The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1901, Page 3

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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1901. 3 RESCUE COMES TO ONE, DEATH TO ANOTHER CHARLES HILL CARRIED BY TIDE AS FAR AS GATE, THEN RESCUED| EXPLAINS | After Four Hours in the Water He Is Saved by a Fish- erman Who Hears His Cries. ATTLING for four hours against a strong tide and finally picked up more dead than alive by a fisherman who had been attract- ed by the cries of the wrecked man, was the thrilling experiencé of Charles Hill. a metal bed- cer, living at 744 Post street, who went with the ill-fated San Rafael Satur- ight is suffering severely from the ‘ef- ts of submersion and exposure. He is cared for by friends, and they, with assistance of a physician, are hope- 1 of averting evil results in his case. doubtful if any of the survivors of the disaster had so thriiling an experience — cmierE ENGI~NERR YOS EPR Jong, o+ ANSELO BRizzZorar o 0 PRoTe B TRORT ! THREE RESCUERS WHO WORKED WITH A WILL WHEN THE SAN RAFAEL WENT DOWN. which fell to the lot of Hill. That s heard from again is little short £ aculous. “I was on the upper deck of the San when the crash came,” said he night. “I could see the Sausalito g up in the fog and when I heard e shouts of men and screaming of wo- men and children I realized that the situ- was one of extreme peril. My first ght was of the little children who crowding upon the deck. The men reservers, and when a num- ed, I began to strap ren and women. Springs Into the Bay. minutes most of those I had way were safe aboard the this time I found myself on the deck of the San ad sunk considerably, with I felt a sickening lurch ing she was about to make her TENNIS PLAYERS WEET 1N DOUBLES Weihe and Grant Smith Defeat Collier and Crowell. atior Harry Weihe and Grant Smith carried off the honors in the scratch doubles tournament held yesterday on the courts of the California Tennis Club. Eight teams entered and some high-class tennis was brought out. In the preliminary round four matches were played. The first was between Fred Brown and Homer Parker and Carl Gard- ner and Will Allen. The former team won straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. Harry Weihe and ith beat James Code and Chet , 6-2. The winners had little ity in disposing of the losers. In a contest Harold Crowell and W. Jdefeated Al Kenyon and Archie Duncar ), 6-1. The Wood brothers, Ben and Leonard, surprised everybody by beatine Charles Kuehn and John Gibson, 6 st round Smith and Weihe beat Brown and Parker, 6-3, 6-3. The winners were strong at the net and by fast volley- ing won out. In the other match of this round Collier and Crowell were opposed to the Wood brothers. The former were much too strong for the latter and won in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Leonard Wood plaved an exceptionally good game in this match. This brought Colller and Crowell and Smith and Weihe together in the finals and the best match of the dng resulted After losing the first game Smith and Weihe played some brilliant tennis at the net and won the next six games, the set going to them, 6-1 In the second set Collier and Crowell took kindly to the short lobs of Smith nd Wethe and won handily, 6-3. The last was close and. although the winners i all the way, they were hard pressed by Collier and Crowell, who made a game fight. The last set went to Smith and Wefhe. Their complete score was 6-1, 3-6, 7-5. Weihe bad not played for several LY e last plunge, I sprang into the water from the port rail, crying loudly for help. “There were several people swimming about, but in my endeavor to reach the boats of the Sausalito I lost track of the swimmers. I do not recall if any of them sank in my vicinity, although that was quite possible. I found myself in the grip of a strong tide, which was bearing me away from my rescuers. I felt that if I was borne away from the scene of the wreck I was lost, although I was well sup- ported by my life-preserver. I was suffer- ing from the cold and my limbs seemed to become paralyzed. All I could do was to lie still gnd vell for help, which never came. IMheard shouting, but as I was borne away into the fog by the tide these cries became more and more still, until at length I could hear nothing but the wash of the waters about me. I did not know where I was, and I gave myself up for lost. Still I struggled for life, because the instinct of self-preservation is strong in months, but did not appear to have gone back in’ his game. There will be a meeting of the board of directors of the California Tennis Club this evening, when many important mat- ters will- be settled. No tournament was held on the park courts yesterday, but many players were in attendance throughout the day. THIEVES KNOCK DOWN AND ROB HENRY LORENZ Two Men Captured and Held on Sus- picion of Having Committed the Crime. Henry Lorenz, 738 Green street, was knocked down and/ robbed on Powell street while crossing O'Farrell about 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Policeman Braig heard him groan and saw three men running across Powell street. He gave chase and followed one of them dowfi Stockton. The fugitive ran into the arms of Policeman Robl. The man gave the name of John Murphy. Policeman Sylvester about the same time stopped a man who was running along O'Farrell street, who gave the name of J. McCon- ey. The officers with their prisoners re- turned to the O'Farrell-street crossing and found Lorenz lying on the ground. He soon recovered consciousness and sald he had been struck from behind. He had been drinking and was on his way home. His gold chain and locket and about $2 which he had in his’ pocket had been stolen, but his silver watch was in his vest pocket. He was sent to the Re- ceiving Hospital, where a contusion on his chin was dressed. Murphy and Mc- Conley were locked up in the ‘tanks’ pending an investigation. Nothing was found on McConley when searched at the City Prison, but Murphy had $1 65 and a room key in his pockets. e e—————— ‘Wanted in Vallejo. Joseph Vernetti, a saloon-keeper, was arrested on Pacific street yesterday after- noon by Policeman J. and locked up in the City He is wanted in Vallejo on the felony charge of obtaining money by false pretenses, the complaining witness belng Francisco Logomarsino. ] American Library in Rome. ROME, Dec. 1.—The establishment in Rome of an American library has been ordered by royal decree. The library will contain all publications relating to the new world since its discovery. + a young man like me who has everything to live for. “Every moment or two I fancied I was being followed by a boat and I would ery lustily for help. The white-crested waves seemed to laugh“at my feeble efforts and I could almost fancy them saying they had me this time for a certaifity. Then I made up my mind to fool them, if that was possible, and I shouted all the louder. “It was dark-as a pocket around me. Except for a whistle now and then cut- ting hoarsely through the fog and the swish of whirling waters about, no sounds reached me. Once I fancied that I could make out a light near me and I grew hopeful, but it was a prank of my imag- ination. I began to give up hope after an hour or so, and-despair crept into my soul. Then my fancy took me back to the scenes of my childhood, filled with the romance of childish joys and the recol- lection of a devoted mother's love. Then my fancies would change and I thought myself lying upon a slab at the Morgue. Last Cry of Despair Is Heard. “This sort of thing filled’me with a ter- ror I hope never to experience again. The chill of approaching death gripped me, and despairingly I shouted once mora. It was this cry which was heard and to which I owe my rescue from death. “In answer to my cries came a call near me in the fog. I felt as if I were dreaming, but when I shouted again, the answering hail struck my ear like the strains of divine music. I thought I was dreaming, when I felt myself clutched by the collar and dragged into a boat. Com- pletely exhausted I lay on my back con- scious of only one fact, that the neces- sity for struggling to keep my head above water no longer existed. A man leaned over me and gave me whisky to drink. After a time my rescuer told me his name was Cuneo and that he was return- ing from his fishing grounds when he heard my shouts and came to my assist- ance. I was then in the gate making double-quick time for the Farallones. Cuneo took me to his house on Lombard atreet and this morning I was taken to my residence. I learned that I was in the water four hours—it seemed a hun- dred to me. I have had adventures in my time, but none is comparable to this. I hope I will never experience a similar one.” Hill is a bright young man and_much respected by all who know him. He re- ceived the congratulations of his friends yesterday, to all of whom he was com- pelled to repeat the story narrated here. FIGRTERG TURN ON PEAGEMAKER Stab the Proprietor of a Saloon in San Jose. Special Diespatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Dec. lL—Frank Mabury, proprietor of the Maine saloon, on North Market street, was stabbed in the neck at 4:30 o’clock this morning, while acting as peacemaker in a row between drunk- en employes of the Norris and Rowe Trained Animal Show. Frank Woods and two others were in the saloon when “Slim” Aldrich, Herbert Romley and C. W. Race, all attaches of the show, en- tered. The last three had had trouble with Woods and they renewed the quar- rel. Aldrich and Race drew razors and attacked Woods, who was fighting the three men. Woods was cut on the side of the head and neck, but not seriously. Mabury went to the wounded man’s a.d and tried to rescue Woods and quell tne disturbance. Aldrich and Race attacked him and he received a bad cut about four inches long in the neck. It just grazed the great artery and required six e Viion anan ce, rich an omley havi arrested. Mabury's wound i pafl,:?n,"?,?.'{ not serious. —— - Had Variety of Eatables in Pockets. An unknown woman apparently be- tween 50 and 55 years of age, was found in a dying condition last night at the corner of Ellis and Jones streets, and was started for the Receiving Hospital. She died before reaching there and her body was sent to the Morgue. When her cloth- ing was searched & queer collection of eatables was found In several deep pock- ets on the inside of her dress. In one was part of a cooked chicken, in another a dozen eggs, in a third a loaf of bread and in the fourth the cover of a milk can. Her death is supposed to have been due to patural causes. McADIE TULE FOG Unique Vapors Appear All Over Pacific Coast. Hang Like a Blanket Over the Sea and Land. Mariners Should Take Warning of the Danger. HE unusual density of the fog of Saturday evening, in which the San Rafael was sent to the bottom of the bay, was the sub- ject of considerable speculation yesterday. Old residents declared that the like of the fog had never been seen by them in California before, and in some respects this was true. The fog was what is known as a tule, or ground fog, and while it is a purely local meteorological phenomenon it often reaches a thickness of from 100 to 500 feet and extends over a vast territory. Alexander G. McAdie, forecast officlal of the Weather Bureau, who is an ex- pert on the subject of fogs, gave a sci- tenific explanation of the dense one of Saturday night to a Call reporter yester- day. He said he had watched its com- ing with interest, and early on Saturday realized that it would be of a character full of menace to shipping on the bay. Bulletins were accordingly issued to that effect. Resuming, he said: “The fog was an unusually thick one, and extended from this city to Red Bluff, Sacramento, Fresno and Santa Barbara. It was about 100 feet thick.oIt was a tule fog, formed by the condensation of water vapor in the lower level of the air. This moist air, in coming in contact with a slow-moving current of cold air, was condensed, thereby producing a fog through which it was difficuit if not im- possible to distinguish objects twenty feet away. The primary cause of the fog was an area of high pressure over Nevada. This pressure was blocked in that section, and when it began to move it moved very slowly toward the coast. When it reached this section the fog resulted. “Indications received to-day tend to show that the stagnation in the air cur- culation is breaking and that there will be no fog after to-morrow. The chances of rain within the next twenty-four hours are excellent. There was no fog at Point Reyes or on Mount Tamalpais yesterday. If any one had got into a balloon at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon he would have been suspended at 500 feet elevation over a fog blanket above which the sun was shining brilliantly. If the ferry- boats on the bay were provided with masts seventy-five feet high the chances are that a lookout thereon would be well above the fog and well able to distinguish the proximity of vessels with equally high masts. I have seen several fogs as thick as that of Saturday night during my res- idence here, but fortunately nothing oc- curred to make them memorable. We may expect them at any time, and particularly in January, which will prove to be the most dangerous month by reason of their presence for the shipping on the bay.” @ inbeieieivirieisieinieieleeemieieieie @ EAGAN GAUSES GREAT DAMAGE Invades Castle on Sum- mit of Telegraph Hill., dadiiy Mortimer Eagan created quite an ex- citement about 11 o'clock last night in the observatory building on the crest of Tel- egraph Hill, which is at present in charge of Emile Vincent and his wife. The build- ing was formerly occupied as a boarding- house for men employed by a contract- ing firm, Vincent was #bsent last night when Eagan made his appearance at the ob- servatory. He knocked at the front door but was denied admittance. He then went around to the rear, found a window that was unfastened, and crawled in. He went into the room occupied by Mrs. Vincent and proceeded to demolish every- thing in sight. Eagan cut pictures from their frames, overturned tables, and generally de- stroyed the furniture. Mrs. Vincent screamed and attracted the attention of some of the neighbors, who notified the police. Eagan saw a shotgun in a corner and seizing it, pointed it at Mrs. Vincent and commanded her to keep gulet. Mrs. yincent promptly did so by falling in a nt. ‘When Policemen Silver and Gould re- lgonded to the call for help they found that Eagan, shotgun in hand, had barri- caded himself in the building and was repared to resist all intrusion. As it was impossible to get in at the front part of the building, -the police went around to the rear an flndlné an open door, rushed in and caj ed Kagan before he had time to realize'that his new-found strong- hold had been carried by assault. The officers secured the aho?un after a short resistance and handcuffed him. They left Mrs. Vincent, who was gradually re- covering from her t’rléht. in care of her nelghbors and sent Eagan to the City rison, where he was charged with dig- turbing the peace. Other charges may be preferred against him to-day. - —_— Trapp Hes Disappeared. The disappearance of Edwin Trapp, sometimes called Tripp, a lather, was re- ported to the police yesterday by his wife, who is living with her friends at 3323 Twenty-third street. Trapp left his home, 206 Polk street, about six weeks ago to work mear Napa. Since then he has not been heard of and his wife has learned that he never reached his desti- nation. She fears foul play, as she is sure he would have communicated with her if he were alive. He is 36 years of age. — s Order Fighting Stopped. E Placards were posted late last night throughout Chinatown by order of the Six Companies calling upon all Chinese tongs to cease fighting and-advising them if they had any differences to settle to cail upon them. It is thought by the police and those conversant with the feeling in Chinatown that but little attenion will be paid to these notices. An additional force of officers was again sent into Chinatown last night. ———————— Pictures and Frames. ‘We have all the new things in plctures and frames for the holiday trade now on exhibition and sale. Sanborn, Vail £ 71 Market street. B » PARENTS OF CYRUS A. WALLER ‘ FEEL SURE THEIR BOY IS DEAD Mother Is Overcome by Grief and Physicians Mind of Pronounce Her Condition Very Grave. HE news of the wreck of the San 'Rafael caused the most intense excitement at Mill Valley. Fully forty residents of the little town were known to have been aboard the sunken vessel, and friends and -relatives of the passengers who were not immediately accounted for went nearly wild with anxiety. As those who had escaped returned they were met at the station by almost the whole popula- tion of the village and besieged with ques- tions. Most of those who were expected to arrive on the San Rafael were ac- counted for Saturday night, but severai were not heard from until yesterday. Late last night it was finally decided by the townspeople that no one from the Valley had been lost. Miss I Diffenbach, Miss Sallie Boyle and Frank Loyez were those for whom the greatest concern was felt, but all three were found to have been rescued, although the last named had a very nar- row escape. He stayed aboard the doomed vessel . until the water reached to his knees. A rope was at last flung to him, and he had just time to wind it about his arm when the San Rafael sank. He was dragged aboard the Sausalito in an almost unconsclous condition as a result of having been battered with some of the loose wreckage. His right arm and side were quite seriously injured, but he was able to be removed to Mill Valley last night. Mrs. A. R. Tuckey and infant daughter were reported among the drowned and the most diligent inquiry revealed no trace of their whereabouts. It was learned yesterday, however, by the half- crazed husband that they had been taker from the water and were at the home of a relative in this city. Mr. Tuckey came to San Francisco aaa found them both alive and well, except that the *wife was suffering from the fright and chill attend- ant upon her fall into the bay. Miss Diffenbach and Miss Boyle passed from the San Rafael to the Sausalito when the boats were close together. Mother’s Mind Gives Way. All hope for the safety of their year-old son Cyrus A. Waller, has been abandoned by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Waller of Ross Valley, and the mother’s mind has been serlously affected. Mrs. Waller, her daughter Ruth and little i son Cyrus were passengers on the San Rafael. Mrs. Waller and her daughter were saved, but little Cyrus was evidently swept overboard. For a time there was a bellef that the five-year-old boy picked up by W. A. Beedy, Miss Fannie Shoobert and Mrs. Olive Hamilton was the missing child. All night long the father and mother lived in hope that it might be. Mrs. Hamilton took charge of the little one who was so strangely thrown upon her hands, and so soon as possible took him to her Sausalito home. five- Last Hope Dispelled. Bright and early yesterday morning ‘Wallér started out on his search, and finally located Mrs. Hamilton. He was shown the clothing worn by the lad and at once sald it was not that of his son. At last the search was abandoned and the dread news was brokeh to the distracted mother. Overcome by the excitement of the pre- vious. night and distracted at the lack of news of her missing son Mrs. Waller was in a state of nervous collapse all day. But when came the dread news that no fur- ther tidings could be obtained her over- wrought brain gave way and a state of delirfum ensued. Medical ald was sum- moned, and not until powerful opiafes had been administered did relief come to her. Notwithstanding the promptness with which treatment was given her the attending physicians deem her situation very grave. Every effort is being made by the father to recover the body, and in order to stim= ulate the search he has offered a reward of $25. The boy was dressed in a navy blue sailor suit, trimmed with white braid, and wore black shoes and stcchk- ings. The child was of light complexion, with light hair, trimmed short. Charles Waller, the father, is employed as a janitor in the Hibernia Bank. Mrs. Waller is at present with her parents on Kentucky street, it not being deemed ad visable to leave her alone in Ross Valley. BRIZZOLARA RECOVERS HIS USUAL STRENGTH Simply Overtaxes His Strength and a Night’s Rest Restores Him to Normal Condition. Angelo Brizzolara, who did such gal- lant rescue work in the Sausalito just after the collision, and was finally pros- trated, was sufficiently recovered yester- day to visit his home in San Rafael. Dr. Sartori, who was called upon to attend him, found that the excitement had af- fected his heart and prescribed rest and quiet for a few days. Brizzolara was put to bed in his brother’s house and after a night’s rest felt but little the worse for his efforts. Brizzolara's father was killed in an ae- cident on the San Joaquin River on the night of November 26, 159, the Saturday following Thanksgiving day. Brizzolara | Sr. was severely scalded by the explosion of one of the boilers of the T. C. Walker, on which he was a_passenger, and died two days later. Thanksgiving day of this T S v the anniversary of his death. 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