The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1903, Page 1

T YOLUME XCIV—NO. 152, SAN FRANCISCO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 Thke Chutes—Vandeville. Tivoli—Grand Opera. 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS, BLACKS HELD | BONDAGE IN LODISIANA Extensive System Russia Again in of Slavery Is Uncovered. Runaways Whipped at Troops Return to the the Post When They Are Caught. Fee: ra eral 0 of Evidence Against Planters. Fede Epectal Dizpatch to The Call. N ORLEANS. Oct Eiates Grand Jury of the et of Louisi n vestigation a° charges t Lou = REOGCUPIES THE SEAPORT OF MOUKDEN Possession of Town. “Open Door” of Manchuria. That American Treaty Will Be Ignored. ——— Oct. 29, Manchuria, says: fan troops entered nd achment of Rus the town reoccupied was layed by the guardh nt prevailing here. Oct. 29. 23.—Russia’s reoc as announced by in St. Petersburg, # Office as one of the the Far East. regarded developments in reassuring to for Moukden rs Obtain Mass | Move lees Rise to Fear| —An official | the | in conse- do mot fulfill | & to the general most impertant | It the United States, d Antung are ports to be inese-American com- d. The adminis- cally made it known 2 hand in the Far treaty rights SOUTH PORTLAND’S CAPTAIN ADMITS ABANDONING HIS SHIP BEFORE SAVING PASSENGERS I L by s her megroes wre ssd to have ‘uhiified | at they got into debt to thelr e and wer | { | Judges of | olved accused o peonage by uph acts between tae planters of | HUMAN SLAVERY IN CHICAGO. " gating Committee Uncovers | affic in Boys and Girls. 1 5] Oct. 29.—Members of graft” investigating com- bed so deeply into cor- ¢ e district that they | result. Ip the mass the committee is the | ! | the satisfaction of the 2l trafiic in human‘ he knowledge and un- | f the police. before The in- | them a state- | 1d boys are stolen, held prisoners in. hand is said to | not confined to a as been reduced to in abandoned all the grafting in the trail that leads of vice. Several olved, as well who winked at by which tribute n women and erimi- Attorney Shoots and Kills Himself. BOISE. Idaho, Oct. 29.—James Rogers, shot and killed himself to- t & year ago Rogers attempt- himself in Chicago, jumping Into the Chicago River, interfered with, but that it will re- ciose the “open door” d Antung. cove into Moukden | significant, when cempared from Manchuria on Oc- h stated that Russians were t the attempt of the United make Moukden an open port and ment and Mouk- s significance is deepened when it ssian Admiral Alex- kden as a treaty port. precipitated by reoc- of Moukden fs: oppose the opening of Moukden peration of the Chinese-Amer- outward appearances the situa- his regard is not bothering the It is declared that no g the Far Eastern situa- received there for many sian announcement of the reoc- f Moukden caused the Japanese <ogoro Takahira, little concern, n could be obtained eport ‘that 72 agree- ched whereby Japan ia’s continuous oc- Manchuria. FRANCE TO TAKE A HAND. | Will Operats With Russia in Far Eastern Mover-ents. PARIS, Oct. 30.—The dinner given at the Elysee Palace last night in honor of Count Lamsdorff was an exclustve affair, the guests being a few high French officlals the Russian diplomatists. igaro this morning says it has believe that one of the results Lamsdorff's visit will be that exercise an influence in the situation along paralel lines with ia and for the interests of Aw-f-d:rz to the Echo de Paris, Count Lamsdorff has practically declared that it is desirable to cast the entire weight and influence of the Franco-Russian alli- ance upon the enterprising spirit of Vice- roy Alexieff, whose warlike intentions the Russian Chancellor fears more than the preparations of Japan. This paper also says that there are reasons to believe that the Japanese Minister has made overtures in view of the fact that Count Lamsdorff and M. Delcasse are considering the | question of submitting the Korean differ- ences to arbitration. Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador to the United States, who is now in Paris, was not surprised to hear that the Rus- sian trcops had re-entered Mukden, in view of the conditions there. He said that the experience of the Russian ay- thorities was that as soon as they sur- rendered a district to the Chinese the lat- ter are unable to preserve order; disturb- ances occur and foreign interests are men- aced. The Embasrador added that the re- turn of the Russian troops did not afféct the status of Mukden as an open port in accordance with the treaty between the United States and China. e CHUNCHUS ATTACK RUSSIANS. Massacre stumnhip- Crew and Kill Forty-Five Railroad Guards. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 29.—The rob- ber Chunchu tribesmen who recently in- trenched themselves at Bodone, a town. on the Sungacha River, Manchuria, had previously attacked a Russian cargo steamer at . station on the Manchurian Rallway near Bodone. They massacred the entire crew, and then attacked the Russian raflroad guards, killing forty-five. Further reinforcements have been ordered from Harbin to Bodone to dislodge the Chunchus, | &— Testimony Before Inspectors Shows That There Were Few Life| Preservers and That Crew Was Not Trained. not disposed to discuss | “Does Russia in- | he knew that the ship was doomed, | THE CAPTAIN OF THE ILL-FATED SOUTH PORTLAND, WHO TESTIFIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON INVESTIGATION BEGUN BEFORE UNITED STATES INSPECTORS OF STEAM VESSELS BOLLES THE AND BULGER, AND HIS TWO MATES. HE investigation intc the causes leading to the wreck of the amer South Portland was be- gun vesterday before Inspectors of Ste Is Bolles and | they would clear Cape Blanco by ten Bolger. afterncon was ! miles. He was off watch when the ship taken up by the testimony of Captain | struck. Mclntyre and two of tue passengers of | On cross-examination by Captain Bolles | ;’:l;;"fa“—‘l vessel—H. Weber and Al|‘and Mr. Buiger, Captzin McIntyre said he Captain McIntyre made some damaging | admissions that tend to place upon him the responsibility for the loss of the steamer. Duriny 'a vigorous qusstioning by Cap- members of the crew had no knowledge of the positions they were to occupy in case of sudden disaster: that althcugh he left the deck and instead of attending to the lowering of the lifebuats, went to the engine-room twice to see whethe; or not the ship was making wacer. Ths master further admitted that although he occa- sionally had a station drill, the seamen were not numbered or designaisd to any | particular station, but had to depend om | the officers to know where to go. Witness also made the admission fhat tha boats | were not fastened to the ship by their painters at the time of their launching, | and that he left the ship before 3ll the | people aboard had gone. Two or the passengers gave tes:mony that they saw but little of the captain; one of them, although he was on the deck all the time, saw ‘(he master bu: ohce. Both agreed that there were not many life preservers available for the use of the passengers, and one of them szaid he saw no provisions put into one of the boats. Also they stated that the captamn left the ship in one of the lifcbuats and allowed the rest of the crew to look after themselves. ABANDONS THE SHIP. At the opening of the investigation the reports of the captain and the first and second officers were read. Captain Mec- Intyre’s story was as follows: “‘We took a cast ‘at 4 o'clock, getting seventy-five fathoms. I then ordered her hauled south by east, half east. We struck at 4:40 a. m. I immediately came on deck and or- dered the mate to put the wheel hard aport and stop her. He replied that he had already done so. I then started ner slowly to keep her head to sea. “There were five feet of water in the hold. T ordered the boats lowered and put ten passengers, two saiiors, tNe steward, cook, two firemen, two sailors, one waiter and a stowaway in the port boat. The starboard boat was capabie of carrying the rest of the crew. The chief officer and myself werc satisfied that the two boats would carry all of the people aboard.” The rest of the report was the same story as has already been told. Chief Officer C. C. Bruce's statcment was prac- tically the same as the captain’s. Second Officer Arthur Raven's report said that he was on watch at 9:30 o'clock the night preceding the wreck, when the captain asked him where he thought | Captain Mcintyre then asked for the log | book and repaired to the cabin. In a few minutes he returned and said he thought | did not know how many persons were on the ship, though he thought between thir- ty-nine and forty-one. steamer was drawing 16.9 feet and was quite heavily loaded by the head. | “I was in my room when she struck,” | tain Bolles the of the South | he said, “and knew that we had struck a Portland admitted he had never | rock, this by the kelp around the ship. I had any regular lifeboat drill; that the | went down into the engine-room and took | off a plate to see if we were making any | water. There was no water there.” | ! The following questions and answers | | gtve an idea of the course of the examina- | | tion and the facts admitted by Captain | Mclrtyre: “Did you sound any signals of distress?” | asked Captain Bolles. No; I had a whistle that could be| heard but a very little distance.” “Did you sound for water in other parts | of the hold?” “Yes, we got ten feet forward; she was | very much down In the head.” “Did you give any orders to-lower the boats?” 2 “Yes; I called all hands on deck and gave orders to the chief officer to get the boats out. I then went down into the!| engine-room a second time. The chiet| told me that he had got a bell to go ahead. He said she was making water fast. I could see it coming in through the rivet holes and seams, and told him to| answer that bell and go ahead. We got | the ship’s head into the sea, which was choppy, but we got no headway, as the | engines had but little steam. I cailed Of- ficers Bruce and Raven to me and said, ‘We’ll have to get away from the ship; she’s going down fast.’ " EXPLAINS HIS CONDUCT. “Did you know before you went down to the engine-room the second time that the ship was settling?” “Yes, sir.” “Did you have no ome you could send down about you?” “Yes, sir; 1 could have done it, but I wanted to see for myself.” H “Did you not realize that the ship was doomed before you went down?" “I did, s “Don’t you think that it would have been better to have sent some subor- dinate and stayed on the deck yourself to assist the passengers to leave the ship?" “If the ship had been a big one it would have been different, but the engine-room was right below me and I was not away from the deck more than two minutes.” “Then you think that it was better for you to have gone down than to stay on thzdzckflldlooklfluthebmuufilfl that everything was all right?” “Everything was going on well on deck; the boats were swung out in their davits.”” “The Second -time you went to the en- was. He answered off the Umpqua River. 1 “T did. I told him to keep her —'ur‘nh’lg | talk with the chief officer.” . NEVER HAD A LIFEBOAT DRILL. }to go.” | take?”" i { AT i | so that we could get nearer to shore.” “How -long after you came out of the| engine-room.the second time did you go to the boats?” “I had a two, three, four or five minute *““You ordered the ship abandoned before you went to the boat?” Yes; if I am not mistaken I gave or- ders before 1 went to the engine-room the second time to have the life-raft ready.” *When did you have station drills?” “I never had any regular station or fire arilt. T had a fire drill once on the first| trip. I had been in charge of the ship but | two month. | “How were the men stationed in case of disaster?” | “The second officer at the starboard | boat, the first officer at the port boat, the chief engineer and his crowd at the life raft.” “How many seamen were there at each boat?” “Two; they knew where they were “How did they know?” ¢ “We swung boats regular every trip.” “Did you have regular drills and call your men to quarters “No, sir; I did not.” “In station drill were the officers and men designated either by number or sta- tion in the ship what boats they were to *“Officers, yes; seamen, no.’ “Then in case of sudden disaster at sea and the abandoning of the ship the men of the crew would not know of their own knowledge where to go?” “No, sir; the officers would show them.” ,“The two boats carry forty-four pas- sengers, why couldn’'t you get twenty- two of the crew and twelve passengers in them?"” We could if the accident hadn’'t hap- pened.” “Did you see the second boat drifting away from the ship?” “I did, but was in the water at the time.” “How did the bol(l get loose, were not the painters fastened?”’ “No, sir.” FEW LIFE PRESERVERS. The testimony of the two passengers was taken, but, except in one or two in- FAST TRAIN DASHES INTO SLOUGH MUD | | Del Monte Flyer Ditched Near Gi}roy. | Engineer Prevents a| Compiete Wreck | of the Cars. jured, but the Passen- gers Are Not Hurt. | GILROY, due here a slough in front of the about a mile from the ( evering. Consid the rate of at w seems a d and that o e not seriously of a mail, a bag- | r car, a smoker in charge r was J. | par} 1 was he fireman | of San Luis| the slough was in | was too weak to | and the rafls | AM PARKS CARRIES 0T HI5 THREAT Forces National Strike of Iron Workers. At Least 100,000 Men Will Be Rendéred Idie. | Fireman Jumps and Is In-:}WaIking Delegate Triumphs Over Buchanan in New York Couneil. —_— YORK, ¢ stri NEW national 23.—The threat <f @ ernational Workers 1 No Iron to 2 by the ated idge and onal and ation dering a str to go into effect ities where the men e Iron League or the Build! Trad Associa- } tions have contrac President Bucha favor of exhausting all eff about a but the Parke carried le- peaceable settleme: ment thought this the majority too slow and place | were | Kk was | in charge the bridge carpenter. | just stances, did not prove of much value to the investigators. Both of them agreed with the officers that the ship was run- ning slowly, as the jar at the time she struck was light. Both were so much ex- cited that they fafled to notice much that was of importance. Both agreed, how- ever, that there were few life preservers where the passengers could get them, and that few obtained any. H. Weber said that he heard the cap- tain order the men 6n deck, but heard no orders to abandon the ship. He did not hear any orders for the passengers to get into the boats, or that the ship was to be abandoned. “Some of the people,” said ‘Weber, “had on life preservers and a Continued on Page 2, Column 2. FA.ILUBE OF A FLAGMAN. he sent back a flagman to | also. Tt ch will be affected it At et IOt vave | ssctmile %, Boston, Philadelphia, the flasman did_not_wave <he red fag| C /00 UL e and he knew nothing of jbe danger. The E Slvelit “d Clnsinamts train came at the rate of forty miles or | the grade and was | limits when it com- The fireman, look- menced to xecutive committee 0 The interna estimates that n workers wil would meay of from ‘ Is out of p ing ahead, be rails out of p i ot the bridge and called to the engineer t! there was something Wrong S S Ty g | The trial 1 J.»Parks, walking on the air brakes. The engin B e mi The fireman, realizing his o 5 s jumped to the ground e ed the bridge. He before whom injured and S . trial since His left head. engineer stuck to his lever like d the train. The fou he track, but the s ure is jhat nome of the cars are pletely turned over. The ground was soft | and the wheels plowed deep into the earth and saved them from going down a ten- foot embankment. The mail and baggage cars are on their left sides and the parlor d smoker are on their right sides, thus The engine and tender are off the track, but did not turn over. The a hero and sav are off es for the prosecu- that man him mis- y of st a severe cross parently 4 two rear coaches are standing on the bridge. The south end of the trestle is broken WOMEN NOT NERVOUS. | questions were invariably sustained by The pas: rkably cool. | the court. L John G. R: e parlor car,| Parks, wh poor health, seemed to sive e had s of the well- | be full of e roughout the day's known Dunsmuir family on the car and | ordeal. Several times the prosecuting us. lawyers attempted to get on record the the ladies were not at all nerv They isted out of the window. As soon as it was known that the train | fact that Parks | magnitude far beyond the ad a bank account of a was ditched every rig on the main street | an Or mechanic, but eac rushed to the scene and the passengers | Was overruled or cut short thre were brought to Gilroy. All were happy | Strenuous efforts of counsel for paifpe that there were.nmo serious injuries and | ‘congratulated themseives on their re- | markable escape. A special train from Pacific Grove carried the passengers to | their destination at a later hour. | The coast line trains had to transfer | their passengers and the south bound were backed up to San Jose. The wreck- | ing train arrived to-night. It was several | hours before the train was rixhted and traffic resumed on the main lite. e bt e DEATH IN A COLLISION. | | Three Laborers "Killed and Others H Are Iniured in Nevada. RENO, Nev.. Oct. 20.—Th> Oyerland Limited No. 2 that left San Francisco yesterday at 10 a. m. was wrecked near Fenelon, Nev., this morning at 7 o'clock. The Limited was runring behind time | and a work train took the main track | and tried to make a siding a few miles | from Fenclon before the Limited due, but the passenger train had gained some of her lost time and crashed into | the work train going at a high rate of | speed. Both engines were derailed and | badly wrecked. The passenger coaches | all stayed on the track. A few passen- gers were slightly cut and bruised by be- ing thrown from their berths. The work train was light. pulling but a few empty cars, and is a total wreck. There were about forty men on board ‘he work train, and three whose names have not vet been learned were killed. Four were seriously injured and will probably die, as they have not yet regained con- sciousness, The baggage and - express cars of the Limited were telescoped and had not the messengers and postal clerks | jumped they would have beén killed. The cars were so badly smashed that they will have to be loaded on flat ears for re- moval. Wreckers were at work all day and got the track cieared at a late hour to-night. Senater P. L. Flanigan of Remo, Nev., and Dr. Patterson, superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Reno, were on was | | | ! | 1 fens —————— | WATCHMAN ORDERS BRYAN OFF STEPS OF POSTOFFICE Refuses to Allow Him to Address a Meeting in Front of the Building. TOLEDO, Ohic. Oct. 2.—Wiliiam J. Bryan was to-night ordered off the steps of the Toledo Postoffice by the watch- man in charge of the building. Bryam, who was on his way home from the East, stopped over for the night and late this afternoon a meeting was arranged and he was to speak from the steps of the postofice. Two thousand people had gathered and he was about to open the meeting, when the watchman quict:y | went to Frank Niles, candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor, and informed him that Bryan ceuld not speak from the steps. | but that he would have to get down om the curb. Niles at orice made the an- nouncement that the meeting would be held on the cormer and the crowd fol- lowed Bryan and his escort to the jew stand. —_————— GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS MUST NOT ABUSE SOLDIERS Killing of an Artilleryman Calls Forth an Imperial Decree Against Cruelty. BERLIN, Oect. 20.—The case of Naval Ensign Hussner, who was recently im- prisoned for killing an artilleryman who failed to salute him properly, has result- ed in the issuance of an fmperial decree against the mistreatment of privates by officers. According to this decree an at- tack om a suverior officer by a drunken private will not in the future be consid- ered an insult, and only when the persom of the officer is in danger shall he be per- mitted to use a weapon. The superior officer who is so attacked shall, to avold controversy with a pri- vate, have the drunkard removed by his