The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 41. AN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1902, PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEATH REAPS A HARVEST OF AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED LIVES IN DISASTER THAT WRECKS WORKINGS OF A JOHNSTOWN MINE ARMED MEN SURROUND OUTLAW TRACY ~ AND REPORT OF BATTLE COMES THISM ORNING AUBURN Wash.. July 11, Covington at 11:40 o’clock last night. 1:10 a. m.—--Sheriff Cudihee has received the startling intelligenee that members of the posse exchanged shots with Tracy a few miles west of The dispatch sent by J. A. Bunce states that the convict was chased into the brush at a point west of Covington. L3 s believed 10.— is letely surround- may occur at Sheriff Cudi- he has the desperado is g blockaded, and if e does mot succeed in es- before day- ¥z 1t 1s certain » be concealed on ing the appro: he hope that DEPUTIES IN WAITING. Abundant Evidence Points to the Fugitive's Present Hiding-place. AUBURN, Wash., July 10.—Michael lan, who sa he well known in Auburn and is thoroughly reliable man s belief is true a fight is assurcd nd Tracy as a will be forced to nd wits against a =core of nt of the Dolan report, t exidence that Tracy of Auburn this women, there was in afternoon reported to-night ive outlaw. that they He passed them county road going in the direction cality hiding. Both young women carried his rifle in his sers leg when he passed them, ¢ that 1 stock only being visible at the waist Tracy entire country around Auburn is being patrolled. into Ballard . from Point saying Kent and A little girl a4 house near that “Tracy is making her mamma cook him o dinner.” came Meadow e Ballard posse left at once for the Dlace. The latest development is the following dispatch from Enumeclaw, a place in the FPuyallup Valley, near Kent: “C. A Eyerly and George Woods of Ta- coma have just reached here from Black Diamond, which place they left at 4 lock this morning. Coming down a hil] Green River they saw the smoke of a campfire in a deep ravine and, with Tracy n mind, they went down. It was a diffi- cult place to reach, requiring over an hour and a half, but their trouble was zewarded by finding the campfire still = imme- | Do- | | positively ~recognized | residing near where | where Dolan believes he | { LA SHING TON FORES T | THE STAMPING GROU [ D OF TRACY, HAS TERRORIZED DPURING THE LAST F INITE REPORTS TOLD OF HIS ADVENTURES AT KENT. THE NOTORIOUS OUTLAW, AND THE LOCATION OF THE TOWNS HE W DAYS ARE INDICATED ON THE MAP. THE LATE | burning and a note written on a leaf of a pocket memorandum, pinned fo the log | where Tracy had eaten his breakfast. The note reads: ** ‘Notice—To Whom it May Concern: On | the elghth day of July, T, the said con- vict, Harry Tracy, stayed at Black Dia- mond on my way to Palmer, where I hope to see some of your fortune-seekers. Now they may as well cut this out first as last. Yours sincerely, * ‘(Signed) HARRY TRACY.'” Eyerly measured the tracks and found them to be about a number € shoe. Tracy was married at Palmer a few years ago and has many friends and relatives there, TRACY TERRIFIES JOHNSON. SEATTLE, June 10.—A speclal from Kent-savs: Tracy, the notorlous Orezon | i \'onvlnn was at the home of E. M. s0n, two miles southeast of this place, Wednesday night. When he left he house he was armed with a new revolver and . John- | his 30-30 Winchester, and had a plentiful of both ammunition and provis- Tracy sent Johnson to Tacoma to pur- | chase the revolver and ammunition. He threatened to exterminate Johnson's fam- ily on the least sign of treachery. The murderer seemed fagged out and talked very little about himself or his plans. While at the house he spent nearly all the time watching for his pursuers. He left the house after dark, headed either for Seattle or the Palmer cut-off. Not only did Tracy force Johnson to row the necessary money in Kent. John- B son went' to Tacoma and secured the weapon without *scunding any note of warning to thé authorities. . He was badly frightened. Tracy seems to have a pre- dilection for all people named Johnson. He made Louis B. Johnson of Bothell drive him from that place o Woodland Park after he killed Deputy Sheriff Raymond at Wayne. At Port Madison he entered the home of John Johnson and decamped with An- derson. the hired man, and after leaving the Jorrel home at Renton he fled the house of the Kent Johnson. That the murderer is necoming anxious for his safety was shown by his conduct at the house of E. M. Johnson yesterday. to | He aeemed to. realize that his exploit at buy the revolver, but he made him bor- | Continuod on Page Two. KAISER ALLY OF 1l MORGAN‘ War Lord and thh | American Join Forces. {Ready to Combat the; Proposed British | ‘ Combine. ‘ {German ?hlppmg; t Interference. ; | Secial cable to The Call and the Naw Tork | | Herald. Copyright, 1902 by the Herald | { Fublishing Company. 1 | BERLIN. July 10.—J. Pierpont Morgan's interview with the Kaiser on board the Corsair was not exclusively an exchange of vleasantries and small talk. Morgan managed to transact some important busi ness and report current in that. not wag the recent treaty between the trans- Atlantic steamship trust and the principal German iines ratified. but that a still more sweeping and closer compact was made than the public has been given to understand 1 The immence tonnage | speed and eapacity of the German steam- | hip line are such as to offer to the Mor- gan steamship interests formidable | rivalry in ecase of misundertsanding or rate cutting. One of the results of Mér- gan's visit to the Kaiser and the dir | tors of the Hamburg-American and North German TLiloyd lines at Kiel and Hamburg is that the German and American lines | are.to work together if any third com- bination, such ‘English companies threaten to form. should present itself. PLEDGE TO THE KAISER. Morgan promised the Kaiser that his ships would not interfere in the trade be- | tween New York and Hamburg . and | Rremen ard that no encroachments would be made upon German markets for for- eign freight rates, up or down. It is significant that Morgan was con- stantly the guest of Herr Ballin, director general of the Hamburg-American Line. That liné provided a splendid banquet for the whole party on the eve of their de- parture for this city. Three magnificent railway coaches were provided to bring Morgan and his party hither and all of the expense was paid by the line. Morgan's visit has lifted a burden from the hearts of the shareholders of Ger- man steamship stock. The fear that Morgan intends to swallow the German a well founded commercial circles is only two and unequaled lMnes is vanishing. but there is here and there a discordant note and Morgan is suspeeted of trying to make himself solid” and then gradually extending his inflience over the German lines. INTERPOLATION IN COMMONE. LONDON. July 10.--T. Pierpent | gan's shipping combine was again Mor- the subject of auestions in the House of Commons fo-day. Replying to ‘one mem- | ber. Terald Balfour, president of the | Board of Trade, sald it was considered in- expedient to tie the hands of the Govern- ment to the extent of promising that the House sfould be consulted before the Ad- miralty entered-into an agreement with Morgan. He 'added, however. that no steps for subsidies would be made until the treport of the committee now in ses- sion was submitted to the House of Com- mons. COST OF THE LONG WAR | IN LIVES OF BURGHERS3 Number of Boers Killed During the Struggle Nearly Four Thou- sand. ‘PRETORIA, July 10.—According to an estimate of the Red Cross identity depot. which fulfilled the functions of a casualty bureau for the Boer forces, the total Josses of the latter during the war were 3700 men killed or died of wounds and 32,000 made prisoners of war, of whom 700 died. The Boer forces in the field num- bered about 75,000. There Is somie uneasiness here regard- ing the attitude of the Basutos. In con- sequence of supposed treachery during the war Joel, one of their proiinent chiefs, has been summoned to Meseru, capital of a' milltary district of Basuto- land, to stand trial on the charge of high treason. The paramount chief, Lerothodi, is likely to support Joel in the event of | the latter's refusal to obey the summons. | Troops have been dispatched to the fron- tier. ST TIDAL WAVE FOLLOWS ERUPTION OF PELEE Inhabitants of Martinique Flee in Terror From the Volcano’s Vicinity. FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, July 10.—An cruption of Mont Pelee last night threw the inhabitants into a state of panic. They fled n all directions, with little or no clothing. The rumbling con- tinued until to-day. The sky was over- cast and dotted with scintillant lightning points, like slag on the surface in an iron foundry. The lightning points be- came longer and longer and more serpent- like and the flashes grew larger ani spread over a greater area every minute. The rumblings ceased at 9:30 o'clock this morning. Black clouds then covered the heavens and heavy rains followed. The rumblings began again later and were accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning. 1t is reported that = tidal wave lowered the sea level by a meter. Will Be Free From || Gases Fill the Cambria’s ts After Explosion of Firedamp. Dri 'Rescuers AreUnableto Enter to Learn the Extent of the Havoc. OHNSTOWN, Pa., July 11 (4 a.m.)~The work of re- covering the bodies of the dead from the Cambria mine has begun, the afterdamp having cleared from some of the drifts. Sixty-five dead were in sight at 2 o’'clock, and there is little likelihood that any of the men still in the mine, numbering more than 200, are still alive. Four uneonscious men—probably the only living workmen in the mine—were brought up before midnight. Their rescuers passed twenty-five bodies, many of whiech were in sitting postures. ] >3 OHNSTOWN. Pa., July 10.—Johnstown has again been visited by an appalling disaster, only less frightful than the awful calamity of May 31, 1889, in loss of life. An explosion took place in the Cambria Steel Company Rolling Mill mine, under Westmont Hill. carly this afternoon. and how many lives it cost it may take several days to fully determine. That it is a long list, and may contain two hundred is fully believed. Tt an hour after the explosion before general knowledge of what had accurred got abroad. Men who came escaping with their lives, told the terrible news, and soon Mothers, wives, daughters, sons and relatives and hundreds rushed to the scene or -more names, was any from the mines, it spread throughout the city. were frantic with grief. At the opening across the river from the point the Cambria Iron Com- with several assistants. stood guard, permitting no one to enter It was nearly 4 o’clock Westmont opening pany police. the mine, from which noxions gases were coming when all hope of sending rescue pafties from the was abandoned. Tio men who had escaped from the mine—Richard Bennett and John Mevyers could be ren- dered, but the frightful damp drove them back and they fell prostrate when after a desperate struggle, reached the outside The doctors gave them assistance. and. after working with them half an hour, restored them. Their story of the situation in the mine made it clear that the work of recovering the dead could not proceed from the Westmont opening, and mission Mill went back two miles to see what assistance they finally. then hasty preparations were made to begin that sad at the Creek entrance. MEN PERISH IN AN HEROIC ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. Cambrian officials Prosser, made an Superintendent the A They were followed by reached assistants, Séon after the news of the explosion Mining Engineer Moore and one of his G. attempt to enter the mine. Mine Robinson, but the deadly gases stopped their progress and they were com- pelled to return to the surface. Mine Foreman Rodgers. his assistant, William Blanch, and Fire Bosses John Whitney, John Retallick and John Thomas were overcome by the gases, and it is feared they perished in an heroic effort to rescue the A son of Harry Roberts tried to reach his father, but he was quickly overcome and was carried out unconscious. William Stibich spent several hours at the Mill Creek opening. that he believed as many as 450 men were still in the mine nét more 'than 150 men had come out. The mining officials of the Cambria Company said the explosion was one the miners. He said In his opinion of firedamp. The few survivors whof have escaped from the depth of mine describe the conditions to be frightful in their nature. INTERIOR OF THE MINE WRECKED UTTERLY. Qutside of the Klondike the miners are safe and uninjured. Within the fatal limits of the mine the havoc wrought was awful. Selid walls sonry three feet thick were torn down as though barriers of paper. The roofs of the mine were demolished and not a door remained standing. In the face of these difficulties even the most heroic efforts toward rescue may well seem hopeless. The stories of the men who escaped are remarkablel Thomas Foster. an assistant foreman in the Klondike mine, was among the first to emerge from the Mill Creek shait. Shortly afterward Powell Griffith, a fire boss, came up. Foster was in his officc when the explosion occurred. His first thought was of ma- for the safety of the men under his charge. With the help of Foreman Roberts an effort was made to replace a few of the shattered doors. All the while the firedamp was closing around them. From the galleries into the headings, warning and shouting, the two men went. Roberts fell. but Fos ter staggered on. In the midst of the danger he met Powell Griffithra fire boss. - He had faced what seemed certain death in an effort to save his men Forward they went, dragging a comrade into a possible place of safety here, giving a word of warning there, until htiman endurance could stand the strain no longer. Exhausted, they staggered into a heading where the firedamp had not entered. There they rested a minute and then plunged for- ward, until finally they wandered into a water level and through it reached a place of safety. ONE OF THE LARGEST MINES IN THE UNITED STATES. Said Tom Foster: “How I escaped I do not know. It seems like a terrible nightmare. Hundreds of times I gave up hope, but from sheer in- stinct I stumbled forward until finally I reached a place of safety.” . The armory of Company H, Fifth Regiment, N. G. P., will be turned into a morgue. After a conference to-night it was announced that the dead miners would be taken to the armory to-morrow. Planks have been laid on chairs and the removal of the bodies will begin at an early hour in the morning. The ambulances of all the undertakers in the city are at Mill Creek in readiness to begin the work. Late to-night President Powell Stackhouse gave the following ment: “The disaster is an unusual one and came upon entirely unex- The mine had been inspected only three days ago and was pro- nounced in a satisfactory condition. In’ the thirty years that the mine has been in operation no serious accident has occurred. The cause of the dis- aster is yet indefinite, but I believe it was gas escaping from the fiith head- ing, which was closed and was not being worked because it contained gas from the sixth heading. “The number of casualties is now placed at 12 No list of the names of the, dead can be given, for the majority of them were foreigners and were knnv\n by check and not by name. The only other way the names will ever become known, if the bodies are not recovered in time for identification, will be by their families sending the names to us.” FIRST ACCIDENT IN THE MINE IN THIRTY YEARS. The mine in which the explosion occurred is one of largest coal mines in the United States. From the entrance in the hill across the river from the poin4 to the entrance at Mill Creek is a distance of three and three quarter miles. The Klondike section, in which- the explosion occurred, state- us pectedly. the \ Continued on Page Two. e ————