The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1904, Page 1

VOLUME XCVI—NO. 1. SAN FRAN! Pischer's—“U. 8.” Grand—*“A Captain of Navarre.” Orphenm—Vandeville. Tivoli—“Sergeant Xitty.” CISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE = B 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ANARCHY RUNS RIOT IN COLORADO; DAY'S VICTIMS NUMBER TWENTY-TWO Anarchy ran riot in the Cripple Creek district of Colorado yesterday. At Findlay dynamite under the railroad station platform was touched off by means of a revolwer so placed with a wire connection tFat it could be fired from a distance. The platform was crowded with non-union miners at the time. Thirteen of these men were killed and others were shockingly mangled. Then followed a stccession of street riots in Victor, resulting in numerous casualties, &nd a charge of soldiers upon the headquarters of the miners’ union. Volleys were fired into the building and at least seven men were killed. At an early hour this morning the rioting had not been checked, and shooting affrays were Pocurring oconstantly, l-———————Y + - — — . MADMAN KILLS CHILDREN, ; Poisons Two and | | Shoots Third f0 | | Death. Ends His Own Life Aner:%’ Mailing a Message to | | a Friend. " Fourth C h;]dWWouudefl. I | Found Unconscious Near [ unded a fourth and st as the police knocked ‘a" eccentr al years had bee homict mother of the | , the died very suddenly two N investigation was but it is now be- s poisoned. few remaining hrough the mail Please come to four children for send them where night a Justice of the d Policeman John ottage, the doors and the shutters there was absolute | neighb who had be- i they had not seen Whil ffic shots and then the Pouch was floor, a bullet wound Near by on a bed Lilian, shot through Beside her lay the son, Al- , with a bullet wound | he house ered dow le cardboard in in straggling n hunted by every nd evervbody. Boss i me to make matters worse i not go right last night the let- - - not have happened to- a he bodies of the girls will have 1 e el med, but none of the rest.” & DR B i eSS VICTORY COES | [0 REPUBLICANS Sweeping Majorities for Na- tional Nominees Are Con- ceded in Oregon Election June 6.—It is con- tepublicans have elect- candidates by heavy sman Binger Herr- »seburg, the Republican probably carried the | M. Veatch, Democrat, from 5000 to 7000. John im , of Prineville, the can- | n the second district, will carry by probably 10,000 over J. of Portland, the Demo- R has on. strict s, cratic candidate. Frank C e Baker, chairman Republican Committee, p. t that Hermann's majority 500 and Williamson's 10,000. idge F J ank A. Moore, the Republican candidate for State Supreme Judge, v 1 think, receive a majority of 20,000 i Chairmay Alex Sweek of the Demo- | cratic Staté Central Committee could | not be seen to-night, but at Demo- | cratic headquarters it was stated that while Republican estimates are in ex- cess of the actual figures, there is no | doubt that both Republican candidates for Congress have been elected. | Twenty-five precinets complete ol‘ this county give Wiliamson (R.) ~for | Congress 641, Simmons (D.) 249. | iadtsinrns: couEitdin | Chinese Slayer Sentenced. | SACRAMENTO, June 6. — Gin | Chung, a Chinaman, to-day pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter for killing Wee Ah Wow and was sent to the Folsom penitentiary for ¢-g years. Gov : FERBODY INPERILED b1 FRIGHT " OF HORSE Alice - Roosevelt IS, Rescued by a Footman. b i Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BURE 1406 CTREET, N. W., WASHI Alice Roosevelt ended her eventful St Louls trip late this afternoon in a narrow escape from serious injury in a carriage accident. She was assisted put of danger just in time by the faithful family footman and walked with her maid to the White House un- concerned. Miss Roosevelt came from St. Louis with her maid and arrived at the Sixth-street station shortly after 5 o'clock. She was met by the White House brougham with a single horse, driven by the “second” coachman. “Charley” Reeder, the regular White House footman, was on the box All went well until the brougham, with Miss Roosevelt and her maid in- side, reached the corner of Fifteenth U, G GTON, June 6.—Miss | | | - gy Se Non-Union ASENS 5 S e | DENVER, June 6.—A Teign of terror, | brought on by a diabolical dynamiting | plot, followed by rioting and an as- | sault upon the militia, exists in the | Cripple Creek mining district to-night. | Armed men throng the streets and con- | flicts are of hourly occurrence. Militia- | men are marching hither and thither, | making arrests by the wholesale. A | | number of union miners have been | | cials have been | night, 22 men are dead and a score or street and Pennsylvania avenue, which | passes for Washington's “dead man's curve.” Here there is always a con- | gestion of street cars and other ve- hicles and crowds of passengers. Just as the driver was about to turn the curve by the Treasury and the | ers horribly mangled, conflicts follow- Riggs House a heavily crowded street | car dashed up to the junction and the | carriage was for a moment pocketed between the car and an empty hotel carriage. The horse thok fright at the clanging of bells, and became unmanageable. Several men recognized the President’s livery and willing hands were outstretched to subdue the infuriated animal. The driver bravely kept his seat, struggling to manage the horse, while Reeder sprang from the box and went to the rescue of his young mistress. Just as the carriage appeared to be turning on its side Miss Roosevelt was literally dragged out by the footman and at the same time a policeman on the other side rescued the frightened maid. The horse was finally subdued and the carriage escaped complete de- struction between & lamp post and a bo tel van. plunged olently | | | Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, | was touched off and a number of non- | lets flew and at least one was killed placed in the military “bull pen” and others are bgjng gathered In at fre- quent intervals. City and county offi- compelled to resign | their offices because of their reputed union sympathies. As nearly as can be estimated to- more wounded as a result of the events leading up to the conditions described. Beginning with’ this morning, when an infernal machine, set under the station platform at Findley, on the line of the union men, who were walting for a | train, were sent into eternity and oth- | ed thick and fast. They culminated | in a riot at a mass meeting, where bul- | and a number wounded. Later, as a company of militia was marching past union headquarters pursuing its search for union miners, it was fired upon by armed men con- cealed In Union Hall , The soldiers stormed the building and from last ac- counts seven unionists were shot dead in their tracks. The remainder fled precipitately, blood streaming from the wounds of many. The soldiers who were unhurt pursued and arrested a number of the fleeing men and con- tinued far into the night to search the country for men supposed to have been in +he union hall at the time of the assault. At the headquarters of Adjutant Gen- eral Bell in this city everything is in | |LIST OF THE DEAD . L3 GUS AUGUSTINE, aged 25. ARTHUR MUHLEISE, aged about 33; has relatives in Ger- many. : HENRY HAAG. ALEXANDER McLANE, for- merly of Leadville. CHARLES E. BARBER. HERBERT McCOY. J. H. HARTSELL. WILLIAM SHANKLIN, E. KELSO, married. W. W. DELANEY. EDWARD ROSS. ROBERT SINCLAIR. E. H. JOHNSON, formerly of | Little Horse, Wyo. SLAIN AT VICTOR R. McGEEF of Victor. J. D. DAVIS of Victor. | — — readiness to promptly meet a call for additional troops in the gold camps. It is understood that the railroads have been instructed to have engines and cars ready, and a quick run fo Cripple Creek would follow an appeal for more soldiers. However, from the tone of a communication received from Sheriff Bell, the newly appointed official of the county, he will ask for further aid from the authorities only as a last resort. He says he con control the situation unless a general clash occurs. To-day's outburst had its inception in the strike of the members of the Western Federation of Miners more than a year ago, When 4000 men quit work for the purpose, primarily, of en- forcing an elght-hour day. This action 80 incensed the mine owners that they declared war on unionism, and the breach has grown wider with the pass- age of time. Considerable lawlessness has prevailed in the strike-ridden dis- tricts and unionists have been brought to trial on numerous charges. They ‘were invariably acquitted. i { SCENE OF CRIPPLE CREEK'S LABOR DISTURBANCES, COLORADO EXECUTIVE WHO NT TROOPS TO ENFORCE THE LAW AND HEAD OF THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODY OF VICTOR, WHERE CLASHES BETWEEN THE STATE'S SOLDIERS AND RIOTERS ARE CONTINUOUS = -+ ries of Bloody Affrays Follows Diabolical Murder o Men by Means of Dyna S — e J mite. — CRIPPLE CREEK, Col., June 6.—A concealed assassin, by merely pulling a wire, exploded an infernal machine at Independence to-day, instantly kill- ing eleven men and severely wounding twelve others, two of whom have since dled. All of the killed and injured, with the exception of two men from the Deadwood mine, were non-union miners employed on the night shift of the Findley mine. The men had quit work at 2 o’clock this morning and were waiting to board the suburban train on the Flor- ence and Cripple Creek Railroad and return to their homfes In Cripple Creek and Victor. Just after the engineer of the approaching train blew his whistle | as a signal to the miners, according to | custom, a terrific explosion occurred | underneath the depot platform, on and near which twenty-six men were gath- ered. The platform was blown into splinters, the depot was wrecked and a hole twenty feet in circumference and about as many feet in depth was torn | into the ground. | Fragments of bodies were hurled‘ through space for several hundred feet and later were picked up still quiver- ing. Some of the bodies dropped into ' the pit made by the explosion, but | heads, hands, ears, legs, arms and trunks were strewn about on all sides. Pieces of flesh were found on buildings 500 feet away and blood stained every- thing within a radlus of fifty feet. The force of the explosion was felt throughout the camp and the crash awakened everybody. The approaching train was stopped and the train crew were the first men to reach the scene | of the disaster. They were joined in a few minutes by hundreds of persons and relief work was begun at once. A special train was sent from Cripple Creek, carrying physicians, nurses, offl- cers and many others, but when it reached Independence the injured had already been placed on board the su- burban train and removed to the hos- | pitals in Victor. The mangled bodies Continued on Page 3, Column 2. SEEMINGLY DEAD CHILD [y REVIVED Lies in a Coffin at Custer for Thirty- Six Hours. SRRSO WL Special Dispatch to The Call. CUSTER, S. D., June 6.—After lying coffin, little Ma- i the & ar-old daughter of C. M. Fearing, was revived. The child was saved through the intervep- tion of Dr. E. 8. Norton, a rvl:l(iJ‘“. who was at the house to attend the funeral. Dr. Norton’s professional instinct warned him that the rosy cheeks and unchanged appearance of the little one marked an unusual condition, and he | refused to permit the coffin to be closed. Other physicians made tests. The results were satisfactory and an effort was made to revive the child. Finally signs of returning animation were noted. A half-hour later the stethoscope indicated the return of strong heart action. An hour later the child was in the arms of her moth- | er, who sobbed hysterically. The supposed death was due to ty- phoid fever. With care the child will soon be in an advanced convalescent stage. 2 ———— MURDER FOLLOWS COMMENT ON ATTIRE OF JAPANESE Ome ILittle Brown Man Kills a Coun- tryman After Making Disparaging Remark About Victim’s Clothes, HONOLULU, May 31.—Yamasaki, a Japanese, was murdered in cold blood in Honolulu on the evening of May 25. His self-confessed murderer, Kan- sioro Tanda, was arrested immediate- ly by detectives, who were within forty feet of the scene of the crime at the time of its occurrence. The shooting was the result of an alleged disparaging remark by the murderer about the Japanese clothes worn by the murdered man. Five shots were fired, the man with the gun standing within two feet of his victim, although but three of the shots took effect. These were fired so close to the mur- dered man that his kimono caught fire. ———————— SANTA FE PUTS COLORADO FLYER ON FOR SEASON TOPEKA, Kans., June 6.—The San- ta Fe announces that the Colorado Flyer has been put on for the season. Tt will make daily trips to Colorado during the entire summer. A semi- weekly service has been started on the California limited. Through ser- vice will be given from Chicago to Los Angeles and San Francisco. —_——— Murray Declines Bishopric. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 6.—Rev. John G. Murray, rector of St. Mich- ael's and All Angels’ Episcopal Church of Baltimore, has declined the bishopric of Kentucky, being con- vinced that his present paramount duty is in Baltimore. KUROPATKIN AND KUROKI [N BATTLE —_— HeavyArtillery Firing Is Heard Near Liaoyang. Another Combat IS Being Waged in Vicinity of Port Arthur. Russians Report Rumor of Disaster to Warships of Admiral Togo's Fleet, el stided LONDON, June 7.—A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph dated Shengtaitse, Monday, says that heavy artillery fir- ing was heard that morning in the di- rection of Tahwan, east of Liaoyang. TIENTSIN, June 7.—A telegram this morning from Yinkow announces that Etzel of the London Telegraph was | shot dead at Tienchwangtal last night by imperial troops. | Heavy firing was heard at New- | chwang this morning, coming from the | direction of Liaoyang. | The Russ s have evacuated Sin- mintung (about 30 miles west of Muk- | den) and its vicinity. It is said that the | troops which were at Sinmintung are | Joining troops on the road to Mukden. | FIRING AT PORT ARTHUR. | CHEFU, June 7, 10:45 a. m.—The cor- respondent of the Associated Press at | Tengchow cables that there was firing “.‘x 3,;"" Arthur last night, beginning at o'clock and continuing for several hours. A junk arriving during the night from Dainy reports that | there was heavy firing all day yester- | day in the vicinity of Port Arthur | When the junk left Dalny on Monday | morning all was quiet there. The ar- | rivals on the junk deny the story of the sinking of a Japanese ship off Talfen- | wan. | Russian reports vary regarding the | sinking of a Japanese vessel off Talien- wan. It is believed it was a merchant- man. RUMOR OF NAVAL D STER. LIAOYANG, June 6.—It is persist- ently reported here that the Port Ar- thur squadron made a sortie shortly before dawn on Saturday, with the tor- pedo boat destroyers leading, and found the Japanese fleet quite unsus- pecting the presence of hostile war- ships; with the result that fonr of the Japanese ships were sunk during the attack. Details have been received here of two smart outpost fights, one on Liao- tung and the o n Southern Man- churia. The former occurred on the morning of June itsiantur, east | of Vafangow, t ty-five miles above | Kinchou. The Russian force consisted of an infantry regiment, y several companies of Cossacks and a squad of dragoons. The enemy was discovered in the valley or Pwytsiantuo, The Russians brought up a battery, opened fire and cleared the Japanese out of the valley. Then the Russian guns were moved to a more faverable position. The Japanese taking advan- tage of this, fired a few shots. The Russian losses were Colonel Sereda and seventeen men wounded. Both sides | retained their positions. . BATTLE NEAR TAKUSHAN. The other fight was between Major General Mistchenko's Cossacks and the Japanese advance posts along the | river Kolendzy, north of Takushan. It lasted from the evening of June 3 until late the following day. A company of Cossacks tried to cut off a detachment of Japanese posted on the heights at Ladziapudzy, but the enemy brought up reinforcements and the Russians were reinforced by flve companies of | Cossacks. Finally 3000 Japanese were engaged, including artillery. The Cossacks re- peatedly drove the enemy from the entrenchments. In one case the Jape anese fled across the river, but ree turned with more reinforcements an the Russians drew off. The Cossacks commander, Colonel Starkoff, was Kill- ed and two officers and nine men were wounded. The Cossacks carried the body of their commander to Siuyen. 5wty il CHINA MAY BE DRAWN IN. Peking Government Is Placed in an Awkward Position. TIENTSIN, June 6.—Uchida, the Japanese Minister to China, came to Tientsin yesterday from Peking to confer with the Viceroy and returned to the capital to-day. Japan, it ap- pears to be confirmed, is trying to in- duce China to occupy the territory conquered from Russia, thus Inveig- ling China into a breach gf neutrality and giving Russia the opportunity of attacking China. o N OR RS War News Continued on Page 3. °