The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for thirty San Francisco the morning and west wind. TEE WEATHER. midnight, October 3: Fair Monday, except foggy in — e st San Fran- hours ending and vicinity— at night; light | | @rana—“York ! | Alcazar—*‘Camille.” California—*“The Tenderfoot.” ‘Dealers in White Chutes—Vandeville. Columbia—*“The Offi Pischer's—"Down the Line.” Lyric veryman. Majestic—"“The Henrietta.” o -Vaudeville. Tivoli—"“The Serenade.” Boy.” State Folks.” PRICE FIVE CENTS. Z I AGED WOM KILLED CABLE —_——— Mrs. Dora Beriram Run Down at a Crossmg. B der anging bells and pass- 1 t orner of Filimore and M er streets Dora ¥ in front 5 years company with the s e age, f 270 Ninth avenue , and the aged fore it in hope sther side the « Grip- ons brought it to a nct before she v slightly i Dellwig was taken tc acy Hospital. where she re- by assurances was only slightly ugh there were four crowded cars at the crossing at the time of the eccident, and though many people were on the corners, stories of the accident are ng. Some maintain that Bertram was not in motion at the time. Simmons, the motorman, says i not see the old woman try to but maintains that his car was stationary when the shouts arose that 1d of the accident. He was ar- night and booked at the n on a charge of manslaugh- the car against which Mrs. fell e, a boy, says the car was when the two old la- cross. Mrs. - Dellwig rs. Bertram by the arm, he n the latter staggered and her head striking forcibly against This story is corroborated by Mrs. Dellwig was a resident of the German Old Ladies’ Home at Fruitvale. She was over 65 years of age and feeble in health. She had been visiting Mrs. Dellwig and the two started out to visit “r"",h;r old lady whom they had known as girls The force with which the old lady's head struck the car crushed it. Dr. Abrams, into whose drug store the old woman was taken, says that she was instantly killed. —_——— BODY OF WELL DRESSED WOMAN FOUND IN RIVER Pittsburg Police Facr What Appears to Be a Mysterious Mur- der Case. PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 2.—The lo- cal police are wrestling with what ap- 2 pears to a mysterious murder case. The bo. 7 of a young woman, dressed richly, was found in the Allegheny River to-day a sho:t distance bevond the Union bridge. The body, which had evidently been in the water but a few hours, bore wounds on the fore- head and several small cuts. The dead wzmn.n apparently was about 25 years old. wded with peo- | When front a bell sig- | old ladies | quickly carried | >. J. Abrams at nd McAllister > 2 ' § S | | * |11 | 3 S + 1 TWO MEN WHO WERE KILLED IN STREET CAR ACCIDENT AT CLEMENT STR! T AND EIGHTH AVENUE YESTERDAY, THREE OF THE INJURED ) AND MOTORMAN, IN CHARGE OF THE CAR. +- 3 3— Y 2 | LIST OF DEAD | FREDERICK FENDSE | SERG 301 ‘ DEAD NT HARRY CURRAN, Fort Mason, fractured skull. INJURED. Albert Muelier, 1426 Devisadero street, internal iniuries. | Lester Mueller, 1426 Devisadero street, injury to spine. | Isaac Stamper, 1202 Buchanan street, fractured collar bone. Mrs. L. Stamper, 1202 Buchannan street, fracture of left arm. Arthur Willis, 781 Sutter street, lacerations of face. | Mrs. A. Willis, 781 Sutter street, lacerations of scalp. J. Comber, 13301 Lombard street, lacerations of scalp. Fred Rolander, Presidio, serious internal injuries. = | M. S. Sprague, 123 California George Jacobs, 11 Allen street, shock and bruises, George’ Stevens, 2 Hall court, lacerations of scalp. il | Arthur Maunder, 1233 Lombard street, concussion Z. Stage, 608 Seventh street. internally injured. AND INJURED. | Fourth street, fractured skull. street, slight internal injuries. of brain. heavily laden with passengers, struck a curve at the corner of Eighth avenue | and Clement street while running at a | high rate of speed yesterday afternoon. | Frederick Fendsen, a bartender, was | almost instantly killed; Sergeant Harry | Curran, a soldier stationed at Fort | Mason, was so badly hurt that he died | in a few hours, and a score more pas- | sengers were injured by being hurled | to the pavement and against another car coming from an opposite direction on an adjacent track. Several who | were injured are in a precarious con- | dition and have been removed to hos- pitals. The motorman, L. G. Reed, offers as | an excuse for the accident failure of | the brakes to work. Stories told by many who were aboard the vehicle or on the street near by are to the effect that the carman applied his brakes too late. They also say that the quick- time policy, which ,is especially in.! vogue on this branch of the United | Railroads, is accountable for the affair. Several accidents of a similar nature have recently occurred in this section of the city. Motormen on cars that run to the park and cliff say that their time schedules are constantly being short- ened, and surprise, is expressed that more fatalities are not the result. Of- ficials of the company are reticent as to details, and their agents were quick- ly on the scene cautioning emp%oyen not to talk. An investigation will be made to-day and the responsibility fixed. SWINGS AROUND CURVE. ‘When the car left the park terminus, shortly before 5 o'clock, it was loaded to its utmost capacity. Passengers stood on the steps and it was almost impossible for any more to get aboard. All went well until the vehicle reached ‘Unusual Speéd Around Curve Causes Serious Accident, Car No. 1017 of the Eddy street line, | 3+ Clement street, on Eighth avenue. The speed was exceedingly high and the passengers were unaware of the dan- ger that awaited them until the car suddenly swung around the curve. keel- ing over to one side for a moment and scraping arother car that was running slowly from the opposite direction. The scene instantly became one of wild commotion. The momentum of the car caused people to be thrown about in every direction, and nearly every one on the left side of the car was hurled into the street. The southbound car was traveling very slowly, and was about at the side of the other when most of the people were thrown off. In the little space between the two cars the victims struggled, some being caught by the steps and crushed in a terrible manner. Cries and groans could be heard for blocks, and there was much work for rescuers when the car was stopped. Not only were the in- jured upon the street, but inside the car limbs were broken, and flesh was bruiged and torn. WOUNDED CARED FOR. The wounded, some of them uncon- scious and bleeding, were carried into neighboring stores, and several physi- cians who reside in the neighborhood came to render aid. Fendsen died soon after he was picked up. His skull was fractured and he never regained con- sciousness. Sergeant Harry Curran also suffered from a fracture of the. skull and internal injuries. Despite the care of physicians he died four hours afterward at the French Hospital. As soon as thé news of the accident reached the Park Police Station Cap- tain Henry Gleason ordered two pa- trol wagons and an ambulance to the scene and sent all availablc policemen cmmdnhn!.ccll—. 2. AND MANY INJURED BY BEING HURLED FROM CAR IRESUNINS RS ETS INTO ROOM WITH A MAD DOG Man Makes Study of Hydrophobia at Clowflge. Special Dispatch to The Call. BINGHAMTON, N. Y, Oct. 2. — Frank Rowe shut himself in a room with a mad dog to-day to study hydro- phobia with no weapon but a poker. | About fifteen years ago Rowe was bit- ten'by’a mad dog. He has had trouble from the wound ever since. There have been several cases of rabies in the vi- cinity of Rowe’s home. This afternoon his dog suddenly began to act strange- ly, frothing at the mouth and acting like a mad creature. Rowe got the dog into his kitchen, shut his wife out of the room and, with a poker, sat down in the corner, so that the dog could at- tack him only in front. Then he watched developments. After frothing at running around, the dog was seized with convulsions. Coming out of this fit, he lay quiet for a few minutes and then attacked his master. Rowe beat it off with the poker. For half an hour the dog attacked Rowe and writhed in convulsions by turn. Then Rowe es- caped from the room and shot the dog WIFE ENDURES AGONY the mouth and FARMER'S Mrs. Homer Hughes of Santa Maria ®ours Oil on Fire and Is Fatally Burned SANTA MARIA, Oct. 2.—The wife of Homer Hughes, a farmer, living about two miles south of this town, received fatal burns this afternoon in a fire which afterward burned down the house. Escaping from the flames, the fire-scorched woman, with her two children, started in search of help. After dragging along the hot, dusty road for a quarter of a mile Mrs. Hughes collapsed. Lying down at the roadside she directed the two little ones to cover her with sagnd to keep the air from her s g wounds, and then sent them on assistance. The woman was taken to a friend's house, where an examination revea'ed that exceflth?r_'mfl,flp;otlm ed by her belt the entire s E tect: face of the FLBEET: HOFLLER. e MINISTER BARRETT I CRITICLZED Complaint Is Made by Representative 0of Panama. —_— Special Dispatch to Tha Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—“The United States is great and powerful and Pan- ama is a young and much weaker re- public, but does this mean that the ‘Washington administration shall be judge, jury and the whole' court?” This was the comment made to-day by Senor J. Obaldia, Panama Minister to the United States, in discussing the statement that a movement had been started to'protest to Tne Hague Trib- unal against the alleged oppressions by the American Government on the isth- mus. Further than this Minister Obaldia would only say that he had filed with the State Department an exposition of alleged violations of the treaty by the TUnited States in taking ur authority in the canal zone. Chief a nong these alieged violations is the es:iablishment of a port of entry at the city of Pana- ma, where the United States, by order of General Davis, Governor of the ca- nal zone, is calling duty on goods from other countries. Said Minister Obal- dia: “I have, on behalf of the President of Panama, filed with the State De- partment our complaint and request that the orders of General Travis be stopped, pending a settlement. After waiting twenty days I received a note saying that John Barrett, the United States Minister at Panama, is the man to deal with. We have never been able tb get any satisfaction out of our deal- ings with Barrett.” —_———— PDOWIE SAYS THERE ARE SOME THINGS HE DOES NOT KNOW Self Exalted Apostle of Zion City Makes An Unusual Display of Modesty. WAUKEGAN, IlI, Oct. 2.—Apostle John Alexander Dowie gave an un- usual exhibition of modesty to-day in his address at Zion City. He said: “There is no such thing as equality among the divine. Even the Trinity are not equal. Therefore there ean be no comparison between myself and the rest of the divines. There are some things I do not know, even Christ does not know everything.” T R ERRRT § is_suffering intense agony and there is_no chance for her recovery. ‘The fire started about 3. o’clock, when rs. Hughes essayed to hurry up her ‘kitchen fire by adding liquid fuel from a:five-gallon can of coal oil. The chii- dren were playing outside and were be- yond reach of danger when the kero- sene expl The house was left to its fate and the flames made short work of it. CONEINED NHAYTIAN DUNGEON BOLD MOTE IS PLANED BY RIS Bankers Apply’ to|Baltic Fleet Will Be America for Relief. Claim to Be the Victims of Political Schemes and Fear Death. Wers Authorized to Bond the Govern- ment and Now Are Charged With Great Frauds. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Merchants of this city having dealings with the Hay- tian Government have received a writ- ten appeal for ielp from three white men who have been confined for nearly a year in a dungeon in Port Au Prince. They charge that they are victims of political schemes and probably will be put to death soon unless through pub- licity the United States is moved to take action in their behalf. They are J. de la Myre Mory, Jean Baptiste de Puybaudet and G. Ohlrich R. Tippen- hauer, the first two Frenchmen and the third a German. Under the preceding administration of the island they had been directors of the National Bank of Hayti, and as such had been authorized by the Minis- ter of Finance to bond the Government debt, for which they were to have re- ceived a “gratification” or commission. Dispatched (0 Far Bast. Decision to Double the Size of Mancpurian Army Has an Eifect. Ships of War Will Be Sent Even i the Port Arthur Squadron Is Annihilated. JLTRER T TR CHEFTU, Oct. 2.—A ninety-ton junk from Newchwang to Shanghai ran on a mine twenty-five miles north of here last night. No one was injured. She reached here with all available hands working the pumps. TOKIO, Oct. 8 p. m.~—It is - mored that a Japanese gunboat struck a mine and sunk south of the Liaotung peninsula. A portion of her crew reached an island and were rescued. The name of the gunboat is unknown. The Navy Department does not deny the report, but says that the | department lacks confirmatory in- formation. AL OKU'S HEADQUAR- TERS IN THE FIELD, Oct. 2.—The first Jananese train arrived at Liao- yang this afternoon, The guage of the railway has been changed from Dalny to Newchwang. A regular schedule of trains will be established Before the transaction had been com- pleted the present Government, headed by President Alexis Nord, came into power, and it is declared that he had the three bankers arrested last No- vember on a charge of having issued $300,000 more- of bonds than was stipu- lated ir the budget in order to increase the amount of their “gratification.” BULLETS FAIL 70 KILL BN Towa Man Shot in the Head Six Times Walks About the Streets the Next Day S Y Special Dispatch to The Call. OSKALOOSA, Towa, Oct. 2.—L. A. Swearingen, a prominent citizen and pioneer business man of this city, nar- rowly escaped assassination in his home early this morning. As he entered the kitchen at the rear of his house an un- known assailant fired six shots point blank at him at close range. One bullet struck Swearingen between the eyes, tearing its course along over the eyebrow. Three other balls struck him on the head, one nipped the bridg: of his nese, while another made a glancing wound on the side of his head. Swearingen dodged back from the door and ran into the street, shouting for help, and the assassin escaped into the darkness. The victim of the assault was taken to a physician , and his wounds dressed. He was walking about the streets to-day. — b IRMED MARINES CUARD WARSHIP Attempts to Destroy Battle- ship Connecticut Cause of Worry to Officers of Navy S A Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Officers at the New York Navy Yard were will- ing to admit for the first time to-day that the plot to ruin the battleship Connecticut really amounted to more than a scare. At first when the re- port of the obstruction of the ways was made public, they were inclined to belittle the rumor and attribute the obstruction to accident, but with revelations of yesterday they declared that it was a very serious matter. There is little danger that any further attempt will be made from the outside to injure the Connecticut. To-day two marines with loaded rifles were strolling on land side of the boat, while on the ship itself were guards with instructions to shoot if necessary. Electric lights at night are on the outside and interior of the boat and there is no relaxation of vigi- lance. It would be impossible for an attack to be made on the water side of the boat. Beside the guards on the boat itself, the deck watch on the Texas, Kear- sarge and the receiving ship Harcock have a full view of the approach by water. In addition to these precau- tions a launch will be kept under steam at all hours. Every officer in the construction de- partment and in fact every officer at the yard is in a state of high nervous tension over attempts to injure or destroy the Connecticut. in a few days. Engines and cars have been brought from Japan. The com- pletion of the railway removes entirely the problem of the transportation of supplies and ammunition to the Jap- anese {orces in the TOKIO, Oct. 3—~The Navy Depart- ment reports the destruction of an- other Russian steamer used in clear- ing mines at the entrance of Port Ar- thur harbor. The steamer struck a mine September 20 and sank. Navy officials express the opinion that the Russians are suffering from a shortage of small steamers, useful in clearing mines. The reported loss of a Japanese gunboat south of Liaotung peninsula by striking a mine has not been offi- clally verified. St. PETERSBURG, Oct. 3, 2 a. m.— Announcement is made that Emperor Nicholas will visit Reval on Tuesday to bid farewell to the Baltic squadron. After months of preparation and sev- eral false starts it is believed that the st on the eve of its long journey. A di- | squadron is at 1 departure upon it vision in the Admiralty has existed throughout the period of preparation regarding the advisability of sending out the squadron, but with the decision to double the size of the Manchurian army and press the war with vigor the logic of those who for months have in- sisted that every available ship should | be dispatched to the Far East has final- ly prev d. The argument that no complete victory over the Japanese is possible unless the command of the sea is wrested from them could not be overcome, and though much valuabie time has been lost and the moment seems inauspicious, it is officially inti- mated that an irrevocable decision has been taken to dispatch the Baltic fleet, even if the Port Arthur squadron should be annihilated before its arrival there. It is realized that the squadron, which on paper is about equal in fighting strength to that of the Japanese fleet, will be much better able to encounter them now than in the spring, after the Japanese ships have had all winter to clean, repair and refit. HOPES FOR PORT ARTHUR. ‘While hopes are still entertained that Port Arthur may be able to hold out until the appearance of the Baltic fleet, the question of the fall of that strong- hold does not apparently enter greatly into the calculations of the Admiralty. The only thing expected of the Port Arthur squadron is to break out of the harbor and inflict as much damage as possible upon Admiral Togo's fleet Such ships as escape are expected te make their way to Viadivostok, where the repairs on the cruiser Bogatyr are understood to have been practically completed and those on the Rossia and Gromoboi are nearing completion. The question of the war in the Far | East will depend upon the issue of 2 sea fight after the arrival of the Baltic ! fleet. Vladivostok, although ice-bound 'in winter for commercial ships, can easily be kept open for a fleet of war vessels by means of ice-breakers. If {the Japanese fleet is caught in some- what weakened condition and the Bal- tic ships are able to win a victory of- ficials here hold that other problems will solve themselves, and with Japa- nese communication severed the Japa- ! nese army on the mainland will be at the mercy of Russia. This boidly announced programme geems to stake the whole issue upon sea fighting. The Japam ships, it mst be remembered, have been in ac- tive service seven months. No matter how greatly the efficiency of the guns and the speed of the vessels have beer impaired the crews of Admiral Togo's ships have enjoyed the prestige of con- tinuous victories, while oppoged te them will be a fleet of brand new ships, more or less untried and nome of which have fired a shot in actual warfare, and whose crews have never yet been under fire. Important conditions are attached te Continued on Page 2, Column §.