The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1906, Page 1

April 11: and vicinity—Fair fresh northwest winds. ict Forecaster. A. G. McADIE, I i ALCAZAR—"“The Wife." ALHAMBRA — “For His Brotheg's Crime."" CALIFORNIA—"Casey and the Green Chub.”* Cis%quAL—“mthdl-‘nt a Great g le. Matines. Lion and Goes There?- I COLL unm—‘ “The the MA \mmc “Who ORPHEUM—V: mdflvfllo. TIVOLI—"Miss Timidity.” s Lt Matines. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VESUVIUS GROWS MORE VIOLENT AFTER A BRIEF Five Hundred Persons Perish in Vicinity of Ottajano and San Giuseppe NAPLES, April 10.~-The volcano is resuming activity, especially at Cericola. The stream of lava which started anew in the directiqn of Torre Annunnata reached the cemetery of that town and then turned toward Pompeii. The troops are conveying provisions, surgical accessories and other material for the relief of the mjured. Five hundred persons have perished in the district between Otta]ano and San Giuseppe. Present Eruptlon of Volcano One of the Most Terri- ble on Record. WITH TERRIFIC THUNDERING THE GREAT CONE COLLAPSES New Fissures Burst Open Far Down the Moun- tain Siope. ITALIAN G OVERNMEN T WORKS HEROICALLY TO AID VICTIMS BY F. MARION CRAWFORD. 1906, by the New York Times; Special Cable. ELLO, Bay of Naples, April 10.—The present erup- \ s is one of the most terrible on record. “For some time » has been unusually active, and last week the outbreak g s w done incalculable damage. us volume of black smoke rises to a height of two Incandescent masses of stone are thrown up us southeasterly wind carries the ashes over pletely enveloped in darkness that for three by sea have been cut off. e sail boats trying to reach Naples find them- several miles from shore, and turn back, num- fainted from the sulphurous fumes. 1 far below the cone, emitting many streams hich has completely destroyed the town of Bosco- 10,000 inhabitants. others have destroyed thousands of , with farmhouses and stock. Cone of Desuvlus Collapses. - of Vesu 1s collapsed with awful thundering and he observatory and the large new hotel totally destroyed on the night of the 7th. The popu- f Boscotrecaz and other ruined places fled in time to Naples, Is were choked day and night with every sort of vehicles s of people on foot. 7 (Monday) I drove through Torre del Annunziata to cre the main stream of lava stopped on Sunday. The ast quantities of burned stone and sulphur on its sur- Ited lead, and nothing was visible toward Boscotrecaz but s of dark scoriae, broken here and there by the greenish ling smoke of sulphur. 1 the « e railway were all Another has reached the out- | 3 1% h | { | { | | | 1 LITTLE GIRL ROUTS BURLY HOLD-UP MEN Empty Revolver Serves| to Frighten the Highwaymen. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. OMAHA, April 10.—Two burly hold-up men, armed with guns and knives, fled precipitately last night when confronted with a dangerous looking but harmless empty revolver in the hands of little e point we reached a great stone where a pine tree, torn ts roots and turned to black charcoal, stuck out of the mass le. The air was almost unbreathable, the heat intense. people who crowded upon the edge of the arrested 1 expressed present terror or exhaustion from recent panic. Try to Check Stream of Fire. e faces sovernment has done what was possible to help the homeless large bodies of troops sent to the rescue have be- great energy and murage"in saving property. When the f fire threatened Boscotrecaz soldiers dug a wide ditch across rew up a formidable intrenchment in the hope of course, but every cfinrt was useless. Iten stone advanced like a colossal serpent of fire, turn- its head to the right and left as a snake does, but keeping its 1 direction toward the fated town. It was not until it reached the first house, sending up great showers of sparks, that the people finally fled for their lives, taking such belonging as they could carry 1 their arms or pile upon the creaking carts. I saw men, women and children, and infants whose mothers arried them at the breast, or in their aprons; dogs. too, and cats were on the carts, and some even had chickens tied together by the legs, ‘and piles of mattresses and pillows and shapeless bundles of clothing, all white with dust yunder the lu‘rid glare. Rich Dinelands Lost Forever. I saw one woman lying on her back acress a cart, ghastly. whlte mg genera Continued on Page '2, Columns 5 and 6. Miss Martha Miller, a diminutive Swiss girl, whom the robbers had found alone in her father's grocery. When the men entered the store they called for a cigar, and as Miss Miller started behind the counter one of them pinned her arms be- hind her and held a knife to her throat, warning her to make no outcry, Mean- while the other man ransacked the store. Finding no money they demanded of the girl that they be shown where the cash was kept. “Release me and I will find it for you,” .was the reply. “If you make a false move I will cut your head off,” said the man with lhe knife. Followed closely by the highwaymen, Miss Miller went Into a rear room and rummaged through the dresser, finally handing the handits a long red pocket- book which contained no money. While the gaze of the two robbers was fastened on the purse Miss Miller drew a revolver from the drawer and demanded “Hands up!” nlnutbad of complying thie men turnea on their heels and fled. “The revolver was empty or I would have shot them,” said Miss Miller after- ward. ——— JAPAN DEMANDS THAT CHINA OPEN MUKDEN AND ANTUNG Insists That Provinces He Made Acees- N sible to Foreign Trade Next Month. + LONDON, April 11.—The Daily Tel:~ graph’s correspondent at Tokio tele- graphs that Japan has formally de- manded that China open Mukden and Antung provinces nekt month to teM‘n trade, -~ & K3 BROKERS WHO GAVE BRIBES FACE PRISON {|{Government on Trail of Cotton Report Conspirators. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL NEW YORK, April 10.—That the Fed- eral authorities were not satisfled with the outcome of the -action instituted against Moses Haas and Frederick A. Peckham last year for having, it was al- I leged, conspired with Edward 8. Holmes NAPLES, SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE KONTE OHV!'ID MARKET, BIRDSEYE VIEW OF THE CITY AND BAY oF Yo £ ROOF COLLAPSED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF ASHES FROM VESUVIUS, CAUSING THH?SVOU‘QNQ Is SHOWN IN' T!E DISTANCE. Jr., an assistant statisticlan, to obtain DOWIE DELAYS HIS [PREDICTS CREATION Tar-fies in Chicagoto En- advance on the “hosts of Zion” as M-.h e £ Tonight, after a long conlulu.tlon “' " Emil G. Wetton, Dowie gave out m- be #everal days before he woulc see Q ‘to e which he had founded. The “first apostle”’ su’lved in the . morning shortly Beéfore 9 o'clock, u-& of his long. journey from Mexico to the city of Zion, M he is to face his accusers. An immense: [NVASION OF ZI0X' OF A SLAV REPUBLIC Maxim Gorky Tells of Mission to America. NEW YORK, April 10.—"I do, not know . how long or -how short:my stay in this country will be, but of this I ‘am sure that whllc here I will try to do something for my t | fatherland.” Surrounded by his trlemll. _many of whom are poml:al_ exiles themselves, Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, made this | this statement in his cabin.on board the Kaiser Wilhelm [ der Grosse, which: arrived ‘In" ‘port this evening, after a gage Legal Adzvmers Dowle will not. CHICAGO, April IOL—Dr J. Ale; , 'who was registered in-the passenger list'under ;1 not with what had been dohe, -styled Elijah ‘me of Puhlofl. vuw.d by his wife and bt “:nl‘:l?: :k; 'f’.iiK ?nd. Nm? a secretary. He is a man of 35, about five fest six inches 3"; F- g oy e e cracked several jokes with newspaper c¢ m- in hd;ht.h His, - -h:nd m;mh; are lhh:h!:l: :t‘ l!: nection m‘mn'n. original h‘ltnn:: d about him. Bscorted by a number lemm ‘blue and his no rp. He wore a long vércoat | which were force. m"- ::;o had boarded the train st Englewo 2 ...,‘.uun provided a second cago, he made his way to the end ‘of - the. down upon the Station phtgq-m, s'miwcu— mflnnvnfiniwnkbmdlumk, ;’h i 2 The moment the crowd caught a talked-of 0ld man a cheer went up, an Tethons vl setuse 'm.:mmmmuwolcvmnm rom the ":-“1‘- t: “Peace be with you” of the Zionites to the n hlnv: |