The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for thirty San Prancisco Fair Saturday; THE WEATHEER. midnight, September 10: westerly winds, with fog. A G District Forecaster. et San Fran- | hours ending and vicinity— cooler; brisk MCADIE, Grand—Chin. King.” Orpheum—Vi & Chutes—Vaudeville. Columbia—"“Raffies. Pischer's—“Anheuser Push.” ese the Palace of the 'audeville. Tivoll—“The Toreador.” Matinees at All Theaters To-Day. " Plays. SAN FR%NCISCO, S.—\TURDl\Y, SEPTEMBER 10, 1904 PRICE FIVE CENTS. GOVERNOR'S CAMP SAVED, BUT FIRE. STILL RAGES; s FLAMES SNOWSHEDS ARE DESTROYED BY FIERCE Derailed Cars [nto by Loco- motive. Train Wreckers Credited | With Causing Awiul Disaster, Coaches on the Seaboard Air Line Rosd in South Carolina Leave the Track Near Trestle, ed and thirty-five when a train Railroad, r, mail car, d a sleeping car, > just south of uti: Carolina omotive and ¥ BARKESDALE tive OBERTS of pas- ) WOMAN. live in the t were not South seri- e president and road, said to- idence of a ma- k the train, a n found the tres- e embankment. e which had r train a nt where into the 1 top of the e - VICTIM WITH HANDFUL OF BLINDS Th f steals Pea ent From W ind Diamond Cres- man During Mardi at Butte. While the at its height blinding a 1 was 1 down over her ired mhan stand- d her and as r veil and confetti in Before she could the robber had 4 disappared. WIPES GRANT'S BELL'S orT COMMAND GENERAL ARMY Second Maneuver Problem at Gaines- ville Again Results in Victory for Attacking Force. CORPSHEADQUA 1S, GAINES- ViILL Va The second ceased at 9 o'clock Bell, command- Run to the attack e two regiments and t the first victor and Bell far as results can be t bullets. ————— OREGON WOMAN TRIES TO SLAY INCONSTANT SPOUSE Aims Wildly and Misses, Then Makes Unsuccessful Attempt at Suicide by Leapi From Window. Mont Sept. 9.—Mrs. se home is in Baker shots at her hus- 1 this city to-day, flect. She then at- from the window to sband is employed use in the city and officert, who hur- €. he charged him with ning an actress as the u anguish. She was per- ed t e for her home in Baker i i ATTEMPT TO TAKE PRISONER FROM GOVERNMENT OFFICER Nar vhe Helena Chincse. Armed With Revoly- ers, Try to Save Felolw Coun- tryman From Deportation. HELENA, Mont., Sept. 9.—Wah Kim and Wong Tone, Helena Chinese, with revolvers, made a sensa- tempt to rescue a feliow coun- awaiting deportation apd in of Moy Don Ching, Chinese in- terpreter armed 1 of the United States court. The offici taken his prisoner to a restaur for a meal when the two Chinese cked him. Ching un- armed is fists were equal the occasion. Wah Kim and Wong Tone gsju;l-me hospital and the prisoner is - ! Run| Va, Sept. 9.—Four | CONFETTI flying | her | Il 4 TTNHEY o EntireDestruction | of Big Basin Is Averted. BOULDER CREEK, Sept. 9.—High up on the ridge intervening between the Sempervirens and the Governor's camp a fierce battle has raged during the last five hours between the back fires started by the park's - guardian, H. Pilkington, and the flames that de-; stroyed the famous group of big trees and threaten to make a dreary waste of Big n Park. After destroying Sempervirens camp | the flames swept forward to the top of the protecting ridge where Warden Pilkington had mustered. his forces, | which were augmented by relief crews | from the mills of I T. Bloom and, Mc- Abee & Ryder. The milimen having made a successful fight against the | flames, were hurriedly sent forward to | the assistance of Pilkington and his | handful of brave men, who, though thoroughly exhausted, were making a | supreme effort to save the famous Gov- | | | ernor’'s ¢amp. Back firing was re- sorted to and trails one hundred feet wide were made. These were con- stantly patrolled by men armed with | wet sacks and shovels, | The meeting of the two bodies of flame was an awe inspiring sight. They | came together with a roar that could { be heard for miles. The crackling of underbrush and small growth sounded like an army in action. Success crowned the efforts of the fire fighters. Governor's camp was saved, the outskirts of -the camp only being burned. The scene of desolation-on the bor- der from Sempervirens Park to | Bloom’s Mill is indescribable. Where was once a vast forest great black| stumps are all that remain of the giant trees that were once the pride of Cali- fornia Here and there are fallen | tres, partiaily burned, mute evidence jof the power of the flames. Warden | Pilkington ' was found on Berry | Creek, four miles’ from the Governor's camp, wherc he was engaged in fight- | ing another fire that menaces the park | | from that direction. Wednesddy night | when the fire first appeared in the park | confines he had then been fighting it for thirty-six hours and was exhausted. | Though he was offering $1 an hour, { men could not be obtained. His own | crew was tired, it requiring almost su- perhuman efforts to put up the winning fight the men made. If the same weath- er conditions prevail Saturday—cool and foggy—Pilkington feels that the re- mainder of the park will be saved. Men will be urgently needed for a week yet. The present fire, it is now thought, will e driven out on the Chalk ridges and there die out. Much damage has been done near | town. Thursday night a sudden shift of the wind rained a shower of sparks upon the many small ranches along the Boulder Creek road and the homes of H. Prince, H. W. West, J. Bellamy, i W. A. Day, Mrs. Dawson, F. M. Frank- [Iln and Charles Cousins were totally destroyed. The fire is now within two and & half miles of town ahd threatens the water supply. A force of section men is guarding the flume and pipe line and in trailing the Jameson Creek and Ben Lomond sections. Joseph Trays and the Cotrell party were reached to-day and released from .!{E‘l:n‘ ‘:mpflnment on the top of ar . where they had sought refuge from the flames. Inside an old stump' | Women Walk for Miles Through Hot Ashes. <+ on the top of the Bloom grade a daugh- ter' of I. Luttrell was found. She had sought shelter-there the day before and was thought to have perished. Fillen trees had crashed over her, but she escaped unscathed. All sections of 5 the fire are now | thought torbe under control and no fur- ther danger is apprehended. — . FLEE BEFORE THE FLAMES. Women Narrowly Escape Death in Big Basin Park. SAN JOSE, Sept. .—Nina Davenport and Enid and Ettie McKinney of this city, who were guests in the Big Basin Park when the destructive fire now raging there started, returned to their homes ‘yesterday afternoon. They had a thrilling experience in escaping from the park, as they did not leave until their camping place was almost sur- rounded by fire. With Mrs. Hill and Miss Gertrude Shelton .of Petaluma, the young ladies had been spending their vacation at Governors Camp since August 15. At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning the party of ladies received the first warning of their danger. At that time they were aroused by people residing at Union Mill Tavern, who had come over to tell | the Warden that the forest all around the basin was in flames. The fire burned very swiftly and by 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon was rapidly. ap- preaching the camp, despite the efforts of the fifty men who were fighting it. Thursday morning at 7 o'clock Warden Pilkington returned and told the ladies to pack up what things they absolutely needed and be prepared to leave, as every moment lessened their chance of escape. At noon yesterday a party of eight lumbermen from Bloom's mill came into Governors Camp and said that all avenues of escape had been cut off with the exception of the trail by the ! mill and the Pescadero trail. The Misses Kinney, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Hill, Miss Shelton and Mrs. Pilkington at onee started with their escort of eight men. From Governors Camp the distance is one and three quarter miles to the mill and this distance the women walked through the ashes and sparks and almost suffocating smoke. A rest was had at Bloom’s mill and then the ladies walked nine miles to Boulder Creek, from which place they came to San Jose by train. ‘The Misses Kinney and Miss Daven- port believe that they escaped from the burning forests of the basin none too soon. % N SR R R | — NN e, THAT, Great Damage Is SACRAMENTO, Sept. 9.—The great-l est snow shed fire in fourteen years hes raged all day in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the vicinity of *Blue Canyon. Fully 2500 feet of snow sheds was destroyed. The pine forests in the locality are being swept by flames visi- ble to-night from Truckee, many miles from the scene. ‘The fire in the sheds is under control. The fire is the most | destructive suffered by the Southern PacificyCompany - since the blaze that | spread up the hill as fgg as Cisco. All travel has ceased and will not be re- sumed before to-morrow. The tele- graph wires are down and communica- tion is carried on by telephone. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is stalled on train No. 2 at Towle, near the scene of the fire. The excitement of the hWour did not prevent the resi- dents of the locality from finding him out and to-night, under a sky reflect- ing the flerce forest fire, the Secretary delivered a rousing Republican speech. Two train loads of Boston Knights who left San Francisco to-day are the unexpected guests of Sacramento to- might and they are congratulating themselves that they are not in the mountains with their fellow Knights experiencing. the very hottest of all the hot times California has offered them. The fire was first reported at 11:16 o'clock this morning by the fifth sec- tion of Train No. 6, running into Ful- da - The great alarm bells were sounded in the sheds and track men were gathered from all directions. Fire trains wete sent at furious speed from . WOMEN WHO WERE DRIVEN FROM BIG A‘BAS[N PARK BY THE FLAMES -DESTROYED THE GIANT REDWOQDS, -AND - SKE' HEROIC FIRE-FIGHTERS TRYING TO.STAY PROGRESS OF Property Near the Summit. — TCH . SHOWING : FIRE. Done to Railroad Summit, | Cifco and. Blue. Canyon and they were later reinforced by fire trains frém Truckee and Colfax. A special train, bearing Division Superintendent R. J. Laws and Resident Engineer F. C. Miller, * left Sacramento at 3:25 oiclock p. m. and reached the scene to-night. At a late hour to-night it was re- ported that the fire in the sheds was not spreading, although the forests were still ablaze. v The, fire broke out at two points in the sheds, one east and one west of Blue Oanyon. The stretch of road swent -by the fire is about five mllea| long: There .is more or less space be- tween. each of the snow sheds, repre- senting ground not subject to the snow drifts of winter. S0 far as known the following entire sheds have been destroyed: No. 4, 603 feet long, west of Blue Canyon; shed No. 10, 400 feet long; shed No. 11, 296 feet lo§‘; shed No. 12, 314 feet long and shed No. 13, 256 feet long. Approxi- mately 2500 feet of sheds have been burned and it will cost $25,000 or more to repair them. A strong wind is making the forest fire difficult to handle. Men will re- main at work all night laying 2000 feet of new track to replace that twisted out of shape by the intense heat of the blazing sheds. It was announced by the officials of the Southern Pacific Company last evening that all trains would be mov- ing this ‘morning, but it is not yet emnln&whethu'thr will be able to get-over the line without delay, for the work of clearing away the debris ZRNTLS VBN " - e Dreary Wastes in Many Parts of the State. is.no easy task. Four fire trains were engaged all yesterday in fighting the fire and as soon as the railroad of- ficials realized that a blockade would reSult they sent around to-all the ho- tels a notification that all evening trains by way of Reno, except the Reno local, had been abandoned. It was stated, however, that trains by way of Ogden would leave here on time this morning and that the de- layed trains would leave Oakland pier immediately after the arrival of the 9 a. m. boat from this city. St FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY. Alameda County Visited by Damaging Conflagration. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, - 1016 Broadway, Sept 9. A camper’s fire, started to cook a noonday lunch, is said to have been re- sponsible for one of/the worst fires that has . ever visited Alameda County. After burning fiercely for twenty-four hours it finally burned itself out in the hills: of Contra Costa County. The damage, it is believed, will run up to between $75,000 and $100,000. Thousands of acres of pasturage have been de- stroyed. Cattle have been left without anything to eat, fences have been burned away and in the stampede oc- casioned the cattle of many ranches are roaming at will over the country. ‘Although more than 100 people were engaged in fighting the flames little could .be done toward stopping their adyance. The fire started on the M: ranch on' the Redwood road, according to C. Allen Dealy, a real estate agent sof Fruitvale, who happenéd to pass the place shortly after the flames began to spread., Magee’s barn was burned and the flames then spread to the southward. By dint of hard work the buildings of Mills. College were saved, but the flames, stayed in one’direction, started to eat their way up over the grass-covered hills. ' The Simpson and | Huston ranches and a large amount of land owned by the Realty Syndicate were burned: over.. The hotel at Leona Heights twice caught fire, but each time the flames were put out. Mrs. G. Lux bhad a narrow escape from being burned alive. She was out helping fight 'the flames near the home of Captain Meyer at Leona Heights, when her clothing took fire. She ran screaming into the house and set the building on fire. Harold Havens, son ; of Frank C. Havens of the Reality Syndicate, and Phil Wadsworth caught the woman and threw her into a wa- tering trough, thus saving her life. The fire in the house was also put out. The cottage of A. Luck, superintend- ent of the E. B. and A. L. stone quarry at Laundry Farm, was burned. The band stand at Leona Heights picnic grounds was destroyed, as were also the trees and shrubbery. i The fire then continued on toward Grass Valley, and finally reached bare ground, where there was nothing more to burn, and died out, leaving a black- ened and scorched country in its wake. e i FIRES IN THE SOUTH. Much Property Is Destroyed Near San Diego. ' SAN ' DIEGO, ’ Sept. - 9.—Mountain TAPANESE PRINCE 1S 70 BE HERE Lieatenant General Fushimi [ Coming. Will Act as the Special Representative of the Mikado. Leaves Island Kingdom in October on Liner Manchuria and Will Spend a Month in America. TOKIO, Sept. 9, 10 a. m.~~Lieutenant- General Prince Fushimi will sail for America on the steamship Manchuria in October. Prince Fushimi will visit the St. Louis Fair and Washington, D. C., as the specal representative of the Emperor of Japan. Prince Fushimi commanded the first division at the battle of Nanshan h He has re- turned to Tokio to ke the trip to America at the request of the Em- peror. He will remain in America a month and he will be accompanied by a numerous suite. It is probable that Lieutenant-Gen- eral Hosegawa, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards division, will be promoted to a generalship and ap- pointed military governor of that por- tion of Manchuria occupied by the Japanese. General Sir Willlam Nicholson, one of the British military attaches, who is ill, has left Fleld Marshal Oyama’'s headguarters and returned to Japan to recuperate. fires that have come down as far as Alpine have been doing much damage in that viecinity. Yesterday a strong east wind drove the fires flercely and only the prompt response to the call for help saved the dwellings of C. B. Fisher, J. R. Campbell, Mrs. Martha Horton and John M. Collins. Mrs. Horton's residence was in great dan- ger. The windmill tower and several outbuildings were destroyed. Several untenanted houses back from the road were destroyed and the county bridge on the Foss road near the Alpine Hotel was burned. It is reported that the fire was started on the Cuyamaca Mountains by deer hunters. WD TLET BOLINAS FIRE RAGING. Three Men Said to Have Perished ‘While Fighting Flames. SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 9.—The forest fire on the Bolinas Ridge is still raging and hopes of checking the conflagration seem dubious. The fire has now been burning fifty-four hours and has de- stroyed over 8000 acres of brush and fine timber. The flames are now mak- ing their way toward the Carson Guich and Camp Taylor. Efforts to back- fire are fruitless, as the flames leap many feet and the hot cinders fly across the clearings and start fresh fires. It is now feared that the flames will reach the tracks of the North Shore Railroad and destroy the bridges. The North Shore has sent a gang of men toward Camp Taylor to patrol the track and bridges. The report that the Summit House on Bolinas Ridge had been burned proved true, as the old landmark was devoured by the flames early last even- ing. The old Summit House will be missed by the hunters, as it was their favorite retreat. ‘Word was received here to-night that three men from Bolinas perished in the flames while fighting the fire, but as all communication with Bolinas is cut off the report cannot be confirmed. A - ettt STUDENTS TO THE RESCUE. Party Leaves Stanford University to Join Fire Fighters. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 9. Dr. Willlam R. Dudley, head of the systematic botany department here and secretary of the Big Basin Park Commission, started late this after- noon with a party of twelve Stanford students into the fire-swept district of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The party is made up of volunteers and was or- ganized by Professor Dudley for the express purpose of carrying pro- visions and aid to Warden H. Pilking- ton. The men left the campus at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon in a large bus. They will go as far as Iverson’s cabin in Pescadero Canyon to-night and start from there for the Big Basin early in the morning. If they sue- ceed in reaching the fire-surrounded party to-morrow they will join forces with the men there and attempot to check the flames in that quarter. N e MILLS COLLEGE SAFE. Men at School Effectively Fight the Flames. OAKLAND, Sept. 9.—Mills College was in no danger from the forest fires of Thursday. The fire started on Leona Heighls from the careless b of brush fires. The men from Mills College turned out in force and helped to save the buildings at Leona Heights and also the property of Mrs. General Hewston, two miles away. Had it not been for their help much property would have been lost. But the buildings of Mills College were in no immediate danger.