The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1902, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1902. Al RECORD OF RUIN AND DEATH LIVES IN TERRIBLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S VOLCANOES [SLANDS. minSOS 4l LEE WARD e AP aF L EEWARD AND WINDWAERD ISLANDS THOWING CHAIN oF HeTwE VoL CANOES N8 WHOSE CRATERS ARE A CONSTANT SOURCE OF DANGER. NSPICUOUS WORK IN RESCUING REFUGEES AND IN CARRYING HABITANTS OF ISLANDS WHOSE SOURCE OF SUBSISTENCE HAS BEEN DESTROYED. THE CRUISER THAT DID SUCH SUPPLIES TO THE DESTITUTE IN- HE fron occurrence at Krakatoa, off the coast of Java, August 27, 1883. a time accomplished | Other and greater disasters have oc- ch vast destruction, will oc- | curred due to earthquakes alone and a first and unique place | €arthquakes with tidal waves, as in Cal- sudden, awful nutburn‘ Pelee, which in so | |lost, and again in 1797, when 120,000 per- = |1shed by earthquakes, or at Lisbon, All nd action it finds nearest | Saints’ day, 1755, when 80,000 persons died e volcanic and selsmic | under falling walls or were drowned by overwhelmed “the | the Inrushing sea, or at Riobamba, Ecua- in the time of Abra- |dor, in the same year, when the great uction of the Roman | cities of Herculaneum and Pompell in the | mountains year our own era, and in the more | recent and most disastrous mnh-rendlngl re known to history. into valleys, covered vast areas with viseous mud and left the whole region upturned as with a Titanic plow, ~ Epesd—1 mile 1 minute 8 sseonds. it ake Test—Btopped within 6 foet going full speed. 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D., when 200,000 lives were | *‘teramoto” rent the earth asunder, threw | - , killing 120,000 people in a few seconds of | time. | The destruction of Sodom and Gomor- { rah and the other “citles of the plain’ | was accomplished by volcanic eruption and earthquake combined. A district of | several hundred square leagues in extent | was upheaved and a tract of like area “subslded, glving the river Jordan the | Dead Sea for its waters instead of the | Red, to which it had before flowed. | According to the account given in Genesis fire and brimstone rained down ! and overthrew the cities and thelr in- habitants and all that grew upon the plain, and when Abraham “looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the | land of the plain and behold, and lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.” | Not unlike the sight that the Suchet left behind as she escaped from St. Pierre. PASSING OF POMPEII. The story of the overwhelming of Her- culaneum, Pompeli and the whole Naples and Balae coasts has been too often and too well told to need repetition here. One is struck, however, by the close similarity of the phenomena and action observed on | that momentous occasion, as well as of | the outbreak of April 28, 1872, to the one | of Martinique, i As Vesuviue, after a reposes of untold | ages, broke forth and with tragical energy resumed his reign of fire and awakened | the slumbering echoes of his power with | terrible detonations and fearful quakings, | B0 Mont Pelee, after ‘a sleep of half a | century had blotted from the minds of the islanders all fear of evil, with like sudden and awful energy rose in his strength and threw in mass and might fire and destruction on the doomed St. | Plerre and all the hamlets and plantations | for far around. The outthrow of glowing rock, earth and lava and the rain of fire and hot ashes around the sides of Vesuvius in April, 1872, as drawn by artists and de- scribed by writers there present for that purpose fits well the ‘stories told by the refugees from St. Plerre of the igno- dynamical phenomena exhibited by wicked Pelee. The gigantic eruption of Krakatoa, in the straits of Sunda, between Java and Sumatra, August 27, 1883, however, trans- cends in dynamic energy and far-reaching action anything ever recorded. Situated as it was in the middle of the greatest volcanic chain on the globe (ninety active ones on Java and nearly as many on Su- matra, with others near), it seemed, as it were, to vie with all predecessors in ter- rific_effort and_results. A “For elght months, affer a long repose, it had been in a state of varfed activity, when in the afternoon of August 26 there began a series of violent detonations, which continued through the night and culminated on the morning of the 27th in the most stupendous earth heaving and moving of geological times. BATAVIA'S EXPERIENCE. The play of lightning about a whirling column of ascending dust and ashes was seen in Batavia, ninety miles away. Sun- light fled from an area 400 miles across, and gloom pervaded the air for 1000 miles around. Trees seventy miles away were shattered by the falling mud, and Batavia in a few hours was covered with it to the depth of three inches. To accomplish this volcanic dust must have been projected to a height of ten or fifteen miles. Air waves, as shown by the barometer, sped around the earth seven times at the rale | ot 700 miles an hour. The explosions were heard over a circle 1800 miles in radius, with Krakatoa as a center. The fall of dust was noted at points 915 miles to the nerthwest, 1200 miles to the southwest and 1050 miles to the southeast. The ex- plosions were heard at a distance of 1193 miles, and were felt in Perth, Southwest Australia, nearly 2000 miles away. These explosions seemed a signal, as it were, and the other volcanoss in Java and Sumatra, and a large number of them also began thelr terrifying and destruc- tive work. Then came two final explosions at Krakatoa. The islands were lifted from its foundation and hurled Into the air. Two new islands seven miles apart rose in its stead, and where Krakatoa had be- fore stood 1000 feet in height the waters of the sea measured over 1000 feet in depth. Over the shores of Java and Sumatra a huge tidal wave 100 feet hLigh rushed, sweeping far inland and destroy- ing ninety towns and villages with cver 20,000 people. Among all the islands of the Caribbees, St. Vincent is unique in natural wonders and beauties. It is composed largely of a single peak, rising from the ocean’s bed with no outlying islets. It is about ninety-five miles west of Barbadoes. Volcanic hills cross the island from north | and | to south, intersected by beautiful fertile valleys. St. Vincent is eighteen miles long a2nd eleven miles wide and it has a population of nearly 50,000 persons. It was discovered by Columbus The island is more thoroughly English than the two others of the group. Great Britain obtained sovereignty in 187 Historic among volcanic eruptions of the Caribbee Islands was that of Souf- friere (sulphur pit) of St. Vincent in 1812, Earthquakes had for two years terrified dwellers on the South American Coast and West Indian Islands. In March of that year an earthquake burled i,000 souls at Caracas, spread ruin along the line of the Andes and ended in the out- burst of Souffriere, which altered the ap- pearance of the island and destroyed its estern end. Souffriere is situated at the northern extremity of the island and fs 4048 feet high. It is the last of a mountain chain which was called Morne Garou by the natives. Baron Humboldt states that it had thrown out flames in 1718. SR ELEL S NORTHERN END OF ST. VINCENT IS LAID WASTE| EW YORK, May 10.—A special to N the Sun from St. Lucla, B. W. L, says: The entire northern end of the. British Island of St. Vincent has been laid waste by volcanic eruption. The British lieutenant in charge of the garrison here reports that both large cra- ters on St. Vincent are emitting enormous vclumes of smoke, lava and hot ashes. The northern end of the island is cut off from thé southern end by an. enormous stream of lava, which is destroying every- thing in its path. Small craters are bursting everywhere. No vessel can approach the northern shore of the island on account of the in- tense heat and the steam which is coming from all sides. It is estimated now that fully 200 lives have been lost on the island of St. Vin- cent. It is thought that when detalls are received the loss of life will prove to be much heavier. Kingstown, the capital of the island, is covered with ashes and is being bombarded with stones from the ! volcanic craters. The terrific force of the eruption at St. Vincent may be {llustrated by one incident. Ashes In great quantity fell on the deck of the British steamshlp Coya, Captain Eton, when she was 250 miles away from the island. Cable communication between the {s- | lands south of St. Lucia is interrupted, but the fire from the crater of La Souf- friere, island of St. Vincent, can be seen from here, twenty-one miles away. In fact, the flames are visible for forty miles. Happened on Worst Day. BORDEAUX, France, May 10.—Only a few replles have been received to mes- sages of inquiry from a host of Bordeaux merchants having business connections in St. Plerre. A small number of messages chronicle the saving of private families and individuals, but most of the big business establishments wiped out. y It has develaped that the catastrophe in Martinique occurred on the worst possi- ble day, namely, the day of the arrival of the French and the departure of the English mails there. In consequence of this fact many business men were in the city of St. Plerre, instead of at their country places. ARSI Fire Still Continues. PARIS, May 10.—The Minister of Marine, M. de Lassen, has received the following from Fort de France, Martinique, under date of May 10, 4 p. m.: “Arrived at Fort de France with pro- have been vistons, passing close to St. Plerre. Fire continues, volcano still emitting ashes, with less density. SUCHET.” Return of the Excursionists. The business men's excursion train from Bakersfield returned at 12:15 o'clock this morning. Every one aboard was in the best of spirits. 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Legal Tribunals of This City and Marin County Take a Hand. HE courts and Public Administra- tors of two counties, the Califor- nia Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pdny of this city and the relatives of James Findlayson, the wealthy capitalist who died Friday afternoon at the Hotel Rafael at San Rafael, have al- ready locked horns In a legal squabble over the letters of administration on the estate left by the deceascd. Public Administrator John Farnum of this city appeared before Superior Judge | Cook yesterday afternoon and applied for special letters of administration over Findlayson's estate, which he estimated at $250,000, claiming that persons who were | not entitled to a penny of the dead man's wealth were seeking to get control of the estate. Judge Cook granted Public Aa- ministrator Farnum the prayed for let- ters and assigning the case to his own de- partment, he fixed the hearing for May 20. | While Public Administrator Farnum was pleading his case in this city, the Public Administrator of Marin County, the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company, Mrs, Wilham _ Patterson, | Who 1s & sister of the deceased, and Mrs. Alex McKinnon, another sister, through their attorneys, were engaged in a four- cornered battle before Judge Angellotti in a similar effort to be victorious in ihe first move of what promises to develup into a sensational wiil contest. ANGELLOTTI GIVES LETTERS. After considerable argument, which was indulged in by the attorneys on all sides | of the case, Judge Angellotti decided to grant the Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany special letters of administration over the estute. This decision naturaliy encugh raises a question as to whici court has the authority to direct the ruture aisposi- tion of the case—the Supcriur Court of San Francisco or the Superior Court of . San Ratael. In the meantime the will of i the deceased is in the hands of the Title | and Trust Company, and as it can be stat- “ ed upon authority that Findlayson did not | sign any documents whatever while he was confined to his deathbed at the Hotel Rafael it is quite probable that this testa- ment is the only one in existence. He was | never rational after he took to his bed at the Hotel Rafael. Nobody who is inter- | ested in the case seems to know what dis- position Findlayson made of his property. | " Attorney A. C. Barry and Countess In- | gargolia were present at the hearing be- | fore Judge Angellotti, but neither Mr. Barry nor the Countess took any part in the proceedings. The case, as it stands now, presents a | pretty tangle, and before it proceeds much | further the question as to which court | has the authority to grant valid letters of administration must be settled. | At all events the legal squabble which has thus commenced over the dead man's money before his remains are laid away in the grave gives promise of furnishing much work for the courts, more for the lawyers and a world of trouble for the aspiring litigants. SAN RAFAEL PROCEEDINGS. The matter was called up at 10:30 a. m. before Judge Angellottl. Attorney E. B. Martinelli, appearing for the Public Ad- ministrator, asked for special letters. No sooner had this attorney finished than At- torney Booth arose, stating he represented the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company and that he could present facts to show ‘that, according to the iast will of the late Findlayson his institution was named as administrator. Attorney Harrls of San Francisco stated to the court that he represented Mrs. Willlam Patterson of San Francisco and that if the trust com- pany was not appointed Mrs. Patterson desired to be chosen. Attorney Sweeney of San Francisco asserted he reoresented another sister, Mrs. Alexander McKinnon, of St. Louis, Mo., and that she, too, would ask for. speclal letters of administration. Judge Angellotti said he would desire to have more facts about the case. COLONEL BARRY TESTIFIES. Mrs. Willlam Patterson was sworn and testified that she was a sister of deceased; that their mother and father were both dead and that he left no wife. i “My brother's birthplace,” said Mrs. Patterson, “was.one mile from Allens Corners, Canada West. He would be ? years old in_August. He came to Call- fornia from Montreal in 1859, and I think located in Placervil “I have one sister, Mrs. Alex McKin- non of St. Louis; Mo., and one brother, Angus Findlayson, but I have not seen him for forty years. I have been In Cali- fornia eight years and I saw my brother James less than one year ago at the CHff | House in San Francisco.” | Colonel A. C. Barry testified that he | had been intimately acquainted with Findlayson for the last fourteen years, that Findlayson died Frid at p. m. and that he was present at his demise. He gave Findlayson’s residence as San Rafael. When asked how much the estate amounted to, Barry said it would approximate $200,000. A letter dated June 18, 1897, and signed by James Findlayson was introduced in | evidence. In it he stated that his last will, made in March, 1387, was in box 1710 of the First National Bank of San Fran- cisco. This letter was addressed to the California Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany. Manager James Brown of this institu- tion testified to having received the let- ter and of knowing deceased intimately. After considerable discussion on the part of counsel Judge Angellotti rendered the decision that the trust company should receive the special letters of ad- ministration. Coroner Eden held an autopsy on Find- layson’s remains this morning. The cause of death was attributed to be cerebral hemorrhage and the doctors who refused to sign a death certificate yesterday ap- pended their signatures to-day. Trailing Escaped Convict. i SACRAMENTO, May 10.—Deputy Sher- iffs Houx, Miller and Mutson arrived in the city late to-night from Placerville, | having traced Lacham Horvitz, an es- | caped prisoner, to this city. Last Mon- | day Horvitz was sentenced at Placerville to seven years' imprisonment for bur- glary. The next night he was allowed to go into the jail yard to fetch some wood and improved the opportunity by escaping over the prison wall. He ran out of the town barefooted, and by the barley sacks wrapped about his feet ie has been traced to Diamond Springs, Latrobe, Michigan Bar, Slough House and thence to Sacra~ mento, where he is now in hiding, Hor- \-xuz was formerly a junk dealer in this city. Naval Attache Is Married. BERLIN, May 10.—Lieutenant Com~ mander Templin Potts, recently appoint- ed United States Naval Attache, and Mrs. Aldren Brown (nee Chartier) of New York were married to-day at the resi- dence of John B. Jackson, secretary of the United States embassy. Andrew D. White, the United _States Embassador, and other United States diplomatic and col;\sulnr officials were among those pres- ent JEmEY Archduchess Weds a Prince. VIENNA, May 10.—The Archduchess Maria Christiana, daughter of the Arch- duke Frederick, and Prince Emmanuel Salm-Salm, nephew of the head of that house, were married in the chapel of the Hofburg to-day in the presence of Em- peror Franels Joseph, the Archdukes and the Archduchesses. 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