The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1905, Page 1

’- The Call Prints More San Francisoo and and threst west winds. 6. H THE WPATHER ’ Forecast for December 25: ing Monday Local Forecaster. | News Than Any O * il ~Cloudy | light south- WILLSON, | | lurobia. THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"The Prince and per. ALHAMBRA—"A Fight for Love.” CALIFORNIA — “Broadway Girls.” LUMBIA—"“The American Lord.” CHUTES— Vaudeville. —-If 1 Were King." | NEW CENTRAL—'‘The Eye Witness.™ Matinees at all theaters but the Co- ther Paper Published in San Francisco the Gatety 1 MANCHURIAN ARMY IS RETURNING HOME TO FIGHT FOR' EMPEROR N — PR = s e 2% i £ e i PARIS, Dec. 26.—The St. Petersburg correspcndent of the Journal, telegraphing under date of December 24, says that he has authority of cfficers returning from Manchuria to declare that a digpatch purportfilg to have emanated from General Linevitch, reporting pillage and mutiny at Harbin and his incapacity to cope with the revelt of the troops in Manchuria, is 2 pure invention. These cfficers, the correspondent says, report that the army is return- . ing to Europe in perfect order. i v MBODEH SO 70 BAVE LARCE | N 1 NG Bank Wrecke£ to Wax | Richer While in Prison. — The Cal if what are belleved ative estimates of Leonard funds are correct the vings Bank wrecker, penitentiar will have % the firs ear, without | cipal. Each year after | have more. This wiil make prisoner who will ever | nience in the Canyon City dden g figures show the estimated $150,000; interest on this at 8 per o annum,-$12,400; principal (compounded the end of five years, incipal (compounded) at end of | ter 5 Imboden’s attorneys are making a plea | £ povel but the statement that Im- oden has a fortune hidden is made by | men fairly familiar with his op- erations —_——— Bank Will Double Capital. CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 24—The State of Mexico Bank will double its capital of $1,500,000. THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF RUSSIA DU NG THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE PROLET RIAT Loyalists and Mutineers Continue. the Battle for the Possession of the City of Moscow. MOSCOW, Dec. 24, 5 p. m.—Artillery, rifle and revolver firing continued throughout the day, but the noise of she battle has now somewhat abated. The guns have been bombarding one bar- ricade after another, the cannonade being followed by charges by the dragoons, who set fire to the debris. The area of the fighting to-day was more extended and in- cluded Trabnor's square, Sadovia, Karetnai and many other The revolutionaries apparently have not in the least lost heart, notwithstanding Saturday’s heavy casualties. Tt is( now known that 500 is a moderate estimate’of yesterday’s losses and many more persons fell to-day. A The revolutionaries had few successes. Théy surprised a force of gendarmes on Karetnai street to-day, killing\ or wound- ing twenty of them. Since then artillery has been firing uninter- ruptedly in that section of the city. Many Innocent Persons Are Killed. In many cases dragoons fired into private houses where they suspected revolutionaries had taken refuge. In nearly every district large numbers of innocent persons were accidentally killed or wounded. Late this afternoon it was reported that the fighting was proceeding in the outskirts of the city and that there weré heavy losses on both sides. - During the day bombs were thrown into thc/strcets. The troops hold the railway stations, but the' plundering of freight cars still continues. Three hundred of these cars have been entirely stripped on the Kazan Railway siding alone. streets. Continued on Page % Columns 1 and 2. (NG LECPOLD SECRETLY WEDS PRETTY WIDOW |Married a Year and Son Has Been Born, —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. BRUSSELS, Dec. 24.—Accordingsto the Revueil de Brugeres, the report that King Leopold has married morganatical- ly can be no longer doubted. The paper says the ceremony was performed-a year ago in the private chapel of the Chateau at Laeken in' the presence of two of the King's aides by the court chaplain act- ing with the authority of the Archbishop of Mechlin. The bride was a pretty widow by the name of Vaughan, nee. Lecrofx. * She is a daughter. of the. caretaker at the Touvreain in Nice and a niece of M. Lamgendolck, a socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies, The King has created her a baroness and she now lives at his estate at Cape Verat, near Nice, where she recently bore a son. —_————— Veusel in Distress. ATLANTIC-CITY, N.-J.,- Dec. 25,—At 2 a. m. the Townsend Inlet life-saving crew went to the assistance of an un- known vessel. 2 i Ago SIK FIREMEN ARE HURT IN - HOTEL FRE Injured by Falling - of Floor of the Van Nuys. Guests Are Forced tol Seek Sainty Clad Only in Nightrobes. | - 1 | Big Los Angeles Caravansary Almest Completeiy De- | stroyed by Flames, -~ LES, Dec. 24.—In the biggest hotel fire in the hisiory of Los Augeles | the Van Nuys Broddway Hotel, one of the | 1nrsm«|uss hostelrles of the city, located at 412-422 South Broadway, in the heart | of the bustness district. was almost com- pletely destroyed to-day. Six fivemen were badly injured by the collapse of the veav ©f the second.fiogr. Omue hundred and ten suests, most of_whom. were still in- be at’ the time the. firc broke out. escaped in their seapt clothing to the street. - Many of them got out in their night robes. and practically all suffered. the ioss of their entire baggage and personal effects. The injured: LOS A { { | J. Lawson, fireman Hose Company No. M. Stewart, tireman, shocked, Lain fireman, lac 1 and cat; J. scalp and bruiged about body; W. bruised, burned and . Philipps, fireman. ; Thomas Lane. fireman, shocked, 1 unconscious, may ireman, bruised, cut suffering from sho = Chief Lips was also severely broken gl but had his inj cd without leaving the scene of the The total financial los mate about $200.000, individual l¢ Mariz esta stel, own- <rs of the hotel building, 1 $100,000, in- rance Clark & Forsythe, lessees ¥, insurance of guests of valuables and mon- el in baggage. mated), $20,000. LOSE v of the g FFECTS. ts were able to Some of the get out any of their effects. aggage in the rooms in the front of the | building was taken out after the fire had cen extinguished and was found to have tained but little damage. T. H. Ben- fon, ex-State Auditor of, Nebraska, wife occupled rooms on the and bareiy escaped with their 1 their valuables, baggage lives, ng JHH]A IIIO{II‘} Their loss is estimated at 5000, Mre. P. Hanisch of Chicago escaped from her room ou the fourth floor, but lost effects valued at $4000. Several other individuals lost heavily in amounts rang- ing from $% to $2009. s The origin of the fire has not been defi- pitely ascertained. It was discovered by Night Clerk Harry Mertz at 6:55 o'clock. He immediately turned in an alarm and summoned the bellboys and porters to arousé the guests. The flames appeared to come from the basement or engine room of the hotel, although the hotel management claims the fire priginated in the store of the California Paper Com- any on the ground floor of the building. The hotel employes worked vallantly in arousing the sleeping guests, who were barely awakened in time. The flames spread with great rapidity, and in thirty minutes from the time the first alarm was ‘turned in the whole building was ablaze. All of the guests were able to escape by way of the stairways and ele- vators, although the halls and corridors were densely filled with smoke. Many of the ghests were nearly suffocated. Two women guests fainted, but were carried out in safety. The elevators were kgpt working and most of the guests from the four floors were laken out by this means. Finally the engines in the basement were shut down and the elevators stopped, the re- mainder of the people in the ‘hotel making | their way out by the stairway Several | attempted to. re-enter the building and save their effects, but the spread of the flames was so rapid that there was no | chance. | One man attempted to climb up the firemen’s ladder and enter his room to save his diamond rings and money, but the police, mistaking his purpose, ar- rested him and took him to the station, where he finally established his identity and was released, ,One guest threw his trousers, containing $300 to the street, from his room window, and found them when he got down with $30 in them. BURY G LIKE TINDER, Although a fire engine was on the ground four minutes after the first alarm was turned in, the building burnea like tinder and there was no chance to extinguish the blaze. Three subsequent alarms and ‘a general alarm were turned in within fifteen minutes following the first one, %and practically the entire fire department Continued on Page 2, Col. 6. o | the city. shortly after § o'clock to-night. ICHOLAS FIETY PERSONS ARE INIURED N A TROLLEY-CAR COLLISION Three Crowded Vehicles Meet at a Crossing 1n Los Angeles. Failure of New Brake on Grade Is Cause of Accident. A crowded electric car, beyond o a steep grade in Los Aungeles last night, trol of the motorman. dashed dowm struck = standing on the ear ralls and sent it crashing Into zmother car which was crossing the street. were hurled Men, women Passengers n serious nature. every direction, fully fifty receiving injuries of nd children were taken from the demolished ears and from the streets where they had been thrown with great foree, and burried to hospitals and neighbering stores for treatment. A defective brake caused the disaster. aculous. one was killed scems ml LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24—One of the wWorst street car accidents that has ever | happened in Los Angeles, in which (hru? cars loaded with pas: ers were in col- | lision, and which resulted in the injury ofl fitty passengers, occurred at the cormer of Second and Spring streets, one of the | busiest spots in the business section of | A West Second-street car, descending the d and Olive down toward Broadway Spring streets, got beyond the controt of -the motorman, dashed three blocks down the steep incline at a tremendous speed and crashed into the end of another Second-street car,shov- ing rhe latter car into a Hollywood car: which was at the moment crossing Sec- d street at tigit anglesiohSpring. The | Hollywood car.was. struck almost In the eeuter, the side crushed in like a shell, ahd was turned completely over. The See- | ond-street car that§was struck by th runaway was demolished at both ends ahd was thrown' from the tracks and turned balf over. The runaway car was' also badly smashed. Hardly a passehger on the three cars escaped injury, some of them being very seriously hurt. The motorman and con- ducter of the runaway car and the motor- man of the Hollywood car were injured. All of the injured gave eity and suburban addressés and it is not thought any of them were visitors in Los Angel CHILDREN ARE INJURED. Following is a- partial list of the in-| steep hi! from Se . C. Tuttle, head cut, rendered unconscious, probably injured internally. Mrs. Anna S. Ells, internally injured; | dangerous. | Mrs. F. E. Harvey, collar bone broken, | seriously injured. Dorothy Harvey. aged 9, thigh broken. | Fay Harvey, aged 7, leg broken. \ alp wound and prob- | Marilla Graham able fracture of skull. Elon G. Galusha, right leg broken, in- ternally injured. fi. Crawford, back and leg injured. A. H. Caine, badly cut by glass about arms and hands. Miss Edith Davis, head badly ternally injured. & J. W. Bearre, cut by glass, finger cut off. | F. A. Ambrose, head cut, bruised. | rank Lesauze, head cut, bruised. M C. Kaufman, head and hands cut. P. Bruno, back injured. Zorn, head eut. . 1. Zorn, leg and chest injured. . L. A. Leidlace, head cut badly by in- | cut, | glass. ! Two daughters of Mrs. Leidlace, slight-| ly injured. | Henry Lurie, face cut. ! Jessie Shutte, head cut. Hazel Shutte, head and face cut. W. C. Thompson, face cut by flying| glass. Rev. W. H. Walker, leg Injured. Mrs. W. H. Walker, bruised and shocked. A. G. Duarte, right arm injured, cut about face A. 8. Graham, shocked and brhised. 0. J. Graham, § years of age, out and bruised. Kitty Graham, 18 years of age, forehead cut. Charles Meyer, cut about scalp. ¢ Roland Thomas, head cut. F1. Anderson, slightly cut. Meredith, badly injured. { J. W. Layten, motorman Hollywood | car, cut by glass. Mrs. Hazencamp, badly shaken up. Mrs. Elder, bruised. Mrs. Kent, bruised. The above list was hurriedly gathered | at the scene of the collision and at the | Receiving Hospital, and probably contains | slight inaccurac) Besides those lzkeni to the Receiving Hospital, many passen- gers who suffered minor injuries went im- mediately to their homes without giving thelr names. BRAKE DOES NOT WORK. The motorman of the West Second- street car lost control of the heavy | coach just as it rounded the cormer | from Olive into Second _street ana | started down the hill. The cars om| the West Second-street line use a pat- ! ent electric brake different from those used on the lines running over a level roadway. This brake, it is said, failed to work and the big, heavily loaded car sltd down the hill, galning momentum every moment. It dashed across Hill street and down to Broadway at a ter- rific speed. The passengers realized an accident was impending, but so quickly did the car dash down the hill and into the car standing at Second and Spring that scarcely any of them had time to leap, even If they had desired to do so. Broadway was crowded with pedes- trians and vehicles, but these miracul- ously escaped. Passengers screamed in fright, and persons on the sides walks shouted frantically for people to get out of the way. At Broadway and ! i | the attefdants and That ne Second the incline ends, but so great Was the momentum of the car that it did not slacken in its wild dash until it struck the car standing at Second and Spring. Wit arful crash the runaway hit the it whirling inte crossing the st ash of the t simultaneous. king glass, cries of tk ense cloud of dust w the scene created almost a crowded streets. In a sands of people gathered wreck. Scores of police the scene within a very brief alarm having brought the entire for on guty at the Central station, only two blocks away. The crowd was driven back with difficulty and ropes stretched across the streets on all sidesc . ¢ wo OF RESCUE. The work of rescuing the injured be- ! gan immediately after the dust lifted from the scene. Those on the Holly- | Wood car, whic was | & on its side, ith one end against the curbing, were taken out with difficulty. As fast as they were removed the most seriously hurt were taken to the Receiving Hos- pital, while suffering from slig ses were treated at a few shocked fearful impact of the total r It is considered were not killed SANTA CLAUS SCARES WAIFS Children Reared in Squalid Tenements Go Into Hys- teries at Sight of Him e specll Dispatch to The cCail NEW YORK, Dec staff physician disg several children charity ward of St. Luke’'s Hospital became hysterical last night and it was some time before others could “rightened by a ta Claus, th e quiet The children, who had lived in squalid tenements, had mnever before seen a Christmas tree or impersonation of St. Nicholas, and were seized with fear at what they belleved to be the “bogie man.” Before the celebration could pro- ceed Santa Claus was compelled to go to each youngster's bed and remove his cot- ton batting whiskers in order that their fears might be allayed. When reassured and each of the little ones had reesived several toys, their wonder and Joy knew no bounds. When the identity and m Claus was explained to the children, o whom peverty had® hitherto denied ail vuletide joys, they laughed through their tears. fon of Santa —e- FROM DEWE GREETING: Admiral Sends Message to Men of the Navy WASHINGTON, 24.—Admiral Dewey has prepared the following Christmas message to the officers and men of the American navy throughout the world, which, it is ex g will reach prac ship some time on Christi ings to the offi< cers and men of the navy. Let us have nelther cligues nor grudges, but ail stand together for the good of the country and the service. “GEORGE DEWEY.” This message was startec its trip around the world early this TRovn Christmas will be celebrated by the American men-of-war in home anc for elgn ports with the same enthusiasm that has always characterized the day abeard ship and ashore. As many warships as can be spared from other duties have put in at home ports that officers’ and men may celebrate the day in the home land. In addition to the message of Admiral Dewey, a “Merry Christmas™ was flashed Jate to-night from every wireless station under the control of the navy from Rear Admiral Manney, chief of the Bureau of ‘Equipment. the greeting traveling far up and down the cvast and to the ships at sea. \