The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1904 - RIVER STEAMBOAT APACHE BRINGS FLOOD VICTIMS FROM WALNUT GROVE Some Have Only the Clothes on Their Backs, but All Are Thankful for the Rescue---Captain Carlson Gives Graphic Description of Devastation Wrought by Water on Sacramento Lowlands er steamboat Apache] the Folsom-street | after an exciting| Sacramente, more farmers, farm-| s¢ and Japanese vege- | gside night vs disembarked. Some | and without fur-| han the eclothes on 1 were thankful to aped the flood that is raging and thank- cessful termination of a g experience on a river se fefugees are for the greater part town of Walnut Grove, a ut 1400 inhabitants, of 5 per cent are Mongolians. The itself submerged and >s about it are in- rove were forced es without first re-| - or gathering to-| d clothing. f upon one of which | rut Grove is situated, are deemed ! est pasture and grain lands in and if were not for the > liable to the winter | value would be ines- is, all varieties of grains, 2d fruits are grown in The land has recently been sown and the owners say that the flood could not have occurred at a more ‘inopportune time. DESCRIBES INUNDATION. Captain Carlson of the Apache gives | e account of the present airs on the river. He said a desc state of upon thousands of mcres of good n homes are completely sub. e city of Sacramento the g sea, with the tops | s. The graveyard is 7 water, and occasion- e loom up over the remarkable sight be worth a man’s while he break and th an area of about 9500 about estimate, and the ton. - All DR. SEOOP’S REMEDIES. | DON'T RISK A PENNY. 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Your grocer’s; moneyback. | two years ago, of the men on the island are doing all that ¥ possibly can toward saving that portion of the island that is not vet submerged and dredgers are already at work. FARMERS MOVE CATTLE. At Emmenton the farmers are working in- dustriously getting their cattle and posses- sions togeiher and moving them to safer Ieland, situated back of Andrews s under water, and the levee there is broken in six plac At Snodgrass, Slough B. the conditions are a little more favorable The 1 there has failen fifteen from Mon, morning up to moon to-da Nine th nd acres are, however, submerged. Island is safe up 1o the present, but a storm arise, or should we have an- north wind, it ‘will be only a matter of a few hours when the entire island is sub- merged. Egbert District No. 536 is still under water and great damage has been done there. Brannan island is In a very critical condi- tion, and the water is €0 high there as to leave but from a foot to a foot and & half to spare. At Rio Vista and the surrounding country. all the available men have been called to as- sist in closing the levee. The break is a large one and hundreds of men are busily en- gaged loading sacks of sand upon the defective have stopped a large part of the { the weather continues to be in their faver it will not be long until they have the levee entirely repal PUMPS WORK STEADILY. At the Pierson district two pumps capable of pumping 45.000 gallons of water per minute are kept steadily at work to keep out the seep- age. for, should the rising waters spread that part of the land, there would be a tre- mendous loss incurred. There & a cannery on the Pierson District, in which all the as- parague and fruits grown there are canned. Grand Island is threatened with ruin and | the entire length of the levee in that district is being patrolled by the farmers and their help. half feet above the dock, and Front street, the principal thoroughfare of the town, is entirely submerged. The residents of the town s that this is the first time the water has ev risen over the docks. Sherman lsland was reclaimed a little over and the owners of property there were just about to realize an income from their lands. stalled on the island recently, but through some kind of an accident it sank four or five daye ago. The trip that T have just completed was the most nerve racking of any that I have ever experienced. At times the boat was abso- lutely unmanageable and would not answer her helm cn account of the flerce, swirling wa- ter. The water in the vicinity of Sacra- mento is reported to have dropped sev- | eral feet in the last twenty-four hours. | FLOOD CAUSES BIG LOSS. Many Thousand Under Water Near Stockton. STOCKTON, March 2.—Many thou- sand acres of the richest land in this | county, about one-fifteenth of its total area, was under water at nightfall this evening. on owners and renters of reclaimed lands. the vast area swallowed up yesterday, the great flood that has come down the Sacramento River and rolled into | San Joaquin County made further en- croachments and to-night it was fear- ed by the more timid that the surging waters may leap the Calaveras, four miles north of this city, and overflow Stockton before twenty-four hours have passed. This afternoon came the report that the great Terminus tract had been added to the inland lake, and later a message was received from | Antioch stating that Sherman Island | across of 12,000 acres was flooding from large | breaks in the levee and that the water | at high tide at Antioch to-day was nearly a foot higher than it was yes- terday. Sherman Island is not in this county, but its levees made barriers that are hourly growing fewer be- | tween the delta of the Sacramento, Mokelumne and Calaveras. M. D. Eaton of Eaton & Buckley, who are extensively interested in the Terminus tract, went out there this morning. Shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon he telephoned to Buckley that the levee had given way and that the flood was rushing in on the tract. He demanded that a steamer be sent at once and added that he feared all of the residents of the tract might not escape. The message also stated that the flood was headed south toward Stock- ton and would probably take every- thing in its way as far as the Cala- veras River. This afternoon the steam barge Wright came up the channel with 1800 sheep rescued from the levee of Staten Island. The Wright's captain stated that water was seep- ing fast into Bouldin Island and that there was no hope. At 4 o'clock this afternoon the crest of the flood and the tide surged against the Bouldin Island levees. Hundreds of men were stationed at the threatened points to give battle to the enemy. Prepara- tions had been made to remove such property as could be transported in case of a flood. Three distinct breaks have occurred since and a small army of men was rushed to the points where the water had started over. By the use of sand bags and shovels the men held the water in check until stronger supports could be thrown up. For a half hour it looked as if the entire island would be annexed to the in- land sea, but the workers finally tri- | umphed and the falling tide left the island dry. To-night a force of sev- eral hundred men is at work prepar- ing for the supreme test which is ex- pected at midnight when the tide comes in. Although there is considerable alarm here to-night it is not believed that the water will approach this eity on the north nearer than the Cala- veras, as the broken levees below have provided an escape for the flood. The situation is liable to change, how- ever, as it is not known what volume is yet to come down the Sacramento. One thousand dollars was offered by isiand residents this morning for a steamer for one day, and the offer had to be refused, for, K there was not a steamer available, “‘Send us a steamer, or a launch and a barge at any cost,” was the message that came to this city early this morn- ing from the Sargent tract, near Term- inous. “Can you go up the canal to the Sargent cahal farm and rescue stock and beans from the levee?” was asked this morning of the captain of the steamer Jersey. “I would not attempt to take a steamer up that canal for what the boat cost nmew. She would be swept on the top of the levee and capsized as sure as fate,” came back the answer, Slou; rivers, channels, all are blot- ted out by the seething, yellow torrent that spreads over the lower country. mmumnmwgmfwy- of At Rio Vista the water is one and a | An $85,000 dredger was in- | Acres of Land Are | One million dollars is a con- | servative estimate of the loss that falls | Unsatisfied and unchecked by | many levees, and to attempt to run a steamer there is to risk the boat being capsized on some levee. This morning some fifteen or twenty men stood in a dejected group on the south wharf in this city, awaiting the arrival of the steamer Jersey. They had been tenant farmers on the Brack | tract and had accompanied their wives and children to this city on the Jersey last night. They were waiting to be taken back so that they could help save | a part of their belongings. There were | between sixty and seventy persons liv- {ing on the Brack tract, and all were | renters. Last Monday they were told | that there was a possibility of the levee | glving way, but they did not heed the | warning. It was nearly midnight when | the wild alarm was sounded that the flood was coming. | "I could hear the men shouting and I knew what it meant,” said J. J. | Pimentel®in telling of his experience. “I told my wife to get the babies and some food ready, while I ran to the barn and hooked up my best team to the lightest wagon. Before I could drive to the door of our house the flood was there. It did not come grad- ually, but swept down with a wave more than a foot high. We did not have time to dress the children. We threw them, bedclothes and all, into | the bottom of the wagon, tossed in a little food and scrambled in ourselves. The water was then up to the hubs. I lashed the horses into a gallop and | by the time we reached the levee the water was coming into the bed of the wagon. “We made a camp on the levee. Fif- | teen or twenty families got togetier and we built a fire and made coffee. The water came almost to the top of the levee and we believed that we | would all be drowned. Once the levee | below us gave way With a roar and | the water poured .through into the riv- | er, which was lower than the water in- side the levee. It made an awful noise | there in the night. We fully thought that the end was coming. The most of our stock ran for the levee when the flood came. “When morning came we found a | rowboat and sent a man for help. I | think he went to Bouldin Island. Last evening the steamer Jersey came and took us off, all but a few of the men, | who ctayed to watch the stock. ‘“Yesterday a man came over in a boat from Staten Island. He said that lthe people of that district did not have | time to save food and he wanted to borrow some. |1y a hundred families camped on the levee over there.” The reclamations on the south side of the San Joaquin River are safe. The | water about Victoria, Union and Rob- erts islands and the Jones and other | nearby tracts has raised very little and | | there is no possibility of a flood in that | section. | It is stated that when the Staten Isl- and levees gave way the flood came | jduwn in a big, high wave and took | houses and barns and swept them the island, smashing them | against the levee on the west side. — | STORM IN THE NORTH. Farms and Stock Suffer Greatly in Modoc County. ALTURAS, March 2.—The recent | floods here have been the highest in | years. Streams everywhere were be- vond the control of their banks and considerable damage was done. Bridges and dams are washed away, while mountain roads are ruined by torrents, either being cut away so as to be impassable or covered with de- bris. The town of Alturas was covered with a sheet of water, in some por- tions attaining a depth of four or five feet. Families along the river were compelled to abandon their homes, while on the first evening of the flood the water backed up into the electric light plant, extinguishing the fires in the furnaces and left the town in to- tal darkness. The estimated loss of stock on the range is appalling. The winds which brought rains into the valleys and on the foothlills left a heavy fall of snow in the mountains. On the winter range north of Canby in this county ig a fall of three or four feet of snow on the level. Fifteen hundred or two thousand head of horses are wintering there, as the feed is good, except when rendered unobtainable by such heavy snows. Cattlemen have been trying to break trails into this vicinity in or- der to rescue these poor animals, but without success, as their efforts were ever thwarted by continually falling and drifting snow. It is estimated by the stockmen that they cannot pos- sibly save more than half of all this vast herd under most favorable weather now, and that if the storms do not cease immediately all will be lost. : LR Rain at Napa. - NAPA, March 2.—Rain began fall- ing Tuesday night and kept up at in- tervals throughout to-day. According to the Southern Pacific gauge at the depot, the rainfall for the twenty-four hours preceding 7 o'clock this morn- ing amounted to .15 of an inch. This makes a total for the spason to date of 19.65 inches. Last season up to the same date 15.54 inches had fallen. The indications point to more rain. —_——— Falling Bucket Kills Miner. TONOPAH, March 2.—A miner named John Mitchell was killed in the bottom of a 700-foot shaft of the Montana Tonopah mine this after- noon. A bucket loaded with rock was ascending the shaft and when near the top the bale broke, letting the bucket fall to the bottom, striking Mitchell, breaking his back and neck. Another man was in the shaft, but he escaped by hugging the wall. Mitchell leaves a wife and four children. The investigation of Reed Smoot, the Senator from Utah, promises to bring forth some interesting testimony in re- gard to the inner workings of the Mor- mon church. President Joseph Smith is to be one of the chief witnesses. re time to read the trial will be had if you use a 1 San Francisco Gas and range from fl:cu-u Co., 416 Post street, He said there were near- | | FOURTEE PERISH THE RUINS Steel Skeleton of a Twelve- Story Building Collapses in New York City, Dealing Death to Many Workmen ACCIDENT IS DUE TO GROSS NEGLECT Contractors Receive Warning That Work Was Being Im- properly Carried Out, but Fail to Heed Inspectors NEW YORK, March 2. — Fourteen persons are believed to have been killed, of whom the bodies of only five have been recovered; about a score injured and several are missing, through the collapse to-day of the steel skeleton of the Hotel Darlington, a twelve-story apartment-house in course of erection at 57 West Forty- | sixth street. The steel framework had been erected as far as the eleventh floor, and the structure was swarming with ironworkers. masons and labor- ers when, without an instant’s warn- ing, the upper floor sagged and col- lapsed, and the whole structure fell with a crash that was heard for blocks and shook all the buildings in the vicinity. A portion of the steel frame fell upon the rear of the Hotel Patterson, on West Forty - seventh street, crushing in the wall of the dining-room and killing Mrs. Ella Lacey Storrs, wife of Frank Storrs, a wealthy resident of Rye, Westchester County, as she was sitting at luncheon with the wife of Rev. Dr. Minot Savage, who escaped unhurt. The other bodies so far recovered | are Frederick Morrills, foreman of the | Roebling Construction Company; Far- | rell I. Fagan, a derrickman, and two unidentified men, apparently laborers. | The more seriously injured. with one | exception, are laborers on the building, and are: Joseph Sinto, Andrew Maher, James | W. Smith, Henry Strobe, Tony Smith, Dennis McGinnis, Frederick Weissen- | muller, Gottlleb Witterau, A.V. Benter, Joseph Gentry and Ernest Meier, a | waiter employed in the Hotel Patter- | son. | SEVERAL ARE MISSING. Among those missing is Frank J. Allison of the Allison Realty Company, | the builders of the hatel, who is known to have been in the building when it fell. Efforts to recover the bodiesgof the dead and rescue those imprisoned | in the wreck were begun by the fire- men immediately after the crash, and | at 11 o’clock to-night the contractor in charge of the wrecking work said | that his men had discovered seven bod- | fes and that two were known to be| pinned under the wreckage on the east side of the building. J The cause of the accident was the overloading of the floors. Foreman James Halpin, in charge of the iron workers, stated that there was a large quantity of cement and other building material on the fifth floor and on the| ninth floor were eighty-three beams | which were to have been used in con- | structing the remaining floors of the | building. That criminal carelessness is charge- able to somebody is shown by the fact that the building department had placed repeated ‘‘violations” against the building, the last one being filed to-day, at the instance of Inspector Charles French, because “the side walls were more than two stories in advance of the front walls, and the floor beams were not properly bolted and tied.” RECEIVED MANY WARNINGS. In spite of this and previous warn- ings those responsible for the construc- tion of the building went ahead regard- less of consequences. Adjoining the collapsed building on the west side is the four-story brown- stone residence of Harold Brown. Some of the huge iron beams struck the gide of the house and drove holes in the walls and roof and destroyed a part of the brownstone front, which was thrown to the street. The occupants escaped uninjured. On the cast side is a house occupied by a school for boys. The pupils had gone home to lunch a few minutes before the crash occurred. Some of the beams struck the house, tearing off a portion of the roof and smashing holes in the side walls. Mrs. Storrs was sitting at lunch with Mrs. Savage when the crash came, and she and Meier, the waiter, were buried un- der the debris of the roof and walls. Mrs. Savage barely escaped being struck, but her skirt was pinned to the floor by a mass of fallen bricks. Mrs. Storrs was breathing when extricated, but died within a few minutes. The waiter is believed to be fatally injured. The other occupants of the dining- room escaped unhurt. The Hotel Patterson was shaken to its foundation and the fire es- capes on several stories were torn from the fastenings and all the ‘win- dows on these floors were smashed. The occupants of these apartments hastily quitted them. Rev. Minot Sav- age was ill in his apartment in the front of the hotel at the time of the collapse. The vlans for the building were filed by the firm of Neville & Bagge, architects, and called for the construction of a fireproof building, twelve stories in height, with a front- age of 55 feet and a depth of 100, of steel, brick and stone, of a helght when finished of 199 feet. The approximate building cost, exclusive of the plat, was named at $350,000. —_— Arrested for Stealing Beer. CALISTOGA, March 2.—Acting night watchman Clarence Smith was arrested here last night by Constable Foss on a charge of burglary. He en- tered the liquor store of D. C. Wills and was caught in the act of taking two bottles of beer. When arrésted Smith was struck on the head by Wills several times with a heavy revolver, which inflicted a severe scalp wound. The popularity of our wash suits last season has prompted us to pre- pare even more extensively this year. We recently received- our spring stock of these goods. When unpack- ing them we were agreeably surprised ourselves. We have never seen such beauty and harmony in colored wash fabrics. Every suit is charming— both in style and colors. And when you learn the prices you will con- sider the suits desirable from every standpoint. The materials are galatea, linen crash, madras, pique, chambray and mercerized silk. The styles are sail- ors, in ages 3 to 10, and Russian blouses, in ages 215 to 6 years. We mention below our prices, to- gether with a brief description of the goods. Description is really useless —you must see the goods to properly . appreciate their beautiful colorings. Buy now and have first choice from our splendid assortment. To open the season we place on sale a number of suits in sailor styles similar to the above picture for $1.00. The fabrics will wash well and bear our guarantee in this respect. years. The price i3 51.00 The ages are from 3 to 10 We also have sailor suits at $1.50, $1.75, $1.85, $2.00, $2.25, $2.50 and $2.75, in beautiful colors and splendid wash fab- rics, which we fully guarantee. For little fellows from 214 to 6 years we have provided Russian blouse suits as pictured on the right. The garments are made with Eton, military or sailor collars. The prices are $1.50, $2.25 and $2.50 each. We also carry a large $1.85, $2.00, assortment of separate wash pants at 25¢ a pair. Boys’ golf shirts for spring and summer wear, made of good quality percale, ma- dras and fancy weaves in colors that will wash; separate link cuffs; price 50c¢. Boys’ and girls’ automobile caps in cloth, corduroy and leather in some new styles and colors, prices from 45¢ to $2.00. Tam O’Shanter caps in colors from 45¢ up. Boys’ Norfolk caps in a patterns at 45¢. all shapes and large variety of Mail orders filled for any of these goods— please address Dept. L. SNWo0D 5 (0 740 Market St. TIME T0 BEGIN BRIDCE WORK Harbor Commissioners Re- quested to Remove Ob- structions on Third Street S The.new bridge of the Santa Fe Raiflway to span Channel Creek at Third street engaged the attention of the Harbor Commissioners at the reg- ular session yesterday afternoon. The contractors are ready to begin the work of bridge building, and therefore it devolves upon the Board of Public Works and the Harbor Commission to remove obstructions on Third street. 4 portion of the street ‘controlled by the city, as well as spaces under the jurisdiction of the State are occupied for business purposes. . The style of the structure to span the channel' is the same as that used in Chicago, where the river trafic is very heavy. There is no draw, but the bridge is raised on either side so that the full width of the channel is given to the passing craft. The Santa ' Fe and Southern Pacific bear the chief burden of expense in the bridge-build- ing enterprise, but the public will de- rive many conveniences. South San Francisco will be brought into close re- lation to the business region of the city east of Kearny and Third streets. Bridge Company, was assured by the commission yesterday that space would be cleared so that the work of construction could begin at once. The contractor offered to remove at ,his own expense an old wharf, provided the board would allow him to use it for mixing cement during the bridge- bullding operations. The offer was re- fersed to the Chief Engineer. Fred S. Stratton, Collector of Cus- toms, San Francisco, at the sug- gestion of the United States Treasury Department, has requested the Harbor Commissioners to assign space for the revenue stcamers Golden Gate and Hartley at Lombard-street wharf. The Government offers to pay monthly rental of 362 50. The subject was re- ferred to the Chief Wharfinger. The Commissioners are not discour- aged by their recent reverses in court. They are confident that they will win in the end. It is asserted that Foster & Orear, the holders of the news- stand privilege, did not on the 1st of this month make tender of $1500 a month, but offered to pay on the basis of ‘$480, the old rate. . ————— ' Suesser Must Hang. The Supreme Court yesterday re- fused to, grant a new trial to George Suesser, who was sentenced to death in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County for the murder of Sheriff H. R. Farley of Monterey County at Sa- linas, September 18, 1899. Suesser was convicted and given the death sentence in Monterey County origin- ally, but the Supreme Court granted a change of venue on appeal. The second trial in Santa Clara County re- sulted no more favorably for the de- fendant. ' ORDER FOR THE GREAT TWENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOK. Mail This Order to The San Franoisco Call With 78a. L The contracting firm, the Thompson F————— e}