The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1906, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast for March 3: Francisco and vicinity—Rain San k to high south winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. — PRINTS MORE NEWS THAN ANY - ALHAMBRA—The ALCAZAR— ‘The Fatal Wedding. Girl With the Green Eyes.’ C.All;lF'ORNIA—‘ ‘The Baltimore Beau- tom A of the Conviets.” MBIA—"“The JRAND—*The Bella of New York."™ MAJESTIC—"“The Proud Prince.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—'‘Isle of Spice.”” Matinees at All Theaters. SAN FRANCISCO, SATUR&&Y MARCH 3. 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. [ORNADD VASITS MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPP, KIl FIRE STARTS IN RUINS ADDING TO TERROR OF STRICKEN RESIDENTS ajority of the Victims Are Colored, as Section of the City Occupied by Them Is. Devastated. M LOSS TO PROPERTY WILL REACH NEARLY TWO MILLION DOLLARS| D ruction of the Light Plant Leaves Town| in Darkness and Impedes the Work of Brave Rescuers. ENTIRE SQUARES ARE WIPED OUT IN SHORT SPACE OF TIME| MOBILE, Ala, March 2—Infermation Bas reached Mobile by telephome that a tornado visited Meridian, Miss., at 6:30 this evening, killing 21 whites and more thun 100 colored persons and damaging property to the extent of £1,500,000, There were also scores seriously injured by being caught in wreck- The tornado struck the city on the southwest and trav- eled to the northeast, spending its force in two suburhs, where many ne- groes were killed and injured, a whole tenement district being wiped out. 1 ler one, the principal hotel, the er property between the Mobllé and part of the ¢ are badly damaged. rant and several were killed were wrecked, ard the upper Thé negro tenement district in the nd the debris caught fire, threat- ent, with the help of hundreds ; were assisted by the age of houses. ness p ng th ES ARE DEVASTATED. ness and the fidl extent of fhe disaster will not be known ™ was about 600 feet wide and one miile in ainstorm at 6730 o'Elock that 'a storm ‘gloud Zeveloped T M striking TTOMY T Troe ThEt busiuss, Centi, ind was blowing seventy-five milés an hour. The tornado fwo minutes, dnd during ‘that.period whole squares. were & Neville Hardware Company, nd groceries, and the New Orleans lest losers are the Me: Joseph Moore, dry goods astern Raiiroad freight depot. fie &nd Ohio safe, @ well as the Southern Hotel, but the ue Hotel was considerably damaged. The guests in the latter buitding 1siness center the tornade jumped to the east end, where & f residences were dlown down and others badly damaged. FIRE A DDS TO res were TERROR OF THE SCENE. rted as a resujt of the tornado, but thé only ence of Spe that in one of the cotton compressors. was in the .southern portion. of the city and garticulasly one.of the principal busiess streets ‘of the town. it _street is either demolished or badly damaged. lant is the building left. standing, and the roof and despite. the heavy rain the ber of bodies are reported to be in the ruins. is going on bravely, but as il lights are out ht plant, lanterns -and’ candles &re w. It is thought that 150 bodies are in the e was Fr. se on legraph wires are still Gown between Meridian, MANY BODIES ARE BURIED IN WRECKAGE. BIRMINGHAM, . March, 2—A message recelved by Superintendetit Alabama-Great Southern at 11 o'cloek tonight from the. operator Mobile and other Toomsuba, Miss., four mmiles north of Meridian, who had just come from the ene of the disaster, says that Mmore than 100 persons were killed and that the perty loss will be enormous. . He says a!l bulldlngs between Fromt strest i to assist in ud tracks were demolished, and calls for a Jarge force of workmen bodies from the debris were being made. . March 2.—A Special to the Clarion Ledger from Meris T: Bennett, Claudy Willlams and Frank Woodruff, em- Hardware Company, were burfed in the debris n. Bennett escaped, but the other mer are diar ployes of t when® that bpu still Beneath the ruins. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. March 2.—A special to the Clarion-Ledger -from Meri- Meridian, Miss,, says: The, Union and Queen and Crescent depots were among. the depots demol- ished, and it is belleved that more than a -score are underneath the wreck- ege EIGHTEEN BODIES ARE RECOVERED. Eighteen bodies have been recovered 2 those known %o be.dead are MRS MMA SINGLETON AND GRANDDAUGHTER. MACKEY SLAUGHTER. P. L. McINNIS, conductor of the Mo- CLATUDE WILLIAMS. bile and Ohio Railrogd. {\ WILLIAM R. NELSON. Among the Injured are Charles M. Alexandet, Charles H. Woodside, E. H. Brown, Ernest Bennett, Frank Woodruff, ‘Willlam Yarborough and-W. ¢ ORLEANS, March 2.—The Picayune's - Jackson, Miss, correspond- re tornado struck the city from a northeasterly direction near the ms and Northeastern depot. r ved New The passengers and freight depots were were buried in been rescued. tornado passed ght fire imme- ployes of the Queen and Crescent Rallroad as far as could be learned none of them has mber of wounded have been recovered, but as the a densely populated section and the houses cau, will take days to learn the exact number of. killed. BLIZZARD RAGING, y it SEVERE is below the freezing point and g stiff wind prevails. Telegraphic communica- tion to the Southwest is tmpaired. * DENVER, Colo., March 2—Six afd a Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming in Storm’s Path, KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 2—A se- blizza raged today fn Wektern vere terday, accompanied by a. high wind, Kansas. ending from Bllis, Xans., making- it the worst storm of the winter. point 320 miles west of Kansas City, Ant: Ralirad trafic in Coluralo- and Wy- Colorado. Although the weather not oming was delayed and’ telegraph wites in the storin zone were rendered useless. Advices from Wyoming say- that stock suffered in that State, . Heavy snow fell in the mountains, in some places three feet on the level, as-. suring plenty of. water for ‘irfigation. The Rock Isiand - and Union Paclfic passenger traii which.ghould have ar- rived iast night were stalled all night; on the prairies by snowdrifts. A wreck- ing train was sent out tlils. morning by the Uniop Pacific. Some of its cars are reported to have left the rall cold, & strong wind drifted the snow | played havoc with telegraph . and elephone wires. No serious delay to rafl- ay trafic was reported, however. NCOLN, Neb, March 2.—Dispatches from Allance, Norfalk and’ other west- ern and northern points in Nebraska, say the worst storm of the winter has Deen raging for twemty-four. hours. At Allf- ice the conditions are growing worse | wire facilities are demoralized in the western part of° the State. North- western Nebraska is feeling the first resl blizzard of the year. local passenger and a freight train were in collision on the Union Pacific Raflroad near North Platte, the engi- - northbound passenger train on the Chey- enne and Northern Raliroad, the Wyom- half inches of snow fell in Denver yes- | March 2.-—The| peers being unable to see zhead of:thelr trains on account of the blizgard.’ En- gineers Reynolds end Garman and- Fire- men Fipn and Brown were ‘w:ahfirt and severe) passepgers were inju wxcm'r.\.p;hu. March 2-~The worst storm of the season bexan here at 9 o'clock this morning. The temperature ing line. of the Colorado .and. Southern system,” which left Cheyenne at 6:1§ a. m. ¥ , Peached Iroh Mountain, 46 miles morth of this city,” at midnight, having been delayed sixteen hours, by ‘A snow plow &nd relef train ‘were sent this city to the rescue of the passenger train which had been LAWS BUY THE HOTEL FAIRMONT ———— Business Property Is Exchanged for It, Rialto and Crossley Buildings Go to Mrs. OQelrichs, | Enterprising Brothers Will Conduct Big Hostelry Themselves. —— The beautiful Fairmont Hatel; which is | the first and . most imposing sight to the | stranger coming from across the bay to San Francleco, ‘has been sold. The trans- action is -the largest of the character in | the history of the State. | After considerable conference Mrs. Her- mann Oelrichs has sold the magnificent structure to' Herbert E. Law- and Dr. Hartland Law. Details of the great transaction were completéd ‘last night. The deal involves. $6,000,000, the. hotel alone rupning to about $3,000,000 ’ Mrs. Oelrichs has accepted as payment for the Fairmont Hotel property the .| Rialto office bullding, on the-southwest corner of New Mont 'ty and st;lzf streets, o «mcaWa” gl hert B Taw g the Crossiey offfci: bullding, on. the noctli- east corner of New Mantgometry and Mis- sion stréets; owned by’ Dr. d Law. The San Francisco friends of Mrs. Oelrichs will be pleased to know that this .| sale d0es net mean that she i to sever her San Franciseo interests entirely. Mra. Oelrichs gets property on which are lo- cated such fenants as the United Rail- roads of Ban Francisce, the Standard Ofl Company, the Californis Gas and Electric Corporation, Milliken Bros.,. stee! men; the Standard Electric Corperdtion and many others. It 1 stated that the Law brothers will themselves undertake the man- agement of the Falrmont, and that they will make it second to nome in the whole world; as among the largest owners of real property in this city and county it is their belief that this ens thing will do more than any other to make the city progress and to enhance the value of reéal property holdinge, and will give to the Fairmont Hotel a world-wide reputation. it is a source of great satisfaction to San Francisco people that this hotel, which has been comsidered by numerous tenants from other large cities, iz finally taken over by twe of San Francisco's best and shrewdest business men. The Law brothers are men that make things go and thelr enterprises know no éther word than suceess. : Mrs. Oelrichs will be congratulated on every hand upon the shrewd turn that she has made ‘in reitaquishing the furnisking and operatien of this im- mense hotel. A property such as the Fairmount requires striet personal at- terition from Its owners, and Mrs. Oel- richs, being unable to give this te the property, has nevertheless succeeded in clésing it out. - It 1s nevertheless true that Mrs. Oel- converting a property, to which she was unable to devote her personal-attention, into first-class, Income bearing business property, in the. very heart of the busi- ness section of San Francisco. e As is’ well known, the Fairmont Hotel occupies the entire block. bounded by, California,” Bacramento, Powell and. Mason streets, and is 413:6 by 275 feet in size. It has been in process of erection:| for upward of four years. It is expected that.it will be completed long before the closa of this year. B “The Rialto ‘building coversa lot front- ing 160 feet on New Montgomery street, 106 feet 10_inches on Mission street and 143 feet 8 iInches on Minna street aud consists of a -modern, class A ‘steel struc- ture, eight-story and basement building. The Crossley bullding. covers a lot 160 feet front on New Montgomery. stréet by 143 feet 1035 Inchies on Mission street and- 188 feet on Jessle street and -consists of . modérnized seven-story and basement street structure. .. A This.is the largest single sale ever made in the State of California, involving, as 000. The nearest approach’to these figures was the sale made by, Mrs. Qelrichs ‘to the- Spreckels-Phelan syndl- cate of the Lick House and othér prop- erties two years ago for $2,600,000. Thomas Magee & 8o Oelrichs' agents action. wounded brakeman, night. stalled by ' the B passengers were on tl All telegraph wires entering were down last night, save ‘Burlington to, Sterfing, men, who weré gent yi "Union Pacific were ol Archer until daybreak see the wires and pol ‘last night. ¢ _was still alive 8n0; richs has made .an advantageous turn in | |Neighbors Sure He Is { 8 rcity and was |lln l bie: murder: of Steunenbers. LIVES IN OWS ORCHAR HIS CITY AT TIMES UNDER NAME “BERR_Y’: ING ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERSONG D PLANTED BRADLEY BOMB Three witnesses former Governor this evidence sho ( of Steunenberg, m confession at Boise yesterday corroborati ng the story told by Orchard. sha Appears on the Streets | Only in the Dead P8 », Disappears’l'mme@ter- - ly After the Terrible | Explosion. = | Man in Toils of Law at Boise. AP New evidence of a sensational natore discovered In this city yesterday seems to prove beyond -possibility, of doubt that the flend who attached the dyms- mite bomb to the door of the of F. W. Bradley in November, . s told exclusively in The o-&_:-_: fafled to commit murder only heca of the tremendous vitality - of ° the bruised and torn mining man, other, than the infamous chard himself, the self-con derer of former Governor of Idaho. % Orchard in him confession ; the details of the fearful &t murder this ex-superintendent: ‘and said that the. pl was the work of Cer resentati¥ac of thn: “in Westerbo g itwiion 'l same thme fu- thls Gonfessio) swore that he was In no way n with the crime. rx: % Evidence shows, however, that Qr month before the attempt on the life of. Bradley Orchard was ‘living within one block of the mine owner's flat. He was* seehing te hide his Identity and masked under the name - of Frank Berry. A day after the explosion hé disappeared and was not seen again for over a month. Then he crept into San Francisco late bre night and walked up in front of the fiat where the bomb had exploded. He talked to but one man that night and then left the city, never io be seen here again. ORCHARD MASKED AS BEURRY. Three people have recognized the pic- tures of Orchard pubiished in the pa- pers as those of Berry. They all state positively that théy cdnnot be mise taken—the man who murdered former Governor Steunenberg is the Berry who hung about the flat of Bradley in this city and disappeared immediately after the explosion, The fifst of these three who have | made the poesitive identification of the picture is Charles 8. Mahnke, special officer, patrolling the beat in the nelgh- borhood of Bradiey’s flat. He was Berry night after night and closely the man's peécwliar habits, - swears that Berry and Orchard.are ome and the same man. The second .. Giubbini, proprietor of ti saloon at 1338 Washir 7 the third is Mrs. KEEP WEDDING SECRET FAON -and Marry Before . Returning Home. - & o e oo mnd went into the @iubbini stor eqaently Special Dispatch to Thé Call during the month that he fived fn San Francisco, and these two people became | NEW YORK, March 2.—Oscar Hammer-' well acquainted with him. - They agree | stefn discovered today that he is a father: v:;;.dme o;;gmon'.l ::-t Berry and Or-|in-law. When he got.back his. bredth ¢ are oné an e same man. said, in efféct, to his son, Abraham MAHNKE WATCHED THIS MAN. ; s l',e:n; 1;",.:0 Ahmmm : Special Oficer Gharles S, Mahnke ‘Hammerstéin: *Bless tells in detall how Berry hung around corcrgeaning PR ndr. the neighbothood of- Bradleyis Mat st| ¢ developed foday that young Hain- merstein was married several weeks ago nights. Bradley was then away, visits s mines, and he did not return |y, Mies Ethel Britton of this-city. They it to the Hotel Astor for their wed- Couple Go on Auto Ride| PICTURE. OF MUBDERER ORCHARD AS THAT OF BERRY, THE M. SPECIAL OFFICER AND WOMAN, BOTH OF WHOM RECOGNIZE PU: HUNG AROUND THE BRADLEY HOME BEFORE THE EXPLOSIO found in San Francicoo yesterday who recognize the pictures of Orchard, the self-confessed murderer of Inenberg of Idaho, as those of Frark Perry, who hung arcund the Eradley home prior fo the explosion, and t Orohard himself planted the bomb. Steve Adams, arrested in Oregon for complicity in the assassination ————— Confession of Orchard Corroborated by Steve Adams. v ManArrestedinOregon Tells of Steunen- berg’s Deéath. Gives Details of Othe Crimes Ordered by Federation. -— BOISE, Idaho, March 2.—The Statesman will say in the morning: LISHED AN WHO LIND WOMAN NAKES: APPEAL 10 LAWNAKERS until- ;wo .days before. the exploston took place. “I first saw Berry about 4 rom month before the flats were o Ml‘n'm.fl‘ t,mm:' “:: ‘-’rz::: =ald Mahnke, “and I watched him he~ |- : - 7 cause he was about so much at nights. 't He seemed to l;?vle Just reached. the A,,f ::fll:]‘ln;.fl ;:p;‘;.Ahv?lem;: ving somewhers on | pome tontght.” . Washington 6 was a gambling. man from 'Stockton, and ‘that the reason he prowled at d not get into store. Bhe is 18, a brunette and ¢ .. Hammersteln is three: years nights was that ho coul 3 B A o e At Bt ¢ habit of sleeping before Morning: | pavs been pronounced for some time. I- watchéd him closely, for his habits Theysused to go automobiling frequently. made me suspicious.” He never inquired | © - 1 you marry me?’ asked Ham- of me about-Bradley. ‘| merstein one day while ‘the motor was “But one day Bradley's hom was made known about the ne > g.o:ux its forty miles an hour ot on Long hood. That night Berry tola me’that he S 2 op b o : 1 will, fed Miss Britton. So they ‘was ,‘lolng away ih'a day. or so. The st at 'm__cny Hall and weére wed- morning of the explosion I went oft duty They didn’t tell any one about it at about 5 o’clock. The explosion was at untfl today. Sround Uil 3 g/clock T tha momme g | ; i | GENERAL KAULRARS MARKED FOR DEATH think. I di1d°-not see him uniil a month ‘Attempt Is Made on His Life Dot faca” as migh e B, by ‘the Revolutionists - of Odessa. thing about the explosion. I \cla‘m Z . v R ODESSA, March 2—An' unsuccessful at- ce. G Mgl RECOGNIZED “Then 1 read in the papers of the terri- | A fey later I saw the picture of Orchard, the | Berry are one and the same man. what damage had been done. ° He ‘went away at once and I have never seen him apt was made on the life of General ars to-day. - ° _revolutforiary activity s no- le and serious disorders are expect- murderer, and I exclaimed at “‘“That i3 Frank Berry.’ lm-m&fl.-,‘w "ot | K urse 1 never tl t of the bom dley’'s ‘aooz until !'uw 1t hm Iowa, March 2.—A body reet. He told me that he | Miss Britton was employed in a epart. | - Giubbin g her dealings in 3 Berry. t‘n’c;flnmwafl_h‘“qi}n Continued on Page 2, Column 4. o en in the near Harvey as iden from his Asks Aid of State for - Those Whose Days Are Dark. - Special Dispatch to The Call BOSTON, March 2.—Blind from in- fancy, a _graduate of an Institution for the blind, and holder of the Ph.D. de- gree from the University of California, Mfss Christine Labarraque of this city, the only blind woman lawyer In the world, made a stirring appeal to the Legisiature today at the hearing on a bill to provide $50,000 for the estab- lishment of an industrial school for the blind. Miss Helen Keller, the blind au- thoress, through a serious illness, was unable to attend. Miss Labarraque told the committee of her experiences and difficultles In studying-and of her work at the Hast- ings Law School, during which she taught French, and an evening com- mercial scheol. She is now studyiug at the Whitney Opera School. Experts say that sie has a truly remarkable voicte. She is to sing at a mass meet- ing’ in New York for the aid of the blind, at which Mark Twaln will pre- side, ——————— JMeCall's Estate for Wife. NEW YQRK, March 2.—The will of the late John A. McCall, who for many years was president of the New York tion for probate. the estate is valued oday as that | Life Insurance Company, was filed for . Chapman, an metsburg | probate today. Accérding to the peti- ‘body was . dis- ‘éd to have 5 ‘at over §20,000." It Is left entirely to his wife, who is the sole executrix. The will_is brief and is dated February 17 last. g B — = “The Statesman is authorized to an- nounce that Steve Adams, arrested at Hailnes, Or., on February 20, in connee- tion with the Steunenberg assassination, bas made a full and sweeping confession, This_second confession is far more im- portant than that made by Harry Oz chard.” This is the statement made last evening by James McParland, the famous detec- tive, In the presence of Governor+Good- ing and J. H. Hawley, who is in charge of the presecution. McParland added that Adams’ confes- slon fully and exactly corroborated that made by Orchard at every point touched upon by both. Moreover, McParland continued, Adams knows far more of the workings of the inner circle than Orchard did, and was able 10 give a mass of detafled informa- tion that Orchard's confesston did net cover, i The confession of Adams, he , eor- roborated that given by Orchard in substantial point connected with the as- sassinaticn of ex-Governor Steunenberg. Adams, however, was not at Caldwell at the time of the assassination, nor was Or- chard at the time of the unsuccessful effort in November. The man who as- sisted Orchard on the latier occasion, as set forth in Orchard's' confession, was Jack Stmpkins. Still another statemeiit made by the de- tective was. that the Adams confession gave the details of a large number of murders that were not referred to in any manner by Orchard. . It was further stated that the confession had been re- duced to writing, signed and acknowl . It was a voluminous covy a greater fleld and In more de~ tail that made by Orchard. The further statement was made that i