The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1903, Page 1

XC1V=NO. VOLUME 143. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1903. PRICE FIVE © EN’TS.— LUCKLESS STEAMSHIP SOUTH PORTLAND CRASHES ON A REEF NEAR CAPE BLANCO ON THE PERILOUS COAST OF OREGON AND DROWNED AND MISSING NUMBER MORE TH. AN A SCORE 10 RESGUE HER INFANT Society Favorite a Heroine Near Millwood. | Mrs. Dow Saves Child From Death Under a Train. geous Mother Sustains ight Injury as Cars Whirl Past. S TR Jour NATURALIZATION FRAUDS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED Federal Grand Jury Indicts St. Louis Police Captains and Several Politicians. branch ndicted by | for com- eged to Ty Club, were recent t thirty Do- 1 number of rett will have to Tnited States Dis- nineteen having returned against Each is under & rs e —— SULTAN INCREASING HIS ARMY IN THE BALKANS 2.—Thirty-seven bat- t announced to- n the vilayets nd Kossovo and sen called out in | under orders for | onica. Two bat- | € 170 men, arrived here“ Bilbao Mirers Go Out on Strike. | —A strike oc-‘ mining dis- pidly. To-night 1&0001 The railroad service | Reinforcements of here. wor has been ir “troops are arr kers layed, and a mad rush was soon made for the boats. — DROWNED, AND MISSING. S. Baker, Alameda. J. S. Lakey. i F. Meringe. C. Hallenbeck. D. McKay. Paul Reinnuth. J. C. Wright. J. W atson. ; Second Officer Killgore. being rescued). Steward William Holman. E. Humphrey, cook. H. Christoffsen, scaman. John McKenzie, seaman. Charles Peterson, seaman. J. B..Doherty, fireman. P. Wolf, fireman. Mrs. W. E. Tyrrell of Portland. Mrs. Tyrrell's son, aged 14 years. First Assistant Engineer Charles Huson (died shortly after Second Cook George Jackson. Mprs. Fletcher Bent, Nova Scotia. Terrified Passengers Crowd‘E Boats in Dain Effort to Gain Shore. Special Dispatch to The Call. ANDON, Ore.. Oct. 10.—The latest details of the wreck as gathered here to-night come from the lips of Captain McIntyre of San Fran- cisco, who was master of the ill-fated steamship. In conversation he said: “At 5:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon a dense fog was covering the mouth of the Coquille River below Bandon. I thought I could make Port Or- d, eight miles below Cape Blanco. But so dense was the fog and so dark tempestuous the weather that no bearing could be taken. All boats were hed, but in my belief the only one that lived is the one that landed. I last to leave the sinking ship. The scene aboard was fearful: women 1d the men were scargely more brave. Those saved with me are A. Reimer of San Francisco. Emanuel Pasomemis of San Francisco. Baker of Alameda, Al Bailey of North Dakota, William L. Watson timore and Guy Bent of San Francisco, whose mother was drowned she attempted to gain the boat in which we were.” PORT ORFORD. Oct. 20—The evidence submitted at the Coroner’s jury to-day goes to prove that Captain McIntyre deserted his vessel half an hour before she sank and even before the passengers or crew had been em- barked. The claim that the captain left in the first officer’s boat instead of his own, and that after he had disappeared in the fog the crew, under the direction of First Officer Bruce, had to construct rafts from spars and hatches on ‘which to save themselves, the boats having been smashed against the ship’s side or capsized and drifted away. The body of Charles Huson, first assistant engineer, is here, and the jury found that he came to his death from exhaustion caused by his expo- sure on the rait, to which he clung half frozen for many hours. — ANDON, Or., Oct. 20.—At § o’clock yesterday afternoon, while a heavy mist muffied the warning roar of the surf, the A steamer South Portland, bound for San Francisco from Portland, blundering far out of her course, struck on the reefs oft Cape Blanco. survivors The women wept and screamed, while many of the men howled In sheer panic. The captain’s boat remained upright until elghteen terror-stricken persons had swung themselves down the ropes into it. Then it capsized and tipped the cceupants into the turbulent water. The captain righted the little craft as 1t tippled on The shock drove her bow high on the o rocks, the beating screw held her there :::x °;::;1:;:"“r‘:“i’::: ::‘ of the orig- for one long minute, then she slid slowly |\ = Fl;zmer B;l : d? bhoat. off the recf and sank. All the boats were | .\ "0 € C | “-’*sh rowned before launct all but two capsised imme-i o = " B‘“)h ‘; o made frantic diately, or were crunched against the | Elev. reach her with an oar. steamer's side by the torrific seas, and | il PerSons managed to get away on a life raft and were for a long time given up as lost. The raft reached shore with ten survivors and one dead body. They are: Charles Bruce, first officer; James Ward, chief engineer; T. Pizzoti, second assist- ant engineer; John McKown, oller; J. Driscoll, oiler; W. Hughes, fireman; W. Robertson, fireman; James Alwood, sea- man; H. Webber, passenger; C. Johnson, out of a total of forty passengers and crew, twenty-one are believed to' have been drowned. When the vessel struck there was the | greatest confusion. Members of the crew rushed up and down the deck trying to calm the distracted passengers, but the seriousness of the situation was so ap- parent that their fear could not be al- Continued on Page 3, Column 3. / g i SCENE OF‘;I'HE WRECK OF THE STEAMER SOUTH PORTLAND OFF OREGON'S COAST, AND OFFICERS OF THE WELL KNOWN VESSEL WHO WERE IN THE DISASTER. | l Woman Passenger Tells of Fears " Before Doyage Begins. Special Dispatch to The Call. Portland. She was afraid of going to sea and did not refrain from telling. her friends so, but told them in a jesting way, “That many had traveled before her, and there was no particular reason why disaster should happen just because she was aboard.” It was apparent, how- ever, that she feared disaster might over- take the vessel. MARINERS ARE PERPLEXED. Captain McIntyre is a young man and said to be a very able navigator. He was formerly master of the steamer Michigan and is well known along the coast. His officers are considered as competent as there are to be found in Pacific waters and marine men are at a loss to see how ORTLAND, Or., Oct. 20.—Most of the passengers on the ill-fated steamer South Portland were travelers bound for San Fran- cisco from the East. So far as | can be ascertained at this time only Mrs. | W. E. Tyrrell and her 16-year-old son, W. E. Tyrrell Jr., lived in this city. Mrs. Tyrrell was the wife of W. E. Tyrrell, chief clerk at the office of the British Consul, James Laidlaw. She was on her way to visit her mother in San Francisco, whom she had not seen for several years. A most pathetic circumstance is that Mrs. Tyrrell had made all arrangements to travel by rail, but upon the suggestion of friends changed her mind and secured berths for herself and son on the South' - THE SURUIUORS. PASSENGERS. L. Baker. | H Guy Bent. | Al Bailey. William Wilson. H. Weber. OFFICERS AND CREW. Captain J. McIntyre. Charles Bruce, first officer. James Ward, chief engineer. T. Pizzotti, second assistant engineer. John McKeon, oiler. J. Driscoll, oiler. ‘William Hughes, fireman. William Robinson, fireman. James Alwood, seaman. C. Johnson, seaman. John Reimer, seaman. Emanuel Pasomemis, cook. i + -+ the steamer could so widely vary from her course as to strike the reef. P. F. Duflon, general agent of the Mer- chants’ Steamship Company, received notice of the wreck from the San Fran- | cisco office this morning, but the infor- mation contained no details. The steamer was placed on the Portland-San Fran-| eclsco run about two months ago by the company which he represents and was making regular trips every fourteen days. She had accommodations for about four- teen passengers all told. Intyre, sald Mr. Duflon, has always had his full confidence, and he is at a com- plete loss to know how the terrible acei- dent came. to happen. VESSEL LISTS TO PORT. The steamer South Portland left Mont- gomery dock in this city at 2:30 o'clock jlast Sunday morning with Pilot W. H. Patterson on the bridge. In her hold were stowed away 8400 sacks of wheat, 2700 sacks of oats and 3500 sacks of bar- ley, constituting in all about 110 tons. she had a slight list to starboard, but the cargo was considered light for a ves- Continued on Page 3, Column 5. | { alone, and in the even Captain Mec- | [* aHUTS OUT JAPAN FROM MANCHURIA ‘Russia Concludes . aTreaty With China. +* i |Gains Practically Com- plete Control of ‘ Provinces. Even the Mongolian Troops Therein Will Take Orders From St. Petersburg. BERLIN, Oct. pondent of a Berlin newspaper quotes the 20.— [he special corres- | Vostoschni Vesnek, a journal published in the Far East, as author! the ment that Paul Lessar, Russian Mir to China, d a for has concl with China which gives Russia practical con- trol of Manchuria, although under a nomi- treaty nal Chinese government. | takes to conduet any arising with a | third party because of the new treaty. | The treaty provides that the appoint- { ment and dismissal of the Governor-Gen- eral and commander-in-chiet of the pre- fects in Manchuria shall be effected by | the Chinese government, in agreement | with the Russiam. dfplomatic representa- tives. The C e troops stationed in | the three pro#ifiges of Manchuria shall be under . control, but, if the Chinese sg are incapable of main- | taining d suppressing brigandage, Russia is to have the right of using her | own troops to this end. Trading In Manchuria and the exploita- | tion of mines there is prohibited, except ‘trw Russians and Chinese The cu are to be under joint Chinese and Ru control. The railroad becomes e: property, on mutual agreement, at the | end of twenty years. The posts and tele- | sraphs are to be under Russian and | Chinese control and disputes are to be | settlea by a Russian referee. In the event of war with a third power | arising from the new treaty it will be conducted by Russia and China in co- operation; should a withdraw her co-operation Russia w arry on the war of victory China shall cede Manchuria to Russia and im- mediately withdraw her civil and military | officials. The Chinese signatories to the new treaty are given as Princes Tchin Wan ‘Wen, Schal Hun Tsi and Tchang Tehii LONDON, Oct. %.—A dispatch to Reu- ter's Telegraph Company from Tokio | says: “No conference M. Ko- mura, the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Baron de Rosen, the Rus- | sian Minister, has occurred since October | 14. Precautionary measures, howgver, are | apparently proceeding briskly. Viee Ad- | miral Toga, a man of unusual decision | has been appointed to command the | standing squadron. This chang | manders has attracted attent CALAIS, France, Oct. 20.—Four Russian torpedo-boats, bound for “Port Arthur | put into Brest last night for coal. el | TRAMPS TO NEW YORK IN SEARCH OF HEALTH MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Oct. 2).—Having walked 800 milés to cure himself of con- sumption, B. C. Norris, for years a news- paper man In Califcrnia and other West- ern States, arrived here to-day. Norris has walked all the way from California, and Is now bound for New York, where he once resided. He left San Francisco August 8, 191, to see it he could not re- cover his health, physiclans having told him that he had consumption and could | live but a short time. He then weighed | ninety-six pounds. His weight now is 135 pounds. | Norris' Russia under- war of oms n between route has been a crooked one. | He followed the railroads all the time | with the exception of a few days when he struck out for the forests of Colorado he ana got lost. From San Francisco went to Portland, Or., thence to Seat back to Portland into Idaho, Utah, Cc orado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Ken tucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, thence into | Canada, back to Illinois, to Ohio, Penn- | sylvania and into New York, coming down the Erie to this city. Norris has received considerable help from telegraph operators along the rail | roads during his long tramp, and has had some stariling as well as amusing ex- periences. | When he first set out Norris thought it | very doubtful about his being able to com- plete his intended tramp to New York, but preferred to die on the way rather than rerain at Fome and slowly waste | away with consumption. ———tee Stern Pleads Not Guilty. { WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Leopold J. Stern, the Baltimore contractor arrested in Teronto under two warrants charging false pretense in the supply to the Gov- ernment of satchels for rural free deliv- ery carriers, was given a preliminary hearing in the Supreme Court to-day. Stern pleaded not guilty.