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PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY;^ JULY 21, 1902. VOLUME XCII-NO. 51. MACKAY, LAST OF BONAZA KINGS, IS CALLED BY DEATH IN LONDON Heart Prostration Announced as the Cause of the Notable American's Demise. Continued on Page Two. . LONDON, July 21. —The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that an engagement has taken place at Stromitza, European Turkey^ between a force of 300 Bulgarian troops and a body of Turkish regulars. Twenty-five Turks, the cor respondent says, -were killed. BULGARIANS MEET TURKS IN A BATTLE in which the - great commercial nations play their games of.ch.ance and loss and profit is lacking. by one on the list of Its combatants for business supremacy. California has lost greatly, too, for the death of Mackay means nothing less than the disappearance of one of the earliest, most successful and best distinguished of her pioneers. Wherever in the wide world the name of Nevada's Comstock had been heard, ; there also was the name of John Mackay linked with it. And it was a small and mightly insignificant place that had not at least a trifle of knowledge of that famous mining camp. Mackay was a Dublin man, with' some of the Irish and a bit of the Scotch blood In him- \ He was born in the Irish capital November 28,: 1831. He was only 10 years old when his parents decided that their condition 1 might be improved by emigra tion to the United States. Their first place of residence in ;this country was New York City. The family prospered in a small degree for a couple of years, when the elder Mackay- died and his wife was left with the burden of supporting herself and her children. fMACKAY STARTS OUT. The family finances were soon in a bad way and the" enterprising and courageous John determined to strike out and do some work for the maintenance of his mother and the security of the' household. Little John had an ordinary school edu cation' and ' had already" displayed posses- The clinking glasses and the ribald songs had no attraction for this young, Industrious Easterner. Recklessness and improvidence were not. to his liking. He saved money, and there never was a time after he had been a year in the gold fields when. he was not able to back any enterprise which promised well. He was THE INDUSTRIOUS MINER. For several years he worked with pick and shovel in the California diggings. He did what few of his companions were able to. do in holding himself aloof from the allurements of the wild mining camp life. He had come westward with a purpose to study and master the mining business, and every effort he exerted was directed always to that end. It was a .short time afterward when news of the gold discovery in California reached the Eastern cities,- and young Mackay was immediately up and astir for adventures new and golden pastures. In 1S51 he arrived in this city, haVing come from New York with James C. Flood and William O'Brien in a party of twen ty-five. So it came about that John W. Mackay was apprenticed to a shipbuilder, William H. Webb of New York, whose work con sisted chiefly In fitting out vessels for voyages around the Horn. sion of the commercial ; Instinct and a wonderful supply of energy. BRUSSELS, July 20.— La Reforme pub lishes an extraordinary alleged interview with the Queen of The Belgians (Maria Henriette) in which she is quoted as say irg that the papers have made her out to be dying too quickly; then she bitterly lamented her utter loneliness. According to La Reforme. Queen Marie Henrietta said: "I am thoroughly soured. I. who in times past was so gay, am ill from loneliness. I have only my dog3 to amuse me and am already forgotten." "I Have Only My Dogs to Amuse Me," Is Marie Henriatte's Plaint. > " BELGIAN QUEEN SAYS SHE IS DYING OF LONELINESS FAMOUS CALIFORNIA BONANZA KING WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED YES- i TERDAY IN LONDON, HIS WIFE, SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND MRS. MACKAY'S DAUGHTER, THE PRINCESS COLONNA. The car of the new machine is the most original part, and attracts the greatest attention. It is equipped with four propeller wheels arranged In pairs and opposite each other at sides of the car, instead of at the stern, and operating along the outer sides." These wheels are operated by" a motor on the car. The blades of the propeller, which run ¦ to points, after the manner of birds* wings, are so arranged that the driver can. by proper regulating gear, set these col lapsible wings to open and close at cer tain points In the revolution of the wheel, thus reducing the resistance to the min imum. Benbow's airship consists of a car sus pended from a longitudinal bar by cables, to which are attached two ga3 bags, connected with the car by independent bridges. By this means if one bag be comes useless it can be deflated and drop ped out of place, while by the same ac tion the other is shifted into a central position and at once becomes a means of buoyancy. WASHINGTON, July 20.— T. C. Benbow, the young Montana inventor, has just completed for filing in the Patent Office a model of an airship with which ho says he can "sail all around Santos-Du mont." He hopes to capture the St. Louis Exposition prize. He will finish tha work on his machine in Frankfort, N. Y., and early in the fall will give an ex hibition in New York. "Sail Ali Around" Santos- Dumont. Inventor Benbow Declares He Can MONTANA MAN'S AIRSHIP IS BUILT ON NEW LINES HAMBURG, July 21.— The steamship Premius with 1 85 passengers on board was cut in two and sunk by the tug Hansel on the Elbe at 12:3a o'clock this morning. Only about thirty on board weresaved. Collision ol tbe Vessels Occurs Shortly After Midnight. Hundred and Fifty- Five Passengers Perish, Premius Cut in Twain on the Elk STEAMER IS SUNK BY TUG The weather bureau reports that the Ftorm was more in the nature of a whirl wind than a tornado. The wind blew at the rate of sixty-four miles an hour and half an inch of water fell. The storm lasted but fifteen minutes. So far as known it was confined to Baltimore and suburbs. The damage to shipping in the harbor •was general, but not of a serious nature. The gas reservoir In South Baltimore, containing about 300,000 feet of gas, was blown down, the gas exploding. Loss 515.000. No one was injured. At the foot of Concord street the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company's warehouses were unroofed and rain poured in on the valuable cargo Ktorpd there, doing damage estimated at from $100,000 to $300,000. A boat's crew from the German steamer Breslau, at anchor in the harbor, picked up two men from a boat that had been capsized off Wolf street. A hole several feet in diameter was blown in the wall of St. Marv's Star of the Sea Catholic Church in South Bal timore and a portion of the stone cornice, weighing more than a ton. fell to the street. Xo one was injured. In Paradise Grove, Powhattan, a huge tree fell on a tent in which a colored campmeeting was being held and several of the worshipers were caught beneath it. The tree had to be sawed into two pieces before the imprisoned men and women could be released. William Cornish was crushed to death. The others were not seriously hurt. Thomas Carroll, with four other young men, was out in the harbor in a rowboat, which was capsized. Carroll ¦was drowned, while his four companions clung to the rudder of the steamship Chatham, from which position they were rescued by the tug Mai'. BOWBOAT IS OVERTURNED. The drowning of Mrs. Schuler and her children was the most pathetic incident of the storm. Michael Schuler, with his wife and three children, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Joseph Cooper, and the latter's wife, had gone out into the harbor for a sail in a thirty-foot boat. When the storm came up Schuler and Cooper took in sails. Schuler sent his wife and children into the littie cabin and he stood at the tiller to keep the vessel's head toward the wind. A sud den gust of wind threw the boom of the vessel around, knocked down Schuler and pinned him to the deck. Another gust capsized the boat, releasing Schuler, who, with Cooper and his wife, were thrown into the water, leaving Mrs. Schuler and her children pinned in the cabin. Cooper saved himself and wife by hanging to the bottom of the overturned boat and Schuler saved himself in the same way, after making frantic efforts to get at his imprisoned wife and children. A crew from the schooner Edward H. Hunt* rescued Schuler and Mr. and Mrs. Cooper and towed the capsized vessel to the wharf, where it was righted and the bodies of Mrs. Schuler and her three children taken from the cabin. Charles Schaefer, the boy killed by a live wire, had, in company with two other boys, gone in a shed for protection when the shed blew down and a live wire fell upon one of them. The first three victims in this liit were out in a rowboat on the river with three other companions. "When the storm broke the boat was capsized, three being drowned and three being rescued by the tug Edna George. DEATH IN VABIED FOBM. Of those who perished nine were drowned from open boats in the harbor, one was killed by a falling tree and one by a live wire. The following is a list of the killed: ROT BATEMAN. 12 years. JOSEPH CAIN, 10 years. JOHN CAIN. 6 years. THOMAS CARROLL.. 21 years. HARRT McCORMICK, 19 years. MRS. MART SCHULER. 28 years. HARRT S. SCHULER, 10 months. OLIVE SCHULER, 4 years. CHARLES SCHULER. 7 rears... WILLIAM CORNISH, colored. CHARLES SCHAEFER. BALTIMORE, July 20.— A fierce tor nado, characterized by a wind storm, of extraordinary velocity, thunder, vivid lightning and a heavy rain, burst upon Baltimore at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, coming from the southwest. Eleven per- Bons lost their lives, several were injured, hundreds of houses were unroofed, trees in the public parks and streets were torn up by the roots and business blocks were damaged. The storm exhausted its fury In less than fifteen minutes. The dam age done in the business part of the city ¦was comparatively slight, being confined to the blowing down of signs and wreck ing of roofs. It was in the residence por tions, along the river front and in the harbor where the wind spent its violence. Hundreds of Houses Are Unroofed and Trees Uprooted. Pleasure Craft in the Harbor Are Sunk by Gale. Eleven Persons Per* ish During Storm in Baltimore. DEADLY FURY OF TORNADO Mackay's condition became still more alarming yesterday. His heart continued to grow. weaker in. its action. Despite the endeavors of his physicians, who ad ministered oxygen, he passed a very bad night. Yesterday morning Sir, Richard Douglass Powell, Dr. Jones and. Dr. Orr were summoned and held a consultation. Everything ; possible was done for - the sufferer, ' but . despite all their efforts Mackay crew 'weaker "and lapsed intoun- called in did not consider his condition as very serious. A denial was issued of a report .which was current in the city that he was dangerously ill. The" patient's condition seemed to improve a little on Wednesday and Thursday, although his •heart from the .first gave the physicians cause for concern. On Friday there was a slight turn for the worse, but even then a fatal termination was not anticipated. , consciousness, * in j which j condition* he ' re mained throughout the day until the end came peacefully. < . . No * definite arrangements for the funeral have yet been made. Mrs. Mackay is prostrate,d; by, her loss and the details will be attended to by -Ward. ¦ Clarence Mackay,/ who sailed; on the- Campania, cannot arrive "in: London before Friday night at the , very . earliest. .. FAMOUS LIFE OF A MAKER OF MILLIONS /N the passing- of John. William Mac kay, the last of the "Big Four," the world of finance has lost one of its '"most "notable* leaders, a 'juie wide" arena Passing of ihe Prominent Pioneer Revives Rare Stories of the Comstock. Mackay was taken ill on Tuesday last. He liad been in ihe offices of the Commer cial Cable Company with Ward, and the two gentlemen went out to lunch. Mac kay, who had been complaining that he did not feel well, was seized with a chill. Ward put him in a cab, brought him back to Carlton House Terrace, and Mackay went to bed. The physicians who were When the end came Mrs. niackay was at the bedside, and with her were her mother, Mrs. Hungerford, and her sister, Countess Telfner. Mrs. Mackay's daugh ter. Princess Galarro Colonna, who was summoned from Paris, arrived about an hour after Mackay had breathed his last. G. G. Ward, vice' president and general manager of the Commercial Cable Com pany, was also In the house when the end came. The news of his death will be a great shock to his numerous friends, for Mac kay as a rule enjoyed robust health. Less than a week ago he was actively en gaged in directing the great interests with which he was connected. The immediate cause of death, according to the medical report, was heart failure. There were, however, symptoms of pneumonia. The left lung was badly congested. Mackay's death was unexpected, for, although he had been ill since Tuesday last, his physicians held out hope until yesterday that he would recover. ;-_- ONDON, July 20.— John W. EJ4 Mackay died at half past 6 B . o'clock this evening at his res- B . idence, 6 Carlton House Ter- race. He was in his seventy second year. Famous Miner Suc= cumbs After Illness. The San Francisco Call.