The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1906, Page 4

~ THE SAN FRA DESPERATE AND REACH#%FETY AFETY BEACON THE PREVAILING CRY MORE A TP Demand Better Protection for Dangerous Coast. ria and, “This would enable aid to be rushed e | to any point by land. This road ought ruck to be patrolled during heavy and thick [ gs weather by men able to send telegraph s messages. 1f there had been such a road and such a system of patrolling st the time the Valencia Went ashore there, there is scarcely room for doubt that the list of saved would be much longer. It is submitted that the Do- minion Government ought to undertake the construction of such a road, and should do it at once. It is, of course, the special duty of that Government to provide the necessary life-saving sta- tion and apparatus. The cost is considerable, but that 1s ser here nor there, Every possible safeguard should be provided irrespect- ve of cost. Doubtless the proper steps would be taken by the Board of Trade city and also the Boards of ¢ Vancouver and Nanaimo and | er public bodies to impress the ne- essity of action upon the Government. | “We also suggest that the United | es Government has a duty to per- n the premises. While few ves- ashore in the southern part of any precautions on the Van- land shore will be even more ox : benefit of ships engaged in{ - States commerce than for the fe-saving s . of those employed in our own. . somew . suggest, therefore, that the States Government ought to pro- life- ing station at some con- point west of Cape Flattery, d that communication between that the Canadian station be es- and it should be maintained ss telegraphy. “If the precautions above suggested are taken the dangers attending the , | entrance to the straits will be reduced |to a mintmum.” the | were washed from the ship and we | could see them dashed against. the } rocks. | FOOD WASHED AWAY. “To add to our misery, the last of } our food was washed away. We had | no water to drink, save the bitter cold - | with the sea, soon numbed us. Every | little while one of those in the rigging | would lose their hold and be'swept | away to the sharp rocks. | morning we thanked God for saving | us, but when she, in company with the | tug, sheered oft and sailed away, she | was followed by nothing but curses. I to attempt to save us. “When the Topeka finally hove in . sight we determined to make an effort Cl‘a,ft Though A]d | to reach her in the raft left. Few of appeared to be certain death to even SeemS Near. try to cross the breakers. But eigh-1 teen of us were willing and we started. h only a pair of oars the struggle _.l- sleet. The wind ?nd rain, combined hen we saw the Queen in g | suppose it was too dangerous for them Remain on the Doomed | | | the men cared to make the attempt, as [ inst the wind and sea was almost Continued from Page 1, Column 7. much for us. | “Part of the time we were under | water and almost drowned. But we were impelled by the courage of des- e cliff, | peration and fought and fought against ! before our | the elements like demons. o { “We held one man upright in the CRIES FOR LOST PARENTS. | of the raft and had him wave a s S e on a pole When we saw the ealship turn we thought she had rerlooked us and was going away. If she had we would have died right there. | “The waving of the shirt on the raft reminds me that when the Queen was first sighted the women in the rigging even removed portions of their under- clothing to wave as a signal for help from their position in the rigging. “When we left the ship on the raft | we tried to get some of the remaining | women to go, but they refused. No help can now reach them before morning and the ship then will have gone to pleces. She was breaking when we left] her. She could not possibly have held together more than a few-hours after- ward. She lies in such a position that there is no hope of any one reaching shore, If the two boats which we saw got away and put to sea are picked up they and ourselves will be the only ones saved. CAPTAIN ACTS LIKE HERO. moved from the wash “Captain Johnson lost his bearings h the fiying spray | and ran the ship ashore. It was a ds. Suddenly and | dark stormy night and nothing could ast tottgred, and | be seen. The ship struck while run- rom those on it. | ning full speed. We all thought we nt it fell with a were to the southward of Flattery. “After striking Captain Johnson proved himself a hero. He made the statement that he would never leave officer from t ed his two & the level of ning another sad calamity out fifteen or twenty per- n one or two women, e in the foretopmast. be in the safest i. I don’t think there one saved. The bodies a Friend? Then tell him about Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Tell him how it cured your hard cough. Tell him why you always keep it on hand. Tell him to ask his doctor about it. Doctors know it. They use it a great deal for all forms of throat and lung troubles. We have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. Made by tho J. C. Ayer Co., Mase. nnln-hmuux:t"“' AYER’S HAIR VIGOR—For the hair. AYER’S PILLS—For constipation. ¢ AYER'S SARSAPARILLA—For the blood. AYER'S AGUE CURE—Fof malaria and ague. | W. A. Fitzgerald, city editor, and B. R. MEN TAKE CHANCE ON RAFT Forsake Doomed Ship and Trust Lives to the Frail Wave- - Tossed Craft. Victorian Press and All Civic Bodies to{ Almost Exhausted When Picked Up by Steamship Topeka Near the Wreck. SEATTLE, Jan. 2%.—The condition of the survivors was pitiable. They were half frozen and practically unconscious from the exposure. The raft was sighted about 12 o'clock, but owing to the thick weather It"was supposed to be nothing but a log. At last by the aid of a powerful glass its true nature was determined. A terrible sea was running. One minute the raft was poised on top of a wave and the next it would be lost from view In the gully formed by the mountainous breakers. The eighteen men together on their frail support battled bravely with a pair of oars to reach the City of Topeka, which, owing to the dangerous coast, could not run in any closer to them. When with- in about half a mile from the raft a boat was lowered from the Topeka in charge of Second Mate Burke, who, with much difficulty succeeded in making fast a line to the raft. GALLANT STRUGGLE. The spectators on the Topeka watched the struggling of the gallant seamen breathlessly. One minute they were high in the air and the next lost to sight. At last they succeeded in bringing the raft to the side of the steamer. The sight of the poor creatures on the raft brought tears to the eyes of the sailors’on the vessel. In the stern of the raft sat an old man. His snow-white hair and pallid features were creased and torn by the fiying spray, but the instinct of life was strong within him and he held on bravely to his place. Three others were lying in a senseless heap in the center, washed by every swell and retained solely by the bodles of the other men who were closely packed. Time and time again great seas swept over them, sending a shudder through the onlookers who feared to see them swept away. MEN ARE EXHAUSTED. The work of rescuing them was danger- ous. The men were too exhausted to even tle a rope about themselves. When the raft was sighted a cry went up from the steamer’s deck. Orders were shouted and men on the raft screamed and called fruitlessly for aid. For a minute it looked as though the old man with gray hair was gone when the raft gave a sud- den lurch, but by heroic work of Mate Burke and his men in'the boat, he was finally got on deck. This was no sooner was safe than another fainting form was swept away and was only res- cued by quick work on the part of the boat's crew. The next man to be swept from the raft managed to grasp a line and cling to it until he was hoisted half way up the ship’s side, when his strength gave out and he fell back. He was picked up by the boat. The raft put out from the wreck this morning, in sighting the Queen and at- tempted to reach her, but before they could get within sighting distance the vessel put about and headed to the strait. ‘When the Topeka hove in sight the raft was once more manned and again put forth. The survivers told terrible tales of the wreck of the vessel. When they left the ship there were about ninety people still on board, most of them clinging to the rigging. —_— the wreck alive. The chief engineer carrfed a revolver to blow out his brains when the critical moment came. “There were many deeds of heroism and many acts of cowardice, but on the whole the people behaved well and met their fate like men.” Second Mate'Peterson, who was charge. of the raft, sustained severe injuries. He substantiated the story, as did also every one of the men res- cued. ONGRCE ST S EIPETED Spectal Dispatch to The Call. RIVERSIDE, Jan. 25.—John Tootle, a young St. Joseph (Mo.) millionaire, has separated from his beautiful wife, for- merly Mrs. G. Robinson of Detroit, Mich., and local soclety Is now waliting for the divorce court to make the. rupture final. Tootle denies that legal proceedings are contemplated, but close friends state the couple wiu never be reconciled. He is at present in this eity with his nine-year-old daughter, Katherine, while ‘the mother, Mrs. Kate M. Tootle, when last hear from, was at Colorado Springs. The couple first came to Riverside last winter, when Mrs. Tootle was accom- panjed by her two daughters, Hazel and Gladys Robinson, who have assumed the name of their stepfather. They soon became noted for their beauty and were received In the most exclusive . circles. It was then that Mrs. Tootle began to make marked progress.in her strides to- ward social leadership, and her lavish en- tertainments soon became the talk of the town. A tea which she gave at the Riverside Polo Club was considered the gayest affair of an unusually lively sea- son. The Tootles returned to St. Joseph last April and nothine was heard of them until January 1, this year, when Tootle, accompanied by his little daughter, ar- rived at his mother’s home. The young husband admitted to-day that incompati- bility of temperament had caused a sep- aration. FRESNO JOURNALISTS ARE FREED BY COURT Judge Dismisses Case Charg- ‘ing Editor and Reporter With Contempt. FRESNO, Jan, 25.—The case against in Walker, reporter of the Fresno Republi- can, cited for contempt, was dismissed to-day by Judge Church: The paper pub- g-m ?,n mwnth e ntqthu action of the T ury e eim ral case and the de!endmn“f:,;.lh'm '“'.Ph: moned before the jury and asked the source of their infgrmation. This they refused to discl Judge Church held that there was no matter before the Grand Jury properly within its jurisdic- tion and therefore the defendants were not obliged to answer. \ . CAPTHI A N0 EFFORT TO SHE HS LIFE Thinks Only of Passen- gers in Hour of Danger. ot A SEATTLE, Jan, 2%.—Survivors ‘of the wreck of the steamship Valencia who were picked .up from a life raft by the steamer City of Topeka are of the opin- ion that Captain O. M. Johnson, master of the Valencia, made no effort to save his own life, even were a chance pre- sented. According to their story Cap- taln Johnson was heartbrokeén over the great loss of life attending the loss of the Valencia. With tense, drawn face, Captain John- son, clinging to the rigging with the passengers, thought only of those with him and time and again prayed for as- sistance. “My God, send relief to my passengers,” Captain Johnson was heard moaning yes- terday morning just before the life raft left the steamer. Passengers and crew during the night prior to the departure of the life rafts, according to those gaved, begged Captain Johnson to place a lifebelt about his walst. This he persistently refused to do. In spite of the fact that those near him and who still thought of him in a kindly light, begged of him to think of his family anhd friends, Captain Johnson would not do a single thing to help his condition. According to these survivors, about thirty persons left the wreck Wednes- day morning on the two life rafts and in one boat. Captain Gibbs, who went from Seattle to the scene of the wreck on the steamer City of Topeka, returned here to-day on the steamship Texan, which passed in through the cape last night. “We arrived at the scene of the wreck about 9 o'clock yesterday morning,” said Captain Gibbs. “At that time we could see nothing of the Valencla. * There was a thick fog hanging over the . straits and nothing but the white foam of the breakers could be seen from our decks. “The City of Topeka steamed to about three-quarters of a mile of the Valencla. Owing to the heavy sea it was not deemed wise to proceea further. “We spoke the steamer Queen and were informed that about 9 o’clock there were estimated to be about sixty persons still clinging to the rigging of the Valencla. The City of Topeka then cruised about the entrance of the straits in the hope of finding survivors. At 12:30 we picked up the raft. “The condition of the survivors was deplorable. All were so numbed that they could not get on their feet, and had to be hauled aboard the Topeka in the arms of our crew. ‘‘The survivors informed me that the officers of the Valencia daid all they could to impress upon their minds the fact that there would be but little chance for help after the last boats had gone. Still the women refused to take to the life rafts, and as a conse- quence men took their places. That was one of the first questions I asked those on the raft when they came aboard the City of Topeka. All stated that the best of order prevailed, and that the men showed every courtesy to the women. % ““When the time came for the lifeboats to leave the Valencla yesterday the offi- cers ordered all the women to take to the rafts. The survivors state that in spite of the fact that the Valencia was break- ing up, the women refused to go on the lifeboats and the rafts, stating that they would take their chances with the ship rather than leave. “The officers did all they could to im- press upon their minds the fact that there was but little chance for help after the last boats had gone." A survivor says that men, women and children, singing “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” shivered and clung together on the hurricane deck of the wreck when the steamer Queen hove in sight. The women of the i1l fated vessel took off their un- derskirts and saturated them with kero- sene, burning them as signals to attract passing vessels, but all in vain, PERSO-AFGHAN CRISIS MAY RESULT IN WAR Great Britain Williné That the Two Nations Should Take Up Arms. —_— ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. Jomatic circles keen interest is in the developments of the Pe: ghan crisis. The cloud which is ap- pearing on the horizon over the refusal of Persia to accept the award of the British mission delimiting the Afghan- fstan frontler and apportioning the waters of the river Helmud threatens to cast gloom over the brightening re- lations of Great Britain and Russia, The Persians claim that the British a; bitration was one .of their seeking an that it gave everything to Great Brit- ain’s ally and nothing to them. A well-informed diplomat sald that there was little possibility that Great Britain would attempt to enforce the ‘| award, and that the two countries I+ ganistan and Persia) would be left to fight it out between themselves if they €0 desired. il i ———————— Packers’ Trial CHICAGO, Jan. 25 10 dicted meat it Ao packers ISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1uv ; ) : Don’t go to sleep to-night until you have placed an order with your newsdealer for THE CALL. 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Every State of the Ask your story. newsdealer to-night to keep the SUNDAY CALL for you. CASTRO’S EXPLANATION OF TAIGNY INCIDENT Venezuelan Says Frenchman Yiolated Laws of Port of La Guayra. CARACAS, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 22.—In reply to a request sent to him to-day by the Associated Press corre- spondent for a statement of Venezu- ela’s attitude concerning the Franco- Venezuelan situation, President Castro immediately telegraphed as follows from Maracaibo: “M. Taigny, the French Charge d'Af- faires at Caracas, not only violated dip- lomatic etiquette, as proved by the fact of his presenting a protest against the Venezuelan Government when the ¥rench Cable Company was calmed and had been almost arranged with, but the protest has brought the disagreeable situation between France and Venezu- ela to the point of a rupture. But, not content with this, he, having been de- prived by his Government of the diplo- matic character which was vested in him in Venezuela, violated as a French citizen the laws of the port of La Guay- ra by embarking on a French liner, whereupen the Venezuelan Government, in order to avold néw difficulties, and after its police had been treated con- temptuously, resolved not to permit M. Talgny to reland. [0 CASTRO.”: —_———— ‘Would War Upon Socialists. BERLIN, Jan, 25.—Several members of the Prussian House of Lords to-day in “~ overn- st BALTIC PROVINCES “ALMOST PACIFIED” Years May Elapse Before the Obstinate Letts Are Subdued. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25.—Acecording to official accounts, the Baltic provinces are now' “almost pacified.” It is alleged that 220 of the 225 townships of the south- ern province of Courland are occupled by troops. The unofficial view, however, is far less optimistic. People arriving from Baltic provinces say that a revolt crops out the moment a detachment of troops leaves any one place; that the troops have to camp out in the towns and hamlets and that it will be at least two years before the obstinate Letts will submit to Rus- slan authority. There is a reign of lawlessness at Riga, in Livonia, notwithstanding that the. gaj- rison has been augmented and life and property in that city are not considered /safe. General Sollogub, Governor General of the Baltic provinces, has resorted to un- precedented measures in order to deal with the political strike. . He has an- nounced that fines of from 1 to 5 rubles will be inflicted daily on ordinary strikers, 50 rubles on striking street car men, on tradesmen who close their stores and on B Baby Mine & mother should be a source of joy to makes its ident to the ordeal i i b5 ] very mother feels s dread of the pain danger attendant upon Dt i g e § Habeas Corpus for Chinese. Attorney Marshall B. 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