The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1904, Page 1

. \ A G. Distriet TWELVE: THOUSAND JAPANESE SOLDIERS LAND FAOM SHIPS ON KOREAN SOIL ~ TEE WEATHER. _ Forecast n’.'u. at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Jannary 23: Sax FPrancisco and vicimity— Fair Saturday, witk fog in the moraning; light northeast winds. = e o, § McADIE, Forecaster. ding.” Grand—"One L4 | 1 | | i | ters. Alcazar—*“Mrs. Jack.” California—*“The Central—“A Bowery Girl.” Chutes—Vaudeville. umbia—‘The Degenerates.” Fischer's—“The Beauty P Lyric Hall—Burton Holmes. Orpheum—Vaundeville. Tivoli—‘When Johuny Comes Marching Home. Matinees To-Day at All Thea- Fatal Wed- Night in June.” SAN TFRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1904. AND THE RUSSIAN FORGES HASTEN TO THE SCENE OF THE EXPECTED WAR CHEFU, China, Jan. 22.--- 18 2t IC al r : It is reported here from Russian sources that 12,000 Japanese troops have landed at Masampho, Korea. The report apparently is regarded as Port Arthur, where war is ccnsidered only a matter of time. It is stated that the Russian forces are slowly moving in the direction of Korea on the land side. Two regiments of Siberian Rifles arrived at the Yalu River on January 12. It has been discovered that the Manchurian Railway was undermined at several places above Port Arthur. Dynamite was also found, it is said, wedged in the masonry it Wosest 48 TORNAD WRECKS A TOWN Thirty-Seven Die in Terrible Storm, Families Rush From Their Toppling Houses. Alabama Ifiagne—rCaused by 2 Sudden, Furious Wind. | - ame oo . & THE DEAD. ¥ SEYMOUR. Nashville, Tenn.. who accepted his posi- | tion as operator at the railroad ! station last evéniy A. . WARRE Birming- ham. employed by the Alabama Grocery Company. F J. REDMOND, superin- tendent of the pumping station, formerly of Nashville. ROBERT S. POWERS of Tuscaloosa | MIss NETTIE FARLEY. The negro dead are: | W. N. MILES, wife and six children 1 ALBERT HOLSTON, wife | and three childr H Fourtecn other ncgroes, un- | identified l‘ { Jan A dis- E: T swept over Mound- \ A & town of 300 inhabitants, fiftee h of Tusca early 1 ar s a result thirty-seven persons w ed and more than a njured. Every business ¥ with the exception of a small ng st was completely de- | ado struck the town | fre he southwest and mowed a path | & f a mile wide through it/ ere rushed to Moundville and Tuscaloosa, and | all possible was done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured. By the force the storm persons were blown hun- @reds of feet from their beds. Through terror a father, mother and children fled from their home to | ve and in their excitement old boy In bed. To-| i from beneath some | thus far it is impossible other member of the »ts and wearing ap- ed over a distance of zh what was a forest, now clear as if cut by a | | Freight cars were torn to splinters, | the trucks from them being hurled | hundreds of feet from the track. The | the hotel, warehouses, glns,! seven storehouses, to- their stovks, were de- bere they stood it is impos- | i even the pillars upon | structures rested. e cotton which were stored | warehouses were torn to atoms, the ments of lint lodging in trees, mak- 3 of appear as though that section had been visited by a snowstorm. Heavy iron safi the doors of which in some instances were torn from their hinges, were carried away by the force of the wind The tow f Hull, four miles north of ered from the tornado. Bates Lumber Company's plan- ing department was completely wrecked and the nmegro firemen crushed. Four residences and one church were demolished. Moundvi The of several bridges. Chinese and disguised Japanese are suspected of having done this work. Some Japanese have bee n arrested at Port Arthur. - STIRS IRE OF JUDGES | PR P e P | Supreme Court Not | Pleased at the | White House. | EBpecial Dis ch to The Call WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Chief Jus- | | uller of the Supreme Court was | tly angered at the judiciary recep- tion at the White House last night be- cause he and his iates of thel | highest court of the land were kept| | waiting until members of the diplo-| | matic corps had all passed in line and | | had been greeted by the President. i It was a repetition of the dispute | over precedence which frequently came up before at judiciary receptions. Ac- cording to the rules of procedure laid « + | | | | l 1 down by the State Department, the Fea LW oz diplomatic corps takes precedence over TEO NN e everybody else. Count Cassini, the Russian Embas- sador and dean of the corps, did not arrive until after the cory the Mexican Embassadc through the blue room, President. Meanwhile headed by had” started nd greeted the Chief Justice | VIEW OF THE KOREAN CAPITAL, WHICH IS LIKELY TO BE INVOLVED IN RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE FORCES IF THE DIPLOMATIC INTERCOURSE BETWEEN ‘} TIONS FAILS OF ADJUSTMENT OF THE DIFFICULTIES OVER TERRITORY. | | himself with the statement that THE OPERATIONS OF THE THE TWO NA- | | | S Fuller and the Associate Justices were | %" detained at the door of the blue room. | The Chief Justice was nettled, as not | N only FEmbassadors, but Ministers,| Charge d'Affaires, secretaries and at- taches of legations passed. Seconded by Associate Justice Harlan, who about a foot taller than the Chief Jus- tice, the latter complained té Major | McCawley. | “You will have to wait, sir,” that “The diplomatic goes first.” “But this replied | officer. corps | a reception to the judictary, replied Chief Justice | uller. “We should certainly have | precedence to-night.” “Can’t help it; the diplomatic corps goes first,” said Major McCawley. e MINISTER BUCHANAN IS ABOUT TO RETURN is Minister to Panama Will Surrender His Post Now that Affairs Are Qulet. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The State Department confirms the report that Buchanan, the American Minister to Panama, 'is about to return to the United States, starting in a few days | from Colon. ~Important private busi- | ness is assigned as a reason for the | Minister’s return to the United States. | The department is not informed that his visit is anything more than a leave of absence, but it knows that Buchanan | consented to agsunie the Panama mis- sion only on the understanding that his appointment be temporary, and as af- fairs on the isthmus are regarded as being in excellent shape from an ad- | ministrative standpoipt it is possible he will consider that he has carried out his full understanding when he returns to Washington. —_———— TWO MEN KILLED BY DYNAMITE EXPLOSION places. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The State | Department has received information | within the last twenty-four hours that | makes war in the East look far more | imminent than it did forty-eight hours | ago. The War Department is taking 5 & | a very pessimistic view of existing af- Workmen Supposed to Have Drilled | g4irs, 'and, according to reliable re:ortn. Into an Old Charge the situation is assuming g serious as- of Powder. pect. BUFTE, Mcnt., Jan, 22.—Michael Sul- | The Government is much c8ncerned livan was Killed and Patrick Harring- | over the latest information that has ton was probably fatally injured by an | been placed before it. Uncle Sam is explosion in the Never Sweat mine here | preparing in every way for any con- Jast night. The miners had prepared a | tingency that many arise, and intends blast early in the evening which failed | to be in a position to see that his in- to explode and it is thought they aftcr-lterena are to be fully protected in case ward drilled into the “missed hole,” | of emergency in Edstern waters. The thereby causing the accident preparation of the transports, the in- tions that Japanese troops may undertake. ewchwang Is Entered by the Russians and War Is Imminent in Korea. LONDON, Jan. 23.—A dispatch to the Central News from Newchwang, dated January zo, says 6000 Russian soldiers entered Newchwang January 19. The municipal affairs of .\'cwchi\\'ang are managed by a Russian commissioner, and acting on his orders the Chinese merchants displayed Russian colors when the troops marched into the city. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The situation in Korea is arousing fresh apprehension of re- newed trouble in the Far East. It has been the opinion of military experts that in‘the event of war between Russia and Japan Korea would be made the battleground, at least in the beginning. Mr. Allen, the American Minister at Seoul, cabled the State Department to-day from Seoul as follows: “Considerable disturbances throughout Korea. The Japanese have been attacked in many “It is learned that in view of the possibility of Korea being unable to afford proper protection to Japanese subjects the Tokio authorities have dispatched a Japanese military officer of the highest rank, namely major general, to Seoul, where he will be in a position to direct any military opera- The Korean Government has 3500 men- under arms, but they have not been trained in a modern school of war, and resemble constabulary rather than sol- diers. Tt is anticipated here that fapan in Korea will repeat the performance of Russia in Man- churia and make the disturbances on the Japanese railway the ground for a militaty occupation of the line in great force, corresponding to the Russian occupation of the Manchurian railway.” UNCLE SAM’'S PLANS FOR DEFENSE IN ORIENT REVIVE FEAR THAT WAR IS cessant drilling of the troops, the con- stant recruiting and filling up of every company, all point to the precaution- ary measures that are being taken. It is stated on excellent = authority that the Government has perfected plans for the immediate transportation of 30,000 troops to the Philippines. Another powerful ' indication of ' the seriowsness with which the outlook is regarded is the fact that for the last few weeks great quantities of army supplies have been shipped out to San Francisco amounting to thousands of tons of merchandise, intended to be loaded on.the -transports-flow in that harbor. Among the supplies sent out are some that are most significant for use in the East. They consist of great \AGAIN IMMINENT — quantities of heavy winter clothing and bedding, which certainly are not in- tended forPanama or the Philippines. It is announced here that all the transports in San 1 rancisco have been put in first class shape in remarkably short time, and that the work was done on them under rush emergency orders. Governor Taft’s arrival here is looked forward to with keenest interest. He is now on his way from Japan, and his orders are to report with all expe- dition to Washington. Railroads and steamship companies have been re- quested to give him every facility to get to headquarters in the shortest pos- sible time. He is expected to enter upon Continued on Page &‘Cnlnnm 4. TR (CTECR S L d MAY STUDY STOMACH BY TINY LENS Chicago Surgeon In- vents Wondertul Insgn.@nt CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—Dr. Fenton B. | Turck of Chicago has devised a scien- tific appliance by which the inside of a human stomach or any other of the internal organs may be seen with the eve and examined for the presence of disease. The new instrument, which Dr. Turck has described for the benefit of his fellow-surgeons in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on a system of lenses put to- gether in so small compass that the whole mechanism can be used like an ordinary stomach pump. In the arti- cle, which is accompanied by photo- graphs, Dr. Turck gives much credit for invention to Leube, Mikauliez, | Ewald and other European scientists, but omits to say that their inswu- ments all failed to work and contents in many tests of his own invention he has been able to obtain clear views of all parts of the stomach. “I have been able with this instru- ment to inspect the pylorus (that is the | farthest extremity of the stomach be- yond its great curve),” he says in de- scribing its possibilities, “and under thd direction of the eyve watch the gyromele (a long curved director) pass through the pyloric orifice into the duodenum. Moving it back and forth one can readily watch the distance it passes into the intestines.” ————————— DEATH BY STARVATION THE FATE OF HUBBARD Body of the Young Explorer Is Now on Its Way to City of Quebec. QUEBEC, Jan. 22. — Word was re- ceived here to-night from Chateau Bay, Labrador, that a courier had arrived there yesterday from Northwest River with the information that Leonidas Hubbard Jr. of jthe exploring party sent out by the magazine Outing of New %Work had died from starvation in the wilds of Labrador on October 14. The remains are on their way to Que- bee, so the report’ says, by dog train, with the other members of the expedi- tion, which is expected to reach Cha- teau Bay some time in March. —_——e————— POWELI: RECOGNIZES THE MORALES REGIME SAN DOMINGO, Wednesday, Jan. 20.—United States Minister Powell to- day recognized the provisional gov- ernment of General Morales as the de facto Government of*“Santo Domingo, and he has informed the members of the diplomatic and consular corps to this end. The officers of the United States cruiser Columbia paid an official visit | to the provisional President to-day and were received with military honors. ———— Fireman Loses His Life. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Fire in the upper floors of the six-story factory of the E. W. Bliss Company in Plymouth street to-day did $200,000 damage. The company manufactures dies and presses for metal stamping and castings and other parts of Whitehead torpedoes for the United States navy. One fireman lost his life by falling from a ladder. — FAMILIES N FROM - THE FLOOD Rivers Riseand Lives Are Endangered in Towns. Great Alarm and Damage Caused by the Approach i of Waters. { Railroads Are Compelled fo Discontinus [ Business and Crews of Vessels 1 Have Narrow Escapes. PITTSBURG, Jan. (midnight.)— The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers are rising steadily. The Allegheny is |three feet higher than her econsort }stream and as a consequence a dan- | gerous ice gorge is now forming be- | tween the Wabash and Smithfleld | street bridges just above the conffu- | ence of the rivers. | Early in the day, owing to the warn- | ing sent out in regard to the danger | from the Allegheny, all of the coal | barges and steamboats were sent into the Monongahela to gain the better | protection of the pools and | quently stiller water. Already a barge containing 40,000 bushels of coal has been sunk and the whole fleet with nearly 275,000 bush- els on board is in danger. In the Penn- sylvania avenue mill district many of | the mills have their fly pits below [ flood level and were compelled to shut down, throwing 7000 men and boys out of work. The Big and Little She- nangoes, which meet at Greenville, are higher than for many years. A gorge in these streams has backed the conse- water over the town, causing much damage. STREETS UNDER WATER. South Race and Water streets are under water. Many families were taken from their homes in boats, while others have moved their house- hold goods to the second floors. The Bessemer railroad shops and the odge manufacturing plant, both built above the highwater mark, have been | abandoned. To-night these plants are | under water two feet deep and much machinery has been ruined. The en- tire Bessemer yards are flooded and the main line is being used as a stor- age for locomotives and coaches re- moved. from flooded shops. At Osgood, two miles north of here, there is six feet of water on the Bessemer tracks. The water in Mercer is higher than it was ever known before and some stores are flooded. Both the Neshanock and Shenango rivers, at Newcastle, have risen more than thirty-six inches since morning. and are at flood stage, with the water coming up rapidly. The tin plate and steel mills are closed, and the main thoroughfares are impassable. CREW LEAVES IN TIME. During the afternoon Captain Mec- Kinley of the transportation depart- ment of the Monongahela Coak and “oke Company received a telégram from Sistersville, announcing that the Hornet No. 2 had sunk in abeut twenty-four feet of water and would probably be a total loss. The crew saw the impending danger n time to es- cape. The boat was valued at about $10,000. About 5 o'clock this evening news of the sinking of the Volunteef at Browns Station reached the local headquarters of the coal combine. The officers and crew were saved. The Volunteer was valued at $15.000. One river man stated to-night that the extent of the damage wrought by the ice to-night could not be estimated until to-morrow, but it will amount to high into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. This, coupled with the losses sustained by railroads, busin houses, manufacturing. street com- panies and residents will likely put the loss at about $1.000,000. - At midnight the Pittsburg and West- tern Railroad is out of business and the Baltimore and Ohio is sending its trains to Youngstown over the Lake Erie. At 2 o'clock this (Saturday) morn- ing the gaugr-- showed that the Alle- Continued on Page 2, Column &