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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-
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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
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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.
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• . • 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
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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\
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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
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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.
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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•
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•
▪ 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.
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