The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1908, Page 1

B e S s J Football Reaches Mesa Grande™ is by long In “The Work of the Railroad Wrecking Cren"” Jack Jungmeper tells an intimate story of ‘@ company of brave men and their almost M“WM odds the junnies! football slory of the season. Whether you are a “‘fan” or nol, you'll revel in It will appear in The Sunday Call. sse0ssssssbee INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY SAYS TRAP OF CUTLER Ritter Contradicts the Police el 2 SmSSea TELEPHONE KEARNY 86 HURSDAY, DECEMBE ' NDITIONS SHOCKS AND WAVE Fires in Ruins of Stricken City Burn Thousands of t platform.Page € | on in law. Page 6 2 theater star Commissioner Concerning e el - rrer® | ‘ Ofier of Bribe A | o 5| Unfortunates Sensafional Defense Made in the the Saloon Keeper I'rial Former of Page 4 Com br Page t off with $1 e 1l AND SCORES OF SMALLER TOWNS RAZED MESSINA, Dee —King Victor Emmanuel and | Queen Helena have arrived and taken charge of the work REGGIO 9 . OU, i of rescue. The king saved several persons from a wrecked CATDS - e I buildi i isk eir liv ral times. k S oy = lbulldmg. Both of them risked their lives several times » : el e 1 4 BLOCK of LAVA FRare LI it & - o Sgzoa . sl o8 PITIFUL PLEAS FOR HELP vz : Pased | B '[Y | | FROM STRICKEN ITALY | tier Contradicts Cutler £ ) | —_ | t = | More earthquake shocks im | . e told| Xa rom | 'I' | | Sieily and Calabria wronght Ry | Ten g [ | ' farther destruction and af- | | frighted the survivors, already | 2 | half mad and paralyzed by fear. i Saloonman, Gagged and Bound, | Italy’s minister of marine ¥ v . | | timates | r the Pre-| ... Found Unconscious and | R owiuste T simbe ) . Buel | SUBURBAN { . | dead at 115,000, ; { Safe Is Rifled | | Pitifal pleas for help have o | | reached Catania trom Wessina. | £ 4 | W¥eed, medicives, doctors and | = With blood flowing from ugly wounds i e i v g, in his head as the result of blows ad- volunieers to aid in the work & o thie Hhie e i hoe | ministered by two highwaymen, James of rescue are hegged for. Ref- | et 2 2 Py " Pages | C- Milholland, a bar tender, was found ugees arriving tell harrowing | . eda. o legis- | bound and gagged in the saloon of | | stories of the calamity that be- | ssion 74 | William Crayton, 718 Golden Gate ave- | | fell their city. oo H. WAk | U (»mit )pslfrday r;llnrninfi.DMTl;e‘ i American Consal Cheney and < f Wes 5 robbers obtained more han 3 n | o ors. 4 S his family perished beneath the | . i Pages |money from safedeposit boxes in & CHURCH 3 7207 GROTTO ‘ ‘ ge safe in the office of the saloon,‘} »—./#g.%?m | ruins of the consulate at Mes- eged Offer to Divide a diamond ring and a diamond pin | i sina. - Page 6 | from Milholland, and about $50 from Page 7 led by acel will re der an for ai rage4 |t | the cash register. The rébbers suc- eeded in making their escape. Milholland was just about to close | the doors of the saloon when the two ighwaymen entered. Both men or- ered Milholland to throw up his hands, { evolvers. Just as the latter turned {about to walk toward the rear of (Special Cable to The Call OME, Italy, Dec. 30.—That 110,000 persons perished in Reg- gio and Messina alone is now the appalling belief. The min- E= | 1 | ister of marine’s estimate is that the total loss in the calamity is 115,000, but that these figures will be increased is the opinion | here. Of the 90,000 population of Messina, 70,000 are believed to be voree Paged | (1o saloon, in obedieng ” 2 . : 4 ; s *| FOREIGN | the saloon. 1n-obedighoe Lo S coEgaN 2 dead, while 40,000 were killed or drowned or burned in Reggio. e . |from one of the thugs, he was struck SO 2 3 Flrmgigio . ceto: thou. | B€Veral times over the head with a S, Both cities are obliterated. There is every reason to be pessimistic - towns will | heavy bludgeon. He was rendered un- NSEE I ARKET FLACK ~ M ETIr2R | < < < _ Page 1| conscious by the assault. N oy over the situation. e ’ om g bave M| The robbers bound Milholland's wrists THOUSANDS EXPOSED TO RIGOR OF WINTER se Page 9 | 20d ankles, tied a towel over his mouth Messina tragedi tell of miraculous es- g earthquake and Page2 and dragged him behind the counter. The thoroughness with which the two men searched the office of the WINS HIS BET, BUT DAVID HANBURY 1S On account of the interruption of all communications no aid can be taken to the wounded, who will die of cold and injuries. Thou- | saloon and the short tfme required to sands are exposed to the rigors of winter without clothing. e d O page 10 | [0TC open the several safe deposit | Pending the arrival of stores now on the way to Sicily, the Pege10 | B " | g 'y 'y nte man beats Jun Barry ln the thirty- | DO¥es In the safe/lead the police to e ichad i feri h % f b R § e Page 10 | believe that they are experienced safe Ci | a1 kg wretched survivors are suffering the extremity of hunger. eports e runpers are ready for the two|crackers. Many of: the boxes in the § : - L - . e t e ! o Pt PP ro! i scribe them vainly raking among the ruin r caa Ge Goiden Gate otk om0 | larg, mate in Cravion's saioon are rent. | O8Kland Man Forces a Billiard | Millionaire, Who Gave Fortune Tom Catania de = J g g a5 : stte will be held for 40 days nest | 3 to merchants and others In the im- Ball Into His Mouth on to Wife Recently, Threatened scraps of bread or anything else that can be eaten. They are mostly w me Page 13 | mediate neighborhood. ’ real s T, 5 i stakes op-list for tomortow' at|° Jonn -de - You PE ot K i half naked and many bear shocking undressed wounds. Numbers : P 18 | 21D A0 TONKE ANEER NI E S a Wager With Pneumonia e id e et 3 L Pays Money to Cutler ady to fight Langford very W:; nmobnsmtl;e h(eavl:s:lonrs :whthe of others wander pitifully about, appealing to passersby, who are ke bl 0'Connor. Page 10 | robbery, both having had several hun- o Fe— s % 5 B o e stud Hermis wants $25.000 | dred dollars in their respective boxes. | OAKLAND, Dec. 30.—On a' wager,| David H. Hanbury, the millionaire 2 htfle more fom,'_ ate than tb”_““he" t? flp th?m. -8 SRR oo i P ) :”"’"'r““d ‘:'h h“]’vf( h““‘::' John Robbins of Fruitvale forced a bil- | English brewer, is‘dangerously ill in The weather is raw and rainy. A piercing yind adds to the s e et P 10| Were used to force e locks on e % % o - 2 3 Fmerseille lose aud beekies| apartments in the safe. The hammer |l8rd ball into his mouth at a poolroom | his spartment; at the Jefferson hotel. |misery. There have been many instances of robbing the dead. The . Ry Page 10 | was evidently covered with leather, as|in Melrose yesterday. It required three | For some days he had been threatened fingers of corpses and even of wounded persons have been cut off i 4 is arranged for New ‘”P‘.:l:g‘a a small piece of that materfal was|hours' effort on.the part of Dr. J. H.|with pneumonia and early yesterday enters denounces de- in finlng Gompers, District found near the safe. After rifling the contents of the boxes in the safe the robbers turned Callan and Constable Tom Carroll to re- move the sphere from Robbins' mouth, morning he was attacked with convul- sions. Dr. F. M. Sponogle was immedi- in order to get the rings they wore. SECOND SHOCK COMPLETES DESTRUCTION Pages | their attention to the big cash drawer |nd in the operation it was found neces- | ately summoned. to his bedside. After Intense horror was caused here today by accounts of a second in which Crayton kept his money. It|sary to extract several'of the man's|administering hypodermic injections visitation at Messina. The dispatches described it as a violent wade at Moores creck, in Ne. |15 Drobable that the thieves were |teeth before the ball could be taken out.|the physician called in an associate for Faalees h k hich ed the: dedtosiens i th the | e SO & Page$ {”::]‘;(‘“o";fn :::’;p::l:;:t :‘;et"he‘z"‘d Robbing almost choKed to death be- | consultation’and the patient was placea | SNOCK Of earthquake, which completed the destruction of the shaken & e. 3 -y ge oy .o = £ aracao arrives from Mexico with god | Cravton had several hundred dollars|f0Te he was relieved. Oil and .a small|under the care of a nurse. At an early buildings, and caused great additional loss of life. © worth §70.00 aod 4 big shipment of | in this money drawer. pinch bar were used in prying the ivory "‘;‘“‘; “"l"h““‘":l‘"t: e "‘d‘}t:‘“"" r sond A man who escaped to Catania from Messina says it is impos- Pmatoes. ®ge 15 | Policeman John J. Lyons discovered ana ‘Robbin: b S s Th A s nt e : i g y r o | the rabbery. . WL o st s e |t A and. " optenen seont iy sible to describe the spectacle presented. The town is in ruins and the . .k F R S during the ordeal The physicians said that Hanbury's B C This is the official sou- of Crayton's saloon at 3:15 o'clock ves- | Rophing bears the reputation of be- i e reduced to-a mass of smoking debris. L gy 3 5 terday morning he found it unlocked. |y, o ik UGTt AR AN S trlend“e‘“r!etc existence in many climes had £ P C Tri B . to Cutler ne| | venir badge. Don’t try ||The policeman entered the saloon and bet him $2.50 that he could not:pocket | "OMhEt undermined his once magnifi- A dispatch-from Commander Trinchieri, who was saved, states to celebrate withoutone. wife of end of the by T \\Il~‘ the defend- 1est reputa~ | 4 nt of Assistant wa followed charac! ed se was c) Cook was made estérday afternoon. be finished and the | of the jury be- | hearing groans he soon discovered Mil- holland stretched senseless on the floor. An alarm was sent in to cen- tral station and a detail of detectives | was sent to investigate. All trace of {the robbers was lost, but when Mil- | holland regained consciousness at the | central emergency hospital he gave | the police’ an accurate description of | his assaflants. Detectives Leo Bunner, | Thomas O'Connell, John Fitzgerald and Robert .Graham were detailed ‘on the |case. The robbers left the saloon through an exit in the rear, climbed |over a fence and ‘went down Elm ave- nue. } The police are of the opinion that ‘u..as.- two men are the ones who as- saulted Henry Inseimann, a saloon man, in his place of business at Polk and Turk streets about two weeks ago and robbed hir a billiard ball in his mouth Robbins took the bet. He won the wager, but probably he Wwill be out of pocket on the whole transaction when the doctor’'s bill comes in. BISHOP O’CONNELL NOT APPOINTED COADJUTOR Report of Promotion to Position in This City Denied at Vatican ROME, Dec. 30.—The appointment of Bishop Dennis O'Connell, rector’ of the Catholic university at Washington, as coadjutor archbishop of San Fran- cisco, with right. of succession to Archbishop Riordan, was officially de- nied at the Vatican today. 1t is prob- able, however, that Bishop O'Connell soon will he ' made auxiliaty aréh- bishop of San Francisco, 2 cent physique. They are still hopeful of his ultimate recovery. His wife, to whom he recently. deeded his island near Napa, and in whose favor he made a will bequeathing his $4,000,000 estate, consisting of brewery and champagne winery interests in England and France, is a constant attendant at his bedside. - Mrs. Hanbury is optimistic and be- lieves that her husband’s splendid con- stitution' will pull him through this sickness, but in case he shows no de- cided improvement today will cable to London summoning Hanbury’s brother, John H. Hanbury, to the bedside. She ' sald that the note for $5,000 which she negotlated with the Bank of Napa was ‘made for tlie purpose of having an ample supply of funds on hand in case of her husband’s illness taking a se- the dead number tens of thousands. Thc wounded are dying of hunger and thirst. Fire destroyed all that remained, spreading over the town. Telegraphic communication has been re-established be- tween Messina and Palermo, where the wounded are beginning to arrive. The Duc d’Aosta has left for Messina on a destroyer. ‘American bankers in Rome are constantly receiving telegrame from America asking for news of relatives and friends. Most of these Americans have been traced either here or to Florence, where they are spending the Christmas holidays. Some who had intended te spend the winter in Sicily fortunately delayed their departure for the island. Subscriptions opened here already reach 1,000,000 lire ($200,000). J. P. Morgan’s contribution of $10,000 by cable has created a pro- found impression. ROME, Dec. 30.—The immensity of the disaster in Italy and