The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1902, Page 1

Call. VOLUME XCII-NO. 35. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 35, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TRACY ELUDES SWARM O — S EATTLE, July 5. —duother day has passed and the capture of Outlaw Tracy is an event yet tobe recorded. - Up to last midnight the posses had been unable to pick-u probably spent yesterday in hiding after a brief appearance before dawn. Nearly 500 men are now in the woods around Seattle, each intent upon cuting short the convict's carcer.: Every road within | a radius of twenty miles is patrolled, daylight the entire army of searchers F SEARCHERS p the trail of the fugitive, who l % | while here and there small parties are in ambush in the bushes.at the roadside. - Most of . these. men_remained. out_all last night, despite.a rainstorm.. With the coming of AND ( INDIANS DAZZLE ROYALTY Marvelofig WScene at| a Reception in | London. ‘ Wales Meets the Be-=| jeweled Oriental Princes. Improvement of Ed- ward Continues Rapidly. X, July 4.—The Prince of Wales f of King Edward, recelved the on at the India ertainment nt ever witne | | cupled a private box The guest d all » coronation of the r num glish nobil- nd the notable personages of London £ of the buildings including the furni ge, not far from £50,00. £300. were The great by pal ablance of an e of the decora- ceiling _cover, Indian firma- constella s Electric the cover were utilized tc x in a re nd incandescent ghts were employed in the fi- ng. The of rooms e clothed are plants and flowers. PRINCES ALL A-GLITTER. 1 guests were invited to 1 the gentlemen or court dress and n most elabora t they were attire and the In- tacle had the never visit ears ago. invita- at the te the night. of Wales ar- lined India Office the emained | ersed the s where all mbled bearing four white, the the presentation s representatives a supper, music and social among those present. The lasted until a late hour, KING EDWARD IMPROVES. he progress of King Edward conti Beginning July 5, onl concerning his Ma be issued. This, will posted at 9 o'clock in the morning, and angement will be continued until = entirely convalescent 1 Alexandra, in com- hess of Aosta, Prince and Prince George out this afternoon a sign of the King’s satisfactory wa 2 first recreation that the Queen has indulged jesty’s fllness. ed to read a good deal | looking at the news-, sement lately and detailed lo n in the press. T was posted at t day. His ¢ and the wound s f repair REVES BARLOY LAKING COLOMBIA WILL BUY i A POWERIUL WARSHIP COLON, Colombia, July The Gover- Pompillo Guidgarez, left for New York. His destina- s San Francisco, and he has in-| ns from the Government to pusr- e a warship for use on'the Pacific | side of Colombia, that shall be larger and | more powerful than the insurgent gun- boat ceremony wWas | all were proved groundless. Breez at Fremont | evidently ——— e Outlaw Takes Horse and Buggy. B e Third of the Seattle Vic- tims Dies. — HundredsAre Naw on His Trail. i EATTLE, July 4—On roads ambuscaded and patroiled by guards armed with Winches ter rifies, Convict Tracy has escaped. His whereabouts in a distruct of twenty miles | radius absolutely unknown. Sherifi Cudihee’s office has been deluged with reports of his appearances. Each was traced down to its source by posses and Neil Rawley, who was shot by Tracy when the convict killed Policeman t night, died to- day. Deputy Sheriff Williams is still alive and has a good chance for recov- ery. .L'p to this time Tracy has killed three tle on Thursday morning. All were well known and popular - here. T has incited hundreds to join the rs. One hardware store, named to y arms for the posses, has given its complete stock of rifles and re- s Speci trains are “leaving on the ay leading nt country with reinforce- are dropped every mile the route between here Pa £ or two a and Bothell. STEALS HORSE AND BUGGY. At 1 o first seen ments. ng s morning Tracy was h ncounter at Fre- mont at a ho on the outskirts of Ballard. He shouted his name defi- antly to the occupants and coolly pro- ceeded to hitch up a horse and buggy. He drove away south of the town of Ballard, in the direction of Seattle. next authentic reports brought to the Sheriff after daybreak this morning gave the information that the man had slept in Woodland Park, wvithin the Seattle city limits. He left the park shortly before sunrise in his stoler Though suburban residents in every quarter have notified the Sheriff of trange men supposed to be Tra their neighborhood, the most cred report received after that of Tracy’s de- rig. The | n since his first appearance near Seat- | three | | i will get into motion. Each man is instructed to open fire as soon as Tracy appears in sight. - Governor McBride has dismissed the militia. CONTI | | | | | | | u | I + parture irom Woodland Park is that of his appearance near Bothell, where yes- terday’s desperate encounter was fought. CORDON OF PICKETS. The Post-Intelligencer's staff cor- respondent, in a bulletin sent from Bothell this afternoon, said that the convict was reported to have been seen about three miles south of Bothell. driv- ing on the county road. Posses were called in and picketed in a circle about the neighborhood where he is supposed to be. They beat the brush to a central point, all meeting there. Believing that Tracy had eluded them by some divergent path leading toward Lake Washington on the ‘east, Sheriff Cudihee recalled the greater part of hijs deputies and their volunteer helpers and proceeded back toward Seattle. estab- lishing a cordon of pickets along the entire road. He proposes to populate the surrounding country with armed guards in parties of from three to seven members cach. MILITIA IS DISMISSED. Governor McBride, through Adjutant General Drain, ordered the State mili- tia dismissed at 8 o’clock to-night. The troops had been in readiness since 12 o’clock last night, in case they would be needed in the pursuit of Tracy. | | | | | after the convict murderer. | of one of the party chasing the con- Early this evening Adjutant, Drain vas in communication with Sheriff 'Cud- ihec and ascertained that services of the troops were not needed. . He then com- municated with Governor McBride and was instructed to give the order for the militia to muster out. Cudihee informed Adjutant General Drain that he had all the men in his posse that he could use, and that thg assistance of ' the * troops was' not needed. The men had been waiting at the armory for nearly twenty-four hours expecting at any moment to be sent Was Neal Rawley killed by a mem-| ber of the posse? The finding of a 38-caliber bullet in his body leads Coro- ner Hope to the belief that he was shot to his death by some ope other than the ' desperado Tracy. While the Coroner will wait until: Tracy is either captured or killed before going into an investigation, he is certain the unfortunate man was hit by a bullet from a pistol in the hands vict: The startling discovery was made this afternoon at 4 o’clock. Up to that time it was regarded as a cer- tainty that Tracy had sped the bullet into Rawley’s body. When the.leaden missile was finally located in the breast, just over the heart, it proved to-be ai bullet. from a 38-caliber pistol. 1 BULLET WILL TELL TALE. | Coroner Hope, who was present at| the post mortem, preserved = the ;ma[l} piece of lead. If Tracy is captured and | it'is found .that-he ‘had: firearms in his possession other than the 30-30 rifle it | will“ be ‘considered * certain that, being | closely pressed by the officers of '.hc! law, he took a desperate chance with his revolver. Then there is a possibility that Raw- ley may have been hit accidentally by J. L‘Knight, who was a member of the [ | | i 4 | 4 et b Drte el L NS Chazzazr SCENE OF TRACY'S ESCAPE AND MEN WHO FIGURE IN THE QUEST OF HIM. e.. Knight carried a 38-caliber re-| P | G & r Officer Breez when | €onvict is, but says that it is highly prob- yaiverand wgs neat O e M e OIS DrL DA tca ke il e Tt j to Bothell. Cudihee is guarding the roads ! says he distinctly saw Tracy fire and kill | ana tracks leading to Kirkland. he,was shot and killed by Trdcy. He the patrolman. Almost at the samel time. he- raised his weapon ‘and sent a shot in the direction of the man who had leveled his gun at Breez. He does‘ | na, cut off all chance of escape from country between Woodinville and Raven- To-night his men are lying out in the | | torest in a regular storm of chilly rain. Since morning no one answering the de- ——— + | ! | -+ He has the niot :remember having seen Rawley jin | scrintion of Tracy has been reported. Cud- the party. AR i POSSE GOES TO BOTHELL. Sheriff Cudihee Believes Tracy Is in Hiding Near That Town. * BOTHELL, Wash., July 4.—Sheriff Cud- ihee is here with thirty men lying in wait for Tracy, the escaped murderer. He de- clares that no one really knows where the ihee arrived in a buggy Sheriff McLennan of Thurston County at | 5:30 o'clock this afternoon and immedi- | ately Increased the force of guards. lay down late to-night for an hour’s rest. | Before doing so he summed up the situa- tion: as follows: “We really can't state positively where | ‘We ‘are watching for his next | We are.not sure if he Is The yeports recelved, how- Tracy s reappearance. near Bothell. with Deputy He NUES HIS CAREER OF CRIME FIFTEEN | DIE IN A DISASTER Terrible Collision of Passenger-Laden Cars. Pleasure Seekers Are Overtaken by Death. Many Women Among Victims of the Accident. UTICA, N. Y., July 5—On the electric | raliroad near Gloversville last night there was a collision between two cars crowded with passengers, by which fifteen persons were killed and twenty-nine injured. For a distance of four miles north of .| Gloversville the Mountain Lake Railway, an electric road, connects Gloversvills | with & popular place of resort or picnic ground. As it was the Fourty of July the place was crowded with * pleasure- !seekerh Last night the cars were filled | with Deople coming home from tie | grounds. At 10:30 p. m., about two and |a half miles north of Gloversville, there was a collislon between two cars, one bound north and one bound south. They | came together head on, with tertific ve- [locity. As a |result fifteen persous were killed outright and twenty-nine in- |dured, the latter more or less seriousiy #s it was a holiday there were many | business men among those on the cars. | It 1s imposeible to get the names of al |at present. City Recorder Frank C. Wood of Gloversville had his back brok- | en and is in a critical condition. | The Mountain Lake Railway tracks fol- | low the side of a mountain, the grade | being about 1000 feet in four miles, Com- ing down the incline the motorman of one | car carrying about seventy penple lost contrel of the car, which in a short dis- tance acquired a frightful veloeity. Then it met a car ascending the mountain and | also carrying about seventy passengers. The impact was terrific, but for a few | moments neither car left the track, the | ascent of the one being overcome by the rush of the other, and for a distance of several hundred feet they went on down the incline. Then they left the rails, and the dead and wounded were hurled to- | gether in an inextricable mass. At 2:20 o'clock ten bodies, mangled be- | yond recognition, were brought into Gleversville, where the injured were also i being taken. The latter are being cared | for at the Littenar Hospital. It will be impossible for several hours to compile a list of the dead and injured. Among | the victims there are more womeén than men. @ @ ever, made it imperative that we should patrol this part of the county with un- ceasing vigilance. We can take no chances. Nearly fifty men are to-night on watch all the way ‘from Woodlani Park to Woodinville. We should get some | trace of the convict to-mporrow. If we do the posse will be hard on his track. “The chase has been a hard one, but we | are not beaten yet. Tracy must be ex- | hausted by his last flight across country, and we must simply keep hard after him. We could not use the militia here wita | good effect.” If Tracy is in this district he either spent the day sleeping in the forest or escaped by some cow trail. This morning John Rogers, who drove Cudihee in his pursuit after Tracy to Fremont on Thursday night, saw a man on the county road who fully answerel the description of Tracy. Rogers saw the convict on Thursday, and he is pesitive | that that man was the murderer. A | farmer named Turgeson saw him also and | recognized him. Since then the country | between Ravenna and Woodinville has been in a state of siege. ¥ | To-night four men In charge of Detec- tive Philbrick of Seattle are lying in a ! bush east of Woodinville. They comman | the approaches tp Kirkland. At Roger the Copstable of Bothell and three men are at the Swamp Creek bridge. Woolley and Brewster .are at Blythes Bridge. John Fish is at his logging camp, gnen | west of Kenmore, with a force of th | men. La Gear, a farmer, is guarding a | point on the railroad track a mile and a half west of Bothell. The rest of the | force is scattered between the different | places named. All are in hiding and hope to catch Tracy unawares. It has rained steadily here since Thurs- day night. If Tracy is concealed In the forest he will be soaked from head to foot | unless he has somewhere obtained shelter. | There are several abandoned shacks around Bothell Reports received from nearly all the posts at 10 o'clock were that no trace of the convict has been found. The residents of this place expect another coup on Tracy's part to-morrow. It is not im- probable that Tracy, if here, will attemps to break through the cordon in the dark- ness. | BOISE, Tdaho, July 4—The man arrcst- | 3 at Nampa on suspicion of being Davil Merrill, the Oregon convict who eseaped with Tracy. was refeased to-day. While he resembled the fugitive, it was cleariy shown he was not the man wanted.