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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1896-07-31, Page 7MOUNTAINS IN MOTION. LANOSLICES OP ROCK AND EARTH THAT CARRY DESTRUCTION. Historic Calseeit ee That leave Been Caused by heavy Rains—Awful Destruc- tion, to E,it'e stud property—Vie 1.894 Slide at St, Albans, Quebec. The landslide reported lately from. Charlevoix county, ( uebeo, which re - 0114%1 in the destruction of ten hou* es and the loss of many lives, has 'uumner- ous counterparts in mountain countries through whose valleys flow extensive water courses, The present season has been especially prolific of them, because of the enormous rainfalls. What the avalanche is to the snowy Alps of Switzerland and . the white peaked Mountain districts of Alaska, so ss the landslide to the rocky and wooded slopes of hill countries in more temper- ate latitudes, It is a question which of the two, the alvalitnalle or the landslide is the more terrible engine of destruc- tion. The avalanche is by far the metre awful, and would be infiuitely More destructive were it not eonfined to countries frequented by few.blet ven- turesome travelers, Landslides, on the contrary, may oc- cur in any place where valleys lie below steep hills. Their coming may not be predicted, Without warning, in the twinkling of an eye, the .mountain's skin of rock and earth moves front its resting place, crawls slowly at first down the steep slope and then gathering momentum plunges into the valley be- low, oarryiug death and' destruction with its fall. How They Are Caused. The cause of landslides is nearly al- ways the same. In all rooky countries the soil is only a skin or covering for the solid rocks of the mountain's core. It lies upon the slopes rarely more their twelve or fifteen feet thick, often sharp- ly inclined and clinging to its rocky foundation chiefly by its own weight. In seasons when there are violent and long continued rains the water soaks the soil to the bottom., and lubricates the rocky surface underneath with ooze and. mud. If then the slope be steep enough it often follows that the skin of earth slides downward of its own enor- mous weight, and gatheriug women - tum, becomes a mighty avalanche be- fore which great trees are broken like straws. It is very rarely indeed that a land- slide occurs during any but protracted spells of wet weather, and in such ex- ceptional cases some readily discovered local causes, such as unwise excava- tions; can always be found. The trewenduous rainfalls of this spring were the cause of that other Canadian landslide which occurred at St. Albans, on the banks of the St. Aune river, on April 28. This was the .lost terrible landslide that has ever taken place in Canada, and has few parallels on the continent. The circumstances attending this cat- astrophe were these: The St. Anne river three miles from St, Albans makes kt a long curve to a waterfall one hundred and fifty feet in height. The mountain" descended precipitously to the cliffs over whose rim the river poured. The river is the outlet of the entire watershed of the Laurentian Mountains, and this spring it was gwollen to such abnormal proportions that vague fears of some catastrophe were felt. But no one pre. dieted the awful catastrophe that fol- lowed. A Terrific Slide. The country about St. Albans was well settled with lumbermen. There were perhaps 4,000 persons in the neigh- borhood, Below the falls was a fertile valley, with pulp mills and farms. The firs& crash occurred in the early morning and aroused the inhabitants from their bods with a noise like distant thunder. It was found that there had been a slide of the earth which stayed the rocky :foundations of the falls. Many thousands of tons of rocks and earth rushed down into the valley, bury- ing several rains and houses. Three or four persons were caught in the fall. During the next hoar there was the most intense excitement. It was real- ized that this ,was but the beginning, and thousands fled, leaving their homes and their stock They left none too soon. Three hours after the first fall the side of the mountain began to slide down upou the doomed falls. At first the movement was gradual. Soil and rocks and trees, covering vast areas of mountain side, all unchanged in their relative positions, bore slowly down upon the river. Then the movement was accelerated, There was an awful roar. Down came the gigantic landslide, while the .moun- tain trembled. • It struck the valley just above the falls and wiped the falls out of existence. It carried away the entire cliff over which the St. An poured its muddy torrent. It swept into the lower valley. Resistlessly the mountain side plunged down the valley, obliterating the fame, the homes, the river itself. It did not stop until six utiles of territory had been utterly devastated. Changed the Township Map. Whoa all had settled and there was opportunity to study the results of this appalling landslide it was seen that a new map would have to be .lade of the township. There was nothing left as it had been before. The falls were gone completely, and the river had found a new channel three miles away. Tracts of woodland a quarter mile or more square had been moved four or Eve hundred yards, the trees remaining standing. Outer large tracts had been literally ploughed up, and the timber ground to atoms. In place of the pose , ;tool at the foot Of the falls was no . ,:tuts a field, Be. yohd it the former r.t,,nel of the river was filled With i : sses of rock. r1nMit knowing t..,...ve,HirJ- as it had been Could, possin1y Ilairo totinga single familiar feature throughout a space of six square miles. .Many acres of wood- land disappeared altogether. fright- ful. h Thettowzi scene ge. of 1 but seven farm- houses, l with their stables and buildings, were wiped out a existence; and a number of mills of various sorts 'disap- peared also.Abpp spite of the three hours' warnersons ing, Great herds of cattle Iters btlriecl. Thousands of domestic annuals, floating down the river and into the St. Lawrence, brought the first news of the disaster to the cities WOW. 13oonms 8131 wharves were car- ried away where the river 'bins the St, Lawrence, and caused a, loss there of $76,000. The damage to the lumbering inter, este centring around St. Albans was nearly $1,000,000, treat Luudaride in Norway. Perhaps the greatest landslide of Northern Europe occurred at Vaordalen, Norway, in May, 1803. A few miles north of Trondlljom a large mountain rises precipitately above the Lovangor Valley, then a fertile plaits, dotted with prosperotus farms, surrounding a ]tlkrt. The slide ]measured three miles ;,,;toss and followed •r .c _. 1 a pathway down y the .mountain slopes more than six miles in length. The mighty mass gave notice of its coming by tearful thunderings far up on the mountain, but so rapid was its downward flight and so broad the swath. it cut that few had time to make good their escape. Twenty-two homesteads, on as many great and fertile farms, and fifty cot- tages lay in the course of the great slide between the base of the mountain and the lake. All of these were utterly sue- stroyecl, The frightful momentum. gain- ed in the descent of the mountain car- ried the mass straight across the valley and iuto the lake, sweeping in front of it farms and ouses and men and herds. The lake was changed in a twinkling into a sea of mud, in whose depths were buried hundreds of human beings and thousands of domestic animals, while the prosperous valley* of farms was left heaped with the rocky rubbish of the mountain, The records of landslides contain no other recital of a horror equal to this. Other Great Landslides. In 1872 a landslide in Arragon, near Froga, Spain,, killed twenty persons, and was the means of drowning forty others, through the land filling the river and backing the water into a flood. This was caused by the great rains. It was less than two years after this that the town of Ahura, in the proviuco of Navarre, was utterly destroyed by the sliding down of a huge mass of rocks that overhung it. More than two hun- dred persons were-.illed in that catas- trophe. In 1877 a large landslide occurred on the banks of the River Veillet, it; the, parish of St. Genevieve, in Cham191ains county, Quebec. In this slide an enor- mous arca of woodland plunged eighty feet down the mountain. slide and buried several sawmills and a house. Ten per - eons were entombed alive. The news was a week in reaching Montreal only 100 miles away, Indian Village Unearthed. Woodchoppers in the big swamp about eight miles from Hammonton, N .T., have unearthed a small Indian village, over which the sand had blown, and which has been hidden in a dense under- growth. When word of the find reached Hammonton it was thought to be with- out foundation, but tho Many persons who journeyed to the swamp were soon convinced that the story was true. A. largo mound first attracted the at- tention of the woodohoppers, . and Upon digging into this they found numerous evidences that there once had been some kind of habitation there. Hundreds of arrow -heads, piles of undressed flints, pottery and corn cobs wore found. Other mound's near' by were du„ into with like results, and under one was an Indian canoe, 10 feet long and 3 fent wide, capable of holding eight to ten persons. Despite the utmost careful efforts to pre - servo it, it fell to pieces as soon as the earth was removed. Its frailty was partly duo to the feet that a largo cedar had grown up through the bottom. Eernornbered His Employes. Philip Carey, a wealthy Cincinnati manufacturer of asbestos, committed sni- oido the other day. An hour before his death hq made a will bequeathing bis business to his employes. His book- keeper received 260 shares .of stook, his typewriter 100, mud the other' emplo94s shares in proportion. The stook is worth $100 a share, and pays 12 per cent, an- nuaIly. ^Ttarll.-ra" 'Brought Icer Back to Lire. .A. devout .woman of a fashionable Back Bay street was recently sick, as. her family and friends believed, unto - death. She had made her preparations and was daily awaiting her end with' patient resignation. Her hours of suf- fering were cheered by the glimpses of the unseen world that came to her, and one day lie called to her attendants, who u are grouped around her in hourly anticipation of her decease: "Oh, that heavenly music. Don't you hear it?", Strongly impressed in spite of them- selves by her fervor, they strained their. ears to catch the harmonies of heaven,' when a cyclonic bunt of sound from a' street organ, lnsnipulated by an Italian, across the street, sivung fttli into the • rollicking treasures of "Ta•ra.ra• bootie- de•ay," accompanied by a tambourine. There was a moment's silence in the; sickroom, then an involvntltry burst of laughter, in which the sick woman joined. From that moment, a reaction,' set in, and today she has the prospect. of year of life before her,—Boston; liotue Journal. THE WINORAM TIMES, JULY 31, 1896, OLD JACK TAR. it1E WITNESSED THE BATTLE O - WATERLOO. Sew Napoleon, Blucher and the Iron Nuke -was a saner la the 7fing1IIh 1Quv� James J:. Green's Memory Pictures, 1 The battle of Waterloo was fought o !June 18, 1816, and the hundreds of this ;mule of leen who struggled that day for •premacy have all passed away exec !tyro In America, four in the British Ism 'gond six in Prance, and nlostof these me are centenarians. James It, Green, ninety-eight yea old, resident Of Ellsworth, Muhouin county, Ohio, while not a partioipant 1 the great battle, had the privilege witnessing the thrilling events of tilt week in Belgium,. which mark -ed th downfall of the Napoleon dynasty, an who viewed that battle from a bolt vantage ground, perhaps, than any of tl , participants, He gave n vivid description recon y of of. N the battle'Yatorloo to a New Yorlc Herald reporter. ' 1' ir. Green is a remarkab� oharnotor and possesses r1 tttrikin personality, which iinpresses'ptiml`'c itsevome in contact with hiiii: •'fC was born in Balton, Lan- cashire, England, :Tidy 23, 1798, and entered the English navy when sixteen years old as a midshipman. The next Year his ship was employed in transport- ing English soldiers for Wellington's rmy across the channel from Southamp- ton to Antwerp, and it was at this time that he accidentally witnessed Waterloo. Ile describes the battle as follows:-- "1 was a sailor itis of Bing George III., and was employed as aluidslhipmari on a war ship in June, 1813. After the British Ilett had transports:ci Wellington's army across the channel of the seaport of Antwerp, .ny vessel was anchored in the harbor at that place. The soldiers had told tug that great fighting was ex- pected, as they wero about to meat Napoleon, who was making a desperate effort to regain the power which he had once held over Europe. Securing per- mission, five boys, myself included, Ieft the ship and started 'across Belgium in the direction.we were toad the British army was camping. We cause first to Ligny, where the preliminary battle of that terrible week in Belgium took place. Wo were two miles distant from the left flank of Napoleon's army after Ligny, and we concluded to ..follow and watch the encounter, "At Quatro Bras Napoleon attacked the outposts of the Duke of Wellington,. tbut he was repulsed, falling back to Waterloo that night, where lie doter - milled to slake his final stand, The French army bivouacked in large fields of ryo, which was almost ripe, on the pretty plain of Waterloo. Ou the night of June 17 there was a continuous rain- storm, remaking it very disagreeable fax the soldiers, The clouds cleared away on the following morning, and with a sea glass which wo had taken from the ship' we stood on the heights some distance away anis saw the groat struggle. "We could sec Napoleon on his charger, riding along his lines preparing for the battle. The linos were formed, and soon the field was filled with smoke and the roar'of cannon reverberated throng!. the hills of Belgium. In the afternoon the fierce struggle ceased, and the field wan a sickening sight. The green rye hied been trampled down, and the field was noth- ing but dust, like the middle of the road, while tho dead and wounded lay scattered thickly over the great plain, "After the battle we went over the teld and saw some dreadful sights. "I can remember distinctly - seeing Bltuchor, Napoleon, the Duke of Welling- ton rind George IV. I remember suing George III. and his oonrtiers riding down to the London docks upon ninny a morning. During the reign of William IV, I remember having seen Queen Victoria in a villa near London, playing in a garden, and I have distinct remem- brances of the last four ruling monarchs of the House of Hanover. "Napoleon was a cruel, tyrant, and if you had known .him. in the age which I knew him you would have thought so, too." n u• su Artistic Tatooing. Probably the most artistically tatooed man in the world is William Furness, a son of Dr. Horace Howard Furnesss, the noted Shakespearian scholar. 11Ir. Furness spent a long terra in Japan, and it was there that the figures that adorn his body were executed. A splendid re. ,production of the Goddess of Love cov- ers his chest, and the God of Thunder illuminates his back. Snakes and birds by the dozen mark his arms and thighs. A pagoda is designed on ono shoulder, and a fearful and wonderful collection of geometrical designs covers the other shoulder. A Chinese boat is tatooed en one leg and a dragoon looks up from the other. The artist who executed these designs was paid .$12 alt hour for his services, an appalling fee in that coun- try., where le cents per diem is a princely salary.—Philadelphia Record, State Care 6f breeltards. A bill has been introduced into the Austrian parliament to appropriate funds from the imperial Treasury to build ass - twine for the Care and ours, of habitual drunlcarcls, The bill provides that any habitual drunkard may be incarcotatod in these asylums upon complaint .gado either by the victim's relatives or friends or by the tOwa aatl+otritleis. Best tqr,.-i Wash Day makes clothes sweet, clean, white, with the least labor, Its remark. able lasting and cleansing properties make SURPRISEmost economical and est for. -..00. Every jay Samuel Cornish, of Exeter, died in Toronto, at the residence of his son - in law, Ed. Robertson Tuesday ,J my 14th. Aged (11) years. The dead body of a man, suppt,sed to be James Grass of Frankfort. was found on Saturday within 300 yards of the post office at Senrhta'n, It was interred without an inque.$. While assisting her husband in taking in a load of hay, Mrs. Daniel 1fcLennan, near Rodney, fell off the load, receiving injuries which result- ed in her death about six hours after. She leaves a sorrowing hus- band and a family of small children. Mr. Freure of Port Rowan was out sailing with his wife and family, .when the boat upset. IIe replaced them all on the over turned craft, but one• child of eighteen months was washed off and drowned. The others were rescued after being three hours in this perilous position. The largest raft of square timber that has sailed down the Ottawa for some years left Ottawa for Quebec Saturday. It was composed of 2248 pieces of white pine of excellent quality and was owned by Asir. Wm. Mackay, It was cut on the Amabel du Fond limit. The raft a'as of very large dimensions, and was in charge of thirty men. HURRAY �3t LANM. 'S FLORIDA WATER THE SWEETEST MOST FRAGRANT tSOST REFRESHING AND ENDURING OF ALL PERFUMES FOR THE HANOKERCHIEF, TOILET OR ALL DRUGGISTS PERFUMERS AND GENET L REfiLE:1$. While. Aaron Lindsay and J. H. Thompson were digging the cellar Of Wat Ainlev's new residence, on the site of the old Knox church on John street, they calve upon two coffins. but time bad apparently effectually removed their contents. It is some 86 years ago since anyone was buried there and some time ago most of the remains here retnoved to the Brussels cemetery, although a few areknowntorest where oil , finally laid. In early years not only the ground that was fenced in with Brno, church bat much of the neigh- boring property was used for that purpose' and after the lapse of years any identification is impossible. -- Brussels Herald. Early Sunday .morning the camp- ers on the Lake shore had an excit- ing experience. Late Saturday night the bellowing of it cow was heard out in the lake but no atten- tion was paid to it, but early Sun- day horning the animal was seen far ottt in the lake, apparently dead. A couple of the aampers started out in a row float to rescue it ; taking a rope with them, which was thrown over the cow's horns, and it showed its life by towing them rapidly- some distance distance farther out; After Considerable difficulty and tsan- cauvring, they managed to beach the animal, whioll being in the water all night was well exhausted, and It took it couple of hours' hard work to save the .animal's life.—New mgt`s. That Makes a Difference, Lucille --Why do you treat that pool' ;lir, Wintergreen with so tittle consideration? I declare- I'm sur, prised that he pats up with it, Genevieve ---Oh, but we're engug- ed l Lueille—Qhs Two Would be Too Natty. Do you think that two heads are 'better than one? Well,'thc one I had last night was quite sufficient. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she erica for Castoria. When she become Iliiss, she clung to Ceetorta.. when she had Children, she gave them feasters a. Disqualified. Brown had to give up trying to be an after-diliner speaker. Why so? He at last came to the eonclusion that he was one of the unfortunate men who cannot talk when they aro sober, nor think when they are drunk.—Puck. "Oh, Itdgar, darling, here is a, case of a woman who was struck dumb by lightning. Do you sup- pose her husband will love her still?" "Certainly, my dear; be would be a, freak if he didn't." It is actual meri t that has given Flood's Sarsaparilla the first »lace among. medi- cines. It is the One True Blood Purifier and nerve tonic. There was a. sawdust explosion under a raft at the foot of the Chaudiere slides Saturday morning. The raft was lifted so high that the bottom of the crib was visab]e. Quite fortunately the five men in 1 eharge of the raft were up for the; day or death would probably have' been their fate. The explosion occurred at four o'clock in the morn- ing. Hespeler Herald: While getting 1 out a bunch of bananas last Satur-1 day morning, Mr. W. F. Lunn ran across a very large specimen of that poisonous species of spider knoll n as ` the tarantula. He secured the assis-1 tante of Messrs. Haco McIntyre and S. H. Northcott and between them three of them and a stick managed { to get Mr. Tarantula into a Mass' candy jar. It is an unusually large I one, measuring about seven inches' over all, midis said to be as large it specimen as has ever been captured Canada. ier'VE FA+,, 1LY sHOULO KNOW THAT 1;4 urstie It; e vote, neeerelgeble eeniedy, Ito9i xer TN- reel'greliiTieeeTe VSA, and won. areie a to ruteve dintroso, iw7,Y*; sL�1isaGino surafor Sore e .t- .a_ .Kw3.6 @trent, COME :its VT, �, i a t'.px•s.•,tit:USS feral10:4 Qt. ..irt•... -di r...a,:r.•^:Is,faarr 1 % '� p:i (r': �_,•� is a`r "t: Tees ' reels , iy k,,, ,t for l c AL i•t:t*f ea, . , r leer est rellsie ,.„, T"11101 1ni/w T.00:4., sa.L.climud3d2•w or F'. • p 1..•i6pceeirltaiit, 1.) f'. 1'- y 4 a1 , is y'.,i'tsr>Ahtxtl' the 1-tni'e rl.ilazl:iJ' 'ir t 1t'. Il • , \ A •.1, 1•, > '- "T V•t >>'>D.7 t o ,:,s, t. ,t•�, 2'ealt, iltafti„ Sc sere ).9:t05,', c•¢t•. .r:{,,, a i ie thn k• t0e11 trial and 1...• t �'1i$.•i•,^++ I. 51van•d i, frim of the 14”,.1,111,11.. h:'nrnicr, Plea ler. 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Fortire past fifteen years I have been IF great suff,aer fr en kidney disease; among the promieent syinptotn.l of which wero severe 1,nlns in my hit et, liot exenelinefrom the ba,,a of tato Fltl•a• op b.twee•' my shoulders, ,lizei:ie.s, 1164(34m:1es etc. I t • ,e iii a, bad state generally and summered great agony at times. The intense pain pravuutea t.iy sleeping, and I seamed to get worseconti•nlally. The doctors who worn called In pronutinced my disease diabetes, but their treatment di l no good, and they held out but slight hope of lily recovery. I was thou so far gou) with the disease that I could not turn hi bed without help. :try urine WW1 of a dark wine color, ani full of sudiment. 3 I toe; all kinds of medicine, bet without permenuut relief, 4. I1 .string of Doa•,'a Kidney Pills I got a • at box at II.1'. efacearthy's drs tore, but itv ing be+n so often disapp fluted I led no filial in then. 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Tily skin bt.c:erne yellow, me cecanto 1 „c, rei Pee: n:,.; ll'e. , . . hard, lay eye:-, teecauu• iuliai',.•J, n' • tilt' wag gone, and `l'1... t:.>1• , 1x, •';•1 reseed in 111)1; teeint•, s ::1".•i to :*i,.;tug 3 For some ,ninth.. 1 tri. ti el ' and patc'nt'inodic: ties eft're'r: tt:'•.cshe i / ion, 1:nt received no bent•i'lt. 13..ees slug sed by a fl'iend to try B.13.11., I a:n ••'all tit have tate opportunity of t,stifriatt to the etiarveliotls resell. After itAiree three bottles I felt tunth better, and when the fifth bottle was finished I enjoyed health in the greatest degree, and have done. so from that day up to date. Therefore r have hutch pleasure in recommending 13. 11.13. to all poor suffering humanity who suffer from impure blood, which is the beginning' and seat of all diseases. �. GILLANI B.A., 39 Gould St., Toronto