The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCI-N 182. SAN FRANCISCO, SAT RDAY. MAY 31, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PEOPLE OF STRICKEN MARTINIQUE CONTINUE TO BE ALARMED T ———————————————————————eeeeeetteteeeet, sttt e e ets v VIEW OF RUINS IN THE VISCINITY OF THE cATHEDRAL SEMERAL PANMNORAMIC YIEW OF WHAT . REMAINS OF ST PIERRE A BY THE OCCASIONAL OUTBURSTS OF STEAM, SMOKE Masses of From Mt Pele AND ASHES ' Commander McLean Says Clouds Float Brave Sisters Attribute Escape to Divine Intervention HE CALL herewith publish showing the awful havoc wrought in St. Pierr Mont Pelce on the morning of from which the pictures are reprodu - cs another set of illustrations ¢ by the volcano May 8 last. The photographs ced were taken by the photog- raphens atlached to the cxpedition sent to Martinique by The Call and New York Herald. (Copyright ald Publishing Company.) | i , 1902, by the N York Her- i i THREATENING TO KILL ALL FOREIGNERS Boxers Give Warning of the Proposed Work of Ex- termination. LO: respor DON, May ent of 3L—The Shanghal cor- Daily Mail cables that he Boxers are active in the province of Szechuen. They have warned the officials of Yangtsien of their intention to exter- te the foreigners, and they have de- Catholic and Protestant robhed people and embers in every village. e been dispasched to suppress and TAFT WILL SUCCEED IN VATICAN MISSION London Newspaper's Correspondent Declares Philippine Church Ques- tion Easy of Settlement. LONDON. 31.—Cabling from Rome, sdent of the Daily Chrenicle 3 mission to Rome has every progpect of success. The Vatican is will- to allow the monasteries and con- the Philippine Islands to be un- law i it will permit the ex- r’ civil riation of their property. The American Government, continues pondent, will authorize the ere- new dioceses in the Philippines, under American Bishops oriy. —_— Immigrants Perish in a River. INNIPEG. May 20.—An unconfirmed n Edmonton says that forty immigrants, who were storm- t Edmonton, started for Victoria, ve miles down the Saskatchewan raft. About twenty iniles be- the raft capsized and the immigrants were drowned. w nton, EW YORK, May 30.—Final efforts N are in progress to end the coal strike before next Monday, when the engine drivers, firemen and pumpmen now occupied 4n keeping the anthracite mines free from = water are called upon to cease work. It is feared that after Monday a situation will de- velop which will render impossible any settiement of the difficulty until either the men or operators have been van- quished. Powerful influences are being brought to bear upon the operators to in- duce them to recede from the uncom- rromising position that they have main- tained from the first. Exactly what lines are being followed is a secrets that is be- ing guarded with the utmost jealousy, tut there is reason to believe that the proposals made by the men who are working for peace have met with favor from at least some of the operators. J. Plerpont Morgan and Senator Hanna are the leaders in the last appeal for res- toration of harmony. The conference be- tween Senator Hanna and George W. Perkins of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. in Cleveland on Thursday was re- garded as very significant. That Perkins carried to Senator Hanna suggestions ' sent across the ocean by Morgan was be- ligved by the men who are anxlously watching every development in the con- test to be the real explanation of the se- cret visit of Perkins to Ohlo. In almost the same words used by Senator Hanna after the conference Perkins at his home in Riverdale to-day declined to discuss the mature of the plans that are under consideration. KEEPING PLANS SECRET. “I am sorry that I can say nothing,” he Special Dispatch to The Call. answered to the question. “Too much has been said already. We cannot do any- thing if every move is printed. No sooner do we make a plan than the detalls of it appear in the newspapers, and men who have entered Into an agreement with- draw."” ‘When pressed to say whether, in his opinion, there was any reasonable pros- pect of bringing about peace, Perkins de- chned to utter a word. He came to this city to-night, and it is understood that he laid the result of his visit to Ohio be- fore the representatives of the operators’ side of the controversy. Tt is expected that concurrence or rejection of the final efforts of the peacemakers will be made known to-day. Two regiments of men have been sworn in at the instance of the operators to act as coal and fron police at the coal flelds. They will be armed with rifles and re- volvers and statfoned at the mines to pro- tect ron-union werkers who are to re- place the engine drivers, firemen and pumpers who have voted to go out Mon- day in obedience to John Mitchell's or- der. STRIKE IN THE WEST. PITTSBURG, Kans.,, May 30.—The min- ers’ convention here has made but little progress in the consideration of the griev- ances against the operators. All sessions are being held behind closed doors, and what news is ' given out comes out through a censor. The present conditions are very unsatisfactory to the miners, and a schedule of wages is being pre- pared which will be submitted to the op- erators next Monday. i To-night the miners wired to Natfonal | tal loss i5 estimated at $150,000, partly cov- President Mitchell offering to glve moral MORGAN AND HANNA ARE MAKING GREAT l;‘FFORTS TO SETTLE THE BIG COAL STRIKE BEFORE MONDAY Two Regiments of -Men Are Sworn in to Act as Special Police to Protect the Non- Union Workers in the Anthracite Mines. and financial aid for the strikers in the anthracite fields. It is hardly belleved here that the miners will favor a sym- pathetic strike with the Eastern miners if the differences can be adjusted in Kan- sas and Missouri. In case the demands are not granted by the operators next Monday it is understood that the miners will order a general Western strike. TIGER LOSES ITS LIFE IN FIGHT WITH HORSES Circus Animal Trampled to Death by Thirty Panic-Stricken Steeds. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, May 30.—A two-year-old Indian tiger was killed in a fight with horses on a circus train while en route from Goshen to Poughkeepsie to-day. The tiger escaped from its wagon while the train was in motion and crawled into a car containing thirty draught horses. A fierce battle ensued, the panic-stricken horses plunging and kicking at the sav- age intruder. When the train reached here the tiger was found dead and mangled under the hoofs of one of the horses. Six of the horses were badly scratched and bitten. Sparks Ignite Many Houses. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 30.—The Man- ning malt house, together with a quan- tity of grain, was burned early to-day. A high wind blew firebrands and sparks to a great distance. setting fire to the roofs of sixteen dwellings, only .one of which, however, was, detroyed. The to- ered by insurance. STUBBORNNESS | SHUTS OFF THE | - MEAT SUPPLY Packers Refuse Recognition of Union Labor in the Chicago Yards. CHICAGO,"M&y 30.—The four big pack- ing concerns of the stockyards at con- ferences held to-day with union leaders representing the striking teamsters re- fused absolutely to grant the concessions asked, or any part, and went openly on record” as being unalterably opposed to the recognition of union labor in the yards, Thousands of persons had their usual supply of meat cut off to-day entirely and many others who were able to buy a little meat here and there paid fancy prices for it. All through the city butch- ers closed down and many of them will not open again until the strike has been settled. Every packing-house in the West be- Jonging to the “Big Six” is to be attacked by the Teamsters’ Union on Monday if the local companies do not recede from their position and sign the agreement. The tie-up in Chicago, which is declared complete, is to be carried to Omaha, Kan- sas City, St. Joseph and St. Louls, and the teamsters, whose national headquar- ters are in Chicago, have received assur- ances from their locals at other points that the men will obey the summons and go out. This move will be na_uonal in its effects. The decision to make the call was reached to-day by the executive couacil of the National Teamsters’ Union, and came after a conference with Louis Swift of Swift & Co. and Edward Morris of Nelson, Morris & Co., both of whom re- fused even to discuss the agreement tie teamsters wished signed. Army Needs Two Brigadiers. WASHINGTON, May 30.—General Wil- llam F. Spurgin, recently promoted frem colonel of the Fourth Infantry, has been retired, making two vacancies at present in the list of brigadier generals. Colonel Samuel M. Whitside, Tenth Cavalry, sta- tioned at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, will be named for one of the vacancies. He entered the army as a private in 1838, served gallantly throughout the Civil ‘War and rendered efficient service in Cuba during the Spanish-Americad war and subsequently. Major William F. McCam- mon, Sixth Infantry, now in Manila, has | been retired. | ASHINGTON, May 30.— | Secretary Moody re- | ceived a number of ‘di: patches to-day con- cerning conditions at Martinique. Com- mander Thomas C. McLean, commanding the Cincinnati, cables from Fort de| France under date of the 20th as follow “Eruptions - volcanic continue. Occa- sional great outbursts at intervals of few days. Mostly columns and masses of clouds and steam, smoke and ashes snoot- ing up quickly to great heights. These alarm the people, but ro serious damage is being done outside of the district where | the first devastations occurred. Plenty of | supplies here. French admiral with | three ships arrived. Two more expected | daily. Authorities grateful and say abl to manage affairs now without further as sistance. The Cincinnati goes to Casley' on the morning of the 30th.” In another dispatch Commander Mec- Lean says that George Kennan, the writer and lecturer, is safe, and was heard from on the 29th, traveling up the coun- try. | Commander Berry, commanding the | Dixle, cables from St. Lucia to-day that he is going to" Martinique, and unless otherwise ordered, thence to New York. DIVINE INTERVENTION. | NEW YORK, May 30.—A Journal spe- cizl from St. Lucia says: The sisters of the ' Catholic Order de la Deliverauce, twenty-three of whom are among the sur- vivors of the eruption of Mont Pelee, ar- | rived here to-day from Morne Rouge, | with a wonderful story of the preserva- | tion of the pearest community to the | crater and the only one.within the zone | of disaster to escape destruction. The; attribute the escape of Morne Rouge fo | divine intervention and tell of a miracle | in the church before the eyes of the con- .gregation assembled for refuge from the | death-spouting volcano. While celebrat- | ing mass there suddenly appeared before | the altar a vision of the Savior, showing the sacred heart. The vision was sad | faced and wan. | Says Sister Marle I'Infant Jesus: “We emerged to see a terrible cloud, accom- panied by, thunder and lightning, rolling down Pelee, almost over our heads, upon the city of St. Pierre. The whole place was lighted up by fires. It was the | most awful spectacle the human eye ever witnessed. We thought the end of the world had come. We remained at prayer all that day of terror. Fire, steam and bolling mud were around us, yet Morne Rouge was not touched. Not one person was lost or harmed.” QUIET FOR A DAY. FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Martin- | | | at the inter +* ique, May 39, 3 p. m.—Mont Pelee has been very quiet to-day. The cruiser Cineinnati has left here for Castries, St. Luecla. George Kennan and his party are doing good work at the north end of the island and are all safe and well. Professor An- gelo Heilprin, president of the Philadel phia Geographical Society, who is here | under the auspices of the National Geo- graphical Soclety, is now conducting his investigations among the northeast cra- ters. Last night Admiral Servan invited Pro- fessor Robert T. Hill, the United States Government geologist, on the French crulser Tage, Admiral Servan's flagship, and had an iInterview with him on his re- cent expedition to Mont Pelee. United States Consul Aymee acted as interpreter lew, which lasted three hours. Admiral Servan was deepiy interested in what Professor Hill had to say, as he has personal theorids concerning the recent eruptions. The admiral furnished Pro- - fessor Hill with many observations made }y the French naval officers under him, and highly complimented Professor Hill and the National Geographical Soclety upon their explorations. The commander of the French cruiser D’Assas was presented to Admiral Servan in the course of the latter's interview with Professor Hill. . The commander of the D’Assas had just returned from™a tour, of inspection and reported that at 19 o’clock last night he saw incandescent matter slowly flowing over the rim of the crater at the summit. This report has not yet been confirmed. FORT DE FRANCE SAFE. Admiral Servan accepted Professor Hill's present theoretic attitude of the subject of the eruption and praised his judgment in not arriving at a hypothesis until he had studied the data he has col- lected. Professor Hill told the admiral that his study of data should be finished on the spot. He said Mont Pelee might crupt for a year or more, but that the area of devastation would remain un- changed. As all the people had fled from | the ¥icinity of the volcano, no great loss of life would occur. Professor Hill said Fort de France was perfectly safe. Admiral Servan reports that one of the submarine cables was broken May 3 at an unknown distance north of Martinique. This break was followed by the first erup~ tion of ashes. The second cable was broken May 5 at a point ten miles west of St. Plerre in 130 fathoms of water, and when it was dredged up it wds found to be tangled and twisted. The might of May 5 there occurred the eruption of mud ahich overwhelmed the Guerin factory. }\dmlral Servan considers that these facts ndicate the possibility of submarine fis. Continued on Page Two. £ \