The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for thirty San Prancisco aay; sonthwest winds. at Sz howrs ending midnight, April 152 A. G. McADYE, [ T and viclnity— | Clondy, unsettled weather Fm- | probably showers: fresh District Porecaster. XCV—NO. 137. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1904 PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIAN DESTROYER IS SUNK AND A BATTLESHIP DAMAGED LONDON, April 15.—Onfy half the story of the Russian disaster at Port Arthur on Wednesday was told in the dispatches that were given early publicity in St. Petersburg. Later bulletins, posted yesterday, announced heir station by a storm, and ff to succeed Admiral Makaroff. It odds torpedo-boa p Pobieda had struc t Ta la deny the favor of Admiral Togo. RAILROAD COMPLETES Southern Pacific IS United With New Compazy. Chicago Omells of a Big Deal Between Cor- porations. Proposed Tunpel Through the Sierra Neveda Mountsins May Not Be Required for Traffic. Special Dispatch to The Oall Nev., April 14—8. I raliroad man of ( Reno yesterday RENO. hicago, passed and gave out ation that a merger has been ctween the S Pacific @ Company and Western people uthern yuld not give the source of his mation, but stated that the South- ific, now that it is in posses e valuable rig! ay throug Beckwith Pass to improve ppor y and build a line from connecting r Sierra Ne work on which was t« prin i e abandoned n ngth, equire four years on its d end- . vith & view earning, if just what his financial relations e Bartnett left for the East the Pac mpan ed no end of uneasine officials over his but after he had been ir f a time they laughed a B n that he was being backed e Goulde or Vanderbiits and ess concern in the movements his surveying parties BARTNETT RETURNS, L nett's return to this city was as . en as his going, but before he had n the t, calling hi 1 ordering work along the . = surveys to cease, About who was sur- up the cramento direction of many miles | Pacific and anticipating the 4‘nur)~ni the surveyors in the| of Bartnett, sud called | a halt in his operations and the next thing the people of Northern | knew Yard was piloting | 1ett’s supezintendents over the ter- y through which the rival com- | s were planning to build. While | operations were at a standstill in the | Bartnett and Yard camps the South- ern Pacific officiale were busily incor- porating & company for the slleged rom him his t H. ¥ ard hy Continued on Page 5, Colu: +: 4, Athes- { | FarrrrEsme PLozrznz . E g Y WET LAND SLIDES 10 A VALLEY Houses Ahandoned on Moving Soil in Mendocino. | | —— UKIAH, Apr slip has developed on the mountains | west of Covelo. A place nearly two les long half a mile wide n toward the valley. 1d other buildings ocated the moving area. The ses have been abandoned. Heavy, rains are supposed to be the The loss will be great, as the is some of the best in the region. —_———— UNDER TONS OF GRAVEL CLAY MEETS HIS DEATH cause Tragic Fate of Miner at La Grange Hydraulic Mine in Trinity County. REDDING, April 14—A bank of gravel eighteen feet high caved to-day at the La Grange hydraulic mine, in Trinity County, belonging to' T. D. Clay. A man who witnessed the acci- dent sounded an alarm, but Clay w: dead when reached by the rescue party. He had be killed instantly, his skull being ¢ s neck broken and the he bones of legs and arms shattered. A strange sequel to the accident was the finding on a table in Clay’s cabin of a note directing the public in the event ths nything happened to him to notify his two brothers and a cousin. { What prompted the writing of the note is a mystery. e ————— GYANTSE OFFICIALS SEEK PEACE WITH YOUNGHUSBAND Try to Prevent Advance of British Expedition by Overtures—Llama of Lassa Obstinate. LONDON, April 15.—A dispatch to the Times from Gyantse, Tibet, reports that the local officials are suing with the British expedition under Colonel Younghusband for peace, but that the Llama of Lassa is believed to be still obstinate .and a further advance by the expedition will be imperative. is | . | VY g ¥ 14.—A large land- | o - MIRAL MAKAROFF, THAT VESSEL WAS BLOWN UP. Admiral To of Port Arthur. The date referred to by the correspondent in the above dispatch, March 31, is probably according to the old style calendar, by which the event would have taken place on April 13, according to the new style cal- endar. ST. PETERSBURG, April 15.—Vice- roy Alexieff has arrived at Port Ar- thur and assumed temporary com- mand of the fleet until Vice Admiral Skrydloff hoists his flag. Forty-five officers and men perished on the torpedo-boat destroyer Bes- trachni, whose destruction by the Jap- anese was announced to-day. Rear Admiral telegraphed from Port Arthur to-day that the Bestrachni, which was one of the destroyers sent out during the night to reconnoiter, became separated ; from the rest of the fleet, owing to the bad weather prevailing, was sur- rounded by Japamese torpedo-boat de- stroyers and was sunk in the fight. Five men were saved. Admiral Ouk- tomsky adds: “l have taken command provision- ally of the fleet since the disaster to the Petropaviovsk. During some maneuvering of the battleship squad- ron the Pobleda struck against a mine amidships on the starboard side. She was able to regain port by herself. Prince Ouktomsky | MAGNIFICENT RUSSIAN WARSHIP DAMAGED BY A MINE AT PORT ARTHUR; SUCCESSOR OF THE HEROIC VICE AD- AND. CHIEF OF STAFF WHO LOST HIS LIFE ON THE FLAGSHIP PETROPAVLOVSK WHEN go Succeeds in Blocking nel at Port Arthur. ST. PETERSBURG, April 15.—Rumors are current here that Vice Admiral Togo sent in a number of steamships on' the night of March 31 and succeeded in sinking several' of them and in blockading the channel The rumors cannot be confirmed at this hour. No one on board of her was killed or wounded.” DENY URUI'S STATEMENT. Rear Admiral Urui's statement tHat Vice Admiral Togo's fleet was respon- sible for the sinking of the battleship Petropaviovsk at Port Arthur is of- ficially denied here. A member of the general staff informs the press that the advices received do not show that a naval engagement took place, unless the cornering and sinking of the tor- pedo-boat destroyer Bestrachni can be so denominated. The destroyers and four consorts were outside scouting during the night. The Bestrachni lagged behind and became lost in the mist. When day broke she tried to creep in along the coast, but was discovered, cut off, overpowered and sunk, only five of her crew escaping. The fate of the other members of the crew is’ un- known, although it is believed that some of them may have been cap- tured. The press obtained to-night what is practically the official version of the the Chan- sinking of the Petropavlovsk, and it clears up to a great extent the mys- terious features of that vessel's de- struction. This version is as follows: Retiring before the advance of a su- perior Japanese fleet, the Russian squadron approached the entrance to the harbor. It was shortly after 8 o’clock in the morning and most of the officers and members of the crew were at breakfast on the flagship. Vice Ad- miral Makaroff was eating breakfast in his cabin and the ward room was crowded with officers surrounding the tables. On the bridge Grand Duke Cy- ril, his friend Lieutenant von XKobe, Captain Jakovleff, commanding the vessel, and two other officers were on watch examining the narrow entrance preparatory to entering it. EXPLOSION OF BOILERS. At about 8:30 o'clock there was a ter- rible explosion of the boilers followed a few seconds Jater by a detonation from the well-stored magazines. Huge gaps were torn in the hull of} Continued on Page 2, Column 1. - -3 T ‘ DISASTERS ATTEND A IR CALL Eleven Persons Suf- fer Injury in Sealle SEATTLE, April 14.—Eleven persons were injured to-night during the fire department’s run to a fire at Second avenue and Cherry street. A hose wagon from headquarters ran into a Yesler way car that was started across Second avenue ahead of the wagon, and a small girl, Anna Omley, was seriously injured. She was seated on the rear platform, which was struck by .the wagon, her left arm being broken and her chest crushed. The platform of the car was demolished, but neither the firemen on the wagon nor the horses were injured. One of the horses attached to hose wagon No. 2 fell at Second and Madi- son streets. While this horse was be- ing raised to his feet the other broke loose from a bystander who was hold- ing him and ran down the street. Two persons were knocked over and slightly injured as the horse broke loose. At Cherry street the frightened horse was turned aside from the middle of the street by a fire engine. He dashed to the sidewalk, running a block through a big crowd that had gathered to watch the fire. Eight persons, two of them women, were knocked down by the horse dur- ing his run to James street, a block distant, where he was caught. The most serlously injured were: Michael Drummond, a logger from Grays Harbor; injured internally. James Sheehan and A. Lebgue of Se- attle, who had each an arm broken. —_— e Goes to Aid Colon. PANAMA, April 14 — The Pacific Mail steamer Aztec, which has beén laid up here for several days in conse- quence of the laborers' strike, will sail to-morrow directly for Acajutla, for the purpose of rendering assistance to the Pacific Mail steamer Colon, which went ashore on Point Remedios and is now |ylng‘on the beach close to the Acajutla wharf. stroyer Bestrachni was cut off and sunk by the Japanese flotilla, forty-five officers and’ men going down with the vessel. To further swell the list of disasters, it was announced in St. Petersburg a mine at the entrance to the harbor and been badly damaged. The Russiafis ifisist that the Petropavlovsk was sunk and the Pobieda damaged by Russian mines, which had been carried from Japanese claim that these vessels were torpedoed during a battle. In Great Britain public opinion seems disposed to accept the Tokio version. EmperorNicholas has appointed Admiral Skryd- is asserted that the plan to send the Baltic fleet to the Far East has been «hanged, and that the remnant of the Port Arthur fleet will have to cope as best it may with the heavy -— % DEPUTIES - MAY FIRE ‘Enraged Coloradans Demand Prison- er's Life. —_— \Jail at Central City Sur- { rounded by Men Intent on Lynching. | Murderer of Wife and Son May Bs Taken From His Cell by an Angry Populace. DENVER, April 14. — Special dis- patches from Central City to-night say that a mob has surrounded the jail there and demarded that the Sheriff turn over, to. them Azel D. Galbraith, the self-confessed murderer of his wife and 9-year-old boy. Sheriff Cody arrived in Central City this eveming from Denver with Gal- braith, and as soon as the latter’s pres- ence in the city became known a mob began forming. At midnight the jail | was surrounded, but Sheriff Cody, who had armed about twenty deputies with rifles, announced that he would kill any man who attempted to enter the Jail, and this seemed to check the mob. The jail is still surrounded, however. | Galbraith was until recently a prom- inent mine manager and was held in high esteem. MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPE DEATH Crew of Freight Train Over- come by Gases in Tunnel at Summit of Cuesta Grade e SAN LUIS OBISPO, April 14.—The entire crew of a big freight train, an extra west, came near losing their lives by suffocation in tunnel No. 1 at the summit of Cuesta grade, near this city, this morning. About 6 o'clock the train broke in the middle of the tunnel and the fumes from the three big engines used in propelling the ‘train over the grade filled the tunmel so thoroughly that four of the men ‘were soon unconscious and it was with the greatest difficulty that those most favorably located in the tunnel sue- ceeded in pulling the train out of the way. The crew consisted of A. O. Bailey, conductor; Engineers Burke, Forest and Anderson; Firemen Hurn- dall, McHenry and_Postlewait. and Brakemen Carlton, Feetro and Bailey, Anderson, Postlewait Carlton soon became unconscious. Engineer Burke finally succeeded in backing the stalled portion of the train out of the tunnel, and when it was found after clearing that four of the crew were missing a search was made and the uncomscious men found and carried out. The tunnel is a lon# one and no such predicament ever confronted the railroad men here before. The air was heavy and there was no draught through the tunnel. The summit of the grade is in the middle of the tun- nel, both entrances being lower than the center. This makes the tunnel doubly dangerous, as the gas must escape very slowly at best. All of the men soon recovered consciousness, but Bailey is still bedfast. —— g i PASSENGER TRAIN MEETS WITH DISASTER IN IDAHO Rumors of Loss of Life Cause Dis- patch of Physicians, but Later They Are Recalled. SPOKANE, Wash., April 15.—The Great Northern northbound passenger train was wrecked to-night near Ra- | clede, Idaho. The first reports to reach | the city were that a number of per- sons were injured, and the raflroad company called six physicians and made up a special train. A second re- port said that no one was injured and that the coaches were all upright. The physicians were sent home, but Super- intendent Kennedy and the company physician went to the scene. ‘ e. nd