The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1904, Page 5

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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 1904. o IPES 0[ 'UNDER THE EYES OF THE|R‘SUPER|ORS L”EQ Q\?D | SOLDIERS DISPLAY SKILL OF VETERANS v Al 1» ‘Magnificent Spectacle Is Presented as Regulars and PROPERTY ~“witiamen in Re- Militiamen in Camp at Atascadero Pass in Re- view BeIore Men Who Have Made War a Study! Sixteen Persons Killed and | Many Injured in Scorching (zale Which Devastates the Valley of the Mississippi DAMAGE SAID TO BE IN THE MILLIONS e ['wo Crowded Theaters at Nt. : i Paul- Wrecked and Audi- ! ences Stampeded in Fearful § Confusion That Follows e | S PAUL, Aug . 7 OF ATCEES, ; . | e 5 = | { | ! s SON ING LIS O INJURED. REGULAR OF CALI- -* “ BY RED M. GILMORF Colonel W. §., ectators. They all manifested s s, Sa Sta” Th Maje McK interest in the proceedings gz z Girard a v loth to leave the field e 8. 2 o soldier had disappeared listance TROOPS. WwWoM WATCH RE \ IEW. ENTS were offi- over from leton for the iew was over mal receptic ny of the of- g here. m had com and e vas attended b and civilians st. n J. H. Parker, wife of Captain' 4 received a large number of her in the big grain warehouse, light refreshments were served. of this sent to Los An- died be who will rnia, in rament morning les. Should they beé sent by a train ing through Asuncion a special | guard or honor from the militia will| g0 to the depot as a mark of respect | nd will accompany the remains from | here l‘) Los Angeles. Z ng, about 10 o'clock, it was hat Lieutenant G. E. Stew- | ered art. Fift was not in Gl S | camp and a search was made. He was - ‘fnunl‘ about two. miles from camp, - | s v wending his way bac He had JUS » UST ONG AY npanied his company in the march Free From the zer Brought rlu ng the day and becoming ill from ! | the effects of the intense heat, when | = 3 | his company halted he sat down by a| E tree. When the order to charge was - < &iven the company started without him. When found he had fully recovered | and to-day is himself again and able to attend to his duties. To-morrow the problem will consist | of an attack and defense of an en-| trenched position. & * . | another with gunfire rapidity, {llum-| inated a scene of pandemonium which y the crash Fort Snelling miraculously escaped se- | vere injury. : | FOLILOWS THE RIVER. | | | o o . rendered unconscious bY | slructures. guce way befors the tor| The storm center seemed to follow | x n Dugan, telegraph oper- | nado. > | the river course, only the edge passin . £ e sit- : nead cut by falling gl ; Joseph Sections of the roof were blown | over the northwest end of the reserva-: t truck by el light pole, | through the air and landed east in|tion. Trees were uprooted, branches | Third street, a block distant. |torn away and hurled against wires, | S ARE UPROOTED. MANGLED BODIES FOUND. | crashing them to the ground. ! The slate of the south roof of the g at a point Underneath the Tivoll were found the | The siate of the sout] it o the Brat ks g Aal Tolike : irtieth Battery quarters was torn | > ies of Lorin F. Hokinson, | 400 jts fastening and distributed over | the storm struck v t. It came wling in its fury, demolished buildings one of the employes in the concert hall, | 3 P a large area. Portions of the roofs ot. and George Kwenton, one of the au- | the houses of the Tenth Battery and | | the gun shed were also ripped loose, | vard St. Paul. On the storm ‘rushed to the north- | exposing the upper floors to the fury of | 1 a s of the high bridge com.)leu—» east over the wholesale district and ihe ‘“";’IM gfr“;‘";!";:‘ :flured ;own king coffee. and as soon the bridge connected With every building facing the south from | ncessantly for ha i ‘ " b bluffs at West St. Paul, and it | Wabash street for blocks east of “Third | Dtchies of slate from the roofs of many was ove the river. This mass |street, had scarcely a whole pane of | othe) @uarters B, AWAY, : te not = carried to the flats belo glass in any window, while many on :\:tslgo;:e aggrega much damage The principal inconvenience systems. carried down poles and wires, disturb- ing connections and putting out lights throughout the buildings. The wind had apparently its fury by were hurt, e storm coming and took street, flying plate mixed with the rain, | batfered everything which stood ‘before | it, and horses and carriages were swept along the streets, which, in" an incred- ibly short space of time, with water. for good ana ful. Before I ow g0 to bed the flats, up- | trees on Harriet Island and th a deafening roar and the hiss and spent a were filled | B | portion -of reached the fort. . ;”]‘d r‘;‘; splash failing steel it struck this vires were torn down and part of | Telephone service between the Twin headaches are | (ity- Here was located at the bridge | the city was In darkness. The high [ Cities was cut off for three hours, while entrance on opposite sides of Wabash | buildings reaching skyward above the street the Tivoli concert hall and Em- | smaller ones on East Third street were pire Theater, both of which were fair- | shaken to their foundations. The fine Iy crowded with mer watching the per- |large plate glass windows were blown telegraph commaunication was cut off entirely, except through the medium of the Associated Press. Ry % B not bother me nd I don’t have g spells, and, I am getting { every 1 there are at | pot va us industries affected can only = weight hars Reg. estimated. It cannot be less t NEW STRING BEANS CEOICE n:cx EGGS | times the loss to the strik cans 25¢ | oz. 25¢ That there are thousands of men atr"\glocg Reg. § Guarantesd. i walking the streets in idleness is ICE CREAM SALT NEW HOLLAND HER- --.. gal B clearly proved by the registrations at ...50-Ib. sack 20 . Xeg 65ci 012 Family Wine. . the various emplovment bureau Reg. 40 i Reg. $1.10. Reg. 40c. ! Association of C | estimated at $60.000. | nado struck the township of Rich Val- | them had not steel girders and he the opposite side were also ~broken. tike it several small farm | Roofs on several buildings were rolled | Cot ot one elhone bad Chesoo anEe - another red them. None of the into bundles and dropped into the od | The great force of the wind | the time it | AD"ERTISI—:\IE\"IS > O oDU SIRIKEY COST S ENORMOUS Chicago Men Now Idle Lose Two and One-Half Mil- lion Dollars in Wages TH FAMILIES ARE IN Women and Children the Chief Sufferers From Fre- quent Industrial Disputes et NEED Groceries Liquors Fresh Meats, Ftsh 57 Fruits, Oysters 3® Vegelables, Buller, Eggs P Cigars, Tobacco : .. EVERYTHING. ‘ Grocery Telephone Fresh Meats Telephone ...Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Specials... Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Au; day there are 3 ing in wages approximates $409, week they remain out. workers, however, are not the only sufferers, for the burden falls equally upon their families—the mothers and children who are dependent upon the wage earners for their sustenance and who number 112,560 souls. According to the latest police reports. present ninety places e b e el GHIRARDELLI'S|FULL - WEIGHT|DUFFY'S MALT against which strikes have been d SR0DND cxoco:| CEEAMERY BUT-| WHISKEY bt G0e clared and which are receiving police 1-1b. can 25¢ TER.....square 50¢ n . prutecnon It takes one-fourth of the e to provide this protection. The drawal of such a large number of cemen from their beats, coupled ('!:xm uom ntl:o: Swift's. VPAICY ‘VGA. CORN | with the presence of a vast army of idle men, has greatly increased the E number of crimes committed daily et |azTNa warzs within the ecity limits. el ¢ 5. 20c. PLITS. ....doz 5% Some of“the strikes have been in doz. 54 Sei= - oaxe 160 botties $3. progress since the first of the year, and some have had a duration of twelve to twenty weel The total loss to strikers in the strikes which are now in force, figuring from the that they st |EiBie’s MaLnT TRACT. ..doz. 31 50 I.OYAX. SAVON BOAP oy 5 mm":n SARD: INE! 4 cans 25¢ MARKET 911 -913 MARKET ST. registration office of the Empl icago has been open a little more than a month, vet in that time nearly 2000 men have registered and applied for positions, and app! cations are coming in at the rate of fifty a day. Of these applicants 11 per cent are union men and 89 per cent are non-union. men. A APPEALS FOR P! Chicago Federation s Help for Stockyard Strikers. CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—At the regular meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor to-day it was decided to ask the general public for zid for-the men IC AID. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENT! on strike in the stockyards. The se ‘ T of the federation was also in- e E: structed to request President Gom- pers of the American Federation of .”\\‘\" TO.—,NIG HT Laber to call for a special meeting the executive council of ALY an the purpose of devisin a z means of sustaining the str THE DELIGHTFLL R The resolution com- menced by a narration of the condi- co“fln 1 04 tions at the yards. It asserts that v‘w ALIFORN‘ASGREAT -CAN wages of the laborers in the pac houses' were elghteen cénts an nur GRICULTURAL? but the employment was so 1 URAL that their total weekly ear QRTICULT not amount to more than Toc then declated ihal <thepackers at- ‘AND LIVE K. tempted to lower the wages of the - T laborers, and the skilled workm be- POSI ION. lieving that this would be follow a reduction in their own sc decided to go out on strik of the unskilled m B e Card and Loose Leaf Systems. $2 buys a Card Index Drawer, 500 rec- ord cards, alphabetical index and 25 gui cards. Twinlock and Moorehouse Lc rose Leaf Ledge and price bos by of pa suppo INITIAL HORSE SHow AT PAVILION. TWO WEEKS OF RUNNING & HARNESS RACING. £XHIBITS CARRIED FREE. EACIRSON RATES To WSTIRS. OPERA HOUSE |GRAN mcud.nx P This Week Only. Matinee Saturday. L%g’?}-éyuer; Bcfigfi!fin A MR- JAMES NEILL e i "‘HAvg\v- CAL. i All of the store: blown blown off. district had windows i all suffered more or less damage In Gillette's ‘War Play. OPERA TIVOLI &g F THE TOREADOR E stock. The mammoth skylight Guaranty Loan building fell stories through the interior court and great damage was done by water to offices. The street car service of t 15¢, 25¢, 50¢ NEXT SUNDAY MATINEE tied up until noon to-day, u d 2” wires being down in all parts of the 3 city as the result of falling trees. The n e’ agb loss is estimated at fully $1,000,000. The storm did great damage at St. Louis Park, a suburb about six miles from Minneapolis. The loss there is A special to the Tribune by courier from Waconia says that place was visited by a tornado last eve which devastated the country for miles about, and from the meager reports Vaudeville’s Very Best! obtainable, four persons were killed and several iniured. Williams and Tucker; Max and Julia R Meinrich; Treloar, Assisted by Edna FOUR LIVES LOST. Tempest; Walter C. Kelly; Emmett Devoy and Company; Three Juggling Barretts; Little and Pritzkow; Guyer and O'Neil, and the Orpheum Motion Pictures, Showing JACK MUNROE At His Training Quarters. GALIFURNIA Last Week of Spectal Tornado Does Awful Damage in a Minnesota Township. GLENCOE, Minn., Aug. 21.—A tor- ley and Bergen on Saturdey night about 8 o'clock, killing four persons— | Mary O’Donnell, aged 13, daughter of 927 Patrick O'Donnell; the T-year-old son 3 of Anthony O'Donnell and Frederick Cross and his mother. Thousands of acres of grain and many barns, sheds and houses were destroyed. s e WHITFLESEY THE PRIDE OF JENNICO MAGN ma . MONLAY R Early steel pens were so costly that e s cwe s Mol TR e Fhep LS makers advertised that they would ciyas Greatest ntal Drama make such repairs as were necessary Th Ma“ nt M ste" i or a stated time, generally six months. e y y LMS ‘When a man damaged his pen he car- The Great Detsctive Play and ried it back to the factory and had it g EENTRAL "‘V“ mended by an experienced mechanic. NEXT SUNDAY EVENING, Aug. 2§ = near Eighth. Phone South \;; ———— New Pictures and Frames. We have a world of new things for the £all trade and newly fitted rooms to show in. Visitors welcome. Sanborn, Vail & C 1 Market s FLORENCE ROBERTS Initial Appearance in TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES B‘AT SALE BEGINS TO-DAY ' » - A A Spy at Port Arthur rilling so-Japanese War ADVLRTISEME\'TS CASTOR IA W For Infants and Children. OF THEM AL The Kind You Have Always Bought cH Entire w&x;der(nl cast and reappe: A THE ._ANHEUSER PUSH s of Carleton and Lee Jo DON'T FA!L TO! SEE Magnificent tric Panorama of the Maseive The rneu beautiful and up-to-date. musical and comedy production MARCUS AND GARTELLE formances. Both buildings stood on the | in and in several buildings skylights edge of the bluff overlooking the river, | were blown out. with sides of the buildings open, and| In the path of the wind stood the were wrecked. The full force of the LOSS IN MINNEAPOLIS. Damage Done By Storm Estimated at um now and noth- husband’s head- we both sleep g else and ever hes have disappe: fd sound and h alth; nd that's a rge freight house of the Omaha “Rail- Milli somas b e~ g by Postum | tornado struck them. The bulldings | road, and the small section at the end, S S MO R “o., Battle Creek | began to sway and rock and the au- |about fifty feet, standing at the ex.| MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 21.—The Look for the btmk “The Road to | dience became panic stricken. Men and | treme east side, was blown away. center of the storm hit the business Wellville,” in each pkg. boys rushed over each other for the| Situated on a level plateau and un- |section at Nicolet and Sixth avenues. exits. The lights went out and the World's Fair exhibit, aheet lightning flashes, one following Ml(ulluf’al building. 103, protected from the fury of the storm, the Government military buildings at Here the front of the Glass block was blown out and a huge skylight was Space Anhe: THE Opening New Fairmont Every Afternoon o And a Splendid Show MAT. SAT. and SUN. Same popula ening in the Theater. NEXT—"MISS MAZUMA." | ——— - Special Matinees on Admission and Labor | TAKE A RIDE ON THE Days, | MrNraTURE SLECTRIC BAMLEOAD. ¢ THE ZOO. Outfits, Guns, Ammuni- | tion, Fishing and Outing Tents and guns to | FRER. |

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