The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1906, Page 33

DOMESTIC SECTION WASHABLE DRESS GOODS On Monday we will show for the first time *ing bargain on every sheif—an eye- g article on every counter—in addition attractive value in every window. NOVELTIES THIS WEEK New Crepe, with Colored Dot, 28 in. wide, yard,%0c, 45c¢, 508 Pla{nh Colofred Linen, 36 inches, a favorite, yard, 40cC and 53 Real French Organdie, in American Galatea, outing, yard lfic Mercerized Rayure, 27 in. new and elegant,yard, g HEs : many original B W ;lac,' in new 25c ideas, yard.... 5 flc colorings, yard, Embroidered and Printed New Washable Effects, 28 Plumetis, g 60c inches, first time, 25 yard. B Oxford Shirting, regulation width, introduced 2 50 this season, yard, Linen Poplin, 27 inches just wide, 60¢ Twentieth Century Suit- out, o (RN RONIN, Madras Shirting, in stylish :;g{s, ne%va colltx;:sh' En stripes and checks, 2 50 yar:i 4 i : TRES S yard, 20C and Novelty Embroidered Ba- Mercerized Scotch Plaid, tiste, 46 inches, polka dots and fig- $ .50 in the favored 30 tartans, yard... c ures, $1 to Your style is here, because ALL styles are here, at most inviting prices LACE SECTION—SPRING, 1906 INITIAL EXHIBITION OF NEW LACES REAL AND IMITATION AND EMBROIDERED COMBINATIONS In Crochet, Auvergne, Batiste, Maltese, Valenciennes, Flanders, Cluny, Princess. In Allovers, Edgings, Inser- tions, Galons, Medallions and Festoons to match. See Window Display. Geary and Stockton Sts. DO OROROROS DR DROROROROR 0K Union Square ; Sece TWO HUNDRED TEAMS ON TANANA TRAILS | Unless Cold Snap Continues Animals Will Be Caught in Break-Up. emat The Call. nless BAKERSFIELD TO HAVE \ NEW HIGH SCHOOL Irustees Open Bids for Ntructure to. Cost a 3 At a speclal ecial Dispat t 3 r in ch another the erect b untry will be caught in the breaking up of the winter and unable to proceed on the trip without great-diffi- culty, if at all. Advices tg this effect were recefved in Seattle today by a well- known operator of the Tanana country, who has considerable freight on the trail at this time. According to these advices the break up is expected at any time and Lindgr s of freight and horses may follow. Some STARTLING REDUCTIONS at San Francisco’s Most Popular Furniture House Greal Big Wood Chair Suitable for din- ing-room, bed- rocm or Kitch- Still Selling $75.00 Furniture & HAIR MATTRESS—30 lbs. XX Amoskesg tickings § P 50T 3 o regéilar rpguler 515.00. SB 90 $5 m] $1.25. Special Speslal .. ... ' CP:SH 7fic $1.00 CASH $1.00 A WEEK $1.50 2 Week Positively only 4 to one person. Golden Oak R.ocker Regular $3.50 20-YARD ROLL OF MATTING— JC:;?:.M inen, wirp; made ia| Special $3.35 Per Roll A_svap| §1.55 Beautifclly pol- ished quarter- sawed oak, with oval bevel Freach plate special drawers for silverware and glasses; wel finished; mirror; regular regular $27.50. price $40. Sge- Special cial $15.00 816.50 Reduced to PAY $1.00 PER WEEK. ....... Reduced to PAY $1.00 PER WEEK. Three $40.00 EXTENSION TABLES Reduced to PAY §i00 PER WEEK. Three $30.00 EXTENSION TAELES Reduced to PAY $1.00 PER WEEK. $ l 6000 Three $20.00 EXTENSION TABLES Recuced to PAY $1.00 PER WEEHK. $ l 0.00 T. BRILLIANT FURNITURE CO. 338-340-342 Post St. $25.00 $19.00 $25.00 Three $30.00 DRESSERS Continued From Page 29, Column 7. late this afternoon bearing forty Senators and Representatives, Governor Vardaman and the Attorney General. Word had reached Governor Vardaman during the | morning that help of a muscular kind was needed in this place, and he immediately rcquested and received from the Legisia- ture an appropriation of $000 to be used in case of emergency. At the Rankin County farm thirty-seven convicts,a ser- geant and guards were placed on board, and all are now, including the members of the Legislature, at work among the debris. The funnel-shaped cloud appeared on | the horizon east of the city vesterday afternoon about 6:20 o'clock, and with lightning-like rapidity descended upon the town. The first building of any conse- quence In its path was the Meridian fer- tilizer factory, which was totally wrecked. From there an almost easterly direction was taken by the storm, and Fewel's Sur- g Alaska about | trail from Valdez to | other cold snap follows a large | vey, in which more than 1000 white people reside, was next struck. Here houses were unroofed and many were blown down. The Meridian Light and Railway Company was next wrecked and the fa- | cilities for lighting the town were de- | stroyed. Within a minute or two the en- | tire south side of Front street and the east and west sides of Twenty-second avenue from Railroad street was a mass of ruins, which caught fire. BUILDINGS ARE BLOWN AWAY. The only damage done to the immense shops of the New Orleans and North- eastern Railroad, which were directly in | the path of the storm, was the unroofing of the roundhouse, the roof being hurled | about 100 feet distant. The freight depot |and many smaller buildings were de- stroyved. The records, papers and every- thing contained in the building were lost, the first floor being blown away from under the secohd. The upper floor was crowded with clerks, but, fortunately, not a human belng was on the first floor. None of them was more than slightly hurt. A row of brick buildings along Twenty xth avenue from the freight de- pot to th street was demolished. The two-story brick building of Theodore Sturge was unrcofed, and the Greenwald junkhouse and many smaller buildings from that corner to Fifth strest were damaged, the fronts being in many places blown through the streets. Every building on the south side of Sec- ond street to the end of the Mobile apd o Rilroad tracks, a distance of fen s, was leveled to the ground. The along the Vicksburg Raliroad tracks in front of the passenger depot is one mass of debris, and there is not a | building standing except the - unroofed plant of the Armour Packing Company. Thomas Lyle's wholesale and retail estab- | lishment, Bush’s planing mill and ware- | house; the Mier-Neville Hardware Com- { pany, a fiv y brick building; the Thornton transfer stable, Elmore’s res- taurant, the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation building and all -the adjacent smaller establishments were demolished. ISSUES APPEAL FOR AID. The old passenger depot was not badly damaged. The west end of the Star compress plant, farther down the railroad, however, was twisted Into kindling wood. ‘“‘Buck- town,” the negro quarter, was mext home in the settlement was destroyed. It is impossible at this time to estimate the loss of life in this quarter, and it is al- certain that the complete figures will r be known. The suburb built by the Meridian cotton mill, Georgetown, was almost completely destroyed and the mill itself was badly damaged. The eastern part of the city from Front street suffered only the loss of broken windows, the blowing off of a few chim- neys and the uprooting of many trees. In this section no lives were lost. Governor Vardaman tonight issued an | appeal to the cltizens of Misslissippi ask- | ing for help for the people of the stricken city. P A S SCENE OF AWFUL TERROR. | Eyewitness Gives Vivid Description of the Death Dealing Tornado. MOBILE, Ala., March 3.—F. M. Strutz of Washington, Miss., whe has arrived here from Meridian, Miss., gave a vivid | description ot the tornado. He said: | "I was in the dining-room of the | Southern Hotel when the death-dealing { wind struck the city. late in the {afternoon 1 neticed that dark clouds | hovered around the city and the hu- midity was very trying. Shortly after 6:15 p. m. an ugly looking cloud was observed bounding toward the city. | This was followea by a downpour of rain and then with a rush and noise | that struck terror to the stoutest heart | the cyclone descended upon that por- | tion of the city near the depot. | "It came toward the city from the southwest, following the rallroads, which pass through Merldian along | Front street. The result was terrible. | Among the first buildings to go down was the electric light plant gnd the |city was thrown into darkness. The people were panic-stricken and rushed into the strests m every direction. That the death list is not larger is mar- velous, but it is probably owing to the fact that many employes of the wrecked houses, depot offices and other places maintaining large clerical forces had finished their day's work and gone to their homes in other parts of the city. “Front street presents a devastated appearance and few houses are left standing. The storm’s path was about two blocks In width, extending from the passenger depot, northward to be- | yond Second street. Buildings on Twen- ty-second avenue, from First to Sec- ond streets, were wrecked. A large portion of the Grand Avenue Hotel was torn away; the Young Men's Christian Association bullding, directly opposite, was wrecked, and the old Sulphur Hotel and the new Unlon passenger station destroyed. “In this same area was the Meridian Cement Works, which was destroyed. Ofticers of the company estimated their loss at $250,000. A large warehouse, where thousands of bales of cotton were stored, was demolished and cot- ton strewn in every direction. The warehouse employes, by the use of hose, prevented greater losses by fire, which broke out in various parts of the rulned area. “It is almost impossible to tell the amount of damage done. “To add. to the terror of the night and to the-fears of the panic-stricken people who thronged the streets, fire broke out in the stricken district. It was known that many were under the ruins of the wrecked buildings. To reach these unfortunates was upper- most In the minds of those who re- mained self-possessed. Vandalism was also goon apparent and the local militia was called out by the Mayor. A cordon of armed men was thrown around that portion of the business district in ruins and In this manner the rescuers were able to work. Lamps. candles and other means of securing a light by which work could be prosecuted were re- sorted to, ‘but progress was slow. “Soon after the ruins caught fire an alarm was sent In to the Fire Depart- ment. The firemen worked heroically to confine the flames to the ruined area and at 2 o’clock this morning had suc- ceeded. ~Wreckage, ruin and death a pear along the path of the cyclone as it leads into the country. Telegraph wires for miles in every direction are, prostrated, and, although the telegraph companies sent out a large number of men to repalr the damage, it will be | many hours before this is accomplished. reached by the storm, and almost every | LOSS OF LIFE IS NOT ASGREATAS REPORTED . “In the area struck by the cyclone the wreck is complete. But few build- ings are left standing and they are damaged. Among the mercantile houses destroyed are some of the largest con- cerns in Meridian. It will take months to repair the damage, and it will be days before the actual number of in- jured Is known. As to the dead, only the clearing away of the debris and wreckage can reveal their number.” FoNT R STORM CARRIES. OFF BABE. Several Hours Later Searchers Find Infant Sleeping in the Rain. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 3.—Many unusual features of the storm in Merid- {an are sent by the Herald's correspond- ent. Charles Harris, an operator for the Queen and Crescent Railroad, owes his escape from injury when the wind struck that building last night to the fact that ke was already a cripple. Many of the others in the buiflding when they heard the wind roaring, outside attempted to escape apd several of them were injured in their efforts. Harris was handicapped and squatted on the floor, hoping that the storm .might pass over his head, which it aid. (e ped with a few scratches. | Among oth freaks the wind played | | was the carrying of a baby of| James Stewart from its home, sweeping it through the air many feet above the ground, finally depositing it gently on the ground uninjured. The baby lay in the rain for some time, but appeared none the worse for its experience. This morn- ing about 9 o'clock when the searchers found the missing child it was peacefully sleeping. One of the tragedies of the tornado was the suicide of Claude Williams, floor man- ager of the Meyer-Neville Hardware Company. Willlams was at the center of the first floor when the building col- | lapsed. His cries for help were heard, but all efforts to reach him wera futile. When he realized his doom he ended his sufferings by slashing his throat with his pocket knife. His body was recovered this morning. Willlams was 25 years of age, unmarrled, and the only support of two sisters. R e L BLIZZARD 18 STILL RAGING. Storm Is Tncreasing in Severity in North Dakota and Nebraska, KINDRED, N. D., March 3.The . fierce storm which has swept over the State for the last three days has become a raging blizzard and is hourly incteasing in se- verity. The Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo lines are now snowed in and the trains'are blockaded. DES MOINES, Iowa, March 3.—The blizzard which raged over the South and West vesterday struck here early today, carrying the temperature forty degrees toward zero. Wind and snow accompa- nied the cold, but has not impaired traffic on trolley and steam roads. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 3.—The blizzard that prevalled in this part of the Southwest yesterday has passed east and north today. Although there was a high wind and freezing temperature no snow was reported today. All tralns are late. DULUTH, Minn., March 3.—A terrific blizzard has been raging since yesterday afternoon, demoralizing street car service and rendering trayel very difficult. Several inches of snow has fallen and | has drifted to the depth of several feet in many places. Railroad traffic is badly impeded and the wires are down. The wind attained a veloclty of fifty miles an hour at times. Superior, Wis., reports similar condi- “tions. LINCOLN. ' Nebr., March , 3.—Railroad traffic in ‘Nebraska is somewhat demoral- ized by the blizzard which struck the Btate yesterday, but schedules were re- sumed today. Low temperatures prevafl over the entlre State, but fruit experts believe the crops are safe. e Ty LOSS OF LIFE HEAVY, Waterspout Lesves but Two Houses in Madagascar Village. ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, March 3.—Details of the destruction caused by the waterspout which recently destrov- ed the village of Mahanoro, show that only two houses were left standing. Thirty bodies have been recovered. All of the Europeans were injured and the material. Josses were very great. The 1talian schooner Africa was thrown upen the beach and the French brig Lu- clenne was engulfed and disappeared. SN 1 T i i ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, March 3.—Army or- ders: Lieutenant Colonel ‘Daniel M. Ap- pel. deputy surgeon general, and Major Philip G. Wales, surgeon, are to be re- lieved in the Philippines at such time as will enabla them to sall April 27 and July 1, respectively, for San Francisco, where they will report for further orders. Navy orders: Warrant Machinist D. Mul- lan is dctached from the Union Iron Works at. San Francisco and goes *o the California; Warrant Machinist W. E. Stiles is detached from the Independsnce at Mare Island and goes to the Pensacola. ‘Warrant Machinist W. J. Powell when discharged at Mare Island hospital will return home. ADVERTISEMENTS. Send My DEAFNESS BOOK FREE To any one who is deaf or whose hear- ing s failing at all. It shall not cost you & penny and it's full of the very help and medical advice that every deaf person needs. 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Prices Range From $25.00 to $75.00 An unusually large consignment of Swiss, Nainsook, Batiste and Cambric Embroideries has just reached New Embroideries nd Cambric ] us from St. Gall, and is now placed on sale. The assortment includes edgings, insertions and allovers to match, from the small-baby patterns to the large elaborate and open work designs; also medallions and galoons, in Swiss, Nainsook, Cambric and Batiste. 4c to $2.00 per yard Corset Cover Embroidery, 18 to 20 inches wide— Shirt Waist Insertions, 2 to 6 inches— 15¢ to $2.00 per yard 50c per yard Demi-Flounces, in Swiss, Nainsook and Cambric, 16 to 20 inches— We are showing an immense variety-of Lace and Wash Neckwear, in- Neckwear cluding turnover: bands, collar and cuff sets, chemisettes, chemisette sets, Bolero Jackets and Berthas, in Point Gaze, Point Venice, Battenberg, Princess, and Duchess Lace. - Also a large assortment of tailor-made stocks in linen, plain and lace effects, from ZSC to $Z 00 eaCh 4 > We have just placed on special sale the SEeCIal Sale Of Handkerc,.lefs largest consignment of ladies’ handker- chiefs ever received by us, and without doubt the greatest value we have ever offered to our cus- tomers. 1500 dozen Ladies’ Sheer Linen Hemstitched Unlaundered Initia! Handkerchiefs, 4-inch hnems. Regular price $1.50 per half-dozen. $1 00 pcr box Of 6 Wash Goods Department Arrival of New Goods. Irish Dimities ...................25 llandzlay’ o Choice patterns. Checks, stripes and embroidered effects. .+ ... 1080 Covert Cloths . Punjab Percales. .. 12%¢ Tans, Blue, Brown and Black. Fast colors, extensive assortment. Flowered Organdy ...............20c | Embroidered Madras .............35 32 inches wide. Handsome designs. New colors and dainty designs. White Waistings, Mercerized.......30c | White Linen Ftamine ... ... .. Large variety pretty patterns. Fancy designs for. waists and suits. Scotch Ginghams ................35c | Japamese Crepe .................. Silk mixed stripes and plaids. ! New colors in plain and striped. 9 e‘:"“% : 1866 » .# a.:) 111 t0 121 Post Strect : " OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE Imprisoned for Conducting Lottery. vesterday of conducting a lottery sev- OF THE PACIFIC COAST [ poo oo b " March 3. Henry | 878l Years in Butte, was to-day _sen- g sty i3 g —— b | tenced by Judge Hunt to pay a fine of WASHINGTON, - March 3.—Arrange- | L. Haupt of Washington State. who Was | 1509 and to Imprisonment for six months ments are being made to ‘establish two | convicted in the United States Court|in the County Jail sub-schools for, bakers.and, cooks—one at Washington Barracks, D. C., and the other at some:post in the vicinity of San Francisco, possiply at the Presidio of San Francisco. The school at the first named post will be in charge of Captain Francis J. Koester of the cav- alry arm, who has been detailed for' duty as subsistence officer. He recently was on duty at Fort Riley at the school of cooking and baking at that post. A similar school on the Pacific Coast will be in charge of Captain Henry T. Fer- guson of the infantry arm, who also has been detailed for duty in the sub- sistence department. He was equipped for this particular work by a period of duty at the Fort Ril institution. These sub-schools will form an impor- tant part in the scheme of giving prac- tical instruction in the preparation of food for the army. California postmasters ‘appointed— Bend, Tehama County, John J. Pope; Comptche, Mendocino County, Ada E. Battey. There has been a survey of the United States ship Alert at Mare Island navy yard with a view to turning the vessel over to the naval milll <The Navy Department has authorized work which is found -to be necessary at a cost of $5000. At the same navy yard the work now in progress on the Wyoming, prin- clipally in connection with the turrets of the ship, will be continued and the other work, estimated by a recent survey of the vessel to cost §20,000, will not be done at_once. Representative Gillett has reported from JAPANESE GOODS nniversary Sale Having been in business in this city for the past TWDENTY YEARS, we wish to announce our First Anniversary Sale . We have a large and well-selected stock of useful and ornamental goods in modern and antique designs, which we offer for sale during the THREE WEEKS (from March 5th to the 24th) at 25% REDUCTION from former prices. We cordially invite intending pur- chasers to examine our assortment of goods and prices of same. O. KAI & CO. 3_»!6‘ KEARNY STREET Noar Bush Straet