The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1905, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours, ending midnight, May f1: Sen Francisco and vicinity—Fair ght porth winds. A. G. MoADIE, District Forecaster. Thursday p e “THAN * ¥ L ED IN SAN THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"The Stubbornness of CHUTES—Vaudeville, COLUMBIA—"Romeo and Juliet."” GRAND—"Joan of Are.” MECHANICS' PAVILION—Dog Show. +« ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matines. TIVOLI—Comic Opera. % S AR eI FRANCISCO SERERLAP R Matinee. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. | Casualties i f Cyclone, B5OO IPPALLING DSKSTER 10 EASTERN EXPRESS ON THE PENSYLVANI Three Terrific Explosions Make Wreckage of Two “Trains. 1 L At Least Fifty Persons Killed and One Hun- dred Injured. ished Coaches and Cremate Victims. Special Dispatch to The Call HARRISRURG, Pa., May 11.—An express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ran into a freight re were two cars loaded with dyna- | 2 which ar the plant of the Paxtang Light, Heat and fic explosions that broke windows It was estimated v persons were killed and one| wh these figures may prove too i | le to ascertain the exact number of | e the wreckage in which many of | the s ve some members of the train crews | ar ! ablaze and unapproachable and n losions occur continually. ) : o i . Bodies Hurled Into the River. n first expl n occurred bodies were thrown e ¢ berths in the sleeping cars, landing ¢ a bankment and some even having been . he quehanna River, which parallels the rail- r . T ns of the city procurable were summoned Le jured sounded, ically and the firemen arrived to find helpless in the work of rescue. A 1 was commissioned as an ambulance, red as possible were loaded into it to the Harrisburg Hespital, the ca- »on became taxed because of the large num- brought in. A special traln was made ‘up injured and dying to the Union station. red were taken into private houses. nght of the inj om the scenes of horror to safety from the inces- 1 explosione. The agonizing cries of the unfortunates were heartrend- g The office of the Paxtang Light, Heat and Power Com- peny looked like a hospital. At an early hour the Harris- burg Traction Company ran out a number of cars from its Bouth Harrisburg barns and used them to bring the injured to the hospital. & Hotels Are Turned Into Hospitals. With practically no clothing, many women and children from the train were compelled to wander about the fields, es there are fewjhouses in the immediate vicinity of the wreck. The train was the second section of No. 19. There were 169 passenge in the train, and the latest estimate is that fifty were ki The hospital is crowded to the dodrs and the hotels ar eing opened for the care of the injured. It may be necessary for the authorities to seize one of the hotels and turn it into a temporary hospital. The following are among the injured: Harry Spritzer, rg, critical; George Crabbe, Pittsburg, badly cut and Charles de Forest, Cleveland, Ohio, seriously hurt 7, cut and bruised; H. L. Harmon, Pittsburg, arm ken, cut and bruised; Charles Johnson, Philadelphia, bad- cut and burned; Robert G. Daugherty, Philadelphia, and little son, seriously injured; E. B. Otstot, Chicago, cut and bruised; A. R. Dupost, Elizabeth N. J.; F. L. Vandemann, New York, cut and bruised; J. R. Phillips, Pittsburg, will die; Charles Donnelly, Pittsburg, cu Eberly, New York, internally injured, may die; Blotheimer, New York, internally hurt, will dle; A. G. Cope, Pittsburg, cut and bruised; H. 8. Watson, Clearfield, cut on hands; W. H. Valentine, Pittsburg, head cut; Charles Johansen, Pittsburg, cut and scalded. The engineer of the passenger train, H. K. Thomas of Philadelphia, was killed outright. The fireman, R. R. Dickey of Philadelphia, was only slightly injured. A. L. Crosby, the eonductor, was injured. Train No. 19, which was wrecked, was westbound and is known as the Cleveland and Cincinnati express. It left Phil- Bdelphia at 11:50 o'clock Wednesday night and was due at ity followed and the two trains were | tely after the wreck the passengers who could do | HUNDREDS ] - A GYCLONE. Entire Population of ' Snyder Destroyed. ijALL BUILDINGS WRECKED gArmy of Doctors and ' Nurses Asked For. | | 1 | TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN ames Start in DemOI-ETrue Extent of Horror! Not Ygtulfgrned. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., May 11.—The tel- ephone operator at Hobart, thirty-two miles north of Snyder, states that it is believed in Hobart that 500 persons have been killed and injured by the tothado at Snyder. Every one who can render assistance i the capacity of physician, nurse or other necessary at 1:10 o'clock this morning in South Harris- | work has gone on the special train which left Hobart | shortly before 2 o'clock. Nurses and physicians have [ been called for at all towns possible to be reached in | that section. Snyder was a town of 1200 people, located forty i miles west of the town of Lawton. Telephone reports from Hobart indicate that the entire town of Snyder was destroyed. The wires are down between Snyder and neighboring towns. Storm Breaks Over Town at Night. OKLAHOMA CITY, May 10.—The Frisco Railroad is sending a relief train from Chickasha to Snyder. Late reports from Hobart, Okla., and Chickasha, I. T, place the number of dead and injured in the tornado at fully 500. The storm broke over the town at 11 o'clock at night, completely demolishing it. as nearly as reports can be ob- tained. The first news of the disaster was received at Ho- bart, Okla., by telephone, giving a bald statement of the tornado having struck the town. The wires, both telegraphic and telephonic, then went down, and no further news has been obtained directly from Snyder. It is now impossible to reach Lawton, Oklahoma, the nearest telephone exchange to Snyder, and all the telegraph- ic connections are reported down between that place and Snyder. Rescue trains have been started from Hobart, Okla., and Chickasha, 1. T., which will arrive at Snyder this morning. GUTHRIE, O. T., May 10.—Reports from Chickasha, I. T., which place is in communication with Hobart, Okla., indi- cate the truth of the earlier reports concerning the storm. | Estimates as to the number of dead or the time of the storm | are unobtainable. |Station Agent Among the Killed. Reports from Chickasha, I. T., recite detalls of special trains loaded with physicians, nurses and ‘assistants which are leaving over the Frisco road for Snyder, O. T. Esti- mates of several hundred killed and injured are given, al- though no definite flgures are named. SAPULPA, L T. May 11.—The station agent at Snyder, Okla., who was killed, was J. M. Egan, agent of the Frisco. | He was formerly superintendent of telegraph for the Frisco system and was one of the best known telegraphers in the West. . ALVA, O. T., May 10.—Rev. T. K. Tyson of this city has received a telephcne message that a tornado struck Quinlan, which is in Woodward County, on the line ot the Santa Fe Rallroad, and destroyed the home of his daughter, Mrs. O. D. Cox, and killed her two sons. Other particulars are lacking. LAWRENCE, Kans, May 10..—A destructive wind storm passed down the main street of Lawrence to-night, doing considerable damage to buildings. Everett Hall was un- roofed and a large number of plate glass windows broken by hail and wind. 8o far as known nobody was seriously hurt. L Harrisburg at 1:30 a.m., and at Pittsburg at 8 a. m, Catastrophe Due to Small Wreck. The wreck was caused by a smaller wreck to the freight train, which was eastbound. Passing the plant of the elec- tric company near Cedar street an air hose burst and sev- eral cars in the middle of the train buckled up and fell across the passenger tracks at the side. . % Almost at the same time the express train, with ten coaches, dashed along and plunged into.the wrecked freight cars. The boller of the passenger locomotive blew up, and the concussion caused the immediate explosion of the two cars of dynamite in the freight train. The force of the col- lison crushed all of the passenger cars, which piled up in a huge mass with those of the freight. crash the passengers, all of whom were asleep in their berths, were hurled in all directions. Many were tossed free of the wreckage, some down the raflroad embankment, some into the Susquehanna. | Instantly the two trains were masses of flames. With the |1y up Castalties in FAGT TRAIN GRAGHES INTO DYNAMITE GARS Tornado Destroys Entire Towp in Oklahoma Wreck 150 William Newman Gives Testimony Before MRS CLARICE WILLIAM NEWMAN 2. “I will stirt suit . to-morrow my wife. . I never acknowledged that she was. ‘I know nothing about her children. I do not know that she ever had any children.” That in brief is the statement made by George D. Collins, the attornéy who is accused of bigamy. Clarice Mec- Curdy, whom Collins married in.Chi- cago, has gone to' Mill -Valley with her mother to escape a subpena from. the Grand Jury. William Newman, the brother of Charlotte Newman Col- lins, told the story of his sister's wrongs to_the Grand Jury and bégged the jurors to take some immediate ac- tion. Thomas Curran, who acted ds best man at Collins’ wedding, declared that the attorney married Charlotte New- man. Foreman Andrews had sent out a subpena for Mrs. McCurdy, mother of the second wife, but it did not reach her yesterday afternoon.: The Grand Jury decided to defer action until all the witnesses could be called. Collins werit to the office of District Attorney Byington and said that he was willing to admit the Chicago mar- riage. He declared that he wanted to be arrested immediately and have the case brought to an issue. “Agnes New- man was my wife. Charlotte Newman's claims are absolutely false,” he de- clared. Collins said that he wanted to make a statement to the Grand Jury, but was not given the opportunity. Until a late hour the attorney sat in his office, mapping out a plan to defeat the damning documentary evidence that stands against him. His attitude was that of ‘a fighting man, cornered, but confident that he could hew his way out somehow. "A story that has been told around town regarding his relations with the Newman sisters was told him. ' The tale is to'the effect that he married Agnes Newman by contract and later at the solicitation of both sisters mar- ried Charlotte by ;fl'«many to save the latter’s honor:. - T marriage with Charlotte null and void by this time and th a decision of the Supreme Court Collins could not be prosecuted - for * for g leotl:ifif.be statute of limitations ‘When asked if there was anything in this story Collins laughed loudly. “Ri- he said. £55, one is trying to make a defense e, but I will put nplbetteytn_‘flem aner defense for myself. It “Story . were ' true, - I would be a moral monster.” R ‘The accused attorney paced and down his office, “I will w:uty;‘tntu to u:"x:nl:flmmu !nlgmrtoteunlb to mdun; wife's name’ to | way. ¥ silence Charlotte Newman. She is not i made against me, why is it not made? | i win. would make any | I won’t have % If there is any chargé to be T'am readr to be arrested and to fight | the outrageous accusations.” As he said it there was a light in the lawyer's eyes such as appears in| those of a warrior when he hears the call to arms. George D. Collins s ready for the legal battle of his llte‘ and he seems confident that he will | It is “lawyer save thyself” in his | caee. | ‘When told that George D. Collins denied having married his sister Char- | lotte, Willlam Newman said: “He de-| nies it, does he? Well, we will show ! him before we are through.” Young Newman showed a bundle of letters that had been written by Collins to his first wife. ‘“He says he knows little about her affairs, does he?” said New- man. “Well, these will tell some- thing.”” The letters were shown to the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury will take up the case as soon as all the witnesses can be found. Mrs. Charlotte Newman Collins :vlll be called to tell her story. . —_—————————— DISAPPEARANCE “OF A MINISTER LOS ANGELES, May 10.—Rev. W. B, Bell, pastor of the South Main-street Methodist Church, has been' missing since last Thursday. , He left his home that afternoon with the announced in- tention of visiting his brother, who re- PY COLLINS ‘enAarRLOT TR WIFED SAID PISTRICT ATTORNEY GEORGE © COLL'MNS COLLINS TO THE NEWMAN 1S NOT mY AGNE DS MAEWMARn COLLINS WOULD SILENCE FIEST Wlf—’:é the Grand Jury o4 SR ATSL S BRI FOUND 1N ROSSIL BED. WHOM TWO WOMEN CLAIM AS AMES FIGURE IN INVESTIGATI AND THE GRAND JURY ARE [RON PLX Epectal Dispatch to The Cafl. —_— J PINEDALE, Wyo., May 10.—Mrs. sides at Buena Park. He parted ten- | Mary Schall has made a startling dis- derly with his wife. He did not go to his brother's home and since leaving his wife at their cottage on East Fifty- third street no clew as to his move- ‘ments has been found. On Friday Mrs. Bell received a mote from her husband lndleutm: t;’en :ervoul tfl::our:& ment ane e would: return. - Friends 31:: missi; minister . are utterly at a loss to gn any . satis- factory reason for his strange conduct other than that He must have become mentaliy. unbalanced. For some time it has been known that he was in m!v nervous state, due to long tinned application to his work. He is| about 40 years of age. i ~————eee—— |that in some respects making it g i covery in the great fossil beds at Fos- &ll, in. the form of an iron pin ten inches long and about an/ inch in thick- ness, firmly imbedded in the fossil rock. The find proves that the secret of the ‘work, inasmuch as its manufacture -a metal which bas a ring apparent DISTRICT DUCTING INTO ATTORNEY BYINGTON CHARGES OF BIGAMTY. NISS Woon ENJOYING THE J0KE Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Neb.. May 10.—“They sim- * ply dodged it, now didn't they?" was Miss Mae Wood's remark this morn- ing, when reference was made to the way in which the itinerary of the President’s train was changed last night in order to avoid service of her summons on Secretary Loeb. Her face eX~ inci- i it i H il i