The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 1

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177. VOL. UXXVI1. SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 24, 1902. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CARELESSNESS IMPERILS THE LIVES OF TWO HUNDRED PASSENGERS 444 4444444444444 44 4 44444 4444444444 if WW 4 4 4t -'Wfc C'V tj 1 si.

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'fc' M' St 7 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4444 444444 444444 4444444444 1 I I TU I pL i HL11N ON iSBtfOfffe I OAKLAND zzzazrgpi HUluIYO AT SEA 4 1 M.ililM, 4 I 1 i By the Blunder of Some' One, Freight and Passenger Trains Crash Together Headi On Within Sight of Depot. BOTH LOCOMOTIVES ARE BADLY SMASHED 44444444 444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444 44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 444 4444444444 4444444444444444 Messages Filed With Postal Telegraph Company Will Be Transmitted by the Marconi System to Atlantic Liners, RATE IS FIXED AT TEN CENTS A WORD ANOTHER SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN WRECK. The two upper pictures are flashlights of the wrecked lecomctives, taken by "Trie Examin-r" photographer shortly after the collision. On the left the two locomotives are shown nose to nose as they crsshed into one another, The left hand loconotive is that of the passenger train. The right hand picture shows the wrecked tender and cab of the freight engine.

The diagram illustrates how the accident occurred, showing the position of the switch that was opened to permit the freight to move from the siding to the main line. This is the first successful night photograph of a tram wreck that has ever laeen taken. iUSS HINT BY ill'S ATTIRE II LESS THAN HE FOILS TIE COME of the Southern Pacific's haphazard railroading came very near repsatins at bast Oakland yesterday afternoon the Byron horror of Saturday night. The lives of over 200 passengers were put in jeopardy. In this instance two crashed together head on.

One was a heavy freight; the other a crowded passenger train. The passenger train was behind time, as is the habit of Southern Pacific passenger trains. The freight was on a track where it should not have been. Hut the freight had just started up; the passenger was slowing down. As a consequence it was possible to avert another fearful tragedy, though the escape was so close as to start the chills in the spine ant) raise hair on the head.

Yesterday the regular passenger train from Sacramento, by way ot Stockton, Tracy, Livcrmore and Xiles, to Oakland, started on time, and picked up passengers as twial as it went along; and as is altogether NEW YORK, December 23. Top Manoni Wireless Telegraph Company to-day completed arrangements for the sending of messages to incoming steamers for the Pos'al Telegraph Company. All that will be necessary in order to send a wireless message to any one on an incoming steamer will be to fill out a blank at any Postal Telegraph office And without extra cost it will be forwarded to the Marconi station at Sagaponack, L. which is the main station controlling the Atlantic at present; Another station will be opened at Cape Cod early in April. General Manager Bottomly of the Marconi Company said to an representative to-day: POLICE Accomplice of Arrested Burglar Gains 'Admittance to the Cell and by Threats Prevents a Confession, Bomb, Loaded With Dynamite and Scrap Iron, Exploded in the Doorway of St, Peter's Cathedral in Geneva, "We are not soliciting any business at present, as we have not yet perfected our system, but all messages that are sent to us will be attended to.

The cable company 25 cents a word, whereas we will charge but 10 cents. We now have instruments "on the steamers Lucania, Campania, Etrurla. Umbria, Philadelphia, Kaiser Wil-helm, Minnehaha and La Savoie." It was said this morning that the new station at Cape Cod would probably bo finished in about a month and that direct wireless telegraphic communication between the United States and Cornwall, England, would then be opened. The average cost per word across the Atlantic by cable is 23 cents. An officer of the Marconi Company said this morning that the company could transmit messages across the Atlantic for 10 cents a word and make money.

This officeivdwelt upon some of the possibilities of the wireless system. Besides answering every purpose of the President Harriman Announces His Purpose to Shorten the Time From New York by Building Cut-Offs in theRcad Speciality Ipasod wire, the longest i world. I WASHINGTON, December From New York to San Francisco in three and a half days is the task that E. H. Ilariimau has set out to accohipliah.

He says it will be accomplished within three years. Ho has taken the' Pennsylvania Railroad as his model and declares that" as fast as men and money can make the change the Union and Southern Pacific systems from Omaha to San Francisco will be In every respect equal to the magnificent Pennsylvania road from New York to Chicago. Millions are now being expended, he says, In straightening the road from Omaha westward, and thf. work of rebuilding the Southern Paciilc from Ogdrn will follow. The Sierras are to be tunneled, so thathe grade will be no greater than those found on the lines east of Ogden.

Mr. Harriman's declaration of his purpose In pouring out millions on the Central continental highway was called out because of the struggle now going on for the lion's GENEVA (Switzerland), December 23. A dynamite bomb was exploded at the entrance of St. Peter's Cathedral last night, The doorway was damaged, but not seriously. Th'e outrage supposed to have been perpetrated by an anarchist.

The bomb was filled with scrap iron. The explosion was very violent, and except for the clumsy manner In which the bomb was placed the damage to the cathedral undoubtedly would have been serious. Windows of neighboring houses were shattered and an inmate of an adjacent house was thrown out of his bed. An hour before the explosion the police frustrated an attempt to blow up the residence of Councilor Fazy, President of th'j Geneva Administration. The crime is supposed to have been committed in revenge for proposed anti-anarchist legislation and the refusal of the Federal Government to grant amnesty to the anarchists.

Special Dispntch to "The Kiauilner." 1 OMAHA December 23. Disguised as a woman, the accomplice of Postoffiee burglar Walter Bigelow, in prison awaiting trial, several days ago succeded in penetrating to the latter's cell in the County Jail in Omaha and scaring Bigelow' into refusing to make a confession when brought before the court to-day. Friday a woman in deep mourning called on Judge Steadman Munger and requested permission to see Bigelow, whom she claimed as her son. The permission was given, and the woman was taken to the cell, where she (remained come time. It transpired to-day that the woman was.

in reality, the male companion of Bigelow in his robberies, who had taken that means of obtaining an interview with bis Imprisoned comrade. Bigelow told auother prisoner he was afraid to confess, as he was threatened with death should he do so. Bigelow was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. CHARGE WIFE TOOK HER HUSBANDS LIFE too usual it lost time as it went. It was due at the Mast Oakland station at 3:30 p.

m. but in making the short run from Sacramento it had already lost an hour and a quarter. The entire run has been. made in not much more than that time. On the siding at East Oakland was a heavy freight train.

It had been waiting there some hen it got ready the conductor gave the signal and the engineer started to pull out. He pulled out! on the main track the track on which that Sacramento passenger train with ovcV two hundred people on board was coming along an hour and a quarter behind time. There is a curve at that point. Suddenly the engineer of the freight train saw right aliead of him the Sacramento passenger train and heard it thundering along. That engineer put on the air, reversed his engine and jumped.

His fireman jumped. The heavy train, just started, came to a Engineer Maurice Shean of the passenger train saw his peril, reversed, set his brakes and leaped from his engine. Eirernan Thomas Ciilmartin tried to jump, but his clothing caught and he was unable to extricate himself. The passenger train ran roaring into the freight engine, smashing the engines, their tenders and a freight ear. The smashing and splintering show the tremendous force of the impact.

Had the pas-: senger train been running at a slightly greater speed; had it not been slacking up for the East Oakland station; or had the freight train got well under way out on the track, there probably would have been a horror to match the liyron wreck. As it was. Engineer Sheau was the pnly person injured, but two hundred lives were seriously endangered by haphazard railroad methods and somebody's gross carelessness. The passengers were badiy shaken. With the tragedy of Saturday night fresh in their minds, they naturally were much unstrung.

But as long as trains cannot be run a matter of a hundred miles without losing an hour and a quarter of time, and as long as careless officials give careless orders which set two trains against each other on a single track, the traveling public will have to trust to luck rather than to railroading to save life and limb. cable or telegraph he said that it had many additional advantages. Steamships fitted with the necessary apparatus could keep in constant communication with the shore and In any places where it was impossible to string telegraph wires or lay cables the wireless system would be of invaluable use. share of transpacific commerce between Messages can be sent overland as well as James J. Hill and the Northern Pacific interests on the one band and Harriman and the Union-Southern Pacific on the other.

The fight arose over the attempt of James J. Hill and his allies to wrest control of the Government transport business from San Francisco and transfer it to Seattle. The outcome of the. first round of the fight, which was decided by Secretary Root last week, was in a sense a victory for Seattle, though for the time being the Government service will be operated as usual from San Francisco. Mr.

Harriman and the San Franclscp interests were opposed to the granting of the contract to Seattle, even without the condition named, but failed to Influence Secretary Root. Mr. Harriman came here nn Thursday, dined with the President and two conferences with Secretary Root. CLEVER SCHEME TO EVADE EXCLUSION Canadian Official Blocks Attempt to Land Chinese Crew. Sliecinl Dldiniti to ''The Examiner." VICTORIA (B.

C), December 23. The agent of the steamer Manauense made application to A. R. Milne, Collector of Customs, for permission to land twenty Chinese here from Hongkong for the steamer which would call here to ship the Chinese on her way from Seattle to Siberia. The application was made owing to the fact that permission could not be obtained at any United States port for the landing of the Chinese, and the Manauense's owners thought to evade the purpose ot the Chinese Exclusion Act by having the transfer of Chinese made at a Canadian port.

Collector Milne refused permission and In this decision he has been upheld by the Canadian Department of Justice on the matter being referred to the department. by water by the wireless system, as successful experiments ii Europe have demonstrated, but for the present, at least, the Marconi Company will confine itself to the establishment of communication between countries and between ships and the shore. Slgnor Marconi is expected in New York early in January. According to the plaii3 of the company work on the Cape Cod station will then be rushed to completion. For the present the company does not intend to do anything on the Pacific Coast.

ST. JOHN'S (Newfoundland), December 23. -Marconi has sent a telegram to Premier fond announcing his complete success In be transmission of wirtless messages between Cape Breton and England, and referring with gratitude to the encouragement he received from Newfoundland a year ago. In his reply Premier Bond expressed the hope that when the charter of the Anglo-American Company expires. In April, 1904, Marconi will establish a wireless nation lere.

Mrs. Lena M. Lillie Arrested on Complaint of County Attorney. DAVID CITY December 23. Lena M.

Lillie was arrested this evening on complaint of County Attorney Walling, charged with murdering her husband. The arrest has caused a sensation. Harvey Lillie was shot dead while lying In his bed in October, supposedly by burglars, although the sur-plcion that the house had been robbed was later disproved. Since then the County Attorney and detectives have been working on the case. The family was prominent.

Mr. Lillie being local manager for one of the leading grain and elevator companies of the State. HUNDREDS IN PERIL. Two hundred passengers on a Southern Pacific train were in imminent peril yesterday afternoon. That there was not a long death roll to record seems little short of miraculous, for if many lives had been sacrificed there was carelessness enough to have accounted for the deaths.

A shiver of horror passed over Oakland hen the new of 'railroad accident was received. Visions of thc-awful calamity of Saturday last arose in the mind, and crowds rushed to the East Oakland Mr. Harriman Informed Secretary Root that he was expending tens of millions of dollars in the construction of the Union Pa ciflc and Southern Pacific..