The San Francisco CallT.W F1MF1 T^xx^XQ.f 1Q6- SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS.

THROUGH A BRIDGE TO DEATHFour Lives Lost in a Rail-

way Disaster NearArcata.

PASSENGERS GO DOWNWITH A TRAIN.

Engine and Cars Fall to theBed of a River Forty

Feet Below.

NEARLY A SCORE AMONG THEBADLYINJURED.

Men, Women and Children PinnedUnder the Wreckage

—But

Three Escape Unhurt.

EUREKA, Cal,, Sept. 13.—8y the col-lapse of a bridge on the Arcata and MadRiver Railroad, near this city, this after- \noon, an accommodation train was pre-cipitated into the bed ol the creek below.Four persons were killed outright and ann:i ber of others seriously wounded, someof whom willdie. The dead are:

Alexander Cameron, brakeman.Miss Annie Holland ofRiverside.Miss KirkhaslAnunknown child.The injured are:David Wood, Glendale, badly injured

and cannot survive.Mrs. David Wood, wife of above, both

legs broken and internally injured.The two iittlechildren of David Wood,

badly crushed and bruised.George Burke, engineer, severely scalded

and bruised.Charles Burke, fireman, badly burned.Harvey Summons, conductor, fatally

inju.ed.Mrs. Kate Minor, arm and leg broken.Annie Vintera, face cut and leg broken.Mary Vintera, internally injured.Daniel Mauoney, dangerously bruised.

, Two children of Daniel Mahoney, seri-ously in juried.

Rosie Budetri. Italian peddler, badlybruised and shaken up.

Herman Sanders, cut on leg and in-ternally injured.

* ' ~~A.Sanders, slightly bruised.Mrs. Gregory of Eureka, seriously in-

jured internally, may die.• Two children of Mrs. Gregory, seriouslybruised.

Bven Johnston, badly bruised, may notrecover.

Grant Warren, cut and bruised abouthead.

An unknown Italian woman, uncon-scious and willdie. -*

Details the accident are difficult to ob-tain, there beingno telegraphic communi-cation with the scene nearer than Eureka.

As far as known the accident was causedby the collapse of a bridge spanning MadRiver, about five miles irom Eureka. Theaccommodation train which leaves Arcataat 4:30 o'clock this afternoon consisted oftwo coaches, one boxcar and engine, andcarried about twenty passengers. Shortlyafter 5 o'clock a telephone message wasreceived stating that the train had beenderailed at Mad River bridge and was atotal wreck on the river bed. A relieftrain with doctors, nurses and medicalsupplies was immediately dispatched fromArcata to the scene.

The three cars and engine were foundlying beneath the bridge, a mass of splin-ters. The injured had managed to dragthemselves from the debris ana were nurs-ing their cuts by the water side.

Buried beneath the wreckage were foundthe bodies of Miss Holland, Miss Kirk-ham and Mr. Cameron. The unknownchild was alive when found, but died afew minutes later.

The injured were carried up a steepbank with great difficulty, and it wasnearly 10 o'clock when the relief trainstarted on the return trip to Arcata, bear-ing the dead and wounded.

The train was met at Arcata by the en-tire population of the torn, and the scenewas pitiful when the dead and injuredwere claimed by friends and relatives.

The bridge that collapsed was severalhundred feet in length and had hithertobeen considered safe. It contained onepier, about midway, and the approacheswere high above the gravel bed of thestream. The train had slowed down toabout fivemiles an hour, as is customary,and was moving at this speed when thecrash came. Had not the rules in regardto speed been strictly observed every oneon board must surely have perished, asan additional twenty feet would havelanded the entire train in the waters ofthe river.

Mr.Louis Everdingof the Riverside MillCompany, one of the passengers on thewrecked train, said in an interview to- jnight:

"There were about twenty-five passen-gers on board and of this number onlythree escaped uninjured. Iwas seated inthe smoking-car chatting with a numberof gentlemen when the crash came. Noneof us bad the remotest idea of what hadoccurred. We felt the car sink beneathus, and after a downward plunge, such asa person experiences on a rapidly fallingelevator, Ifelt a sharp jar and an instantlater Ifound myself crawling out throughthe side door of the car. The train haddropped a distance o.' fullyforty feet to thehard gravel bottom of the river.

"Allthe cars were smashed to splinters.and no difficulty was experienced by the ,

rescue party from Vance's Millin remov-ing the dead and injured from the wreck-age.

"Alexander Cameron, tbe brakeman,was riding on the front of the box car andhis body was crushed to a pulp. MissAnnie Holland was struck on the headand must have died instantly. Miss Kirk-ham was smothered and crushed to death.

"Asad case is that of the family ofDavid Wood. Mr. Wood is seriously in-jure 1 about the head, his wife has abroken arm and leg and will probably dieand his two little children, a boy andgirl, cannot recover.

"As to the cause of the accident Iknownothing. We were moving at a slowspeed as we approached the bridge.Wnen the eneine reached the first span ofthe structure about 100 feet of the bridgecollapsed and down we went."

The iniured are receiving the best pos-sible attention, and nothing has been leftundone to provide for tneir comfort.

The cause of the accident remains amystery. The Ma'l River bridge has al-ways been reearded as pertectly safe. Thetimbers have been renewed several timesand the structure daily sustains the weightof freight trains treble that of the lightpassenger train which met the mishapto-day.

The Arcata and Mad River Railroad ex-tends from Arcata to Korbei, a distance oftwelve miles, connecting Eureka withArcata by trestle and ferryboat. The road-bed is well constructed, and there wasnothing flimsy about the Mad River'bridge. The road handles the product ofrive lumber mill?,and is the best payingrailway in the world in proportion to thecapital invested.

RACE CONFLICT BREWING.hooting of a Georgia Negro

Results in Threats of aMassacre.

Waites in the Town ot Bylhe AreA;m>.d and Prepared for

Emergencies.

AUGUSTA. Ga., Sepi. 13.— A specialto the Chronicle from Blythe, in thiscounty, twenty-two miles from here, says:

Biy he is in a state of great excitement.Several hundred armed neeroes are sup-

| posed to be moving toward here and thehandful of white residents are awaitingthem, not, however, without some fear,though they are brave men and will makea firm stand. If there is to be trouble itwill be some time later than this, as it isnot feared that the mob of ne roes willcome before midni-ht. Allday the whiteshere have been waiting with guns and re-volvers near at hand for an emergency.

Sheriff O'Connor, with Deputy Sheriffsand a posse of men, left Angus a thismorning and arrived at Blythe at 8o'clock. The cause of the trouble is theshooting of a negro, Steven Boiand, by M.A. Clark, for winch the negroes threatenio massacre several white men at thestation.

ANOTHER MASSACRE PLANNED.

Sensational Information Received by anEnglish Paper— The Sultan De-

nounced From Many Pulpits.LONDON, Eko., Sept. 13.—The Plym-

outh Mercury claims to have reliable in-formation that a massacre of the Arme-nians remaining inConstantinople is fixedto occur inten days or two weeks.Itsays that Armenians already de-

ported have been murdered by wholesale,the ships on which they were sent out ofthe country having chutes from which thevictims were shot into the water anddrowned in batches.

LONDON, Esq., Sept. 13.—

Sermonsagainst v.he misrule of the Sultan and themassacre of his Christian subjects werepreached to-day in London, Liverpoolandelsewhere inGreat Britain.;—

RED-HANDED WEYLER.

Cables to Madrid That He Has Just Shotto Death Fifty-One Cuban

Prisoners.MADRID, Spain, Sept. 13.—Captain-

General Weyler cabled from Havana thatnfty-one insurgents who were confined inthe Cabana Fortress and MorroCastle wereshot to-day.

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IN HONOR OF MANRENA Great Popular t-ete at the Home of

the IrpU,r.-r.CHRiSTIANIA, Norway, Sept. 13.— A

great popular ,etc in honor of Dr. Nansen,the Arctic explorer, was held to-day inCastle square. Bjornsen. the well-known Norwegian novelist and dram-atic poet, made a speech, in which heeulogized Dr. Nansen for his scientificwork and his discoveri -a. The latter, inreply, lav.led the Norwegians, who, hesaid, stood together in times of difficultycloser than other people and pulled bettertogether when great occasions demandedunited effort. Dr. Nansen was greetedwithenthusiastic cheers, which were re-peated at the conclusion of his speech.

Oration to l>ynatnitrr Daly.DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 13.

—Seven

! thousand persons, including John R-d--j mond, M. P., and Timothy Harrington,M. P.. to-day a^sembl.d at the railwaystation to receive tbe dynamiter, Daly,who was released a short time ago fromPortland Pn-on. A procession was formed, which escorted Daly to the WormensClub, where he made a speech.

Fnreu>«ll Audience With the Pope.ROME, Italy, Sept. 13.-The Pope has|given a farewell audience to Archbishop

IMartinelli, the new papal delegate to theiUnited States.

Short Cotton Crop in Trxna.A.USTIN, Texas, Sept. 13.-Commis-

sioner Ross of the State Agricultural De-!part men t has issued a circular saying*

•'Although published cotton reports putthepresent crop of Texas at from 2 000 000to 2,400.000 bale?, Ibelieve itwill be eve-)es> than 1.500,000, and Ihazard theopinion based upon official informationfrom other States tbat the crop in theUnited States will not exceed 7,600,000bales, and in all probability *ritlfallmuctibelow that quantity I- advise farmers tomarket their cotton slowly."

TYNAN ISCAPTURED

Notorious "No. i"Caughtby a Detective in

France.

WAS TALKING WILDLYAT A BAB.

With a Revolver Pointed at HisHead He Was Speedily

Secured.

BURKES AND CAVENDISH'SFATE RECALLED.

The Prisoner Concerned in thePhcßnix Park Tragedy of Four-

teen Years Ago.

LONDON, Enq., Sept. 13.—P. J. Tynan,the notorious "No. 1" of the Irish Invin-cibles, who was so frequently mentionedduring the trial of the persons chargedwith the murder of Lord Frederick Cav-endish, Chief Secretary for Ireland, andT. H.Burke, Parliamentary Under Secre-tary, InPhcenix Park on May 6, 1882, wasarrested at Boulogne, France, at 4 o'clockthis morning on a warrant issued in 1882.

Tynan is also charged with being con-cerned in the manufacture of dynamitebombs for use in England. It has beenlearned tbat he arrived in Europe in Au-gust, when he debarked at Genoa. Heproceeded thence to Paris, where, itis al-leged, he consorted with the Irish dyna-mite faction. On Friday he arrived atBoulogne and expounded Fenian views ata hotel bar. He had been watched sincehe arrived in France by an English detec-tive, who this morning placed him nnderarrest. The officer poinied a revolver athis head and threatened to shoot him ifhe made the slightest resistance.

Tynan was speedily secured. He subse-quently admitted bis identity. In hispossession were found a considerable sumof money and a number of incriminating

papers. He will be arraigned before a 1judge in Boulogne to-morrow witha view jto securing his extradition. Itis stated

'that his arrest is connected with the ar-rests of Bell and Wallace, the former hav-ing been captured in Glasgow and the lat-

! ter in Rotterdam.Lord Frederick Cavendish arrived in

Dublin on May 6, 1882, to be present at theformal entry of the new Viceroy of Ire-land, Lord Spencer. During the day hewas engaged in official business at theCastle, and later he left the Castle on footto walk in Phoenix Park, where he metMr. Burke. It was a bright summerbvening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, scarcelyless light than at noonday, and there weremany peoplf in the park. The two menwalked along the principal road untilthey were within a few yards of thePhoenix monument.

Some boys passed them and went aroundthe monument and when they returnedfound the Chief Secretary and Mr. Burkelying on the ground dead and coveredwith wounds. On examination it wasfound that Mr. Burke had received severalptabs near the region of tbe heart and thathis throat had been cut His clothing wasmuch torn and his hands bore marks of afierce and protracted encounter. LordFrederick Cavendish had been stabbed inseveral places about the chest.

The crime was witnessed by several per-sons, who thought the participants wereroughs wrestling. Four men, who wereseen driving in a car toward the monu-ment, were known to be tne murderers,but for some time their identity could notbe established. The news of the assassina-tion caused intense indignation and sor-row. A reward of $50,000 was offered toany one who should «ive information thatwould lead to the conviction of the mur-derers, and a further reward of $5000 forsuch other private information as shouldlead to the same results, with a free pardonto any person not tbe actual perpetratorof the murders and full protection inanypart of her Majesty's dominions.

Many arrests were made, but the brief-est examination convinced tbe authoritiesthat tne police were not even on the trackof the murderers. At last clews were ob-tained and closely followed, and a largenumber of further arrests made. Amongthe prisoners was James Carey, a towncouncilor, who later turned informer. Hehad lured other men to join the Invinci-bles, which was an inner circle of theFenian organization, the object of whichwas to murder Government officials.Carey bad arranged the Phoenix Park as-sassinations, anu bad given the signalwhen the deed was to be done.

Tynan, the man arrested to-day, was oneof those appointed to organize a society inDublin. The trial of the accused men re-sulted in a conviction ot Joseph Brady,Daniel Curley, Michael Fagtn, ThomasCaffery and Timothy Kelly,all of whomwere executed. Carey was released, andstarted on a voyage uuder an assumedname for South Airiua on tbe steamerMelrose Castle. He was followed by auIrish avenger, who shot and killed him atPort Elizabeth.

DREAM ON, WILLIAM

""Urue, S talk of dreams,

Ilfhich are the children of an idle brain,tftegot of nothing but vain fantasy.

" —Borneo and Juliet: jtct Scene 4.

VANCOUVERHONORS LI

The Great Viceroy ReceivedWith Oriental. Pomp.

CARPETS SPREAD IN HISPATHWAY.

Gorgeously Robed MongoliansKowtow as He Passes

Along.

PLEASED WITH THE HOMAGEHE IS PAID.

High Honors of His Native Land AreConferred by the Earl Upon Two

Canadians.

VANCOUVER, B.C, Sept. 13.— LiHungChang arrived in Vancouver by specialtrain and in bis private car, the Chetoo,at 11 o'clock this morning. Tbe wholecity was on the guivive to do him honor,and longbefore tbe hour set for his arrivalcrowds lined the approaches to the depotand wharf, and masses of people crowdedall the eminences around the harbor. TheChinese residents had erected a handsomeand artistic arch on the bridee leaain? tothe wharf, and a long line of Chinamen,is rich robes of blue, green, plum-color,olive and orange, stood in line before thearch, waitine to kowtow to the greatViceroy. The bridge was carpeted forsome yards on either side of the arch, andon this carpet stood a carved ebony table,on which an incense of sandalwood waskept constantly burning in a richlycarvedbronze burner.

The Chinese band played Chinese musictbat sounded like that of bagpipes as EarlLialighted from the train. A carriage,drawn by four white horses and drapedwith Union jacks, waited to convey himover the short distance from the train tothe steamer.

When the procession started the coach

was preceded by his celebrated scarletchair, carried by four men. Several bandsand a division of marines from the warshipin the harbor fell into line behind theViceroy, followed by a long deputation ofChinamen in their picturesque robes.Altogether itwas a procession of such Ori-ental picturesqueness as the primevalmountains never before looked downupon

—a procession in which Occident and

Orient came together, curiously com-mingled.

The ereat Viceroy seemed delighted withthe demonstration in his honor, and es-pecially with the homage of his country-men, who fell on one knee and raisedclasped hands to him as he' passedsmilingly by. His shrewd, kindly facebeamed, his yellow jacket made thebrightest spot in the sunless day and bischerished peacock feaber was displayedfalling from the back of his cap.

The gangplank of the Empress of Chinawas carpeted as for royalty with scarlet;the ropes were wound with yellow anddraped with flags. As he was carried upthe plans in bis scarlet chair the Chinesedragon flag was run to the mainmast anda salute of nine guns was fired from H. M.S. Comus.

The absence of cheering was noticeable,and gave anOriental solemnity to the pro-ceedings. All the ships in the harbor weregayly decorated with rainbows of bunting,and many of the roofs around displayedkodak fiends blackly outlined with theirinstruments against the pallid sky. Manyprominent ciizens had cards of admissionto tbe Empress, and crowded her decks tocatch a glimpse of the Earl as he was car-ried aboard.

For this one day the whole usual socialorder was subverted, and Chinamen every-where took precedence of their whitebrethren in the good-natured throng thatlined the wharf. it was emphaticallyChinaman's day.

Almost immediately on reaching thesteamer, LiHung Chang graoted audi-ence in the salocn to a reputation of gor-geously gowned Chinamen, from whombe received an address read from a scarletpaper. During the audience his servantseveral times put his pipe to his lips, andall but smoked for the great potentate.His suite is so ample that about all t-ereis left for the great man to do is to drawhis own breath.

He appears to be inexcellent health andspirits and full ten years younger thanhis pictures lead one to expect. He wasdelighted with his transcontinental tripand expressed a high opinion of Canada,stating that he thought the Dominion hada splendid future before it,

As a mark of his appreciation of thecourtesies extended to him by the Cana-dian Pacific Railroad he conferred the or-der ot the Double Dragon upon A.E. La-lande of the passenger department, whoaccompanied him on the journey. A simi-lar honor was also bestowed upon Dr.Horsey, the Canadian Government repre-sentative.

SHEEHAN'SPOSITION

New York's Ex-LieutenantGovernor Is Opposed

to Bryan.

A RACY LETTER GIVINGHIS VIEWS.

Says Radicalism, Not Patriot-ism, Dominated the Chicago

Convention.

LOFTY AIMS OF DEMOCRACYABANDONED.

Can Never Fight Under a Banner ofRepudiation and National

£ishonor.

NEW YORK, N. V., Bept 13.—Ex-Lie-utenant-Governor W. F. Sheehan yesterdaysent a lonp statement ofhis views and atti-tude in the campaign to J. B. Mayer ofBuffalo. Mr. Mayer is a prominent Dem-ocrat in his city and waa one of the dele-gates to the Chicago convention last June.A synopsis of Mr. Sueehan's communica-tion is here given:

New York,Sept. 12, 1896.Joseph B. Mayer, Esq., Buffalo, N. K—Deab

Sir: Replying to your recent letter of Inquiryas to my attitude inthe present campaign, Ibeg leave to say :

The" proceedings of the recent Chicago con-vention were unparalleled in Democratic his-tory. Radicalism and not patriotism dominatedits course. The guiding,and ina large measurethe controlling-, spirits of that body were Re-publican United States Senators

—men whose

votes made it possible to engraft upon thestatutes ot this country the objectionable anadisastrous McKinley law. When before wererock-ribbed RepuDlican protectionists givenina Democratic convention seats of honor andpermitted to dictate and shape the policy ofour party? The patriotic advice of men whohad grown gray in Democratic service wasspurned and the judgment of these new-foundapostles of an undemocratic creed was enthu-siastically accepted.

After reviewing the official acts of theconvention and its platform in terms asscathing as any that have been used byothers in the same vein, Mr. Sheenan con-tinues:

Democratic principles took root withtheWrthof the Repu blic;they are as sound and lofty to-daj-as they were when first expounded by Jef-ferson. AllDemocrats should give their heartysupport to candidates who stand upon a plat-form which reaffirms and upholds these prin-ciples; but when these principles are aban-doned and set aside and new doctrines at vari-ance with National honor and National pro-gress are adopted, do we not cease to be Dem-ocrats ifwe fail to repudiate that which is un-patriotic and immoral?

What Democratic convention has failed Inrecent years to justlycondemn Republican pa-ternalism? Where is there a more wickedform of paternalism than for the Govern-ment to stamp, for the benefit ofmine owners,53 cents worthof silver bullion as $1incoin?Where inDemocracy is a proposition that al-lows the silver of the world to be coined at ourmints, free of charge, at a ratio far beyond itgIntrinsic or commercial value, and compelsour citizens to accept this false and dishonestcoin at its face value in extinguishment oftheir debts and inpayment for their labor?

The advocates of this platform hazard every-thingon the single proposition that the enact-ment of a law for the free coinage of silver atthe ratio of 16 to 1, witho»t the aid or assist-ance of other nations, will bring silver andgold to a parity.

We consider our silver dollar to-day as goodas gold, because ithas back of it the credit andfaithof the Nation pledged to maintain itsparity with gold. Under free coinage thiscredit and faith will be withdrawn from thenew coin. These men propose, however, thatthe power of Congress shall be exercised tocompel our citizens to accept In payment oftheir debts a dollar that is intrinsicallyworthbut fifty-three cents, withont being able tocompel corresponding relief to the Americandebtors when foreign creditors demand ofthem payment in gold.

How longwillthe hum of industry continue ;how long willthe workshop remain open; howong will the manufacturer continue to turn

out the product of American genius and skill,ifwe have no ioreign trade and are compelledto buy and sell to ourselves?

We received for the year ending June 30 lastfor Koods exported to other nations $863,200,---467. This enormous sum represents Americancapital, product and labor. Inour dealingswithall people we should receive and pay thebest money in the world. No law has yet beenable to make all men iionest, but so law shouldcompel men to be dishonest.

After reciting the debtorship of theUnited States for its outstanding bonds of$850,000,000, for which gold was receivedand for which, "unless the intelligence ofthis Nation be* blunted and its patrioticimpulses paralyzed," redemption will bein the same coin, Mr. Sheehan continues:

Nor can the apologist for the Chicago plat-form pettitog or beg the question. When theyrejected the amendment offered by SenatorHill,to the effect that any change in the pres-ent stmdard of values should not apply toexisting Government bonds, th9ynailed to themasthead of their ship the inglorious flag ofrepudiation and dishonor. Against the perpe-tration of .such a crime in the name of De-mocracy 1protest.

Who are the owners of these bonds? Notforeign hankers and home syndicates, not theso-called bloated bondholder, but the wardwhose education has been provided for in thesupposed inviolabilityof a United States bond;the widow whose sole support may be the in-come thus received and 5,000,000 of Ameri-cans who have placed their deposits in oursavings institutions. The deposits are notstored away in the vaults of savings banks.That which is not loaned is invested, and mostof itinGovernment bonds.

1have heard itsaid tbat no attempt wouldbe made to affect any outstanding obligationsifthe work of the Chicago convention wereratified at the polls. The answer is two-fold.The proposition not to repudiate these obliga-tions was overwhelmingly defeated by theconvention after Mr.Bryan had concludedthe speech which resulted in his nomination.Under free coinage silver would become themoney of the country. The revenue of theGovernment through its customs and internalrevenue would be nothingbut silver, or, if thedream of the Populist be realized, unlimitedHat paper money with no coin behind it forredemption. With silver or fiat paper moneyas oux only means of revenue, how, Iask the