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VOLUME CXIL—NO. 45.
AUTO CRASHES,
GIRL IS KILLED,
FIVE INJURED
Machine Falls Over Bank at
Dillons Beach on Vic
tim's Neck
Brakes of Car Fail, Despite Driv
er's Efforts to Prevent
Disaster
Miss Eldred Dickinson Dies,
Miss Church and Pour
Stices Victims
ONE young girl was killed, two
men seriously injured and three
other persons badly cut and
Druised yesterday afternoon at
Dillon** beach, near Tomales, MarJn
county, when a large automobile in
which they were riding backed over
an embankment and fell crashing 25
feet to the beach below.
The dead:
MISS ELDRED DICKIXSOX. 14 years
of age, of 1424 Grove street, this city.
The injured:
Mine Vivian Church, 17 years of age,
living at 544 Steiner street, this city:
badly wrenched back; possible Internal
injuries.
S. 1.. Stlce of Two Rocks, Sonoma
county; lacerated scalp; possible frac
ture of the skull and broken left leg.
Wilfred Mice, a son of the former.
wmeM ba< k and right leg.
"Mr». 8. I*. Stiee; left leg , badly
wrenched. •
Clifford Mice: left shoulder dislo
■ ML
The party was returning to Two
Roc&A the home of the Stices. after
having spent the day at Tomales. The
machine was being driven by the elder
Bttce, and was going at a fair clip up
a slight grade near Dillons beach, Just
north of Tomales.
Suddenly one of the girls recalled that
she had left her handbag in a restau
rant at Tomales, and called Stice's at
tention to the fact. He immediately
brought the car to a stop, with the
T "pose of turning it around. When
' the large automobile was stopped It
-■".n to run backward with its own
momentum, despite the efforts of Stice,
who applied the brake?.
The heavy load in the machine caused
it to gain speed, and it rushed madly
backward down the hill. Then, with a
lurch, the front wheels struck a rock
and directed the course of the auto
mobile to the edge of the embankment.
Before any of the six occupants could
jump it rushed over the side of the
roadway and went crashing to the
beach, 25 feet below.
The machine turned completely over,
pinning the driver and six passengers
tinder it. The back of the machine fell
on the back and neck of the Dickinson
girl, while the limbs of several of the
others were caught Ln the other wreck
age.
Another automobile party which was
passing at the time rushed to the
rescue, and after considerable difficulty
succeeded in lifting the wrenched auto
mobile from the prostrate form of Miss
Dickinson. She was still breathing
and was hurried by automobile to
Tomales for medical attention, but ex
pired during the trip.
It was fortunte that another auto
mobile was passing when the accident
occurred, as the machine fell into the
brush where it was hidden from view.
Had the rescuers not arrived -when
they did it is possible that more than
one death, would have been the result of
the accident, as most of those injured
lay unconscious for some time.
Auto Victim Dies
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
f SAX JOSE, July 14.—Paul Keller of
San Francisco is dying at the O'Con
nor hospital in this city tonight as a
result of injuries received today when
the roadway grave way beneath his
automobile at Lexington, in the Santa
Cruz mountains. Besides , Keller there
were in the machine Mrs. Keller, a
man giving the name of Fleming, a
fifteen months old child and a woman
* who refuses to give her name. The
car dropped 40 feet into the bed of a
trout stream. The other members of
the party escaped with minor lacera
tions and bruises.
•
FIVE CHINESE MINISTERS
TO RESIGN FROM CABINET
New Financier Will Negotiate
Loan for Republic
[Specie/ Cable to The Call]
TIENTSIN, July 14.—The financial
and four other ministers have definitely
resolved to resign their positions, of
ficial announcement of which is to be
made tomorrow, it is expected. The
future financial minister shortly will
open negotiations for a loan.
INFANT DESCENDANT OF
JEFFERSON DAVIS DEAD
Scion of Confederate President
Lives Only Few Days
(Special Dispatch to The Lall]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 14.
Jefferson Hayes Davis, a great grand
son of President Jefferson Davis of the
southern confederacy, died at hie home
here today, a few days following his
birth.
THE San Francisco CALL
SCHOONER IS RAMMED
Run Down by Steamer
Hole that the Rbanofye made in the hull of the schooner Dauntless when
the coast steamer rammed the sailer in the dark.
Hull of Windjammer Ripped Wide Open,
But Sailing Light It Floats
That the sailing schooner Dauntless was run down early yesterday morn
ing six miles off the heads by the passenger steamer Roanoke, because the
latter vessel did not have a lookout at the post of duty, is ascribed by officers
of the windjammer as the reason for the accident, which fortunately resulted
in no loss of life, although causing hea\y damage to the Dauntless.
The schooner Was rammed by the RoaVoke about 1 o'clock in the morn-
Continued on Past 3, Column 2
DENVER FLOODED
BY CLOUDBURST
Million Dollars Damage Done
and at Least One Life Lost
When Skies Open
* V Mr
DENVER, Colo., July 14.—More than.
a million dollars damage, and the loss of
at least one life, is the result of the
worst cloudburst in the history of Den
ver, which occurred tonight. Cherry
creek, which extends along the north
west, west and south boundaries of
Denver, overflowed, and an area cover
ing approximately four square miles,
is under from two to four feet of water.
So great was the waterfall for nearly
an hour late today that the principal
streets in Denver were under from one
to two feet of water. The Union depot
Is under almost three feet of water, and
more than 200 persons who were in the
depot when the torrent began, were
taken out on trucks.
The water rose in the railroad yards
north of the depot to a depth of sev
eral feet, extinguishing the fires in
several locomotives. Not a train has
been sent out of Denver since the
cloudburst and no trains have pulled
into the yards.
Four Drowned in Illinois
ST. LOUIS, July 14.—Four persons
were drowned at Alton, 111., early this
morning by a cloudburst which de
stroyed two miles of streets, wrecked
six buildings and the gas plant of the
Alton Gas and Electric company, with
a total property loss of $250,000.
BALL TARGET, GUN LOADED,
"WILLIAM TELL" KILLED
Five Year Old Boy Slays Elder
Brother at Play
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
ALTOOXA, Pa., July 14. —While alone
in their home near Dougherty's mine,
eight miles north of Altoona, today,
William Dare, aged 8. a miner's son,
suffered his head blown off with a shot
gun in the hands of his brother George,
aged 5. They were playing "William
Tell" with a baseball for an apple, but
they did not know the gun was loaded.
BATTLING NELSON IS -
REPORTED MARRIED
Former Countess De Beaufort
Said to Be Bride
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
CHICAGO, July 14.—Battling Nelson,
former lightweight champion of the
world, and Irma Kilgallen, the former
Countess de Beaufort, are reported to
have been married in a Chicago suburb
a few days ago. Nelson is in "Winnipeg,
having boxed there Friday night. Nei
ther his reported wife nor her father
would vouch an affirmation or a denial
of the wedding.
ANARCHIST KRANZ DENIED
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
Former Member of Colony Near
Tacoma Doesn't Respect Flag
SEATTLE, Wash., July 14. —Charles
Kranz. a former member of the col
ony of anarcfiists at Home, near Ta
coma, yesterday was denied citizen
ship by United States District Judge
Edward E. Cushman. Kranz. on ex
amination, saitl that the members of
the colony did not believe in organized
government and did not respect the
flag.
SAN JULY 15, 1912.
BACCHUS PUT INTO
SEA BY FICKERT
District Attorney Slams Lid
Hard on the Dives at
Beach Resorts
The resorts of last resort—the beach
cafee. where tireless revelers, cast out
from the downtown dance halls, have
been wont to go to prolQng their night
ly bouts with the deities of wine and
ragtime—have been closed again, at
least after 1 o'clock. In the parlance
of the beach, the lid is on—the game is
up—the stuff's off:
It is the outcome of a little slumming:
party that District Attorney Charles M.
Fickert took on Saturday evening in
company with Deputy District Attorney
Roland Becsey and Policeman Robert
Williams, and some time today Fickert
expects to give Chief of Police White
a bad half hour while the head of the
I department tries to explain why the
closing ordinance has not been enforced
along the "Great highway."
For it has not been enforced, Fickert
says, and the astonished cafe proprie
tors who harkened to his order to stop
the music said they had "understood"
there was to be no interference. Just
where this "understanding" had its
source, and how long it has operated,
will be among the objects of the In
vestigation the district attorney Is
going to start this morning.
A year ago the lid on the beach was
clamped down tight from the Cliff house
down to Dibble's, and after 1 o'clock
you couldn't tempt a note, not even
from the canary. Those were dull days
for the cafes and dull for the taxi
drivers, and the waiters would stand
around and yawn after 1 o'clock came,
for "no music—no drinks." A scowling
policeman leaned against the bar and
contributed to the general atmosphere
of gloom.
Just when the change came is of no
Importance, but it came; and when Dis
trict Attorney Flckert took his quiet
Jaunt early Sunday morning somewhat
after 1 -o'clock he found the "Great
Highway" transformed Into a "Great
White "Way." with everything wide
open. Music after hours, unrestricted
dancing, liquor sold to minors and
even gambling were some of the diver
sions found along the route.
Fickert went first to the Casino !n
Fulton street near the park entrance
and found everything in full blast.
Fickert said "Stop!" and it stopped.
Fickert went on to the Crest, down
the boulevard, where there was more
dancing and music. The proprietor
said an automobile man had told him
it was safe. Fickert waited only until
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" was cut
In two In the middle, then whirled on
to Sheehan'e, where another crow'a was
seeking the simple life bard by the
ocean wave.
At Sheehan's. the Bohemian Villa,
Dibble's, the Lodge and the M. and M.
it was the same, with the same excuse
and the same peremptory order to close
up and stay closed after 1 o'clock.
Only the Cliff house was neglected.
Police Commissioner Alexander
O'Grady said he knew nothing about
what Fickert had found at the beach,
but that as the district attorney is the
legal adviser of the chief of police,
whatever he says will be done. O'Grady
said that undoubtedly the commission
ers would take up the matter with
Chief White.
Several of the beach resorts are at
tempting to stand pat on a decision of
Judge Treadwell. issued more than a
year ago. which declares that the clos
ing ordinance does not apply to
"hotels."
SOUTH AFRICANS
TAKE MARATHON;
AMERICAN THIRD
Immortal Race Goes Not to the
Yankee Lads, Though They
Qhe Good Showing
Strobiflo, New Jersey Boy, Who
Finished Third, Not on
Regular Team
Of First Twenty in 25 Mile Run,
Ten Flew the Stars and
Yankees Close to
Top, Nevertheless
It. K. McArthnr ■ South Afri
can policeman who never has
been defeated In a loner distance
race, wee returned tee winner of
the areatest of all the Olympiad
treasures yesterday—the Mara
tboa. It remained for Gaston
Strobino of Fateraon, N. J., un
nttached, to be the flrat American
mnnrr to cross the line, and be
finished In the third position.
American athletes, thonarb they
failed to land flrat place, showed
their abilNy In the usual deter
mined American style. Of the
first 15 men eight were Americans
and two Canadians. In tbe first
2O men to finish our own Uncle
Sam was represented by no lesa
than 10, or exactly balf.
JAMES H. RANDALL
[Specie/ CahU to The Call]
STOCKHOLM. July 14.—Well, we
were beaten, but by no meane dis
graced, in the Marathon —the
crowninjr event of the Olympic
Tames. JC K. McArtliur, the great
South American runner, took the race
with, nearly l|Jo minuftee to epare over
his fellow countryman.. C. W. Gitshaw,
who was not <rulte a minute ahead of
Gaston Strobino of Paterson, N. J., the
first American to cross the line.
While our runners could not do bet
ter than third In the great race, it is
worth noting that of the first 15 men
eight were Americans and two were
Canadians. Ten Americans finished in
the first 20.
It is also worthy of note that Stro
bino, the man who gave the United
States her only point in the race, is
another of the athletes who were not
considered worthy of a place on the
regular team, but whose friends raised
Continued on Vrnme 7, Column 1
ASTOR, DEAD, AIDS
MEMORIAL FUND
Last Debt Paid by Multimillion
aire Will Help Build
Titanic Monument
[Specie/ Dispatch to The Call]
WASHINGTON, July 14.—The last
debt paid by John Jacob Astor, the
most famous victim of the Titanic dis
aster, will help to build the great me
morial in Washington to the men who
died on the ill fated White Star liner.
Mrs. Archibald Forbes, a" well known
New York social leader. Is the woman
to whom the debt was paid, arcd she has
forwarded to the offices of the woman's
Titanic memorial In this city the dollar
bill that was handed to her by Colonel
Astor when the party of which they
were members settled up for the, last
bridge game played in the social saloon
before the onrushing Titanic plunged
to her doom.
Mrs. Forbes' letter, which was for
warded to Mrs. John Hayes Hammond
by Mrs. Thomas J. O'Brien, wife of the
American ambassador in Rome, sets
forth the fact that the inclosed dollar
represents the only money she has
ever won at cards. She adds that when
TERRIBLE HEAT
GRIPS CHICAGO
[Special Dispatch to The Cetf]
CHICAGO, July 14.—The heat wave
which abandoned Chicago Friday
night returned again today with full
force and before the cool of the even-
Ing relieved the city, three persons
were dead, nine had been prostrated
and several horses had collapsed In
the street. Two of the animals died.
The morning opened with the
thermometer ranging In the , eighties.
Not a breath of air floated over the
usually "windy city." At 3 in the af
ternoon, the humidity was so great
that only the shadiest places In the
city were habitable.
Not until evening did relief come.
Eve« then, the oppressive air hung
over the city like a great fiery blan
ket. No relief is promised by the
weather man within, the aext 24 hours.
16 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
San Franciscans Among Victims
MRS. E.G. POHLMANN
The San Francisco woman tt/io lost her life in a xoreck on the
Chicago, Burlington and Qumcs railroad at Western Springs, near
Chicago, yesterday.
FOOTBALL STAR IS
ROBBERS' UNDOING
Once Minnesota Wonder, Now
Physician, Sends Two
Bandits to Hospital
{Special Dispatch to The Call]
BEMIDJI, Minn., July 14.—Just about
eight years ago C. R. Sanborn plowed
his way through many of the lines of
opponents of the Minnesota football
team. Last night he plowedrtis way
through two highwaymen, and when
the latter woke up In the hospital they
were certain that the Racine cyclone
had extended its way into Minnesota.
Sanborn in a physicain here.
The affair started when Charles
Fleming, a one armed man at Nymore,
broke the only arm he had left by
falling* over a stump late in the after
noon.
Dr. Sanborn was called and as he
started from town in his automobile
two men asking'for a ride were ac
commodated. .
Near Nymore they demanded of him
his valuables. He alighted to obey,
but as the f|rst holdup man started out,
the doctor made a flying tackle and laid
him out.
HUNTER'S DEATH TO
BE INVESTIGATED
SAN JOSE, July 14.—An investigation
into the death of R. B. Nlckerson of
San Francisco, who died this morning
under peculiar circumstances without
medical attention in the rough cattle
country 25 miles east of Mount Hamil
ton, is being made by authorities of this
county.
Justice J. T. Wallace, in the absence of
Coroner B. m. Kell, started for the scene
at noon with a stenographer, and Is
not expected to return until tomorrow.
Acording to the meager report re
ceived here by telephone by a courier
at Mount Hamilton, Nlckerson, together
with several friends from San Fran
cisco, were hunting deer, and put up
last night at the California Manganese
mine.
BIRDMAN MANGLED
BY 100 FOOT FALL
Earl Sandt Climbs to Top of Dis=
abled Machine and May
Escape Death
{Special Dispatch lo The Call]
PITTSBURG, Pa., July 14.—Dropping
100 feet when his engine stopped run
ning in a gale, Earl Sandt, the Erie
aviator, was perhaps fatally injured
late this afternoon. He is suffering
from concussion of the brain, broken
ribs, contusions of the body and in
ternal injuries.
The birdman had g-lven a brilliant
flight at 2 o'clock and to please the
crowds, decided to give another at 5
o'clock. Soon after the start it was
apparent that Sandt was having a fight
to get his machine into the air. After
he had flown half a mile, refeching a
height of 200 feet, the machine slowed
up and tilted.
The engine had gone dead and the
high wind upset the machine, prevent
ing Sandt from gliding to the ground.
He shot 'downward 100 feet, but suc
ceeded in keeping on top of the ma
chine, thus perhaps saving his life.
CURE DISCOVERED
FOR THE LOCKJAW
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
BALTIMORE, July 14.—The recovery
of Bernard Myerly, a 9 year old boy,
from an attack of lockjaw has in
creased Interest in the method of treat
j ment which was used in the case by
Dr. Pearce KinUing. This is the ninth
of a series of Lockjaw cases in which
Doctor Kintzlngr and his assistants at
the Franklin Square hospital have used
the treatment with success.
The remedy is a. solution of phenol
of y> per cent strength, diluted to suit
the cases and administered by hypo
dermic injections deep into the mus
cles.
The Injections are made at intervals
of about three hours at the start, with
longer Intervals ac Uie jpatient railiwb
THE WEATHER
YESTERDAY — Highest temperature, 66;
Tovest'StawJay night, 56.
&(ffc£CAST >QK TODAY—Fair; mod
erate ttcst ptbid^.
u«y* ittr Detail* unthe Weather see page 11
T' A if- , a
FIVE CENTS.
PASSENGERS
PERISH IN
SLEEP
Stalled Pullman Cars Crushed
by Fast Mail That
Passed Signals
FORTY INJURED AND IN
PRECARIOUS CONDITION
Burlington Officials Say That
Fog Obscured Vision of
Dead Engineer
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
CHICAGO. July 14.—Dashing
through a heavy fog at the rate
of 60 miles an hour, rushing
past all signals, and even ignor
ing the cracking torpedoes placed on
the track as a last desperate effort to
avoid a wreck, the great steel jacketed
Omaha mail train on the Burlington
railroad crashed into a stalled trans
continental limited at Western Springs
this morning.
Fourteen persons met in?tant death,
two died while being rushed to the
hospital, and 40 persons were injured,
at least four of -whom are hovering be
tween life and death.
List of the Dead
SIRS. E. G. POHLMAXX, 23 years old,
San Francisco.
E. A. BU.\CH, 28 years old, colored
porter on Denver limited.
F. A. BARCLAY of Donver, 24 years
old, student at Notre Dame.
MRS. C. A. HART, .32 years old, Can
ton, O.
LILLIAN KELLY, 22 years old,
Boise, Idaho.
M. E. STERN, SS years old. 4724
Prairie avenue, Chicago.
GEORGE BRONSON, 54 years old, en
gineer train No. 8.
G. W. TUDOR, 10 years old, Oska
loosa, la.
GIRL, between 9 and 11 years old:
white dress, black shoes and stockings.
WOMAN, 35 years old; medium build,
blue eyes, two gold crowns on upper
front teeth. She wore a gray coat and
skirt and white shirtwaist.
WOMAN, 45 years old; hair light
brown, sprinkled with gray. She wore
a black skirt, black striped white voile
shirtwaist and bla,ck patent leather
shoes with white tops; on her fingers
were several large diamond rings and
a wedding ring.
WOMAN', 40 years old, fair complex
ion, gray eyes, sound teeth. She wore
a black serge suit, black shoes and
stockings and white shirtwaist.
GIRL, between 4 and 5 years old;
dark curly hair, brown eyes. She wore
red stockings and tan sandals.
GIRL, about 16 years. Only identifi
cation mark a signet ring with the ini
tials "L. A."
TRAVELING SALESMAN, 25 years
old.
WOMAJi, name thought to be Mrs.
Caulman. Died'on train while on way
to Chicago.
Many Badly Injured
Among the injured were:
E. G. Pohlmann, 27 Sears old, of San
Francisco; right arm and right leg
fractured; will probably die.
Warren P. Dudley, Belmont, Mass.;
spinal injuries; will probably die.
H. O. Crane, fireman of No. S; left
hand and left foot crushed; not serious.
Mre. Warren P. Dudley, compound
; fracture of right leg.
Father Gregory Sehole, St. Francis
hospital, Columbus, O.; scalp wounds
and bruises on back.
James W. Flacb. Cincinnati, O.; scalp
wounds, righ£ leg bruised and lacerated.
Mm. J. W. Fitch, severe scalp wounds.
Mre. J. C. Kreehl, Girard, O.; fracture
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