The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1902, Page 1

‘* @all. VOLUME XCI-NO. 168. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1902. e tne Library 4 — PRICE FIVE CENTS. A MIDST THE RUIN AND DEATH OF STRICKEN ST. PIERRE GHOULS FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Martiniguc, May 16.—Great flashes of very bright light wvere emitted from Mont Pelee between 10 and 11 o'clock last night. They were visible from here. Thick, glowing red clouds, interspersed with flashes of light, are issuing from the volcano this morning. * Showers of cinders, lasting for twenty minutes, accompanied the-activity. The people in the districts of Lorraine, Marigol, Sainte Marie and La Trinite are panic-stricken. INTERFERE WITH RELIEF WORK AND COMMIT ACTS OF PILLAGE NATION'S | IN PERIL Miners Plan a Strike of Amazing P ro- portions. i Coal Workers Are to Unite in All Sections. | { [ Ominous Import of|| the Convention | in Hazleton. ‘ HAZLETON, May 16—The anthracite mine workers in convention to-day, in or- strike, unanimously de- that, if carried into suc- , would practically tie up untry, paralyze the co enience the people pecial conven- | e Workers of s soon as practicable eavoring to have all workers, both or- ed, involved ggle. This an- officially made at noon John Mitchell In a iberations of the dele- in the is called and the r object it will seri- who are empi ut the coal mines of the coun- | would soon become scarce, and y result in the tying 1l s of industries of the fuel. The slastic over the nd most of them can 3 the proposition. 4 FOR CONVENTION. | t worthy source is au- | tement that the special probably to meet course of several of the United Mine | igned by five mine ary to call a The three anthracite for h a meet- | that the West Vir- and the Michigan district ance of the call reasurer Wilson of to-day that within the weeks, regardless of the 0,000 men-in Virginia from 15,000 to 20,000 of Central Penn- | ke. They will be the purpose of ne owners to give them | nd incidentally to help the | These men are part- nece orkers. lett by | n of the It was said that the organization has ¢ protecting | the ground that the de- ! ted wealth, as a ed the workmen | seriously | PEACE AT HAZLETON. | th in that 145,000 men have | last five days, no dis- 4 have been reported | day | policy b egates left for their homes to-day and Hazleton to-night pre- | sents a deserted appearance. President | Mitchell sald that he had had no com- vnication with any one bearing on a ement of the strike. es continue their prep- | struggle. Mine mules to the surface and | e, clerks and other em- £ lald off and other steps aken to keep down expenses. raflroad companies are | n crews every day, and c rallway company, whicn 1l the surrounding towns, s service 5 per cent and oyes on half time. Busi- | s stagnant, and coal in | coming scarce. Many of | laborers, in anticipation ruggle, have left the re- | | NEW CRATER IN ACTION ON | MONT PELEE) | MAS, D. W. L, May 16.—A dis- | ed here from the island say & that the United | g Potomac had re- ed there from the island of St. Vin- bringing a report that La Soufriere teh received here to-day from e says that Mont Pelee is still nd that & new volcano has brokenf out on the north side of the mountain, NDUSTRY || | and | were shot. I | SCENE IN THE PRINCIPAL TOWN OF ST. VINCENT, AND RESIDENCE OF OFFICIAL WHO PERISHED. + i.English Officer Is Accused > of Participating in Looting Ruins. / From the Special Correspondent of The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1902, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ® ORT ‘DE FRANCE, Martinique, May 16.— It here that an English officet found to have stolen the sacred altar vessels from the ruins of the cathedral in St. Pierre was put under arrest and taken to St. Lu- is reported |cia on board the United States cruiser Cincinnati. His name and connections cannot be learned. Work in St. Pierre is proceed- ing slowly and under circum- stances of the utmost difficulty. Attracted by the hope of loot, bands of pillagers have invaded the ruins. TWO PILLAGERS SHOT. Troops have been placed on guard with orders to deal with the vandals as befits their shame- less crime. three women have been brought to Fort de France and lodged in jzil on charges of rob- bery. Two men, who caught in the act. of pillaging and on the appearance of a squad of troops sought escape in flight, Work in the ruins is were dangerous. Crumbling walls are a serious menace to working par- ties. It is urged by many that what remains of the city should be leveled with dynamite. Even Twenty-seven men | when ,bodies are found their identification is difficult or im- possible. Inhabitants of - the districts near St. Pierre have been forced to quit their homes on account of the odors from the dead and gaseous emanations volcanic craters. MANY BODIES FOUND. Public service of all icinds is sadly impeded by the heavy task that has failen upon the authori- from the Robbers Shot Down By Guards. * Suchet, the American navgr tug Potomac and the German cruiser Falke were present. Among the vessels lost in’ St. Pierre harbor on May 8, the morning of the cataclysm, were| these: French, Tammaya; Ital- ian, Nord Amerika, Sacre Coeur, Teresa . Lovicco; American, the Roraima, the Arama and Unna, E. J. Morse; English, cable-ship The Grappler. Last night there was a slight shower of stones in the neighbor- hood of Fort de France. While no damage was caused, the in- habitants are in great terror lest o Seventeen Hundred Dead; Five Thousand Destitute on St. Vincent. From the Special Correspondent of T he Call and the New York Herall. Copyright, 1902, by the New Yor k Herald Publishing Company. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G: STREET, N.-V WASHIN GTON, May 16. — Seventeen hundred people- are, dead and five thousand are destitute on the island of St. Vincent. Mortal- ity is reducing the .number of sufferers requiring relief in Mar- tinique. This summarizes the of- ficial dispatches received by the Navy Department to-day from Lieutenant McCormick, com- - tain to occur., active eruption of the volcano might bring. MEXICANS NOW FEAR MOUNT COLIMA AND ARE FLEEING USTIN, Texas, May 18.—A dispatch from Guadalajara, Mexico, says: A‘ from Mount Colima and the great columns of smoke which are being constantly emitted from its crater indicate that an interior agitation is gathering force and that an active eruption is cer- There is much uneasiness felt by the people living in the immediate vicinity of the volcano, and there has been an exodus of the better class of people from the nearby towns and villages, most of them going to Manzanillc and other coast points. Thousands of natives have no means of leav- ing their humble homes, and the force of circumstances would make them victims of any disaster that an A party of scientists representing the Meteorological De- partment of the Mexican Government passed through Guadalajara on their way to take observations of the threatened eruption of Mount Cclima. ties in distributing in the south- ern part of the island the ref- ugees from the northern part. To-day 653 bodies were found. Funeral services were held yes- terday in the cathedral of Fort de The local authorities, from the French cruiser France. office this small manifestation of a*vol- cano peril may develop into something greater. REMARKABLE CHANGES. Most remarkable are the topo- graphical changeés wrought by the eruption of Mont Pelee. The Countinued on ?née fio. . The rumblings which come 4 manding the tug Potomac, and Commander McLean of the cruiser Cincinnati. This is Lieutenant McCor- mick’s message: “Island St. Vineent - devas- tated north of line Georgetown east, Chateau Belair west. Suf- ferers country people Dead 1700, destitute 5000. great. Im- mediate relief supplies by local Government. . Destitution will continue several months.” Commander McLean’s dis- patch reads as follows: “St. Lucia, May 15.—Six thou- sand refugees have come into| Fort de France. Three thousand have come into Kingston. Northern portions of Martinique and St. Vincent very many peo- ple perished; others suffering for food and water. Very great difficulty in relieving and saving so many people scattered over large areas. Numbeér of people to be fed and cared for said to be reduced by mortality. coaled here. Return to Fort de France and St. Pierre to-day. Will endeavor to recover records of American and British consu- lates at St. Pierre. If remains of officials are found will bury with| military honors.” Later the department received | a cablegram announcing the ar- rival of the Cincinnati at Fort de France to-day. The first installment of Amer- ican relief reached Martinique to- day and uted to the needy. It was con- veyed from Porto Rico by the Have | is now being distrib-| HORROR ATTENDS THE FIRE Spectators Injured at a Big Blaze in Chicago. |{A Thousand Persons | Fall With Break- ing Timbers. Flames Cause Loss of Nearly Million Doilars. CHICAGO, May 16.—During the pro- gress of a fire which te-night destroyed the lard refinery of Armour & Co. In the Union stock yards, seventeen people were injured, seven of them in a manter whici will cause death in a short time. The loss of the company is estimatcd by its officers between $750,000 and $900,000, with all the chances in favor of the latter figure. There were a number of accidents,,but by far the largest number of those’ who were hurt met their Injuries by the fall- | ing of the hog runway, upon which they were standing to obfain a better view of the fire. The fatally injured are: Jennie Smith, stendgrapher German-American Provision Company, both legs bfoken; Ray Irwin, | 11 years of age, internally injured and | head badly cut; Israel Morris, driver po- | lice patrol wagon, both legs broken; Michael Malloy, driver of fire engine, in- ternal injuries; Miles McMara, broken back; Maggie Frazier, internal injuries; J. P. Bradshall, head crushed. The lard refinery had just been com- pleted, and was considered by its owners the most complete establishmert of its kind in the United States. It stood at the intersection of Forty-third street and Center avenue, and was five stories high and 250 to 300 feet long. It was filled with new and costly machinery, and during the day 2000 people worked within its walls. The night shift numbered 700, and all of them were in the building when the firs broke out. It is thought all es- caped in safety, although the time al- lowed some of them was exceedingly brief. The fire originated with the explosion of three lard tanks on the fifth floor of the building. There were a score of workmen in the immediate vicinity of the tanks, and a number of them were badly burned by the scalding lard. 4 It was not a minute after the exple- slon before the entire fifth floor was & mass of flames. The fire was one of the most spectacular that has been seen im Chicago in recent years, and the display attracted an enormous crowd of people, who crowded all the narrow streets in the stockyards and swarmed by thousands upon the viaducts which pass through the yards at a height of twenty feet from the ground. That portion of the Forty-fourth street viaduct close to the burning building was | densely packed, and suddenly about 200 | feet of the hog runway, extending from the viaduet north to the plant of Armour | & Co., gave way, precipitating 1000 per- sons to the ground. The firemen instantly | abandoned their work on the building and | devoted their energies to saving the peo- | ple. All were taken from the wreckage | within a few minutes. It is said by the pelice that the number of those injured by the fall of the"Viaduect is greatly in excess of the number reported. The prop- erty loss is fully covered by insurance. Carnegie Would Buy Philippines. LONDON, May 16.—When asked to-day it there was any truth in the statement | that he had offered to pay $20,000,000 for | the Philippines, provided he was author- ized to announce to the Filipinos that | their independence would be acknowledged ultimately by the United States, Andrew Carnegle laconically replied: “Yes, and I meant it.” 20 e R Carrie Nation Goes to Jail. TOPEKA, Kans., May 16.—Mrs. Carrle Nation was to-day sentenced to thirty | days in prison and to pay a $100 fine by | Judge Hazen in the District Court for | smashing bar fixtures stored in a vacant | barn in this city in February, 1%1. She | will not appeal the cazz and has gone to | Jail. | @ttt @ collier Sterling. Mr. Choate, the Embassador in London, has ca- { bled this message to Secretary Hay: “I am informed that the | Governor of the Windward Isl- | ands will giadly receive and dis- tribute any gifts sent to St. Vin- cent in his' care. The British Government has communicated | to the Governor your generous | tender of aid, of which it ex- | presses grateful appreciation. On | receipt of the Governor’s reply | as to what are the most pressing needs of the people of the island, the Government Hopes to be able to avail itself of your offer.”