New-York tribune., 1906-04-24

on duty there
1t was said to-day by officials of the mint
that the early reports of the shooting and at
tempts to break into the mint by looters
the purest nonsense. There has been no dis
turbance of any kind about the building. and
! there is prospect of trouble
! LEADING CITIZEN KILLED BY GUARDS.
H. c. Tiden. of the most prominent MEM
bers of the general relief committee, shot
and almost instantly killed IN his automobile
early this morning at 22d and Guerrero streets
while returning from Menlo Park He shot
by men supposed to be members of the citizens
patrol Hugo Alltschul, a coachman, who
in the automobile, cut in the face by bull
let, and another ball pierced the seat and struck
| the back of R G. Seaman. acting lieutenant of
the I'd Company of the Signal Corps. The force
of the bullet spent. and Seaman suffered no
injury.
MAJOR llIden was a prominent commission
merchant of this city, member of Governor
Pardee's staff, and of the foremost workers
In the general relief. He had taken his three
children and from the Fourteen Mile
House, where they had been since the earth
quake, to Menlo Park, where he has
cottage His automobile had been used an
ambulance in conveying sick and wounded to
the hospitals. and the Red Cross flag was dis
played on his Besides this he had the Red
Cross insignia his right arm.
According to Lieutenant Seaman six men
stood in the middle of the road at 22d and Guer-
zero streets. separating when the car was within
nifty feet of them. When the car was within
ten feet of the guard Seaman says the men
began shooting without warning challenge
and Kept up firing after the had passed them.
The lieutenant added:
The machine had gone about fifty feet past the
patrol when the car stopped suddenly Tilden
he
Ing, We'll. they got me-they killed me-" He
tnen dropped back in the seat and rolled out of
the car. sprang up and fired five shots in
quick succession at those who were still shoot
Ing behind A doctor came running from q
mouse near by, and, after examining Tilden, said
ne was dead. Several policemen came running
up and arrested three of the men who did the
shooting The men Were in khaki uniform.
The body of Tiden was placed in the car and
taken to the Central Police Station at Bush
ana Fillmore streets. The body was removed
later TO the Elks Emergency Hospital in Bush
street. between Fillmore and Steiner streets.
ARRESTED MEN AT FORT MASON
The three men under arrest are E. S. Boyne-
ton' telephone inspector in the employ of the
Faclhc States Telephone Company; George W.
. Simmons and Malcolm Vance. They are all
young men and members of the citizens patrol.
Boyneton says that he did not see the Red
Cross flag on Tilden's car, and when the latter
old not stop when challenged he fired. The
coachman in the car then began shooting and
Simmons and Vance replied The three men
were taken by Chief of Police Dinan in an auto
mobile to Fort Mason and turned over to Cen
eral Funston. The shooting has caused great
indignation.
a permanent sanitary camp for the Chinese
left in the city will be established at once in
the blocks bounded by Franklin, Octavia Chest
nut and Bay streets. 1t will be laid out and
NnF7GTy -1n4a1
neers. The government has supplied for this
purpose 1000 shelter tents
The steamer Queen reached San Francisco
last night with the first instalment of a large
quantity of supplies contributed by Tacoma
Fully thirty thousand refugees are being fed
by the government at the Preside and North
Beach. Provisions are being bountifully sup
piled TO all who make application, and as yet
there is no suffering from hunger. Tents are
yet being distributed More than ten thousand
have been given.
number Of large manufacturing companies
have arranged to receive and care for refugees
at their plants along the eastern shore Of the
bay. where 2,750 persons can be accommodated
a VIGILANCE COMMITTEE FORMED.
San Francisco has vigilance committee. the
first organization of the kind since the early
50s. DR.. Donald McCulloch Gedge is the chief
his cLleI OF stan is harry Baehr. The head
quarters Of the committee are at 1924 Steiner
street. One hundred and thirty persons have
Joined the organization. The committee has
charge of the Golden Gate Valley district. near
the Presidio.
The following telegram from ]. c. Stubbs
traffic director of the Southern Pacific Railway
who is in San Francisco, was sent to-day to the
assistant traffic director E o. Mccormick in
Chicago
Please ask the press generally to advise all
people generally not to try TO reach San Fran
cisco. Outsiders not allowed to land here. They
would only add to the congestion of the cities
them TO locate any All the people are
being We'll taken care of, and there will be
trouble If the supplies are kept coming
The night attendants Of the Central Emer-
gency Hospital. who were all believed to have
the earthquake, escaped, with the exception of
a steward named Manville. He was severely in
jured by the falling walls, but was rescued and
taken to the Presidio Hospital
Arrangements now being made to provide
for the election for Governor which must be
held in this city next fall and a meeting of the
Election Commission has been called for this
purpose.
The first vessel 20 clear from San Francisco
since the fire is the Expansion. a small steam
schooner, which received her papers to-day. She
was laden with provisions for the canneryTnen
a Bristol. and on that account allowed to
sail.
The area OF the burned district is seven square
miles.
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