The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1904, Page 1

THE “A Central—“A Bunch of Xeys.” Columbia—*“Joseph Entangled.” Chutes—Vaundeville. VOLUME XCVI—NO. 70 SAN FRAN CISCO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THREE JAPANESE WARSHIPS DAMAGED IN NAUDAL BATTLE) Diceroy Alexieff Reports Port Arthur Fight in Which the Itsukushima, the Chiyoda and a Gunboat| Were Put Out of Action by Shells and Mines - N2 : N S\ & /o HEIR TIRES OF BURDEN | OF WEALTH Possession of Riches Destroys Peace | of Sailor. el e ] Dispatch to The Call O, Aug. 8—"A week ago 1‘ Job’s turkey, and no- t anything but my brass i I am supposed to be m up like a flashlight on night.” language First Mate r of the steamship ited $800,000 by the ather, John Miller, describes the differ- of money makes in Letters are com- score since it was d inherited $800,000. f the pilot-house is my id he. on Sunday the mate as a magnet for all his movements were 4 ly as though he were f esident To-day - his tters, and he is irden of wealth. ow up my posi- until T am sure 1 have worked trict attention nbitious to go » business to be I am careful & ny mail.” - - PEIRCE HEARS EVIDENCE | AGAINST CONSUL GOODNOW Official of State Department Takes Testimony of Attorney Curtiss of Shanghai. WASHINGTOD sist Secretary . Aug. 8.—Third As- Peirce of the State , who has investigated the charges against John United States Consul General ghal, to-day gave a hearing to George Curtiss, an attorney of Shang- | hai, who has been most active against Goodnow. Curtiss will later be given another hearing. The department re- gards evidence as entirely ex parte. Assistant Secretary Peirce has reached no decision as to what report and recommendations regarding the case he will make to the President. It is understood that Curtiss purpeses carrying the case to the Department of Justice when the State Department has conclyded its investigation. | —_————— YAQUIS ROUTED AND MANY PRISONERS TAKEN Departm various now Good- HERMOSILLO, Mexico, Aug. 8.—Cap- | tain Luis Barron and a force who, car- | rying out the order of General Torres to push the campaign against the Yaquis in every quarter, have been | ¢learing the district back of Ures, have | just returned to the capital with sixty- { seven prisoners, one hundred stands of | arms and 10,000 rounds of ammunition, having broken up a well-organized re-[ bellion in that section. The Yaquis gave battle to the troops end were completely routed and pur- sued to the place of refuge, where the | munijtions of war were taken. As far| as possible the families of the warriors | were gathered up and sent to Guaymas | with the prisoners, to be deported oni the next transport which leaves that ILEWORMS VICTIMIZED — BY-SCIENCE Change of Diet Al- ters the Hue of Cocoons. e —— Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Successful experiments in feeding silkworms on various colored substances so as to preduce variously colored silks is re- perted to the State Department by John C. Covert, United States Consul at Lyons, France. Consul Covert tells of his visit to the laboratory of Comte nd Lev where the experiments have been caried on. He said: “The objeet of their studies was to discover, if possible, why some breeds of silk worms produce white silk, while others produce yellow or yellow- ish green silk. Their experiments showed them that the natural coloring matter of the cocoons was identical with the coloring matter found in the at, leaves. The experiments prove that coloring matter introduced into the intestines of the worm by means of food may under certain con- ditions reach the silk through the blood. “One lot was fed on leaves dipped in a liquid to color them. Some of the leaves the worms fed upon were colored a slight red and the worms ate them as they eat ordinary leaves in a natural condition. They grew 2nd developed as if fed on common mulberry leaves. The general color of their bodies became dark red blood extracted from them was of an intense red. When cocoons were formed a pink silk was reeled from them. The entire cocoon was of a beautiful red.” e — ROBBERS KILLED WHILE FIGHTT OVER LOOT Three Bandits Are Discovered by Of- | ficers and All Are Slain in Attack. CANANEA, Mexico, Aug. 8.—Jesus Herida, Ramon Gutierrez and Daniel Rodriguez, three Mexican bandits, en- gaged in a desperate conflict over the spoils from a stage hold-up. They wers discovered Saturday near Puerticitos by a half-dozen rurales, who heard the shots exchanged in the fight, which re- sulted in the death of Herida, the worst of the outlaws. The rurales came upon the outlaws in the canyon where they were fighting over the loot, just as Herida had fallen. Gutierrez and Rodriguez, knowing that capture at the hands of the rurales would mean death, turned upon the of- | ficers and were shot down on the spot where they had murdered .their com- panion a few miputes before. The kill- ing rids the border country of three o2 its toughest characters. ———— ZEALAND SHAKEN BY A HEAVY TEMBLOR Public Buildings Are Seriously Dam- aged and Private Firms Suffer Big Loss. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Aug. 9.—The heaviest earthquake that New Zealand has experienced in many years occurred to-day. Several public buildings were seriously damaged and private firms suffered heavy losses. The shock was general on both sides. NEW No less of life has been reported, and | 3 \ [ | - THEIR STANGLED iAN HILL. e ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. S. — Em- peror Nicholas has received the follow- ing dispatch from Viceroy Alexieff, dated at Mukden, August 7 “Telegrams received to-day from Port Arthur and from the commander f the squadron (Rear Admiral Wit- hoeft) state that the cruisers Bayan, skold, Pallada and Novik and some gunboats st July 2 the amed out of the harbor on for the purpose of bombarding enemy’s positio They were at- tacked by the Japanese battleship | Chinyen, the protected cruisers Chi- yoda, Itsukushima nd Matsushima and two second-class cruisers, with thirty torpedo-boats. “An eight-inch shell from the Bayan burst in the stern of the Itsukushima, placing that ship out of action. There- upon all the Japanese ships steered for the open sea and at the same time the Chiyoda ' was damaged by a Russian As the Chiyods 8 mine. nking by she e d Talien hot from battery damaged e gunhoat which w sighted. “On July 27, in view of the Japanese having taken the general offen against our land positions, the Bayan, Captain Reitzenstein; the battleship Retvisan, the Pallada, Askold and No- vik, the coast defense ships’ Gremi- hchi and Otvashni, the gunboat Gil- ak and twelve torpedo-boats, under the command of Rear Admir: Leschin- sky, were ordered to support our right flank, at the demand of Lieutenant General Stoessel. “Our ships, preceded by mine dredges, steamed toward Lungantan, whence they bombarded the Japanese positions until 3 o’clock in the after- noon. “‘On their return, which they effected with the same precautionsg, a mine ex- ploded underneath one of the dredges. “Rear Admiral Withoeft estimated that the enemy’s naval forces off Port Arthur on July 30 consisted of five bat- tleships, four armored cruisers, ten mh;xr uisers and forty-eight torpedo craft. e i RUSSIANS ACTIVE IN KOREA. Are Gradually Moving Southward Along the Eastern Coast. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing 'Company. GENSAN, Korea, Aug. 8.—The Rus- sians are gradually moving southward “through Korea. Five hundred men, with two guns, are now camped be- { tween the forks of Tongheung River, 200 more are scattered through the vil- lages near by and more than 500 in- fantrymen are at Hamheung. All travel northward by road 1s stopped. The Russians are constructing a road passable for artillery through Machien- rien Pass, a high and difficult defile south of Langchen. A runner from the north reports that an additional .body of mounted Rus- sians, numbering 200, arrived at Sinpo, a seaport, near Pukchen, where the agent of the Korean Mail Steamship Company has been arrested. TOKIO, Aug. 9, 10 a. m.—A detach- ment of Cossacks to-day approached Gensan, on the east coast of Korea, but retreated immediately. P ey ‘War News Continued on Page 2. | crime., END MIST NG FoR IS CRIVE President Refuses to! Commute Death | Sentence. SISO S s (Insanity Plea Does Notij Find Favor in Eyes of Executive, P L | Roosevelt Holds Mental Unsoundness Is No Excuse for the Monstrous Deed of Nagro Burley. | i —_— WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—President Roosevelt has declined to interfere in | the case of John W. Burley, a negro, | confined in the jail of the District of | | Columbia, under sentence of death for | the crime of criminal assault, the vic- tim having been a little girl four and a half years old. The President has directed that the sentence of the jury be carried into effect on August as decreed. An application was made to the | President to commute the sentence of | Burley to imprisonment for life, it be- ing alleged that the prisoner was of mind weak as to be irresponsible | for his crime. The subject was re- | ferred to Attorney General Moody. He |investigated the case and reported to | the President to-day fully as to the | facts APPLICATION. ting the application for the | commutation of Burley's sentence | President Roosevelt made the follow- ing memorandum: | “WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, | Aug. 5.—The application for the com- | mutation of the sentence of John W. | Burley is denied. This man commit- ted the most hideous crime Known to our laws and twice before he has com- crimes of a similar though less-barrible wharaeter. 1n no judg- ment” this is mo justification whatever for paying heed to the allegations that he is not of sound mind, allegations made after the trial and conviction. Nobody would pretend that there has ever been any such degree of mental unsoundness shown as would make people even consider sending him to an asylum if he had not committed this Under such circumstances he hould certainly be esteemed sane enough to suffer the penalty for' his monstrous deed. I have scant sym- with the plea of insanity ad- d to save a man from the conse- quences of crime, where unless the crime had been committed it would | i le to persuade any ity to commit him to Among the most dangerous crimin: and especially among those prone to commit this particular kind of offense, there are plenty of a temper so fiendish or so brutal as to be incompatible with any other than a brutish order of intelli- gence; but these men are nevertheless responsible for their acts, and nothing more tends to encourage crime among such men than the belief that through the plea of insanity or any other plea it is possible to escape paying the-just penalty of their crimes. CRIME IS REVOLTING. “The crime in question is one to the existence of which we largely owe the existence of that spirit of lawlessness which takes form in lynching. It is a crime so revolting that the criminal is not entitled to one particle of sym- ‘pa!lly from any human being. It is | essential that the punishment for it | should be not only as certain, but as | swift possible. The jury in this case did their duty by recommending the infliction of the death penalty. It |is to be regretted that we do not have special provision for more summary | dealing with this type of cases. The | more we do what in us lies to secure certain and swift justice in dealing | with these cases the more effectively | do we work against the growth of that | Iynching spirif, which is so full of evil | omen for this people, because it seeks to avenge one infamous crime by the commission of another of equal in- famy. “The application is denied and the sentence will be carried into execu- | tion. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” | e —— :“H;\N'D-ME-DO“'NS" ‘WILL ; HIDE YGORROTES' SYMMETRY ‘Who Are to Visit President Will Appear in Up-to-Date b | Natives Clothes. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Neat | “hand-me-down” American clothing will hide from the public gaze the us- ually unadorned symmetry of the Ygorrotes who Wwill to-morrow pay their respects to President Roosevelt. Their traditional tribal nudity which | provoked so much discussion at the | Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition will be veiled during their stay at the capital. Al- though representatives from St. Louis said they left that city for Washing- ton with only a single cloth each, Col- onel C. R. Edwards, chief of insular affairs of the War Department, de- clares they all will be sufficiently clad. —_————— HIGH EXPLOSIVES FOUND IN KING ALFONSO'S TRAIN Discovery of Dynamite Cartridges in Royal Equipage Causes Change in Monarch’s Plans. SAN SEBASTIAN, Aug. 8.—The journey of King Alfonso to the open exhibition at Vittoria has been de- ferred owing,to the discovery of three dynamite cartridges in the royal train. Experts say the cartridges would have exploded as the result of the shaking of the train and would have blown everything to atoms. The po- lice are mm?‘c an investigation. BODIES OF EIGHTY-SEVEN WRECK DICTIMS RECODERED Only Three Passengers in Forward Coaches of Ill-Fated Rio Grande Train Survive Awful Plunge From Weakened Bridge Into Flood-Swollen Torrent //,/,’//m PUEBLO, Colo., Aug. 8.—The wreck of the World's Fair flyer on the Cenver and Rio Grande Railroad near Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo, last even- ing, proves to have been one of the most appalling railroad disasters in the history of this country. . Two crowded passenger cars and a barg. ge car were engulfed in the torrent that tore out a trestle spanning Steele’s Hollow, otherwise known as Dry Creek, and, 8o far as known to-night, only three of the occupants of those cars escaped death. Fortunately, two sleepers and a diner, completing the train, remained on the track at the .dge of the abyss and none of their occupants were killed or injured. How man perished probably will never be “~finitely a rtained, for the treacherous sands are drifting, over the bodies. Search for the dead was begun at midnight on an extersive scale and was still in progress to-night. All corpses found were brought to Pueblo and placed in four morgues here. At 10 o'clock to-night eighty-seven bodies had been recovered and of these fifty had been identified. During the day bodies were recovered all the way along Fountain River from the scene of the wreck to this city. At 1 o'clock this afternoon two bodies were taken from the stream at First street, Pueblo, more than eight miles from the point where the disaster occurred, and it is probable that some may be recovered even farther down stream. None of the bodies are badly muti- lated and all are in such condition as to be recognizable. Many identi- fications have been made by articles found on the bodies. ENGINEER DIES AT HIS POST. So quietly had the catastrophe been enacted that the occupants of the three cars remaining on the track did not realize that an accident had occurred until they alighted from the train, and they were utterly powerless to render any assistance to the victims who had disappeared in the rushing waters. On the lookout for danger, warned by the squally clouds and heavy rains to the north, Engineer Charles Hind- man was running cautiously, about fifteen miles an hour, as he approached the arroyo, which was spanned by a bridge ninety-six feet in length. The condition of the bridge was not known until the locomotive, one of the mon- ster passenger type, Had nearly crossed. Fireman Frank Mayfield, with a large torch which the engineer and fireman had been using to ascertain the condition of the track, was in thg sangway. When Engineer Hindman felt the tremor in the great machine and caught a glimmer on the water, he shouted his last words, “put out that torch,” evidently thinking that in the accident he felt certain was coming the flames would serve to spread fire. But, before Mayfield could obey. while the words were still on the lips of the doomed engineer and his hand was seeking the mechanism controlling the air brakes, the bridge gave way as if it had been a stack of kindling wood and the locomotive dropped with the hissing of steam through thirty feet of flood to the bottom of the arroyo, crosswise to the track. The baggage car, smoker and chair | car followed the locomotive into the | stream and were swept away. All of the occupants of these cars save three men perished, and had not the roof of | the chair car burst asunder none would have escaped. The fireman as the loco- motive went over was thrown out, and | managing to grasp a piece of wreckage | from the bridge floated with that to a | curve made by the caving bank and crept out of the water. He ran toward Eden, meeting on the way Operator F. M. Jones and his wife, who had already | started up the track. They had seen| the headlight of the approaching train | a minute before, and then had wit-| nessed it disappear with ominous sud- dennes “Notify Pueblo,” running man. came the voice of the “The train's gone down and everybody is killed."” Even as he spoke, relates the oper- ator, there were cries coming from the distance. The two men ran to where the bridge had been to search, but in| vain, for victims of the disaster. When | they reached the spot all cries for help had ceased. Relief trains with physicians, wreck- ing and piledriving outfits and scores| of workmen were hurried from the city. | The first train from the wreck came in shortlv after midnight, with J. M. Killin of Pueblo, whose escape was| miraculous; H. S. Gilbert, Tony Fisher | and Fireman Mayfield. These were the | four men in the midst of the wreck who | escaped. When dawn came the wonder | was that four had been permitted to| emerge from the raging torrent with| breath still m their bodies. CURRENT’S AWFUL FORCE. | The end of the Pullman car Ashmere extended four feet over the brink, while broken timbers and tiwisted rails hung still farther over. The arroyo had been widened to more than a hundred feet | at the point where the bridge had been. The water tore a zigzag course across the prairie to a depth of thirty feet in several places. There was but little left of the baggage car—a few rods, a truck or so, dimly seen in the muddy water: | a half-buried iron safe. The great locomotive, with the boiler free of the trucks, the cab and :ank| gone, lies where it fell. | A quarter of a mile to the east, whera | this gorge of death debouched into the | Fountain, lay the chair car, windows; gone, three-fourths filled with mud and | sand. A hundred feet farther on was | the smoker, bottom up, against a sand- | bar. A hundred and fifty feet farther | in the bed of the Fountain was the coal tender of the engine, and from | that voint on for four or five miles vestiges of the coaches, the engine and | tender stuck up from the bed of the| stream or lay along the shore or on the | islands. Red plush seats of the smoker{ were strewn along the stream. Brass rails from the coaches were found in the sand a half-mile from the site of the bridge, and pieces of the baggage car stuck out of the water in several places. | Bits of clothing—coats, skirts and women’s hats—were found in the brush along the shore and the search- ers scanned the foliage for bodies. Masses of earth had caved In from the A———— —_— ¥ P —elp [ POPULAR STANFORD sTUDENT WHO | L BER LIFE IN THE RIO | GRANDE TRAIN DIsa high sides of the river at many places and searchers passed these with the fear that bodies were buried under them which they were helpless to reach Five hundred men inch of the river and 1 a few hours after ay waded in the str and carried out mud-begrimed bod which were found at wid separated points, some of them miles from the scene of the ac- cident. BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. first corpses recovered were se of Miss Irene Wright and little Dorothy Johnso: the asister-in-law and daughter, respectively, of Ha | Johnson of Pueblo. An unknown wo- man lay ide t X Engineer Hindman was found, with his watch still running, a few feet far- ther down the stream While it was still dark, axes had been used on the half buried cars at the junct of the creek with the Fountain, nd at daylight this work was resumed on the smoking car, in the Fountain, where led to wade almost to ch it farther down the ons entangled which lay out men were comp their waists to A second part river found several in a mass of ught to have been part of the baggage car, which was literally torn to pieces. In a short time a large number of bodies were dug out of the sand here. One woman was completely buried, save one foot, which stuck above the ater. Some bodies were found lodged in the shrubbery along the ban others in the wreck- age in midstream, and many half bur- ied with only an arm or a bit of cloth- ing to reveal their whereabouts. It re- quired eight strong men to lift the wa- ter-soaked body of one woman to the shore and a skirt and hat found on the bank could scarcely be lifted with the fingers of one hand Many of the bodies were almost naked, the clothing having been torn completely off. Most of them were slightly bruised, probably from the first shock of the wreck, but there was little blood visible when they were re- moved from the stream. Without doubt the great majority were drowned like rats in a trap when the cars plunged without a moment’s warning into the whirling water, thirty-five feet deep, a hundred feet wide, and with a current strong enough to carry thousands of pounds of weight nearly a mile before subsiding. THRONGS OF ANXIOUS SEEKERS. ‘When brought ashore the bodies were | placed on the ground and covered, but persons who wished to look at them were allowed to do so for the purpose of identifying them. A baggage car was kept running between the city and the wreck, bringing in those who were found. A number of wagons were final- Iy pressed into service to haul the bod- ies to the tracks, leaving the searchers free to continue the hunt for others. Some searchers Wworked all night and all day and never once thought of eat- ing on resting. Persons were constantly arriving and anxiously inquiring for lost omes known to have been on the train. By 9 o’clock this morning the plains were dotted with vehicles, each with its load of anxious seekers or the morbidly cu- rious. More than a thousand persons were on the scene two hours before noon and the roads in every direction were crowded by others coming away. The bodies recovered were identified very slowly because many of them were those of strangers here, who haa been to the fair at St. Louis and at other Eastern points. The walls of the so-called Dry Creek are rugged, irregular, caving and widened, but so narrow that it is al- most impossible to understand how the great coaches, the baggage car and tender could have been swept so far Continued on Page 3, Column 3