The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1905. DISASTER CASTS GLOOM OV —t 24,377 ATHE ODARK | 1S T0 CAUSE OF DISASTER Chief Engineer Rae of Navy Believes That the Boilers \lone Are Not Responsible | for Great Loss of Life POST BUILDING, | 21.—With the de-| u reports fresh | W. Rae, engineer- | to-night sald: | the cause | ington re- | I cannot com- | n of these bollers | Aciently severe to of life sustained rt says that the | ung's repo | unable to | have been | have started of persons on oard. This is| hard to recon- | | ers. This leads | here must have been ed besides the boilers.” | 1 proximity to recisely aware of the loca- | ines of the Bennington, | separated from fire room, which is re. The ammunition of these ships, but | we have heard anything | r explosion of ammuni- | ) og of the Bennington which | eived hete shows that the | was set to blow off at a| unds. The bollers were n a pressure of 160 pounds. the top of the furnace in boller B exploded, as it is reported to | the pressure in the boiler | relieved { 4 el Rae sald he did not belleve there was any chronic defect in the boll- Weas there any recommendation made for the immediate installation of & new r wh was overruled by higher au- was asked. ot believe s0,” replied the engi- neer-in-chief. ““When last inspected it realized that the boilers would soon , be replaced, but it was decided s could be made which would | ce the ship in excellent cruising con- % Within a short time it would » been necessary to put in new boll- ers “The bollers were bullt fifteen years | uintard Iron Works of New T. N. Palmer of Chester, who Bennington, and are known as the comotive gunboat cylindrical stretghtaway boller. They are somewhat from the Scotch boilers, but e always given fairly satisfac- ice and have not been suspected FEAR LOSS OF LIFE. i Kansans Warned of Danger From Im- g Thomag . Lawson, $1600; D. W. French, pending Floods. ! ENA, Kan., July 21.—The flood con- | ng Spring River Valley, north | 1 a ore serious than ever. 1t Spring River came up | foot an rour and to-day uch mining land has ning operations have | . Louls and San bridge west of this| out of line and has To-day service was, A west of Galena. message from Pea- mining camp situ- adger and on higher t the water had just to the mines there. e river valley through | have been warned It is feared The flood OAKLAND MAN STRUCK BY ENGINE AND KILLED John Sheeman Meets With Fatal Accl dent in Rallroad Yard at Sacramento. NTO, July 21.—John Shee- r of Oakland Camp, Wood- orld, was struck by an en- be railroad yard this evening and killed. He had worked recently eteam shovel at Colfax. He was thirty-nine years of age a about Pfé SOCELS T | day as yet, 1 dectsion %+ 8 surEroy AL ZEl oz e COMMANDER AND OFFICERS OF THE GUNBOAT BENNINGTON, ON WHICH THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. KNEW THE BOILER WAS DEFECTIVE. 'Ship’s Crew Lived During the Entire Cruise. Special Dispatch to The Call SAN DIEGO, July 21.—There are ugly rumors floating about among the sur- | viving members of the crew as to the condition of the boilers. Some of the | sailors had declared that their death was due to a boiler which has long been known to be defective and should have been condemned long ago. Commander Young, when asked about the bofler, sald it had been regularly tested and passed to carry 2% pounds of steam, though it was carrying but 125 pounds gt the time of the accident. Chief Machinist Wheeler stated that the boiler LARCE ANOUNTS PAID BY DUPES Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 21.—Despite the determined efforts of the District At- torney to keep secret the names of the wealthy men and women in soclety who subscribed $1500 to $10,000 for “Fads | and Fancles,” a work which Town Top- | ics undertook to publisk about four years | ago, but which has not seen the light of | and although officials of | Town Topics have declined persistently | to make these names public, The Call correspondent has obtained the list. It is as follows: Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, John Jacob Astor, Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Wil- liam B. Leeds, $2500; 8. Newhouse, $3000; J. H. Patterson, $2500; H. C. Plerce, $2500; Thomas F. Ryan, $1600; Charles M. Schwab, $1500: Timothy L. Woodruff, $1500; Lewis Nixon, s.ow; James R. Keene, $1500; James R. Keene (for Foxhall Keene), $1600; James J. Hill, $1500; Cle- ment A. Griscom, $1500; J. M. Flagler, $1500; P. Lorillard Jr., $1500. $1500; C. W. B. Green, $1500; W. C. Greene, $1500; Oliver Harriman, $1500; E. A. Hoffmann, $1500; W. C. Harrison, $1500; W. C. Huntington, $1500; Pembroke Jones, $1500; A. Juillard, $1500; O. B. Jennings, $150: John Keene, $1500. Z. 1. Leiter, $1500; P. F. Lovejoy, $1500; Henry W. Oliver, $1500; Daniel O’Day, $1500; O. H. Payne, $1500; C. S., Postley, $1500; S. Osgood Pell, $1500; M. F. Plant, $1500; Margaret J. Plant, $1500; D. D. Reed, $1500; F. L. Robinson, $1500;.J. F. Smith, $1500; George S. Scott, $1500; S. 8. Schley, $1500; T. Shaw BSafe, $1500; H. S. Smith, $1500; Henrv Siegle, $1500; H. 8. Terrell, D. G. Talbot, A. G. Vanderbilt, A. Van Renesselaer, W. K. Vanderbilt, A. Van C, - Vanderbllt, J. P. Woodward, . S, White, Nelson W. Ald- ridge A. N Brady, E R Bacon, J. A. Burden, A. J. Burrand, C. C. Barber, Perry Belmont, A. L. Barber, H. 8. Black, Arthur Coppel, Patrick Cal- houn, C. H. Cramp, W. A. Chandler, W. 8. Connor, H. 1. Drummond, J. De- varro, J. F. Dryden, John A. Drake, C. M. Duke, 8. B. Elkins, I. E. Emerson, M. Fleishman, B. Wall, H. Willett, H. White, /H. W. Winterbury, Rolla Wells, C. Yerkes. Mrs. C. P. Huntington paid the highest amount; Depew, Astor, Leeds, Newhouse, Plerce and Patterson paid | $2500 and the others $1500 each. el o SO CHICAGO, July 21.—Inga Hansen the for- mer Salvation Army girl, convicted of perfury in @ sult for personal damages against the Chicago Railway, will go to the penitentlary to serve an indefinite term according to a rendered to-day in Dread of Death was {nspected by the regular iInspector at Honolulu only a short time before the gunboat left for this city. Fireman Top, who was on watch just | ‘shortly before the accicent, sald the| boller was leaking somewhat and he had | sent to the boiler-maker to have it fixed, | but before it could be attended to the | accident happened. From many members | of the crew, who were not willing that their names should be mentioned, it was | learned that it had long been expected that the bollers would send them all to “Davy Jones’ locker” before long. The bravery of the crew was comment- ed on by all. Men who were themselves injured and scalded worked hard to aid those who were worse off than them- selves, and the speclal instances of hero- ism of the day probably will never be fully written. There were many self-sac- rificing efforts on the part of the physi- cians and the army of nurses, for hun- dreds of women of this city volunteered to act as nurses. All who could be made useful at the hospitals were put to work, and those who could not were asked to return and relieve those who were accepted. Major Kneedler came over from Fort Rosecrans to take charge of the work on the wharf and handled the injured in a manner to cause comment on all sides. He was on the lerussy en the ex- plosion occurred, and as sodh as he went on board he took personal charge of the case of Lieutenant Perry who was so fearfully scalded that he died late this afternoon at the barracks hospital. At Agnew Sanitarium Dr. Foster, the ma= rine surgeon, was in charge, with Quar- antine Officer McKay as his chief as- sistant. Twenty other physiclans joined in the rescue. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce directors this afternoon & resolution deploring the awful acci- dent was adopted and a telegram was sent to the Navy Department. This even- ing Charles H. Darling, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, replied, saying that the department was greatly shocked by the frightful accident and deeply touched by the kindness that had been shown the sufferers by the people of this city. BENNINGTON BELIEVED . ety i e e b ¢ B St ————— Sy The news of the Bennington disaster was a great shock to the men of the navy stationed in San Francisco. All day lcng the offices of Rear Admiral Henry Glass, commandant of the United States Pacific Naval District, and Paymaster Richard T. M. Ball, in charge of the naval pay office, were besieged by anxious rela- tives and friends of those on board the {ll-fated vessel, for news of the disaster. The gloom that naturally fell over army circles here, due to the frightful loss that had fallen upen thei#*brothers in | arms, was deepened by the knowledge | that a son of Colonel Morris, the com- | mander of the post at tife Presidio, was | among the number who received severe | injuries. The public at large felt the disaster! keenly, as the Bennington has been so| long on this coast that she is known | practically to every ore having a knowl- | edge of navy and army affairs. At the Merchants’ Exchange the em- ployes were kept busy answering tele- phone calls from people with anxious in- | quiries for the welfare of those on board | the unfortunate warship. No event of its | kind since the logs of the Maine has | caused such deep interest, and such pro- | found expressions of grief as the awful| disaster of yesterday. Mrs. Perry, wife of the young ensign who was killed by being scalded. has| resided here for several months past at the Hotel Cecil. Soon after the explosion she received a telegram from. her hus-| — ER THE CITY NEWS EAGERLY SOUGHT BY ANXIOUS RELATIVES Wife of Ensign N K. Perry Leaves San Francisco for Scene Before Hear- ing of Husband’s Death. band-which read as follows: “Am badly scalded, but am keeping a stiff upper lip. Come at once.” It was the first intimation that Mrs. Perry had received that any accident had happened on board the Bennington. She was naturally greatly alarmed. With the assistance of her friends in the hotel she was made ready to proceed on the Owl train last night for San Diego. The youthful wife left here withgut knowing that her husband had succumbed to his infuries. Colonel Morris and his family were shocked when the first news came of the awful disaster. It was several hours after the explosion before news came stating that young Morris, although hurt, was not seriously injured. Until the ar- rival of this message Mrs. Morris and her daughter were nearly frantic with grief and excitement Nearly all the officers at the post called at the Morrls home late in the afternoon wilh expressions of congratulation that young Morris has escaped with his life. The Bennington sailed from this port on May 17 for Honolulu, at which port she arrived on May 2. She remained in fhe harbor there until July 5, when she set sail for San Diego. where she ar- rived on last Wednesday, July 19. At the time of the accident the Ben- nington was on detached duty. She had been ordered to procesd to San Djego and from there go to Port Harford and convoy the monitor Wyoming to Mare Island. FRANCE CREETS PEACE ENVOY PARIS, July 21, 45 p. m.—M. Witte, accompanied by his wife,. several mem- bers of his family and a number of officlals making up the party which is on its way to the United States, arrived at the Northern Railroad station at 4 o'clock this afternoon. A large number of French and Russian officials and mem- bers of the diplomatic corps were as- sembled at the station, including Ambas- | sadors Nelidoff and Cassini, M. Mollard, | chief of the protocol department of the |’ Foreign Office, representing Premier Rou- | vier,-and Police Prefect Lepine. ! As M. Witte descended to the platform his massive frame towered above the crowd which pressed forward to welcome him. Standing bareheaded, M. Witte was greeted by M. Nelidoff and Count Cas- TO BE TOTAL WRECK Disaster Said to Be Worst Since the Destruction of the Maine. WASHINGTON, July 21.—Not since the {ll-fated battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor has the Navy Depart- ment been obliged to record a disaster to one of the American men-of-war so fear- ful as that of to-day, when the gunboat Bennington was shattered and most of her crew killed or injured by a boller ex- plosion. Officers do not recall when a boller has exploded aboard a warship of the United States. Mishaps have oc- curred in the boiler room, but with slight loss of life or Injuries. A steam pipe on the Concord, which has boilers identical with those of the Bennington, burst at one time, killing two men. Acting Secretary Darling and officers of the Bureau of Navigation were at the de- partment to-night awaiting the details which Commander Young sent to the department. Upon the recerpt of the mes- sage giving the list of killed and injured, Darling at once had a telegram sent to each next of kin of the dead and wound- ed. There were no marines on the Ben- nington. Soon after the first dispatches were re- celved an order was sent to the com- mandant of the navy yard at Mare Is- land to send Captain Drake, captain of the yard, and such medical officers as were available to San Diego as quickly as possible, a telegram announcing this action being immediately sent to Com- mander Young. Another telegram was sent to the President at Oyster Bay, con- veying to him the news of the calamity. As Rear Admiral Goodrich, the com- mander-in-chief of the Pacific station, is in Alaskan waters he was so far from the scene of the accident as to preclude the possibility of sending any of the ships of his squadron to S8an Diego. The supply ship Iris and the tugbot Fortune were to-night ordered to proceed from San Francisco to San Diego in connection with the Bennington disaster. r It was learned late to-night that Com- mander Young had advised the Navy De- partment that he Lelieves the Bennington is a complete wreck.' It is thought that diving and lifting apparatus will be needed to determine the full extent of the ship's injurfes and it may be dis- closed that the damage is much greater than at first believed. e R S R v SO R S S R WHIPS TINY BABY " AND IS FINED $10 Nebraska Clergyman Pun- ished for Cruelty to Seven- Months-01d Infant. Special Diepatch to The Call. LINCOLN, Neb., July 21.—Rev. Marin Fleickenstein, Lutheran Church at Minden, Nebraska, was fined $10 and costs for whipping his seven-months-old child because it cried. Neighbors caused his arrest after fre- quent offenses of the kind. The judge levying the fine is severely criticised for not giving the minister a jail sentence and a heavier fine. [ THE IN JJURED. J. McMANNEY, W. F. SCHACK- LETTE, B. R. SEAVEY, — TAY- LOR, E. STARKWEATHER, M. E. HISE, H. N. STEWART, — PFLU- GER, R. SAVAGE, W.HOFREUTER, 0. D. DRIDRICH, R. C. SHEPERD, W. M. TAYLOR, WIRK CEMPTON, E. U. BRUNSON, G. HOFFMAN, D. SULLIVAN, WILLIAM STAUB, A. BERG, E. B. FERGUSON, CHARLES MILLER, CHIEF MAS- TER AT ARMS; L. J. GAUTHIER, PAWTUCKET, R. L, CHIEF BOAT- SWAIN'S MATE; WALTER JAMES MARTIN, NEW YORK, MASTER AT ARMS (FIRST CLASS); C. W. BROCKMAN, DES MOINES, I0WA; PRESTON CABPENTER, ARAPA- HOE, NEBR., ORDINARY SEA- MAN; H. C. DEAN, DENVER, €0LO.,, ELECTRICIAN; F. R. CONNELL, COCKSWAIN; A. H. SCHORGGE, P. A. HOUSE: C. SCHULTZE. CORDELIA, CAL.; W. J. WESSEL, NEW YORK; F. C. SHIVELY; MEREDITH BUSH- NELL, BARBRAKE, TEX., AP- PRENTICE SEAMAN; L. K. STRO- BEL, LITTLETON, COLO.; H. J. KNIBLOCH; S§. T. CLARK, BREM- ERTON, WASH.; —INGERSOLL, DENVER; JOE HILTHIFR, WASH- INGTON, D. C.; A. J. WORTHEN, DAYTON, GHIO; W. V. KENNEDY, LYONS, NEBR.; H. F. SAUNDERS, SPRINGFIELD, MO; F. W. BROWN; G. A. TALLEY, FICK- WEILER, IND., FIREMAN (SEC- OND CLASS); S. ECKRAY, EMER- SON, WASH.; N. G. CHAMBERS, SEAMAN, BROKEN RIGHT) ARM; W. A. HAWLEY — NELSON; JAP- ANESE, TAKATO, TOKIO; TIM BURK, MASSACHUSETTS; L. A. GRIES, SYLVANIA, OHIO; MAC McKEEN SMITH, HARRIETS- VILLE, MO.; W. ¥. WEILER, CLEVELAND, OHIO; G. H. HAL-/ LET, BAKERSFIELD, CAL. D. M. McCLINTQCK, POMONA, CAL.; A. NELSON; CLAUD BUSHING, D. C. ARCHER. 3 pastor of the German “JERRY” SIMPSON IS VERY ILL AND DEATH IS EXPECTED . Former Kansas Congressman Ruptures Blood Vessel of His Heart in New Mexico. ROSWELL, New Mexico, July 2L— “Jerry Simpson, the former Kansas Con- gressman and of national reputation, is seriously {ll at his home here and the attending physiclans report that death may result at any moment. He ruptured one of the blood vessels of his heart and death may be caused by blood flooding the heart. It is the opinion of the phy- siclans that there is a chance for ulti- mate recovery if he can live for three months, but he cannot leave his room in any event for that time and must be kept quiet. His wife and only child, Hester Simpson, are at his bedside. —————————— MAX NORDAU DECLINES BECAUSE OF ILL-HEALTH ‘Will Not Be One of the Zienist Move~ ment Leaflers to Succeed Dr. Hersl LONDON, July 21.—Dr. Max Nordau, according to the Jewish World, has defi- nitely declined to be one of three lead- ers of the Zionist movement, who it was proposed should succeed the late Dr. Theodore Herzl, the founder of the movenient, who dled about a year ago. Dr. Nordau gives ill-health as the reason for his declination. ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, July 21.—A orders: Sergeant Vérdie Boyer, houpln.l corps, army general hospital, Presidio, San Francisco, to be sent to the Philippine Islands on the transport leaving San Francisco about August 5. Report to commanding general of the Philippine di- vision for assignment to duty. Private (first-class) Neville Craig, Hos- pital Corps, Fort McKinley, Maine, will accompany the Third Battalion, First In- fantry, to the Philippine Islands and re- port to the commanding general of the Philippines Division for assignment to duty. Sergeant Arthur B. Crane, signal corps, Benicia Barracks, to be sent to Seattle, reporting tQ the chief signal of- ficer of the Department of the Colum- bia for duty. Private Willlam J. Sainter, Company F, Fifteenth Infantry, Presidio of Monterey, Cal, transferred to “the general recruiting service, to be sent to San Francisco, reporting to the recruit- ing officer for ‘duty. sini, and spoke for some moments with | the latter. M. Nelidoff aftergvards ac vised M. Witte of the plans to present | = TOWN ALNOST WASHED AW LOUISVILLE, Ky.. July 21.—George- town, Ind., a town twelve miles west of New Albany, on the Southern Rail- way, was almost washed away to-day by a cloudburst. The water in the main street of the town was three feet deep and great damage was donme to stores and other property. Little In- dian Creek, which runs near the town, became a torrent, and, rising out of its banks, spread over the surrounding country, doing much damage. So far as can be learned no lives were lost. * from St. Petersburg to Paris was un- eventful. The Russian statesman ' was Jjoined before his arrival here by his mar- ried daughter and his grandchild. M. Witte will remain here until the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sails, July him to President Loubet and Premier 2. from Cherbourg. Rouvier, probably to-morrow. The party then drove to a hotel. The trip of M. Witte and his party ————— Sliding seats were first used im rowing races in 1873. Grows Greater Join the Crowd Greater Redyctions ROOS KEARNY ..T10-DAY... More Bargains Extra Salesmen BROS. AT POST