The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. TUESDAY, JUNE o 1903, TORNADD'S E COA TRACK FOUNDATION'S WEAKNESS AT PUNTA GORDA ST I__,I_NE LIMITE GOULD’S IRE D JREAD WORK -~ N GEORGIA Viajority = of Victims Are Women and Children. of Town Is Ac-1 ished Within Two Column 5 ND MORE SHIPS IR BREMERTON fuses to Reconsider * ~ Its Decision. v < the New. York fr f the New York will be do opasit of charge and ked oo LD DIES IN DITCH ON BAXERSFIELD STREET Three-Year- Boy . Loses: Life While Playing With His Brothers. e nin e the Bremer author v’ Departmen vised them department’s id only ¥ resuits.: Acting S Darling ¢ s that the Navy De t is not in- Dg ‘a temperance campaign in the Bremerton, but that it will not istence of several sal nder ly inferior work ca in docks. Had the such be done-! town of street as s promised nearly $250,000 would have n expended at the yards within thé néxt six months, ——at—— Ordination in San Mateo. SAN MATEO, June 1.~The senior class Charch- Divinity. School Bremerton cleaned up Ffont w Navy Department Re-| 5 ‘will be LDVERTISEMENTS., ordained by the -Bishop - of California ~~ | Wednesday, June 3, at 10:3) a, m.. In the ] ». Church of St. Matthew The sermon will.| (J ounter fel € e by the Bishop of Sacramento. The| parish will entertain visitors at lunch and a reception at Evening prayer will be said ~ at the Divinity School. Trains ar- ¥y rive at San Mateo at 9:45 from the north foods are worse|z; = s Mateo at 3165 trom the nortn 5 Mateo at 4:15 going south and 4:30 going —_———— Typimwid Claims Another Victim. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, June 1.— Another death has resulted from the re- cent typhoid fever epidemic. The victim was George Hargrave, a carpenter em- ployed on the university buildings. He than counterfeit money — they| ]“ss one of the first to be taken dowu | with the fever. He was a native of Don- | namore, N.- Y., and was 35 years old. o | With the exception of eight or ten suf- | ferers who are not vet out of danger the injure the health | reachea Remedy —| | BUTTE, Mont., June 1.—Sureshot, an old | cow-puncher, was seriously shot in a saloon a > i row at Absarokee Saturday morning, according Schilling’s Best. | the comvalescent stage. ———————————— to & report received at Lodge to-day Sureshot was refused drinks and commenced firing. He was shot down by Ed Runners after about ten shots had been fired. | great majority of typhoid patients have | | nary | | done s N Nraviey | VIEWS OF THE CARS THAT ) OVER THE BLUFF AT PUNTA G)ORDA ¥ LLAST SATURDAY NIGHT. CARRYING WITH THEM A GREAT NUMBER OF INJURY TO NEARLY SIXTY PERSONS ON THE TRAIN CAUSE OF THE WRECK OF TH BROKLEN COACHES ON \ 3 10 SHOW IN AETALIATION | |Struggle With Pennsyl- | vania Bailroad Will Be Bitter. Control of the Baltimore and Ohio Line the Great Object. NEW. YORK, June 1:~The' bitter rel between and the pany one Penn believed recently owned a railroad fi and compe Wall street Pennsylv PROTCS &Y E A \.EA_LH. oo was able to crawl out with a few bruis. The southbound Owl was only ten mir ful Sign. lutes behind- the freight and had it been| NEW YORK, June 2 | on’ ifme a Aisastrous wreck. with proba- | says: = F) 'bly great loss of life. would have fol-| are some lowed. The Owl was held at Delano un- | tion: T | hoE T . BARBARA AND CAUSING BELOW SANTA ASSENGERS Expert Engineers Discover That the Rails Were Lai on Uncertain Ground Near the Edge of a Precipice‘ d and That the Locomotive’'s Weight Caused the Slide TA ‘BARBARA, “June cause which -led up to the terrible train ‘wreck on the coast line south S of this city Saturday night, ‘in which over for peaple were injured nas been . determined with some . cer- tainty. 1.—The’) not more than two feet’ aws On the | inner side of the track there a pre | ¢ipiteus cliff along- which. at intervals, | thought -possible’ at.-the time According to the opinion of expert en-! gineers whe have made elose ‘mspection of the roadbed at that pomt the.embank- ment -over which the train was precipi- tated was weak and the weight of. the locomotive caused. the ralil to slide toward the precipice. At the point -wlere -the cars plunged from the track to:the surf below the forty-foot embankmeiit ‘was very weak. : . For a distance of half a mile the bank strengthened by cribbing -of -ordi- railroad ties to a depth. of about feet from- the surface. This ‘was. as -a_precaution against a- possible washout, as the surf at high fide dashes #gainst the foot af the embankment. The tracks were laid very.close to the eédge of the embankment, ai o6ne_ point being was four BARK ANNIE JOHNSON BEATS SAILING RECORD Makes Trip From San Francisco to Honolulu in Eight Days and Sixteen Hours. HONOLULU, May 23.—The bark Annie Johnson has beaten all records of sailing vessels for the trip from San Francisco to Honolulu, making the trip in eight days and sixteen hours. She left San Fran- cisco at 5 p. m. May 13, covered 316 miles a day for two consecutive days, and was off port here early yesterday morning. The next auickest record for the same trip was that of the American ship Fair | Wing, in eight days seventeen and a half L e e o e e e S e T e 7 homes within a day or sq covering a distance of a mile or . more, here are curves .of low per cent. Thosa who were- injured in - the “wreck are doing. bétter than' the .physiclans of ‘the ac- cident...With one or twp. exceptions the patients: who .- remained here will'\be able to leave. the ‘hotels and hospitals where | they are now ‘located, and return o their Frank.A..Christmas .of San:Francisco, the ‘well:known. -traveling ".man, whose spine was injured in:the wreck,. is.at-the Arlington . Hotel ‘and dlthough” there is no" marked change - for . the better to- night. it _is_tholight that he. i« doing as well as_ can_be ‘expected.. If- possibla he will be-moved-to the Cottage Hospital to- moriow. <o i Mrs. - H. 'C.°Smith.of Highland Park, E, B. Gogerty. of - 1.0s Angeles ‘and Mrs. Coopér -of: San’ Francisco, ‘who had ‘been at ‘the. ‘Cottage Hospital. since thé- ac- ¢ident, were placed ~on- stretchers. and afternoon. “All thiee are very badly hurt Mrs. -Dunlap,. who was at the Arlington Hotel, was sufficiently -recovered .to..be conveyed to Los Angeles, where she will be. taken to the ' Sisters’ Hospital for The following are rapidly treatment. recoverin Mrs. Nelson, Johnson, illiamson - Dunne, Varie;. Qakland; 1 .'San ‘ Francisco; dining-car waiter diner; Miss Blunt, Francisco; Mrs. "W Gray, Lawton, Mrs: J.: E.- Carr, Creston, Ja. “Stebbins,. Ithaca; F. Thornton, Berkeley, dining-car waiter; Mrs. Fred: Colgrove, Loyalton, - Cal.; Mrs." J.. M: Casey; Fort Madison; -R: 8. Casey, Nelson Johnson, Fort Los John B: Magdison, Angeles: Walker Hall, t J. J. P. Boyd; cook in Mrs. Fort: Madison: Train Agent O. Wells, J. J. .McLaughlin, San Francisco: Mrs. .W. B. ‘Halnes, Berkeley; Miss Leonora Schepbach; Pasadena; William .Ryder, E. J. Kialy, Chi- San Francisco:” J. ‘Mrs. Ryder; Tacoma; taken to los Angeles on u-lufln'lhial ductor Tyler: hours, in 1861; and that of .the American brigantine W. -G. Irwin in eight days sev- enteen hours, from San Francisco to Ka- hulvi in 1881 The -Annie Johnson was originaily the Ada Iredale, which took fire, with a car- g0 of coal aboard, when on a voyage from Newcastle to San Francisco in 1879. The vessel was abandonéd and eight months later was found floating about the south seas near Tahiti, her interfor all burned out, but the hull intact. She was towed to port and rebuilt as the Annie Johnson. —— ‘WASHINGTON, June 1.—It is probable that the United States Government will recognize the legality of President Castro's decree clos- ing a number of -poris in Venezuela in the possession of the insurgents, cago; -E. A. Thomas, ", Lewis, Louisville, Ky.; Pullman-Con- Ou) e 2 e o e o NITRIC ACID ENDANGERS EXPRESS COMPANY OFFICE Bottle Explodes at Night .and an Employe Saves Packages From Fire. REDDING, June 1.—A bottle of nitric acid shipped as glass by C. C. Brayton from Lewiston, - Trinity County, came near- being the cause of the destruction of the new home of the Wells-Fargo Company in this city. The acid had been in the local office since February 14. Last night it exploded, setting fire to sui- rounding packages. An employe was ir the office and extinguished the flames before much damage had been done. [ | | i the train had been running when wr TARDY TRAIN ESCAPES WRECK Before Reaching Smash-! up Southbound Owl Stopped. s e | FIELD, June 1.—A car loaded| with lumber which was left by the night ny—pra =) lade | tetegra city goy nited fav ground tha the power been a rea Justice Br question as pali to legisla acter, but that it did not fact that the municinality to any restrai case. he said, of telegraph lines was arge made by the vision alone and he add timony in the ¢ it | had undertake the switch crew on a switch projecting on | o0 tA°Eh BRI N the main line last night caused a bad ny. 1o put its freight wreck .at 2 o'clock this morning do. not s on the Bouthern Pacific: just at the en-|hs not r trance to the Bakersfield yard. The train running abett six miles an hour hen it struck . the car and the engine | turned completely around and landed its side with the head turped west in exactly the opposite direction to which ed. | MRS. GEORGE CROCKER'S FRIENDS ARE ANXIOUS Her Continued Illness Is Not Re- garded by Them as a Hope- The engine and two. cars just behind it and the lumber car were demolished. En- gineer Treadway jumped. but Fireman Butz ‘was caught under the engine. He til 6 o'clock this morning in’ consequence | malady the acoident. | e e | hac WS, ‘June 1 case Swan | tion, a form Taibct in the $36,000 suit was called in | peing i perior Court this ‘mor A continu- s granted by the o to Fr of i She has WIL] t day; | plete recovery As'the outing season is~ now at its height, we shall-have a’special sale of golf and bicycle hose. for $1.00 a pair. The hose come in solid colorsof blue, black and gray, with tops of variously colored stripes and plaids. The assort- ment of colors in this regard is exceed- ingly large. The hose are made from a fine, high- grade, all-wool worsted yarn and are just the proper thing for an outing of any kind where short trousers ase worn. 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