The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1907, Page 33

PAGES 33 TO 44 TWENTY-SIX MRE KILLED AND FIFTY | HURT IN WRECK Electric Express Train| Jumps the Track ‘ Near Harlem MANY DIE INSTANTLY | Cars Leave the Rails and Mangle Many of the ; Passengers | @ BODIES DISMEMBERED | Flames Break Out Imperil Victims in the Debris and | NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Sixten| persons were killed outright, ten others | Clars County will be settled withia the next‘Se 41 had died of their injuries up to mid-| night and at least fifty more were more | or less seriously injured in a wreck of | the White Plains and Brewster Ex- press on the Harlem division of the | New York Central and Hudsen River ‘ zilroad, near Woodlawn road, in the | Bronx bomugh of Greater New Y ork‘ \ : M. E. Vance, White Plains, | : Robert J. Roseborough . F. Johnston White Plains, emplove; on, Briar Clife, N. Y.; C. F.| msburg, N. Y.: Mrs. Mary paqua, N. Y.; Miss or Mrs. | W. E. Sloane; J. Sloan; | ehead, aged 17; Josie A. Abin; therine Keen Farrand, Pleasant- | Mrs. McClain, sister-in-law dent Lyons of the Bloom- : Mrs Edward Brady, Clara S. Hudson; Woman, about 40 rears old; | ars of age: woman, | woman, about 45 rushed berond rec-| vears old: woman, | man, about 40 yvears old ft the Grand Ce o'clock about 27 womdn, 60 s old ral sta- t two © motors and loaded with | ee crowd and commuters on | drawn home from business in the combination smoking car and fiva consisted of a and 2ggage pping 2t One Hundred and street the train was sched, to White Plain the four tracky | ut and tgie | train regched | rve tt was running at § speed | some at SIXty Inijles an v and the smoking | ar6und the rur\,b[ express road er cars left therafls, plung- their sides ¥ith a terrific | and tearing up_the tracks tor | is before ther collapsed. Of | those instantly killed by far the great- er number were women. Many were | beyopd recogmition. Those | seriously injured were hurried nospitgly’ where coroners took ge _9¢ the dead as fast as bodies Weré recovered. Fire started in the overturned cars: flames were quickly extin- 4 the firemen lent their ;od} ed. Special trains carried | ¥ of the injured to White ains and Mount Vernon, while others | brought to hospitals in this ng over or cras 100 g the The rear car, containing more women then the others, sufféred the greatest, 25 it overturned, and the breaking of the woupling released it from the cars ahmad. It was literally torn to pleces and scattered for a hundred feet across Woodland avenue. Dismembered bodies '; ong for a distance of 100 yards. One | woman was impaled on a huge splinter from a railrosd tfe. A sheet of electric flame that orig- fnated from the disaster enveloped the rear car, and for a moment threatened to roast the victims pinioned in the debris. ‘The flames did not, however, spread, and the horror of a holocaust | was averted. AS the cars fell they| smashed the third rail and caused much | were strung | danger. In the crash, however, there was death for many, while practically every one in the four coaches received in- juries of some sort. Many were| ground to pleces, and for hours iden- tification was almost hopeless. As the | cars went over many of the passengers | were thrown out or through the win- dows and cut and maimed. Coroner Schwannecker made a state- ment in which he sald: have taken possessipn of one of 'ails and shall hold it for & tech- nichsl examination. In my preliminary investigation I found & deféct in this rail which indicated, in my opinion, the place where a big wheel, probably ene of the drivers, had hit the rall at 2 point slmost directly under the Woodlawn soad bridge. This rall has a . | WEATHER CONDITIONS | expected to pass the measure tomorrow. P. 83 | scboolhouse. | goasT of chanpel st Mare -Island. Page 23 Representative Overstreet accuses business | | men of permitting the mailroads to use them as catspews. Pags 35 FOREIGN | British flag in his own honor. INDEX OF THE' SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY 86 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1907. YESTERDAY—Rain; north wind; maximum temperatyre, 58; minimum temperature, -52. | FORECAST FOR TODAY—Cloudy, with showers; light south wind. Page 55 EDITORIAL Attack made by Senators from Nortbwestern States on -Secretary. Hitchcock. Page 26 Rsllroad man unpopular because be exposed rebating methods. Page 26 | Efforts at reform of the big life insurance companies do not appear to be prosperous. P. 26 Army of the clean-up is ready for word to march upon the dirt piles. Page 33 JAPANESE QUESTION Root amendment is adopted by Senate after | several members denounce the ‘‘deal” that they accuse the President of making. The House is Meyor Schmitz, with an air of mysters, In- | sists be has not surrendered altogether. Page 38 | LEGISLATURE Bell will denounce Parker from fioor of Sen- | ate Page 37 Bill is introduced asking for commission to supersede Relief Corporstion. Page 87 crry Harry E. Corbett, the well.known sporting | man, drops desd in bethroom at home. Page 35 Seumas MacManus, Irish poet and lecturer, to | deliver cration at Walton's Pavilion. Page 34 | Hebrews will celebrate the fete of Purim next | Sunday all over the world. Page 38 | Indications are that the political war in Santa few weeks. Page New witvess in Dolbeer case clalms to bave | | seen Miss Warren at Ismar's apartments. P. 41 | Captain of Detectives Duke, obstructed in | proper performance of duties, tenders resigna- tiop for good of service. Page 33 | Woman charges iz damage sult for $20,308 | that box factory saw which caused ber son's’ deatd was “‘hoodooed.™ Page 40 Three military prisovers at Alcatrasz Island fail in attempt to escape in bread trough used | 25 2 boat. Page 40 | Tolliver's alrship, to be given trial at Verona today, may visit San Erancisco. Page 46 Three tbugs beat and rob man in daylight and then drag him into yard in rear of a pearby Page 47 Mrs. Marian Warrison Sperry and Allyn J. | Miller are married in Sausalito. Page 44 | SUBURBAN Hans P. L. Jensen interferes in 3 family | quarrel and is sbot through the lung. Page 33 Burglars make 2 rald on residences of physl clans in Oakland. Page 42 | Baby elephant to tread stage at Greek Theater | production Page 48 | Kindness to aged Spaniard brings unexpected reward to father and son. Page 43 Seattle woman's will bequeaths $1,500.000 to | found bomes for the aged. Pege 43 Mrs. Otto Arnold, rich resident of Senta | Clara County, is killed in runaway nesr Moun- taln- View. Page 42 Confiicting storles concgrning the cause of the Jeaky boller on the gumboat Yorktown. Page 42 | DOMESTIC Twenty-six persongkilled and 8fty injured in | wreck of an electrig’ train in the Bronx. Page 33 New scantalh Sep Franelsco relief funds in- | volves office® of army and local officials. P. 21 | Thaw's founsel plunged into amother bitter quarrel OFer glleged indiscreet remarks of Me | Pike. © ] Page 21 | Report/o¢ American Board of Forelgn Missions \ states tha Protestantism is making much bead- Page 54 | ‘n men Kkilled by explosion of donkes en- | 1% bofler on German steamer Valdivia. P. 23 | " all-street market closes at high level after a p" of siuggish and uncertain operations. P. l‘ Interstate Commerce Commission will investi- gate discriminations of telegraph companies in was iD/Spain. Sevs, favor of large concerns. Page 53 Newspaper proprietors of Butte and Ans onda declare for arbitration to settle the strike, Page 42 WASHINGTON Endieott informs House neval committes that properly constructed dikes will maintain depth George Crocker of San Francisco loses swt in | France to recover $20,000 from Dr. Doyen, P, 21 Two thoneand Spanish emigrants will go to Hawsll to supplant Japanese on plants- tions. Page 42| | SPORTS May Suttop easily retains the Soutbern Cali- fornia tennis champion in singles. Page 45 Trapshooters ‘will open the sesson formally today at the Ingleside grounds. Page 47 Stanford’s track tesm is making 2 fine show- ing in its practice work. Page 47 Voladay, a remarkably consistent equine | eripple, wins the Family Club handicap. Page 45 | Riin bas changed some of the plans of the | anto dealers for the coming show Pago 46 | Elghorate preparations have been made by Charles W. Clark for the polo flesta at San | Mateo. Page 47 Beseball plarers of the Pacific Coast League are prepering for spring practice trips. Page 46 Fight Promoter Kohl of Reno here to match Britt with Young Corbett. Page 45 LABOR Delegates to Defense Tesgue to meet today and arrangements are being made for mass- meeting op March 3. Page 27 Iron Trades Council may call all members out of Mare, Island navy-vard if union wages are not paid” Page 27 | MARINE Captain Zeeder of the liner Siberia files the Page 56 MINING Local stock market bolds its own and brokers say that outlook for week is bright. Page 31 SOCIAL Engagement of Miss Elva Reed and Willlam Grosskurth, prominent theatrical mas, snnounced at = luncheon party fn Oakland. Page 43 (THE CALL’S! BRANCH OFFICES Subscriptions and Advertise- ments will be received in San Francisco at following offices: 1651 FILLMORE STREZT Open until 10 o'clock every n. ht 818 VAN NESS AVENUE Parent’s Stationery Store. SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS. \Jackson’s Branch. HAIGHT STREET Chrl:th.n'l Branch 1096 VALENCIA STREET Rothschild’s Branch. 1531 CHURCH STREET George Prewitt’s Branch. 3200 FILLMORE STREET ‘Woodward's Branch. | Army of “the Cléan=up Ready for the ~ Signal to Advance ITH broom and shovel at the “right shoulder,” the Army of the Clean-up is marking time, ready for the word that shall move the line against the universal foe. Every man; woman and child in the city who is able to walk and work ought to be in that line when the bugles start it forward. One week from today San Francisco will begin to be clean again as to its streets that have for so long been filthy to the very limit of use and endurance. They have never been clean enough to class San Francisco among the “spotless towns” of the earth, but since the | April fire the condition of many of them has been all but intolerable. Sunday, February 24, will be “Clean-up Day.” first manifestation of the “pull together” spirit,-and there is no bigger municipal asset than just that spirit. On “Clean-up Day" every able-bodied male in San Francisco who cares anything for himself or the town he lives in will be busy with broom or |shovel; every woman who cares for the cleanliness of the jnside of her house will be busy on that day in an aggressive warfare upon the dirt against |door or window. It will mark not merely an am1able and self—helpful revolt against the tyranny of dirt, but, if {the present plans carry, one of the earliest practical and tangible signs that the new order of things is in force and effective. That day wnll see the | which she has so long been on the defensive. Once street and sidewalk and porch and yard are free from rubbish, dust and mud, housekeeping will {be an easier and more pleasant task. After “Clean-up Day’” the house will not be fouled by every breath of air that stirs and by every opening of And the women who can’t wield brooms—they can boil coffee and make sandwicheés for the Soldiers of the Clean-up. There will be an army |of these dirt fighters to be stayed with food and comforted with coffee. That will be the task, the very useful task, of the women who cannot them- lves take arms against the ocean of uncleanliness. There will be a good many thousands of children in the Army of the Clean-up—big children sweeping, shoveling, raking and scraping: little children doing littler parts in this important and significant work, but doing them like grown-ups. There is no age limit on the “clean-up™ spirit. Better eight hours of work than a cycle of talk. One *“Clean-up Day” is worth a year of querulous conversation about what ought to be done. San Francisco has been slow to find out that the only way to get things done is to do them. And here is a thing the people can do for themselves—they can make this a clean city physically, and when they have done that much they will be a long way on the road toward making it a clean city in every other respect. Dirt and decency are everlasting enemies. Where you find one of them you won't find the dther. In the beginning of things they {were divinely divorced for hopeless incompatibility. There 1s no politics in “Clean-up Day " —nothing but common and universal upnsmg against conditions not longer to be borne. Everybody | who 1s anybody is for the clean-up; everybody acquamted with the virtues of soap and water knows the clamoring need of it. |that admits of no argument. The general orders are out for * “Clean- -up Day”: {a heap—get busy—stay busy until the town is clean. Senators Here 1s a questlon The people decided it in the affirmative as soon as it was mentioned. The situation on Sunday will, we imagine, be | something like that in the calamity days, whén every man made it his business not only to obey the emergency regulations for public safety—the rules about lights and fires and sewers—but to see that his neighbors obeyed them. That was the spirit that made the business of soldiers and police easy in those unforgettable times; that is the spirit that will make “Clean-up Day” a huge sugcess—every man will get out his broom and shovel and will see to it that his neighbor does likewise. Denounce Japanese “Deal” Passport Amendment Adopted Under Fear of Big Stick By Ira E. Bennett WASHING"I‘ON Feb. 16.—After an afternoon of debate, m‘ which the President was caustically criticised by Culberson, Car-? {mack and Newlands, the Senate adopted the conference report on | | the immigration bill, carrying the Japanese exclusion ame‘ndment,‘ this afternoon. It remains for the House to agree to the report, Man Whose Honest Work Brought Unpopularity — . Get a broom—get a shovel—get anything that will draw and drive the omnipresent dirt into Duke, Blocked in Effort to Do Duty, Resigns Captain of Detectives Finds . Opposition Is Too Strong | That the wheels in the Schmitz-Ruef machine grind faster than | the mills of other gods was shown yesterday when Captain of Detec- tives Duke, stripped aof his authority as head of the detective depart- | ment, sent his resignation to Chief of Police Dinan. | Dinan received the message without regret, and in spite of the fw‘mch will probably be done Monday. Then Mayor Schmitz wxll i1<<ue his manifesto on the school question. ‘ A conference was held this evening between Schmitz and his | advisers and the members of the California delegation, at which the | | delegation practically pledged ltse]f to support the action of the School Board. Tt was charged in the Senate by Lulberson today that the! | Japaness amendment was part of ad deal between the President and Cali- fornia. He declared that the Presi- dent, had all the hest of the bargain. The State of California, he declared, hed bartered away its sovereign rights for the sake of obtaining the exclusion. of Japanese, and it could not be sure of this exclusion so long as the enforcement of the law was left to the President's discretion. ““The President,” Culberson added, “is being supplied by Congress with a club to hold over the California authorities. If they do not surrender their control over the schools the President will not indorse exclusion. FACTS WERE MISSTATED < “The President in his message to Con- gress has seen fit to misstate the situ- ation in California in the interest of the Japanese. And the Japanese, tak- ing their cue from the President, assert a claim that great injustice has been done to them on the Pacific Coast. “In each of his messages the Presi- dent has misstated the situation to the effect that the Japanese had been de- nied the privilege of education, when the truth is that they had only been denied the right to attend school with white children.” The situation that would arise from the adoption of the provision, Culber- son said, would be. this: “The President will have aythority to exclude Japanese laborers and coolies and he will hold that authority and the exercise of it in abeyance and over the heads of the California authorities and will keep out the laborers and coolies, provided that the civil authoritles of California will admit their children in- discriminately to the public schools.” “The agreement,” Culberson contin- ued, “seemed to be with the Mayor and ) | not with the California delegation l‘: Congress. The agreement,” he contin- ued, “was a surrender of the eivil rights of California. He made an ap- provisiop excluding the Japanese.” Senator Clark 9f Montana voiced the same sentiment. BAD BARGAIN, SAYS CARMACK Senator Carmack denounced the ex- clusion amendment as part of an iniquitous and unwise bargain between the President and the Californians, by which the State was surrendering part of its sovereign rights. The Presi- denf’s famous axiom, “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” was applied in this case so that the soft words were all for Japan and the big stick was laid upon the backs of the Californians, the speaker declared. He said in part: “I believe that the effect is that a foreign power has browbeaten tha Government of the United States and browbeaten a sovereign State of this Union Into a surrender of rights” de- clared Carmack. “The attitude of this Government toward California has been harsh, tur- bulent and offensive in ‘the last de- gree. Its attitude toward Japan has been cringing, obsequious, subservient and almost pusilanimous. I object to this provislon, because I belleve that it will and that it Is tended to arm the executive with a power to coerce the people of a sovereign State Into a surrender of-a right to control their own affairs, and that this'ls being done on the demand of a nation made without a shadow of reason, without a shadow of right, without a shadow of foundation based on any treaty stipu- | peal for the enactment of a positive | lation or the constitution ox the Unma = States.” g | Lo SHOT THROUGH THE LUNG BY MURDERQUS HUSBAND Wounded for Protecting " an Abused Wife ALAMEDA, Feb. 16.—Hans P. L. Jen- son, a carpenter 37 years old, was shot through the: left lung tonight by Charles F. Moller, " also a carpenter. The shooting took place in front of the ‘Moller residence, 2219% Encinal avenue, where Moller had been lying in walit for his victim. Moller, after shooting Jenson, broke Jdnto -his home through a rear door. His wife, daughter and sister-in-law, Mrs. George Plerce, and her children fled end hid In a nearby .stable until after Moller had disappeared. Jenson was removed to the Alameda Sani- tarium, where Dr. J. B. Clark said, af- ter an examination of the wound, that it would probably result f: ly. 3 fia shooting was caused by Jenson's interference l‘rfll! night when, ac- |cording /to the family, Moller attacked ‘| Dinan. Alameda Carpanter Fatally| | fact that he claimed it was a surprise,as théugh he expected it. Every- | body. in fact, around the corridors of4 | Commissioner Leahy’s building on Eddy :strest, from patrolmen to captains, de- |clared they were: surprised, though | many of the detectives seemed pleased | that a disciplinarian had been de- | throned. Captain Duke, who had been the | occupant of the chair at the head of | the. detective department for. only four | months ‘and who-was declared by | Police Commissioner Umbsen to have | been #he right man in the right place, was unpopular with Chief of Police Police Commissioner Umbsen /says that Duke is a strict disci- | plinarian, a hard worker and honest. This may explain Duke’s unpopularity, which ult!muw forced his resigna- may also explain a wire from tho lmwnunhls Mayor all the way from Washington. The wire addressed to a confident in this city sald: “Stop that police agitation. Stop it quick.” There has been too much friction in the Police Department of late, and Captain Duke is the “fall-guy” in the expressive language of the inside poll- tician. He has been too busy at his desk lately, and he has been a dis- ciplinarian ang honest. SCHMITZ FULL OF FEAR __ It is belleved, too, that the agitation against the grafters has led Schmitz and Ruefi to fear a continuation of polica quarrels as teanding to keep the machine before the public too much They prefer a season of quiet in police circles, hence the telegram from the Mayor to “stop police agitation. Duke was in the way, and the friction be- tween his department and that of the thief has robbed him out of his job and scraped $75 per month off his salary. But Duke says he would prefer to get less money and have more peace. Here is the letter of resignation: “J. F. Dinan, Esq, Chief of Police, San Francisco. “Sir: When I assumed command of the detective department on October 11, 1906, I was under the impression that several changes in the personnel of that branch of the service were con- -+ as captain of detectives, and respect- fully request that I be assigned to duty in the capacity of a distrioct cap~ tain at on earliest convenience, “Very respecttully, “THOMAS S. DUK®. “Captain of Detectives.” DEMORALIZING CONDITIONS Beyond the utterances In his letter Captain Duke would say pothing yes- terday. It is well known, however, that he has been forced to get along with a staff of assistants, part of whom, acting under the protecting cloak of Chief Dinan, have been guilty of insubordination on several oceca- sions. He has been held responsible for the prosecution of criminal hunmt- ing with a!force composed largely of men out of sympathy with him and who knew that the chief of tha de- partment was unfriendly to their cap- tain. This has led to a demoralizing condition, and it has resulted in the resignation of Captaln Duke, who feels he cannot run his department satisfac- torily under a superfor officer who does not like him and who, it is sald, s anxious to discredit his work. There have been several Instances of late where Duke was reminded of his powerlessness to control the work- ing personnel under him, though he declined to admit the fact yesterday. “It would be ungracious of me,” he said, “even if I had a grievance, to criticize my subordinates in this de- partment and it would be equally foel- ish for me to criticize my superiors. T am not satisfled. with the conditions that prevail in the detective'depart- ment, and so, for the good of the serv- ice, I have resigned. No. I have no idea who my successor will be.” Chief Dinan was equally uncertaln as to Duke's successor, and said he would have to discusa that matter with Commissioner Leahy, who was reported out of town yesterday. Commissioners Umbsen and Creswell had no sugges- tions to offer as to a substitute, the former declaring he did not know a single available man. The position pays $250 per month, as against a po- lce captain's $175. “I greatly regret m-?-&“_: R A v