The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1903, Page 7

THE SAN FRA {CISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1903. 7 i WY BODIES TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT IN HORRIBLE CRUSH iRE MUTILATED BEYOND HOPE OF CERTAI I[lFNTIHlIATI[IN it could not get through. The R OQUOIS Nosmmeadno sk s i i;‘.“i‘mm Canged his gons repeatedly, @ 3 . Honit wabkion thalel the crowd refused to part, and the HEATER . | automobile was finally turned away. A MODEL THIEVES RAID BUILDING. About a score of people in the second ed as One of the balcony were saved by firemen, who {took them through the roof and car- Finest Playhouses in America. | ried them down ladders in the rear of ARSI DEAD PILED UPON m:An.;’ ' men tried vainly to get| he door, which was jammed | piled higher than of either man. ! the lights in the theater were eX- | 1y bodies tightly Jocked in each hed and the only illumination | e g armg young women apparently ugh the cloud of smoke that | &y 1= STV JOULE WOmEn aPRTTEA ‘;‘ prig e A thea- | jne end of the orchestra pit. They must Ry |have fallen there from the balcony two men immediately hurn;ll ;”Jnhm—e a floor below and informed Chief Mush- : s ew | The body of a dark haired girl, about the-fice pvsituien: Do Doins lus Vhars’af aie. ecs inuuddiipaled on RSO8 Bk _in e "“'_"”:,’ oq ig | the Iron railing of the first balcony, T 1":‘9:»m|uns‘hrp=:‘\i;n The she evidently having been thrown over fef called upon all of his men in the | fr9m the second balcony above. nity to abandon work on the firs | With all of its clothing torn from it St Omee o The nacis | but a pair of baby shoes, ths body of ding was so dark and the |2 child about a year old was found smoke so th! that it was found im- |iP @ far corner of the second balcony. | possible to accomplish anything until |1t had evidently been knocked from | F z | its mother's arms and was trampled wemen, the building. H ting ge enoug lights had been procured. Word was | ok T once sent to the Orr & Lockett | beyond recognition. Company, two doors east of | While scores of men were busy in > theater, and that firm qulrkly‘carrylng out the dead and injured, sag its entire stock of lanterns at | Others, fortunately few in number, o service of the department. More | Searched-the aisles and seats for valu- ables. Two women were found who had provided themselves with baskets {and were filling them with the prop- erty of the dead. They were under arrest, and the theater ushers and stage hands given the work of col- lecting the valuables on the floor of | the theater. During the evening the | police sted over a dozen men ac- an 200 lights were carried into the n" and the work of rescue com- ln\(. ROWS OF BODIES. dly were the bodies brought in an hour there were two men in and out of the door: rrying bodies, the other com- = of mexn returning to get more. | c#ed of being thieves and pickpockets. [ in New York City was destroyed by fire | . I b. we carried into the | ST TR Y QT - .and 45 persons perished. | 5 h ‘RN A TR N | = i ympson restaurant, which adjoins | lH”\‘} R ARE STUBBORN X | ‘ gratef’ theater on the east, where all the | Frederick W. Job, secretary of the ! was given by the pro- | Chicago Employes’ Association, tele- honed to D. Moon, a livery stable pro- tables and counters, | Drietor at 2021 Wabash avenue, | < en being placed, for lack | ing that carriages be sent for the relief of & better spot, on top of a cigar case. | Of the sufferers, Moon replied he would dead and injured were re ask- T P e Because of the tremendous throng | 8ive his carriages for the work. He & - £ New ¥ which ded the block in .which | later told Job that he notified the union ling stood it was not | headquarters, where the drivers now on o i jce to carry the dead | Strike are congregated, that he had do- distance, and they | Dated the carriages and asked if they to await for ambu- | Would drive to the Iroquois Theater to help remove the wounded. Moon re- the theat Although ‘all | Be: pEnise: | plied to Job that they flatly refused to wagons and every ambulance | ——a— i | do so. dhree e the city was pressed into ser- A DISLIKES OPERA AIR Y ntterly inadequate to| TWwo of the downtown theaters closed IN CHURCH MUSIC 5 in a short | their doors to patrons as a result of the dead, anc a lne of corpses fifty | fire: These were the Illinois and Pow- ers Theaters, which were owned by the piled two and three high, on | ,,,.‘,l,r;.::,: .'\f“(h‘:;hlrtf;:“:‘ e front of the theater. ” - i . | theaters remained opened as usual and ind necessary in order to | ¥ Slesis - bodies raidly o the | there was no perceptible falling oft in the attendance. to the various undertak- DAVIS BREAKS DOWN. establishments to press trucks into bons Explains Pope’s Re- De- ure From Old Customs. Concerning the jce, and in these, upon costly Will J. Davis, one of the proprietors supplied by the dry-g00ds|of the Iroguois, collapsed to-night un- res in the vicinity and covered by |der the worry and distress occasioned m the dead were by the catastrophe. After the 'fire he like so much and Powers made their headquarters in the women's dressing rooms, where they were besieged by people who {were franticaily seeking information | of their relatives. The climax came | with. Davis when-he was approached by George C. Sanborn, a prominent busines man, who said: “1 had twelve children in two boxes in there, and they are missing. Are they in there My God, this is what kil's a man,” aid Davis, as he turncd away, and the WITH FREE HANXND. merchants in the vicinity of the to the emergency in Marshall Field & Schlesinger Scott & Co. and stores sent wag- wagonload of blankets, inen and packages of cotton d in binding up wounds of the ‘ s: ter son, Pirie, d to cover the dead. | next instant would have fallen ta the | .- — tores ve of their stock | floor. He was ted to a carriage ybody that asked for it in the |and driven home. Later it was ascer- of persons hurt in the fire. | tained that Sanborn's son, Harold, 19 rs and trained nurses were on|yvears old, had taken the entire party TISEMENTS. ound by scores within a half hour | In safety from the theater. the calamity was known, and | 'Y BESITEGE GTUE FALLING HAIR STOPPED. injured person who was car- MANY BESIEGE MORGUE. All night long stricken relatives and friends of missing persons besieged tha e entrance to the theater (murflhPt where the dead had been car- ,pes in hand and as soon | T1€d @Wwaiting identification. Hundreds as 2 body which looked as though it | f Men and women waited in long lines might possess life was carried oat it | {°F hours to finally demand admit- x i = g | tance. For every person who was al- was at once examined. 1f dead, it Was |, .3 ¢, enter the death rooms & score placed on the pile lying on the side- m the building received pmmm\ Baldness Cured A number of doctors by Destroying the Para- medi waited with stethc sitic Germ That Causes It. dy o e Biae o m R e L were opers Ay walk. 1»-"' :)\mz ;onla once 'n:ft“'l After waiting for several hours in in ambulances and whirled away tol g nt of Jordan & Co.’s undertaking hospitals or to the offices of physicians the immediate neighborhood. FREIGHT TRUCKS IN USE. | establishment in Madison street, the | erowd of mourners, consisting of | more than 1000 persons, became im- | patient and it took the united efforts One large truck ordinarily used for | Patient and it took the . 5 cying freight to depots was so| 0L Uenty policemen who were guard ily loaded with dead in front of | N8 the p g s | tion. The aisles between the piles of lead were already filled with persons nd it was impossible for those out- side to enter until those already in- side left to make room. er that the two large horses| 1 to it were unable to start and e compelled to assist b he wheels. ging at When t need for trucks to remove y N ~ - Y the dead was more presin, & Boce| RELATIVES AR FRANTIC, tric - delivery - wagon; sowiill by | The policemen in charge of the line Montgom Ward & Co., was hailed | of waiting persons, which extended ce. The automobile headed | west in Madison street for several ne, but at State street en-| blocks, tried to explain the situation, so great a press of people | but the excited fathers and husbands ¥ the § for the te BEERSE Guaranteed Pure, None So Good, J‘ald tveryubem H MERCANTILE CO., Azents. sc ¢ HARVEST OF DEATH 15 COMPLETE S . Continued From Page 1, Columns { and 2. pi became a morgue five minutes after the first ribbon of flame made its way along the stage. Coast lars, little The women and girls in the gallery never had a chance for | life. They met death still seated in their theater chairs, their « hands burned into one commingled cinder with the sides of the seats they had grasped when the panic came. Others who | had managed by the strength of terror to get.into the aisles found the end in the mingled mass of smoke and fire and the tearing of limbs there and in the open spacé back of the seats. placed | LIFE LOSS BY FIRES IS GREAT Many Hundreds Have Perished by Flames in the Past. At a fire which occurred in the Rich- mond (Va.) Theater during the third or fourth decade of the last century some 160 people of that city and the viclnity perished. Two thousand people perished at the burning of the Jesuit church, Santiago, Chile, December 8, 1863. In a fire which broke out on Decem- ber 5, 1876, during a presentation of “The Two Orphans” at the Brooklyn Theater, 293 lives were lost, many by being trampled to death. On December 8, 1881, one of the most disastrous conflagrations as to the loss of life that ever occurred broke out in the Ring Theater, Vienna, and 1000 people lost their lives. A fire in the Opera Comique, Paris, May 25, 1887, destroyed from 250 to 400 | lives. At the Charity Bazaar, Paris, May 5, 1897, more than 150 persons perished by being trampled down and burned to death, most of whom were titled ladies. On March 17, 1899, the Windsor Hotel BIHOP RISKS RIS LIFE Continued From Page 5, Column 1. | { SRS > i ? | trance where men were kicking in the| doors and shattering the glass panels | in their attempts to afford a larger | space for the exit of the people. Many fell as they reached the doors, where a few steps more would have carried | them to fresh air and safety. As I look at it now I must have been walking on | prostrate bodies as I struggled through | the opening. All of our party escaped | in about the same manner as I did, but | all of them suffered so terribly in the | matter of clothing that the first zhmg‘ they did was to rush to the stores to| buy wraps to cover them.” | < o % and mothers who were anxious about relatives and friends refused to be| pacified, At Rolston’s morgue, 22 Adams street, where nearly 200 bodles lay awaiting identification, the scenes were equally as dramatic. There were thousands of people in the crowd in front of the place, and it was with the greatest dif- ficulty that the police were able to con- trol the situation, so anxious were the grief-stricken people to gain admit- tance 4o ascertain if their loved ones had fallen victims to the awful disas- ter. A dozen other places in the city where dead had been carried witnessed the same scenes. IDENTIFYING THE DEAD. Never was there a busier night in Chicago than this one. All night long hundreds of peovle were going be- tween the police station and the hos- pitals and the Morgue, first to one, | then to the other, then back again, | seeking news of missing friends and | relatives and trying to identify the | dead. At the Central Police station, | within one and a half squares of the | theater, | a dozen policemen were kept | busy all night taking names and de- | scriptions of missing people. ! In the squad room of the station the lists of injured received from hospitals and from police stations were read to the crowd. The throngs were silent| while the names were read except for| an occasional outbreak of sobbing as some one recognizéd in the description | a relative or friend. The hospitals were besieged by callers and eager questioners over the telephone. In spite of all this the work of identification went on but slowly, and at 2 n'clm‘k} this morning apparently only one- | fifth of the bodies lvigg in the rooms | of downtown undertakers had been | recognized by their friend: it LT e R SAN JOSE SOCIETY BELLE SURPRISES HER FRIENDS Miss Gertrude Quilty Quietly Weds Son of the Late J. B. J. Portal in San Francisco Last Tuesday. SAN JOSE, Dec. 30.—A surprise to | Ssm Jose society comes in the an- nouncement of the marriage on Tues- | day of Miss Gertrude Quilty, a popular | young belle, to Clem Portal in San Francisco. Neither friends nor rela- tives of the couple were taken into the secret and the first information of the wedding was received by the bride's parents in a telephone message asking their blessing. The bride is the daughter of C. VV Quilty, a well-known capitalist of this city. She is a general favorite in tse younger social set and has often en- tertained at the elegant home of her parents on South Third street. Portal is the son of the late J. B. J. Portal and has been mapaging the Portal ranch near Cupertino. He has many | friends in this city. 7 DEAD LIE EIGHT DEEP. Dozens of others, swept, carried, dragged of thrown out to the stairways and even beyond them down into the landings, never saw the daylight that streamed through the big front door in sight of the throngs outside with fire wagons and smoking horses, but died in great masses seven and eight feet high, with their faces in the last agonies, all turned toward the doors they could not reach. From the windows at the north and west ends of the building they streamed, blinded by smoke and crazed beyond any possibil- ity of helping themselves further or of taking’ advantage of the aid extended to them from the upper floors of the buildings fac- ing the theater. Ladders, planks, ropes, poles, everything that could possibly serve to assist these creatures in their battle for life was rigged and turned into bridges, but very few got across alive, ,,‘}Q—&}WB visitr DR. JORDAN’S crzar ) | ¢ L'.»EIII OF ARATON . G887, S.F.Cal, it Mt Mot oty Veakuesses o auy conmacted w1y the oidest Est. 36 yeans. ..l. JORDAN—D'SEASES OF MEN «witztion free and swrirtly private. or by leter. A Dr.Gibbon’s Dispensar:. ! 629 KEARNY ST. Esia it ool . Charges low resguaranteed. Cillor wiite. GIBEON, Ser Frascisco, Cal. Br. 3 ¥, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Quilty left for San Francisco as soon as informed of their daughter's marriage. It is said the young couple have been forgiven and that Mrs. and Mrs. Portal will make their home in this city. ———— Accidentally Blows Up His Home. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 30.—A. Brandt wrecked his home Tuesday night by attempting to dry a can of blasting powder. He set the can on the stove to dry while he partook of his break- fast. A little later there was an ex- plosion and the kitchen caught. fire. The fire was extinguished without dif- ficulty, but the end of the building was blown out by the force of the explo- sion. ———— DEN, Ttah, Dec. 30.—W. §. Hussey, who haslbeen Claim agent of the Unfon Pacific at Denver for several vears, will sever his con- nection with the company on January 16 next assume rhnrue of the claim department of the “San Tos Angeles and Salt Lake Railwaz, R headquarters fn Los Angeles. | steamer NOTED MEN DIE [START A FIRE IN CLUB ROOMS re Destrovs Fine Structure in Troy, N. Y., and Three Persons Perish in the Flames B S FIREMEN ARE POWERLESS Moses T. Clough, One of the Vietims, Was .Lone Suryivor of Dartmouth Class of 1834 Simiilonil o . TROY, N. Y., Dec. 30.—Moses T. Clough, the nestor of the Rensselaer County bar and the last survivor of the class of 1834 of Dartmouth College; ‘William Shaw, head of the law firm of Shaw, Bailey & Murphy, and Benjamin W. sKinney, manager for the Fuller- ‘Warren Company of Boston, Mass., lost their lives in a fire which partially de- stroyed ; the Troy Club to-day. Al- though the doomed men were seen at the windows nothing could be done to save them, £o-dense was the smoke and so rapid the progress of the flames. Edward Carpentier of New York was taken from an upper window by the firemen and removed to a hospital, where he is recovering from the effects of smoke inhaled. He was in town pre- paring for his marriage with a young society woman of this city. His escape from death was regarded as one of the remarkable features of the fire. All the persons killed were occupying rooms on the upper floor of the club building, which is four stories i height, and 1t was the part the flames attacked first. The victims had retired about 10 o'clock and were sleeping soundly when | the alarm was given by the employes. An effort was made at once to.reach the sleeping apartments, but the pro- gress of the fire had been so rapid that the help at hand could not make their way to the top floor. The fire is thought to have been caused by a lighted cigarette being thrown among some combustible mate- rial. The clubhouse was built ten or twelve years ago at a cost of $500,000. ‘The loss by fire will reach $55,000. Mr. Clough was 89 years of age and Mr. Shaw was nearly 70. Both résided at the club, at which Kinney and Car- pentier were guests. The police report that while the fire was at its worst a man was discovered trying to set fire to the building at the corner of Broadway and Fifth avenue, occupied as a news stand. The man es- caped. It is not believed, however, that the clubhouse fire was of incendiary origin. ——— Steamer Amur Arrives at Victoria. VICTORIA, B. C., Déc. 30.—The Amur, which grounded on 10 HIDE CRIME Horse Thieves Kill Rancher, Place His Body in a Barn and Then Apply the Torch & R MURDERERS MAKE ESCAPE Charred Remains of Vietim Are Found in the Ruins After Blaze Is Extinguished Special Dispatch to The Call. CORONA, Dec. 30.—Andrew Petersen, an alfalfa rancher, who lived on Mag- nolia avenue, six miles from Ccrona, is thought to have been murdered last night by horsethieves, who then placed his body in a barn, which they set on fire in. the hope of concealing their crime. The fire was noticed by neigh- bors at 9:30 p. m., but they were unable to extinguish it. Petersen's charred | remains were found in the ruins about | midmight and it was then discovered that his driving horse and buggy were stolen. The body was identified by the filling in the teeth. The officers are now searching for the stolen horse and buggy. Petersen was unmarried, a native of Denmark and 3: years of age. He was a membRr of Circle Lodge, 1. 0. O. F., Starlight Rebefah Lodge and the Fraternal Aid Assuciation of this city. e g o POOLING AGREEMENT CASE H GOES TO NATIONAL CAPITAL | Interstate Commerce Commission to | Hear Charges Made Against Two Railroad Companies. LOS ANGELES, Dec.. 30.—The at- tempt to prove that a pooling agree- ment exists between the Southern Pa- cific and the Santa Fe in routing citrus fruit shipments® East from Southern California has been transferrcd from the court of United States Commission- er Cates, where the matter has been in hearing for the past two days, to the national capital. Counsel for the | Department of Justice in the issue and | representatives of the Santa Fe's law department left for Washington this evening. On January 5 the two initial lines involved will take additional tes- timony in Chicago and later the 4t- tendant issue to determine whether the | $1 25 postage stamp rate is reasonable will be tried before the Interstate Com- merce Commission. ————— | | give | control of the | Macy Rushing Work on New Electric Llne.{ VALLEJO, Dec. 30.—Work on the| route of the Vallejo, Benicia and Napa | Valley Electric Railroad is progressing | favorably. Thirty teams and sixty men | a sentence of minety ENGINE STRIKES A TROLLEY CAR Prominent Winemaker of Los Angeles Is Killed and Five Other Passengers Are Injured e THE BRAKES FAIL TO WORK Motorman and Conductor Save Themselves by Jumping Just Before the Collision e s LOS ANGELE Dec. 30.-—Charfes Stern, a prorminent winemaker, was killed and five passengers were badly injured in a collision at noon to-day. The injured: Joseph Steim of 1034 Macy street, seriously, may die; Mrs. E. O'Brien, 943 Macy street, face cut and head injured; H. Miller, An- derson and Macy streets, painfully bruised; Mrs. Marker, cut and bruised on face and body:; Miss Burr, bruised and cut on upper part of body. The accident occurred at the end of the Macy dtreet bridge, where a Pacific electric car was struck by engine No. 1 of the Salt Lake Railway Company. The engine was going north pulling a long train of flatcars loaded with stone. The point where the collision occurred is one of the most dangerous crossings in the city. The flagman ran out to the danger signal, but the ecar failed to see him in time or lost brakes for a moment, and the train, which was running slow- ly, struck the car. The motorman and conductor of the car saw that a smash- up was inevitable and jumped, saving themselves. Stern. was imside the car and could not escagpe. Mryi. O'Brien and Stein were hurled from their seats on the dummy. Charles Stern was they owner of the Stern winery. He was about 85 years of age and leaves three grown sons. Charles Stern, who was killed, was one of the best known wine men in the United Stages and one of the pio- neer wine and brandy makers of Los Angeles. He president of the Sterns Winery avd Brandy Company, Limited, and bemides the winery at street and Mission road main- tained offices an¢. warehouses at N York and Chicayzo, with a wholesale house on South Spring street in this city. In recent years Stern had made his home in New York, passing his winters here. ' He was 62 years of age and leavessa wife, two sons and a daughter. Oeceurs G. crew was ————— Peace Distirber Semt to Jail SANTA ROSfIA, Dec. 3h—Justice . Atchinson this aftermoon impoe: days' imprisor J. | Harbor R@ef, off Port Simpson, on De- | are at work and the graders have |ment on Simort Semple, charged with cember 15 when bound down from |reached Sonoma street. The grading !disturbing the peace. Atchinson en- Skagway, arrived in port to-day and | from Vallejo to Napa will be completed | tered several residences in this city went to Esquimalt to go on the ways. | by April 1. and the ralls soon will be | Tuesday night and frightened the She is not much damaged. ready for shipment from San Frzncisco. ! women folks. - I — WHY THE 097-000 Market Street Corner of Sixth, ADVERTISEMENTS. The Most Startling Failure, SLAUGHTER PRICES Our Only Location. : Mail Orders Prompty Attended To. Mluqlzr.l.orimalmnm OF A GREAT CLOTHING Prices, Results L 19:30 0°CLOCK. DEMAND Perfest Fit Guarantesd. Send Hel:bt and Chsst Measurement,