The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1904, Page 1

e Forecast made for June 16: San Francisco londy Thurs: erly winds o westerly. A. WORE THAN 30X HUNDRED WOMEN AND CHILOREN DIE — " = THE WEATHER. at thirty hours ending and vicinity— ging to brisk G. McADIE, District Forecaster. San Pran- I lght south- ‘ FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1904. To-Day. _Alcazar—“Charley’s Aunt.” California—'‘Secret Service.” Central—“Tke Octoroon.” | Columbia—“The Proud Prince.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Fischer's—“U. 8. Grand—"Du Barry.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. —————— THEATERS. Matinee N FLAMING VEGGEL Ot LEAP OVERGOARD TO OROWN EW YORK, June 16.—Six hundred persons—men, women and children---at a conservative estimate, met death yesterday by fire or drowning through the burning, beaching and sinking of the big three-decker excursion steamship General Slocum, which took fire in the East River, near the.entrance to Long Island Sound, while on her way to a Sound resort with more than 1000 excursionists, the Sunday-school pupils of St. Mark’s German Lutheran Church, their relatives and friends. At 1 o’clock this morning, accord- ing to a statement issued by Coroner O’Gorman, 483 bodies had been recovered trom the destroyed vessel, found on the shores to which they had been washed, or picked up in the river, into which they had jumped or fallen from the burning vessel, Tugs are arriving hourly with bodies from North Brother Island. RUSSIAN ARMY I§ ROUTED Loses Thousand Men in Fuchou | Baitle. Slavs Abandon Guns and Refreat in | Disorder. ot \ Defeated Force Is in Full| Flight Toward Tashichaio | and Kaichou. | P — | LONDON, June 18.—A dié- | patch to the Daily Express from Tokio, dated June 15, says news has been re- ceived there, buthasnatyet been officially published, of a great Japanese victory near Fuchou, on the rail- way seventy miles north of Port Arthur. The Rus- sians, it is added, were overwhelmed, lost a thou- sand men, left all their guns on the field and re- treated in disorder. The Daily Chronicle’s | correspondent at Tokio| cables the same news, add- ing that the Russians, to| the number of 7000 men, | are now in full flight to-| ward Tashichaio and Kai- | chou. LIAOYANG, June 16—The battle at Vatengow lasted till 8 o’clock yesterday evening. The Japanese in tremendous force attacked the Russian position, but were repulsed with terrible loss. It is reported that three squadrons of Japanese dragoons were absolutely destroyed and that sixty men were captured. commanding the st Rifle Regiment, was killed According to the t reports re- eived here, the Russian troops were ng the Japanese at 6 o'clock this g, but no particulars are ob- CLAIMS RUS LONDON, J nt of the Cen telegraphed to- IAN VICTORY. —The correspond- ews at Liaoyang v as follows: Varangow h of (about Port Arth is sti btainable nors that successful, cavalry men. in fight- 08 men killed or se casualties are but ussian cavalry rchou right 1 along the line, the receivgd 1 gow, ton g of ons, with artillery near of Port of the Fuchou al- leged great battle enty miles nc ears 1o Continued on e 2 A age 5, (Ylumn 2, 3 | o Cling to Ship’s Paddles. ManyLet GoWhen Rcscue Is Near at Hand. NEW YORK, June 15.—James Collins, & special policeman, together with Po- liceman Herbert Farrell and Olaf Jan- sen, mate of the schooner E. A. Bay- liss, were the first men to reach the Blocum after she was beached. They rowed out and took twenty-two living | persons from the ship, besides picking up sixteen bodies. Most of those res- cued were clinging to the paddles of the Slocum, and three of the women were dead with their hands still clenched on the buckets of the wheel Collins sald: “I heard the terrible screaming out | in the stream. I looked up and saw the Slocum blazing and persons dropping into the water. With Farrell and Jan- | sen I jumped into the yawl and rowed after the burning ship as fast as possi- ble. Tugboats were then following her, but the heat was so great they could not get near her. When she heachel we pulled toward her, but as we came nearer the heat singed our halr. threw our coats over our heads and pulled toward the roaring fire. Present- ly we found ourselves well up under the sides of the ship. “When 1 pulled the coat off my head a terrible sight was before me. There, clinging to the paddles of the great wheel, were, it seemed to me, one hun- dred women and children and a few men. As we came nearer they cried to us frantically to save them. Every sec- ond or two one of them would drop into the water and sink. We went ngside, and by keeping awdy a few managed to drag fourteen into the ‘‘Hang on,’ we cried, ‘till we come back.’ But when we started to row away others gave up and dropped into the water. We landed our first load on a scow and went back twice more, taking off twenty-two. “I noticed three large women who seemed o be quieter than the others, and we finally dragged them into the boat and found they were dead, but still clinging to the paddles. Their heads were partly under water. “Several times we were nearly swamped by women and children grab- ng the boat. We had to push back those we could not save. I believe there e more bodies went to the bottom than were recovered. Most of these never will be found,” - We | ‘WomenandBabes | | | \ \ i | | | | children, were FX - 5L6ng Indentification Dead Proceeds Slowly. Roster in Of- fice-of the Cor- oner. | | O NEW YORK, June 15—One of the most appalling disasters in the history | of New York, tragic mn 1ts immensity, dramatic in its episodes and deeply pathetic in the tender age of most of its victims, took place to-day in the East River, at the entrance to Long Island Sound, within a short distance of the New York shore and within sight of thousands of persons, the ma- jority of whom were powerless to minimize the extent of the catastrophe. By the burning to the water's edge of the Gercral Slocum, a three-decked excursion steamship, the largest in these waters, more than 600 persons, the majority of whom were women and burmed to death or drowned by jumping overboard or by being thrown into the whirlpools by the lurching of the vyessel and the frantic rush of the panic-stricken pas- sengers. Approximately 485 bodies have been recovered and are now being tagged at the morgues of Bellevue Hospital and Harlem. : Divers were still busy at a late hour taking bodies from the hold of the vessel, which, they say, is choked with the remains of human bodies, while the bodies of scores who leaped or were thrown Into the river have not been recovergd. STARTS ON FATAL TRIP. The Géneral Slocum had been char- tered to carry the excursionists to Lo- cust Grove, one of the many resorts of Long Island Sound. It is variously estimated that there were between 1000 and 1500 persons on board the Slocum when she left the pier at Third street. | BURNING STEAMBOAT GENERAL SLOCUM RACING TOWARD SHORE OF NORTH BROTHER ISLAND. | ¥ + Appalling Loss of Life on Fire-Swept Steam- ship Crowded by Sunday-School Excursionists. East River, though the Knickerbocker Steamship Company, which owns the\ Slocum, officially states that the num- ber of passengers was 837, that being only one-third of the vessel's’capacity. It is thought, however, that there were several hundred children in arms, for whom fares are not usually charged on these trips, on board. At the extreme eastern end of Ran- dalls Island, off One Hundred and Thirty-fifth streét, there is a stretch of water known as the Sunken Meadows. At this point the General Slocum took fire and as the age of the vessel—she was built in 1891—had aided in the sea- soning of the wood, with which she was almost entirely built, she was soon a mass of flames. The fire’is said to have broken out in the luncheon-room on the forward deck, through the overturning of a pot of grease. The wind was high and all efforts to subdue the flames were futile. TURNED BACK FROM SHORE. At One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street there were several lumber yards and oil tanks and as Captain Willlam Van Schéick, in command ¢f the Gen- eral §locum, started to turh his vessel towarfl the ghore there he was warned that it would set fire to the lumber and oil, so he changed his course for North Brother Island, one of, the twin islands rfear the entrance to the sound, where the boat, partially burned, was beached. She sank near this place at 12:35 o’clock this afternoon, two hours and twenty-five minutes after the fire was first discovered. In the meantime the passengers had become panic stricken and those who were not caught by the flames rushed t~ the rear of the vessel and hundrads jumped overboard into the swiftly run- ning waters. The life preservers were too securely fastened to-their holdings to be avall- | able and stories are told of frantic ef- forts made by strong men to cut them loose, but even if they could have been torn down they were too high up 1nr‘, the children to reach. It is also al-| leged that no attempt was made to get | out the fire apparatus at the first cry of “Fire!” though Captain Van Schaick saye that he immediately rang the ! bells for getting out the apparatus. | According to several statements no | attempt. was made to lower boats or| life rafts. | DOOMED SHIP'S LAST RA | The ra_ to North Brother Island was | horribly dramatic. It was made while the flames, which had been fanned into a fury 'by the strong healwind, were consuming hundreds of persons, old ! and young. , The scene w- = ome of | frightful panic, with women. and chii- | dren jumping overboard and being lashed. by the channel whirlpools ! against the vessel's sides. Women and | children were crowding together on the hurricane deck, which soon °burned away and fell and it is believed most of those on this deck were burned. The after rail gave way and the pas- sengers who had crowded against It were pushed into the river. Mothers and childten became separated and | frantically sought ome another, while in several cases fathers and mothers, gathering their children _together, jumped with them into the water. Lit- tle children, holding each other by tha hand, leaped together and were after- —~F THE VICTIMS | Dead . . .. 483 . 300 Missing . . . 250 Injured . . . 250 Total . . 1033 - S3H T SR N S NEW YORK, June 16.—Before leaving North Brother Island at 3 o'clock this morning Coroner Darling- ton said there werc possibly hundreds of corpses still in the wrecked hull of the Gencral Slocum. dition to the 483 bodies recovered. *- June 15.—Identifica- tiow: of the victims of the General Slocum atastrophe is proceeding very 'slowly. At midnight the Cor- oner announced that the following had been identified: NEW YOR! Abendeschein, Mary Albrecht, Seima Catherine A , Jobn J. (in- Christina Mrs . e Be Mrs. Lena (in Bitmingham, KatherineBernhardl, Annfe (in- Boeger. Florence (child) fant) Balzer Beck, Behr! AugustaBs Margaret Bozenbars, Emily Bernardt, Annie (child) Brown, Alfonso Bohlmen, Mrs. Anna Buchanards, Mrs, AnnaBlossom, Marguerite Eliza C. Clow, Mary Cordes, Mrs. Metta Dengler. Adolph Jr Drews. Mrs. Catherine (child) Dirkotf, Wiiliam Deppers, Agnes Dirkoff, Annte Derker. Theodere (child)Dreber, —. (child) Donhelm, Mrs. E. Engelman, Mrs. LoulseEsiel, Annie (child) Eycholf, William Edhardt, Minne (child) Erhart, Annfe (child) Fritz Mrs.-Alma Fickbohm, —, Froelich, Mrs. Charles Feldhausen, —, Continued ‘on Page 3, Column 2. Continued on Page 2, Column 5. ofA This was in ad- | + PIRATICAL BAND RAID GUADALUPE kot 'Shoot Thousands of | Goats and Carry | Off Hides, G Mexican Government Sends " Gunboat to Capture the Robbers. }Thieves Make Their Escape From the | Island and Are Now Secreted in l the Gulf of California, Special Dispate to The Call. EL PASO, Tex., June 15.—A telegram to the Herald from Mazatlan says that robbers from the coast of California recently made a raid on the island of | Guadalupe in the Gulf of California, shot several thousand goats and car- ried off their hides. The goats were the property of Francisco Alvarez, who holds posses- | sion of the island under a Government | concession, and in raising goats th While the thi | island shooti who has been engaged for several years. were still on the nd skinning the goats word of th depr ns reached Guaymas, and the M can gunboat Democrata was sent m there to take them. The robbers v the gun- r escape, car- r have T coasts along several months past | — e | BRITISH GUIANA FRONTIER ) QUESTION ARBITRATED | Award of King of Italy, to Whom Dis- | pute Was Referred, Is in Favor of Britain. ROME, June 15.—The award of the King of Italy i Anglo-Brazilian arbitration r frontier of | British Gu handed to the British and to the Brazilian M yesterday, is |in faver of ;) | The fron is determined by a line starting from Mount Kakontipu and | continuing easterly al the waters | to the source of the river Ireng to the | confluence of the Tactutu, following | the course of the Tactutu to where it |joins the line of the frontier estab- | lished by the declaration attached to the treaty of arbitration of Novem- | ber 6, 1901. By virtue of that dec- laration all the zone in dispute in the |east line of the frontier will belong | to Great Britain and all the part west | will belong to Brazil. The rivers Ireng and Tactutu will remain open |to the free navigation of both sides. —_—— | HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER'S i MIND BECOMES DERANGED | Overstudy Unbalances a Well-Known Instructor in Institution of Peta- " luma. PETALUMA, June 15.—Professor | W. L. Foss of Petaluma High School suddenly lost his reason Monday and is now confined in a private asylum at Livermore. Overstudy is given as the cause, and the outcome 1is thought to account for the dissension | among the faculty of the Petaluma institution noted for the past few | months and which has occasioned wide comment. Foss had hired a | hall and announced a lecture for Monday evening for the purpose of telling all about the city’s educational | system. His erratic conduct during the last few days resulted in an inves- tigation. —_———————————, UNIDENTIFIED MEXICAN FOUND HANGING TO A TREE | Body Is Riddled With Bullets, Show- | ing That the Man Was the Victtim | of Unknown Murderers. | PHOENIX, Ariz, June 15.—The | body of an unknown Mexican was found yesterday hanging to a tree om the road between Jerome and Iron King. He had been hanged by un- known parties and his body riddl with bullets,