The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1904, Page 21

— easterly winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. THEE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending midnight, February 28: Sen Francisco and vicinity— Cloudy, unsettled weather Sun- day, with showers; cooler; brisk - s = VOLUMI Ring. Chutes—Va W Albanbra—*“The Kilties” M-~tinee To-Day. udeville. TFischer's—“Roly-Poly.” Matines Grand—“Hills of Band. California.” | I GES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1904 PAGES: 21 TO 34. SWARM OF RUSSIAN CAVALRY POURS INTO NORTHERN KOREA TO MEET JAPANESE ADVANCE TOWARD MANCHURIAN BORDER B Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. SEOUL, Feb. 27.—The vicinity of Pingyang or Anju, in Northern Korea, probably will b2 the scene of the first engagement shortly. A large body of Russians, with fifty-four guns and a swarm of cavalry, has reached Anju, sixty miles north of Pingyang. Other detachments of Russian soldiers are at various places between Anju and the Yalu River. A force probably totaling 50,000 men has now crossed into Northern Korea. The telegraph lines from Pingyang to the north have been suddenly interr upted, indicating the presence of Russian scouts. ENGINEER LLED COLLISION AL PR Santa Fe - Limited No. 3 Strikes No. 8 on Siding, L. L. Baker and James Ben-| nett, at Throttles, Meet Death. Open Swiich at Luzon, Near Point Rich- mond, Causes Passenger Trains to Come Together. i between two lim- Fe road short- night caused igineers and*the se- reman. The trains tch, a small f Pin tunnele. left Point had taken v No. 3, the is due at anklin Chl which t 10 o'clock, to pass, switch was left open through ss of some one not known, alic 3, in charge of Engineer L 1 in on the waiting es Bennett, in charge of No. § nowing nothing of his terrible danger Fireman Edward Thomas, waiting for sat in his cab with Ik siding | e, between the approach fornia limited to pass As the headlight of the limited be- | came visible around the curve En- gineer Benne repared to pull his train out of the siding, when suddenly the approaching locomotive onto the siding, and the the crash came. BAKER'S BRAVE END. Fireman swerved next moment Thomas the danger a moment before the collision occurred, for he tried to jump from his engine and almost succeeded in getting clear. He wae caught in the wreckage, how- ever, and injured. Both the engineers were instantly killed, and from the position which Baker's body was found he must have met saw was seriously in death in an ineffectual attempt to re- | werse his engine to avert the impend- in n and save the sleep! -| g ing crash and » '€CPINg pas-| ¢, Jeave the leadership to some men sengers in his train The California Limited passes Luzon at a high rate of speed and the impact of the collision reduced the locomotives to scrap fron. It is a miracle that many of the passengers were not killed or injured At the point where the collision oc- curred the road runs through a deep cut, which winds around the base of the i f in either track a was running fast utes behind and F and the engineer of a train going direction can only see the short distance ahead. No. 2 as it was a few min- 1ginegr Baker prob- ably never knew that the switch was open until he felt his engine take the siding. PORTER THROWS SWITCH. As fa fatalities were those of the engineers When No. 8 took the siding at Luzon the switch was thrown by Carl Taylor, a Pullman porter, and it is supposed | ypat Turkey is sending reinforcements that he neglected to close it after the |to Macedonia, but this is due to the the siding to awalt | prospect of an outbreak of another in- the arrival of the west-bound. As the | Surrection and possible interference on accident happened is | the part of Bulgaria, now that Russia train had taken place where th remote from telephone and telegraph | as is now known none of the | the powers that even if she dges en- passengers were injured and the only | gage in hostilities she will gain abso- ill-fated | lutely no result therc’-om and even | { centers and the collision occurred nfter' most of the country offices were closed | depend upon it that Bulgaria will be it was difficult for even the officials of | the aggressor. the to learn any details of the smash-up, but it is now known that none of the passengers on either train were killed, and it is believed that none were injured, road [ America May Be Asked to Mediate in the Balkans. 1 ROME, Feb. —The situation in lhe‘ Balkans, with which Russia, Italy and Austria are so closely connected, al- | though it has apparently improved | somewhat during the last few -days, | still occasions much anxiety. It is.no longer a secret that Boris Sarafoff, the | Macedonian leader, came to Italy with the principal object of deciding on a| | course of action with Ricciotti Gari- | baldi, who heretofore has not approved | of an isolated movement on the part of the Macedonians. In an interview the two leaders agreed upon a plan which will result in a general rising in the Balkans, should necessity arise. With this ob- ject a meeting of all the Balkan lead- | ers has been provisionally arranged to take place in Venice about the end of March | The possibility of arbitration alsc was | discussed by’ Sarafoff and Garibaldi. The latter proposed to sound the United States as to whether or,not that coun- try would be willing to act in the ca- pacity of arbitrator. | Should arbitration or.the other sug- | gested arrangements for peaceful set- | tlement of the threatened trouble fail, a general revolution seems inevitable and Garibaldi is already secretly pre- paring a body of volunteers, each member of which will be equipped with arms, 2000 rounds of cartridge: and food for a month. Garibaldi wa offered the general direction of the Macedonian movement, but refused on the ground that he thought it better { { | | [ | directly interested in Macedonia, as that would give him, Garibaldi, a freer hand. Confidential and official information received her from Austria- points to the fact that that Government is mak- ing extensive preparations to- check any movement on its, southeast- ern frontiers, where reinforcements amounting to 30,000 men have been | centered. | It is known that negotiations are- going on between Russia and Italy in regard to the Balkans. PARIS, Feb. 7.—An American of- ficial who for two years past has been studying the conditions in the Balkans has just arrived in Paris and to-day made an interesting statement of the situation. He said: “I am satisfied Turkey will not de- clare war. She has been.inférmed by may suffer fr m a military occupation | by the powers, which probably would | result in the separation of Macedonia from the Turkish Empire. It is true is occupied with Japan; but the Sultan has everything to lose and little to gain by a war, and if it comes you may | “Should war come, I am satisfied that Bulgaria will be beaten. It has been said that Russia and Turkey are discussing the question of the passage Continued on Page 22, Column 1. | Russian Infantry Holds the Far in th Special Cable to The Call and New York Hernld. Copyright, 1904, by the New York He MOSCOW, Feb. —According to the latest information in high military ecir- | les Russian infantry has occupied the oad between Liauyang, on the road | from Mukden to Port Arthur, and the Yalu River, its front and flanks being strongly supported. The right flank is at Takushan and the left near the town of Wiju. The Russian cavalry.crossed the Yalu between Antung and Yon- gampho and occupied the road toward Sukohon, and Cossack scouts advanced along the greater and lesser caravan routes. Scouts are now ten miles east of Pingyang. The cavalry is thirty-five miles north and the infantry 125 mlles northwest of Pingyang. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 27.—Genera] Kuropatkin and Admiral Makaroff probably will not reach the seat of war until three weeks from now, nor are the war operations on land likely to commence until General Kuropatkin has had time to thoroughly take in and sum up the situation. There is a very great probabllity that the Japanese may avail themselves of the state of unpreparedness in which the Russians find themselves to hurry on their mili- tary operations. This is much feared here. der such circumstances hangs as a nightmare over Russia’s peace of mind. while all are hoping fervently that the Japanese will stay their hand. Russia is pushing her military prep- arations, tardy though they be, with the utmost haste, but her single ralil- way line (and not a very strongly laid one) forbids an enormous amount of traffic being sent along. The line will neither stand great weights nor high speed. Even with the gyeateut care it is recognized that breaks on the road are sure to be numerous. Lake Baikal so far has proved a weak spot on the line. - There has been Dread of what might occur un- ! HOW THE RUSSIAN ENGINEERS HAVE FORTIFIED THE NORTH BANK .OF THE YALU RIVER, WHICH THE JAPANESE WILL HAVE TO CROSS IN. THEIR PROPOSED "ADVANCE TERRITORY OF MANCHURIA. 45 { | INTO THE | e — great delay in getting the most desired rails’laid over the ice. Prince Khilkoff has been on the spot, with fall power to offer 'inducements of ;all kinds to have the work-rushed, but up to now, in spite of all efforts, the work has dragged. The troops have been taken across sixty kilometers or:so of ice on troikas, sleighs and kibitkas—in fact, every and any kind of vehicle. But then: the supply .of horses has fallen short, thus ‘adding. yet another difficul- ty to the many already existing. There are large accumulations of troops on either side of the lake wait- ing to proceed on their journey and the cold is intense. The rafiroad timed to be completed on Sunday will run from Baikal station to Tanchol, and is laid so that when the time comes that the ice breaker can force its way it will not be interfered with by the' line. The progress of the line has not been | rapid, it having falied to make more advance than a couple of versts a day, and oftener not more than one verst. Two thousand horses are in use. AGASsXI, Feb. 28.—The British steamship Kwang Ping has arrived here from Chinwangtao, on the Gulf of Liaotung, with 630 Japanese refugees, mostly women, from Manchuria. Many of the women claim that they were rob- bed and maltreated by Russian soldiers at Harbin. RUSSIANS CLATM THEY SANK THREE "JAPANESE VESSEES PARIS, Feb. 28.—The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Figaro tel- egraphs that the Russian cruiser Dmi- tri Donskoi has captured three steam- ers flying the British flag, which were conveying 15,000 tons of coal to Nag- asaki. 3 The correspondent further asserts that Russia’s plan of campalgn con- templates the retirement @f Russian troops without opposing thesJapanese landing and when sufficient reinfotce- Yalu and Cossacks Take Up Positio e Interior of Korea. p n d Pablishing Company. ments arrive the offensive will be tak- en and Port Arthur relieved. The: cruiser Dniitri . Donskoi * and |other R fan warships under the command of Admiral Wirinius have been in the Red Sea since.the war be- san. . 3 in a dispatch from St. Petersburg the correspondent’' of the 'Echo de | Paris” quotes a high official of the Riis- sian general staff as saying that com- pléte reports of the latest Port Arthur attacks have not yet been received, but that a consideration of the infor- mation already in possession of the Government shows that in the bom- bardment on the night of February 23-24 three Japanese vessels were sunk, . in addition to the transports. An official dispatch shows that one Japanese torpedo-boat destroyer was sunk and.the best information at Chefu_indicates that three such ves- sels were lost. “I confirm -the previous reports,” the correspondent quotes this offfcer as_ saying, “that upon the transports which menaced the battleship Retvi- zan our electrician discovergd' wires leading to infprnal machine, “We esti- mate that tRese checks will' have a considerable effect upon'the Japanese spirit, but we must cdntinue to watch ||n order to bafl> the enemy.” | FORMER RUSSIAN CRUISER MAY FLY 27 JAPANESE FLAG PARIS, Feb. 28" — The Tokio corre- spondent .of the Petit Parisien cables that Japamese engineers have left for Chemulpo, Korea, to endeavor to raise the Russian cruiser Varlag. The Minister of War, General Andre, has issued a circul authorizing the army to make contributions for the benefit of the .wounded in the Rugso- Japanpese war. ¢ * TOULON, Feb. :27. — The reinforag-" ments thus far under- orders to 'n’. 1+ Indo-China number’ 3000 men. Y L | i1ast nighys session of the House | i | | ister's — to ériiain Wn}l F‘ighf Obtain Predomi- tion of Tibet ‘came oit officially in of Commons.* . . Lord Lansdowna's declaration if, any nance in that power was %o obtain predomi- ibet ‘thnt power must be | Great Britain caused a stir in the dip- | lamat : world second only to the im- on resulting from the same Min- pronouncement sonie months ago ‘that Britain would oppose by force of arms any power that might Week to gain a naval or military foot- ho!d on the Persian Gulf. It is felt that the Anglo-Russian issue in Cen- tral Asia has been clearly joined and that attempt on Russia’s part to ignore the principles enunciated by Lord Lansdowne will lead to a danger- ous ¢risis. Colonel Younghusband's expedition to Tibet began thé moment the British Government thaught it would be serviceable in relieving the Russian diplomatic pressure upon To- kio. vt This policy failed appreciably to affect the Russo-Japanese® situation and it will be prosecuted all the more vigorously on that account, since.the British Government desires to extend its influence as far into Chi from the sgouth as nossible in view the possi- bility of Russian victories and conse- quent encroachments from the north. In other words Lord: Lansdowne is determined to meet the oncoming Cos- sack long - before Himalayas. PARIS, Feb. 27.—Reports of interna- tional entanglements growing out of the war=continue to occupy a promi- nent place in the sensational branch of the press. But within'a week the offi- cials of the governments who are in close and constant teuch with the Cab- inets of other capitals have satisfied themselves—firet, that no International complications aré imminent, or likely at least for the present; second, that France is in*no present or prospective danger of being imbroiled in am inter- national conflict. The recent Bourse panic brought about a rather thorough survgy of the situation \throughout Europe, as “the heavy -decline in securities resulted ‘maiply from fears that the European powers might be drawn into the con- flict. The Inquiries disclosed that. while the possibilities of . unexpected complicatiors are always present, there is no immedlate reason to ‘expect Euro- pres: pean complications, the —iilitary activ- | ities_at varipus points being the nat- ural result of an outbreak ol war be- tween two great po sers. Concerning the ability of France to hold~aloof from the war, the officials base' their belief on the experiences of the first few weeks of hostilities. A: first the determination to observe neu- trality brought out a sentimentdl re- action favorable to Russia, with pop- ular demonstrations and subscriptions in behalf of that country. The authori- ties have now been able to take. into account al!l the various currents, the result being a firm ccnvietion that France will not have her hand forced Continued on Page 23, Column 4. ’ | - WILD RACE he can reach the SICRAMENTO RIVER RUNS —e Cuts Through Levees - and Floods the Lowlands. ERNT T ERT Thousands of Cultivated Acres Are Swept Dby Angry Stream. | Farmhouses Are Washed Away, Large |~ Trees Ar2 Uprooted and General Destruction Is Wrought. Special Dis to The Ca t S.\I’R:\.\IEN'I‘O.*Fcb. 2i.—From the dome of the State capitol Sacramento would appear be located on the edge of a peninsula with dry land only t its back and with a sea widening | to the very horizon to tife north, south and west. Waier in tremendous vol ume is coming down the Sacramento and American rivers, which converge at a polut about a mile north of the | city’s wharves. The Sacramento is fed farther up by the Yuba and | Feather rivers, while all the surging mountain streams pour irto the Ameri- can and contribute to make the Sac- | ramento at this point a magnificent bedy of water, rushing on with a cur- rent as fast as a mill race. Some dis- tance above Sacramento the river finds a measure of rellef in the Yolo tule basin into which it has spread, inun- dating a ccnsiderable portion of Yolo County and beating like the waves of the sea against the railroad embank- ment. So fierce is the flow in the basin that one time to-day a portion the main track, near Webster, was under- mined, and trains were stopped until the road could be reballasted. The water is everywhere level with the tracks, although in the dry season they rise far above the surface of t(he ground. CREVASSE IS WIDENING. The crevasse about two miles south of Sacramento, the first In that local- ity since 1881, is widening every hour i and now reaches 300 feet. The water is coming through it with terrific force, but while it might be thought that it would relieve the swollen river, the | tact is that the river has risen since the break occurred, thus indicating the immensity of the freshet that is driv- ing down the great river from all the valley and mountain sources. Fifteen thousand acres of land worth as high as $500 per acre Is under water below the city and valuable crops are threat- {ened with u'ter destruction. The Trustees of Reclamation District 535, on the river border of which the Edwards break occurred, to-day ap- | plied to the Board of Supervisors for assistance in closing the break, but Dis- trict Attorney Seymour advised that las only private interests were thus far {involved public money could not be | appropriated for the purpose. The wa- | ter Is tearing through the break with | a_ rear which can be heard miles di | tant and is washing away houses and | trees in its path. It is slowly spread- | ir~ over miles of country and has reached tc the southern borders of the | city, which are protected, as is all the | city. in fact. by an invulnerable levee. | 1t'is expected that the break will re- of mainr open at least-ten days and that noe work can be done until the river |'recedes. Om the Yolo side of the river _conditionis are even worse. The dairy {farm of Bryte A. Ritter, about four | ‘niies up the river, Is almost entirely | under water. MANY FARMS UNDER WATER. |* The water is also several feet deep on | the Merkley and Lovdal hop ranches. | The levee on the Todhunter and Bell | ranches is being closely guarded night and day. The levees of the valuable Lisbon district are still ~intact, but there, as elsewhere on the river where | extepsive. property ‘interests are in- {'volved. the strictest vigilance is being | ohserved, -the smallest: gopher hole be- | ing-regarded as the gravest menace. Snow was falling to-day throughout the mountains and with the intervening warm rains there is every prospect for a continuance of the high water condi- tions for several days, with consequent Continued on Page 26, Columa 3.