The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1902, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY ‘9, 1902. COURTS ANEER | OIL PRODUGERS Railroad Commissioners’ REAR-END COLLISION CAUSES SCENES OF DEATH AND HORROR Wreck in the New VYork Central Railway Tunnel Under Park Avenue Results in the Killing of Fifteen Passengers and 'he lay there till the bodies of the jured ones beside him were removed. Two policemen and Chaplain Walkley reached Mrs. Howard and the chaplain gave her a stimulant. The policemen were cutting away the seat which heid the woman down when a pipe broke. The scalding steam drove them back, and when the rescuers returned Mrs. Howard was dead. Injured persons in need of immediate attention were given temporary dressing Ly the ambulance and yolunteer sur- geons and then hoisted {o the street. Meny Park-avenue mansions were thrown open to the suffering, but most of the in- Jjured were at once taken to hospitals. The dead were carried to morgues and police stations. An immense crowd, heedless of the snow which whirled through the street, gathered about the tunnel entrance and shafts and watched tue rescue work. Cornelius Vanderbilt was among those who came to the tunmel, but the police denied him admittance, despite the fact that his family controls the rallway. Engineer Is to Blame. Responsibility for the disaster is un- fixed, but Superintendent Franklin said that so far _as he has been able to dis- cover John Wischo, engineer of the White Plains train, is to blame. It is declared that when the South Norwalk train stopped a flagman ran back into the tun- nel and besides placing a torpedo on the track endeavored to flag the oncoming train. The tunnel was clouded with steam and smoke, while the snow which tell through: the air shafts tended to obscure the view. Engineer Wischo and Fireman Chris Flynn were arrested. A signal man was detained for a time, but was released. Superintendent Franklin has issued a statement as to the accident in which he | declares that the block signals at Fifty- ninth street were obeyed by the New Haven train, but the engineer of the White Plains’ train disregarded them. The torpedo on the track went off,” said the superintendent, “but he did not stop, even though the fireman called to him to do so. The system of block sig- nals is such that it is a physical impos- sibility for a signalman to make his light in- declare the track free if another train is on_the block."” District Attorney Jerome visited the wreck and personally examined many witnesses. The State Rallway Commis- sion also announced its intention to make an investigation, and similar intent was expressed by the general officers of both the New York Central and Hudson River Railway and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway. Residents of New Rochelle contributed the largest number to the casualty list, because the rear car of the South, Nor- walk local was reserved for them and was kept locked when the train reached that place. CHAMPIONS THE NEW CHARTER every citizen might pursue his daily work without To attain | molastation. that end, | when the city was practically in a state of war, they chose methods which subjected them to censure on the part of many. But calmer judgment has shown us that in a time of in- cipient riot, when open and violent acts of lawlessness ' are of daily occurrence, it was necessary for the wbolice, their numbers being inadequate to patrol the streets, to give escort to non-union men and to kéep the highways clear for their safe passage, not becauss they fayored them in the industriai conflict, but be- cause they favored, as every good American citizen does, the upholding and the preserva- tlon of the constitution and the laws. It | would have been a great satisfaction for this administration to haye settled the differences between emplover and employe, the Mayor the Swpervisors having intervened for this pur- pose, but when negotiations failed and a physi- Work Is Quietly S f Thi M. it Aside th In hll‘ re. Set Aside. ‘ € injury o ty Mo . by 3+ e e of Jonsti i EW YORK, Jan. 8.—In the New of & Constitutional York Central Railway tumnel! | THE DEAD. Boar! s that burrows under Park avenue — Board Is Debated this city, two local trains col ALBERT M. PERRIN, 43 years old, With Vigor. | lided to-day. Fifteen passengers | | recently from Chicago, = secretary ¢ % were killed and twice that number were | and second yice president of the Union ey injured. A dozen of the latter were s—rl-i Bag and Paper Company, residence s of e and the | ousiy hurt and the roster of the dead may | New Rochelle. N. Y. ‘ ssioners | be extended. | B. D. C. FOSKETT, 40, New Ro- of the past | It was a rear-end collision between the chelle, “ederal courts | South | A. E. H. MILLS, 25, New Rochelle. g of the | New York, New Haven and Hartford road | £ O HINSDALB. 55 el - . Jners re. | and was halted by block slgual]s aldlhe‘ e 3 S moving ofl | southern entrance of the tunnel, and a | N ke - bt nts in the | White Plans local that came by the Har- || MRS A F. HOWARD. 85, New Svanciben. | e nch of the New York Central. The G e S 3 recently k occurred at 8:17 a. m., at which | FRRNE (WASHRORN Sy Edocpee. 1 ~igein 1 (e tral R ErOaA i il o ly of Chicago, president of the Union Most of the deaths, injury and dam- Bag and Paper Company; residence r | age were caused by the engine of the| | New Rochelle. in the Federal | White Plains train, which plunged into | OSCAR MBTROWILL, 0. W the rear car of the motionless train and | Rochelle, optician in New York and was driven through to the middle of the secretary of the New Rochelle Yacht car, smashing the seats and splitting the Club, sides as it moved forward. The victims FRANKLIN CROSBY. 85, New Ro- porary or- | either were mangled in the mass of wreck- | | chelle. petual. The | age carried with the pilot, crushed in the | ERNEST F. WALTON, 30, New space between the boiler and car sides or | | Rochelle, broker in New York. scalded by, Sstonts . which Catihe h‘“““gl H. G. DIAMOND, 35, New Rochelle, ‘””’_"”;ke’;ip_‘f“l““d “;“}de:’;lflze ©0-| | assistant general manager of the gine In 1ts final plunge of forty feet car- | ,norican Bridge Company, this city. ried the rear car forward and sent twisted | f s as alway 1 h CHALES B. MARKS, 32, New Ro- A Haiirosd Com. | iron, broken timbers and splinters crash- 83 gy bt i e being 2 for- | ing into the coach ahead. oA iy ;" bu: s & i i 5 - Sibject $0 Eegu- Lights Are Extinguished. | THEODORE FORGARDO, 30, New v Lights were extinguished and from the Rochelle. s 2 3 5 wreckage and darkness came the cries of | 5 o Judge Dunne Acts First. | the injured and calls for assistance by | A o S B s when Presid- | those who escaped. Within a few minutes | | chelle. The Board of | the work of rescue, marked by heroism WILLIAM LEYS, 35, New Ro- sitting | and sacrifice, began. Alarms that brought | | chelle, general manager B. Altman & y from a | every available ambflulance in the cit,. the Co., New. YArE, i that _the | police reserves of five precincts and the | 7 om the San Joa- | firemen of the central district of Man-| | WILLIAM HOWARD, 48, 'New Ro- co were un- | hattan, were sounded at once. With cheile. efore fixed maxi- | police, firemen and surceons came a score | the South- ulr volunteer physicians and half a dozen | - appeared | clergymen. Pteking | Ludders were run down the tunnel atr-| Stimulants were administered to the mporary or- | shafts and firemen and police attacked the | 8irls by the chaplain, who remalned with r prevent the | debris with ropes and axes. Passengers|them until they were relleved. Both | itting their order | already had rallied and were trying to re- | ¢lersymen were severely scalded by escap- | the case for hear- 1E§!ehlh e ;rgpn:ogedd]n ur'f (tiesbrls‘. ing steam. ne rejoicing of | ‘ather Smith of the Church of St. Vin- Work of the 3 ther have in the cent de Paul and Chaplain Walkley of * Rescuers. 1s of dollars in- | Grace Church, both chaplains of the Fire | Acting Battalion Chief Friel found in v and who had | Department, crawled into the wrecked | the wre®k a man who gave his name as oad Com- | coach over the hot boiler of the demol- | T. M. Murphy, and tried to move him. was thus | ished White Plains lludc‘uemnél\'} and found aMs‘)l(re'fxmé*rsxalmx hi:rggsuwa,smhelghfafstr ang { tion. girls in he middle o he last car. | el 0 . e Chie ‘oun involveds the v were Miss Rice and Miss Scott of | that if he loosened the timbers that held rates for a Rochelle. One lay on top of the | Murphy's lég he was liable to let down possibly | other, the one underneath held by wreck- | more wreckage on the bodies of the two could be | age, which pinned her body down below | girls. He told Murphy this and Murphy 1 aspect more favor- | the waist. One leg was crushed. Thedead | said, “All right; I'll wait, but please be as a change | body of a man, which was aiso pinned | quick as you can.” €s com- | fast by the wreckage. lay across the chest | The Chief made Murphy as comfort- engage suc- | of the other and held her down. able as he could with a seat cushion and upreme courts o 5 2 S Vg eme Court of | @ diiimimiirisimivisivisivivivi=liiesifujuefrirfmirieieieineieiieeirieeeiieiel fjejeoieeeieeieeiieeenie e @ 1, thus con- Commissioners or September 4 and was taken under advisement until October S. 3 oil men— | On the last hiamed date the order was ractically set aside | made, reducing the rate from 42 cents to t Judge, without hear- | 37 8-10 cents per barrel. g yr ‘“vin grc;g!l);; at hpEuSloigXl]h for g r!e%learlnfi Continued From Page Two. .ems 1 s _gra , the ern Pacific an Board Seems P"We“es)s' ¢ ne | {1® Santa F€ both making application for t = a that e | it On November 12 the taking of testi-| |, o by = no] . . e v e longer in D her hog | Moy was again begun. The witnesses | Do DSincts Than that of the Mayor him: nei | were Walter C. Beatie, W. A. Bissell, e o Tt A % self; they are sworn to uphold the constitution Y oS iy | Senator R. N. Bulla, Frank A. Garbett, | ang’ the laws, and have given bonds for the commodity. | J. A, Graves, George L. Hoxie, Thomas | ndelity jof zher’nsel\'e.! and of their subordinates. sioners have | Hughes, W. A. Jacobs, Livingston Jenk: y c - ughes, W. A. Jacobs, ngston Jenks, | They bear no such relation to the Mayor as the Ible unless it | Robert S. Knight, W.' H. McKenzie. W. | Kederal Cabinet officers do to the President. | 3 \xrep.or}\;gkx(lg | G. \Fr\‘m 'l}hu(tdnafro'[)lr;]nnesll. IA. H. ’l;a Gablnet officers are unknown to Db cimatitn e transportation | son, T. L. Reld, Timothy Spellacy, . | tion, whereas the boards or commissions under compelling | Samuel, W. A. Worthington and Edward | our municipal government are created and de- | Strasbuirg. ' The taking of testimony pro- | rive tielr authority (rom our fundamental law. | ceeded five days, ending November 320.| During the last two years the Mayor an | The order estabiishing the rates which | Supervisors have let contracts for supplying & firoads are now striving to tie up | the several departments with materials, and it | 2 f ¥ e e g P | is noteworthy that the merchants have with - (o abolieh 1t ana g | by injunction was made December 2, 1%L | 5, [O'STOR0Y That, The, erenanis, Bave Wb baci | , Railroad Commissioner C. S. Laumeis-|ihe awards have been made to the lowest bid- {ter and Secretary W. T. Sesnon were served with an order of the United States Circuit Court vesterday restraining the ® | Boara of Railroad Commissioners from They immediately telegraphed Com- 2 long | missioners Edson and Blackstock notif nt that | ing them of the service of the papers. o Replies were received from both Com- missioners to the effect that they will be in the city to-day. decide upon what action they will take in the matter. Brooks, Frank Ju Krut ASSIGNED.—Harvey , General Deputy Internal Revenus Hudson entered upon the discharge of s yesterday. o - | As ed to the ! his_dutles . —0 regular price—not a SPECIAL, zs you might s may depend upon it that when a price is other be regular price you will be told so plainly. It's natural 1 or one to assume - that our advertised prices are ECIAL"—particularly by those who are at all familiar with lity of niture. Furthermore, we wish to emphasize t the price we ask for the above pictured . china e ONLY price we will take, no matter who the pur- We do not “size up” our customers and make ordingly. closet is huilt of oak, golden finish. It has round- and three adjustable shelves. Height, 69 inches; depth. 13 inches. Price, $17.50. _Job Brans (Successors lo California Furniture Co.) L-‘J'S'i lo 977 MarXct Street, Opn. Golden Gale Avenua. R L u may be Nin P forcing the oil rate adopted December | has been assigned from Portland, | in the San Francisco office with Thomas. Special Internal Revenue | February by the Supervisors, the value of fhe | latter plan, and fixed a lump sum, $80,000, in: | year in the budget, for this is the limit of | a8 we bave seen. about $350,000 for ctreet s | fving the dollar limit, which js, | 11y with the growth of the city. | officials have during their terms creditably | Board of Supervisors and the present Board of ders, and all bills have been promptly paid. Gas rates have been materially reduced, but competition has, during the year, forced rates | in some instances almost to the cost of produc- | tion. The same is true of electric light. The | illumination of the streets by the introduction | of lamps with Welsbach burners shows metro- | politan progress. After a patient investigation a valuation of approximately $23,000,000 was | placed upon the property of the Spring Valley . and after lowing operating expenses fixed for public and pri- | ch was designed to met | the company 5 per cent upon this valuation. Heretofore it was customary to allow the com- pany $60 a year for each hydrant, which ag- gregated $225,000. By the method approved by | the courts and adopted for the first time last | company’s property was first determined and upon it an agreed percentage allowed. Then, on that basis, it was found that the contribu- tion of the water rate payers would be ap- proximately $140,000 less this year than last year, and the question before the Supervisors was Whether to reduce the general rates by that amount or to give the city in hydrant rates the whole benefit of the reduction. It adopted the stead of & per hydrant rate for that service, This, also, by saving it from the hydrant bills, gave the city in addition to the surplus, $140,- 000 within the dollar limit for public improve. ments. The water company has not collected any part of this hydrant rate during the fiscal vear beginning last July, but is disputing the validity of the water order in the courts. It would appear that in any event it cannot re- ceive more than the $80,000 appropriated this expenditure, but it is endeavoring to establish a precedent for future years, and hence the importance of vigorously defending the action which {5 now in the able hands of the City Attorney. The Aesessor, controlling in many respects the most important department of the city government, has, by the assessment of fran- chises and other forms of personal property, Tained the mssessment rell until It mow fuils vields within the dollar.limit ample funds for the maintenance of the clty government, and, other. extraordinary improvements, thus Justl- | ax we ‘e the principal features of the | Our revenue will thus increase stead- | All other eity seen. ome of charter. performed thelr duties. The Board of Public Works has during the last two“years laid many miles of streets, and the character of the work has been first class. Much money has been spent in the repair of public | buildings, and cstimates have. been made for water, gas and electric light, tele- phone, street 1aflway and other plants in com- pliance with the provisions of the charter, pre- liminary to the submission of the propositions to the people. The most pressing need ia the introduction of an abundant pure water supply from the Blerras. and the initial work has been fairly begun. It Is only now necessary for the people to authorize a bond issue. Necessary public {morovements will also be submitted for the approva] of the people, the outgoing Public Works having paved the way for sew- ers. school bulldings, hospital, parks and play- &rounas. It is proposed to connect the park with the presidio at Mountain Lake Park. one-half of which is owned by the city. The ecity should also acquire the strip of 1and a block wide be- tween the park and the CIiff House, in_order to make a park effect and prevent the disfigure- ment of the superb ocean front, which dis- tinguishes San Francisco among the cities of the world. 5 The only reason why the acquisition of the thirteen blocks to bring the park down to Market street and provide for it a fitting en- trance was not resubmitted to the people (it once having prevalled) is that it was deemed expedient by the friends of the measure to let the ytilities—water, street rallways, hospitals, school houses and sewers—be voted on first. ‘When that is done, the people should be af once ziven an opportunity to vote on the pan- handle profect. The land is now cheap and but poorly improved, if at all, and delay means additional cost. | The Board of Fire Commissioners, obedient Ao the mandate of the charter, has put that department on a_fully paid basis. The Board of Education has introduced cook- ing and manual training in the schools, which serves rot only a useful purpose in inculcating a taste for mechanical work and domestic economy, but also affords recreation. The de- partment has been greatly improved in effi- clency and the schools are now conducted Ip the interest of the children. 4 The Police Commission has from the begin- ning attracted considerahle sublic attentlon. On acccunt of the character of its work and 1ts extensive discretionary powers under the char- ter in the granting of licenses to saloons, at- tempts have been made from time to time by thoze who live under the shadow of the Jaw to fmpose upon and browbeat the board. In the second month of my term T was compelled to reorganize it. when W. P. Sullivan Jr. was slected Chirf of Police. This devated officer, in #nits of hostlle and unjust criticiem. did his whate duty with honor ‘and distinetion, ahd finallv. the burden being too heavy, gave up Riz Jife. There has been no criticiem refiscting on the infegrity or the co'gage of the Baard of Pa. Jiee Commissioners. 7 During the recent -waste- 2 D Honolulu, Sydney and other Pacific ports. i | e ey iy thee | Water Works used in supplying the city with | | cal couflict was precipitated, it was likewise a satisfaction to the administration and to the thoughtful and patriotic people of this city that the law was upheld without an appeal, as requested, for State and Federal The municipality proved sufficlent for It- many hastily aid self. B: the vigilance of the Board of Health this was saved from Orlental infection, which ted during the last {wo years Hongkong, In common with other commissions, it was criti- clzed for doing its duty. ernment. which maintains here a national quarantine, throush disinterested experts of the highest standing, has justified it in all its official acts. The Park Commission has maintained the same high average efficiency, and the Elec- tion Commissioners have creditably performed their functions. The first administration under the new char- ter went into office with the purpose to serve the people and the people only. This it has done. The evil influences of the past, corrupt bossism and corporation control, were unknown to San Francisco during the last two years. Every measure was passed upon its merits and oublic work was done without scandal. Harmony existed between the lexislative and the executlve branch of the government, and I trust those pleasant reiations will continue to remain between the newly elected Board of Supervisors and the Mayor. Several of our colleagues have departed this life amidst circumstances of drofound regret and sorrow. Suvervisors Helms and Dul Coroner R. Beverly Cole, Chief of Police Wi llam P. Sullivan, Clerk of the Board of Su- pervisors John A. Russell, President of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners J. Rich- ard Freud, Freeholders Dr. John Nightingale Jr., Jceeoh Britton, L. R. Ellert, Henry N. Clément_and John C. Nobmann have passed away. These men, who were all 50 interested in the success of the charter, departed with- out witressing the consummation of our work, The Federal Gov- e, i-. : lfiflLLIEH BRISTOL IS LOST AT SEA —_— Continued From Page One. er and it took a half hour to get the boats away, with seven men in each. The third boat was put out qver the stern and got away more easily! The captain intended going in the last one. He went into his cabin to get some trinket and delayed the boat. The fourth lifeboat appears to have been.smashed before it lert the ship. The other boats’ crews could not see the fourth boat leave the steamer and In a few moments the big vessel sank, first breaking in two, and her stern went en- tirely out of sight. This was at 2 o'clock in the morning, and the three boats had a terrible time to keep from foundering before daylight came. During the night they were driven out of sight of the wreck. Before 10 o'clock in the morning they were picked up by the Cottage City, which had lifted her anchor at daylight. Captain Wallace of the Alaskan liner cruised around in the vicinity all day and even sent a boat crew ashore on the islands to see if possibly some of those who had remained on the wreck might have got into the last boat saved. His search was futile. The seven men, including the “captain, probably were carried under by the flood of water with the sinking steamer. Part of the lifeboat which they had tried to launch had drifted up on the shore. The twenty-one survivors were famished with cold and hunger and were cared for by the Cottage City people. They were taken as far north as Ketchikan, where they were picked up by the steamer City of Topeka. The Bristol was a vessel of 1983 tons gross, 1274 net, 218 feet in length. She was built in England in 1875 and chris- tened the Bristol. Shortly afterward, un- der other ownership, she was named the Costa Rica. A few years later she was rechristened the Bristol, then named the Valparaiso and finally assumed her mald- en name, and was known by that while engaged as a collier on this coast by R. Dunsmuir & Sons. In 1887 she was bought from her bullders by the Marquis del Campo, a Spaniard, who had visions of building upr a large trade between the port of San Francisco and the western coast of South America. At the time he urchased the Bristol Del Campo also ought the Nicaragua. The name of the Bristol he altered t8 the Costa Rica. These three vessels plied In the coasting trade for one year. Captain James McIntyre, master of the steamer Bristol, who is among the lost, was one of the oldest and best known marinegs on this coast, from San Fran- cisco to Alaska. He made his home in Port Townsend during later years. His w;.idow. four sons and one daughter reside there. . Captain MecIntyre was born in Scotland in 1832 and was 72 years of age at the time of his death. His first appearance on this coast was in 1854, when he arrived at Victoria as. second officer of the East Indian ship Marquis. of Butte, then under charter to the Hudson Bay Company and engaged in the transportation of supplies from England’ to, Victoria. Captajn Mc- Intyre left the = Marquis 'of Butte and sailed south to San Francisco in 1858. One year later he took command of the bark Parry. On that vessel and the Massa- chusetts he remained till 1366, when, leav- ing the latter ship, he assumed command of the ship Revere, which he sailed for twenty years. From the Revere Captain McIntyre went to the old ship Rich- ard 111, which is now an old hulk en- gaged in transporting ore and coal be- tween the Treadwell mines on Douglas Island, Alaska, and the Tacoma smelter. At the time Captain McIntyre took com- mand of the Richard III she was a fine vessel and she made many trips to China and Australia during the six years he re- mained in charge ‘of her. From the Rich- ard 1IT Captain McIntyre went' tot the Bristol. The value of the Bristol was about,$160,- 000. Her cargo was worth about , but it can easily be salved. Officers of the City of Seattle do not believe it possible to ever raise or repair the vessel. L spih ek SAN FRANCISCO VICTIMS. One of the Unfortunates a Former Stanford Student. William, Roemer, who was among the victims of the wrecked collier Bristol, was a steward. on the vessel. Roemer was a native of Hamburg, Germany, and was about 43 yedrs of age.. Before signing on the Bristol he had been in the United States” transport service.. He lived while in this city at 534 Jessie street. g Arthur T. Edwards, second engineer of the Bristol, resided with his wife at 708 Guerrero street and was 32 years of age. Until six months ago Edwards was one of the head machinistsf at the Union Iron ‘Works. His specialty was marine work, and he superintended the construction of many of ithe fleet steamers and battle- ships recently turned out by that com- pany. Edwards was born in England and has lived in San Francisco ten years. Howard Charles Hurlbut was the son of Reuben P. Hurlbut, a contractor and builder, residing at 23 Hill street. He was 22 years of age and was a student at Stan- ford University until the beginning of the last term. He went on the Bristol in the engineer’'s department for the purpose of getting a thorough knowledge of machin- ery, having 'devoted his time to the study of mechanical and electrical engineering. It was the young man’s first trip to sea. Joseph Siiva was a Portuguese seaman, and when in this city roomed at 54 Sacra. mento street. 2 e e e i i R Y ) but had they been epared to be with us this day, in common with you who remain, the: would have shared the pleasure and satisfa tion of knowing that their efforts have resul in making San Francisco a free city, equipped with a model organic law, which has been 25501 been able to transmit a go: ernment whose civic administration, while con- spicuously clean, has, we believe, at the same thme been a positive force for ¥ood, Which we trust will endure, . ful and unnecessar®’ strike the duty of the police was to uphold the law and to see that Second Shoe Store from ’Harh’! Street. Mail orders specially solicited and promptly reane ann 2100 has cornpelled‘ the ad- ~miration of the world and won its patronage because it satisfies the universal needs of so- clety in shoe construc- tion, comfort, grace and durabilitp. $8.50 mmne Only to be had at SAN FRANCISCO. and been S HAVE YOU : Becomes 7% Mrs. W. Washburn, financial secretary of Camp No. 2, Sons and Daughters of America, also recording secretary of the Lady Standard Mutual Benevolent Asso- clation of New Orleans, La., writes from 128 Villere street, New Orleans, La.: “Recently | caught a sevirs cold, being rspeatedly exposed to wst in our rainy season. over me and in a few days | had chills and fever, with inflammation and headache, so that | was unable to be about. I had one of your baoklets in my home and had read in an in- different way of the value of Peruna, but when | became sick | thought about it and sent for some. | found it truly wonderful. 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