The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1903, Page 1

This Paper not | . to be taken from e Library.++++ n @all, VOLUME XCHI-NO. 176 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NINE LIDES ARE LOST IN PARISs-MADRID AUTOMOBILE RACE AND GOUERNMENTS OF P territory. The second stage of the rdce, w continuance of the race on Spanish soil. The illumination of Bordeaux, in honor of the race, has brrn countermanded as a mark of mourning. CAUPTIONS | LAY WSTE VST AREA Appalling Results Agreement IsMade Hopes to Depose 1l of Santa Maria’s Activity. Property I)ar;l?xge IsEs- timated at Fifty Millions. Former American Consul in | Guatemala Describes the Disaster. r——i Special Dispatch to The Ma esaltenango interested ws that an area = around the voleanc e ruined. Ashes of an of at g t ave been s an exten Accord! spre: ave been 2 £ 650,000,000 forever ined are number + prominent among them is the resort of La T 1 at this celebrated r covered by ashes t feet rrounded La Sabina an average feet, has been completely de ed. Only a few inches of the tall- es are now to be seen. As though ap the climax, other forests more ant from the volcano we iprooted a tremendo storm, which was generated by vol g under the apprehension blew its head off the is deceived. The late 1ta Maria took place near f the mountain, which is more ve thousand feet high. Com the level of the plain upon 1go stands the volcano if as r straight to its sum- As Quesaltenango is but 7800 feet above the level of the sea, it was there- fore to be that Santa Maria sim- ply ripped itself open to the extent of | early 5000 feet. The action of the Martinique volcano in blowing off its | ead was but a small piece of violence | ompared with the work of Santa Ma- scen ————————— FIRE AND WATER CAUSE MILLION DOLLARS’ LOSS| Flames Break Out in a Philadelphia | Warehouse and Valuable Mer- | chandise Is Destroyed. LADELPHIA, May M.—Fire this ng in the building of the Front Street Warchousing Company caused a s estimated at $1,000,000. The bullding, jch was three stories high on Front and five in the rear with two sub- contained merchandise of a gen- racter. One floor was packed with matting, and there were 1500 pet, 500 barrels of molasses, a rload of wines and other liquors, a car-| nad of matches and much machinery. verything in the bullding was destroyed | by fire or water. fire started in the basement and not discovered until the center of the st floor was in flames. The character the goods in the building made it an | 3 prey to the flames and the whole ructure was soon ablaze. The contents the building were owned by many firms and individuals, and it is not known to-night what amount of insurance was carried. er | Croat fell dead. oNTA FES TRACK WILL HELP GLARK Between Rail- road Men. New Line’s Operation to Begin Earlier Than Stated. Rails From Riverside to Daggett Open to Salt Lake Company. LRl A B S Dispatch to The Cal S ANGELES, May 24.—This ci tual operation m n is gen- erally supposed, provi inforeseen com- cations d st arise. This prospect was 2 tement by Arthur G. Wells, general ma the Santa = west of Albuque wh has he said, “that an n entered into between | Santa Fe and | e Salt Lake road o be permitted to L] Fe tracks for its train: from r to Da; under the usual arrangements. Mr. Wells was asked about. certain re-4 ports to the effect that the Santd Fe| plans to run trains into Salt Lake City. “There is nothing in such reports,” Mr. Wells, positively. The announcement of this agreement of there being two lines is of great interest to Southern California. For a long time it has been known that the Clark road | has expected to have its trains running said | regularly into Lake City within a vear after the er of Jregon Short Line property to its new owners, d men there has been much conjecture as to the reasonableness of such This 1e Santa Fe cuts | out a 1) miles of some- what difficult trackbuilding. and as 500! as Riverside eached, within tew weeks Salt Lake on the edge of the Mojave desert. m Daggett to Caliente, Nev. where now ends the Oregon Short L is pe 50 miles r a little more, and it is stood that the route proposed is not difficult from a truction standpoint. The grade and but few bridges are to be built. e It is understood that the agreement with the Santa Fe is only temporary, and that eventually the Salt Lake will own ts own line from Riverside to Daggett. —————————— FURTHER FATAL CONFLICTS | TAKE PLACE IN CROATIA Emperor Francis Joseph Gives the Ban Extended Powers to Deal With the Rioters. VIENNA, May 24.—In an audience given of Croatia, Count Hade: n Emperor Francis Joseph ex- essed h approval of the measures ) preserve order, and it is reported e the Ban extended powers to deal the situation. The Ban left to-d Budapest to consult with the Qun- garian Premier 4 It reported that further fatal con- flicts occurred in Croatia yesterday. A pathetic incident occurred during a disturbance at Podsuted, a station mear | Agram. .On the arrival of the gendarmes | all the rioters fled except one, who, being | chellenged, answered: “I am a Croat.” | Then, tearing his shirt open, he ex-| claimed: | “Shoot, cowards, if you darel’ Immediately a shot rang t and the 1e LEAPS INTO THE RIVER | FROM BROOKLYN BRIDGE Unknown Suicide Jumps From the | Center Span and Is Carried | Away by the Current. | NEW YORK, May 24—An unknown | man who had been sitting in a car cross- ing Brooklyn bridge ‘to-day suddenly alighted when the car was in the middle of the center span, and running to the| side of the bridge, jumped into the river. | He threw his hat at a fireman who tried | 10 seize him as he stood poised on the edge of the trestle work and then dived head first, holding a lighted cigar be-| tween his teeth. His body rose to the| surface immediately after the plunge and | was carried away by the current. ———— M Waldeck Rousseau Is Blackballed. PARIS, May 24—M. Waldeck Rousseau, the late French Premier, has been black- balled at the Yacht Club here on political grounds. M. Gaston Menier and M. Fer- nand-Crouin, his proposers, and several other members of the committee have re- signed, the rules of the club forbidding that political considerations should influ- ence the election of members, | Senator | but it is likely to be different when Sen- | when they marched past the fatal wall. | ation performed some time ago in New FORMKER 5 FORCING THE FIGHT | { Senator Hanna | in Ohio. | Clash Over Indorse- ment of Roosevelt Is Certain. | | Situation Gives President's Friends Cause for Anxiety. - Special Dispatch to The Call | CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. | W., WASHINGTON, May 24.—Ohio may | easily become the first great battlefield in the Presidential campaign. A v small hing may turn the fight which is now on batw Senators Toraker and Hanna | from a quarrel over a question of in-| dorsing President Roosevelt for tie nomi- | nation to one as to whether he shall be | nominated at all. nator Hanna's inter- | view has caused some anxiety to friends | of the President. It shows them that the contest will be met in the coming State | convention by Senator Hanna, and Sena- | tor Hanna is not often beaten in an Ohio | :onvention. It may be the beginning of | | the heralded opposition to President | Rooscve } which has not yet developed and there i )ittle Gofib, whether Senator Hanna is beaten or not, that the incident cause a straining of his relations ent Roosevelt. { ident Roosevelt's friends say can be no backing down now since | with Pres Pre th | the question has been so far discussed, | and that the resolution must be pre-| sented and adopted, however distasteful may Th tor it be to Senator Hanna. re is a conviction here that Sena- | Hanna is right when he says that | friends did not start the agitation | over an indorsement in the Ohio conven- | tion. There is pretty good evidence that | Senator Foraker started the talk in order to get an issue on which he can fight Hanna. So long as it was a square fight between Senators Foraker and Hanna, Senator Hanna always won, | | ator Foraker is aided by the popularity | of the President. ——————— GEOLOGISTS DESCRIBE TURTLE MOUNTAIN SLIDE Nearly Eighty Million Tons of Rock Is the Amount Thkat Toppled. OTTAWA, Ont., May 24—R. W. Brock and R. G. McConnell, the geologists who were sent to report on the cause of the landslide at Turtle Mountain, which wiped | out the town of Frank, have submitted a preliminary report to Sir Willlam Mul- lock, acting Minister of the Interior. McConnell estimates that between 60,- 0 and 80,000,000 tons of rock fell, the | debris of which covers almost two square miles. The slide is attributed to the steepness of the mountain and the shat tered condition of the rock. This was due | to “faulting” and crushing of the rock | during the process of the mountain build- ing. Heavy rainfalls pouring through the | fissures tended to open them still further. The accident was locally hastened by a creep in the coal mine, which caused a | jar. The mountain where the slip took | place is very badly fractured and is now slipping down continuously in small | pleces. There is danger of another slide, | s some of the fractures extend back five or six hundred feet from the face, and if these were to open another bulk would come down. McConnell thinks that there will always be more or less risk in living at Frank, and that the people should move as soon as possible. —————— Socialists Make Annual Pilgrimage. PARIS, May 24—The annual pilgrimage | of Socialists and Revolutionaries to the wall in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, against which the Communards were ex- ecuted in 1871, took place this afternoon and passed off without any disturbance, | Three thousand persons marched in the | procession to the cemetery. Some shouts of “Long live anarchy” were raised, and the “Carmagnole’” was sung in spite of police orders forbidding it, The survivors | of the Commune were much applauded ———— Death of Max O’Rell. ! PARIS, May 2%.—Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell) died last night. He has been ail- ing for several months and never recov- ered entirely from the effects of an oper- York. —————— Edward Viewed the Demonstration. LONDON, May 24.—The Daily News says that the King drove through Hyde Park in a closed carriage during Satur- day's demonstration against the Govern- ment’s London education bill, e | eling on the special | special Grand Jury as to the !led by Sheriff Axby, immediately started FRANCE AND SPAIN STOP THE CONTEST ARIS, May 24.—In view of the number of accidents, many fatal, in the first stage of the Paris-Madrid automobile race, from Versailles to Bordeaux, PremierACombcs_ has forbidden the continuance of the contest on Fremch | hich was to have been continued on Tuesday, included a run over French territory from Bordeaux to the Spanish frontier. It is reported that the Madrid Governmment has forbidden & ! - \ WrzrzarM . VaANDERBILT JR.? TUNG BN T0 WE THE FEUD CLANS Troops Pitch-Camp ~inthe.Centerof Jackson. JACKSON, Ky., May 24.—A battalion of { troops numbering 120 men, with a Gatimg sun, arrived here this afternoon to pre- | serve order in the town and about’the courthouse during the investigation of ! the assassination of James B. Marcum, the latest victim of the Hargis-Cockrell feud. The troops arrived on a special train from Lexington and at once pitched camp near the center of the town. train with the sol- | diers were County Judge James Hargis | and his brother, State Senator Alexand: Hargis, the most prominent two members of the Hargis family. i Another passenger was Judge Bach, who | is regarded as the most important of the witnesses summoned to testify before the sination of Marcum. Judge Bach returned from | Los Angeles, Cal., to give evidence. Dur- | ing the course of an interview he ex- | pressed the belfef that no disorder would occur as long as the troops remained. | Judge Bach said he did not fear a per- | sonal attack and declared that he would | remain at his home without taking any | special measures for seif-protection. Public opinion is divided as to the prob- | ablity of indictment or conviction of Mar- cum’s assassin as a result of the work of the special Grand Jury, which will be tm- paneled to-morrow. Curtis Jett, who is under arrest in Wincheste arged with the crime, will not ask for a change ot venue if indicted and returned to Jack- | son, i AL M SR Ay MOB OF ANGRY FARMERS GATHER FOR A LYNCHING | Their Intended Victim Escapes Death, as He Could Not Be | Positively Identified. | LAWREN: Ind., May A mob made up of farmers gathered here to-day and threatened to lynch Louis Everson, a | negro held on sguspicion of having mur- dered Rosa Kaiser and assaulted her father on last Friday. The negro could not be identified, however, and during the excitement word was received that an un- known negro, supposed to belong to the same constructi gang, had assaulted | two little daughters of George Smith, a | farmer living in the country. The mob, in search of this second negro, but after a hard chase it was found that he had escaped on a freight train, { Mrs. Smith stated that she and her two | little giris were alone in the house when the negro entered with a club. They screamed and escaped from the house when the negro fled —_———— SHOOTS ANOTHER'S WIFE | AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE NEWCASTLE, Pa., May 24L-—Charles Grannis, son of John Grannis of this eity, shot Mrs, Della May Rhyhal this evening and then shot himself. Neither can re- cover. Mrs, Rhyhal is the wife of John N, Rhy- hal of this city, but they have not lived together for three years. Grannis had been paying attention to Mrs. Rhyhal and to-day he took Mrs. Rhyhal and her mother out for an outing.:On the way back they stopped at Cascade Park, where Grannis suddenly put his hand on Mrs. Rhyhal’'s shoulder and said he would shoot her to death. Ue drew her toward him and fired two shots from a revolver, Granns then turned the weapon upon him- self, =, & | and twenty-seven minutes. CHAERLES JARROT T ~ k | , F r FPREMIER COMBES + | DAY’S RECORD l IN CONTEST OF AUTOMOBILES PARIS, May 24.—Follow- ing are the net results of the first day’s run in the Paris- Madrid automobile race: One chauffeur crushed to death and another cremated under his burning machine. Soldier and child killed. Woman run down and killed. | Two drivers of automo- | | | | | biles and two spectators, names unknown, reported killed. Marcel Renault and Lor- raine Barrows, noted auto- mobilists, fatally injured. Mr. Stead and his chauf- | feur dangerously injured. Henri Fournier’s time for the Versailles-Bordeaux run reduced to eight hours and | seven minutes. ) Louis Renault’s automo- | bile attains a maximum | speed of 8834 miles an hour. THE CO. TEST BECAU AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE WHO STARTED BUT FAILED TO FINISH IN THE AUTOMOBI AUTOMOBILIST WHO MADE SPLENDID TIME OF THE HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. AND FRENCH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL LE RACE. NOTED WHO STOPPED Series of Fatal Disasters Mars Exciting Run in Which Mar; velous Speed Records Are Made. ARIS, May 24.—The first stage in the Paris-Madrid automobile ra from Versailles to Bordeaux, l’:i miles, was finished at noon to-| day, when Louls Renault dashed at a furious pace into Bordeaux, having made a record run of eight hours | An hour later M. Gabriel arrived with a still better record of eight hours, *seven minutes. Tt is estimated from the times made that these automobiles/ covered 62 miles an hour on the road outside the cities. These victories, however, were clouded by a serles of accidents, having In several cases fatal results. Marcel Renault, the winner of the Paris- Vienna race last year; Lorraine Barrows, a well-known automobilist, and Renault's chaffeur, were seriously and it is believed fatally injured, while Barrows’ chauffeur was killed. The most terrible accident occurred near Bonneval, ten miles from Chartres, where machine 243, driven by M. Porter, was overturned at a railroad) crossing and took fire. The chauffeur was caught un- der the automobile and burned to death, while two soldiers and a cHild were killed. A chauffeur was badly injured by an ac- cident to his motor car ncar Angouleme. A woman crossing the road in the neighborhood of Ablle was run over by one of the motor cars and Kkilled. Mr. Stead and his chauffeur, who were first reported to have been killed, are still alive. It seems that their automobile col- lided with another car with which Stead had been racing for several kilometers, wheel to wheel, and was completely over- turned in a ditch near Montguyon. Stead was caught under the machine, while his chauffeur was hurled a distance of thirty feet and his head and body were badly cut. Stead was conscious when he was picked: up, but complained of suffering great pain. He was conveyed to the near- est farm. This number of accidents has not caus- BT RAAILE , ed any great surprise here, in view of the number of contestants in the race and | the great speed and-power of their ma- chines. | It is said that Louis Renault's automo- | bile attained at Boudinier, between Char- tres and Bonneval, a maximum speed of | % miles per. hour. VANDERBILT DROPS OUT. The name of W. K. Vanderbilt Jr. dis- | appeared from the reports along the route after ' Rambouillet, where he passed twenty-eighth in order at 4:45°o’clock*this | morning, going in fine form. The omis- slon of his name from the dispatches from | Chartres, the .next town on the road, caused some anxiety and brought forth a | number of inquiries. It was learned later | that Henry Fouri and Baron de Forest withdrew from the race together before reaching Chartres. All of them suffered | breakdowns, and, having lost three hours, | they decided that it was useless to con-| tinue. Vanderbiit and Baron de Forest re- turned to the Hotel Ritz at 11 o’clock this morning. They laughed and made light | of their withdrawal. Foxhall Keene, Tod Sloan and W. J.| Dannant, the American artist, did not ap- | pear at the starting line this morning when their turn was reached and conse- quently did not take part in the race. C. Gray Dinsmore is thus the only | American left in. Versailles passed a night of wild excite- | ment. It is estimated that 100,000 persons | crowded into the little town to witness | the start of the race. Soldlers with fixed bayonets lined the track for some distance | from Versailles. .A bomb was exploded at 8:35 o'clock as a signal to get ready, and immediately Charles Jarrot's car drew into place. Another bomb was fired at a quarter to 4 o’clock for the start and then the enormous machine shot forward amid the shouts of the thousands of spectators. The other cars followed in quick succes- sion. : Mme. de Gast, the sole female com- last year's Par! woman to participate in the Her machine was decked with flowers and her departure was t signal for a great ovation. She made a splendid run, passing five of her competi- tors before reaching Chartres The crowd around Vanderbilt's machine prevented him reaching the starting line in time and he was further delayed by a controversy with the judges, finally start ing two minutes’ late. The last departure was a quarter to 7 this morning. RENAULT TAKES THE LEAD. The repoxts along the route soon showed that Louis Renault was making a great race, and before Chartres was reached he’had overtaken and passed Charles Jar- rot and M. Renoe de Kynff and gained a lead which he never lost afterward. Dis- patches from Vendome, Tours and Poic- tiers told of his passing through ahead and Bordeaux sent the announcement of bis arrival first at 12:14:4 o'clock. He had beaten Henri Fournier's record of 8 hours 4 minutes. Charles Jarrot fi petitor in was the on present con nished second at 12:30 o’clock, having covered course in hours 44 minutes. M. Gabriel eri th at 1:08, his time being 8 hours utes. The other contestants who ma fast time were J. Salleron, § hours 0 mi utes; Baron de Crawher, § hours - utes; J. B. Warden, 8 hours 3 minutes and M. Voigt, § hours 5 minutes CHAUFFEUR MEETS DEATH. During the afternoon word of the acei- dents began to arrive and cast a cloud over the event. A dispatch from Bor- deaux announced that Lorraine Barrows had met with a shecking accident near Libourne, seventeen miles from Bor- deaux at 1:4 this afterncon. It appears that Barrows had tried to avoid a dos which was crossing the track, and his monster car, number five in the race, _‘cmfiimrodonhna. Column 6 |