Boston Daily Globe (Newspaper) - May 30, 1904, Boston, Massachusetts To reach in Daily RSEY CIY Eight Freight and Goal Piers K J Pay Better nhy otho er in Wow H SiO t ti Tr I s Y V NEW May 29A in the cabin of a canal that migh nave been drowned out with a buoke of grew Into a tion that destroyed five piers and threi pockets on the Jersey City front this Terrified by the little burst of flame In his cook the bargeman hurried his and children across a plank to against which his floating was and escaped with them to the In an incredibly the barge was ablaze from stem to Nestling closely against the plied high throughout Its entire length of more than 1500 feet with bales of the flaming barge made a huge torch that could not be It played Its fiery a few moments against the wooden bulkheads of the and then a slender streak of red ran up to the divided there and crept fore and aft along the overhanging Within five minutes no power on earth could havo saved the lone who had from the fleeing bargeman that the pier was turned In an caught up a line of hose and rushed with It Into the passageway between the piled up He was met half way out on the pier by a wave of that told him his puny efforts would not avail and warned him of his It was with difficulty that he mads his way outside to A stiff breeze from seaward swept over the burning fanning flames until they licked with giant tongues tue the i on the other side from where the had been and finally enveloped pier up In less than half an hour five on land and water encompassed a full worth of property that was fast eaten up by and which there was no hopo of The fight was to keep the from proceeding up river to tha ferry houso and ocean Pier at the foot of 18th marks the line between Jersey City and Ho and the entire departments of both cities joined in the heroic bat tle to prevent the devastating spread of Manhattan sent over two fire and at least 40 provided with firefighting joined the Marine firemen and pressed close up to the acres of burning The fire started a few minutes before 5pm and was at its fiercest at it was at this time that a large section of pier 8 fell on a crowd of Pour men were burned and from underneath the debris and hurried away to the hospitals in Scores of others were more or less but not so badly that they required medical None of those injured will The fire was one that the firemen on shore could combat with small The real work was with the men of the and tha These did their work so daringly time and again helr vessels were on and were saved from Scores of mainly freight rain barges and were caught between the burning piers and were consumed with everything on With the falling of the rear half of pier a piece of burning debris as largo as a man shot up into the air and trav in a flash the 2000 feet between the pier and the ferry lodged and in a twinkling the cupola was on I W all jammed full of WBS extinguished without de three coal one of them just wore blazing as one tre mendous Three piers above the outer northern edge of the conflagration was the passenger station of tjio Dela Lackawanna Western with its ferry and just beyond this there lay at the several piera transatlantic The wind was up toward the railroad station and the big The distance now traversed by the lire was from the foot of 12th st to the foot of 17th long Pier the northernmost one was and with its modern hoisting ap cost Counting the structures and their contents the watchful Ten min utes later another piece of flaming debris whizzed through the air and landed where the other had fallen in the open The blazed up again and was as quickly At the piers above the ferry alongside which lay the big ocean a score of tugs stood at a word to the out into the stream to Their service was never was not permitted to invade materially beyond the five piers and the three coal By the greatest ef fort pier 7 was It Was on at some point every five but these Continued on the Second ii THOUGH MOBLE BRONZE OR TWY MARK WHEKE MEMORY HER FLOWER WREATHS REMEMBERS ALL ro Are Pressing To Port i ji i N Charge of Hill One Of Heroic Nine Times the Japs Charged and an Enfilading in a Combat They Cap tured Artillery munition Ran and They Nearly 80 I s TO THE HURR eow THE ro DAY OLD KINDLY TIME ALL TODAYS GLOBE Russians evacuate and Japs press on toward Port Arthur St Peters burg expects an assault to be made there shortly charge of hill marked by heroic tenacity of Seven freight and coal piers in Jersey City burned with their contents loss will be about nearly loses his Bullet which catches fire from an explosion at lie another wrecked and its two occupants injured i Runaway from causes t a of excitement in How to display the flag Only one amusement place opened at Revere Page Boilermakers reply to Pres and say strike Is a case of endurance local labor Two arrests for murder of freight handler In Jersey City Bridgeport union votes not to Lajoie makes trouble at Cleveland which 4 to New Chicago and Cincinnati Nationals win Three school championship games to be played today In and near Last bowling league will wind up this TODAYS GLOBE Stock market review of the City of Chicago secures a substantial victory over the Union traction n the Runaway Worcester Boy in Fled ironi Who Came to Take Him Remarkable prosperity of the vania coal News of the water front Government will not interfere Cod station Rowing Percy superintendent stamn with cape for the Womens golf associa tion tournament to open Bicycle races at Page Household department dally lesson in history and boys and girls column Was Making for the River When Batting and fielding averages otf the players on both Boston ball Suffolk county board to convention of Hiber c Cycle races today at River Lowell and Sunday baseball players arrested at Final adjournment 6f the Methodist general Review of New Englands greatest horse This will be a busy week for the Page Russell of Andover dead as result of being hit by t Attempt wreck passenger train at two Heights in Program of Memorial day events Unknown man probably jumped over Cleveland In the of Judge Parker and gives his Hon Frank umpire between the British and Venezuelan sends his decision to their repre Great Britain wins two and Venezuela wins Elaborate for week ftt Great Funeral of Senator on Tuesday Will be very Procession of 500 children at the cathe dral of the Holy 0 Convention in the interest the Gaelic language Georgia cotton manufacturers to meet June o to discuss industrial conditions Corner stone of Congregational church laid at President Roosevelt to spend today at Beverly police youns men on charge of The Globes Grand Array roll of honor loyal members of posts who have reached the age of fourscore Hon Gorham of Newton observes his 82d Principal Gaffney of Wade grammar BU ton with assaulting at Three Rivers causes loss of George well known resident of Bast U U N Said to be at Parral Engaged In Mining May who has Just arrived P Dr Flower who Is so badly wanted in Now York ia in that He Is engaged In to or e Services in Boston churches attended the Memorial Sunday jwt the these properties are valuable Tut hcv PRIVATE THE Match of French of About Way A chase extending from Charlestown into covering a distance of over a ended in the swamp at the Mystic river bank last just as Bartholomew aged was about to elude his Daniel Kelli by boldly jumping into the There was a mob close after the boy almost from the moment that he led the a crowd which was increased few yards and which numbered close upon 200 When the capture was made at the waters A Metropolitan park patrolman saw the mob coming and heard its He hurried to the river and rheard the boy crying out that he wished to drown Explanations were made to the officer and the boy was sent to the Somerville police station where he was looked up by Lieut Woodman for safe He ran away from his home in Worces ter five weeks ago and coming to Charlestown wont to the of hid Mrs 1 King ston Yesterday afternoon the boys mother arrived from Worcester with the intention of taking him Her arrival was seen by the boy and he bolted through a front The mother saw him going and called out for to stop him The chase began at that point and Mr Kelliher overtook the lad just as he going to leap into the At the station in the evening young Toomey was interviewed by patrolman Dadmun the solicitation of Mrs Kelli who had and ho promised to go home He said he had been whipped several times by his father One in Other teere Close Performance He Sunday Crowds Beach Much May 29Dalny has been practically according to the statements of Sikh and Russian refu gees arriving here today by All ammunition and most the troops have been taken to Port The only civilians remaining are the electrical engineers in the mines laid in the harbor and also those set to destroy the docks and One large Russian probably the armored cruiser and three torpedo boats reached bay on Tuesday from Port and it was doubtless this vessels which atr tacked left wing during the battle at Kinchou on The junks just arrived hereon their way down passed i Japanese war ves sels miles outside of so Bayan will likely The IT B gunboat now will go to in case town is evacuated the A Chinese who from left there on says that a Japanese scouting party was seen by villagers in the vicinity of the and that a battle took place Friday at point on the railroad about 10 north v machine while lying dead in the forts and were COO the victims of the accuracy of Japanese marksmanship and of Gen Oku In command of the Japanese began his aggressive movement on Russian position at midnight on Wed assigned the sion to tho right with Instructions to swing around Kinchou and move He gave the first division the center and the left was allotted to third v During the night a terrible thunder accompanied by a broke over the army and impeded the movements of the it had been the flro fog had WM chou A detachment seized 1bn7 and then the entire ih anv and determined not to stand it He will probably be delivered into the custody of some member of family this Webb and the machine that was wrecked at Readville yesterday Mr Webb was badly shaken up and his Harry Marvel received arm in the s Gert THE May for Monday and Tues day For New England Showers and Tuesday fresh winds In Local forecast Boston and vicinity weather with westerly winds The temperature is registered the following cities at 8 last evening Montreal New York Washington Atlanta Savannah Jacksonville New Orleans St Louis Chicago St Bismarck Omaha TO Den ver The temperature yesterday as at 9 a 8 a m 9 m 7ft 8 p m Bostons automobile which was instituted Saturday with the pa was continued yesterday and hun dreds of owners and drivers took ad vantage of for through the park system and along the fine roads ofthe Frank pur bin took a through the fenway and continued his to the Readville where the noted racing drivers were up their cars races today The roads lending to the track yester day afternoon were well traveled and there was large gathering of ma chines at the rack during the tuning the speeding The was by exciting and by the trials of some dar Ingr great racing should re fult when the famous cars Una up iri Although there were several slight mishaps in the of the there was but one serious ot the first machines to take the Hie track was the 24hbrse power Pope Toledo racing driven by Webb and carrying Harry Marvel as a passen The car had cut out 10 fast miles and Webb had Just turned to his top going into the first quar the right front tire burst with a loud The operator did his best to avert an accident held the wheel hoping to make The machine was traveling so however that the heavy car skidded and smashed into the inside fence of the ripping 30 feet of board from the and before the occupants had a chance leap to safety the great racing machine up against a Continued on Second Sunday shows beach failed to in spite of the positive statements of the managers that they had all their plans for the opening of the season i It was nit for want of a froni which to draw hours along the boulevard were filled with visitors and the beach Itself with The doors of the build ings were the center of the watching What caused the change was the question everybody and different inquirers got different answers The showmen who want to amuse the Sunday crowds are Just now watching for possible opposition in two situation In regard to some of tho difficulties last year has been cleared up by a decision of the supreme court in favor of the It is held that Which is on a week day is legal on provided it is given charitable or religious proceeds to iThe state claimed in the to that allowing the managers the to pay any expenses iri the per gave the a much opportun ity to benefit the owner oj the show as well as its own Having this the show men now find that may be taken to the Sunday The report was published Saturday in Globe that Pates might take advantage of tho only by legis lation can be brought about this and send special message to the legis lature It was declared by some of tha proprietors of the amuse ments on the beach that the reason for the sudden to keep the shutters up today was that such action night have a favorable influence upon the members of 4the legislature when they HOWl DISPLAY THE Army Say It Should Remain Wll to Vote on the governors recom The other source the showr men look for possible trouble is to the authorities of the The present board of selectmen has never definitely announced what policy it favors in regard to the Sunday at Revere Friday the board discussed a proposition suggested by a committee of clergymen and others of the town opposed to the Sunday It was pointed out that the selectmen have absolute power to revoke any amusement licenses at their and that they therefore forbid any of the licensees on week days from letting their establishments to other organizations for enforce their instructions by revoking the regu lar licenses f the order Was disobeyed Just what action the selectmen took night they decline to Chief ot Police MADE Japanese Captured HIM In HandtoHand Artil lery May 2The details of the fighting at the roio tenacity ofthe Japanese in their Nine successive the Japanese charged the fortified bights of a storm of and in their they forts and only after a bayonet to bayonet conflict with the made a desperate despairing struggle to beat oncoming The final of the In they at last succeeded in taking was marked by most desperate encounter that has thus far characterized the The Japanese entire was exposed to enfilading from the infantry a gunboat on and four posted at At a critical moment the ammunition of the artillery ran low and it was de to cast the into one final desperate Fortunately moment this the squadron in Mln Chou which had ceased bombarding the infantry had moved suddenly re the shelling of Then it was that the issues of the day a moment when the outcome was fluttering be tween success defeat for and an repulse was con verted into victory so the forces of were swept into con fusion disorderly With Japanese guns centering their the forts and the Japanese infantry sprang over the bodies of their comrades who had sacrificed their lives in the previous fruitless The entire line rushed forward toward the Russian where the of the Japanese squadron had proved most and which was the first to fatry gradually moved forward The gunners on fortified nights were not slow in giving smart response to the Japanese attack and soon a vigorous fire and were m to which the big guns of the Japanese squadron lent a noisy At 6 the atmosphere had cleared TIP sufficiently for the naval marksmanship to work v For three hours the shelling from bay and shore and the replying from the forts continued without interruption and then the Russian The cessation of the firing on the hill was a Signal for a forward movement the troops and the attacking batteries changed positions to ae better 1 At U a zone 800 to 6500 sards in width separated the Japanese and Russian and the rest of tho day was spent by assailing forces cross ing the A Russian gunboat in bay opened on the Japanese left at 10 in the forenoon five Five Russian steamers at tempted to land their crews near Hung Tu but the third division stopped In the meantime four heavy guns at found the range of the third division and kept shelling 7 in the The artillery with the third division vainly endeavored reach these but failed on account of the In the main attack the Japanese Ar continued shelling seeking to destroy entanglements and otherwise clear the way fpr tho but every time the infantry advanced the Russian In the meantime the their two fleW batteries previously withdrawn from with fresh whose fire enfiladed a considerable por tion of the entire Japanese Very critical at this time was position of Gen Okus for nt the wavering of line under the rein of the Russian Infantry came reports from the Japanese batteries that the ammunition was ex Gen Oku reports that he knew not hope to continue much longer and so to make assault Ja force regardless of artillery opened Continued on the Second at the session the board and asked instructions for The that i There seven weaken under the bom Andit there that the first breach was made in the human wall all day had been an invincible barrier to the impetuous assaults of the brown It was the fourth division of Osaka men that stormed the Russian It had been paid that Osaka men were not Itwill never be said The 1st division of which had the and the 3d division of and which had been exposed all day to the Rus sian the front now followed the example of the Osaka men and rushed and battle came transformed from an artillery duel into one of Personal with bayonet as the instrument of On every parapet the death defying Japanese forward in increasing and hustling the Russians their swept over the At a the sun was neath the the 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