The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1905, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL! FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1905. EIGHT KILLED IN AN EXPI.OSION AT GIANT POWDER WORKS. The mixing plant of the Giant Powder Works at Point Pinole blew up yesterday and Foreman William H. Dwver and his crew of seven Chinese lost their lives. The building was demolished. No one who was at work in the place being alive, the cause of the terrific explosion cannot be explained. Plant for Mixing Is Completely Destroyed. T FORTE ALL OF WORKING CREW ARE DEAD! Remains of Oanly Four Can Be Found. NO ONE LIVES TO TELL THE CAUSE| e THE DEAD: am H. Dwyer, foreman dynamite house. x Wey. Ching Sing. Ching ¥ook. Al Quong. Al Tei. Mak Won. Boek Cooc. THE Wong H sterehouse. mixing Wong INJURED? Iaborer in injured. er with were de- weighing mixing-house. dynamite | | 4 [ ] | was quick work with the fire hose and a crowd of workmen, well directed, started on the grewsome labor of res- cue, if rescue there could be in that | tangled mass of ruins. powde: w but 8 £ was found in the s C Only three of seve were re- | ired man was tre then sent. to the explosion is unex- as not mibre then half e crew reported for trophe occurred shock that heavy were blown hun- w ng-house te, and this, it at the works, t of the damage. the dry hillsides, isolated stru ny’s fire brigade flames before explosion was n ence. money, At was the glass being burned and charred i and broken machinery rked the site of the mix- the ruins of which all played streams of water. The relic was heel that operated the mill. works the dyna- at powde sheltered on two the bluff into which it had On the west and north the r along the jutting point. rk began this morning In the ite house at 7 o'clock as usual. g occurred to attract attention 1 nea half an hour later, when the deep beom of the explosion and the re of flames, smoke laden, summoned rtled officials to the scene. It 3y ADVERTISEMENTS. BABY'S TERRIBLE SORE Body Raw With Humor. Caused Untold Agony. Doctor Did No Good. Mother Discouraged. CUTICURA CURED AT ONCE “My child was a very delicate baby. | A terrible sore and humor broke out on his body, looking like raw flesh, and causing the child untold agony. My physician prescribed various rem- edies, none of which helped at all. I became discouraged and took the matter into my own hands, and tried Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with almost immediate success. Be- fore the second week had passed the soreness was gone, not leaving a trace of anything. Mrs. Jeannette }f 281 Rosedale St., Rochester, N. Y.” CURIOSITY Leads to Investigation and Truth. “What shall we do to be saved?’ was the title of one of Robt. Ingersoll's lec- tures. People of faith and people of no faith flocked to hear it. Thousands are asking, “What shall I do to get rid of dandruff?” The answer is, “Kill the germ that causcs dandruff, falling hair nd finally baldness: and the only thing at will do it is Newbro’s Herpicide." That is the very latest discovery of the Jaboratory, and it is the only prepara- tion that claims to, or that will, kill the tiferous dandruff germ. ightful hafr-dressing, free from oil r grease or sticky substances. Try ft and be convinced of its actual merit. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. At leading drug stores or sent prepaid from Detroit, Mich., upon receipt of §1 00. MAUVAIS MUSIC CO. 833 MARKET ST., OPP. MASON. Special Vacation Prioss This Month D del! he bay, that laps the | -house exploded | | delv 1though the ac- | were partly | the engine | As is | olated from the Other" ' nly one live man out of the crew found. He, Wong Hea, was pulled out from the wreckage, a deep cut in his back, his .eft arm badly fractured, together with numerous cuts and bruises on head and body. taken to the laboratory, where surgi- cal attention was given him. While the wrecking crew dug and d through the ruins and fought fire across the fields, the search for bodies was commenced. IDENTIFICATION DIFFICULT. The trunk and head of Dwyer's body, charred and blackened, were recovered. His arms and legs were blown off. | Money and a watch in the half de- stroyed garments served as means of identification. A Chinaman'’s blackened corpse was found on the bay shore be- | neath the bluff. Other parts of bodies | were recovered by the most diligent raking of the wreckage and the fields around the destroved mill As soon as the officials were ap- priscd of the accident, Dr. C. L. Abbott | of Richmond and Dr. L. A. Martin of | S8an Pablo were hurried to the works. | They gave their attention to the in- | jured Chinaman, who was later taken in charge by some of his countrymen. Nearly all of the Chinamen at works made their customary exodus from the grounds as soon as they knew | of the fatalities. The practice to de- part is a common one with the Chinese, | as they believe an evil spirit is respon- sible for such catastrophes. After the | demon has been sufficiently propitiated the men return to their dangerous call- ings. Because of the hazardous nature of the work in the mixing-house that building and the storehouses in con- | nection with it were erected at the most isolated point of the works plant. | Dwyer, who had charge-of the manu- facture of the high explosive, was one |of the oldest employes of the com- | pany, thoroughly familiar with every th | detail of the operations in the “Chili | mill,” as the place was technically {known. ‘He had been handling the | dangerous stufft for many years and | had never before had an accident of | any kind. Superintendent Frank Rol- |ler and Assistant SBuperintendent Louis | Leveall could offer no explanation for the explosion. They made a thorough investigation, but were blocked by the absence of any remaining, evidence that might give a clew to the cause of the trouble. Leveall said: CAUSE IS UNKNOWN. “The explosion was one of those un- scrutable occurrences that leaves noth- ing to tell thé: story. Dwyer, a most competent man, had been too long in the business to overlook a point. We use every effort to prevent these acci- dents, but so long as the stuff must be made there is always a lurking dan- | ger 1n it. The fact that the entire crew’ of the mixing-house was killed makes it impossible to get a line on what occurred there to bring about the explosion. It happened less thag half an hour after the men went to work and I belleve before any nitro-glycer- in had been turned into the mixing tubs. - “There were two of these mills In the house and I should estimate that they contained about 1500 pounds of mixture when they were exploded. The greatest damage was dofie by the blowing up of the dynamite on the tramcar. - It was about to be hayled away to the packing-house when the | mill went off. Block, ! “That Wong Hea, the Chinaman in the storehouse, was not killed seems like a miracle, His duty. was to weigh out the ingredients that go into the mixing-house. ‘When the shock came that tumbled the building into a rain of fragments of wood and iron he was.standing fifty feet from the mixing-house. He was strucic by fly- ing missiles, which seriously injured { him. “This accident leaves me the last of & quartet of men who had worked to- gether for many years in the plant. Dwyer was the third to meet a violent | death. “I had not made my usual morning It is also a | rounds when the explosion was felt, so |1 cannot say just what was the condition of the mixing tanks. They are always carefully inspected before the engine is started, and every precaution is taken to t such an accident as occurred Wong was | the | NN ! | ] 1 4 4 3 PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WRECKAGE AT THE GIANT POWDER WORKS AT POINT PINOLE, TAKEN YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER THE EXPLOSION | THAT KILLED EIGHT MEN AND INJURED ANOTHER. [+ 4 The works were formerly located at Flemmings Point, near West Berkeley, | but after the terrible explosion in 1891, when many lives were lost, were moved to Point Pinole. Coroner Henry Cufry was summoned | from Martinez to take charge of the re- | mains. He impaneled a jury at the works, and will hold an inquest at a later date. The inquiry will, of necessity, be of a most perfunctory character owing to the lack of evidence to furfiish a cause for the explosion. The bodies of the Chinamen were taken in charge by’ their countrymen, for in- terment or proper disposal. The Masonic fraternity has taken | Dwyer's remains in charge, as he was a member of that organization. Dwyer was | 50 years old and a native of Ohio. His | home had been at Willow Springs, Ohio, whence he came to California years ago. | Dwyer went into the Glant Powder Com- | pany’s employ at his works at Clipper Gap. About ten years ago,after the com- pany closed down its factory at that point, Dwyer went.to the works at Point Pinole. He was a member of a Willow Springs Masonic lodge and of Lebanon Commandery, Knights Templar, of Ohio. He was unmarried, and leaves distant relatives in Oplo, with whom communi cation will be had as soon as they can be located. The company’s loss was sev- eral thousand dollars, chiefly in manufac- tured product. The buildings and ma- chinery were inexpensive. ‘Work of reconstruction will be com- menced as soon as the wreckage .has been cleared away. The identified remains of Chinamen recovered were those of Wong Wey, Ching Sing and Chin Fook. Missing are Ah 'Quong, Ah Toi, Mah Won and Bock Cooe. « —_———————— Town Talk., * The 1ist of invited guests at the Mar- tin reception to Alice Roosevelt was published in all the dallles, but The Saunterer of Town Talk gives a list of | the uninvited. He tells how Alice made them wince. He discusses our commer- clal orators at the Taft banquet and the snubbing of Schmitz. He tells of the baiting of a San Francisco club man at the Hotel Potter. He tells of the sinister motive behind the story of Mrs. Oel- richs’ financial exploits. He makes ex- clusive announcement of the engagement of a society girl, He gives a great deal of inside political news. John Cowley- Brown discusses the fleshly school of oetry in this week’s issue, and Theo- Xon onnet reviews Oscar Wilde's “Sa- lome,” the play that has created a sen- sation in several European cities. Find Concenled Oplum on Korea, Customs Searcher 8. H. Sackett re- ported to Surveyor of Customs Joseph 8. Spear Jr. yestérday that he had found four five-tael tins of prepared smoking oplum concealed behind the woodwork in stateroom 27 of the Pacific Mail steamship Korea. The opium was not included or described in the ship’s man- ifest, and as there was no clew to the I smuggler the goods were confiscated. ——————— | An appeal s made to your fairness when you are asked to drink Rainier Beer. “Rainfer” men walked out, re- fused arbitration and declared a boy- | cott, all without a hearing. 5 . Eminent Baptist to Preach Here. The Rev. D. D. Proper o!‘::’o .am;‘rfi can Baptist mll.; oLy, preach in the First Baptist Church on Sunday,: July 16, both morning and evening. He is:from Des Moines, o' and is on a visit to the coast. lactio using I!m SEEKS TO SAVE BAIRD’S FORTUNE Union Trust Company Sues to Enforce “Spendthrift Trust.” Pleading that it holds a “spendthrift trust” over the estate of Miles T. Baird the Union Trust Company went to court yesterday in an effort to save what it can of the young man’s for- tune, once large, but wrecked through a wild career of dissipation. The suit filed yesterday was to restrain Sheriff Curtis from selling forty shares of the Baird Estate Company to satisty a Jjudgment of $10,662 14 secured against young Baird by George Golder, as as- signee of Reginald McColgan, a money- lender. The trust company goes into details regarding .the many escapades that led Baird into his present difficulties. It glves the facts of his enlistment in the United States army during the Spanish War; tells how the hardships of cam- paigning in the tropics undermined him physically and mentally and how upon his return to his home he entered upon a career of dissipation that startled the tenderloin. Then the yflnn: man’s mother, Ve- ronica C, Baffd, took action to save him from himself and at her sugges- tion' the -Uniop Trust Compan; granted letters establishing a thrift trust” over his estate. It is al- leged by the trust company that,when McColgan loaned Baird the money it now seeks to collect, or rather loaned him the principal that has now reached that sum through the operation of an enormous rate of interest, he well knew that Baird's estate was subject to the trust apd also that Baird was mentally incompetent to transact busi- ness. % For these reasons the trust company asks that the Sheriff be perpetually enjoined from selling the Stock in the Baird Estate Company, that poverty may not be the reward of the young man’s riotous career. 2 — e LOSES CONTRACT BECAUSE HE FAILED TO SIGN HIS NAME Through Error Thomas Blanchard, Though Lowest Bidder, Is Denfed Street Work by Works Board. The Board of Public. Works yester- day postponed: until next Wednesday the award of the contracts for various street improvements. Thomas Blan- chard, who was the lowest bidder for the grading of H street, from Forty- fifth avenue to the Great Highway, had neglected to sign his contract and afi- davit dnd h id will be rejected and the award e to the next lowest bidder, Owen McHugh. C. 8. Harney ‘was the lowest bidder for the grading of H street, from Twentieth to Twenty- eighth avenue, and Land & Nugent the lowest for the restoration of pavements over side sewer trenches. Thelir bid for asphalt and bitumen over concrete was 13 cents per square foot, against the rate of 10 cents for the past fiscal year under the" contract held by the F. M. Yorke Company, which has al- lowed 126 side sewer trencl to re- main unpaved for three mont The increased cost; under the new contract will fall on the property owners. DISORDERS, Exhaustion and | July 17. ] JELOLS N MEETS DENTH Husband Assails Wife’s Al- leged Lover and Is Shot With His Own Revolver OLD FEUD IS ENDED Alfred Angeli Kills Vincen- zo Gianini in a Hand to Hand Fight on Broadway e A feud of many years' duration be- tween Vincenzo Gianini, cooper of 705 Battery street, and Alfred Angell, a butcher of 738 Fhilbert street, ended yes- terday afternoon, when Angeli shot and almost instantly killed Gianini on Pacilic strect, between Sansome and Battery. The trouble = between the two men grew out of Gianini's jeal- ousy of Angeli, whom he suspected of paying too much attention to Mrs. Glanini. Angeli was arrested almost iramediately after the shooting, and is charged at the City Prison with mur- der. According to the statement of George Paulf of the Hotel Best, who was a wit- ness of the struggle between the two men, Gianini, the murdered man, met Angell on Pacific street at 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and, drawing a revolver, said sometiaing about “fixing” him for making love to his wife. As Gianini drew the revolver Angel dodged, and then Gianini reversed the weapon and struck Angeli twice over the head. The wounded man grappled with his assailant, and in the struggle the revolver fell to the ground. Upon losing the revolver Gianini ran into a doorway at 321 Pacific street, and as Angeli struggled to his feet with Gianini’s revolver in his hand the latter left the doorway and started toward Sansome street. Wild with rags and half blinded with blood from the wounds in his head, the infuriated An- gell fired five shots in rapid succession and then pursued his victim into a near- by saloon. As Gianini leaned against the bar, Angeli, not khowing that the man was shot, walked up to him and struck him across the face with the empty revolver, saying, with an oat! “Now I'll give you what you gave me. Angell then left the saloon, and Gi- anini sank to the floor. He was re- moved to a barber shop at 802 Sansome street, where it was ascertained that he was dead. Later, at the Morgue, the autopsy by Dr. Baasamupi showed that a bullet had entered the back, and, ranging upward, pierced nearly all the vital organs. A second bullet struck the hip bone and caused a flesh wound. Angeli, after leaving the saloon, went to Caligaris’ drug store at Kearny and Pacific streets, and while there was arrested by Patrolmen A. E. Holmes and James O'Cornor, who were told of the murder by Special Officer Sam Dag- gett. Daggett was upon the scene of the shooting almost as soon as it hap- pened, and after seeing that the wounded man was beyond help traced Angeli to the drug store. Angell was taken to the City Prison and booked for murder. He says that five years ago he was assaulted by Gi- anini, who thought him too attentive to his wife, and since then Gianini has been jealous of him. He is a butcher, employed at the Rose warket at 3 Broadway. Gianini was a cooper at 705 Battery street, and had a wife and three children, who are living in Colma. In his pocket was found a letter signed by Attorney August D. Splivalo, ad- dressed to Angeli, speaking of alleged annoyance to his client, Gianini, re- questing that they cease for the sake of peace and threatening legal meas- ures. Either- Gianini had failed to mail the letter or it was a copy of one al- ready sent to Angell. —_—————————— Miss I E. Connor of 138 Geary street has moved to 225 Post street. — ASKS TO HAVE ASSESSMENT ON FRANCHISE CANCELED re- . Bank of California Makes Claim That the Valuation of $750,000 Is Not Legal. The Bank of California petitioned the Board of Equalization yesterday to have the assessment of $750,000 on its franchise canceled on the ground that a franchise is the privilege or right to be a corporation and that the right to do a banking business is the com- mon right of every person and is not assessable. It is also urged that the cash value of the franchise does not exceed $10,000. The Supreme Court has decided that the assessment of pre- vious years shall stand, but the bank desires to take the matter to the Fed- eral courts. Emma G. Butler petitioned that the assessment on a building on the south- west corner of “Stockton and Geary streets be reduced from $16,000 to $1000. The structure was sold in June for $1065 and was removed to make way for a new bullding which will take one year to build. Other applications for smaller reduc- tions were filed by Emma 8. Owens, S. G. Jancovich, Bertha H. Taussig, Eliza Stern, Walter A. Coffee, D. J. Gordon, Matthew Kerr, Richard Kennedy, Henry S. Bridge, A. Brandensteif, Clara Voigt, Agnes K. Taylor, the Planz Company, Thomas F. Magee, Margaret Skelly, Mary E. Christal, BE. T. Dudley, Willlam Schmitz, J. E. Lin- don and A. Schwartz. —_———— ONE-TWELFTH ACT MUST BE OBSERVED BY WORKS BOARD Supervisors Will Restrict Monthly Ex- itures, but Makes Exception in Street-Sweeping Appropriation. The Supervisors’ Finance Committee yesterday decided to restrict the Board of Works to the one-twelft® provision of the charter in the expenditure of the budget funds for various permanent improvements. This decision will ap- ply to the fund of $85,000 for the clean- ing and repairing of sewers. Some leeway will be permitted in the fund of $215,000 for street sweeping, as more money is required for the pur- pose during the windy summer months than in the winter months. The Board cf Works will so arrange to have $64,000 remaining to sweep the streets in April, May and June of next year. The Supervisors will pass a blanket resolution on the subject at next Mon- ~— day’s meeting. ————————— Alleges Illegal Naturalization. In an affidavit filed yesterday in the United States Circuit Court Special Agent Richard H. Taylor alleges that Christoffer J. Olsen, who has applied for a license as mate on an ocean pas- senger vessel, has flled illegal natural- ization papers. He charges that Olsen made misstatenients regarding his age and length. of residence 'in this coun- try. Judge Motrrow has issued an order that Olsen shall show cause why tha naturalization papers should not bet set aside, und has set the hearing for PRSI BRI Burnett’s Extract of Vanilla Best. perfectly pure, highly concentrated. CALLOPS TEA - T0 SAVE BOYS With Half-Drowned Children | in Wagon, Patrol Driver: Races Madly Across Town | | PEDDLER MEETS DEATH R. Bendinelli Tries to Washg Wagon in the Bay and Is Drawn In With Vehicle | Urging his horses to their swiftest gallop, John Fitzpatrick, driver of the North End police station patrol wagon, tore in from North Beach to the Central | Emergency Hospital yesterday with two unconscious children, nearly lifeless | from submersion in the bay, in his ve- hicle, and reached there just in time tu’ save their lives. As he tore along peo- | ple scattered and looked In wonder, thinking the man must be drunk or in- sane. Children tried to pursue the fly- ing and rocking vehicle, to satisfy their curiosity, but they were soon left, | panting, far behind. The little boys in the wagon, Walter | Francis of 2036 Lombard streefj and Ralph Erhorn of 2072 Lombard, street, had just escaped the fate that had overtaken Robert Bendinelli. an I[talian fruit peddler, who had been darowned | at the foot of Webster street while | washing his wagon in the bay. They had been rescued by the the herolc ef- forts of Jean Lenette, employed at a near-by soap works. WAGON PLUNGES INTO BAY. Bendinelli, who lives at 2032 Lom- bard street, started for the bay at the foot of Webster street about 4 o'clock in the afternoon to wash his wagon. Walter, aged 7, and Ralph, 5, climbed into the peddler’s wagon. Walter’'s 10-year-old brother, Harold, refused to go with him and his little friend, but watched from the shere. All at once the wagon keeled over, hav- ing seemingly struck a bank of shifting ground beneath the water. Horse, wagon and its load of human lives disappeared. Harold Francis saw the accident and rushed up the street, tell- ing every one he met of it. Lenette heard the cries and rushed from his work in the soap factory and dragged the boys from the water at the risk of his own life. Patrol Wagon Driver Fitzpatrick of the North End station got the call from the beach. He drove madly to the scene of the accident, and with his horses on a dead run started for the Central Emergency Hospital. The boys had al- most stopped breathing. A moment meant everything. Fitzpatrick, with a master hand, guilded his team through the thickly crowded streets at almost racehorse speed, and reached the hospi- tal just eighteen minutes from the time he received the call at the North End station, and this was done with Police Department horses. To Driver Fitz- patrick is due in a great measure the credit of saving the lives of the chil- dren. Had he mnot done the run in the short time that he did the surgeon would have had no spark of life to work upon. WALSH SAVES BOY. Dr. Walsh, in charge at the hospital, lost not an instant in getting to work on the children, and by means of artifi- cial respiration and stimulants they were soon brought to a condition where they could sit up and talk. While the nearly drowned children were being taken to the hospital a search was made for the unfortunate Italian’s body. After an hour's drag- ging Ernest Kagginger, James O'Rourke, Ed Webster and Lenette pulled forth the dead body of the fruit peddler. The horse's body and the wagon have not yet been recovered. Bendinelil's corpse was removed to the Morgue. He was 23 years of age and had been married but a short time. Young Francis is the son of Police- man C. T. Francis. The latter was do- ing patrol duty on Larkin street when the North End wagon tore by. Francis had a premonition that something had happened to some one he knew. He caught the flying wagon and found his little son lying nearly dead on the stretcher. The floor of the bay where the aceci- dent occurred has recently been filled in. To this fact is ascribed the cause of the shifting sands, the new ground not having entirely settled into place. The saving of the lives of the two children took the form of a relay race with death, and Lenette, Fitzpatrick and Dr. Walsh were looked on as heroes. | —_— To Regulate Advertising Signs. The Supervisors’ Fire Committee yes- terday referred to the joint committee on Judiciary, Fire and Electricity the proposed ordinance recommended by the Fire Department to regulate the maintenance of attachable electrical advertising signs upon buildings and roofs, Assistant Chief Dougherty ap- peared in support of the passage of the ordinance. M. Meyer, an attorney rep- resenting the Merchants' Association, opposed the passage of the bill, as the association was at present framing an- other ordinance on the subject and a meeting has been called to consider it. It was agreed by the committee to await the framing of the substitute ordinance before taking action. FABER'S Fillmore and McAllister. Phone Park 183 119 Taylor St.......Phone Howard 1021 —r ot Tone Howard 1031 MRS. 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CVES OFFICE T0 MANSFIELD Court of Appeal Renders a Decision in a San Mateo County Eleetion Contest CHATHAM LOSES FIGHT Claim Is Made by Opposing Candidates That Ballots Were Improperly Guarded The District Court of Appeal decided that J. H. Mansfleld was properly elected Sheriff of San Mateo County in Novem- ber, 1%92. R. S. Chatham, also a candi. date, claimed that he had been legalg chosen for the office and instituted a to establish his contentions. The Boar of Supervisors canvassed the returns an declared that Mansfield had received 44 votes and Chatham 1375. The case was tried before Judge Frank Murasky of this city, acting as Superior Judge of San Mateo County. He decided that Chatham had received 1219 votes and Mansfleld only 1218. The latter appealed and has secured the reversal which gives him the office. The claim was made that the ballots had been tampered with. In Tespect to that assertion the court says: On the recount there was one less ballot in Baden Precinct than the official canvass showed; in Colma Precinct the official canvase showed 'four more ballots than were produced in court. and in Menlo Park Precinct thers was ope more ballot produced in court than the officlal canvass showed. In the count in court defendant suffered a Det loss of thirty six votes from that shown by the official count in these three precincts. The difference of six ballots between the officlal count and th lots counted in court during the trial ia tainly a strong circumstance tending to peach the Integrity of the ballots. The ballots from the outside precincts were broken open. They had been sent by express to the County Clerk there deposited on the floor of a vault, where they were within easy reach of friends of both contestants. 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