The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1904, Page 1

NIGH EDITION pia ie! ONE E CEN i PRICE ONE \ CEN FIRE | BATTLE AT HAND Mo WARGHIPG HAVE PUT TO SEA Two Japanese Army Divisions a and Regiments of the Guards Have Sailed on Forty Steamers to Meet the Czar’s Forces, Who Are Massing on the Frontier of Corea. STATE OF WAR EXISTS IN THE FAR EAST IT IS ADMITTED. Japan Cuts the Cable to Corea So that No News of Military or Naval Movements Can Reach the Outside World from that Coun- try—This, It Is Said, Means War at Once. BERLIN, Feb. 8.—A despatch to the Cologne Gazette] tft m Vienna says that Admiral Baron Von Spaun,-Coms unander-in-Chief of the Austrian Navy, has received a de- spatch from the commander of the Austrian Legation guard at Peking saying that Japan has embarked her regiments of guards and two army divisions on forty steamers. The despatch added that a Russian cruiser division had], ‘sailed from Port Arthur and that fighting was expected hourly. ; RUSSIAN SHIPS CAPTURED, BERLIN, Feb. 8.—The conservative Deutsche Tage- Zeitung affirms upon diplomatic authority that three Russian ships have been captured by the Japanese. No official con- firmation of the statement has been found. JAPS CUT COREAN CABLE. PARIS, Feb. 8.—The French Foreign Office was ad- i vised this afternoon that the Japanese have cut the cable | connecting Japan with Corea. The'object of this action is believed to be to prevent news of the operations of the Japanese reaching the Rus: | CURATE WINS | Aqueduct, and Fitzgerald will probably | be allawed to work at Memphis. Sam Hildreth has traded Alcom R. and a substantial cash consideratfon to J, W. Bertheroum for Major Mansir. Hildreth clatmed Alcom R. out of a selling race recently Bertheroum bought Major Mansir from Albert Simons two ALTI Pui BLAME FOR "L’VICTIM'S DEATH Coroner Begins Inquiry Into the Killing of Mrs. May Hattie Codrington, Who Was Crowd- ed from the Platform. Coroner Scholer and a jury this after- noon began the inquiry into the death of Mrs, May Hattie Codrington, who was killed on the Sixth avenue elevated road during the rush hours on the after- noon of Jun. 28, Mrs, Codrington was crowded off the platform of a train at Bighteenth streot and dragged nearly two blocks. Six trains are alleged to have passed over her body before she was found. Charges of gross negligence on the part of the elevated employees have been made in connection with the woman's death. For the purpose of placing the blame: cays it belongs Coroner Scholer sum- mohed to Court Supt. Hedley, of the Interborough* Rapid Transit Company, and a number of his subordinates, as well as a half dozen passengers who were on the train from which Mra, Codrington was shoved, Francis H. Boland, of No, 217 West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, was in court also representing M Codrington’s assigns. John F, Mc. tyre, De Lancey Nichgl and John Lindsay’ represented th he first witness called was Policeman Clark, of the Te Was iotilied by ‘enderloin Precinct, who citizen that a ‘wom- fed ‘i the unto wh side, Twentieth. strect I came upon woman's bod rail and (he third rail. the railroad employees and we carried the body to the station, Later we took it to the oT house, where a surges. from New York Hospial. Dr. Reed, sald that life wax extinct.” algo went into detail in his de- scription of the mangled oniiion of the lying outside the steel I called some of Bailrona Commissioners Dic! and Baker were Th the court room ahd quer tlonod the witness litte. ‘They were asked by Coroner Scholer if they did not waht to usk more question: “We don't want to nsk thix witness mory questions.” yeplied Mr. Haket iceman Gillis then corroborated the statements of Clark, Mr, Boland took part in his examination and was asking & question when Coroner Scholer gad: “Do you object to that attorney tak- ing part in this examination, Mr, Gar- at all," replied the Assistant railway com- | _ -|and Robert JURY BLAMES ‘L’ OFFICIALS FOR DEATH The Coroner’s jury this evening returned a verdict declaring that the death of Mrs. Mary Codrington cn the Sixth avenue “L” road at Eighteenth street was due to the neglect of the Manhattan Company’s officials to take proper steps to prevent such accidents. Conductor Gorge, who*had been held by the police, was discharged from custody. ‘LATE WINNERS AT NEW ORLEANS. 6 ‘Fifth Race—Mauser 1, Malay 2, Bob Hilliard 3, mi __ Sixth Race—Big Ben: 1 Ben Howard 2, St Tammany:3, H, Loan, of No. 240 Seventeenth sireet, testified to Mrs. Codrington’ board the train, had pulled per 1 then seized it and pulled tt hard, Some other man then pulled It Uh i O'Connell, of No. 140 West Twenty” reat ity por Reon ehicttel th street, testified that he was] twenty-thi utrect station and ewith Sixth avenue, between Eighteenth two other rs 1 wont Dace a t 1 tha Nineteenth streets, when he heard el for % of A woman. Looking up t 4 CUA Sy aE det Ing behind Our ‘tratn-saw from a platform of a crowde: ‘As he: looked she fell #0" tire “THE plattorms crowded? wit- asked 2. track. With a friend he hastened to the plat- led the guard that a woman was lying on the track a) form and -notifl Retin the. c ‘out of.Jk" vone call out BA pull the the station. “The rd laughed at igndl?” him, Me Was compelled to get a polices mun before ihe "L" employees would pay Neto {0 Nin story. ldentify the man who ‘ou when you told him of Ke Mr, Garvan. he could nnd iden- employees In the Miss. Ethel Spence, of No. 2 West One Hundred and ‘fwenty-eighth street, testified to seeing the win clinging to the « Thomas: Conlan, the platform m who is suld to have that a woman bad b laughed at the, acclde ‘o'Conne : tified one of the “L" it Diavietatlorner: whe re prenented the People at the inquiry, "He has the same right here that the attorneys of the railroad have.” Bradford P. Codrington, the dead woman's husband, was the next wit- ness, He told of having Identified his wife at the undertaking establishment after she was taken from the West Thirtleth street police! station. David Ostro, of No. 600 Lenox avenue, court-room. Coroner's Physician Higgins testified to-oxamining the body of Mrs, Codring- ton and described her injuries. Alfred $. Hamilton gave test{mony that was damaging to the railroad com- pany. to pull her awa fhe Inst he saw (ragged alongside of the her fect on the platform. was. standing on the platform of fhe second car," ho testified, “when I heard a woman scream. At the same time I heard a man say: train wth ORE TAKES A THIR SPECIAL EXTRA, We Wounne "| Revolver in Hands of'P. F. Dan- BY SLIP SHOT forth, New York Commission Merchant, Discharged as He Toyed with It in Havana Hotel HAVANA, Feb, §—Mrs, P. F. Dan- forth, wife of a New York commission man, is In the Mercedes Hospital in a erous condition, suffering from a wound through the right side, ed accidentally by her husband. The couple arrived at the Hotel Gran Pasaje last night from Mexico, after five days’ quarantine. Danforth was toying with a revolver and his wife was reaching for the weapon when It was discharged. The nume of P. 1°. Danforth appear ih, the New York City or the tglephone books. CROKER WILL TAKE peel aly ‘oker late this afternoon y Clerk's office a copy the Appellate Division ‘ourt reinstating him Fire Department. By ir, Croker becomes aguin ae- as Chief ¢ the act tual Chi Chief Croker will officially. take charge of the New York Fire eDpart- ment at 10 A. M. to-morrow. e paying af Quoficial visit this non Commissioner Hayes Mr id to an Evening World ree "1 will be back in tae saditle WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Tuesday for New York City and vicinity: Fair and colder to-night with cold wave; fair and continued cold Tuesday; high to brisk northwest winds, diminishing. Medicine Cures Colda 50 years ‘in use.” ¢0 Father Joh Preventa Pneumonia, VIE W OF THE HEART OF THE BURNED DISTRICT IN BALTIMORE, SHO WING THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS THAT BECAME PREY TO THE FLAMES,' (BRAWN FOR THE EVENING WORLD FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND TELEGRAPHIC DERCRIF TIONS. BY ARTIST BIEDERMAN.) AT BG OOUS ’ Beats Favonius in First at New Orleans’ with Odds of 30 to 1 Against Him — Miss Melton + Wins Again. ecks Axo. | He lost two swell bets on the Maior and ‘The cones the opposition Club is behind the schem new track ut track, of Ch : it and the t at St. Louls has been denied d: By. threatening to bGild another track in New Orleans the Worth and Union people evidently hope to force the Cros- J ‘lub into supporting nition at the hands THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Curate (30 to 1) 1. Favonius (3 to 5) 2, Meistersinger 3. SECOND RAGE-Arch Oldham (9 to 10) 1. Friar Tuck (9 to 5) 2, All! Scarlet 3. THIRD RACE—Miss Melton (51 gin to 2) 1; Mamon (40 to 1) 2, Our! Houndiine. Lilly 3, Rarketmore FOURTH RACE— Mam’selle| 7 (9 to 2) 1, Moderator (15 to1) 2, Baba Thorneycroft 3. (Special to The Evening World.) » RACE TRACK, NEW ORLEANS, | Feb. §—It rained here: last night, and ,@8 a Fesylt the track was heavy and holding to-day. §. R. Montzomery is here to ascertain definitely if Chris} pi Fitsgerald can officiate as starter at) {i Memphis next spring. & Pitzgerald: will have to secure the per- mission of the Jockey Club before he eorgia Mariner, + Sidney Sabath .... 10 five furlongy rel nal Stadonm sess Rixth Race—Pursi corplo. ‘s *Anprentice’ alinwan _ ee gan Signs contract with Memphis, Cas ro coughs and Colds, children take J starts at Bennings aiid curwitheuoniecuon. Atalaroneist, 4 ILL, SHE WENT TO A PIER. Patro} seventh § t Station, » dock at thi nd xtreet yest about Sixty When t woman was not looking ho policeman walked quietly behind her Wells, of the East Sixty- saw a well- and caught her by the arm. “What are you doing here?” he asked. “1 have been fll and despondent,’ satd the wom: “and the noises of the ixqiteted me, 1 came here to, ith im ht that she had’ een in n | # hospital for some time, and her hands werd bundaged. Y ee ee D START. —_—_—$——+- > —___. t WalGh WAG WIGE CHECKED GAIN OWEEPO ON It Was Thought that the Terribly Disastrous Conflagration Had Been Mastered This Afternoon, but with a Shift of the Wind, — the Work of Destruction Continued De- spite All Efforts to Hold It Back. LATEST REPORT IS THAT THERE « ‘IS HOPE WORST IS OVER, Army of Firemen to Be Aided by United : States Engineers Ordered from: Washing=_ ton by President Roosevelt — Dynamite Used in Tons to Blow Up Buildings i in iM Path of the Flames, (Special to The Evening World from Ste‘ Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.—The great fire which has been raging here since yesterday morning again got beyond the control of the fighting force this afternoon. With the flames beaten into a path which led to Jonés’s Falls and the muddy little Patapsco River, and every pros- pect of thé conflagration burning itself out within a few hours, a northerly wind sprang up and in spite of the ef- |forts of the firemen, the flames leaped across: the narrow waterway and attacked the numerous oyster and fruit-pack ‘ing houses on the east shore. First they got across Long Dock, a slender liitle stream wh'ch par- allels Jones's Falls, and little tongues offlame licked their way up the side ofsthe oyster packing establishment of W.,W. Bayer & Co. - In tess than ten minutes the place was a mass of flames and had to be gyen up, Just as the firemen drew away there was a crash and the entire ben collapsed. The burning embers landed on the roof of the packing plant of; roa BS Meyer & Co., and that was ablaze before the firemen could get a live of hose on it. A dozen big factories,.the Waters lumber yards, the Domost oyster packing plant, the Demead malt house and the Merchants’ anc Miners’ Savannah Steamship line were in the line which the flames. Were taking. FLAMES JUMP THE FALLS. At 4 o'clock the flames got across the Falls and. destroyed the Bal. timore Chrome works on Black street. The Falls are spanned at every street by bridges and on these bridges the engines and firemen have been at work trying to stop the very thing that happened. As long as the wind kept down they were successtul, but with the first hard blow of the rising wht the flames the firemen from their posts. ‘They re- treated to the east sh nowever, and in spite ot the se!-back went to work as vigorously The Norfolk whart o! was stocked w cumbed soon after the flames crossed the water. Then the ic coal-yards of the American Ice Company were destroyed, the flames fin- g at the coal heaps stored about 200 yar outh of the ice houses FIRE GETS FRESH START. \t- 4 o'clock the fames got another fresh start and swe ept along ent street to Thames st ‘the Presid dest nger station in the w . is now in di destroyed, The burning area is along the ‘river basin, on and the presence there of huge lumber ‘piles makes it much headway against the flames. section of the cit almost entirely by Italians and foreigners. They in droves, carrying their household goods with them. The burning area stretches for blocks along the harbor in the south- east section, the old part of the city. All ve: that were tied up have to make is populated eir homes are leaving been taken out into the stream and anchored, and there are now over a, hundred of them there helpless as long as the flames rage. The buildings | of the Standard Sea Oil ¢ 1 Fruit Come ind a host of others stretching bac tre now burning.’ Fires menare throwing powerful st tt is of Ittle use. They that hey are set other places. amite can be heard. They must burn themselves out, and it is a fortu ituated that they can now do this withou ends 4 Pat t \