The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1906, Page 1

San Francisco and vicinfty—Falr, warmer Thureday; light north winds, changing to westerly, A. G, MeADIB, District Forecaster. d SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDA.Y APRIL CE FERTIE STACT SURROINBIG V3 SURVIVORS OF THE i) 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VIUS NOW A BLEAK” SAHARAN DESERT. RVING AID THE RUINS OF THER HOMES TOWN OF OTTAJANO COMPLETELY BURIED BY LAVA AND ASHES AUTOCRAT | From the devastated area around Mount Vesuvius, an appeal for azd has gone up from fifty thousand homeless villagers. So complete is the tie-up of transportation facilities | that many whom rescuers cannot reach are starvmg amid the ruins of their dwellings. CASTRO OUT | OF OFFICE Retlres From the| Presidéncy of Venezuela, = F Vice President Gomez Takes Up Reins of Government, ’ashmgton Diplomats Are Unable to Fathom the Sudden Change. Sl Sl SPATCH TO THE CALL. | NEW YORK, April llemds.® to pe istent reporis of inciplent reve- @ tuternal dissensions in Veme~ nouncemnt was made to The nd the New York Herald tonight General Cipriano Castro, President of the had withdrawn from office been succeeded by Gen- eral Clciente the Viee The Ministers and Governer have retired and the new President will appoint a Cabizet of his own. republic, and had Juan Gomez, President hing more | stro’s part |- d the reins omez, who He de- ot ERUPTION FOUR YEARS AGO, WHEN THE VUI;AGES. NESTLING AT WITH DESTRUC ND Bl]:{l)&EYL VIEW OR.. STI% THE £ ot ERE ————— CARNEGIE IS INDIGNANT BECAUSE HE WAS Khsr_b\ 'WORKMEN FIND } BURIED RICHES Says nta Women Took Him Un- | ares With Osculatory Onslaught Ath w Carnegie re he (uuh. \ 'Attributed 10 One | Captain Kidd. JERSEY CITY, N: J., April 1L.—Twenty Italians quit their work this morning | when they found hidden treasure in the ground while excavating Yor a new hotél | that 1s being built on the Patterson plank road a quarter of a mile east of the Hack: nds on the aston. | ©8ack River bridge, in Secaucas. Ider kissed him, and | The men dug into a quantity 'of coins rapidly followed by the next | that is said to have been equal in'capaclty | line, who seemed to be her | almost to a bushel. They gathered up the Carncgle blushed and laughed, | coins and left their work at once. Whither raising his hands in good-na- | m protest, instantly Ch,rkkd‘!h(‘ have gone ‘an® the nature of the ts at osculation which | COIiS they found are not known. made by others. The Dr. Josiah Hornblower,' who is well read of the incident which | in things pertaining to the exploits of Atlanta are wholly un- | Captain K144, is of the opinion that the 1 no one has been more disgusted | treasure may have been hidden in one of e story than Mr. Carnegie himself.” | the expeditions of that pirate to the Pittsburg pa- to get into The le f the recepti, stopped and a ring complim DEPRIVED OF LI"‘E AND RESUSCIT.AIED Chicago+ Scientists Make Starthng Fx— periment Wlth a Human B mg : ’ . SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL ; CHICAGO, ‘April 11.—Startling even, the dog was reskoreg} o life. . Later the most sanguine believers in the artl- | the dog was turned legse on the street ficial production of animal life, it was | @nd went fts' way. apparently ‘none the sald before a clgss in the physiological | WOTSe for:theexperiente. laboratory of-the University of Chicago | | Lie nome:of the ‘professor who made nt * that an ‘expenimenit Tiad boen made oh | e in o At (NN o runble prived of life and restored. A dog had ::f;::‘:,:lm ?fir;gefl,;p:,:fi',:“‘:m':: declined to ‘discuss t! lnbjeqt in its relation. to liuman- 1 He also '@e- clined to dlfiuqu,_chs expsflment wuh the dog. 1 3 The exrerhnent - been- put to death and revived thrice, ‘but ‘three successive experiments with @ human being had not yet been made. One successful experiment in restora- tion was performed in the physiological laboratory of the Lnlveuity of Chicago today: great Interest to” the! scientific’ world, and rks . the, line by s Three times a dog was deprived of | poiieved. 1t fir’«é’ '”36;’;‘?;:”}&:: . life and three ‘times, by the_ -.l:l of mass- life in cases w! ere: on_hz iy a human being by which he was u; B e ik e gy age, a stimulant injected and a tonlctlunficflded in’ c hum Indications Poi Fall of Ejecta NAPLES, April 11.—The whole of the Vesuvius district as far as Naples, Caserta and Castellamare | is one ‘vast Saharan desert. Re- ports tonight from all sides state that the fall of ashes is not so heavy as it has been for the last few days, and that the ashes are much finer; and from this it is ar- gued that the prospects are much brighter. The blockade of -local traffic COI'IUH\]CS ‘but SCI’VXCG on the main i [ines of railway has been re-estab- lished, although mly disar- #——————-:- -+ | WOUAN HAKES® BIRSHIP ASGENT Myrs. Thomas Accom- panzes Husband . in Balloon. ' 5 SPECIAL. DISPATCH TO THE CALL. PITTSFIELD, Mass., April 11.—While 3000 spectators waved their hats and handkerchiefs and cheered Mr. and Mrs. Jullan “P. 'Thomas of 'New York and Charles Levee of Paris made an ascen- sion . this = afternoon in the -balloon “Orfent.” ‘There was only a slight breeze from the northwest as the great airship arose gradually to a height of 400 feet. It salled-at that height toward IWashington Mountain and it seemeéd as ‘if the ‘balloon would ecrash - into the_trees. Leyee let’out some ballast, however, and the “Orient” shot.upward and passed over the William C.- Whit- ney estate's-game preserve on October Mountain. When last seen in Pittsfield the bal- | loon - was ' going southeast toward Springfield. The uromn(s landed safe- 1y on a farm at Somersville, Conn., at '6:15 o’clock this evening. The aeronauts landed on the farm.of the situation, inveigh against the delays and discomforts to which they have been subjected. This has been a disquieting day' in Naples. ' The _people, alarmed by what has occurred, have deserted their shops, and the manufactories are mnearly all closed. - The 'crowds are in a tem- per’ for_any excess.. It would only require a spark to start conflagratxon. s --The arrival of ' King - Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena has done much to restore calm. They have been received with great joy, especially when the sover- eigns left a hospital after a visit to the injured there. One. poor woman exclaimed : “I would consent to be wound- ed'for the sake of being kissed by the Queen.” Othérs "cannot find words in which to express their gratitude. Both -the rayal palaces of Cappo | di Monti and San Fernando have a B. F. Kinney, two miles east of Somers- been gwen up to refugees ville, having traveled about seventy| been | miles. - The- landing - was ‘made ea-fly 4 . o - Itwo towns, Sarno and San Gen- ina mudbv z £ » Reports -of ‘the destruction of nt to Cessation of the Volcano’s Activity. Not So Heavy as on the Preceding Days. King's Arrival Restores Partial Calm in City of Naples. arro, the former having a popula- tion of more than 8cco, have proved to be without foundation. At Sarno 5000 persons from near- by villages and farms have found refuge. Ottajano, where many lives were lost on Monday, is now practically buried. There is great difficulty in as- certaining the actual conditions ot | affairs in that part of the district nearest the volcano. The tram I and railroad tracks are deep under isand and ashes, the voads are obliterated, and even the fisher- 1nen who ply thc:r calhl‘ on the { in the vmmtv of Vcsnvms. these conditions make it difficult to give an intelligent estimate of the loss of property. Beggared by the Catastrophe. Everywhere in Naples and Cas- tellamare and in the lesser towns near by, out of the danger zone, {are beggared refugees who onmly a few days ago were prosperous and happy, though living almost underneath the shadow of the per- petual menace—the volcano of , Mount: Vesuvius. For these peo- ple, whose homes and crops have been destroyed, there 1s little con- solation in the statement of scien- tists that ultimately the valleys and hillsides will become as fertile as ever they were. Until communication has been restored and search made in the houses in the afflicted district it will be impossible to determine how many persons have perished by this eruption. Picture of Dante’s Inferno. Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of the Century Magazine, who has been an eye- witness of the events here the last few days, said today: “Each day it becomes more im- possible to visit, even at a dis- tance, the afflicted districts. The ashes have reached preposterous proportions; they filter into everything, blocking the trains, trams, aytomobiles, carriages and- horses. Only the soldiers seem to overcome the obstruction. “Before the interruption I took a train for Torre Annunziata. At Torre del Graco the heavens seemed to open and we were soon half-buried in ashes and hot cin- | ders. The train drew up in total it | darkness, relieved only by light- ning flashes. Thus we awaited events! Soon the darkness toek on purple and yellow tinges, the detonations became louder than the loudest thunder and the ashes burned our eyes. It was a [ perfect picture of Dante’s iriferno. The train could not proceed, so thick were the ashes on the track, and ]ust at this peint the train broke in half and the poor women fugitives, believing they were about to lose their lives, began to Continued on Page 3, Columa &