The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 29, 1904, Page 5

29, 1904, TROLLEY POLE | KILLS A MAN: I'raveler on the Key Route Has His Skull Crushed on | a Rapidly Running Train | A ‘ PUTS HEAD OVER GATE| A. W. Jones. a Contractor of San Francisco, Is the Vie-| tim of a Deadly Blow| | e sco Cal Feb. 28. r and cqp- S Fran- rnoon Hospital he body the train boat ck HORTICCLTCRE 10 BE THEVE Arrest of Landlady. e-— <es Propeller at Sea. a flerce gale she put back to end came to anchorage, await- ADVERTISEMENTS. Dyspepsia and other stomach troubles quickly relieved and in mostcases surely cured by the use of < 37 This scientific germicide is abso- lutely harmless ; itsubduesthe inflammation of the mucous mem- brane of the stomach, and by re- moving the cause, effectsa cure. Used and recommended by leading phy- sicians. Take no substitute and see that each bottle bears my signature. _Trialsize, $1.00, at druggists or by mail, from Send for Booklet Howto Treat Discases. LOCAL GROWERS CONTROL CROP Rhubarb Producers of Ala-| meda County Form Asso-| ciation to Handle Output RS INDORSE PLAN i i Manager Receives Promise of Support of Merchants on Both Sides of the Bay| S At | ? DEALE Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, Feb. { County Rhubarb Grow- | , an organization which | ly the enti output of Alameda County earliest ortant crops, h; ted anager for com- San the s at ehouse rhuba atr i BUGLE WILL SUMMON STUDENTS TO WORK Will Be Inaugurated at an Hou the University ornia. Labor Day Early call the TTOW According to the ted to when the bugle co-eds of mpus oaks, this ing the fi the features an be at the Gre ———a PERSONAL. bonfire entertain- f Merced, 1 man of Los An- merchant executive com- Billboard Ad- y and are alace. In the party ar and wife of Jersey City, New York, E. Don- Allen Frost and wif 3ryan and wife « . M. Breslauer of Minn 3ryan Senjamin Link E rles Bernard and wife of Chicago, iward A. Stahlbrook of Rochester, | Campbell of Chicago, A. Allison Los Angeles, J. D. McMannus of York, F. W. Chamberlain of Iowa, F. C. Zehrung of Nebraska and S. P of New York. —_———— - FRIENDS OF LATE LOUIS ELKUS PAY LAST RESPECT Well Known Citizen Is Laid at Rest in Vault at the Home of Peace Cemetery. The funeral of the late Louis Elkus as held from the Eilkus residence, $ Pacific avenue, yesterday morning. Such a large number of friends and relativ of the deceased were present ssion to the home. Rabbi Voorsanger delivered the ser- mon d simplicity marked the ser ice n T tiful in the garb of parting tokens of ; friends. Pacific Lodge, F. and A. M., of San ‘rancisco, took part in the services, resenting Washington Lodge of of which the late Louis was the oldest member. | > body was placed in a valut at | Home of Peace Cemeter: | to the erection of a mausoleum by the family. —_———————— Francis Larkin Gives Lecture. The Rev. Francis M. Larkin, pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, i delivered an interesting lecture at the | church last night. His subject was | “The Moral Miracle,” a society cast- away. The lecture was one of a series of four that began a week ago last night. The oter two, which will be given next Sunday night, and the fol- lowing Sunday night, will be on the subjects, “The Despised Capitalist” and “A Police Captain,” respectively. — - —— An investigation made by Police Com- missioner Greene of New York shows that of 240 persons arrested in the upper part of that city during a period of six months some were subjected to light fines, while not one was impris- oned, and nearly one-hdl of all were discharged. -ater. | | that many of them could not gain ad- | e room in which the coffin lay | | was a veritable floral bed, being beau- preparatory | «NEWS OF THE' COUN GRIM WRECKAGE MARKS THE SCENE OF SUNDAY MORNING’S CATASTROPHE |Torn and. Twisted Mass of Iron Tells Story of Terrible Death of Two Men and the Serious Injury of Seven---Porter Alvin Taylor Is Arreste d Pending the Action of Coroner’s Jury BRI, | Feb. RICHMOND un rose on a grim pile wreckage Luz tion, where, | during the night, two of the most im- pertant trains of the Santa Fe route POINT day morning’s | crashed together. That more lives were as due alone to merest chance. nd red in the engineer train mes Bennett, en- Thomas, fireman rain 3 right leg broken above knee, on same leg, hand badly led, bruise on and scalp 1; Fred King S calp wound; Robert injury to right John Kei back brui H. B. Moulton Francisco, injury to spine. | All of the injured except Robert Greer taken to the company’s h®spital San Francisc Fireman Thomas is the only one risusly injured and he will recover. HOW ACCIDENT OCCURRED. No. 3, the overland express, left Point Richmond Saturday night at 8:50 on time. The train was composed of eleven cars in all, having two extra carloads of soldiers bound East. Two engines, Nos. 69 and 31, were to draw the train over the hill to the vall Jack Lane wa onductor; James Ben , engineer on engine 69, which was 7 front, and S. H. Rockwood, fireman | were in Samuel Morrman was at the throttl on engine 31 and Bert Carter was his | fireman. At Luzon, only eight miles | out, where there is nothing but a long siding, the train headed in to allow No. , the California Limited, the fagtest | train on the road, to pass. The head brakeman opened the switch and the train pulled well up to the eastern end of the siding. It was the duty of the rcar brakeman to open the switch at the forward end after the train had passed and let No. 8 out on the main line again. TAYLOR IS CONFUSED. The rear brakeman was Alvin Tay- lor, a colored man, who also acts as porter of the chair car. He took his station at the target. Soon the roar | of the flyer was heard and the glare of | the headlight burst upon him as the train emerged from a curving cut a quarter of a mile away. The train was running furiously on a down grade. This was the regular meeting place, and before Engineer Baker's eyve was | the overland express standing on the { siding. On he came with increasing | speed. Suddenly the negro, looking up | to the switch target, caught a glimpse | of the red light, and, horrible thought, |imagined he had his switch set to throw the train wrong. Quickly he un- locked the switch, and when the engine | was only forty feet away threw the] rail over, and in a twinkling came the crash. The investigations since have shown that poor Engineer Baker did not even have time to set his airbrakes. The olectrical speed register showed the train | to be running fifty miles an hour. The | fiyer’'s engine climbed bodily up on top | of engine 69, the forward engine of | train No. 8. The tender shot past, de- flecting to the south, pushed by the mail car and composite buffet car of the limited. Three engines were plled up in a twisted iron death trap. BODIES ARE MANGLED. Engineer Baker's body—all that was left of it—was picked up near the top of the heap, weighted down by a pair of ENGINEER WHO MET TERRIBLE NEAR LUZON SUNDAY, JURED AND PORTER WHO IS FIREMAN DEATH IN TRAIN COLLISION WHO WAS SERIOUSLY IN- SAID TO HAVE CAUSED WRECK. ? trucks. One leg and one hand were cut | off and his torn flesh was scattered everywhere. Engineer Bennett was dragged out from under the boiler of his engin dead and horribly mangled. Fireman Thomas, who was on the | limited | negro throw the switch and started to j but was tco late to escape en- of his injuries are v. The result given above. In the awful confusion that followed back to Pinole, three miles, to report | the disaster and wire for help. It was almost 11 o'clock before the officials at Poing Richmond were a ed of the fate of the two trains. wrecking train was made up and at 4 o'clock Sunday morning the dead and injured were brought in. In the dark, Baker's dismembered arm could not be { found. It was found this morning and { placed with the balance of the remains. Baker was one of the oldest engineers | on the division. He lived in Richmond in a nice home recently built. He leaves a wife and one son, who is.at- | street, San Francisco. Engincer Bennett's home was Stockton, where his wife resides. in She Richmond to-da; and child ang lives in Richmond. He is a eson of Houston Thomas of San Bernardino, who was sheriff there a { number of years and is a well-known | citizen. | TAYLOR IS ARRESTED. ‘When Alvin Taylor delivered his message to the operator at Pinole he dropped out of sight. Sheriff Veale went out to the wreck this morning to get track of Tavlor, but before he had fairly got started on the trail was notified by phene from Point Rich- mond that Tavlor had been arrested at his home there. Taylor has a white woman for a wife and they live in the | Oldtown suburb. He would make no statement and said he had filed a re- port with the company. He says En- | gineer Bennett signaled him to open | the switch. He says further that he | thought No. 8 was on the main line | and that No. 3 was to go on the siding. Taylor was taken to Martinez by Sheriff Veale and placed in the County Jail to await action of the Coroner's jury. Coroner Curry came to Point Rich- mond this morning and took charge of the bodies of Baker and Bennett. He took them to Martinez and will hold the inquest there some time during the present week. | There is some eriticism of the rail- road company for allowing these col- ored porters to act as brakemen. They | draw only $50 a month pay, where a | brakeman draws $84. The brakeman, in addition to a physical examination, i also undergoes a written examination, involving 284 questions, as to his ca- pacity for performing a brakeman's duties. The porter is let off with a mere physical examination and is given a switch key to do a brakeman’s duty, in this case with terrible result. TRACK NOT BLOCKED. The fact that the siding at Luzon is on a curve is responsible for the fact that the main line was not blocked. *A train running straight would enter the with Engineer Baker, saw the| Conductor Lane sent the negro Taylor relief and | tending grammar school on McAllister | heard the sad news and came to Point | Fireman Edward Thomas has a wife | 1 siding. To keep on the in line, the train should curve. Thence the debris { all deflected from the main line and left it tlear, Had the cars deflected the {other way, they would have rolled down | @ high embankment. | It is a great wonder that the wreck did not catch fire. Oil was scattered over the splintered mail and composite cars and, once ignited, would have | ended in t destruction of both trains. | John Christie, road foreman of en- | gines on the coast division, was a pas- senger on No. 8, and relates an interest- | ing experienc he was about ready to swing himself | up into engine 69, an No. 8. Then came a fearful cra electric headlights, timbers, coach and trucks crunching into a shapeless mass of debris. A sec- ond later Christie was standing, un- scratched, in the angle that separated the fated trai THREATE TO L NCH PORTER. Passenger That Accompanied Greer to This City Makes Statement. William P. Greer, president of the Pacific Ammonia and Chemical Works, who was injured in the wreck, was brought to this city vesterday morn- ing at 4 o'clock and taken to the Cos- mos Club, where his fractured hand, | lacerated nose and injured hip were | properly attended to. | Just before the collision occurred Greer and several other traveling com- panions, among them Samuel Pratt of and adjourned from there to gather their hand baggage preparatory to the | expected arrival of the train at Rich- mond. On reaching his own car Gregr stepped into the washroom to wash crash occurred. He was thrown for- ward by the shock and naturally put out his hands to steady himself and in this way the bones in his hand were fractured and his mose lacerated. J. C. Buck of Denver and F. J. French of New York, with Samuel Pratt, accompanied Greer across the bay yesterday morning and went to the Palace Hotel. Pratt made the fol- lowing statement last night: We were told by the conductor of the train just as we were pulling out of Stockton that we were fifteen minutes behind time, but he said that the train would make up ten minutes of this time between Stockton and Point Rich- mond and that the, gther five minutes would be made up by the f The train had barely left Stockton when we noticed that it was at- taining a high rate of-speed. Just after pull- ing out of the tunnel there was a sudden jerk, evidently caused by the application of the brakes, and the next moment there was a crash that threw the passengers out of their seats and some of them nearly the length of the car. and learned the cause of the trouble there was a great deal of indignation shown for the colored porter and [ think if he had been found by those that were searching for him he would have been hanged. We waited at the scene of the wreck for nearly half an hour before assistance arrived and then it was in the per- son of a doctor, who was brought from the nearest station on a handear. not a larger number of accidents and deaths we attributed to the fact that the engine of our train went off the main track in one direction and the cars jumped in another, thus destroy- ing a great deal of the force of the collision. —_——— An authority on the subject de- clares that many cases of defective eyvesight are cause” by wearing tight collars, which interfere with the cir- culation of blood to the head. | Members of Board of Trade When the crash same | New York, were in the smoking car | his hands and he was there when the | When we had got out of the wrecked cars | That there were ' REALTY MARKET [§ IMPROVING Dealers Report Values ‘and Rents Firm and Business Better Than Last Year TOURIST HOTEL NEEDED May Erect New Structure on Shore of Lake Merritt — Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Feb. | As spring advances the real estate | | market in this city and its suburbs | continues to improve and the local | dealers agree that indications point tc a splendid vear for the business inte lests of Oakland. Values and rents | j were never firmer than they are to- | | day and business property in any part of the ¢ity commands a ready sale. | Save for a few vacancies in the new | Bacon building, there is not a desirable | store in the city to be had and the same condition prevails in the resi- | dence district. | Dealers in real estate are well satis | fled with prese conditions and pre- | dict a first-class market during the | present rear J. H. Macdonald made | | the following statement regarding the | present position in this city | | the city inst ter line of business. H. B. Belden, who has just returned from his winter vacation in the West Indies, said: The indications point to an a for residence prope tive inquiry ket. The abundant rains and . have created a bette The following recent sales ha ugh our office: and lot on Fifteenth strest. near Charles Odh to Louis P. Come e on the Southern Pacific 'an Comp facturing i ry sit e rill proper B egraph avenue, for Mrs. J. M. Merrill; lot on Edwards street, ne: Dwinelle, for A James Pe: cottage and or Martia! ot f on Filbert near Boreham near Moss | M. Kana- | | 15t on Howe street. Knudson to M: <o and for M. | The directors of the Oakland Board of Trade are formulating plans for the | establishment of a three-hundred room | tourist hotel in this city, which will cost in the neighborhood of $200,000. | They hope to secure a site on the | Adams Point property, or at some other point on the shores of Lake Mer- T 1t is believed by the directors of the board that the owners of the site chosen can be induced to take stock in the hotel in exchange for the sit and the balance of the necessary cap- | ital would be su ribed by local bu If the present plan is car- the hotel will be leased to | some competent hotel manager, instead | of being run by a manager in the em- ploy of the stockholders of the hotel company. The directors of the Board of Trade have also appointed a committee of three to look up a suitable site for a | building for the Board of Trade. It is | the intention of the board, provided a | site can be secured at a reasonable | figure, to erect a building on the same basis as the Chamber of Commer building of Los Ang . Man members of the local organizat took the recent excursion to Los Ange- les are strongly in favor of the project | and are anxious to secure stock in the proposed building. The members of the committee in charge of the project | are: J. Tyrrel, M. J. Keller and Edwin | Stearnes. | | ~The Oakland Real Estate Association Fia | has finally set the commission for the | collection of rents at 213 per cent, with | a minimum charge of $1 for each ecc | lection. George W. Austin has in- | formed the members of the association | that it is the intention of the realty dealers throughout California to organ- | ; ize a State Board of Real Estate Deal- | grs. The organization is to be perfect- | ed as soon as possible. TY OF ALAMEDA » BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN | ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1118 Broadway. | Telephone Main 1083. BERKELEY. | 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 7 ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. Telephone Eagle 302. GREEK THEATER ECHOES MUSIC University Orchestra Gives First Half-Hour Sunday Concert Before a Crowd FRIDUETN S, - | | { + Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 r Street, Feb. 23 After a series of disappointments, on account of the rain, the first of the concerts planned for Sundays in new Greek Theater was given afternoon by the orchestra versity of California. In sodden condition of the grou many people braved the hill to the theater and heard the ¢ give six classical selections. The lowing programme was carrie on “Re atin Verse Faculty Cla and discusse ore the in the clubh to-morrow The Rev. E. R. Dillie th Methodist Church of Oakland a ng Men's Chrisgjan Ass ay evening, at Stiles Ha of Revelation.” T 2 dress will be preceded by ten m - ¢ usic senate will debate the followi 1esday evening, ved, that in mun power should 05, and Whitelaw affirmative, and and Stewart, 07, the r Dobbins, tive. Resolved xes in the un That the separation of the is preferable to education,” e question r de- bate before the congress Tuesday night in North Hall. Bishop, '03, Hagar and Coogan, '06, will present the firmative, and Hathaway, '04, Smi 06. and Blackman, '06, the negati he Kilties band will give its ¢ Wednesday nee Theater, b proceeds W nusical an dramatic fund. At the same hour t base game betw varsi and St. Mary's Coll Belle P and_Hen R 15, block 11 € W eather Report. Pa (120th Mer FRAN The follo date as con eeason and .- REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. | Alameda County. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2. | Joseph S. and Ethel P. Carney to Heron- Holcomb Company (corporation), lot on SE line | of Howe street, 121 SW of Amethyst, SW 40 by /SE 125, portion of lots 35 and 34, block B, Therman Hill, formerly Howe Tract, Oakland; $10. Heron-Holcomb _Company _ (corporation) to Francis H. and Sadie C. Upton, same, Oak- I #ind E. O. George to Mary E. Lytle 30 915 STATION. FRTETY (wife of Gu W.). iot on E line of Filbert street, 4 65 N of Thirtieth. N 35 bv E 5, portion of | lots 28 to 30, block 671, Glascock Tract, Oak- 4 { land; $10. . Rees B. and Mary J. Thompson to Abigall ~ | V. Graves, SW 25.06 feet of lot 18, being strip o of land uniform width of 25.08 feet adjoining nd parallel with line dividing lots 17 and 18; | North Head 2 0 NE 10 feet of lot 17, being a strip of land | Phoenix o uniform width of 10 feet adjoining and parallel | Portland s with dividing line of both lots, in biock | Red Bluft | G, map resubdivision of blocks G and H, Flint | Roseburg L Tract, portion of Oakland Heights, Oakland; | Sacramento . T $10. Salt_Lake 7 | _ Henry, Rose, Joseph and Juiia /Semeria, | San Francisco.? | Walter_and Ernestine Genes Charles and | S. L._Obispo. Clear o~ Clara S. Leighton to A. J. Marshall, lot on | San Diego : b ~ t East Fourteenth street, 30 SE or | Seattle . L6 &8 Cloudy .36 Nineteenth avenue, SE 25 by NE 140, lot 3, | Spokane .. 64 42 Rain ' | E 3 t Oakland: $10. Tatoosh ... & | Robert W. Pengellay to John C. Owens. un- [Walla Walla..20.70 22 o R vil o nnemucca a Cloud | divided one-half of ot 222, in Plat 30, Moun. | Winnem: e S 2 tain View Cemetery, Oakland Township; $1. B. Redmond C. and Winnifred P. Staats to H. Cornwell, lot on E line of Harper street 0.65 S of Russell. S 7:6 by E 122, portion of fot 11. map subdivision of block 10, Central Park Tra.t, Berke 10. H. B. and Ida B. Cornwell to Winnifred P. Staats. lot on E line of Harper street, 320.65 § of Russell, S 7:6 by E 122. being portion of lot_10. same map, Berkelev: $10, Charles W. Petersen (singie) and Nellie C. Squires (wife of W. E.) to W. E. Squires, lot 9, block 94, Tract B, Berkeley Land and Town Improvement Association, Berkeley: $10. John T. and Anna Hardin to C. A. H: sen, lot on W line of Sherman street, 48 Buena Vista avenue, N 26 by W 100, Alameda; 1 0. ; David Brehaut (single) to Annie Reid (Brehaut), lot on SW corner San Jose avenue and Willcw street (Twenty-first). W 50 by S 150, being lot 10 in east half of block N. lands ad to Encinal, Alameda; quitclaim deed, $5. Emma C. and Peter Tellier (husband) to P. H. and Caroline Haller (wife). lot on' NE cor- ner of Alcatraz avenue and Salem street, N 120 by E 40, being lot 3. block 2, map of Herzog Tract, Golden Gate, Oakland; $10. Jennie n' to Samuel M. Lonergan (husband), lot on S line of Brown street. 166 E of West street, E 50 by S 100. lot 6. biock E, Central Land Company (formerly Brown Tract), and personal property, Oakland: quitclaim deed, $1. Samuel and Minnie K. Bent (wife) to Laura e ONDITION: AND GENERAL FORECAST. Cloudy weather prevails over the northern portion of the Pacific slope and fair over the southern. Light rain continues in Washington and,Oregon and light snow in Idaho. The pressure has risen over the Pacific The temperature has remained tionary in all districts. All the rivers are now falling slowly Forecast made at San Francisco hours ending midnight, February 29, Northern California—Partly clondy | ATHER ( slope. nearly sia- portion, fair in south portion Monday; Hght west wind. Southern California—Fair Monday; light west wind. Nevada—Partly cloudy. cooler Monday. San, Francisco and vicinity—Partly clondy Monday; light west wind G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. Rt St v s e Rl Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Sunday. February 28. Steamer Sequoia, Fosen, 4% days from Grays h Schooner Mary C. Campbell, 10 hours from Bodega, SAILED. Sunday, February 8. Steamer Scotia, Johnson, Bowens Landing.