The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 50. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1903 Call, s PRICE -FFVE CENTS. GERMAN WAR VESSEL, WITHOUT WARNING OR PROVOCATION, ATTACKS VENEZUELAN FORT AND MEETS DISASTROUS REPULSE L1 AN Hard Aground at Gibraltar. Strikes Sandbar While Engineer Periéhes and Victims Traveling in T Weather. Effort Be Removed. R BELIEVES SHIP WILL Vew York Agent, Gustav Looks for s will Iw ies and Hercules commanded be hick to Float Her Fail Derailed Cars and Passengers Must h Ger- Mal- New n the sand fruit- | FLOAT. e Schwab, Favorable News. Lahn left e of the steamers ustave H. of the taken to mmunicate morning and I am ADRENALIN RESTORES LIFE IN A Crite’s Discovery and Arti ation Work a Mira Cleveland. ave been carriec e in the use of operation s power was Crite and of CANINE ficial Res- cle in 15.—Mafly doc- the experi- d on by Dr. f adrenalin leading to performed ther physi- thetics had been ad- the suspen 1 by he dog had t adminis 1kn¢ - INDICTMENTS AGAINST THIRTY-NINE DEALERS |sents Chicago sion of res- amping the ! »een appar- s a few drops red and arti- This treat- comparatively that adren- » human beings wn t of Chicago Grand Jury’s In- vestigation of the Fuel Shortage. R the ail Dealers’ aga of lilinols and Wisconsin. there will a against it is said, | with vie and with | which has been washed up on the coast blacklisting is made | year Cork leaves no doubt that the vessel =, and especially, it is =aiT, | foundered during a gale. She had a crew Association i D UNER 5 ASHORE F0G Steamshi;Lahn Is Broke | e ci TRAN FALLS D0WN STEEP EMBANKMENT n Rail Causes Fatal Wreck in [1linois. VAEAEE EES Thirty Passengers Are Injured. Cross Bridgg Safely Before the Awful Plunge. ——— SYCAMORE, 1 Jan 18 ~In may not recc J. D. HF eer The mos John lowa, back L L. Stew- County Rec- . Smith, Dy G. L. He as D. arina cariou and Sycamore hos- crowded with the injured to- escaped with broken fin ruises, w others are suffer- from the nervous shock. > Des Moines and Minneapol running at a high rate of struck a broken rail just as it ‘was about to cross a bridge. The speed of the train carried it acrose the bridge on the ties, and the entire train pitched down a twen- ment, the cars turning on being jumbled together hapeless mass r was so badly injured that rt time. The firemen, who ured, succeeded in pulling through the car win- s all were taken from were carried to a n . where they were cared the party walked to phed to Syvcamore, two | p. Assistan th SCIENTISTS MEASURE THE BRAIN'S FATIGUE Interesting Apparatus cluded to Be in Prussia’s Exhibit at St. Louis. mong the curious Ministry of inglude in its edu- t the St. Louls Exposi- s for measuring mental which is widely employed. It is hesiometer, and measures in, which cor- In- the Instruction wi Public cational display on is an apy igue, rat sen responds directly to fatigue, the | sensitiveness diminthing as the mind wearies, | Dr. Schrader, professor at the Kaiser wi fe Im gymnasium in Hanover, has per- | d an instrument that measures the | time elapsing in the reaction of the Sl‘n—‘ sorium after mental exertlon. The prin- | ciple upon which it iIs based Is that| mental work produces a fatigue of the nerve centers. The measurement of fa- tigue 1 classroom work generally | shows that history makes but a slight | call on the mental power. Geometry and Latin are far more exhausting. During | the stud | of Latin the nerve power is re- duced one-quarter and memory appears to suffer greatly SHIPBUILDING INTERESTS ARE ABOUT TO BE MERGED Yards in the Mississippi and Ohio | Valleys Will Be Consolidated Into One Company. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 18.—The Her- ald to-morrow will ¢ Within the next ten days the entire shipbuilding interests of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys will be consolidated and merged into one com- pany, with a capitalization of more than £50,000,000. Articies incorporating this gi- gantic combine will be filed under the laws of New Jersey. The moving spirits in the proposed consolidation are W. W. | Hazard of Chicago and Captain Edward Howard of Jeffersonville. Hazard repre- capitalists and Captain Howard the principal shipyards along the " Ohio. SRR e WRECKAGE OF MISSING VESSEL COMES ASHORE Steam Packet Carrying a Crew of | Twenty Men Is Believed to Have Foundered. LONDON, Jan. 19.—The steam packet Upupa from Cardiff for Cork has been missing since last Friday. Wreckage of twenty men and some steerage passen- gers aboard. She was owned in Cork, | covered and | and it is also a stopping place for pros- | when a suggestion for a chess match was MEN PERIGH N FLAMES OF A HOTEL Bodies Are Found in British Colum- bia Ruins. | Now. Numberj Four and Guests Are Missing. Crowded of Morrisey Rapidly Destroyed. | i g o { Dispatch to The Call. {ANE, Wash., Jan. 18.—Four dead | , charred and as yet unidentified, | Hotel Morrisey struction last at B. C., after its de- nt It feared four | more victims are still in the ruins. | The hotel was well filled with guests night is time of the fire. It was a structu et wide and 50 feet long, two stories in helght, with dining-room and bar Johnson, the lessee, is as yet unabie determ how many-guests escaped, as | as many of them were transient and not known personall m About 11 o'clock last night a lamp was accidentally overturned in the and owing to the inflammable { the building the flames spread 1 soon got bey Most of the | sts had as soon as the tor saw that the place was doomed ! the bartender rushed upstairs to | ing men. In some cases f-dazed by smoke and | scorched by fiames, and it was with dif- | ficulty they were got to the outside. | Everything was in flames in a few mo- ments, but the two rescuers worked until they were so badly burned about the head arme that they could no longer stay buflding. barroom, ond control. retired, and the guests wer The town has no modern fire apparatus, and it to walt until the | searching a part Four dead bodies were dis- ried out, was necessary ames subsided before of the ruins. and four more men cannot L accounted for The hotel | was at the cast end of town. A west | wihd was blowing, and that fact alone saved the rest of the town from destruc- tion. A. Johnson, the lessee, suffered a prop- | erty loss of $1000, with no insurance. S. Kenouse, tor of the building, s his losses at $1000, with insurance | » guests escaped with only clothing was on their backs, in most ces exceedingly scanty, and all | their personal effects were burned. Morrisey, B. C. 1900 inhabitants, the proj w instar is a new town of about which has grown since the Morrisey coal mines, operated by the Great Northern Railroad, came Into prominence. It is ninety miles north of Jennings, Mont., and forty miles north of the international boundary line. It has cight or ten large frame hotels, business | houses of varied descriptions and a num- ber of new dwellings. It is supported by | the trade of the Morrisey miners, of whom there are about $00 alone in the | Great Northern underground workings, pectors and coal and timber cruisers, PANIC IN A CHURCH Is AVEEED BY PASTOR‘ Fire Breaks Out During Services But | Clergyman Quiets the Fright- | ened Congregation. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 18.—A panic among a large congregation at the First Metho- dist Church was averted to-night by the presence of mind of the pastor, Rev..T F. Roach. Dr. Roach had just announced his text and was opening his sermon | when a burst of smoke and flame shot | up into the auditorfum from a register in the main aisle. The church was packed and in a moment great excitement pre. vafled. Ralsing his voice above the screams of women and shouts of men, Dr, Roach called out that the fire was from paper that had fallen into the register | and that there was no danger. The ay. dience quleted down and quickly fileq out. In the meantime an alarm had been turn. | ed in and the department was on hand promptly. It took an hour to get the fire under control. The main floor of the church was wrecked. The property loss 1s small. i e CHESS MATCH IS PLAYED BY WIRELESS TELEGRAPH NEW YORK, Jan. 18—A chess matoh by wireless telegraph served to enliven the voyage of the American liner Phila- delphia and the Cunarder Lucania, which arrived here to-day. The two vessels got into wireless communication on Friday, flashed from the Lucania and eagerly ac- cepted by the Philadelphia. On the lat- ter vessel a team was selected consisting of W. B. Wheelen of Philadelphia, Frank Cauldwell of Chicago and Waldemer Weiss of New York. The Lucania cham- pions were E. Marshall Fox and E. Hor- ace Mundy of London, R. W. Milbank of Liverpool and Captain H. R. Campbell and Willlam Evans. The Philadelphia team was victorious, their opponents re- signing after twelve moves. Building in Town| vere taken from the ruins of the Pioneer | | Carlos, which commands the entrance to : Shells From Shore G uns Cause Explosions on Cruiser Panther and Compei Her Retreat. Curacao. MARACAIBO, Venezuela, Jan. 18.---The German cruiser Panther shelied Fort San Carlos, at the entrance to Lake Maracaibo, yesterday for one hour. | returned the fire with four guns. The Panther withdrew in the direction of | Fort San Carlos is twenty=two miles from Maracaibo and commands the entrance to the lake or inner bay, which the warship sought to enter. — The fort 7 > / ’,///v /,//, 7 o 7 7%/, 77 7 7 \\“\\\\— = N VENEZUELAN CITY, WHOSE HARBOR DEFENSES HAVE PROVED EF- FECTIVE IN R: EDLY ATTEMF ING THE OUTER FORTRESS. RSHIP WHICH UNE RANCE BY FIRST [ PECT TOLISH- O — { | L B ano SRS s ‘ CTLIO B0LTVAR | Tv;/o Germans Killed and Several Wounded, While Venezuelan Loss Is Slight. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the Herald Publishing Company. ARACAS, Jan. 18.—Once more has the German navy begun open hostilities against the Venezuelans, and this time to its sorrow. Apparently with- out provocation, the German cruiser Panther opened fire on Fort San the inner bay on which Maracaibo lies, twenty-two miles away. This was on Saturday. Much to the surprise of Cap- tain Eckermann and everybody aboard the German warship, the fort replied vig- orously. Soon afterward two explosions were heard on the Panther and these seemed to disable her, for slowly and seemingly with difficulty she withdrew. It is reported that two of the men on the Panther were killed. That this action will have a disastrous influence on the negotiations for peace is admitted generally here, more so as it is said that the attack on the fort was premeditated a week ago. CASTRO HAD BEEN WARNED. In proof of this a leading official of the Government here showed to The Call cor- respondent a letter sent to President Cas- tro from Curacao under date of January 11, informing him that about a week later German vessels would open fire on Fort San Carlos. The orders to do thls, the letter sald, had been received from Ber- lin, with instructions to make the attack before the arrival of United States Min- ister Bowen. News of the bombardment and the first battle in which the Venezuelans may be said to have been victorious was recefved at noon to-day from the Governor of Maracaibo. From Fort San Carlos at noon on Sat- urday a cruiser flylng the German flag was seen steaming along the coast. It turned into the chapnel which the fort guards and then, without any signal of warning, when within range of the fort, opened fire with all of her batteries. But General George Bello, in command of the fort, was in readiness for the en- emy. He had at least two modern and two old-fashioned guns and he at once returned the fire. For some time the guns of the Panther did not respond and it was noticed with joy by those in the fort fhat, although she was doing her best to force an entrance to the channel, it was so narrow and so shallow that she | | | Urlexpected Bombardment May Have Effe of Delaying Peace Negotiations. ct | o could not be handled to the best n-h'anfl | tage. | EXPLOSIONS ON CRUISER. But she was soon in a position where her guns could be used again and again they spoke to the fort, whose guns gave answer in kind. Then an explosion was heard | Panther and from the fort it could In" | seen that her men were in confusion for a | | few minutes. Ail* was discipline nfrrri that and the bombardment was renewed. | For an hour the marksmanship of the | Germans was so execrable that the fort suffered little damage. This cheered the men in the fort and again and again they shouted defiance at the crew of the Ger- man cruiser. Then another explosion on’the Panther was Deard and she seemed to be crippled | badly. She withdrew slowly, the guns of the fort firing on her until she was out of range. No response came from her and once out of the entrance to the mined bay she steamed off along the coast. TWO GERMANS KILLED. All these official advices were confirmed by private dispatches which were re- celved by merchants here and which said | that Fort San Carlos suffered little dam- | age, while two men on the Panther were | reported killed and several wounded. ‘When news of the engagement with the | defeat of the Germans was made known here there was the wildest rejolcing and | the streets were thronged all day by crowds of cheering. singing Venezuelans. All of the officials agree that this evi- dently premeditated bombardment of the fort, all without proveoeation or notifica- tion, will have an untoward effect on the negotiations for a peaceful ending of the troubles. While no one can understand why the Germans should adopt this | | | on the | course, that it was most © n, receiv premeditated seems al- in of the letter from Curacao, 1 by dent Castro. SURPRISE IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Official Wash- ington received ngws late to-night of the bombardment of Fort San Carlos by the jerman crulser Panther with the great- est astonishment. Secretary Hay, who returned home to-night from New York, had not learned the details of the engage- ment. Count Quadt, in charge of the German Embassy, is still in New York and inquirles at the embassy to-night brought forth no information on the sub- ject. It can be said, however, that when the news becomes generally known in Wash- ington to-morrow the greatest surprise and indignation will follow. It had been supposed here that nothing more than a peaceful blockade would be maintained after the agreement of all parties con- cerned to submit the case to The Hague tribunal. THREE WOUNDED IN FORT. MARACAIBO, Jan. 18.—The following report has been received from . Gemeral Bello, the comander of Fort San Carlos “Yesterday afternoon at 0 o'clock Fort San Carlos was attacked and shelled without any provecation our part, without previous notification or the deliv- ering of an ultimatum, by the German cruiser Panther, which tried to force the entrance. After a fight lasting an hou during which the fort used onlv four guns, the Panther was obliged to abandon the fight and retreated in the direction of Curacoa. The fort suffered no damasge and only three men were wounded.” There have been popular demonstrations on the streets herc as & result of the shelling of the fort,