have already ar- ranged for taking up the matter with him formally as soon as the court of'in- quiry shall have handed in jts findings. Sampson’s Testimony. Rear Admiral S8ampson’s testimony be- fore the Schley court of inquiry may be taken at Burke Haven, N. H., if that officer is physically unable to come to | Washington to appear before the court. In that event, it is probable that the en- tire court will adjourn to Burke Haven. It is barely possible that Admiral Samp- son’s testimony may be taken by deposi- tion, but if so it will be a departure from the strict rules governing naval courts: The law officers of the Navy Department are authority for the statement that dep- osition are absolutely inadmissible before a naval court-martial. Courts of inquiry follow in a general way the rules for courts martial, and while the court of inquiry generally has much more lati- tude than a court-martial, it is expected that_on account of the great importance cf the present case the rules will be fol- lowed very strictly, and an objection from counsel on e..her side to the taking of testimony by deposition would com- pel the court to adjourn to Rear Ad- miral Sampson’s home if he should not be able to appear. The Howison Incident. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hackett regards the Howison incident as definite~ 1y closed as far as the Navy Department is concerned. Rear Admiral Howison will not be relieved from duty as a/fanem- ber of the court in advance of its assem- bly. When the court meets Rear Admiral Schley's counsel will object to his con- tinuing as a member and will state their reasons. The other members—Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral Benham—will pass upon this objection and if they find th2 seasons sufficlent to sustain it, Rear Admiral Howison will then be relieved and the Navy Department will have to find some officer to take his place. Rear Admiral Schley’s attorneys have almost completed their written brief in his behalf. It contains about 60,000 words. The precept of the court is taken up and each paragraph is discussed exhaustively. @ il @ SATIPSON VERY SERIOUSLY ILL Rear Admiral May Not Live Until Court of Inquiry [leets. which has few Special Dispatch to The Call, CALL BUREAU, 140¢ G STREET, N, W., WASHINGTON, Aug. 31L—It is re- ported in Washington to-night that Rear Admiral Sampson Is very dangerously Secretary of State Hay and Postmaster General Smith, who are at Sunapee Lake, N. H., near Burke Haven, are said to be the authorities for the statements that Rear Admiral Sampson cannot live until the date fixed for the meeting of the court of inquiry, No information as to his condition has been received at the Navy Department. succeeded in command of the Machias by Lieutenant Commander Henry McCrea, at present on duty in the Washington navy yard, Lieutenant Commander McCrea will sail from New York on a steamer leaving for Colon on September 1§, 1, \ -