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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1889-01-25, Page 647. •,•••: C •fa 4 • ARVEST. rrible Results from Last Week's Tondo. SOME HEIRTRENDING CALAMITIF$. k Large Silk Mill Blown Down in —Reading, Pa. The Collapse of the Bridge atthe Niagara Falls. tutte•LATEst FAIttrovrAftn, A silk mill, inwhich 250 -girls . wereem- ployed, blew down lust before the. he= for quitting work: About *clamp time there wad an explosion and fire in the same neighborhood,by which eight Men were • burned to death. 4 511.4dinealt that was'Appandrig. Thal:teeny clouds gave way to the online= • sips of a „coming storm. Dark, • heavy • „bents .of t clouds marshalled themselves • toward the front; and a gin= Beamed to have settled over :the oity. There Was a , atillneen as of a coming danger. Sud-' ' denly the wind whistled, roared and tore in mad oonfusiOn. The storm clouds grew heavier still,' and louder roared the -winds. In the western sky the sterns was Oen spprciaahing with a thundering. noise: The swathit cutwas narrow, but its effect' was terrible. Pereoneresid. Along the track of the storm say that they saw the first signs of danger in•a fun- . nel-shaped • maelstrom which seemed to gatherup everything within its retioli and east it right and left. Opt in the country, -shouses-and bone Weretunkoofed, farm out buildings overturned, orope rooted up and • destruction spread in every direction. The traok of:this-destructive element, was not more than 200 feet wide, and it is loky ,thati it Only ",toliched the suburbs of the oity, it came from the Weet;'but poised along the northern 'border of Reading. , First it tonshed the Mt:Penn skive works. -Here the Corner of the building was struck and' a portion Of the roof was entl off aa nicely as if done With a pair of &Assort). . Then the storm clOnd scurried aorOse some fields took off a portion of the roriff'of J. Sierribergh's rolling mull, -and a number 'ordWellinge-were--unroofed-aanidely-es-if- ..4•• their tin roofs ' were. paper, The .atorm • ;then hurried . ionise .the property of the Beading Railroad Company and ao.a: -0±00sea -she railroad. Here A passenger oar was standing, .This -was overturned neatly alit it was a toy, 'and its .eptinters scat- tered in every &potion. Meanwhile, the Fain Poured Downin torrents. The atmosphere became heavy and npprea, . sive, and it was almost as dark as night: Directly alongside the tracks Of the Read- ing Railroad was situited the paint 'shop of the Reading 'Unread • Company. . It was • one-story building about , 60 by.156,.feet in, *size. Here 11130Ot thirty men were" em, . played in planting paesenger cars: There weft eight or 'nine of 'thew Ore in: the building,. They had been built St the ohm- . pany's „shepe. in this oity at aj cost of $6,000 ' each. Thebuilding was truck square in . the middle, and tho bricks 'scattered like oiri-„wera.„toned_topey-- *arty, while the mon were buried Under the debris. " Some of the bricks were carried a square sway. The chamber of each of the • pieeenger'eareves already filleff Wit& gee asj they Were reedy to be a taken out on the roadin a few days. These exploded with terrific force, in:twang .the people all over the city to run out of their htinses, think.; Mg that it was an earthquake: There was considerable quantity of gasoline in the building, and this added fnel to the flinies Which Bhot heavenward • Withthe rear Of • 'musketry: Some twenty of the • • Men had a: chance to .crawl mit of the debris, but but four of their companions were • :enveloped in the embrace of the flames. Their one& were heard for a Moment, then , "the yoieee Were hushed forever. They were ' rosated•toffetith; and the fire from tho nine ' paesenger, 'care bit up the heavens for mubea around; In Meantime thefire depart - mat was tinned' oat, but its services Were • unavailing. The building and WEI, were neninimed in fifteen minutes, and nothing was left but the smoking ruins; tinder which' fonhumen beings burned to a crisp. . Their nentee ere: John Kohler, Albert, Landberger,, Sheridan Jones • and George Schaeffer. It was rumored that several others had been killed, but that* are the only ones .wholt is •knownhave last their lives. Aaron Dewalt, another employee in the paint shop, had his arm ..broken, and Georg /Cobb was injured internally, no doubtfatally 'I he loss to tl3e railroad coni-. . patsy is felly 075,000: While this was all • going On the dorm was tratelling. forward • at the rate of about 100 , Miles an hour; unroofing hotline and doing other damage. . An Awful crash. ' • • " Directly in the storm's path, id the •. corner of' Twelfth and Maslen streets :Mood', the Reading • silk , mill; one of the induatrise of the City, and in which were • 'about 115 happy girl° Working. The build- . lig Was ti huge .atrtlettire, itIOBt substan- tially bat, four stories in height, and had • a basement besides: It oconpied an entire ' block of ground. The size of the building iteelf was nearly 800 feet" in length and about 150 feet wide. It was stirtnounted by a maseive tower, folly 100 feet from the , ground. The funnel -shaped storm cloud. struck the building directly in the centre on ita beciedest Bide' Which' faced- the west: 'ilea to pieces as ifcomposed of se many building blocks. Nearly 200 human .13eings went, dean in the awful wreck. Human tongue Can never tell the terrible scenes Of thathour, The Walls :gave way, the „floors ,fell down, onoi on top of the Other, and berried their gieat, MOO of lumen . being ". to the Ottani. - The bricks were piled 'up In the greateat confusion, whilo amid the hurricane ata Whistling, milling rearing Wind; terrific criell for endear Were bent up to '1ivn. It was a moment that tried men's ; nem: th di a t , ,0 , •glottis ; almost e.mn.to; s.y beyon. Lie vane tart Ower net re the fail Of the building C5Mtb64 t6.WItil tetilincl from tho nature Of the swaying orient for relief. Girls with biacianee oes, , :two something. wAo wrong , but was ••• hgulued API brektoi.lfinba, their..34Othing tattered and torn,ffraggedthemeelves from tbe'rufoe, So probably seventy-five to one hundred escaped' or Were, draggedont, by their friends. 'Thee°, tit CearOeiWurhecl On the upper floora. and, were thrown near the telp. of the dehtiet. At eeme 101fteee the brioke were ,peeci twenty feet deep, and underneath Are lying to -night , Minoan bodice by theecore. Abtint 250 girl* and young Women are molly employed in the, inill„hutat 4. onlook about eighty were relieved from dnty. for the day. They re... turned to their • borne; before the storm ..eanta:. The moot2 .011able estimate Ot to- night places the number in; the,„ building when it went down in the neighhorhsiod. of 175,, and, as before eteted, 100 Of theowere rescued by. friends Or • dragged, theroolvei out. immediately after the, Accident. The alarm for relief was immediately Bent out, and in a short time- thimaandief, Citizens arrivedto take mit the.ago.oia ay.ipe* . . The Beene ,wasq. Feerinvits One, end beggars deeoription. The. Mill is situ: Med near thefoot of Mt. Penn high mountain overlooking the nity. When the people •arrived everything was envelopedin thttlinees: Then , huge bonfires .Werebuilt which cast e animal give On the sitricemd- 'Mg scene. " The fire ••coniponieeleft the. burning paint shop ' and assisted in the rescue. Of the dead and dying. The claire policeforce was called ont, the onsbnlenee and relief orpe and a thoueand people were in among the debris, carrying . Out- brinks; pnlling away timbers and aesisting wherever they opeld, all at the Flame time, but their Work Weit aloW compared with the. ,demand for the reggae of the victims Of the disaster -- 'Here a young Womanwas taken Out; bruieed. and "suffering from cuts.. One body taken out boa* head cut' off. ..0there were in variona, postures, the: living allsuffering from the most terrible wounds and 'smile eln3Ost.ecareff to :death.. The Aettooiated PSDB representative entered what was once: the basement of the hunding, and griping his 'way ,'throngh :the 'debris noticed five bodies Of young girls. lying .oloee • together. 'He tried to .pull them out, but they Were 'pinned dean and it was iniposeible to get • them :Ont. .:They Were • deed andbeyond all 'Malan aid. " ITp. to half -petit illep'elinik to- night .probabli the bodiesof a dozen dead havebeen taken ont, while—the greater Portion :of the remainder were still under the rains. ' • Tho Work Of Fescue • . • will bepeshed all night, lont .it may be tar into to -morrow hefere, ell thebodies are taken. out. The reenters. etill .have the •greeteat hopes that einneottlioseineide are OM. ,living, and , there is every Minton for saying that in thiethe persone. Who believe that way are right. All its: aeon and Oen:. . fusion around the Milt The managers are Wetting; and the Correct Inumber of 'the deed in. meeeguesswork. It. may not not bit Over—forty,L,Ankthen again at this hoer there is a likelihood that it will reach sixty or even, eighty. The .silk mill Was.. built -ebenit-four yeare ego, and together witlithe manhipery is a: Mut wreck. :This Means ..a lose Of over $100000, , '• •, Story of a ,8nrvttor. . Augusto F:-Rolunip, residing. at NO: 638 Ninth Tenth street, was the foreman of the first and Second 'floere of the silk Mill.' 'lie statement is as foilOWs.t . :Was about twenty minutes past 5 when I went to the etiond storyto turn on the eleotrio lights. .After. 1 had done thie.I Mood looking about theroom for about ten Minute's. Suddenly heard a 16nd .rishing noiee„ ' which 'I thought was a, Or:16nd. Theheading then. shook. . I was standing in the OuthernSot of the room, and before 1 weld. look ont of the window 'lett the building sink: .Quitik: as lightning the portion of the robed. I was in :went down.. The girls- rushed ebtitit me :orying:.andseroaniing...ancleallingforhelp:1: They did...not realize what ...wad taking place.. 'Iteemed to Me as if :the centre of the ; 'building "'was. etrucill • &et. I :cannot destiribe .the. scene. .:It was .e.wfid. I could not ao Anything and ,Oidd not think of What 1 etiOnld do. ' Our end of the building went down firat and whilethe floor was sinking it neemed to 'me at if the girls in the other part Ofthe meinwere on the:too:Of a hill, that was: the . Way. that it iinpreatted Me. :-While.Wewere going down I•.saw the other portion of the floor fall.. In two minutes all WO over. The' screaming Of thegirls was ...hettending. I was knocked ffotvn tinder heavy .timbers and held facit by my feet. I cioolamete, every other. part of .ity body *Opting my leg: . wanted to reach dean with • my, knife and cut the ehoe OffMy foot. In this way I .16ottened and managed to arise.: Amid the :weenie tif .the gitleand falling 'beitms and backer etinceeded in escaping. . . • . • ROW 8031* .ii1144 ESCAPED.-• I got Mit qf the ruins outgo eastern side of tne building, but host, I di3not knew. / celled tu the girls :as loudly as I could. They were all terribly .exoited; and I never 'witnessed anything so awful in all My life. Many of them heard me and worked them - Ileitis towards me. At -some '.pletece it Beamed se if, the floor Was closedas a solid rases, and the girlewould creep around this, °real/over thernachines and creep on their Mina and knees until they got, to the open, ing where I was. • The -machines saved many .frOni being crushed to death and left a space between the fleet and debris to crawl,catt. • " I believe that fully one 'hodred per- sons escaped with me. I remember seeing them inn Berme the connutine in different directions, to. their' hemee,„ terrified naturally. • Same ten 'away a' short dis- tance and theCreturned to the rein& • The entirebuilding Was down. The girls ante back t6 leek for their brothers and sisters or friends. ) We could hear the mane and shrieks, of those .imprisoned in the ruin& The rain was pouring .down and all ennead was Park. r was badly bruitted and hurt about the body, head, and limbs and. went hobo after I saw. I could de, _nothing: Be. tween 250 and 300' operatives Were in the building. About 4 o'clock I allowed nil. teen girls to go home. All the floors were in/notation. The report that one hundred want holm at 4 ceciocit is not true. A Niagara Falls despatch says pr. J.M. Hodge; of Niagara Falis, was the last man to creed the bridge before it fell: He Crossed from the American- side to see..a patient about 16 o'clock and •returned about Midnight. Ilia story of hie return is singularly thrilling; 'He iniye: The lights were out; and the worst geld I ever experienced was boating through the Chts£113,. r hOd ?At adeatteed. far . .• • exceedingly. .enxione to reach home and so kept on. As I neared the centre the swinging of the bridge. .from Ode to side became something terrifia; and to add to the horror of the siteation them Wall like- wise A heavy motion like the =Aug and falling of a ehip in the waves, a;s though the cables shove were eiantig. SoMetgnes. the bridge would seem to OP, up, as though one side was raised by the wind while the other sido. hung from the euspendere and whenever this occurred I droppe'd on my hands and kneelsfor fear that I shoidd • be , thrown ova& The rest ot the time I :clung to the railing as though it were the only straw between me and certain death, abd Worked MY WnY along a few steps at a time; whenever there WOultVcome , a slight , lull in the gale. In several places thie railing was bent inward, and I wee in constant fear of reaching eome break. To add to the discomfort and 'difficulties of, the trip, greet volumes of spray. from the Falls,, mingled With BOOW and sleet, Were dashed at intervaleinto in foe, blinding me and drenching my cloth- ing, At onepoint a . gust of wind more .powerful than the mat seemed to Come swelling up from the water, and getting 'under my overcoat literally toreit open. Had I•not been bolding on to the. -railing with both .hands I believe that garment 'Old have been carried away. Mingling with the whistling of the wind through the wires when neer the centre of the bridge I heard a- sound likethe-flapping of a broken cable against the railing, and I believe that it was here thatthe bridge first began to give way., When I finally readied the American tower, being half an hour after I began the tiip. &mom 1 was wet kit the skin, almost . blinded, and breathless. .Nothing would tempt. me -to go through the ordeal again: . ' • • - The bridge was bent 21 years ago, and .Wns a single -drive wooden structure with wooden towers built out of heavy tinibers. Three years ago: the wooden towers were replaced by those of steel and iron by the .Buffelti.liridge Co. without any interrup- tion to traffie: The first of last March the work ofreptaoing the wooden. body of the :bridge for one Of itteel and iron and: also widening the. :drive •SW that two carriages could .pass on the bridge was commenced 9iinf completed about -midsummer without interruption to traffic. There Were pit in else two heavy cables: The work was done by the Bnifido Bridge • Company, under the careful eye of Enginer McNulty, of . New York. The WS will amount to $200,000. ' ' • • The bridge Commenced togive way On 'the Canadian side. Tender Barthan first noticed it and . Cent after bridgetender P. Flynn to go' over the river by railway • and Suspension /fridge to . notify them on the American side. In a. few Minute!) the whole strnotine was in the . river. So ;fierce was the darns no creel could he The bridge 'waft owned by • a company. Mr.' Harrington.. Was • euperintenclent, Ches. • Smyth, of Clinton, N. Presi, No nne was' knOwnlo be on the bridge at: the time ,of the accident. • Peter Breker. crossed it &bent midnight. It was fitting- ing .so *silly then he had to hang on to the side in order to get over; 'Signs of the effect of the stern can .be. Oen' everywhere. The water in the titer roe thirty feet, floating the'. Maid Of the Mist, where the owners hate her dry- docked fifty feet: away from the deck in order.that the ice cotild not in any .way harm, the little • craft. It Was with the utmost : exertions on the OA of Mr,. La - blonde and others that shelvea prevented from breaking her raciewinge and going throngh the Whirlpool Rapids. The &eke and lenses *metedwith the.Maid of thelllist7.0.empany-werw•-swept—eway: The loss to the company will amount to- • 'the promenade and photo gallery' at :Brtinciagesiat the Whirlpool Rapids Park. on the Canadian side, fell to the force of the water. The loss is $1,500. . t The viewing-. stand and buildings of the Wpodfcecil elevator, on the American side also gate way. ' • 'A The whirlpool is covered with witookage and driftwood. The drillshed was un: ;roofed; trees by the details fell hefore. the ',force of the wind In. Wesley Park, as so Many straws.. The fence around the Wile. tio grounds is demolished. Portione of it ,Were Parried e quarter ota Mile away'. Not touch dating was done in the free park, Other than some of tho gravel roads and Walks were watilied away and the Wooden doors and Windows eg. the , elevator under the Felle.lare blown away. ' • WICKED SA.L1.11C BleGICE\ - • , • • -- She Could Cry"to Order and Weep tospeet• ", ' • of tie *owners. . • 'A Philadelphia &watch says: The tender years Of Sallie McGee' yesterday Bayed her troni a felon'e,cell, judge Hare refused to 'sentence the girl, who had been, coneisted of Stealing -at funerals; as in ap, peal for mercy had been made in her be: half, Thie girt was in the habit of attend- ing ftmerals and joining in the greet weep- ing. over the ' departed. . When the oppor- tunity offered she Carried.off whatever she could lay her hands on: li4i•eterred ,Death to Dlehonot..' ' An Ottawa despatch says A French- Canadian named Phiiliaa Bourgard core - witted suicide at Marean's Hotel on Friday night: He, was a :tailor belonging to Vercheres, Que., but had come to Ottawa and obtained work. Ilie.retired to hie room 'on Fritley night about 10 o'clockLheving previously handed' the bartender tw lettere to, be ,posteks one being addresee his father. Shortly after going to his reoni twO shots, following each other in rapid succes- sion, were hoard Okrutining into his item it was found that the unfortunate man had blown out his brains. The Oroner• took ponies siert of the, letters which • deceased bad left to be posted. That addressed to his father was to the effect.that the writer in to take -hie life, as Owing to dodo - lion he had been inveigled' into a marriage Finding& with a disreputable' woman in Montreal. " Ensilage!' fa any kid of et green" &Oa.; , An inqtiest Was • herd On Aittirtley and preserved,,for the use Of cattle during the verdict of suicide was returned. The ease Winter. A pit palled alio " is the online hears some ,resetnblance tc, that of the coin- , employed to keep green fodder over wihter. rnerciil traveller wile Married Polly At Loniiville 'yesterday judge Zitilkson a the Federal Circuit Conti, Overthrew r•••••,, e A IIBAQIct REPOP.T4B.: Gallant Resone of Six Babies ,rXilla . Burning Building. .A Philadelphia deePateh says: The The nandsoMe. apneas of Robert MoWade, city editor of the Roue Ledger (who was in Hamilton during the time of the Phipps extradition trialt, and J. H. Tighe, on Lan- coter Avenue, , at Wayne Station, were entirely destroyed by fire last night. The total' toe'. is about 620,000. Nine smell children narrowly escaped being burned ire their bade. Mrs. Joao, a sister-in-law of Mr. Tighe, was -driven crazy by the excite- ment and hadto be taken Out of the One° by force. When the fire broke out Mr. MoWade had jot finished supper and was sitting in 'the puler , With his wife and several •nearly grown children, after the little ones had been Put to bed His Bret thought was of his children, and he darted Upstairs and.succeeded in getting them all out • of doors safely. Then he and several ' neighbors formed ti bucket brigade but the flames gained steadily on them, fanned by 'the northwest wind. The houses of Mr., MoWade and , Mr. Tighe Wein. The flames soon spread to the property.next tido& There is but one fire company in 'Wayne. It owns, no engine, but has a line of hose. The com- pany responded, but they could do nothing to save the buildings. Some ' one shouted that there was a woman at One of the. win- dows of Mr. Tighe's) house. Mr. MoWade ran upstairs through flame &Aden:take and found Mee. Jones with a babe in her mina O&M:ling • in the centre of a third -story item. He told her to go down.etaire, but she reftlaed- to go. Then he tried to per. her, but she . te34,1., she would. not Move. She was perkily oalni. Her Mind had given way. Mr. MoWade seized her by ,the aims and dragged' her out of the room by force. . .He Managed, but with great difficulty, to get her down the etairs, and she , and the baby Were taken out safely., When this Was done Mr. MoWade 'heard' ioreame in Mr.•Tighen house. He ran in again, and in a . second -story •room found two little children lying in bed' With the flamesdarting all around. • them.He Picked them tip, and with an infant tuelled under each: .arm sprang down-staire, and barely managed to reach the doorthrengh the °louden!, thitilt.'smoke. The flames were extinguished at 10 o'clock. Mr. Mc - Wade loses shout $16,000. He had . ,library valued at $5;000, which it had taken ,hiin several years to, -collect, and none or it was nated. He • had no 'insur- ance on ,the louse or its contents. Mr. Tighei loss is ehot $3,500. The house did not belong to him. • His effects were partly insured in tie New England Mutual Corripeny. . • Mr, AloWaden 'little children'who were taken from their bed& WereSIMost naked. They were tenderly carried thrgugh the ter- ble rainstorm to the,houses of the neighbors; where they were cared for. The ladies had no time to gave theirclothing. They -were - scantily dreeeek and were cared for by their .friends who live close by. . . TUR TE.ISCrS )114:KWIE:CATARD. • Revolution at ligands—Ring Deposed. -z chrletlana Murdered— Mohammedan - am on Top. Zanzibar despatoh • says: Advices have been receivedfrom the interior . that in October lot 'MWanga, King of 'Wends, plotted to destroy his entire body guard, his intention being to Abandon them on an island in Lake Nyanza, where they would [nerve to death. The' guards, who had been forewarned of the king's 'intention, fiased toonter.the-catioee:.-which...were_Wconvey them to the island,: but returned to the capital and made an "Ate& en Mwenga's palace. he king fled to escape the fury, of the guarde, and his brother-Set:few& was enthroned in hie stead., KOW8WO appointed Chrietiene to the principal. offices. This enraged the Arab% who murdered many.of the Christian Manila and replaced themi with •Mohammedins.' The' Arabs burned' the English and French mission Mations, and killedmanyof the cOnverte to ..'Chria- :dimity. The . boat Eleanor, in which son3e °CAM persons' who had been converted by the French missionaries were fleeing, was striick by hippopotamus and sunk, five the converts being draWned. Many letters . from JEmin Bey and Henry M. Stataley.were destroyed by the burning of the missionary stations.,'• The Mission) aries have resithed Usamboix in safety. The Mealala. depot is eel& illwanga is a prisoner atIldagu.. He has appealed to the English niiesiotries for assistance. The' Arabs have .Written to Miseientegy. McKay, eliulting in their tricannli; and . prophesy- ing the extinction of all the minion sta.: tions in ' Central Africa in revenge for Englend'aantislavery policy: They hive proclaimed Uganda Mohammedan kingtlem. . • • .• " Tho rather of Wwenti-ono 6hild,ren„, , ' A Montreal despatch says: Louie Leitage, superintendent of the waterworks, died at Verdun this morning. He was ,born in 182/.. His parents educated him for the prieathood, and he succeeded in potting the Aro examination for holy orders, but withdrew and decided to follow civil engi: neering. • In 1851 his designs were acidepted, for the Court .H01180, St. Peter's Church 00 Visitation street, the St. Pelagie :Convent; etc. He obtained the tuseistant commissuniership of 'public Works, and was appointed to survey the 'proposed railway to Rieer, de Loup. . no. was engaged on harbor improvements as 'engineer and in 1853 was made assistant engineor in the Office of, Mr. Keefer on the first Montreal Waterworks. In 1856 he was appointed to the.position which he retained until his death. For deeds of bravery he Was. awarded a' diploma and medal of Le Sociiete dee Chevaliers Saneeteurs dee Alpetr Mari- time. He was the father of 21 shit:len, His- inners' will take place on Friday morning., • • DASILED TO T.UqEs. vetoo !.08t witn iill tho Crew F3tepkt the ventein,-Fis Heroic son. • * A Helifex, despatch earl.; New- foundland advices .give, the following par, *glare of the lose of the brigantine Ataleya, and all of her crew except one, . Oapt: Thee. Brown; beingthe only eurvivor. . The: Malaya left Roden on. the 27th of Oot,„lboend: for Philedelphia.She had on board e: Cargo of empty kerosene nit coke.. From the One she left France the, weather. . was extremely rough. On the night of the 27th of Deoentlbera heavy gale was blowing. from the southeast, aoompenied by tt,' • heavysee, and think fog. The captain had • ' not get an observation for some deye, . and did not exactly jknow bis whereaboots ;_but he' thought, he Vag .consid.embly 'aonth Of Newfoundland. • • • , At 1.20 on tho Morning of the .28th the ship etrok, . On hearing the shook, the captain., Who was below, ruched on deck,. the rest of the watch soon following, • Through the mist it could be perceivedthat the teasel had struck Oome. twenty 'feet frorcetbe atom, and the 'outline -Of a high oliff could be seen through M. darkness. As. was afterwards ascertained„ the place Wherethe:tessel etreeli was Bettin. Cove, about two miles south of Renews. The water was abont three and a half .fathoms ,deep. The eettovse running very high; and the. :captain gave ordereto get the email • boat ready,.bet concluded not to leave the. ship in the dark and fog union the. ship gave evidence Of going to pieces. : ' •The captain gave Orders that' ro line be tint on photo and madefeet,' by which, if the 'ship broke up; the lives of the, ere*: ., Might be saved. • The boat was launched. for thisp.urpese, and into her got the first . mate and one .of the crew. . As they were 'putting off from the ship two others of the crew jumped into the boat, upsetting her . and -casting allintothe gee, instantly drowning Own. Of the fear men in the boat, • • :the mete Was 'a white L,nian, . the three_ inhere were negrees:If they:had remained on board the 'vessel all might have been:saved. - There were only, four men new on board, the captain, the sis:kind mite; his ectil :young man of 18); and two negrocia: .Pne . of•these Wati below sick, the other had .also been complaining fot some time pest, and was practically ofno usein'any emergency. 'After the,. npsetting of the boat young Brown volunteered "tolunteeeed, to swim '.ashOre with. ,the line; , and in .epite, of hia father's.' te,•. MOnetnineea, jemped . into the Water. • It was the brave eat 'of e. hrate.niiiii; but the' . young hereefforte to Mich the land were. inettviling, and he . was pulled beck to ' the v,eeeel..... At 5 o'clock the' ' ship • Went to pieeee. ,The two negoei Wen; down with her,. but :Captain Brown and his . son j• .. i • . • ▪ umped into the water, . • . • . . • The. young 'Man hada cork fenderithe father a largelPlitiik: Thelatter heard the ••.'• voico ot the boy 'cheering bim. on Or some time, hut e-hatty.-..sea relied .between thorn.' :Thelather'Wee Cast 'tippn ' the shore, and the.menly-Voice of the, boy was hushed for- ever. It is thonght. that , he meet, have etre& against some of the Oaks floating :about, and receivedinjuries whiohrendered him incapeble.ef swimming.•-• • The captain reached the shore. With his , clothing nearly teen ' from his hod*, He did not *knOyit where he was, but perceiving a narrow path he followed it. • In .a alert. time he reailhed the beanie of a Man named • Coady, who took him in .and gave him shelter for the night. Be•was in: a .very : exhausted condition and Was. incapable of , coming to St. Johns for sonic/days: Capt. Brown is- a."Swede.. by birth; •• but he te ' naturalized American citizen; having been in that country for many „year& , sailed IntotPlillidelphie,.,anclawabentL50-yearn " . • . • old. . MY, toy's lot *ode nere,11.ho aaid, 'Como on, ,pep.„ We'll Scion reach the: &MeV, • ' .• . MY layette bO.Y. ifit had net been. for -the cowardice of the negro ere* you 'would be elite and with Me to -day.".. . . , „ fait -4.34.0N* the Far Wein. • • , A New Westminster .despatch says: W. • 'H. Jones was hanged in this city At 8 o'clock this morning. Jones wee convicted „•• at tile November Assizes of the Murder of . J. Durant, a FIgneliman; Who he thought was too intimate with an Indian woman who had been living with him. . During a. drunken :epree a. quarrel ensued; ending in , Zones shooting Durant, '•fiestn the effects of which he died.afew hours afterward. ,Tones died penitent, declaring ,his Willingness to die„but claiming he WO drunk at the time' the prime WWI conimitted. ' • Traok-laying on the Portage extension was resurne'd to -day. The Governmentare doing the Workthemselves .Withent the ida of the centimeters. . The first annualmeetingot the Winnipeg Grain Exchange was held this , afternoon, "President D. II: McMillen &filtered the: „ opening addre0. The exchange , has nowo a cash balance of $1,100 in its fever And ,a, mei:n*031p of over one • hundred. !Mr. 13, Spink wag elected President' for thee:Mining • laddalien, ihe would-be snicide at Broad. view, is improving. • Tlie C. P. It. removed the. ohstruatio placed over the Red River Valley Road at Pembiria crossing . to city, and "Fort Whyte H is now, deserted. ' • **T. A. GreenWey, brother of the.Premier, and D. 1. Wright,' of Crystal City, nar- rowly escaped death by asphyxiation at that: place. They. were rescued test in One tO nave their lives. • ;,' • ' Nowa hes been received from New Orleans of the accidental death.bydrowning of.j.S: Inkster, a young Man formerly of this 'city. • A Novel Rice. Bete can fly with reinarkable speed. pigeon -fancier in Westphalia het that at. dozen bees, liberated three miles from their hive would reach it in better time than a • . dozen pigeons would reach their .3ot from the stand distance; The drat bee "heat tho. first pigeon by a quarter of a ,mintite, and threnother bees reached the goat beforethe • second pigeon, Two young men named rri3Chette end Carpenter, of LOnieville, Qne. 'recently fought over a young lady, •andiCarpenter was ea sekionaly injured that his life is in danger. • • • . . • It id tnethed•of. 'canning" forage, ad to tredin. • • • • • speak, elnilar to the canning fruita.. ' A ritiittnifi dentifttCh rsaye On Novetit-idecialon of the Inter,Stete. COmineree `• ' bet 21st in earthqttake tamest • tot 'lly ,!CorniniselOn. Ile held that the commie- • • •Mt,it6n"RintInnItla destroyed the town ' of:Quancre, but te , tion could, only iiibitrate differented and Teacher—" Did the antborof (Paradise. the Wideepread clentruciion no IOSS o life had OP right or 'power ..io .enforce its1 Lost vsnifer front a terrible " Coe, ored, •, • sir he Was it poet...Moro. r 4.