The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1901, Page 1

[ Ken from —00 ary . +++4 | Che VOLUME XC-—NO. 18 2 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HIRED MONGOLIAN ASSASSINS MURDE MEN AND FATALLY WOUND TWO OTHERS - - R TWO e NCOURAGED by a price that had been set on his head, highbinders last evening shot and mortally wounded Loue Fook, better known as Little Loue, a notorious gambler, and Jue Do, his bodyguard. A few minutes later two peaceful Chinamen were foully slain while asleep in their room on Clay street. The policé have arrested a well-known highbinder, who is supposed to have shot the gambler and his bodyguard. The shooting was . murder of the two sleeping Chinese is a mystery. witnessed by a white man, who is confident he will be able to identify the would-be murderers. Killing of a Chinaman by Fook in Sullivan alley six months ago is believed to have been the motive of the attack on him. The COVERNMENT FORCE AGAIN MEETS DEFEAT General Francisco Cas- tro Is Killed in the Battle. United States Marines Act as an Escort for Alban. Commander of Colombian Troops Has 2 Conference at Colon and the Liberals Agree to Surren- der the City. Special Dispatch to The Call ral Francisco 35rbacoas bridge on Tues- morning during gent forces Castro has there were led deat! escorted by United ived in Colon this noon came here to confer with Rosa, secretary to General gent leader, and of foreign war- the conference. 'Will Surrender Colon. held on board the at Marietta in the nding officer of the h cruiser Tribune er Suchet and ander McCrea of the y of the Iowa rals Alban and Government of was b con- e result de public none understanding has 1 be said upon the best Liberals will o the Govern- leaked out. however, that r Colon to-morrow es guard Colon to- reliable statements con- the terms of surrender are cur- is quiet, but much anxiety prevails. Government Force Repulsed. last night renewed arted from San he Barbacoas bridge and d toward Bohla Soldado, where force was soon decried the enemy, and an ment soldier: Owing to the better position of lutionists the Govy 1sed. ral force renewed the attack at in the morning and fighting ut an hour. ported by some of the insurgents Government troops shot some of wounded men and also several 50 said that they rified dead comrades. are still holding an at Bohia Soldado. Gen- eral Barrera is In command. The Govern- ment force is i enched in Buena Vista. There is great rejoicing e clothes of The revolut! important pos in the rebel BLUEJACKETS MAY WITHDRAW. Government Cannot Understand In- tended Surrender of Colon. LL BUREAU, 1466 G STREET, N WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—The re ation of the city of Colon by the Gov. forces of Colombia will probs W men y ise the early withdrawal of American jackets from the isthmus. srmation been received here con ming the report that the & will surrender Colon to-morrow the press dispatches had shown »erals were victorious in their elivering Colon up to the Gov- they would be marching on v advices received by the Gov- to-day regarding the isthmian were contained in two dis- one from Consul General Gudger a and the other from Captain senfor naval officer in command hmus. Gudger cabled that fight- Continued on Page Two. nment troops in | superiniendent | but the only men informed | s regard refuse to answer questions. | renched. Rebel | | sengers nor evidence of the horrible loss at sol | ment SOlAIErS | ) e loss of life was in round numbers 100, | and that the statements made by the Ital- if they were correct then in- OFFIGIALS MAKE LITTLE However, Five Score Im- migrants Die in the Wabash Wreck. Believed to Have Been Incinerated. | ith the Removal of the Debris Mor- | | tal Remains Crumble and the | Ashes Are Scattered by the Wind. \’ DETROIT, Nov. 28.—When night fell |over the scene of last night's calamity |on the Wabash Railroad near Seneca, Mich., those who had been investigating the disaster had found nothing to alter | the estimate of about eighty lives lost as a result of the collision. Superintendent George M. Burns of the division on which | the wreck occurred insists that the esti- mates are too high. “I do not consider,” he said, “that the total death list will exceed twenty.” However, in support of the larger esti- | mate, it is pointed out that there are now fourteen passengers known to be dead. The bodies of eight of these have been recovered, and it is considered that the fragments of other bodies now in the | Morgue at Adrian will account for many | more than the twelve dead necessary to | make up Superintendent Burns' estimate | of twenty. Remains Crumble to Powder. | In addition to the comparatively few | fragments recovered and sent to the| Morgue those who were early on the | scene say that many more pleces were dis- | covered which crumbled to powder while | they were being removed. Superintendent Burns said to-night that | | | | he was unable to tell the exact number | of Italian immigrants aboard train No. 13, but thought that there were not more than fifty.’ Passengers on the train, and a number of those who were early on the scene, disputed this and say the number was nearer eighty. Superintendent Burns has received no report yet from Ticket Collector Eames of train No. 13, who probably knows, nearer than any one else, the number of Italians in the cars. Coroner Hamilton of Adrian this after- noon impaneled a jury and will begin an inquest into the disaster to-morrow. step has been taken as yet toward the ar- rest of Engineer Strong who, Super- intendent Burns says, is responsible for the collision. One Hundred Lives Lost. The official list of the dead given to the local papers shows the names of but ten dead and forty-eight injured, but Detroit newspaper men, who were at the scene of the wreck and talked with survivors of both trains, say that the official list does not bear out the statements of the pas- of life which they witnessed at the spot where the accident occurred. The Free Press to-morrow will say that ian immigrants on train No. 13 bear out this claim. These immigrants said that there were about 125 of their nationality on the train and that only about twenty- five of them escaped. ‘While only ten of them are known to be dead, it is asserted that the other ninety were completely incinerated and that | with the removal of the wreckage the bodies crumbled to dust, which was scat- tered by the wind. If fhe names of these dead are ever kno it will be when friends make inquiryl for them and in many instances this seems highly im- probable. A Tribune staff correspondent, writing of the scenes about the wreck, says: Only one man was foynd who was an eyewit- ness of the collisin. Scene of Awful Horror. A. W. Ely, a man 70 yedrs of age, residing at Seneca, stood at the depot platform and saw train 13 go by. He watched the train as she went down the level track to destruction. His attention was arrested by a crash. Then a stream of flame and smoke shot 100 feet into the alr. Ely rushed to the wreck and was the first outsider on the ground. Accord- ing to his statement, the scene was one of awful horror. “When I got there the immigrant cars were already on fire and the shrieks of the burned and injured were terrible. I got hold of one man in the collapsed car and pulled him out. He was horribly crushed and his legs were broken. He died almost as soon as I got him out of the car. Then I went to the burning cars and the scene made me wish I had never gone to the wreck. “I don’t believe more than fifteen Ital- saw but very few. OF DISASTER | Ninety Bodies of the Victims | No | Those who did get | publish — SHOOT DOWN LOUE FOOK, BETTER KNOWN AS LITTLE LOUE, A GAMBLER, AND HIS BODYGUARD o LITTLE LovwEe Foox Attack Them as They Were Entering Tan Game. URDER was rampant in Chi- natown last night, and as a result two men, one a cigar- maker and the other a gam- bler, are dead and two others mortally wounded lie in the Receiving Hospital. Both shootings were the culmination of a long-standing feud between rival highbinder associations. The men who were killed outright were foully shot as they lay sleeping in a bunk at 902 Clay street. Their names are Quan Luey and Suey Duck. Loue Fook, better known as Little Loue, a notorious gam- bler, and Jue Do are the other victims. Fook was shot four times as he was en- tering his gambling house at 102 Waverly | place, accompanied by Do, who was his bodyguard. , As Little Loue fell mortally wounded Do drew his revolver, but be- fore he could use it he received a bullet in his neck. He staggered to the “street and agaln raising his revolver he tried to pull the trigger, but he was too weak to do so. Turning to a friend who was standing near him, he feebly pleaded with him to take the pistol and shoot down |.the man who had wounded him and Fook. The friend took the revolver, but instead of using it he placed it in his pocket and hurriedly left the scene. Shortly after the shooting Sergeant Conboy and Police Officer Tillman arrested a notorious high- binder, who gave his name as Lee You, on suspicion of having wounded Both men. “He was seen hiding in a doorway, and when the officers approached him he ran into an alley and vainly endeavored to escape. When searched a 41 Colt's re- volver which. had been recently fired was found on him. The police think he is the man who did the shooting. Slain While They Slept. While the police were diligently striv- ing to find a motive for this crime word reached them that another shooting had occurred in a lodging house at $02 Clay street. Sergeant Donovan and Officers Tillman and McNamara ran to the place, and going upstairs they found the cigar- maker and his friend dead. Both had been shot while they slept on a bunk in a L e e e e T 0 ing to heaven for protection and weeping of the Congregation of the Propaganda: Those poor | ‘I went to the college in order to confer Italians! Nothing could be done to save{ with Bishop Matz on religious matters. them and we were simply compelled to| For all reply the Bishop had me arrested and walling in their horror. let them burn.” FATHER CUSHING TELLS OF HIS ARREST IN ROME | jfats.r e e 102 WANVERLY. WHERE FLRST SHOOTING OCSURED VICTIMS OF HIRED MONGOLIAN ASSASSINS, TWO OF WHOM WERE SLAIN WHILE THEY SLEPT AND TWO FATALLY WOUNDED AS THEY WERE ENTERING A GAMBLING HOUSE, AND SCENES OF THE CRIMES THAT HAVE TERRORIZED THE CHINESE QUARTER. + : 7 small room on the second floor. So far as the police could dearn nobody saw the murderers enter or leave the house. It is supposed that the assassins con- cealed themselves in the house and wait- ed for a chance to kill their victims. After the latter, had fallen asleep tHe thugs quietly entered the room, the door of which had been left unlocked, and shot the sleepers, sending three bullets into the cigar man’s body and two, one each into the head and back, of his companion. Only fifteen minutes intervened between the two shootings, which led the police to believe at first that the double murder was committed out of revenge for the by three police agents, who sent me to al lunatic asylvm. I have never been in- sane and I am appealing against Bishop Claims That Bishop Matz Unlawfully | 4ccording to a dispatch from Rome, No- Imprisoned Him in an Insane Asylum. vember 24, the Right Rev. Nicholas C. Matz, Bishop of Denver, and several Den- ians got out of the wrecked cars, for I| ‘ROME, Nov. 28.—The papers S@re to-day | ver priests went to Rome because of fric- the following declaration by | tion between Bishop Matz and the clergy out rushed around like crazy men, call- | Father Cushing. who acts on the advice ! of Denver. There was & fracas at the ] e shooting of Little Loue and hie body- guard. In his ante-mortem statement to Dep- uty District Attorney Louis Ward, Little Loue declared that he had been shot by Junk Fook and Jung Ming, both of whom are well known highbinders. “My bodyguard and I were about to en- ter my gambling house,” he said, in giv- ing his version of the shooting, ‘‘when somebody fired a shot at me. I tarned around and was again fired at, the bul- let striking me in the groin. As I fell three more shots were fired at me, all of which took effect. The last shot struck my bodyguard, preventing him from Bishop’s residence among the clergymen, and an intervention of the police took place. Father Cushing.was arrested, but later released. 4 MAYQR-ELECT LOW NAMES COMMISSIONER OF POLICE Colonel Partridge, New York State Superintendent of Public Works, Gets the Place. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The Times to- morrow will announce that Colonel John N. Partridge of Brooklyn will be Com- missioner of Police of New York after | done much damage - — using his revolver. I am positive that Jung Fook is the man who shot both o us.” v Grider Saw the Shooting. ‘W. F. Grider, who lives at 602 California street, was the only white man who wit- nessed the shooting. He was passing through Waverly place whenhenoticedtwo Chinamen enter the gambling place, fol- lowed by two others. - The next instant a shot rang out, followed by several more. “The man who did the shooting stood at the entrance of the gambling place,” said Grider to the police. “I was standing on the opposite side of the street and could see everything that happened. January 1. The Times says it is In a po- sition to say that Mayor-elect Low has offered the commissionership to him; that he has accepted, and that Governor Odell has selected the man who is to succeed Colonel Partridge as State Superintend- ent of Public Works. Colonel Partridge will probably see Low to-morrow, and it is expected that the appointment will then be formally announced. o £ T Tidal Wave Causes Heavy Loss. LONDON, Nov. 20.—A remarkable tidal ‘wave, accompanied by strong winds, has a SCENE. OF Skulk Into Room and Slay Sleeping | Chinese. “The Chinaman whom I now know ‘o be Loue Fook was walking upstairs when his assailant ran after him and shot him l down. The wounded man's friend, after | the first’ shot was fired, ran downstairs I and as he started up the street he was | fired at, the bullet hitting him in the neck. He staggered against a house a few doors | above the gambling joint and aithough, as I thought, fatally hurt, he drew his revolver and feebly tried to pull the trig- | ger. Hailing a friend he begged him to | take the pistol and kill the man who shot him. “I saw the weapon passed, but no at- ; tempt was made to use it by the man to whom it was given. At this juncture Spe- cial Officer Duffleld came along, but by this time the man who did the shooting and his companion had fled. I belleve I would be able to identify the assassing in case they are arrested.” The police are at a loss to account for the bloody outbreak of the rival tongs. Fook was a Pin Kong Tong man and was known as.a fearless fellow. About six months ago he shot and killed a feliow countryman in Sullivan alley, but was ac- quitted by a jury in the Superior Court The friends of his victlm since then have been anxious for a chance to put him out of the way. Several weeks ago a price was placed on his head but he supposed that it had been withdrawn when the “treaty of peace” was signed by the war- ring highbinders. Skeptical of the sin- cerity of the signers of the “treaty,” Fook never traveled the streets of China~ town without an armed bodyguard. Both of the murdered men were peacefully in- clined and so far as is known were not connected with any highbinder tong. They were, however, friendly with Fook and frequently championed his cause. As soon as Captain Seymour learned of the shooting he sent all his available men into Chinatown to prevent further hos- tilities if possible. Chief Wittman alse detatled a large squad to search every Chinaman for weapons. In a short time the officers arrested half a dozen high- binders who wefe heavily armed and bent on avenging the shooting of Little Loue. / o o e e coast of Bhgland from Norfolk to Kent. Rivers have overflowed their banks. dams and seawalls have been invaded and miles of country have been submerged. Peru and Bolivia to Arbitrate. LIMA, Peru, Nov. 28.—The Pan-Ameri- can Congress will be asked to arbitrate the existing questions between Peru and Bolivia. If the Congress declines to act then Mexico or the Argentine Republie ‘will be requested to arbitrate these mat- ters. Peru insists that the arbitrator must pronounce according to the utl possidetis 0f 1850, p