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THE SA FRANCISCO CAL THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1904 WARSHIP MISSOURI NARROIWLY ESCAPES WDER EXPLODES IN THE TURRET @ | | | | | | | | Continued From Page 1. Column 7. hand v be hoisted juarters were the crew zim and th of the ke and burned powder made enter either the but officers w s endes w vore as ed and h belc mer CAPTAIN COWLES A HERO. aught ad Cowles rtly hey had beer nes of t the tu were laying ou men. Three minute: rom the Missouri were attending t > twenty-five m f ng in a the exit curred, and » when the more handling room the t the ing exnlosion »d and strangied | e distracting headaches fros #0 many women suffer make I purgatory. If mep suffered post at a stansti Does not the fact men do not suffer from these severe daches suggest that there must be a y cause dor them ? When the womanly organism is dis- eased, beedache, backache, nervousness ond sleeplessnessare consequences which arc sure to follow. 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Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Ricdical Adviser is sent fiee on recei of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Secud twenty-one one-cent stamps for the the book in paper covers, or stamps for the cloth -bound volume. Addsess Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. V. | pgg jed us past the danger line. WHEN PO ther aches and pains by | irty-one | T filgd, 7 \ R \ A HICH FICERS THE EXF AND MEN )N _OF A LARG CAPTAIN COWI | | | | residence Hope, Ark.: kin Thomas W. Oastler, head. Gloucester, Helena and other vessels. He returned to the United States in December last from a tour in Asiatic waters. He was assigned to the Cleveland March 7. His father, J. F. Richart, is a resident of Danbury, Conn. 3 Lieutenant Gridley was a son of the late Captain Gridley, who commanded the flagship of Dewey’s squadron when he sailed into Manila Bay and fought the Spanish ships. He was a marine cfficer on the Missourt. He was ap- pointed to the Marine Corps March 26, 1900, from Pennsylvania, his native State, Midshipman Thomas Ward Jr. was a son of General Thomas Ward, who recently retired from the active list in the adjutant general's ccrps in the! United States army. He was appointed to the Naval Academy May 23, 1899, from New York, in which State he was born. He completed a four years' course at the academy last year and | was assigned in commission to serve his allotted two years at sea after | graduation. | Midshipman Willlam W. T. Neu- mann entered the academy at Annap olis from California September 16, 1899, and was graduated jest year, when he | began a twc years' service at sea. He | was a native of California. His mother is living at Honoluiu. The young offi- | cer was assigned to the Missouri in| February | The Navy Department to-night fur- | nished the following statement, giving a more complete list of the dead with the next of kin of the dead seamen ommissioned officers: | swain; residence Buf- . father,’ swell, Ont arr_ ordinary seaman; resi- Ind.; kin Caleb S.'Starr, | Porter S dence Fairmount irmoun:. Cole. ordinary seaman; ; kin John W. Cole Sr., residenca father, Gedri inary seaman; residence Rapid: ch.; kin George Gedris, | ather, Grand s | Ralph H_ Allison, residence Philadelphia; | Kin John Aliison, Hill, Mo, John C. nn y seaman; residence | Bryan, Tex.; kin Thomas C. Nunn, father, | Bryan | J. Carlton Hardy, apprentice, second class; | residence Palmyra, 'N. Y.; kin Irving Hardy, | father, Palmyra Paul R_ Oastler, apprentice. second-class: Rowlands, electrician, second class; residence St Louis; kin John Rowlands, father Cleveland ! John M. Roche, landsman; residence New | York: kin Michdel Roche, father, County Kerry, Ireland obin, ordinary seaman; residence | 7.8, Tobin, father, Roscoe. | Kivien, ordinary seaman; resi- Tex.. kin Kearney J. Kilvin, Dallas, Dallas. y. ordinary seaman; resi- kin William Kennedy, | father, Povo, Tenn. Jersemos Bloxopoulos, Newport News, V. opoulus, wife, Paxo, Peter Joseph Braun, coxswain; residence, | ; kin, Meri Jersemos Blox Greoce. i chief gun captain; resi- dence New York; kin, Rose Cross, mother, | Cleveland. . Charles Henry Meyer, ordinary seaman; residence Oshkosh, Wis.; kin, Louisa Meyer, | mother, Oshkosh, August Smith, gunner's mate, second cla: residence New York; claimed to have no rela- tives. Charles Rice, ordinary Boston; kin, Anita Zeliger. Mission street, San Franclsco. seaman; _res stepmother, Neston Soder, seaman; residgnce New York; kin, Eric Soder, father, Jefla, Sweden. W. L. Shipman, private marine; no’ data | at Navy Department; wounded and not ex- pected to live. John Thomas Joseph Donnelly, ordinary sea- | residence Chicago; kin, Patrick H. Don- | father, Chicago. 1 B. Moe, apprentice, second class; res- Butte, Mont.; kin, A. C. Moe, Butte The following names appear in the dispatch, but do not correspond with the records of the bureau: J. K. Pe- terson, W. J. Bogard, H. 8. Cherbarth and B. J.. Mulligan. Correct names have been telegraphed for. The Missouri is the very latest of the big battleships to go into eommission. ! | The fiag was hoisted on her in De- cember last at Norfolk by Captain | Cowles, brother-in-law of President | s ADMIRAL'S REPORT OF ACCIDENT. | RS A 8 [ PENSACOILA. Fla., April 13.—Five officers and twenty-four men | are dead. Two more cannot live, result cxolosion on Missouri. | Three rounds had been fired from after twelve-inch gun and shell | had been sealed and two sections of nowder rammed home when | explosion occurred. killing every officer and man in the turret and all | but three in the handling-room. Commanding oficer has informed | relatives. Names of dead follow: | LIEUTENANT W. C. DAVIDSON. i TENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) E. A. WEICHERT. LIEUTENANT OF MARINES J. V. P. GRIDLEY. | MIDSHIPMAN W. L. NEUMAN | MIDSHIPMAN THOMAS WARD J | BOASTWAIN'S MATE (FIRST CLASS) G. K. PETERSON. | Seamen W. J. Bogard, O. N. Sonder. E. R. P. Allison. Ordinary Seamen R. Rice, C. H./ Tobin, C. J. Killen, J. Gedrls, J. F. Kennedy, J. P. Starr, J. C. Munn, C. H. M. Franks, J. W. Cole. Landsmen H. S. Cherbraths, E. J. Mulligan, J. M. Roach. Electrician (second class) T. F. Rowlands. Gunner's Mate (second class) A. Smith. Chief Gun Captain T. E. Belaum. Private Marine W. L. Shipman. | Apprentices (second class) G. C. Hardy, P. P. Castl { Cockswain J. Bloxopolus. The two men who ecannot live arce J. T. J. Donnelly, ordinary sea- man, and O. B. Moore, apprentice (second class). BARKER. — ~ —- — - charge of the turret, evidently had|our anxiety to surpass the world in given some command to the men, as he was on top of the heap of men, hav- ing fallen then after he had allowed them to pass him to get out of the tur- ret. The bodies were hardly recogniz- able, the terrible and quick fire hav- ing burned the clothing from the bodies of the men, and the flesh hung from them in shreds. The faces were mutil- ated by the smoke and flames. Only | the rapidity of big gun fire, I fear we | have permitted our enthusiasm to get | the betder of our judgment. It would seem from the dispatch that- not |enough time had been allowed to elapse between the firings. It is only | recently that | ment the gun was fired, and in so do- one man was breathing when the tur- ; ing there is necessarily a risk. Ap- ret crew were taken out, and he dled | parentl 1 but three men in the a moment after he reached the deck. handling-room were killed. How nar- rowly the entire ship escaped destruc- | tion outright is realized when it is re- | called that near by is the magazine }Nn\\ Department Officials -\Pflflllmicfi’;iflg’;{fig anywhere from 50 to 100 | by the Terrible Disaster. | _The smokeless powder is put into | WASHINGTON, April 13.—The entire | the twelve-inch gun in three sections, Navy Department is stunned by the|¢ach bag or section weighing 120 appalling catastrophe on board the |POURs. ~Some officers say that the | Miseouri. The bureau of navigation has | foms “and express the oming ot | been active since the first news of the | after this accident the turrets of all accident reached here, shortly after 4 |battleships will be equipped with bot- o'clock. Although the commanding of- | toms for the protection of the men in ficer of the Missouri, Captain W. S.|the bandling-room underneath. R IN WASHINGTON. SORROW Cowhan ‘55 Gson Ai: e Rrrt ol &t P | The officers of the Missouri were sacola, sent dispatches to the nearest | S¥pecially well known in Washington, ; . sent disy s earest | Captain Cowles served as assistant O of e e ke iheas’ an. | chief of the Bureau of Navigation and . s also g s most of the officers killed were widely nouncements so that there may be no |, oo "y oo TiEoy Midshipman Neu mistake. | xnd Ward & i to Captain John E. Pilisbury, assistant | an%, and ‘,:“,,:”f,d“{: ,;’“""5‘;"’3 % chief of the bureau of navigation, re- . Bag LGy prnighoci is said Midshipman Neumann was to | be married to the sister of Midship- { man Ward. The two midshipmen were classmates and intimate friends. their request they were assigned to the same ship. A telegram received from Mrs. Gridley, mother of Lieu- | tenant Gridley, to-night requested that the remains of her boy be shinped to Erie, Pa. Lieutenant William C. Davidson was | a native of Indiana was appointed {a midshipman from South Dakota, September 28, 1891. He was graduated | from the Naval Academy in 1895 and | assigned to the Olympla. He was pro- mained constantly at his desk and with the other officers of the bureau and a | clerical force started arrangements to care for the bodies of the officers and men Moody is preparing a dispatch of sympathy to be sent to Rear Admiral Barker, commander in chief of the North Atlantic fleet, re- | auesting him to convey to the com- nder, the officers and men of the puri the vrofound sympathy of the department. With only the brief dispatch from Admiral Barker telling how the acci- | dent occurred, all the officials of the | department, from Secretary Moody | moted to ensign July 1, 1897; to leu down, hesitate to attempt an explana- | t (nslor {tion of it. The. fact, however, that | irsichnt o tae) canly 1, 1900, a0d lieutenant June 16, 1902. He was as- | three rounds had been fired and an-|gigened to the Missourl when she went | other shell had been sealed and two |ints commission and was serving as a sections of nowder rammed home when | tyrret officer at the time of his death. the explosion occurred in the opinion s | of an official of the department would |lead to an inference that the accident | might have been caused by some pow- der from the vrevious charges which | remained in the gun when the third | charge was put in. | 1t can be stated that officials of the | department for more than a week | past, while rejoicing in the world- | breaking. records in target practice on | our warships, have feared just such |an accident as has occurred on the | Missouri. A naval expert to-night | satd: “The Missouri accident is too ap- palling to discuss. But I fear that en- thusinsm in making world's records In |at 1003 McCulloch street, Baltimore, where a telegram was sent from the Navy Denartment, announcing the death of her husband. Lieutenant Davidson served on the Alliance, Brooklyn, Concord, Franklin and at to his assignment to the Missouri. Lieutenant Ernest A. Richart (junior grade) was attached to the Cleveland and it is assumed at the Navy Depart- ! ment that he was on the Missouri at the time of the disaster as an umpire during target practice. He was a na- tive of Connecticut and was appointed to the Naval Academy from that State September 6, 1896. He served at differ- ent times on the Massachusetts, Marble- we have permitted the | i breech to be opened almost the mo- | At | His wife, Mrs. Julia Davidson, resides | | | the torpedo station at Newport prior | | 4500. | Organ, W Roosevelt. She collided with the Illi-| | nois off Pensacola a few weeks ago, and has had very little firing with her big guns; in fact, the nine or ten rounds | which had been fired from each big gun was in the course of official trials and she is now going through her first regular target practice. Rbon s T T DESTROYER ASHORE. BRITISH War Vessel Teaser Grounds, but the Crew Are Saved. PORTSMOUTH, England, April 13. The British torpedo destroyer Teaser | grounded during the maneuvers here to-night. All the memwvers or the crew were saved. It is feared the vessel will | prove a total wreck. { An attack on Portsmouth harbor had been arranged for the edification of Prince Henry of Prussia, who is here on a private visit as the guest of Ad- | miral Sir John Fisher. The Prince and | the admiral were watching the ma- neuvers, when the Teaser's officers were dazzled by the searcnlights The vessel crashed at full speed into the seawall and grounded. 1 The Teaser was built at Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1892. Her measurements are: Length 200 feet, beam 14 feet, | draught 5.5 feet, displacement 320 tons. | She has an indicated horsepower of | She has two torpedo tubes and | her armament consists of one 12-pound- er and five 6-pounder quick firing guns. DR. SHOOP’S REMEDIES, DON'T RISK A PENNY. GET WELL FIRST. §or so years |'ve been a phsiciant Rave treated nearly two million cases! Surely you'll admit that such experience must have saught me some certainties, And, —all that | know of disease ai mm that | have proven to be worth knowing—is con !l\luwy ;u: n%l for the Si;k Fie Tor s iree copy 10-da. 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The full name of the company — California Fig Syrup Co.—is always printed on the front of every package. Price Fifty Cents per bottle. THE SCENE OF A QUIET WEDDING Last night as the town clock tolled fair daughter of Mrs. Daniel Cal-| laghan, became the bride of J. Vincent de Laveaga. Owing to the deli- cate health of the mother of the bride the nuptial service was per- formed by his Grace Archbishop Rior- dan at her residence. Though it was much regretted that a wedding at the high altar of the cathedral was not possible, the solemnity and beauty of the sarvice was not perceptibly marred, | for the home was made glad with the blossoms of spring, great branches of | budding bloom spreading above and | beyond like the cherry gardens of the Far East. In the drawing-room, beneath a| roseate bhower, the twain were made one, the solemn ceremony having been | witnessed by relatives and a few inti- mate friends. Attended solely by lhe‘ winsome Miss Mabel Hogg, gowned in | pink chiffon cloth and bearing plnk; roses, the bride presented a bewitching | picture in her nuptial robe of embroid- | | ered crepe, with exquisite settings of | duchesse and rose point lace. From | her pretty head fell a voluminous veil | of tulle and in her arms she bore lilies | of the valley—sweet symbols of con-| stancy. The groom was attended by Edward de Laveaga, a brother. Mr. de Laveaga is a clever fellow, a University of Cali- fornia graduate and is rated as one of | the wealthiest young men in the city. The destination of the young people, who will leave this morning for their locked deep in their breasts. On their return they will reside in this city. TR e To-day “Fl Campanil.” the beauti- ful mission bell tower at Mills College, will be dedicated with elabcrate cere- | monies. Large numbers of guests, for- mer pupils and graduates of the col- lege will go over on the 12:30 o’clock boat. The tower was presented to Mills Col- lege by Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Smith, and the bells, whose sweet tones rang out the fleeting hcurs at the Midwinter Fair, have been given by David Hewes. Strongly suggestive in outline is the tower to the famous old campanile at the mission at Pala, builded a century ago by Padre Francisco Palou, and on the top of which & cactus stands to-day a-blooming. The college is making elaborate prep- arations for the recention to guests that follows the dedication. e i ] Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann will give a pretty informal luncheon to six of her friends on Saturday afternoon at| the St. Francis. After the luncheon the guests will be invited to witness “McFadden’s Flats” at the California, two boxes having been secured. Those who are to enjoy Mrs. Mann’s hos- pitality are Mrs. Fred Stolp of Oak- land, Mrs. William Willis, Mrs. Irving F. Moulton, Mrs. Joseph M. Masten, | Mrs. A. E. Buckingham, Miss Adele Martel and Mrs. Alex Mergerin. . The regular monthly meeting of the Outdoar Art League took place on last Monday afternoon at 1616 Clay street. The league was called upon by Fred- erick Law Olmsted of the American Institute of Architects to aid in pass- ing the Newlands bill, which was cre- ated to prohibit the erection of build- ings on the Mall in Washington City, and thereby preserve the original plans as laid out by General Washing- ton and L'Enfant. Letters were writ- ten by the league to the California delegation and a eircular letter was sent to members in Congress, urging them to support the Newlands bill Many favorable responses to these communications were read, and it is evident that the Agricultural building will not be placed in the Mall Reports were made by the Mission Dolores, planting and vacant lots com- mittees and by the committee on un- used poles and overhead wires. A new phase of outdoor art for dis- cussion was introduced in the shape of school gardens, a feature of regular school work now so popular in many -of the Eastern and Western States. The league took up the proposition ark and the Wo- SMITHS PLAY S REVERSED President of Mormon Church Now Declines to Urge Wit- nesses to Go to Washington | ey Special Dispatch to The Cail. SALT LAKE, Utah, April 13.—After promising the Senate committee that is investigating the Smoot case that _he would do all in his power to secure the | attendance of church officials wanted to testify, President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon Church has changed s tack. An official announcement was made to-day that Apostles Matthia F. Cowley and John W. Taylor had in- formed President Smith they did not care to go, and that he would not urge them. Both are accused of taking plural wives since the manifesto abandoning polygamy. Cowley is in Alberta, Can- ada, and Taylor is said to be in Mex- ico, both having fled when they re- ceived word that subpenas would prob- ably be issued for them. The anouncement of President Smith’s present stand is made through an editorial in the Deseret News, the official’'organ of the church, and it is understood that President Smith approved the editorial before it | was published. Referring to the promise made to the Senate commit- tee, the News says: “We are able to state positively that N men’s Auxiliary to hold its convention in San Francisco in 1905. The delegates elected to the biennial meeting of the General Federation of ‘Women's Clubs to be held at St. Louis o+~ | | | not under any he has done much more than that which was asked of him concerning them, and that John W. Taylor and Matthia F. Cowley have each declired to voluntarily go to Washington in response to ministerial interference. They do not propose to have their fam- ily relations proclaimed throughout the land through their own act, unless un- der compulsion. ‘‘President Smith has not as yet been able to locate Dr. J. M. Tanner, and 18 obligations to procure witnesses in the case before the com- mittee. The gentlemen named used their own free agency in this matter, and it is a mistake to suppose that President Smith has any power to.com- pel them to take any other course, al- though he has urged them to comply with the requests for their presence.” Brigham H. Roberts has left/ for Washington in response to a subpe Former Apostle Moses Thatcher recovered from his illness and promises to start before the end of the week. Apostle John Henry Smith also says he will go. - Death of Gardner Wilder. Gardner Wilder, a meniber of one of the wealthiest families of Honolulu, died in this city yesterday of pnue- monia after an illness of only a few days. He arrived from Honolulu on the steamship Ventura, and was taken ill on Sunday. Deceased was 45 years of age, a native of Honolulu, and was formerly engaged in business in this city. His brother was the last Consul General at this port for the old Ha- wailan Government. His widow apd child are in the East, where he ex- pected to join them soon. Former Senator Sheard Dies. LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., April 13.— Former State Senator Titus Sheard, one of the best known manufacturers in this country, died to-day of heart disease, aged 63 years. ————— ‘Well Known Author Dies. LONDON, April 14.—Julian Stur- in May are Mrs. Lovell White and |giss, the author, died here to-day. He Mrs. Rose Poultney. avas born in Boston in 1848. ..AND . AUCTION OF PIANOS EDWARD S. SPEAR @& CO. AUCTIONEERS, Have purchased 79 pianos from the surplus wholesale stock of Koh- ler & Chase, which they could not accommeodate in their new ware- houses. They have also secured the remainder of the lease, expiring on the 3oth of this month, on the premises at 28-30 O'Farrell street, where the pianos are now on exhibition. These instruments include Fischer, Chickering, Bachman, Hoffman, Kimball and numerous other makes. Also about 20 square pianos and organs. & SPECIAL NOTICE: The pianos will be auctioned at the cash prices and arrangements have been made so that easy payments can be arranged for those who cannot pay cash. The auction will take place at 28-30 O'FARRELL STREET. MONDAY, April 18th, TUESDAY, April 19th. Commencing each day at 11 o’clock a. m. Catalogues now ready. EDWARD S. SPEAR & CO. AUCTIONEERS, 28-30 O'FARRELL STREET. Steinway, Weber, Steck, TWO DAYS