The morning call., 1893-10-28
CAR DERAILMENT.
SmasI1up at the Peralta
Freightslip.
WORK OF THE GRAND JURY.
Earnings of the Opposition Line.
General Kirkham's Estate-F. B.
Mitchell Missing Salaries.

OAKLAND-At O'Clock yesterday morn
Ing engine 1925. drawing a train of empty
stockcars, was derailed in attempting to
make flying switch at the Peralta-street
freightslip and thrown on its side, strad-
ding the tracks. The oncOming cars could
not be stopped in time to avert collision
and were piled up on the engine.
Theodore Olson OF 1166 Seventh street
was attending the switch on the top Of the
forward end of the first car. When the
train struck the derailed tender Olson was
thrown violently forward and jammed be-
tween the broken cars. He had not OBJ
served the derailment, and his fate was
therefore the more unexpected by him. He
was taken out in an uncons scious and badly
mangled condition and removed to mis-
home. His Injuries will probably not prove
fatal.
A still more serious casualty was what
beiell Frank Adams, little fellow scarcely
Il years Of age.
He had gone to the Po int to pasture out
q cow and on his way back jumped on the
footboard in the rear Of the tender to steal
a free ride. When the collision occurred
Adams was in the place most exposed to
danger, and had it not been for a fortunate
piling up of the cars he could not have
escaped instant death.
When the little fellow was removed from
the wreck his left leg was frightfully
mangled and his head and body covered
with bruises. The patrol wagon was sum-
moned and Adams was taken to the Re-
ceiving Hospital, where Drs. johnson.
Dunn and Legault examined his injuries
and found it necessary to amputate and
disarticulate the left leg at the hip joint
The little fellow stood the pain of the op-
Grafton with f0rtitude and Is resting
quietly.
As result Of the smasbup the machin-
cry Of the engine IS badly damaged, and
two boxcars are wrecks. None of the
trainmen are responsible for the disaster.
Coppers in the Saddle.
Chief Shaffer has arranged the beats
that will be assigned the four mounted
patrolmen who are now to constitute a
formidable part of the city police force
One of them will guard the precinct
bounded by the north boundary line of the
city, Lake Merritt. Seventeenth street and
Thirteenth avenue. Another will be in
the Twenty-third-avenu district. a third
will include the city limits on the north,
Grove street on the west ana on the south
Grove street to Thirtieth, to Caledonia
avenue, to Telegraph avenue, to Twenty
first street, to Broadway, to Twenty-fourth
street, to Vernon Heights and back to the
beginning point.
The fourth beat will extend from the
west side of Grove street.
AS far as the Chief will give out. other
changes will be the assignment Of four
policemen to East Oakland. Day men
will go on at Q A. NJ. and report off at
P. M, when night men will go on and re-
port of at :. NJ.
The Grand Jury Rests.
The Grand Jury was not in session yes
terday. 1t is SAID now that there will be
other witnesses in the Matthew case sum-
moned to appear, and that the alleged
crookedness in that case will be sifted
down thoroughly.
1t is stated that the Grand Jury has de-
cided to ignore the charges brought against
Officer Keefe by Stuart Macmillan on the
ground that the arrest was not made by
keefe in violation of the law. Macmillan
charges that Keefe in aTresting him for in
ducing passengers to take the Davie boat
of which be was found not guilty, used un-
necessary force and violence on the per-
son of MacMullan, and the latter charged
that his arrest was without cause or war
rant.
Opposition Pays.
The following statement regarding the
financial working of the Davie ferry sys-
tenn has been given out: Earnings from
July IL to Septemb ber 15-July, for 27 DAYS,
108,31 passengers at 5 cents, S54S 45 !;
August, for 81 days, 151, s65 at cents,
S7593 25;' and SeDtem Der, for Is days,
1926 passengers at cents S4286 80. The
expenses are: Rosalie, So days at 500,
$500. and Rosalie and Alvira (two steam
drs), $3.50 day for is days. S3240. maxim g
a total operating expense for 73 days of
$3.50. The general summary states: Re-
ceipts S17, 1893 10 and expenses S8740, leav-
= ing balance of SS65S 10 profit.
Where Is Mitchell?
F. B. Mitchell. young man of 80 years,
steady and industrious, and the second
engineer at the Trestle Glen power-house
of the East Oakland electric road, is miss
ing, and his absence has been reported to
the police, who are on the lookout for him.
Mitchell has been missing since Thurs
day afternoon last. when he was paid off
and started to Oakland to make few pur-
chases. He has not since shown up, and
his friends are very uneasy about him. He
was last seen Thursday evening at s
o'clock on Broadway.
Fixing Salaries.
In reply to a resolution passed by the
Board of Education at their last meeting
City Attorney Johnson has rendered an
opinion as to the legality of the boards
action in fixing the salary of the SUI erin
tendent of Schools at $4,000 year, while
the city charter says it shall be but $500.
He says: II conclude and so advise the
Board Of Education that under the facts
stated in your letter OF inquiry, the board
has the power to fix the salary of the Su-
perintendent of Schools, and the salary so
fixed can be collected by the Superin-
tendent."
Big Estate.
The appraisers of the estate of the late
General Kirkham have filed their report.
The estate is valued at S673, ,125 70.
Sudden Death.
Thomas Letford of 1922 Pacific street
died last evening very suddenly of what is
supposed to have been sciatic rheuma tism,
from which disease he had been sufferer
for many years. One of his sons went to
his fathers room to see how he was and
fonnd him dead Jatford laovac n ,-;do ~