The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1903, Page 3

SECTION OF WILLAMETTE RIVER BRIDGE AND HUNDREDS ARE HURLED INTO WATER IN A'STRUGGLING MASS SCHIFF REFUTES JETT TESTIMONY New Witness Adds Link] to Evidence Against Defendant. Prosecutor Building Up Case Against Marcum's Alleged Slayers. s NA, Ky., July 3L-Common- ney Byrd again surprised all vduction of new wit- t and White trial. At the al Jett claimed .to be’ talking ff when Marcum was not _be found during bat to-day. he testified with Jett when Marcum Le other new witneases cor- rtein Ewen as to the move- t and White when Marcum e Jackson courthouse. rum, Black, Johnson and evidence corroborating ppened In the Jackson e “time of the kiling. ed that Jett was not | ter: the shooting near the well in Jett testified in the he was mear this| ouse yard Alexander H. Smith, testified to having Marcum and shooting, cor- | of Ewen and ks new of &-con. 'or more than B. Marcum, er came into hey did so, her sister’ of were i mez —_— - — CRANK RAINS BLOWS | UPON SENOR MALVANO| Se cretary Gen Office ral of Italian Foreign | e OUject of Vio- 1 lent Attack. . Secre- | while his office e P i NO INTENTION TO TAX THE RAW MATERIAL Says Report Concerning Is Entirely Foundation. k 3, J Chamt Cotton —The | aw cotton | from foreign | m Conditions. Study Opiu NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. HATS OFF. About the American Indian’s Healthy Hair. Indian, accustomed from g0 bareheaded in all | s mever troubled with Facts | by our| to the al germs, which dig | hrive on the sap of | baldness is of recent dis- he non-success of all hair ¢ baldness as a functional s a direct exterminator stroys the cause and per- w as nature intended.’” t eading druggists. Send 10c in r sampie The Herpicide Co., Why don’t grocers money- back everything? Can’t poor stuff; there isn't money ~nough. Schilling’s Best don’t t2ke any money to speak- of 5 | — ' Two at Least Dead | ha e hundred peol orty { s 5 than on h\': red people forty fcet into . HICKMAN. ©"MINNIE GALLOWAY, 13 years old, hurt séveral fire companies and a large force the ater. Two persons are known to | EVA LUCAS of Prosser, Or., face bruised. in back. - N e 5 of police arrived within a few minutes | have been drowned and it is feared that ?:(“&(:“}::*:E / S CHARLES RAPP, 12 years dld, internal and those with broken arms and legs the et ok dond o4 2 5 3EORGE REEDE, legs and head bruised. injuries, B P c e list of dead will be much larger when CLARENCE WELLS, son of 1. W. Wells, MRS, SWINGLETON and - six-year-old’ were huiried to the hospitals. s all are accounted for. Many struck on back broken. daughter, severe brulses. : The news of the accident’ spread rapidly two small boathouses moored to a pler| | MRS, W. H. CALVA 3 MRS. GEORGE FUCHS, back painfully |-|and within d few minutes thousands of of the bridge immediately under the spot MRS, W. ANDERSON, badly bruised. injured. g b people gathered at either end of the whors $t sabe tems i ARSTE TRy e THOMAS JOHNSO! ) MRS. SEYLER. - bridge, anxiously seeking information were injured eith e 1K1 LOUIS HARDER. MRS. T. C. HUMPHREY. about relatives- and Yriends, The bridge o Sy er by striking on the CARRIE HARDER. N. M. D. ROSE. N 4 was closed and all street cars stopped boathouses or by falling timbers. Many ALMA HARDER. MRS. J. H. LITTLEJOHN, . in order to prevent a repetition of the ac- people fell from the roofs of the boat- EDITH HARDER: MRS. A: M. WOODELL. cident by a crush of people. Dousts Inito e~ wallel: St ik for MILDRED RAYMOND. MRS, L. L. ROSS, || The bridge is an old wooden structure, . J LOUIS THOMAS. V. C. GLIDDEN, badly bruised. having been built sixteen years ago, and nall boats and launches in the vicinity CARL MEDNING. MISS F. ROGUE. .| has been considered unsafe for some time, THE SAN FRANCISCO OALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1808 gt B O b PORTLAND COLLAPSES — SR l " | i ' {[List ~of Victims Will- Probably l / Grow. 0, T W ‘///._'\‘,\’ Scenes of Bridge Disaster on River at Portland,. Where Scores Wére Killebd or Injured. || VICTIMS OF DISASTER. . | THE DEAD: - el e g Miss Lottie E. Cameron, aged 16, Tenth and Glisan streets. 5 Many' Edward Shank, aged 13, 542 Second street. i . : THE INJURED: and Scores Are injured. " <l Dozens of boafs at the ORTLAND, July 3L—A. section of | ‘work cf rescue. the bridge which spans the Wil- G > scene soon picked up.those struggling in lamette River at Morrison street | A. JOHNSON, Pledmont. . CLIFFORD and HARRY MOORE, sons of | | th¢ Water, while the injured who were collapsed shortly after 2 o’clock MRS. G. H. RICHARDSON. Dr. Moore: g . B {| plinstog 4d, thwibomtiotete.; Ware < nkeit into the clubhouse and medical aid sum- Every this afternoon, precipitating more | MRS. S. BEHRENS. - s N MRS. F. HOLDART and two daughters. moned. ambulance in the city, MRS. EFFA ROYCE. MRS. WEBBER. ADA PARKER. MRS. M. BELL, seriously injured. MARIA LINHAM. 7 MRS. R. L. McCUMSEY, side badly hurt. R. L. McCUMSEY. Mis§ KENNCOLLY® MRE, EUGENE RAYMOND. MISS VERLIE TRIBOU. MRS. MARY TRIBOU. MRS. E. STANARD. AMOS NININGER, Ashland. OLIVE SHANNON. MRS, BROWN. NELA OAKLEY. MARY MURPHY. A. H. BEESAN. OLIVE SKINNER. 8. P. KLAHN. EDWARD T. HALL, right knee injured by timber. GEORGE HAWORTH, right arm broken, G. B. HARTMUS, badly bruised. MRS. ILSTON, seriously injured, EDITH PARKER. D. C. DURBY, cut aboyt face. JAMES CROSBY. — BERNARD. MRS, HICKS. although it was not condemned. The city was granted authority by the Legis- lature last winter to issue $400,000 in bonds for the construction of a steel bridge, and the Mayor and City Council are now pre- paring the plans for the new structure. The present bridge is narrow and is un- able to accommodate the traffic. At dark to-night two bodies had heen recovered. H. H. Daff, who fell with the crowd and struck a submerged scow, does not remember how he got out. Daff said: I was on the other side of the bridge when it seemed to me that something was giving in an incredibly short time commenced to pick them up. Thousands of people had gathered on the Morrison and Madison street bridges and along the docks to watch Clarence Lutz, an armless man, swim the river, which is about three-eighths of a mile in width at that point. Lutz started from a boathouse on the west_side of the river and swam to the boathouse of the Portland Rowing Club, moored on the east side, just above the Morrison street bridge. As he was climb. ing out of the water the crowd rushed to FRANK HAYNES. CARL WELLS, legs and back crushed. 3 Toa n the south edge of the bridge in order to C. R. ELLIOTT, arms and legs fractured. S. H. HAPPNYER. :v‘:g.pedl.c‘mt;sil (OVer into, tha e adway and get a good view. A section of the pas- CARL MINTIE, broken arm, otherwise MRS. LOUISE GILDES. S ppe heard a shout T went over to the up- senger walk gave way under the heay: badly bruised and injured. ALFRED HARDING. per side. Here, too, it seemed insecure, and I . » y FRANK LOVE. J. NELSON. Rald, ‘‘People, wWe had better move 'back.’” It was too late and I SPAN CROWDED WITH PEOPLE. Alois Horan, an attendant at the Port- land Rowing Club quarters, said: 1 was standing in front of the door of the woatracm watching Lutz as he wes making his weight and the crowding, struggling mass of bumanity was carried down a distance of forty feet. Some fell on the two boathouses moored under the bridge, while others were pre- cipitated directly into the river, which is about fifteen feet deep at that point. MRS. FRANK GILDAY and two children. T R B Ay L g L ol e R T, Many fell between the boathouses, form- Hundreds of people at the clubhouse of ing a pile ten feet high of struggling the Portland Rowing Club, men in boats men. women and children. L and on shore, immediately staried the MRS. CORNELLIE. “in a .skiff. way acroes the river when some men cime up They were w0 jinterested in the swimmer, who was but a few yards off, that as one of them etepping on the plat- form he carelessly missed his footing and fell ovetboard. In_getting into the boat another one was pushed overboard. This attracted the attention of the crowd that was standing on the bridge, There was a good deal of laughing a ing among the people who were the bridge close to the boathouse until the the skiff was push. end of boys were all overboard and sinking. The span was jammed with people go that there could not have bee s for any more. 1 was watching the capsized boat rather than the swimmer, when all of a ‘sud- den I heard a crash and a scream, and looked up just as the span was falling. "It broke in the middle and the people just rolled over ea other down those two chutes that came gether like a hopper. It is hard to tell what happened after that There was a crowd of struggling, screaming men, women and children in the water, and every one about the boathouse went to work in the best way he could to help them out of the water. 1 suppose that there were fully 200 people on that span of the sidewalk of the bridge when it fell. I do not see how there could have been fewer. as the people were crowded there until it did not seem that it could hold any more. Most of those who fell cleared the platform and the buildings and went straight into the water. It is my opinion that there are a great many bodies to be recovered, as there were scores who fell between the the platform to the boathouse and the where there is a_clear, open space nd of idge, river 1+ LAW DEMANDS SEAMGHING TR Mrs. QGertrude Driggs Must Answer a Se- rious Charge. s Alleged Inflaencing of Juroe in Los Angeles to Be Probed. 4 LOB ANGELES, July IL—Mrs. Gertruds Driggs, wbo sought o gala the fortuse left by Salem Charles, or Charies HUA as he was known In Loe Angeles, by In troducing a docuraent alleged to be Hill'y will in favor of her daughter, Grace, Was to-day bound over to answer in the sl inal courts to the charge of atiemptirg to influence s juror In the will eonlse Ball was 8xpd at 33000, Mre. Drigge has not furnished bail, but saye she sxpects to do so within a few days. Mrs. Driggs, according to the evideses in the present hearing, gave te Juros Butler a photograph alleged to be that 5§ HIll, which had Deen altered to coste spond. withr the description of Hill as giv- en’ by . Mre. Driggs In her testimony. ———— EMPLOYES ARE HURT IN BAILWAY COLLISIbN Construction Trein Strikes One of the Passenger Oars at Paradesa. PASADENA, July 31—Six employes of the Pacific Electric Ralilway were in- jured in a collision early to-day on the Pasadena line detween a construction train of two flat cars, loaded with Mes, and a paseenger car carzying nine me- tormen and conductors. . No passengers were aboard the car. Conductor W. E. Gard suffeted serious injuries about the head and was taken ta a hospital. The others were only slightly cut and dbrulsed.. The accident was caused by a misunderstanding, - the constructios crew presuming that the track was clear B “ONE-ARMED HUNTER BREAKS THE OTHER ARM Constable Allen of Monterey Meets With Acc'dent in Perform- ance of Duty. MONTEREY., July 31.—Constable Thom as W, Allen, W attempting to eject 3 drunken man f an entertainment at the opera-house . fell down the stairs and br arm below the elbow. The accident Is a serious ome tc s right arm years agc ent. He is well knowr » as the “one-arme¢ 1] for more than fifty feet. I am of the opinion | that some of the bodies will be found under the boathouse, as many of the people did mot fall straight into the water, but came dows with a slant, which may have sent them i» one direction or another after they sank. Walter Lyons of Salem, who was pri- vate secretary to ex-Governor T. T. Geer, and who was among those precipi- | tated into the river, states that he went | under the water but managed to swim ! to the surface without sustaining any in- | juries and was picked up by a small boat | The injured who were taken to the hospi- tals are progressing favorably to-night and it is not believed any will die. ADVERTISEMENTS. ROOS BROS. Announce ‘To-Day the Beginning of an IMPORTANT SALE OF MEN'S HIGH-GRADE LIGHT-WEIGHT SUITS We vegin to-day a clearing out of all light-weight suits remaining on our counters. "-‘Although. described as “light-weight,” they are well adapted for present we r. They are Single-Breasted Sacks of Blue Serge, Black Cheviots and Thibets, as well as fashionable fancy effects in Cheviots and Wecrsteds, embracing the well-known ROOS MADE gcods and others made by BROKAW BROS. and ROGERS, PEET & CO. No such bargains. were ever before offered in San Francisco. Note weli the following reductions : $18.00 Suits $20.00 Suits $22.50 Suits '$25‘00 Suits $27.50 Suits $30.00 Suits $35.00 Suits now for now for now for now for now for now for now for $14.50 $16.00 $18.00 $20.00 $22.00 $24.00 $28.00 You should make an early call to get the pick of them, for they will not last long when the news gets out. All sizes, to fit all men. ROOS BROS. KEARNY. AT POST.