The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCIL 98, \ FRANCISCO, ATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1902, PRICE FIVE CENTS. TERRIBLE DISASTER ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC IS CAUSED BY BROKEN RAIL STATESMEN SAY GERMANY CANNOT GET NAVAL BASE Senators Declare Positively That Permis~ sion Will Never Be Uiven by the United Stares. If It Is Prince Henry's Mission to Secure a Coaling Station in South America It Will Fail. NO NAVAL BASE. The stntement cabled from Berlin, as published exclusivel | here in Th yesterduy, that the ultimate object of Prin i Henry's visit in to secure for Germany a naval base on the We | erm Hemisphere in not’ pleasant news to American statesmen. ] United States Semators, when interviewed upon the jeet yester- day, stated th f the purpose of the visit of peror Willinm's brother i to acquire n conling station it would surely fail. Sue | Senmators ms Elkins, Burrows, Dubois, Lodge and Spooner d red Y positively that the Monroe doctrine cannot be broken down, ani that the United States will never consent to give Germany a base for naval operations in South American waters or elsewhere on this continent. Special Dispatch to The Call. LL BUREAU, 1406 G. STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, March 7.— mats and members of Congress without exception have declared ' ose of e Henry's visit to the United States is acquire a coaling station it would fail. The special news from widely read and commented on to-day and everybody in fc id that such a tping would never be ; or Elkins said: considerable goseip and lation about the real object of s is country so heard that Germany is plan- g 10 g for the Government to ¢ a repair and coaling station = waters. The American people will not sanction anything of , foreign visitors cordially and give & e g i it comes to giving up our rights s i ws We are very glad to have Prince Henry sit given him a roval welcome, but if he expects when he attempts to crawl hat Germany has any ulterior motives In .2 I over here other than to cultivate friendly_relations and ompTave wORIercETIr shie hopes to secure our permission to locate.a coal- = § American waters as a result of the Prince’s visit, his trip States ; ¥ prove a failure.” S I said: “I am of German descent, but I would not cops pos Germany a coali tion on this side of » the principles laid down in the Monroe doctrine. f = < nce Henry's visit to this cou he is going ‘about r matic but it will not succeed.” Monroe Doctrine Cannot Be Stretched. Senator Dubois said: *“We are glad to have Prince Henry visit us and we E icar upon him, but we cannot and will not stretch the ne a breaking point to allow Germ: to have a coaling sta- gan, t nking Democratic member of the Committee on For- E granting the favor for a coaling [ ! France or any other nation, pro- setts characterized the proposition as ‘“prepos- not believe Germany seriously contemplates ask- ry to establish a basis in the West Indies, but if rt denled. *“We command the Caribbean 50, # L “Germany is as well aware n ) disposed to treat the suggestion hu- salc ‘that while we can be delightfully so- 1 knitting.” Spooner added that he did not 4 naval station in the West Indies and that . 8t entertain ruch a proposition was certain, T on or naval station in the West Indies it w laconic statement from Senator Platt of Connecii- PRINCE FINISHES TOUR. Through His Aid the Royal Visitor Says He Is Greatly Pleased With Cordiality Shown. N Prince Henry of Prussia to-day completed his tour . ' rk, where be will remain until Monday, when h2 will go to P . was absent from the city for nine days, during which time De within the territory of thirteen States and logged a t ance of He was greatly pleased with his trip, and 1 ugh his 1 von Mueller, issued a statement expressing h sfaction at the ty whick came to him and gratification at the ity with which he was recelved throughout the country. Captain von Mueller said His Royal Highness is ve uch pleased by his trip into the interior of United States. He is fully t the fact that he has had only a super- f glimpse of a very s ! portion of the United States and that he might b o s have used his time to greater advantage had he remained in one of larger of the Eastern cities. B is convinced, nevertheless, that, con- sidering character of his mission, the trip was the right thing for him to g it he has obtained a ver esources, which the cap fair idea of the vastness of the coun- of the United States and the great iters of the East alone cduld not have given him. But more than he values the hearty welcome which he met in all the places he a welcome that showed him how the people of the United States erstood and appreciate intention of the German Emperor here. made a speech in St. Louis in which he said he regretted not able always to express his thanks to those who greeted him at tions or who otherwise decired to show him their respects. He have the intent of that spcech conveyed to all those who in the ip gave him such a c and especially he wishes ks to those who eariy e morning, when he was not pre- -omed him with music and cheers. by the great cities of the South and the Middle West were ad expected, and so were the €ception, bed, wel more than he eve 3 receptions in the East.. But i= R ghness i ually thankful for what the smaller places did in showing hi ood wili, though the train in =:ch places stopped only a few minutes uently not at ail.” Pays a Visit to Albany and West Point. Her day on the special train which carried him to the South, 4 in interest any of the others spent by the Prince on the with a visit to Albany, included a run in bright sunlight re of the Hudson River and closed with a reception at the ary Academy at West Point. It 2 o'clock when the train departed from Boston and daylight When it was climbing through West and ur, for it bega the west ed States Mil was Continued on Page Two, BREAKERS ON THE BAR BOMBARD THE COASTER LAURA MADSEN, CRIPPLING SIX STOUT SA TN V. _~ | | o |Stanch Lumber Schooner Runs Gauntlet | [ | of Leaping Seas and Is Badly HE schooner Laura Madsen, which arrived Thursday even- ing from Grays Harbor, nar- rowly escaped destruction at the end of her voyage while running the gauntlet of the breaking bar. As it was, the dozen or more that boarded her wrecked |KING EDWARD SCUTTLES OLD TRAINING SHIP LONDON, March 7.—King Edward, ac- companied by Queen Alexandra, laid the foundation stone of the new royal naval college for cadets at Dartmouth to-day and thereby, figuratively speaking, scut- | tled the old training ship Britannia, the alma mater of all the present generation of British naval officers. The royal party traveled from London by the train buiit at a cost of £46,000 for Queen Victoria's £ diamond jubilee and covered the whole Battered. and second mates and three scamen. The bar didn’t look very rough to Cap- tain Jorgensen when he headed the schooner. across, but before he got over he thought the Pacific Ocean had emptied itself over him and his men. Sea No. 1 caught the man at the wheel squarely on the back, carried him for- | the cabin, tore away a number of deck ward with terrific violence and rendered not lose a stick of her deckload in the | fixtures and crippled the skipper, first him useless for service for some time to bombardment. distance, 22 miles, without a stoppage. On their arrival at Dartmouth their majesties were met by the Lords of the Admiralty and drove through, the dec- orated town to the colege grounds, where they were reccived by a guard of honor of cadets. The laylng of the foundation stone was accompanied by the usual cere- monial. Papers and coins were depositea in a casket made of oak from the Britan-' nia, which was placéd beneath the stone.: Germany was represented by the German school ship Moultke, with her cadets drawn up on the grounds and inspected by the King. Their majesties afterward proceeded to Plymouth, where Queen Alexandra to-morrow will christen the British first-class battleship Queon. ' e ILORS o STANCH SCHOONER THAT CAME NEAR BEING WRECKED WHILE CROSSING A BREAKING BAR. e - .| into the district. Wreckage Marks the Work of Waves. } grabbed the schooner Two other wallors but had hardly got the on her courre again when another wave pitehed them both .on top of the deckload " and left them breathless and more or | Jewss brujsed and battered, | The first and second hen graspod the wheel. They stayed with it but a brief spell. The next sea tore loose their hold and rolled them like animated dice the whole length of the vessel. Before they recovered themselves Captain Jor- gensen himself had hold of the spokes. | Both schooner and sca behaved for a gpell and under the skipper's guiding hand the bar was almost crossed when the trouble began again. The billows began | to bombard the skipper. | Jorgensen resisted the first and second waves, but the third sent him forward with a bang. Before he recovered himi- gelf the bar was crossed and an hour or so later the schooner anchored. The waves stove-in the cabin doors, flooded the cabin, carried away the wheel- box and the binnacle-box and generally wrought havoc above and below decks. I Captain Jorgensen had both eyes black- | ened, his head cut in many places, nis| ribs dented and received an all around | shaking up, from which his joints will erack for many days to come. Two of | the sailors are confined to their bunks, and both first and second mates move about with lists to port and starboard. | The Madsen was lumber-laden, but dil FORESTALLING | ANY INVASION BY FOREIGNERS PEKING, March 7.—Bandit have captured a priest at Jehol, about | one hundred miles northeast of Peking. Both the French and Russiaps are anx- | lous to send troops to rescue the priest, but as Jehol is a rich gold mining district the court has ordered General Maiyukwan | to hurry and release the prisoner in order to forestall the entry of foreign troops soldiery :Fifteen Cars Are Piled Up A Persons Are Dead and Twenty- Eight Injured. Westhound Train No. 9 Is Wrecked Near Sanders= son, Tex., and Burned. gainst the Engine and Are Soon Consumed by Flames Which Break Out. THE DEAD. THREE CHILDREN OF MART RIDDLE OF CHETOPA, KANS, ESTAVON CONTRARAS. ANDREW (. SHELLY, WIFE AND CHILD, LOIRE, TEXAS. CHILD OF D. E. HOUSEN, RACINE, WIS, | MR. AND MRS. WHITE, MANITOWOC, WIS, ENGINEER AL MAST, EL PASO, TEXAS. FIREMAN H. BERTSCHOST, EL PASO, TEXAS. L. A. BOONE, NEWS AGENT, DOY CHRIS KEEL, CONTRACTOR. SAN ANTONIO, W. W. PRICE, ENGINEER, SAN ANTONIO. THE INJURED. Mra. Mary Koehler, San Franeisco, internal injuries A. S Turmer, Black Hawk, Miss, hand crushed. Mrs. E. M. Sheppard, Glen M , Pa., head hnrt. | J. Fuller, Washington, D. C., leg and foot crushed. Antonio El Rio, Del Rio, Texas, internal injuries George Ollenberg, Lexipgton, Ky., hand erusbhed. E. C. Baker, Angleton, Texas. bruised. | Charles H. Hoy, San Antonio, Texas, both feet sealded. 1 A. E. Massey, Wilby, Texas, 1p wound. J. L. Taylor, Melberry, Kans., head injured. Mrxs. Mitchell, Philadelphia, hurt internally. W. R. Adams, express messenger, internal injuries and badly sealded. Craig Battleman, North Dakota, head @ back hart. | Briscae Rédrignes, Del Rio, Texas, bralsed. Lutons Murates, Del Rto, Texas, slghtly bruised. i Antonio Donule, Del Rio, Texas, bruised. M. Lobert, residence unknown, head hurt. D. P. Havens, El Paso, Texas, bruised. A. E. McKenzie, Safford, Ariz, slightly injured. | H. J. Todd, Frankfort, Ky., bruised. Thomasx 0. Crowder, Houston, Texas, bruised. Willlam Josephs, San Jose, Cal., back injured. J. H. Taylor, Birmingham, Ala,, slightly hurt. Hugh Mills, Chetopa, Kans., slightly injured. Dr. G. C. Martin, Pecos City, Texas, slightly injured. G. W. B. Bennett, St. Paul, Kans., bruised. W. S. Glenn, Black Hawk, Mi leg broken. Mrs. Annie Wortherst, leg hand crushed. \ — AN ANTONIO, Texas, March 7.—A broken rail caused a fright- ful wreck on the Southern Pacific Railway station, twenty-five miles west of Sanderson, at 3 morning. From the latest reports received here fifteen persons were killed and twenty-eight were more or less injured. The ill-fated train left San Antonio at noon Thursday, two and a hali hours late, and at the time the accident occurred was running at a high rate of speed to make up time, The road at the point where the wreck occurred is in a rough country, the curves near Maxon o'clock this being sharp and the grades heavy. It was when rounding a curve that the train lcft the track, it is said, on account of a broken rail. The hour was 3 a. m,, fifteen hours after the train had left San Antonio, showing that it was still behind time. All the passengers were asleep, and the shock that fpllowed was the first intimation they had oi the danger. The train was going at such a rate of speed that the tender and engine landed seventy-five feet from wlrere they left the rails. The cars behind piled up aguinst the ene gine, caught fire, and all were consumed, except the sleeper A private car owned by Thomas Ryan oi New York City, with his fam- ily abourd, was attached to the rear of the train, but it was pulled away before the fire reached it, and no one in it was injured All the injured in the coaches just behind the express and baggage cars were cremated. The people in the sleepers were saved with the assistance of the uninjured passengers. The wrecked train-was the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio west- bound passenger No. 9, and consisted of an engine, mail car, baggage car, one coach, one chair car, three tourist sleepers, one Pullman sleeper and one private car. The mail car, the baggage car and coaches were piled together against the engine and were ablaze in a few seconds. It was impossible to move any of the coaches or the tourist cars, as they were all off the rails and were soon consumed by the flames. As soon as it was possible to get in communication with the division headquarters relief trains with surgeons and physicians were started from El Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson, picking up all along the line all the surgeons that could be found. All of the injured who were in a condition to be moved were sent to El Paso, where they received careful attention. W. G. Van Vleck, general manager of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad, was at San Antonio, and left at once on a special train for the scene of the wreck. Conductor Stockwell, who was only slightly injured, upon finding his crew were killed and disabled. started out for Tabor to warn the eastbound train. For two hours he dragged himself through darkness, arriving in time to stop the approaching train. Wreckers May Have Caused Disaster. When at last communication was made with Sanderson, San Anténio and El Paso, wrecking trains left for the scene from this place and San An- tonio, surgeons for the company being called up all along the line. A relief train was also dispatched from Sanderson, which took to the survivors of the wreck clothes and covering. The cause of the wreck is not known, and in all probability will remain a mystery. Railroad men in this city have many suggestions as to how it could have occurred, and assert it may have beer the work of wreckers. According to Conductor Stockwell’s report the wreck was at a point where the grade terminates in a reverse curve. The train leit the track on the other side of the curve. which destroys the theory that the accident was caused by the train running at a high rate of speed, in which case it would have been deposited on the other side. The remaining solution of the cause was there was'a broken flange. Continued on Page Two.