The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII—-NO. 100. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BLAZING OIL FROM EXPLODING TANK-CARS ENUELOPS CROWD DIEWING A FIRE AND AT LEAST TWENTY-TWO PERSONS PERISH FROM MAINE T0 ARGERTINA B RAILIA SPOONER MAY GIDE ROOSEVELT A RACE | Friends of the President Believe the Wisconsin Senator Aspires to the Republican Nomination in 1904 President Takes Up | Pan-American || Project. Names Commissioner to Make a Thorough Investigation. Carnegie Contributes Plan for Intergonti- nental Road il to G STREET N, March §. One the re- of 8500 as missioner tc in- of course, Pepper i ex-Se - ve ] | They are | g the S%t Pan- kX w . sed t llow, cor [ f the exist . will b raiflroad com | ant points £ | . State tral and resent the Cuban com- | — —_— &N T ALL BUREAU. 1401 G STREET, n republics be- N. W., WASHINGTON, March 8.— of the political advisers of s w an-Americ ich were repre- 3 Some n - i e President Roosevelt are not en- # uestion tirely satisfied: with the state- who | ments made from time to time by Repub- m the | lican Senators and other party leaders that the President is certain of the nomi- nation by acclamation. They suépect an FAIR ESTATE IS PAID eftort will be made by some politiclans to FOR THEFT OF FURS Bt together on a-candidate with whom ’ the President may be beaten. They have Dealer in Whose Charge the Gar- | made up their minds at least not to be ments Were Left Makes a thrown off their guard and are proceeding Cash Settlement. on the line that important interests would et ROOT GOES AFTER TRUST IN ALASKA ¥ol lowing the recent Gowdy into the ces of the alleged substitution rs for the valuable furs which the late Mrs. Charles L. Fair, tive of the estate to- tment of the affair, former custodian of $9%0, which was the amount at . sslan sable cloak it SRS E muff w aised The other . whicn were returnea | FUNStOn to Investigate were turned over to inal garments. ved at without who was de- od any loss, through | occurring | charge. a Combine at St. Michael. ise, WASHINGTON, March 9.—The reason | for Brigadier General Frederick i'unston’s sudden summons to Washington became Db Jemes Winning McMillan. 5 N, March 9.—General | KPOWD to-day. McMillan, a member of | The War Department nas had its at- f Review of the Pension Bu- | tention called to the fact that a number 1 of both the Civil and | of commercial companies which were w ¢led at his home here to- | given licenses to do business at St. Wwas a grandson of | wichael, Alaska, when General Alger sr‘.a"a Hx:;ml::-! o: | was Secretary of War have since been rabem Lincoln for bt consolidated into a great trust. General Funston, who will have charge | of “the Départment of the Columbla, has | been called here for consultation and or- 8§ CAMP, March 5.—Ernest Her. | 9ered to make aw investigation and re- 1 4 years, a native of | POt ¢ highly respected | Calaveras County, ' VESUVIUS BECOMES ACTIVE of consumption at ais home last Sat. | AFTER A PEACEFUL PERIOD Lewisburg he succeeded sev- Volcano Is Throwing Up Clouds of erations of his femily in the drug In 1869 he had charge of a large Ashes and Explosive Incan. descent Globes. NAPLES, March 3.—Vesuvius has again —_— Ernest Herschel Schaeffle. - cy store in Nebrask, after which he e Murphys, wher: he celebrated | first birthday. Schaefle did prove the minng interests of | veras and was noted br his generous aracter. He leaves a vife, two sons d three daughters. up ashes and « - | globes. e o i | WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN WHO MAY TRY FOR THE PRESIDEN- TIAL NOMINATION. like to see Mr. Roosevelt beaten. movement to put.some -other rward is being closely watched. Every candidate is tor Spooner of Wisconsin. There is a belfef in adminis- tration circlés’ that Spooner being backed by alists who would like to see Mr. Roosevelt defeated. The most re- cent story about Spocmer is that his friends will try to make trouble for the administration by getting delegates for the Senator from Wisconsin. On behalf of the President, it is said, he will not enter into a scramble in con- candldate | test suspect of an anti-adminis- | Flaming Fluid Descends on Hundreds. Frightful Tor- \ ture of Dying Dictims. List of Dead - Grows Each Hour. OLEAN, N. Y., March 9.—More than a score of persons were killed and a large number injured by an explosion near. here to-night. late to-night placed the number of dead at twenty-two and the injured at forty- five. Many of the latter will die. A freilght train on the Erie, made up principally of tank of oil The two sections of the train came to- gether with a crash and one of the oil tanks was demolished. almost instantly and the sky was lighted | up for miles. Soon a large crowd had | left this city for the scene of the fire. While the along the tracks a terrific spectators were explosion oc- 4 curred. The flames communicated quickly | tank cars and a second followed. with the other and a third explosion of flame shot out in all directions. VICTIMS NUMBER SCORES. Scores of persons the zohe of the fire and enveloped-m | lames. Men and boys ran | down , the tracks with thelr clothing-| | ablaze, Others fell where they stood, | overcome by the awful heat. ettlt to aseertain the names of the dead to-night, as their bodles were | burned to ashes in the intense heat. A canvass is being made of the city as rap- |1dly as possible to learn the names of those missing. There is great excitement and the streets are thronged with people. | Large crowds gathered at the hospital, | ana the faces of the injured were anx- jously scanned as they were brought in | on stretchers. The following were treated at the City Hospital: James McDonald, condition se- | rious; Richard McDonald, may dle; James McCr legs and face badly burned; Walter Jackson, - head, burned, will die. | ACCOUNT BY EYE-WITNESS. Sydney Fish, a business man, returned from the scene of the fire at midnight. He | sata: | “I was attracted to the scene of the fire | between 9:30 and 10 o'clock. When I was | within a quarter of a mile of the wreck- |ed train there was a terrific explosion. An estimate made | cars filled with oil, | broke in two near this city at 9 o'clock. | Fire broke oui | lined up | Sheets | were caught within | screaming | back and arms | — PANAMA TREATY'S OPPONENTS AGREE TO PERMIT EARLY DOTE Will Consume but One Week of the Senate’s Time in Stating Their Case and the Canal Convention Will | | Then Be Disposed of Without Any Further Hitch — | | | | | | ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, March 9. Opponents of the isthmian canal treaty in its present form will take only ‘a week to state.thelr objections and urge amendments, and a vete will then be allowed. This statement was made to-day by Senator Morgan. The treaty was considered in the Com- wmittee on Foreign Relations to-day. and, without division, was reported to the Sen- ate, where it was agaln read. The Senate then adjourned untfl to-morrow, when Morgan will resume his arguments in favor of amending it. | As evidence, that the Alabama Senator is not fillbustering against the treaty he | has had printed ten long speeches on the | more vital amendments proposed by him. | These speeches will not be delivered, but | will be on the desks of the Senators to- morrow* for-their consideration. Morgan probably will speak to-morrow and Wednesday, ‘and ‘will | then give way. to others. MORGAN’S REPLY TO HANNA. vention for votes from any of the South- | The flames shot outward and upward for | In answer to Senator Hanna's statement ern States. He has said that if his nom- ination is to depeénd on the delegates from States which have néver gone Republican | a great distance. I saw several persons who started to run away drop on the rail- way tracks. They never moved again. | that an amendment providing for abso- lute American sovereignty over the strip would kill the treaty, Morgan says the and which are mot likely to_go Republi- | Gthers who had been standing close to the | present treaty provides for joint sover- can because of the disfranchisement of | wreckage were hurled through the alr for | eignty In the matter of judiefary, police the negroes; he will not accept. He de- sires to be nominated, if he is to be the standard bearer in 1904, by vetes from the Northern States, where there is a fight- ing chance for Republcan electors. Senator Spooner would naturally figure in the canvass as a trust candidate, be- cause he contended, until the Supreme Court rendered its decision in the lottery cases, that the power of Congress to reg- ulate interstate commerce has been ex- hausted. ¥ |GIVEN POST OF HONOR BY SIAM’'S KING Noted Harvard Instruc- tor to Be Court’s Adviser. —— Special- Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, March 9.—1It has become pub- lie, from authority which cannot be doubt- ed, that one’and possibly two professors of the Harvard law school have beep se- lected -for important ‘positions in the roy- al court of Siam. One of the positions is that of legal adviser to the King, a place of great responsibility. The man who 1s named for this position is Professor Ed. ward Henry Strobel Bemis, professor of international law. The name of the other cannot as yet be learned. Professor Bemis has had much experi- ence in diplomatic affairs-and is consid- ered an authority upon international law. He has been secretary of the United States legation in Madrid, Third Secre- tary of. State in the second Cleveland ad- ministration, Minister to Becuador and Minister to Chile. Turkish Reserves Go to Monastir, CONSTANTINOPLE, March 9.—Two thousand Turkish reserves from Asig Macedonia, last Saturday, | hundreas of feet. “The scene was awful. A half dozen young boys ran down the tracks with their clothing on fire. I could hear their agonized screams distinctly from where |1 stocd. They ran some distance down | the track apd then threw themselves to the ground, groveling in the ditches in theilr frantic efforts to extinguish the { lames. Then they lay still,some of them unconsclous, others dead. I do not know how many were killed, but I counted twenty bodies before I came away.” BRINGING IN THE BURNED. ‘Word was sent at once to the Olean pa lice headquarters by telephone. Every doctor and ambulance in the city was summoened. Grocery wagons and car- riages-of all kinds were pressed into ser- vice and everything possible was done to bring the injured without delay to the hospital for treatment. At midnight the first of the injured ar- rived. They were four boys. Their burns are frightful. GROVER CLEVELAND SAYS HE IS NOT IN POLITICS He Is Willing to Act in an Advisory Capacity, However, if So Desired. NEW YORK, March 9.—Former Presi- dent Grover Cleveland denied to-day that he had come ‘0 New York for any politi- cal purpose, as was rumored yesterday. He sald: “I came solely for the purpose ‘of ad- dressing the meeting in Brooklyn last night. The reports that I had a talk with Edward Shepard are untrue. I am not in politics. I am out for good. I saw Mr. Shepard last night for only two minutes and politics did not figure in our conversation. Polities is furthest from my thoughts at present, although I am | always ready to act in an advisory ca- pacity it so desired. As for taking any active part in politics, that is not to be considered.” In an interview by a reporter of the Times this question Was submitted to Mr, Cleveland: 2 “We have a situation now in which the Republicans are claiming to be able to | become active. .The voleano ‘is throwing | Minor and large supplies of ammunition |eliminate trust evils by publicity measures explosive incandescent | were dispatched from here to Monastir, | and by the antvrou‘nt of certain acts segulating commerce, while the Demep. | and health regulations. The amendments | proposed give the United States this au- | thority, “and Senator Morgan says this | would in no way interfere with the Co- lombian constitution, which prohibits the ceding of territory. Other amendments which thé Dcmo- cratic leaders consider vitdl provide that | the United States shall have the right at | all times to use its police, land and naval {torccs. at its own discretion, to protect | the canal property, and that there shall be no doubt whatever about the rights of American’ ships to pass through the canal at all times. SENATOR TELLER’'S VIEW. Senator Teller still belleves that if any canal s to be built it should be controlled and operated exclusively by the United Btates. “I do not look for an early ratification of the canal treaty,” Senator Teller said to-night. “There are many new Senators who have not had an opportunity to give close study to the subject. Besides, there arc several Senators who voted for the Panama project against their original convictions because they. thought they \ crats and some part of the independent voters, on the other hand, claim that the only adequate remedy is the reform of the tariff, which gives to the trusts ghe mo- nopoly they enjoy and hence enables them to endanger the prosperity of the country. In view of this situation, will you state what part you think trusts and tariff will play in the campaign of 19047" The ex-President said in reply: “You may say this for me—that Mr. Cleveland gave it as his opinion that the trust ques- tion would not be eliminated from the next Presidential canvass and expressed himself as being entirely unable to see how the question could be wholly divorced from the tariff issue.” Then he added: “To say nothing of the absolute necessity of a good, old-fashioned insistence on tariff reform for its own sake and what it would do for the people of the country.” Mr. Cleveland was asked if he thought silver would figure at all as an issue with- in the Democratic party, and he said: “f did not know that any one thought about silver nowadays.” i * LEADERS OF OPPOSING FAC- TIONS' IN THE PANAMA CANAL TREeTY CONTEST. A | - -+ were confronted by a situation which mednt sabstantially the Panama canal or nothing. “The Amierican people, who are so earnestly advocating the- building of an isthmian canal, expact the. Governmeat to have undisputed control of the canal, with the right to fortify it in case of an emergency, and at the same time they desire that it shall be made perfectly clear that our coastwise trade shall have an advantage over the coasting vessels of other nations. - There are several Seén- ators who desire that these conditions should be thoroughly understood and safeguarded, and it may take a protract- ed discussion of the subject before any conclusion is reached.” TO MAINTAIN A QUORUM. Senator Allison, . chairman of the Re- publican steering committee, has sent no- tices to all Republican Senators request- ing them to be present at the sessions of the Senate in order to maintaln a quor- um. No definite line of policy has been agreed on in the way of pressing the LEGISLATIVE CHAPLAIN CAUSES AN ANGRY SCENE Democratic Members Object to Him Offering a Special Prayer for Them. SALT LAKE, Utah, March 9.—A spe- cial prayer for the minority (Democratic) members of the Legislature, uttered by Chaplain Porter at the opening of to-day’s session .of the House, provoked the wrath of the Demo- crats, who sharply criticized Dr. Porter for his utterances and later introduced a res- olution dismissing him from further ser- vice in the House. The resolution was de- feated by a strictly party vote. BURDICK lmkfircAll PUZZLES THE POLICE ory That the Assassin Is 3 2 Woman. - BUFFALO, March 9.—The police cling lower branch of the | They Tenaciously Cling to the The- treaty, but the intention is to keep it be- fore the Senate and under consideration as long as possible each day. CUBAN TREATY‘S‘ CHANCES. WASHINGTON, Committee meet treaty, Quite March 9.—The Senate on Foreign Relations will not to-morrow to take up the Cubah but will do so on Wednesday. a pumber of Democratic Senators are opposed to the treaty, and, while they say they have ngrdesire to prevent a vote, they intend briefly to present their views an the measure The Republicans who favor the treaty count on three more vates than the nec- essary two-thirds majority to ratify it. There is a probability of some discussion of the comstitutional right of the Senate to make a treaty affecting the revenues of the Governmeént without the comcur- rence of the House of Representatives. Some opponents of the Cuban treaty have told members of the Foreign Relations Committee that they belleve it is such an important question that the treaty might be delayed until the regular session of Congress. Others have suggested that there should be an amendment providing that the treaty should not become oper- ative until its provisions had been ap- proved by the House, Some members of the committee think that the much dis- puted question ought to go to the Su- preme Court and be settled there. It is the present intention of the For- eign Relations Committee to- press the Cuban treaty to a vote as soon as the Cclombian treaty is out of the way. B T e ) ) , from outside the house, killed Burdick. | The examination of sewers and sluice boxes in the vicinity of the Burdick ‘home failed to reveal any weapon that | ¢ould have been used by the murderer. | _ The police are also working to ascertain all ‘hat actually occurred in the house, both before and after the murder, that night. TRAIN IS DERAILED BY A CHAFING, IRON Two Postal Clerks, Ba man and Express ““essen Receive Slight Injuries. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 9-—The Frisco Southeastern Limited, which left Springfield at 4:30 this morning for the north, was derailed at Bois d’Arc. the mail car, baggage, express, smoker and | one chair ear rolling over on their sides. THe engine and the two sleepers remained upright. Two postal clerks, Miller and | Davis of Kansas City, and the baggage- man and express messenger were slightly hurt. Neme of the passengers was in- jured. The cause of the accident was a \to the theory that a woman, and one ' chafing iron falling on the rails. %