The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1902, Page 2

1 HE SAN IRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1902, WEON TAAL FOR SMUGGLING Officials Charged With Violating Revenue Provisions. { Hearing of Commander Ments i Alrea,dy_Commenced A Porto Rico. { | SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 22.—Robert | Gilés, a Government road contractor and mapager of the Automobile Transporta- tion, Company, has been arrested in con- nection ;with the smuggling cases. He | has been arraigned, charged with smug- gling an@ pleaded not guilty. The pre- Jiminery examination, before United Slates Commissioner Anderson, of Su- pervisor of Elections Benjamin Butler, | Commander G. W. Ments, In charge of | the Country Club, and Robert Giles, | charged wi smuggling two lots of wines and liquors from St. Thomas on the | United States steamer Uncas and the lighthouse tender Laurel, began here this afternoon. The case of Commander Ments | was examined first, and several witnesses testified before court adjourned. { Commander Ments was in command of | the Laurel her trip to St. Thomas, where from thirty to thirty-five cases of | liguor were purchased. Some of these | cas逮 were put off at Culebra, but four- teen cases were brought to San Juan. -Of | the latter six were marked “Robert | Giles.” while others were addressed to Captain Andrew Dunlap, commander of | be naval station here. One of the wit- nesses, the captain of a launch, testified that Captain Dunlap ordered him to go | on board the Laurel and get certain cases: that he did so and delivered them to Captain Dunlap. A customs inspector | testified to having seized and opened the | six cases marked Robert Giles. The hearing of the case against Com- | mander Ments has been postponed until next Friday. in order that Collector ruzen, who is at present indisposed, may testify. The court will proceed with the | | hearing of the other cases to-morrow. * HALF RATES FOR CHRISTMAS California Railway. On Christmas day. Thursday. December the California Northwestern Railway sell tickets from San Francisco to| points herein mentioned at one fave| r the round trip, with limit of return Vincent, - On the Northwestern | ® | Cotati. . r. Healdsburg, Lyt- Gerserviile, Ast. Cloverdale. Presten, Hopland. Guerneville, Shellvilie, Vine- | yard. Sonoma. Agua Caliente, Glen Ellen, | Sebastopol, Ukish. Willits. Tickets will { :c on sale at Tiburon ferry on Christmas | ay. . *1 DO JUDGE NAPOLEON HOLDS | FIRST TRIAL DMVE! | Another Hearing Granted in Cele- | brated Controversy Over Butte Streets. BUTTE. Mont., Dec A special from Anaconda to the Miner says a new trial | was granted to the plaintiff to-day in the | case of J Murray vs. the ty of Butte. This is the famous case where | Mptrray sucs the ety for the recovery of | the moner equivalent of all the streets and alleys located in the heart of the city upon the site of the Smokehouse lode. It | came up before judge Napoleon some two | menths 3go on a practically agreed upon | tili of exceptions and to-day the court rendered his decision. Exceptions werc token and ing of the court will ungrestionably be taken to the Supreme | Court on appeal. City Attorney Lamb of | Eatte appeared for the city, while At-| torney Miles J. Cavanaugh appeared for | the plaintiff | —_——— Pictures That Speak, And remind the recipient of the giver *Whas is a more lasting remembrance than 8 beautifully framed picture hanging in the home of your friend? The Picture | Department will show vyou them at all prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market | street. Open evenings. . — i Southern Pacific Buys 0Oil Pmperty.| SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 22.—The| Bouthern Pacific Company has just ac- | quired title to a valuable plece of ofl | property heretofore a part of the Arel- | lanes rancho, near Casmalia, in the north- | ern section of Santa Barbara County, on the main line of the coast road. It is the | irtention of the company to bore for ofl | to be used for fuel purposes in the com- | pany’s locomotives. It is understood that | the Southern Pacific will begin operaticns at once. e — Sudden Death of a Pioneer. BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 22—K. P. Hart- ey, one of the early pioneers of Califor- rie and for the last fifteen vears a resi- dent of Kern County, was found dead in his bed this afternoon. The degeased was employed 2= a night watchman in Kern City and had gone off duty at 7 o’clock in the morning apparently in good heaith. Hartley wes a veteran of the Civil ar and a member of the Grand Army. Gambling Losses Cause Suicide. SEATTLE, Dec. 22—Willlam J. Bur- dette, a well known newspaper man, committed suicide this morning by shoot- ing himself. Gambling losses followed by despondency are supposed to have been the cause. Burdette was a native of the of Wight. He leaves a wife and sev- eral relatives her: —_— Fire Destroys a Railroad Depot. EPOKANE, Dec. 22.—Fire to-night de- molished the passenger depot of the Ore- &on Railroad and Navigation Company, causing a loss of $10,000. It was the prop- erty of the Union Depot Company and wase fully insured. The fire started from & defective electric wire. i BROKEN CABLE STOPS TRAFFIC.—For Bve bhours last night the cars on the Mc- Ailister-street line were unable to run to'the breaking of the cabl cind | scalded { while en route on a relief train to the | essary | portation of the body to Oakland. WORN OUT EQUIPMENT IS ASSIGNED e o— Rival Coroners Prepare for Inquests. Heavy——Emage Suits Wil Follow. Continued From Page 1, Column 7. W. E. Weichart, 143 Beale; W. E. Crist, 137 Beale; C. W. Spaulding, 512 Howard; C. 1. Legal, 116 Mission: George Blas- dell, 151 Minna; G. 8. Corkery, 1108 Bu- chanan; W. H. Quinn Jr., 237 First, and H. Sherwood. 133 Spear. The date of .the inquest been set OAKLAND, Dec. 22.—The jurisdiction of Coroner Mebhrmann covers the case of Miss Alice Sullivan, whose remains were identified last night at the Morgue in this city by H. T. Brown, her employer, and Joseph Pickford of Fresno, her brother- in-law. Miss Sullivan was frightfully in the Fresno coach and died has not yet rallroad hospital in San Francisco. Coro- ner Mehrmann has set the date of the in- quest for to-morrow night at 7 o'clock and a jury will be sworn over the body before it is sent to Fresno for interment. Whether the inquest will proceed at the time set depends somewhat upon the ability of the Coroner to locate the wit- nesses who will be necessary. Dr. Mehr- mann has taken personal charge of the preliminary arrangements. He expects o rt the offictal inquiry Into the case, but in view of McGuire's condition and the probable absence of some of the rail- road men whose evidence 1s essential, the Corol is in doubt whether the investi- gation can be finished for some time. Arrangements have been completed for | the funeral of Charles A. Sessions, who was killed at Byron. He was a popular member of the Oakland Lodge of Elks, which has taken charge of the details. To relieve the family of as much unnec- suffering as possible, a spectal committee from the lodge went to Mar- tinez to-day and attended to the trans- The gentlemen who composed “the committee were George W. Reed, A. C. Hodges, George W. Frick, J. Cgl Ewing and Charles L. Ingler. The funeral will be held from the Ses- s residence. 1258 Eighth street. at 1 o k. and public services at 2 o'clock at the First Presbyterian Church. The members of Oakland Lodge of Elks have been notified tg assemble at 1:30 at the lodge hall on Broadway, near Twelfth sireet, to proceed to the church in a body. The interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Another fraternal organization which will to-morrow pay its tribute to a dead brother is the Woodmen of the World. who have taken charge of the funeral of Willlam L. Temple, State organizer of | the order, who died at the Soutbern Pa- cific Hospital in San Francisco from in- juries sustalned in the wreck. The ser- vices wili be held at Woodmen's Hall, Twelfth street, near Washington, at 2 o'clock. The Rev. E. R. Dille, pastor he First Methodist Church, will officiate. | The interment will be in Mountain Vicw Cemetery. The Royal Italian Band now in San Francisco will play the funeral music, thelr services having been offered because most of them are affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. The body of Leonard 8. Erwin, who dica on the way to the hospital, will be taken to Fresno for interment. FRESNO, Dec. 22.—An inquest was he'd in this city to-night on the bodies of D. J. Vernon anc his son Walter, victims of tlic wreck at Byron Saturday night, both of whom died after being brought to this city. There was some question at first as to whether or not witnesses should bLe called to tell of the wreck, but it was finally decided to leave that to other in- quests, where a full investigation will probably be made. The witnesses exam- ired told principally of the injuries r celved by the two men. The jury wi divided for a time, part of the jurors wishing to bring in a verdict holding the Southern Pacific responsible. The judg- ment of the remajnder, however, pre- valled, the verdict ng simply that the deceased met their death in a raliroad wreck. MARTINEZ, Dec. 2.—Coroner Curgie impaneled a jury this morning to hold an inquest on the remains of those who were brought to Martinez from the wreck at Byron. The remains of Charles Owens, age 50; Elizabeth Lillle Smith and Clar- ence D. Olufs were shipped to Fresno thie morning. Miss Mabel Vezey's re- mains were sent to Modesto. The funeral will be held at that place to-morrow at 2:3 p. m. The remaips of Charles Sis- sons were shipped to Oakland. There are seven bodles still lylng at the Morgue. All have been identified with the excep- tion of one Chinese woman and a Chi- nese baby. The body of Miss Amelia Mayer will be shipped to S8an Francisco. The following named have been sworn in by the Coroner to act as jurors: A. E. Blum, F. E. Prosser, E. Morgan, C. C. Bwain, J. Harding, F. Weir, A. MeMahon and A. J. Anderson. The inquest will be held on Baturday next 102 m. Ma 327 son and Ell's sts. ‘Will Remove to Sutter Street Abcut J-nu-r’y Ist. Holiday Goods at Special Prices Portable Lamps, Finest Glassware The Welsbach Primer with each purchase OPEN BVENI\G& UNTIL 10 0°CL"~ CK: 00000000900000000000000000000000000000000000 1 LJ Francisco. 8. Pensacola. pont street. avenue, San Francisco. Francisco. Mayagowa, T., Japanese girl, aged Ning, Mrs. Tie, aged 17, Chinese pont street, San Francisco. 'Men Overworked and Engines Worn Out. /HERE has been much specula- tion and investigation in an effort to determine whether the injured engineer of the Stockton flyer or the uninjured rear brakeman of the Owl was to blame for the disastrous wreck of Saturday night. Even now the raliroad officials high in authority are securing statements from the employes who were operating the wrecked trains | in an effort to show upon which train | crew responsibility should rest. Several cpinions, semi-official and unofficial, have | been expressed, and some say that Ey- gineer MeGuire should have seen lha’ lights of the Owl train and stopped the | fiyer, while others argue that Conductor | Dolan of the Owl did not send his rear | brakeman back to flag the fiyer soon | enough, and still others that Brakeman Cole did not go down the track the mo- | ment the Owl stopped, as the general railroad rules require. | There is another phase of the question of responsibility, however, and it strikes | kigher than brakemen, conductors or en- gineers. It Is a question of why the Owl | train was allowed to start on its import- | |ant run with an engine that was almost sure to break down before a 700-mile trip was ended. This is the matter that is belng talked over Ly the rallroad men of West Oak- lznd. The men who make these runs, who operate these engines and who han- die the trains, are saying that the equip- | ment of the Southern Pacific Company | | is being forced to the very limit in order {to handle the traffic, 3 that had the engines of the Southern Pacific Company | beer: in first-class condition there would | Fave Leen no breakdown of the Owl traln | at Byron and no disaster. They also say | that the men are being forced to just as | great a limit—that they are run in aad | cut with insufcient sleep, and that both the men and equipment are in a very bad condition. WHAT EMPLOYES SAY. No raliroad man will tell these stories | | for publication with his name, but there | are a few who will tell what they assert to be the truth if they feel that it will | not jecpardize their position. This is the story told by one of the oldest rallroad men connected with the western division: “A wreck is always passed up to the | men who run the train and this case is | no exception to the rule. Everybody is saying that the engine crew of the flyer | ought to have stopped in time, or the | train crew of the Owl ought to have | warned the fiyer earller, but no one stops tc figure out why the Owl should have | been sent out with an engine that would absolutely come to a stop from leakage in the boller before her run was ended. | People are saying that the engineer of the fiyer ought to have seen the lights ! on the Owl or the light of the brakeman, or that the brakeman ought to have got farther down the track, as the trend of | their argument may be, but they dow’t stop to ask why the engine of the Owl should have broken down at all. “The Owl Is the pet train of the South- ern Pacific Company. It is the fastest train that they run, and being the first | fast limited train that they put on their | line it has been the pride of the road. To the Owl have been assigned the finest cars and the fastest engines, and the train or engine crew that got a run on the Owl felt that they were honored, for only picked men were used. The best en- gines on the road were set to pull the Owl, and when an engine is hooked on 10 the train that breake down before the run is ended it means that the equipment of the Southern Pacific Company is beé- ing run just as long as it will turn & wheel. 1 “This is the fact. The traffic over the lines of the Southern Pacific Company is #0 great at present that the motive power and car departments are strained to the utmost to furnish cars to carry the traffic and engfnes to haul the trains when they get them made up. CAN’T GET CARS ENOUGH. “Every little while a complaint will come from some station that they cannot get cars enough to handle the shipments from that point. But the scarcity of cars is not nearly of the same danger or importance as the scarcity of engines. If there are no cars the shipment merely waits until it can be accommodated. But when engincs begin to break down, boll- ers to leak and wheels to run flat it means that the motive power of the road is being pressed into service long after it should have gone into the machine shops for repairs. “As a matter of fact, engines are run long after they ought to be undergoing repairs. The public does not hear of the number of breakdowns that take place Gally through defective machinery. There are hundreds of incidents similar to the one that tled the Ow! up at Byron the other night, but they are not heard of un- til a wreck comes. Then an investiga~ tion is at once begun to see whether it was the engineer, the fireman, the conduc- tor or the brakeman who was responsible. “A trainman has no power over his train. He takes the engine and the cars | assigned to him and he has to make hi; run whether the boller leaks or there flat wheels on the coaches or not. It hardly be traced to the division officials, for they are forced to handle the traffic that is deposited upon their division. It is simply the fact that the traffic is so heavy that the equipment {8 being used until long after it should go into. the shops, MEN ARE OVERWORKED, “This forcing 18 not confined to the equipment alone, The men are just as Erwin, Leonard E., aged 23, mattress weaver, Fresno. Elliott, Miss Birdie, aged 22, 177 Powell street, San Eastman, F. S., aged 19, sailor; electrician on U. 8. Howard, Misg Stella, aged 19, 802 Taylor street. 4 Lung, Quong, A bookkeeper, aged 28 years, 800 Du.. Mayer, Miss Amelia, aged 18,,1042 Golden Gate Mayer, Carl, aged 7, 1042 Golden Gate avenue, San Mayagowa, Hadru, aged 18 months, San Francisco. Owens, Charles, race-horse owner, aged 55, Fresno, The Dead. Renwick, Robert Sessions, Charles Y Suo, Lii, Chinese 4, San Francisco. | Temple, William ‘woman, 800 Du- hard worked as the engines. -The men double out, frequently without sufficient sleep, and there is not a train crew on the road that is not overworked. This causes carelessness, but it is a careless- ness that should not be entirely laid at the door of the men. Everything about the company i} overworked from the highest officials to the machinery on the road. Traffic Is heavy, construction Is heavy, materlal and equipment Is hard to get, and everybody and everything is forced to lthe limit.” In support of this statement of the man from West Oakland comes a story from Los Angeles from another source. An engineer, a relative of a State officlal, ‘was making the run from Yuma or some point In that neighborhood to Los An- geles. He had left his starting.point with scarcely any sleep, but had been or- dered to take the train back to Los An- geles. When he reached Pomona he dis- covered to his horror that he had made @ run of about six miles while asieep on his seat in the cab. He refused to take his train out of Pomona until he was given a brakeman, fresh and thoroughly awake, to stand at his elbow and keep him awake until they reached Los An- geles. These stories show the point of view of the raliroad men upon the question of wlrech in general and this one in partic- ular. e CLAIMS DEPARTMENT SPENDS BUSY DAY Everybody was busy at the offices of the claims department of the Southern Pacific yesterday. So far the officlals of the department have not attempted to settle a single claim. Hundreds of tele- grams were recelved yvesterday from all over the country by anxious relatives and friends of those injured and to the claims department falls the duty of attending to the proper digposition of the bodles of the dead. WHen asked what he esti- mated it would the company to set- tle all the claimslfor the accident a prom- inent official of the road replied: “It is too early to make any estimate at present. i right to jump in too soon and attempt to settle the clalms. Those who are in- jured are still very nervous and have not yet fully recovered from the fright. In many States the law fixes the liability of death by accldent at a certain figure, but if the heirs of a person killed are willlng to settie for a less amount that is their privilege. In the majority of the States where the price is fixed for an ac- cidental death the maximum is $5000. In a few States the amount is $10,000. “In California the amount is left to the discretion of a jury, which is usuaily governed by the rule that the heirs can only recover the loss in money which they can prove they have suffered by the death of their relative. For Instance, the heirs of 4 famous doctor, according to the laws of Callfornia, can recover a great deal more than the heirs of & man in humbler walks of life.”” The moment the officials of the claims department heard of the accident th hastened to the scene. Claims Agent Se sions arranged at the Oakland mole the detalls of the second rellef train. It was his intention to bring all the injured to the Oakland mole in one train and then have them transferred to the ferry-boat Transit. They would then have been taken across the bay and landed on this slde at Fourteenth street without being removed from the cars. Unfortunately the track at Oakland was not in condition for this plan, owing to a car having been backed off the rails. phast Finds Jewels in Wreck. The two tin boxes containing jewels val- ued at about $2000, the property of Mrs. Tle Ning, the Chinese woman who was killed in the Byron wreck, were recovered yes- terday afternoon. Just before her death Mrs. Tle Ning stated that she had lost her jewelry during the accldent, and that she felt sure some one had stolen them. This statement was accepted with in- credullty by the rallroad officlals, and steps were at once taken to find the jew- elry. ‘Assistant Claims Attorney Bagger- 1y telephoned yesterday to the shops at Oakland for the car that Mrs. Tle Ning was seated In at the time of the wreck to be thoroughly searched. Those who were detailed to search the car were re- warded with finding the two boxes in the car with the diamonds still in them—not a jewel missing. The jewelry will be brought over to the claims department to- day. It Is supposed that Mr%. Tie Ning clung on to-the boxes as long as she could, but, becoming faint, she dropped them in the car in her attempts to es- cape. —_— Body Goes Home.s MODESTO, Dec. 22.—The body of Miss Mabel Vesey arrived here this afternoon from Martinez, where the young woman succumbed’ to injuries recelved in the wreck on Saturday night at Byron. A large crowd of sympathizers and friends of the deceased met the re- mains and escorted them to the home of the young woman's parents. The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon. ot Vernon Dies at Fresmo. FRESNO, Dec. 22—~Another death oc- curred to-day as a result of the Owl dis- aster, young Walter Vernon, whose fath- er dled last night, having expired in the sanitarium here this morning. =i —— ECZEMA, NO CURE, NO PAY. Your druggist will refund your money it PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure Ringworm, tter, 014 Ulcers and Sores, Pimples and Blackheads on the face, and all ekin diseases, 00 cents. * ———— B} GIFT TO NEWSBOYS.—Ia lleu of a din- ner which ‘had heen offered to the newsboys of the city and which they found thefgsolves un- able to attend, Charles Newman of tho Rusa Hf"';; made & gift to the Newsboys' Union of $50. ————— To Cure a Cold in One Day. I:X’I‘I‘Ivld D‘r‘vmn QIIII!I'II. Tablets. ANl - ind the money It It fails to cure, A (lmllll.lmnthoumlbox.n!hf“ E P2 Olufs, Clarence D., aged 22, student University of California, Fresno. Post, Richard, aged 22, student Affiliated Colleges, i : Fowler, Cal. : 5 Quong, Ah, Chinese girl, 800 Dupont street. * street, San Francisco. Sullivan, Miss Alice, aged 25, domestic, Oakland. Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Lilian, aged George F. Smith of Fresno. Vesey, Miss Mabel, aged 19, student University of California, Fresno. Vernon, D. J., Fresno. 3 Vernon, Walter, son of D. J. Vernon, Fresno. You see, we do not belleve it | E., aged 28, coatmaker, 48 Fourth Aspinwall, aged 58, Oakland. 38, wife of woman, San Francisco. L., aged 40, Oakland. Manager A-gle? Lays All on McGuire. ANAGER JAMES AGLER held a lengthy conference last even- ing with W. S. Palmer, division superintendent of Oakland. The last named rallroad offictal made to his superfor a full report of the gceldent. At the close of the conference Manager Agler made the following state- ment: “L am of the opinion that Engineer Mc- Guire is to blame for the accident. He Is still at the Raflroad Hospltal, and is not at present in condition to make a formal statement on his own behalf. “At the time of the accident a freight train was lying on the siding at Byron. On that f{rain were two train crews, ‘dead-heading’ back to Oakland. A num- ber of the men that composed these train crews saw Brakeman George Cole of the Gwl train start back to flag the train: say that he went back between 1000 and 1500 feet. Whether the brakeman went back 1000 or 50 feet makes no dif- ference; Engineer McGuire should have had his train under control. in the habit months, and elert. “I cannot imagine what could have Leen the matter with McGuire.-He should of following the Owl for Lave seen the red and green lights on the | end of the Owl train for two or three wiles before he came to it. There is a straight stretch of track in that section, and the night was clear. “Superintendent Palmer reports to me that Conductor Dolan. in charge of the Owl, upon learning from his engineer that his locomotive was out of order— | that there were leaking flues which put the fires out—walked over to the con- ductor of the freight train lying on the s‘ding and asked that he might use the freight engine to pull his train out. The conducfor of the freight train consent- cd, and Conductor Dolan then walked up the track to telegraph to Oakland that he was going to use the freight en- gine. When Dolan arrived at the depot at Byron, about 700 feet away, the col- lision took place. “Conductor Schu of the Stockton train reports that when the accident occurred he was standing in the alsle of a day coach. He was thrown to the floor, and his lantern went out. When he got on his feet and got outside the car Brake- man Cole was running up the track to his train. When he first saw Brakeman Cole he was still 600 feet behind the Stockton train. “‘Under the present conditions I cannot change my opinion, but believe that En- gincer McGuire is to blame for the ac- cident.” “Mr. Agler, should not the brakeman have planted a red light in the middle of the track, and should he not have laid torpedoes on the track?" “No; he did all that was deemed neces- sary under the conditions. Red lights are planted in the middle of the track| and torpedoes are only lald in parts of the roads where there are curves. There are no curves where the accident occur- red: it was a plain, straightaway track.” PROPOSE A MuMORIAL TO FATHER McKINNON Committee Arranges Monster Mili- tary and Naval Review to Start Fund for Cause. A committee composed of officers of the First California Vorwnteers, whose object s to create a fund for the pur- pose of erecting a monument to the mem- ory of Father McKinnon, the late chap- lain of the regiment, held a meeting last night at the Nationa! Guard Armory, at Page and Gough streets. For some time the committee has been engaged in preliminary work in the cause has met in every instance with satis- response. It has been arranged to hold a grand| military and 'naval review at Mechanics' Pavilion on January 28 next. Colonel Thomas F. O'Nelll, chairman of the committee having the affair in charge, read a mass of communications from almost every part of the country, In which the writers expressed a desire to lend their ald in the furtherance of, the proposed fund. A letter from Rear Admiral Henry Glass, commandant of the' United States naval training station, in which he of- fered the services of a company of his men, was read and the offer accepted. Other organizations, among them the Leaguo of the Cross Cadets and the Co- lumbia Park Boys' Club, volunteered to take part in the review and the response has been so general that the success of the affair is assured. ; —_———————— Thieves Enter Butcher Shop. Adolph Sitcher, who dwns a butcher shop at 106 Rallroad avenue, returned to his shop last evening about 9 o'clock to get his overcoat and to his surprise found that the knob had been blown oft the safe in his store and that a small hole had been drilled in the door just above the lock. Sitcher’ belleves thieves must have been at work at the time he return- ed for his coat and his entrance fright- ened them off. The rear door of the shop was found open. Investigation showed that mothing had been taken; \ —————— Fatal Quarrel Over Hay. POCATELLO, Idaho, Dec. 22.—A speclal from Halley, Idaho, says that nk Brown was shot and killed and Jesse Les fatally wounded to-day by Larry Bran- ‘mon. The shooting occurred sixteen miles from Halley and was the outcome of a dispute over a load of hay. He has been | should have been on the | 08 A S SR AR Ftiends to Hospital ~ for News. \Fortitude Praise for Sufferers. Visitors crowded the Southern Pacific | Hospital yesterday, anxious to see the relatives and friends who were burned and maimed in the terrible railroad acei- dent near Byron. In almost every in- stance the physicians allowed the visitors to enter the wards and give comfort to the injured. Members of the press were barred, however, as the raflroad com- patients excited by describing the terrible scenes they had passed through. The injured lay on beds of pain swathed | in bandages. Most of them were suffer- ing from burns received from scalding steam. They moaned and cried out in agony, while the kind-hearted nurses Dr. Ellinwood of this city, with Dr. Bird of Byron Springs, ministered to the un- relieved much suffering. Paul Mayer was a prominent figure around the hospital yesterday. Every one manifested deep sympathy for the man because of the terrible losses he has sus- tained. One of his daughters was killed and his little boy died Sunday night from injuries he had received, while his wife is seriously burned and another of 'his boys is In a precarious condition, yet de- spite all this he displays remarkable for- titude. essions, claims agent of the Southern the hospital yesterday answering ques- | tions of relatives and friends. He ar- ranged trausportation for the injured and helped in other matters. Engineer McGuire was tenderly cared for by bis devoted wife. She came from OUakland at an carly hour in the morning and never left his bedside. A representa- uve of Mr. Palmer of the raflroad com- | pany attempted to interview the strickcn man, but the physiclans would not per- mit him to converse with their patient. They will not permit any one to talk to { McGulire until he is in a condition to do s0. Dr. O’'Connor does not consider Mec- Guire’s condition serious and has cvery hope for his ultimate récovery. The in- jured man, however, is highly nervous and very much worried over the accident. | The patients are all doing nicely, and many of them will be able to leave th: Lospital for their hom in a few days. Lawrence, Hunter, a carpenter of Eu- gene, Oregon, only suffered slight burns the hospital to-day. Archie Keller, a book agent) whose home is/ in Florence, Colo.. is in no danger. | Both his hands were burned and he suf- fers from the shock of the collision. Louis C. Mayer, who lives at 1042 Golden Gate avenue, is not expected to live. The doctors are watching over the young man and fear he will not pass through the ordeal. Mayer was very badly burned and his sufferings have been terrible. If he survives he will lose the use of his'hands. J. T. Donohoe, who lives on Lincoln street, Berkeley, is doing nicely and will be able to leave the hospital to-day. He was burned by the scalding steam that poured out of the engtne after the col- lision. Eugene Lee, who was on his way to Lexington, Ky., to be married, suffered a scalp wound and slight burns on the hands and face. He will recover, and hopes to start once more on his journey before Christmas. 7 142 Golden Gate avenue, buged on the face and hands and is like- Iy recover, but she will bear the marks of her terrible burns all her life, if she does not dle. Mrs. Emily Mayer, mother of the chil- dren who were burned, is also being close- ly watched by the doctors and nurses. Mrs. Mayer has suffered a severe shock to her nervous system and her chances of recovery are not the best. She is being treated for burns on face and hands and also for a scalp wound. Lew Ling, a Chinese, is considered the grittiest patient ever brought into the hospital. Although he sustained a frac- ture of the leg, burns on the face and hand, a fracture of the left ankle and numerous contusions, ne never shows a sign of his suffering. He accepts the at- tentions of the doctors and nurses with a smile d bears up under his sufferings like a stofc. Mrs. T. Mayona and her husband are both badly injured, but will recover. They keenly feel the loss of their child, who Flock Wins S. A. Bishop, a representative of D. R. | Facific Company, was busily engaged at | Roberta Mayer, aged 9, who lives at! " AS REAL CAUSE OF THE DISASTER MPLOYES of the Southern Pacific, the men who handle the trains, say that the real cause of the fatal collision at Byron Satur- i day night was broken down engines, worn out ears and the overworked condition of all train erews. The engine of the Owl Limited, it is declared, was notoriously unfit for service and almost sure to break down before the trip was ended. No other locomotive was to be had at the time, however, as the traffic on the Southern Pacific lines pas increased so rapidly during the past year that the equipment is wholly insufficient to handle it. Even the engineers, upon whose safety depends so many lives, are forced to make extra runs without sleep or rest, because there are not enough of either men ox engines to go around. S | | | i doctors did not care to have their | | PLEASURE THIP ENDS HS U Particulars Regardmng Minister Buck’s Death. Details Now Received of Hi: Sudden Demise While Duck Hunting. —— TOKI0O, Japan, Dec. 6.—As cabled, Col- onel Alfred E. Buck, Envoy Extraordin- ary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Jap- an, dled suddenly of heart failure on the sth inst., while attending a duck hunt while the guest of the Emperor. These duck hunting parties are annual state af- fairs, to which all the highest diplomatie and state officials are invited. The scene is at one of the imperial pre- serves, where ponds have been specially balted to insure a supply of the wild fowl.” These are driven by hunters, or beaters, toward deftly arranged nets which each guest has a part in manipu- lating with results varying with luck and skill. On this occasion the royal Shinhama preserve near Tokio was selected for the assemblage, which was composed of some of the notable officials and many ladles. Among those present on this particular occasion were Prince and Princess Kan- in, the representatives of England, Swits- erland, the United States, Austria, Ger- many, China, Korea, Mexico and theis ladies, Viscount and Viscountess Tanaka, Miss Kogawa, Baron and Baroness San- nomiya and others. The party arrived at Shinhama at 10:30 and at once proceeded to the netting of ducks. Colonel Buck was standing at the western side of No. 8 pond, a net in hand, waiting for a sig- ral, when he suddenly staggered and fell to the ground. He was at once conveyed to the rest house, where various means were tried to call him back to life. At about 10:50 o'clock a physiclan arrived from Gyotoku and attempted to restore consciousness by artificial respiration and were ever at hand, relleving them as | ctimylating injections, but in vain. Later much as was in their power. Drs. Coffey | Surgeon Nagao of the Military Hospital and. O'Connor of the hospital corps and | at Konodal arrived on horseback, but his skillful treatment was unavailing also. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the remains of the Minister were carried to the legation fcrtunates. They worked many hours and | {n® MIRISECT Wwers SOne Mr. Ferguson, secretary of the legation; Viscount and Viscountess Tanaka, Baron and Baroness Sannomiya and others.. Mrs. Buck was not present at the duck hunting party, ow:ng to an indisposition. The wide sympathy shown by the Jap- anese Government and the press strongly for the high esteem in which the dead diplomat was held. His Majesty the Emperor dispatched Chamberlain Hireno to the United States legation to convey the imperial condolences with regard to the demise of Colonel Buck. Her Majes- ty the Empress also dispaiched Lady Kitojima to the legation for the same purpose. A large number of members of the foreign corps diplomatique and Jap- anese officials also visited the:legation to express their condolences upon the death of the Minister. Several Japanese papers express Te- grets at the sudden removal of Colonel Buck from the diplomatic circles of To- kio. The Jiji says that the late Minister lyroved himself an able diplomatiet of a most amiable dispesition and that he was loved and estecemed by a large cirele of friends. During his tenure of .office the relations between Japan and the United States have become more cordial than be< fore, largely through the efforts of Mr. Ruck. The remains of the Minister were em- balmed and it has been announced that fhe funeral services, which will be of an impressive character, will be held at Trinity Cathedral, Tokio, on next Mon- day morning, the Sth inst. Afterward the remains will be escorted by a Japanese guard of honor to the station en route on the hands and will be able to ln\'c)“, Yokohama, where they will be met 5y citizens and, escorted by a corps of Japs anese marines, will proceed to the United States Naval Hospital, where they will be deposited in the mortuary vault pend- ing the arrival of the steamer Korea, on which they will be conveyed to San Fran- cisco. The Korea is scheduled to leave Yokohama on the 24th inst. Mrs. Buck | will accompany the remains to their last resting place, which, it is said, will be at Washington, D. C. S CAMERA CLUB GIVES ITS CHRISTMAS FEAST The California Camera Club gave its Christmas feast last night to a crowd of members aud friends at the club rooms, Academy of Sciences building. On Sun- day the “camerarians” went in a body to Mount Tamalpais and gathered greenery ‘with which to decorate the club. They also brought back with them a huge tree which was laden last night with was severely | gifts for the members. A. Le Breton, attired as Santa Claus, performed the office of dispenser of the Christmas presents, 200 in all. There was music and a supper and altogether the company passed a merry time. Charles Goe was the head the entertaining committee. The did not break up until a late hour. ——— . amAmamm—Ay:M who gave her name as Heter Smith, who has been living for the last two weeks at 374 last even: "b un:( hl:dor-. She ening by e was hurried to the Central and treated by Dr_ Boskowits. took but a small quantity of the therefore her recovery Is assured, @ iininiini i iivie i @ was killed in the callision. C. 8. Crites, who had an artery in his left wrist severed. is out of danger. He is ready to depart and says he will yet eat his Christmas dinner with his parents in Bakersfield. Miss Smith fed For “Force ufib«.wnn- Ross, Wwas 3o cross. to tea “It fills the Bill,” said “Suany Jim.” - “FORCE” | The Ready-to-Serve Cereal wd