The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME/ XCL—NO. ELECTRIC CARS CROWDED WITH WORKINGMEN CRASH TOGETHER, 119. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CRUSHING THREE OF THE PASSENGERS, ONE OF WHOM WILL DIE CORLISS SCORES COMMERCIAL CABLE iR Alleges Combination to Raise Rates. ASHINGTON, March 2 ~Representative (or- liee of Michigan was given a hearing before the House Committes on Judiclary to-day on his directing the Afttorney General to Institute proceedings againet hn Cemmeresial Cable CoMmpany for &17 resolution legod rombination with other companies Corliee Geclared that thers had been & de liberate violation of the laws BgAinst combination and that the effect wae 16 pavance the of cable messages on the Atlanti cents g word Chalrman Ray and the members of the ‘ & number of questions vi rather sharp division . Corlies said the mat t been brought to the attention far a v but he sired that (he committee ke cognigance of facts which showed an L egainst the law and refer the the Attorney General for his inves- g4 a4 action tiefield made the point that §f the L t 4 never been brought before t ey General he could not be re- mis t acting on it, and until he de- | clined ot Congress was not warranted in giving him directions. He thought this amounted to,a reflection oh the Attorney | Corliss disclaimed any purpose & such reflections, He simply s ts, he =ald, preliminary tp ac- t { n Ray said the resolutions| ar 110 a rection by Congress to the ey Ge 1.to do his duty when ' & to #how he was remiss 1 uly or knew anything about the n He suggestéd that Corliss should B firs he Attorney General arked that he had not come = to what he should do, but card on statement of was to be no action he de- || el B Comuss (e - L d MICHIGAN CONGRESBSMAN WHO DEMANDS ACTION AGAINST CABLE COMPANY | A Uphold Littlefield expressed (ne belief that the attention of the Attorney General could be got in fifteen minutes if steps were taken to get the subject before him. He added that charges had often been made against the last Attorney General and | against the present one that they had | fafled to act, but Littlefield said he had ailed to find these officials had refused to t on any matter properly brought to | their attention | “Corliss mafntained that there was ample | evidenve“to warrant Inquiry by the proper | officiale preliminary to action. Consider- able sharp sparring Was indulged in as to the amount of evidence Corliss could-pro- duce. The committee then went into executive session and unanimously reported against the resolution on the ground that Corliss Him. e ommittee share in the | had not presented a case calling for the y T ¢ action proposed. PIIIE oo oot e e fedods @ FARMERS IN BATTLE WITH HALF-BREEDS An Old Feud Causes a Fight in Which One Man'Is Killed. GUTHRIE, O. T., March 25 —Barly to- day a pitched battle occurred between two half-breed Indians, George and John Cu and two farmers, Jumes Smith and William Thompson, n finco, in the Choctaw" Nation. The latier were preparing to plant corn when the Indians appeared heavily armed and n fir- ing. The fire was returned by the farm. ers and the battle continued for some time, the parties shooting from ambush. Smith was serjously wounded and George Curtis died from his wounds. The fight was the result of an old feud, two years| ago, when John Curtis killed a brother of ‘Wiiliam Thompson and shot this same Smith in the abdomen and arm. No ar- rests have as yet been made. AP S YRINCES OF RUSSIA EXECUTED FOR MURDER Noble Leaders of a Bandit Organiza- tion Pay Penalty for Many Crimes. LONDON, March 20.—The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Daily Mail says that news has been recelved from Kutal Trans-Cauc that three Russian no- bles—Prince Kipinadz, Prince Valerian and Prince Zulukidz—were executed March 3 for the murder of over 100 per- sons. . The trials of the Princes lasted for two weeks. They were the leaders of & wide- spread bandit organization, which had terrorized the Caucasus by systemstic robbery, arson and murder, REFUSES TO WAIT DURING INVESTIGATION Bank Teller Coolly Walks Away and Discovery of Shortage Is Made. NEW YORK, March 28.—H. C. Cope- land, president of Riverside Bank, com- plained .to the police to-day that H. G. Bell, recelving teller of the concern, was missing and that an examination of his accounts disclosed a shortage of $12,i. He acsked the police to arrest him. Bell has not been at the bank since Monday. On that day. according to nis associates, his cash failed to balance and he was asked for an explanation. ile de- nied that there was any shortage and said that he would quit his place. He was asked to remain, but walked out. An ex- amimation of his accounts was com- menced at once, and it is charged that the discovery that he had been system atically holding out deposit slips was made, N The Riverside Bank Is located at Fifty- | seventh street and Eighth avenue. It has | & capital of $100,000 and a good surplus. Bell, although a young man, had been long in the employ of the bank. e was highly regarded by the bank officlals, Bell recently {nherited a modest fortune and was engaged to be married. —_——— | Fierce Ol Fight. MATTOON, 1il, March 28.—A class fight between fifty students of the High | Bchool of Charleston occurred last night | at a farewell reception tendered by the senlors to Professor W. W. Willls, who | life, by the much-lauded Charles M, Hays, i bt 1 | Committee Refuses to resigned as principal. The senlors were attacked by members of the junlor and sophomore classes, Will Miles, & prom. ising athiete, had his jaw broken, ‘Several Aother students were injured. CAUSTIC CENSURE OF HAYS John Muir Criticizes Southern Pacific | Ex=President. | Reveals Secrets of the Inner Workings of Railways. Fillmore’s Death the Theme of Bitter Comment. Special Disvatch to The Call. 1.OS ANGELES, March 28.—John A. Muir, general manager of the Los An- geles Railway, read the principal paper of the evening at the Sunset Club dinner to-night, his subject being “The Railroad Service—Its Opportunities and Rewards.” Since Mr. Muir's retirement from the Southern Pacific, after thirty years' serv- ice with that road, his friends in Los An- geles and elsewhere have hoped, but scarcely expected, that he would tell sometking of the inner life of the railroad —of the events that led to his resignation. Not until this evening, however, did an opportunity offer. He said: “The railroad service is exacting in its demands. It may well be termed fasci- nating slavery. As a rule, and invariably ¢ in my experience and observation, its opportunities are hard work, and fre- quently the rewards are abuse, envy and jealousy while living, followed by an early death and a forgotten grave. “To mention specifically the opportuni- ties and rewards of railroad service leads to somé fllustrative examples, which I think are typical throughout the United Btatee, “The late Jerome A, Fillmore, well known to many of you personally and to all by reputation, was hard-working, con- scientious, just to the intetests of the campany he served #o well, and withal belaved by wvery pApAYe WH whsw hi eame iff contact, Ms never missed an op- portunity and his final reward was an al- most summary dismiseal from the service of the company to whicii he had given his best work and the Lest years of his & man with net a tithe of Fillmore's ex- perience, but whom mysterfous fate had placed above Fillmere with power to use him as he pleased, ""Poor Fillmore! Tt was claimed recent- Iy in & Ban Franelseo paper that he died of & broken heart, 1 can well believe it, for a bigger, more generous and kin heart never beat in the bosom of man, and those who broke it can never expe- rience a simflar fate, N. Towne, general manager of the same company, whom kind fate permitted to die in harness after giving the com- pany his best, came up from an equally humble beginning by the sheer force of mérit—brakeman, station agent, yard and train master, assistant superintendent, superintendent, general superintendent, and finally general manager: And his re- ward-—-death, at an age when he should be just in his prime. THE PASSING OF HAYS. “Sometimes the reward is neither just nor deserved; sometimes it is neither de- sired nor agreeable, although it may be eminently just and appropriate. Charles M. Hays, some time president of the Southern Pacific Company—at least bear- ing that title, although never allowed to rattle around, metaphorically, fn the shoes of Mr. Huntington—received a just and what might be termed a poetic re- ward. In the usual American way he started at the bottom and polished up the handles of the ‘big front’ so Industrious- Iy that promotion came rapid and sure, and he dawned upon the Pacific Coast with the new century, the most envied man in the rallroad world, with the biggest salary, It is sald, and with the most magnificent opportunities. “A chain is no stronger than its weak- est link, and his cometlike flight through the rallroad world of the West was eclipsed and went out in darkness ere the first year of his reported flve-year con- tract had expired. “His downfall was sudden, his disap- pearance complete. He came to the coast prejudiced against the old guard and with the intention, as it afterward transpired, of removing every man (your humble servant included) who held a responsible position in the service, no matter how faithful or competent he might have been, Mr, Hays, however, miscalculated as to the extent of his power and omnipotence and had dropped from the problem, as a useless factor, the idea of justice. “His plans leaked out, he was hofst by his own petard and with his chosen tool, the renegade Virginian, Fiizhugh, he was relegated to the glistening snowhanks ana frozen rivers of their Canadian habitat— in thelr coldness 8o typicat of their hearts —while most of the old guard still hask and flourish where the golden west so gently slopes to the sunset gea,' FELTON WILL PROBABLY BE HARRIMAN’S SUCCESSOR NEW YORK, March 2,~There is sald to be authority for the statement that &, H. Harriman will retire from the presi- dency of the Southern Pacific Raflroad very soon after his return from his trip to the Pacific Coast, It is understood that 8. M. Felton Jr,, now president of the Chicago and. Alton, will succeed Harriman as executive head of the Bouthern Pacific, o WALTER FPOWLZ AND ik Walter ceives Terrible Injuries and Physicians Say Fle Cannot Recover. X THE INJURED. WALTER ROWLAND, compound kle broken and dislocated and ri fracture both thighs, right an- ght wrist broken; may die. CHRISTOPHEER GODE, left leg broken and lacerated wound of the abdomen. DAVID ROY HILL, scvere wound of the scalp and numerous abra- sions. WO Kentucky-street cars crowded with working men and women, returning to - their homes after the day's labor, crashed together in front of the Southern Pacific depot at Third and Townsend streets at 5:15 o'clock last evening, Three men. were se- riously injured, one o badly that the phy- siclans say he ecannot live. Many others were glightly injured in the collision; some of them being badly shaken up and bruised. The crash came with such suddenness and so entirely without warning that a scene of wild confusion followed. Men were hanging on at every stanchion of both cars, wherever foothold could be found upon the steps when the accident oceurred. In such a crowd it was impos- sible for some moments to learn the ex- tent of the catastrophe and every one supposed that many were killed and in- jured. Women shrieked and fainted and men pulled themselves free from the struggling mass and then turned to give aid to the wounded. BOTH CARS WERE CROWDED. Car No. 94, which had been standing in front of the depot waiting for passengers to transfer to it from the green car of the Third-street line, was just getting under good headway on its trip south to the Potrero, It was crowded to the utmost with men and women who are employed in the retail and wholesalo districts and along the water front. Car No. 91 came bowling atong at a fast clip, north bqund, earrying a great load of mechanies from {he Unfon Iron Works. An open switch threw it across to the west track and the south-bound car failed to get clear of the switch in time to escape a collision. The front end of the other car crashed into the side of the rear end of No. 94 with terrific force, crushing the steps like egg- shells and -breaking away a stanchion. All the men who were most seriously in- jured were riding on the crowded outside of ope car or the other, clinglng to the stanchions or whatever other support could be had. Walter Rowland, an Instrument-maker, employed by the A. Lietz Company, suf- fered terrible Injuries. He was caught be- tween the two cars and both thighs were broken, both fractures being compound. His right ankle was fractured and dislo- cated and his left wrist fractured, He -+ was terribly bruised and it is supposed he recefved internal injuries also. He did | not lose consciousness and after being re- moved to the, Central Emergency Hospi- tal he displayed great courage, giving his most anxious thoughts to the wife and child at his little home at 471 B street in Oakland. Rowland was returning from a trip to the Union Iron Works for his em- ployers when the accident occurred, Christophér Gode, a rigger, who lives at 322 Pennsylvania avenue, had both bones of the left leg broken and suffered in addition ‘a lacerated wound of the ab- domen. He'has a wife and one child. David Roy Hill, a marine fireman, who has been employed with the steam whal- ing fleet and.was returning from work at the Arctic Oil Works, received a severe wound of the scalp and numerous abra- slons. - He was .taken to the Emergency Hospital with Rowland and Gode, but was 80 anxjous to return to his home at 352 Third sirect to reassure his aged mother that the physicians finally gave thelr con- sent. Later, however, Dr. Coffey and Dr. Hennessy of the Southern Pacific Hospi- tal sent for him and had him removed o that institution. LEAVES MOTHER PENNILESS. | Hill's mother is alone and practically penniless. Some time ago her son invest- ed his savings in a siock of frult and | opened a little store at 352 Third street for his mother to conduct. Her strength did not prove equal to the task, and she says that §20 for rent Is due Monday and she has nothing to pay it with. Her hus- band, the fnjured man's father, was killed three years ago in a street car wreck in Vancouver, and years before she lost a littlo daughter in a woolen mill ac- cident in St Boniface, Winnipeg, the child being caught by a belt and crushed to death. Thomas B. Street, motorman of the northbound car, and Henry Harrison, mo- torman of the southbound car, were placed under arrest and after being taken to the Bouthern police station were trans- ferred to the Central statlon and charged with battery. Both were released soon after on $20 cash bail each. The Kentucky-street cars stop in front of the depot during the day to recelve transferred pussongers and return wiw, them to the Potrero. They cross from the east track to the west by means of a switch, After § o'clock certain of these ATHER omsavieo Rowland, an Instrument Maker, Re- ' 4 NORTHBOUND Ken- tucky-street car ran into an open switch last evening at Third and Tomwmsend streets and crashed into a southbound car on the other track. Three men were seriously injured, and Walter Rowland will probably die. ) Q | . | cars run to Market street and start from | | there on the return trip. Car No. %1 was | | scheduled to run through,.and Motorman | Street was making good time. The switeh | ip front of him was open and the.south- | bound car was‘not clear of the other end j of the short switch. Street did not see| the dangér and his car dashed ahead, to| be thrown suddenly out of its (llrecti course and against the side of the other car. Street car men place the blame on Mo- torman Street. It was his duty, they say, to see. the open switch. stop his car and | signal to the conductor to throw the switch so that his car could continte to | Market street. 1 TR | KILLING OF THREE MEN. | Collision of Electric Cars at Joliet Results Fatally. JOLIET, T, March 25.—Three dead and: ten injured is the result of a colli- sfon near Sag Bridge, on the Jollet and Chicago ' electric rallway, to-day, which | was the worst in the history of the lLine. | The dead are: » JOHN MAU, motorman, Jollet, @G. H. HURLEY, conductor, Joliet. GEORGE BARRETT, Lockport, fore- man for Kconomy Light and Power Com- pany. The injured are: Sam Spence, workman, Lemont, breast crushed, arms and legs cut, may die; Mike McLaughlin, motor- man, Jollet, right " leg crushed, ampu- tated; John Flaviel, workman, Lockport; | John Rinn, workman, Lockport; Johi Wolf, Jollet, employe of street raflway company: Dennls Murphy, Jockport; Fred Mitz, Lemont; unknown passenger on car; Eugene Gaylord, workman, Lock- port; Patrick Dougherty, workman. The wreck was the result of a head-on jcolllsion between. two cars going at a | rapld speed. ‘A dense fog prevented the motorman from seeing the approaching car. The wreck occurred near Sag Bridge, about twenty miles from Joliet. There i§ a single track at the place, and Motorman Street Runs His Car Into Open Switch in Front of Southern Pacific Depot, Causing Catastrophe. the two cars came together with terrific force. The scene of the accident is the same spot where a terrible wreck oc- curred on the Alton, road twenty-nine years.ago, when over a score of persoms were killed. REFUSES TO RELEASE BAVARIAN FUGITIVE Denial of a Writ of Habeas Corpus Will Cause Herrle’s Case tu Go to Supreme Court. CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 23.—Judge A. C. Thompson, In the United States Court, to-day refused to release Hetnrick Herrle - on a writ of habeas corpus Requisition from the Bavarian Govern ment had been made for Herrle on afi. davits charging forgery. Extraditior papers had been granted and the United States Marshal was about to take Herrle to New York to turn him over t¢ the German Consul In that city when the habeas corpus proceedings were instl tuted. The case will now be carried te | the United States Supreme Colrt befors the extradition is executed. Heinrich Herrle was a prominent bank- er In Bavaria. He resides here now witk s wife and children, and has many rel- | atives in this ecity. He is charged with forgeries aggregating several hundred thousand marks In connection with alleged raised checks and drafts The affidavits flled against him were mostly from Bavarian creditors and oth- ers assoclated with him in the large busi. nese that he formerly conducted in Ba varia, —_— . Priest Is Accidentally Shot. DENVER., Colo., March %8.—A special tz the Post from La Junta, Colo., says: The Rev. J. H. Brinker, pagtor of the Catholic church in this city, was seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded to-day by the accldentat discharge of a plstol. It is supposed thal the weapon fell from a table to the floor und was_ discharged. The bullet pene trated the abdomen.