The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1904, Page 1

mianight, April 13t Ssx TFrancisco and wvicinfty-— Fair Monfay; contuned warm westhes; ght northerly wind. G. E. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. 0. 133. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1904. ’ VOLUME XCV— RECORD RUN | BEING MADE BY PARKER New York Jurist’s Nomination s Assured. | Democrats Throughout the Nation Are Rallying to His Standard Hearst's (hances for Vietory in the 8 lous Convention No Longer -Regarded Seriously. it g Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, April 10.—Judge Park- | conceded as inevi the na- of er’s nomination is ta- bie by Democrats thr tion who have followe poiitical events in the hese men think the » wiped out beaten all n candidate nt is crystailising in IN arst was first in the field hes been getting nearly convention delegates anvass of the situation in New Jer- shows that there is a strong lean- ughout the trend arious Stat rst boom has Parker th records as an anti-con- The Parker senti- and y say where nd thus all the ward Parker and that, though | st a hard fight, the delega- | national convention un- tedly will go uninstru Friends L see a ray of hope “onnecti- he wey say, the trend of pop- av running in his direction rphy, in an terview in Atlantic ntimated th n the Tammany ve no references for or d be made ructions we as Taggart, national committee- f says that labor u Hearst's effort to put them ass by themselves Parker will have a solid dele- his State ALL FLOCKING TO PARKER. A NGTON king weel - ' I £ K wig Ie ¢ He f such HEARST ANGERS THE UNIONS. ANAPOLIS. A w been ated st that 100 of ¢ In the delegates v made on Hearst and active work now State on account S uaintance and be all the shafts of the Hes men e beer g him. Before Jeav- f French, Lick, Taggart talked outlook in this Louis fc ates already selec of seven and the proportion wiil | even greater in the number that re- | n to be selected, for sentiment is | ainst Hearst and he is was when he first Indiana campaign. | eve that Hearst and only two men whe before the convention g make a choic go to Parker | between them they as the only wh presents Demo- | atic princ the one that | be strongest before the people. { e of the reasons for the change | of sentiment since Hearst's first in-| asion of the State is found im the methods that have been adopted by managers. They have appealed to ses rather than to men as Demo- | P ats, and have tried to make the im- pression that there is a movement in union labor circles all over the coun- try for his nomination. Even laboring men do not like to be set off in this way as @ class in politics, and the re- sult in union labor centers. where Hearst got only nine out of the forty- one delegates selected by labor votes, \ | hand brakes, but thg heavy | were FIDE PASSENGERS . HURLED TO DEATH BY A RUNAWAY CAR | THE DEAD. JAMES SMITH, aged 17; em- plove Lemon Exchange. LEON CALDERON, boy: aged 13. RAMON REYES, middle-aged laborer. school- FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, aged 70. EARL GOLAND, aged 45; teamster. THE INJURED. MISS MRES. MRS. erushed. MISS MISS MRS, Mi MIss MRS. MRS. EMIL SILVA VICTOR KELTON, face. JOSEPHINE CIVNAUX. All the foregoing are residents of Santa Barbara. CARLY, address unknown: spine injured: still unconscious. ENGERT, Chicago; fracture of the skull, MRES. JULIUS KRUTTSCHNITT, of San Francisco, wife of Vice President Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific. MRS. DR. ROSA K. THOMAS QU NN of Kansas EDMUND SCHREINER, Chicago; several ribs broken. | " R TR X g |\ Terrible Disaster in Santa Special Dispaich to The Call SANTA BARBARA, April 10.—A trol- ley car accident which resuited fatally for five pers and in which nearly thirty more were injured occurred this morning near the Oid Mission, a car- load of worshipers returning from church being dashed to the ground by the overturning of the car at a sharp o'clock a car carrying about 120 passengers got beyond the control of the motorman, and after a mad race down the stecp de, lefl the rails at the second curve encountered, and turned - completely over, burying its load of human freight beneath a mass of splintered wood and twisted Four pe were killed outright and over a score were seriously injured. One lived only a few hours, The wrec k was a frightful one and of the willing helpers who were n the sce fainted at the shock- ing sight one of up-to- date construction and thoroughly equipped. = It almost new, having been on the or about a week. It was in of Victor Kelton. 1 experie san of good stand- ing wi and William he car was as large as any in use in the State and ) t )se generall ed for urban trips. It was with as well as the heavy ratchet SASTER AT A CURVE. is situ- gates of the Mis f she street car line the hi extending for about E pc e. The grade ¢ for another block and then takes another sharp turn on to Garden street. It was at this second curv that the accident occurred unusually large crowd was at- nding ser Missic the occasion being mass id by | Father Florian who was or- dained last week. When service was over the crowd a dash for the car waiting at the top of the grade, and in 2 moment it was loaded to the | steps, the passengers being crushed against one another in the aisles. The heavily laden car started and had not gone a block before it got be- yond the c rol of the motorman. The supposition is that he did not realize the dangerous speed of the car until it was too late to stop the headway. At the first curve the car lifted, but set- tled down again, but so great was the speed that a dozen persons were hurled off at the turn. It was not un- t this hair-raising turn was made that the passengers, mostly women and children, realized the danger, and a panic at once began. The shrieking women made frantic efforts to get to the doors. Motorman Kelton applied the full force of the air and locked the wheels and Conductor Newell set the load and the momentum caused the car to slide with unabated speed. As a last re- course Kelton reversed the current, but even this had no effect, whatever, and almost before the passengers re- alized it the car struck the second curve and turned turtle, sliding on its side into the curb and bringing up with | the roof against a telegraph pole. The shock hurled every one on the outside 6f the car into the air and when they struck the ground the car itself slid over them, crushing and | erinding them under its weight. . Those inside the car were not badly hurt, the BURGIN, Mason strect; HENRY CARTER, bad scalp wound. ROSS, wife of manager of Hoe Telephone Company; arm ARCADE, broken shoulder. JUANA VALENZUELLA, arm badly crushed. LAMB, right leg badly lacerated. FRANCESCHI, bad wound on forehead and nose LUCY RUIZ, ear crushed and cardrum broken. VIRGINIA RUIZ, three ribs broken. i internal injuries. J. S. BANCROFT, bruised about body: left hand injured. MARY ARELLANES, arm broken and badly bruised. NORA LOMBARD, bruises and cut on face; arm broken. FRANCES OLIVOS, collarbone broken: cut about head and face. MRS. BEATRICE ROBERTS, motorman; bruised and cut on shoulder and ALICE DUPUY, arm and shoulder injured. MRS. GOLAND, wife of Eari Goland. iron. | several ribs broken. strained ankle. City, compound fracture of left Jeg. on Electric Line Barbara. Isidos and roof protecting them to a great extent. The neighborhood of New Mission ’Bnd Garden streets, where the acident | happened, is thickly populated and the creams of the panic-stricken and in- ured passengers brought a crowd to | the spot at once. Willing hands at | once started to raise the car, but al- | most every one was made frantic by | | the cries of those under the car, and in- stead of placing. the timbers in the proper places they were sent, against | the panels of the side. Three times the wood gave way when an attempt was made to Jift the weight. Finally the tproper leverage was obtained and the car was pried partly up. | A shocking spectacle was the- dis- | closed. James Smith had the top of { his head completely severed, the up- | | per half lying several feet away from | the rest of the skull. By degrees or- | der was restored and the wounded were laid out on neighboring lawns until doctors and ambulances arrived. ATEMENT OF MOTORMAN. Motorman Kelton was among those injured, being badly cut about the head, but he was able to give a state- ment of the affair. “I can’t account for it at all,” said he. “As soon as I saw that the car was going too fast I put on the air and then the hand brakes and the re- verse, but although the wheels locked they wouldn’t hold. I think I did| everything I could to stop the car.” Several priests from the Mission hurried to the spot to give spiritual consolation to the dying and one of | the Fathers fainted at-the sight. Many of the onlookers were overcome. The street railway here is owned and operated by the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles. Experts ex- plain the accident by saying that the | rails were not large enough for the heavy car and its great load, weigh- | ing in all about forty-five tons, and that once it got out of hand nothing could have stopped it. They believe the brakes acted well and that the motorman did all he could to prevent the disaster. | ———a i 'EXONERATES THE MOTORMAN. | Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury Is That | Accident Was Unavoidable. ! SANTA BARBARA, April 10.—The | Coroner’s jury in the streetcar accident | case to-night submitted a verdict after |an inquest lasting more than four | hours. The verdiet is as follows: | ‘“We, the jury, find that the deceased came to their deaths by the breaking of a brake beam casting on the car, whereby the motorman lost control of the car, which turned over at the corner of Garden and Mission streets in the | city of Santa Barbara, and we do here- by éxonerate the conductor and motor- man from any criminal liability.” The condition of the injured is no worse. R Kruttschnitt Has Fears. OMAHA, April 10.—Julius schnitt, whose wife was wrecked street car at Santa Barbara, received a telegram to-night stating that beyond a rather severe shock she was uninjured. Kruttschnitt, however, feared the shock might prove more serious than report- ed. His wife was severely injured in a similar accident, from the effects of which she has hardly recovered, and he fears that to-day's accident may re- sult in a nervous shock. Krutt- in the shows that they are resenting his claims of being their special candidate. *In the primaries in this city there more labor votes cast against him than for him, and there is mno Jikelihood that he will have a delegate from this State. NEW JEF FOR PARKER. TRENTON, N. J., April 10.—The po- tion of the New Jersey Democracy in regard to the Presidential campaign | n now be predicted by reason of the aries which have been held in sev- eral counties, and because of the near approach of the party’s State conven- tion, which is to be held here next Thursday. The indications are ‘that Representative Hearst is the worst beaten man who ever sought to control the votes of this commonwealth. His advocates will come to the convention with practically no support, except in i Camden, Union and Sussex Counties. | Several counties have yet to hold pri- | maries, but the conservative wing of | the party has already elected enough | delegates to insure the overthrow of | | Hearst's aspirations. Up to date he' has only thirty-five delegates to the | State convention. | ——— { ‘Wild Flowers for the Passengers | SONOMA, April 10.—“Wila Flower | Day,” which was inaugurated here last year by the California Northwestern Rajlway to make known the beauties of this valley, was observed here to- FODTPAD FIRE UPON POLICENE A Revolver Battle Ends Without Capre Two Masked Men Seen in Vicinity of Dolores Street Grocery. Shoot at Officers When Pursued and Are Shot at in Return, but No One Is Wounded. A shooting match between two sus- picious characters:and two policemen occurred last night at Twenty-third and Dolores streets. The police es- caped without casualties and so far as heard from the supposed footpads suf- fered no harm. About 10 p. m. Mrs. Anna Smith of 1014 Dolores street, as .2ae was return- ing home from a visit to a neighbor’s hcuse, saw two men acting mysta- ricusly in the vicinity of Frank Kerz's grocery, at the southwest corner o0i Twenty-third and Dolores streets, and she at once telephoned to the Sev- enteenth street police station. Patrolmen J. R. Walsh and Augustus J. Skelly started at once for the nlace indicated, where they were told that the men had been seen loafing about the grocery and -a new house in course of erection a few doors farther up Dolore: treet. The officers searched the new building, but found no one there. Then they went down Twenty- third street and saw two men running across to a vacant lot on the east side of that street, a little below Dolores. Policeman Skelly shouted to the men to halt, but they ran ail the faster, and when they had gone back a few feet in the lot they turned and opened fire on the officers. Skelly and Walsh returned ! the fire and started iy Dursuit »f the ' | fugitives. The vacant lot borders on an alley running through into Twenty-second street, and this way of escape was taken by the hunted men, who suc- cessfully distanced their pursuers. A large crowd of people collected immediately, attracted by the sound of a dozen or more shots that were fired, but no one could be found who saw the fugitives after they disap- peared in the alley. Mrs. Smith, who gave the alarm, declared that the men were masked. She suspected they were planning to hold up Kerz's store. —e——————— HEARTY LAUGH YIELDS HIM A MILLION DOLLARS Pennsylvanian Whose Boisterous Mer- riment Saved a Life Is Richly Rewarded. POTTSVILLE, Pa., April 10—A hearty laugh has won an estate valued at $1,000,000 for John Donahue, a resident of Tremont. Several years ago, while he was prospecting in the Cumberland Mountains of Bell County, Ky., he met a man named Bowman, who owned a large tract of land. Bowman had had a quarrel with a desperado and the latter had drawn a revolver to shoot when Donahue laughed—a loud, harty, infectious laugh. The desperado, in his astonish- ment, dropped his weapon and Bow- man escaped. As a reward for the laugh Bowman gave Donahue part of his land. The latter has just learned that a coal vein worth $1,000,000 has been dis- covered there. i b TR CAT COMES BACK ACROSS MOUNTAINS AND DESERT Salt Lake Man Takes Feline 337 Miles From Home, but It Suc- ceeds in Returning. SALT LAKE, April 10.—Traveling a distance of 337 miles, the cat came back. This feline adventurer is red and is known by the name of Tom. He belonged to J. M. West of Salt Lake City. Three weeks ago to-day he stole a fish from the kitchen. West feared he was getting into bad habits that might be disastrous to some chickens he expected would soon emerge from the incubpator, 0 he put Tom into a bag and concealed him under the seat in the day coach in the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. The cat was taken to Calientes, Nev., before he was disccvered and turned loose. To-day, weak and emaciated, he appeared at West's home and begged for food. His request was granted. He had traveled across two mountain ranges and many miles, of desert. —————— NEWSPAPERS ARE SENT TO SHASTA COUNTY JUROR REDDING, April 10.—A sensation occurred yesterday in the second trial {of A. 8. Hammans for the killing of Leno Lopez at Harrison Gulch. Five days were occupied in securing a jury and the. taking of testimony com- menced yesterday. During the day J. G. Martin, a juror in the case, received a bundle of copies of one issue of a newspaper published in Cottonwood, in this county. In the paper appears an item concerning the trial that is considered decidedly prejudicial to the defense. The juror reuorted the inci- dent an the matter is now being in- vestigated. % { ol O K Break in Levee Causes Fear. ROLLING FORKS, Miss., April 10. day. Six of Sonoma Valley's pretty young girls, the Misses Eastman, Gise, Reed, Fochetti, Carriger and Langre attired in white costumes, d(-tflbut?‘d to the passengers on this afternoon’s train bouquets of beautiful wild flow- ers. —It is reported to-night that a por- tion of the levee at Gales Head has caved 1n, seriously impairing the strength of the embankment and caus- ing grave fears of a crevasse. Large forces of men are engaged in rein- forcing the levee. ~ ¥ | ,l PRICE FIVE CENTS. CZAR IS STRONGLY URGED TO DECLARE WAR AGAINST CHINESE EMPIRE A STATESYEN CONFER AND WVERT WAR Prevent Strife Be- tween Austria - Jay ROME, April 10.—Signor Tittoni, the Italian Foreign Minister, in an inter- view to-day said that he and Count Goluchowski, the Austrian Foreign Minister, were entirely satisfied with their meeting at Abazzia yesterday, the result of which he would communicate | to Parliament. The following tele-| graphed from Vienna to the Inde- pendente caused a sensatjon: “The resurrection of the agitation in Italy, in which the agitators claimed the Italian provinces still under Aus- tria, so strained the relations of the two countries that they were several times on the point of declaring war. Austria was indignant when Italy pro- tested to the Emperor of Germany, who, according to the triple alliance, is the arbiter of Austro-Italian disputes. The Emperor decided that- Italy was wtong in not repressing the anti-Aus- trian movement and that Austria would be wrong if she tried to occupy | Albania and thus conflict with Itallan interests. “There being .no appeal from this de- cigion, Italy and Austria decided to complete the accord obtained through the meeting at Naples of Emperor Wil- llam and King Victor Emmanuel, in whose toasts, contrary to other similar manifestations, Emperor Francis Jo- seph was cordially alluded to. Beside, this meeting at Abazzia, which oec- curred in one of the Italian provinces subject to Austria, is to be understood as Italy's formal renunciation of this province.” Bad Austro-Italian feeling, in which there is a risk of checking the work of diplomacy, has been aroused by an in- cident which occurred while the meet- ing between the Ministers at Abazzia was taking place. The Italian steam- ship Molfetta,#n arriving at Cattaro (a fortified seaport in gthe Austrian province of Dalmatia), was approached by Austrian gendarmes, who said they i wished to inspect the veseel. The cap- tain of the Molfetta refused to nllow’ the gendarmes to come on board if they carried arms, and the soldiers threatened to attack the ship. The captain displayed the Ttalian flag over the gangway, when the gendarmes were ordered to-fire. Before the order could be carried into effect the captain yielded in order to avoid bloodshed. The Italian Government will bring this affair to the attention of the.Austrian Government and ask for an explana- tion. g i —_———————— New Allies fc Mine Workers. BRAZIL, Ind., April 10.—It is re- ported here to-night that the hoisting engineers at a secret meeting voted to withdraw from their own organiza- tion and join the United Mine Work- erss . H S | iEven the Russian Minister T ONCE Russia to Pose as White Race Champion. Will Force Mon- gols to Take Up Arms. Special Dispatch to The Call. ST. PETERSBURG, April 10.—The Czar is being strongly urged by his Ministers to declare war against China. to Pek- ing, who, prior to the outbreak of the present war, was friendlv to the Chi- nese Government, is besieging the Rus- sian ruler to take up arms against the Mongolian race. He says that, as the Chinese are disaffected toward Russia their race hatred should be brought clearly into the light and made to take e L 1 + | RUSSIAN LOMAT, WHO IS EAGER TO BRING ABOUT A WAR BETWEEN HIS COUNTRY AND CHINA, AND JAPANESE WAR HERO WHO IS SAID TO BE WITH THE ARMY IN, KOREA. -+ the form of open hestilities, ‘which Rapid Advanceof Japanese to | the Yalu. | Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyricht, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company PINGYANG, March 18.—Everything points to the Japanese advance north- ward now assuming more serious pro- portions. To-day 3000 men and eight | guns left here for Anju, where General & Sasaka has taken command, General Enouye remaining at Pingyang. The place of the departing troops has been taken by others arriving daily. Ice has practically disappeared from the river at Pingyang, allowing the completién of pontoon bridges and also permitting . a light draught Korean steamship from Chenampho to come within five miles of this city, thus es- tablishing an easy means of communi- cation between Chenampho, the great landing point, and Pingyang, the great baigNDON, April 11.—A correspondent of the Times at Chefu says that 2000 Russian artillerymen, with sixty guns, arrived at Newchwang on Thursday | last. The Times' correspondent at sea, cabling on April 9, via Weihaiwel, re- ports a typhoon lasting two days, which prevented naval operations. ‘A Chefu dispatch, which reached London by way of Rome, asserts that the Japanese squadron, with twenty steamers, was seen making for Port Arthur. The squadron of Admiral Wirenius left Cherbourg yesterday for the Baltic. On_the occasion of Easter the Czar conferred numerous decorations and promotions upon naval and army com- manders prominent in the war. ‘Marquis Ito, President of the Japan- ese Privy Council, was given a banquet at Tokio on Saturday. He anmounced the success of his mission in establish- ing cordial relations between the Jap- anese and Korean courts and said that ‘at-his Government's request he had drawn up an elaborate report on Korean political needs. ‘The Japanese papers ridicule the idea of the Ru-zian Baltic Sea squadron ever reaching the Far East and do not believe that-it will even.make the at- tempt. - — e : ARIZONANS IN BATTLE WITH GUNS AT DOUGLAS Road Overseer Loses His Life and Former Officer of Rangers Is Shot. TUCSON, Ariz., April 10.—Tom Hop- kins, secretary of the Arizona Rangers, and who is returning to Phoenix, re- would warrant Russia in carrying out her policy in the Far East much more effectively than ever before. He avers that Russia has everything to gain by open war with China and much to lose by her iinvoluntary neutrality. That being so, it is taken for granted in po- litical circles here, as well as in mili- tary spheres, that Lessar will compel China to show her hand to some pur- pose, and that in the very near future war will be declared between the two countries. Repeated protests have been made by the Russian Minister at Peking against | the dispatch of Chinese troops beyond the great wall and he has threatened that, unless they are speedily with- drawn, China will be treated as a bei- ligerent. As a matter of fact, these protests and threats are mere provoca- tions, because the district of Liantse, which lies outside the great wall. and belongs to Manchuria, was formally and expressly returned to China by Russia in October, 1902, and belongs. therefore to neutral China and should be accordingly protected by Chinese troops. . Another provocative act of the Rus- sian Embassador is the establishment of a special Russian mission, appoint- ed for the purpose of superintending the neutrality of Chinese troops. That measure is regarded here as an endea- vor to drive China into overt acts of ‘war. N The plan which, in this eventuality, will be carried out by Russia is de- scribed in military spheres here as fol- lows: Peking, Tientsin, Tungchow and Mongolia would be annexed to Russia on the one hand, and the war would be suddenly changed into a great e ‘between the yellow and white races on the other, Russia becoming the author- ized champion of the latter. The chief advisers of his Majesty are said to hold that, unless by measures of this kind the oversea trade to Chim: be monopolized by Russia, the oppor- tunity will slip by forever, because, once the Panama canal has been com- pleted, the United States, as the great Pacific power, will resolutely veto every effort to seize the commercial markets of China by means of territo- rial aggrandizement. S ARG WOMAN ENLISTS IN ARMY. Protege of the Late Czar Alexandet ‘Will Serve With Cossacks. ST. PETERSBURG. April 10.—Thz2 ‘War Ministry has granted the appli- dation of Madame Pourep, daughter of Colonel Maxiowcondurow, who de- sired to be enrolled in a Cossack regi- meént. The Ministry has ordered her enrollment in the First Regiment of Riflemen. Mme. Pourep is thirty-three years o age, was reared under the patronage of ‘the late Emperor Alexander III; is ceived a telegram to-day advising him | fine horsewoman, a good shot and that Road Overseer Scanlon of Douglas was killed in a gun fight at that place g‘e“d."y well. last night by a man named. Walton and that Date Graham, a former officer | are enough women nurses handles the rifle, revolver and swore She also is a qualifiec nurse, but she says there and she of the ranger force, was fatally shot by | wants to show that a woman can fight Constable Holt. Details cannot be ob- tained at this time. o 2m e eia War News Continued on Page 3.