The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1903, Page 1

U— ~T waKen f,-o,fl e ler’*,’} sy @all. VOLUME XCIV-—-NO. 23. FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1903. MAIMED VICTIMS OF WRECK STILL STRICKEN FAMILIES PREPARE TO LA PRICE FIVE CENTS. ONCE A PEON NOW WORLD'S RIGHEST MAW leltless Wealth of Mexican Mine Owner. Keeps $60,000,000 in Bars Guarded in Steel Cage. Offers to Pay Public Debt of His Country as & Donation. - e Epecial Dispatch to The Call MOB BURNG A NEGRD IN - DELAWARE Tragedy Follows | Battle With Guards. Defenders of Prisoner Wound Several Lynchers. Northerners Led by Virgin- ian Avenge a Hor- ‘ rible Crime. e WILMINGTON, Del., June 22.—A North< >, led by a Virgin: burned a ne- the stake to-nig! within a few s of Mason and Dixon’s line. The victim was George F. White, a negro just out of the workhouse, who was accused of ving feloniously assaulted and stabbed eath Miss Hel S. Bishop, the 17- ld daughter of Rev. Dr. . E. A The c! e of the negro was com- Mond: afternoon and ever been threats of a lynch- ce there ha t night to get ght, however, e law’s slowness and much art of those who cried , a mob that was estimated boys gathered in the e — BATTLE FOR LIFE WHILE THEIR DEAD AT REST e fg;\fis Sy o r PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCENES AT TRESTLE WRECK WHERE ATAL OCCURRED SUNDAY. § s = 5 E £ T | Fon 4 | ! 1 1 T § | ¥ | L ot 1 ‘ | 1 I ‘ i \ | ’ I «x> i WALCHELD { TENDER o Mhe (] L otaNorr VE~+-+ 3 1 | LT 22 | s | ,»C /irr,',w- ~,,s 7 - — | Griwise e < s I = - S, J}yar,yue Vf[w T e Cp2 Lo SV CED | SEOWIRG O 7 S SILINITEIED BY 7 FHLL = { P ¥ chase his m borhood of Price’s C X 11 . - : — B o | from here. They came feom sverywnere, | 1 €FTible Scenes-Are|t : : -1 ing Wilmington and the small towns | Recounted-byithe EATH may yet come to more. of the maimed victims of the North Shore wreck, but up to ted | to the sout > . To lead A . ¢ g . . . | than rhaiichine Frewmct &k Vic e, o a late hour this morning the names of Michael Kirk-and Anton 'Roman alone consti- Why should he inspect it?" said Al-| Whose identity, In the confusion and ex- [njured_ tuted the list of the dead. Though suffering intensely, the survivors eagerly tell their AR | P';g‘;'b;:;gsm;g;;“;‘;; BT it oy versions of the dread tragedy of the rail; and many incidents of heroism and sacrifice are thus " The police of Wilmington and the Con- | H came made known. The ufficials of the railroad began active inwestigation into the causes of the | stable tried to dteperse the growing cro:d i ¥ S‘"dfl" morning the wreck yesterday, but if they reached a conclusion as to where the blame lies they reserved it for but without avail. It was evident that scene o the North “ ¥ £ e . S d | hundreds came for mere curlosity, but Shore Railvoad ' wréck their own uses. No inquests will be held into the cause of the_. death.of thf'z victims of the catas- |once in the mob they became inflamed | disclosed a sorry slght. trophe until many of those injured shall have recovered sufficiently to testify before the Coroner | with the spirit pervading it. The real | A mass of splintered i . Z 3 | leaders were few in number, but they did | timbers and twisted iron remained to tell Of Marin. 1t < their work well. the story of the dreadful tragedy in which — 1don’t want to sell the property and,| It was after 10 o'clock when the march {life was los:, limbs broken and-bodies| ¥ AR rthermore, no experts are permitted to | to the workhouse, a mile away, was taken | bruised and torn. Above, the trestle, its| curred. Many lay motionless beneath | Boards were torn aside, disclosing aper- | unfamillarity with the ground he was enter my mine. armed guards | ,h chief warden of the workhouss ties ripped and splintered, told of the|great weights or wedged . in compart- | tures, though small, through which. the | covering certainly ended, in this case, in here to kee Finding it impossible to get an expert e mine to it, the agent of o company asked Alvarado to make a e for his mine and the company would him cash down. 7To this proposition arado replied: Let the Guggenheims name a price for thelr interests in Mexico and 1f I find gt it is ressonable, after they are ex- mined by my men, 1 buy them. I buying mines, not se 8" ado has 1 1000 burros carrying from his mine to the raliroad. w much has been takenjout of it no ¢ knows—possibly not even Pedro Al- ado. At ne he has a steel cage In which are s of gold and silver to the estimated | ue of $60,000,000. Alvarado recently offered to pay the debt of Mexico as a donation to ‘he Government. His offer was rejected | y Minister of Finance Limantour. He lives in & palace, which he recently com- pieted neer Parral and when he visits the town he s slways accompanied by an armed bodyguard of twenty-five men. the works of the Palmillo | guards, nstantly on duty since the negro was landed in prison, had been warned of the coming of the mob and prepared to defend the man at all costs. Armed with pistols, shotguns and other weapons, the avengers soon reached the jafl. A battery of rallroad tles carried away the great outer door of the work- house. What was going on inside the lockup was not known to the mob, nor ril«l it seem to tare. The second, third | and fourth doors were battered down by the forward leaders of the attacking par- ty, amid the yells and cheers of those who | were pressing forward from the rear. The would-be lynchers were momentarily halt- | €d by 2 hail of bullets from the defenders, but they were pressed forward by those |in the rear. More shdoting was heard, | and there was'a scramble to get out, but | the braver ones in the attacking party , stood thelr ground. In the fusillade that followed four per- sons fell, all members of the mob. They who have been almost Continued on Page 8, Column 3. progress of the forlorn locomotive after its tender and coach had been dashed be- low, and upon which was the stamp of dire disaster. The coach bearing the mourners from the burial place of thelr friend was in- deed a wreck. How a single passenger escaped death is a mystery. Splintered beyond recognition, the vehicle rested, bottom upward, its every beam broken and the rods of iron rent asunder. In the dust of the ravine most of the debris is burled. How it plowed along after the fatal crash is best told by the {ll-fated beings, now suffering in hospitals, who dashed with it to its fate. The coach turned completely over. The speed of the train, when the wheels left the rails, carried It forward with great momentum. As if in a dice box, the pas- sengers were hurled about and ‘tossed in all directions. Seats werc smashed in an instant. Their occupants were pinfoned beneath them. Only a few were free to creep from the debris, bleeding ard partiaily stunned, to realize what had really oc- ments formed by splintered woodwork. Two were dying, their bodies, like. the wreck, ground past remedy. ‘When the coach landed it struck.di- rectly on its top. ‘Every timber went in the crash. The entire body of the car went downward, crushing the top, ventl- lators and window framing outward: Above the floor were 'the trucks, thrown out of direction and mingiing in the mass of wretkage. The locomotive tender, half burled in the earth, rested on one ‘end of the car, disfigured and wrecked beyond re- pair. Early in the morning wreckers were at the trestle. The locomotive was replaced on the rails and work was begun clear- ing the debris beneath. ~About 10 o’clock work was suspended, according to order, and the wreck will remain in its present condition until a thorough investigation by the Cerorfer and ‘the nflma wnmy can be held. Ax marks-on what remain of tha sl of the coach ‘tell storles of the hercism of men and women who hurried to the | scene soon: after the accident ’ucun-.a. victims crawled to safety. Inside and under the mass of wreckage were chop- ped timbers that had hekl the wounded fast and made greater the pain of. injury and shcek. How noble women and men worked to relieve the suffering has been told in part. Their haste to the scene after the car had left the trestle and their courage ing js more ithan an incident of the dis- aster. The ){Igh rate of speed is still held re- sponsible for the disaster by the victims, but the raliroad company will not admit the charge. The statement of Fireman Sheets that he stood. behind an engineer who was making his second trip over the road. coaching and warning him, is re- garded by some as sufficlent testimony as to the cause of the tragedy. There re- ‘mains but little doubt that the tender and car were swung from the track when the curve was. , and that the drive- ‘wheels o(\lhq loe-nofiv. followed. . . The engineer's record Taay or-may not have btlnnmron otmrmlmt his while working ameng the maimed and dy- thé loss of life and the destruction of limb. Mapager Rank has not yet placed the responsibility. The officials of the road have been in consultation since the accident, but have not named a cause for the wreck. General opinion and testimony of those on the train are to the effect that the speed was too high and on this point there seems to be little dispute. Ernest Duden, who, with his wife, was on the trdin, stated to his son that the train was stopped on the way down to make some repairs to the engine before the accident cccurred. The train was running so fast that the water in the tank was sent in sheets over the side and at times the wheels of the carriage were- fairly lifted from the rafls, so great ‘was the speed. There were no more deaths yesterday. The list of fatalities remains, as on Sun- day, two, while thirty-four are known to have been imjured. Many of the injured are improving, -but doubt for the recov- ery of some of the patients is entertain- ed, particularly in the cases of Dr. Smith, his little num-r. Dorvthy BuQ'tx Mrs, | Blame for Disaster Yet Remains fto Be Placed. M. RANK, general manager of the North Shore road, began ac- tive investigation Jnto the causes of the wreck yesterday morn- ing. If he has reached a definite conclu- sion as to who is to blame for the dis- aster he 1 rving the same for recital in the When seen at San Rafael yeste: Y ald have not “W yet been able to fix the blame for yesterday's wreck. I am per- sonally investigating' the whole matter. It is quite evident that no fault lies with the trestle the wheels of the loco- motive or car. All these have been thor- ted with the result that they were fe to\be s “As to Engineer Orth running at too fast a speed, of course I cannot say. He tells me, however, that twenty miles an hour was the maximum rate attained at any time during the trip. I do not believe it possible that If the train’s momentum caused the accident tha engine would have remained on the track. “However, the matter will be sifted down and the blame placed where it belongs. In the meantime we are doing everything in our power to alleviate the distress caused by the accident. As to whether any one will bring suit against the road for damages I do not care to say. “We have not made any overtures for compromise, however, and do not intend to. From information obtained I do mot think there will be any more fatalities as the result of the disaster. The little Smith child may succumb, but reports are tavorable for its recovery. “Dr. Smith, I believe, will recuperate soon. The patients in San Rafael, I am informed, are getiing along nicely and are not as serigusly injured as was at first supposed. “IWe have no revised list of those in- ured or the injuries sustained by them other than the one given out by the com- pany to-day.” @ i @ Duden, James E. Fowler, Dr. W. J. Wick- man and Judge E. B. Mahon. SUPERINTENDENT, UNABLE TO GIVE AUSE FOR WRECK. oughly inspe F SAUSALITO, June 22.—Superintendent Fisher of the North Shore road stated to- night that the company would proceed with an investigation of the wreck as sopn as Conductor Burrows is able to report to the offices and make a statement. Con- tinuing, he said: Burrows Is a sick man, a fact to which I at- tribute his statements of last night. I dom't believe that he really knew what he was say- ing. As yet we have been unable to suggest a cause for the accident, but the officers of the Continued on Page 3, Columa 7.