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The Wingham Advance, 1911-02-09, Page 74 FATAL SMASH ON RAILWAY 1.•••-••••••••••1.1.1. Six Persons Killed in Collision Be. tween Paris and Drumbo. •••••,..*10. Passeager Train Runs Into Mogul Engine on the B. & 0, Branch, Crew of the Mogul Said to Have ForgoCen Passenger Train. THE DEAD, FIREMAN D. J. SMITH, Stratford. Survived by wife and family. ENGINEER. RICHARD A, TUR- N ER, Stratford, Leaves wife and grown-up family. MAIL CLERK WILLIAM D. TYE, Goderich, Leaves wife and grown-up family. Wife now visiting in Hays - villa. D. J. CROZIER, passenger, Drumbo. JOHN W. WHITELAW, express messenger. Goderich, formerly of Whitby. Wife suffering from shock. PETER McFARLANE, Qoderich, baggageman; married, but no child- ren. THE INJURED. , WILLIAM MAY, Goderich, mail clerk assistant; badly cut. W. T. HENDER$ON, City Solicitor, Brantford; injuredin back. WILLIAM McINTOSH, customs clerk, Brantford; injured in back, Mr. McFarlane died in a farmhouse near the scene of the wreck at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning.' Brantford, Feb. 5.—Six neve event lost on Saturday night in a head-on collision between a paeeenger train and a mogul engine at a point mid- way between Paris am' Drtunbo, on the Beffalo and Goderich branch of the Grand Trani: Railway. Several persons were more or less seriously injured. Tho paseeger train was the regular, running from Buffalo to Goderieli, via Brantford, preeduer thrown here at 8.26 o'clock in the evening. On at melee, night it pulled out of Brantford seventeen minutes late, in charge of Conductor Osbrook, of Goderich. 11 consiste(1 of an engine manned by En- gineer Richard Turner, and Fireman J. 1). Smith, baggage car, smoker and oue passenger coach. As the train was behind timeit was planned to make as rapid a. run as possible, it being a regular, with no obstruction in the serty. All proceetlez1 well, Paris be- ing passed without orders, which were calertlated to impede progress. Suddenly, and without the slightest waruieg, at 9.20, at a dark point on the line, about midway between Paris ttnd Drumbo, there was a tremeudous emelt. Passengers On the train, par- ticularly those in the snioleer, next to the baggage ear, seven in number, as- sert that for a moment following the impact all was blank, the lights in the train being suddenly extinguished, wilite the wreckage et:ticked and spdnter- ad in a twisted mass with a deafening roar. FIRE ADDS TO HORROR. When after the first perilous mo- ments some of the survivors managed to extricate themselves, they. were hen -rifled to find that fire threatened to complete the disaster, the Baines etheady having broken out in Me baggage ear, igniting the smoker in the pear, where seven. passengers were buried in the debris, eaying loudly.. for help. Hurriedly the survivors applied themealees to the situation as the growing flames lighted up the seene. at was found that a heavy mogul en- gine, controlled by a crew width is unknown locally, bad collided, head on, with the passenger train. The mogul, which carried an engineer, fireman and pilot, all of whom are said to be missing, was travelling at a swift rate from fitratford to Fort Erie. Evidently the impact was terrific, as the passenger crew apparently did not, see the approaching mogul, pos- sibly because they may not have been on the look -out, as they had the right of way and were a regular train daily. i.Vbether the mogul crew were aware of thnlpending crash is unknown here, as repots are to the effeet that the brake- man is triaging, and may be among tho dead, while the engineer and fireman leaped at the last, moment, only 1 time 4o save their lives, and have since been unable to give any aeeount of them- aelves. WRECK WAS COMPLETE. LI; MS bitterly cold along the line ate. in the isolated district, Which ren- dered relief work very difficult. By the light from Jae burning debris it was ecadily seen the wreck was most com- plete insofar an the two engines, tlte teenager car era the smoker were ton - earned. Tbe peesenger engine was twist- ed ao badly that it will be out of com- mission permanently, while the mega was badly damaged, but will probably be repaired. The front of the baggage ear telescoped the rear end of the pas - Anger engine, ami the amoker Was piled ea a, heap of burning wreenage. All ef- forts were at once directed to recovering the dead end injured. Passengers in the aear eotteh escaped uninjured, and hero!. eater joined in the testa Wm. McIntosh Brantford, was delegated to give the al- arm, running for a mile and (+ailing at ehree houses before he found a tele- phone. Through his efforts a speeial jvain was sone out from Goderiele reach - the scene about inidnight. Medical assiefitere wne also rushed front Pais, Drs. Iltirb raid Lo ie arriving about the tame tinie, The injured Were larriedly treated and eot to Canheict, Stratford and Paris, from which latter point the Brandfordites coneeetted drone home this morning. FINDING BODIES, When the search Was inetituted at wee still in the ruins of the engine and the baggage ear, every one of the Mx In the crew lutving been killed 'VlIuinutafay, mail Merl: itsAistAnt, cv110 Viats badly cut and will receiver. .Althouelt eonsiderably burned, Engineer Turner's boay watt eeeognizable when ex - left -Med. Fireman Smith's remains were terribly ensiled, puff; being seatteree Aloog the rails. The upper half of Ex - *nem: Meseenger Whitelawee leely wag turned Rimy when found. Praeticany nothing of the remains of MaiI Clerk Tye were located, despite the faet that a thorough votive} WIS made on Sunday morning. Mayer Bost all, Bra t And other old frierels neeisting perania ally, Only a phae of the bunk of It, IV. Creel:vie hiely wee diseovered, It 'being identified by his watch, found kneels it, While (4iiat by wee Iiis large knife, which ha need in his business as a turnip Inspector, Bagge,geman Baer hicrerlane wite taken from the wreckage, badly crushed and burned, and removed to Seett's term hone°, nearby, whop Itte died' at 4 o'clock this morning. SURVIVORS' EXPERIENCE. iene buffling deacription attended the (search of the wreckage. Mr. Wil. Ham aTerntoolt eeni City Selicitor Ilea. derma both of Brantford, were gelded In the smoker, hound fer Stratford. Only two seatsaway set lir. Crozier, one of the victim; when Mr. Mein. Walt receverecl, after a momentary lapse into unconselouenees, he founa himself hurled in the twisted wreekage of the ear, but experienced little difficulty in getting out. M he was doing so he beard, M. Henderson ceiling for help, and rescued him before the flames had reached a point where he bad beeu• imbedded ht the ruins. The two men then lent aesist- ance to others, despite tho fact that they were both injured in the backs. They heard Mr, Crozier, who the devour- ing fhtme.e were already threatening, Pleading for help, but he was buried deep, and before they eoula get the, de- bris off and effect a rescue he was dead. Great difficulty Was experienced in se- curing proper appliances with which to work thus rendering the task ef un- covering vie vietimn eomparatively slow. Apart from Crozier, Henderson and Mc- Intosh, the other four paseengere in the smoker escaped uninjured, being near the rear of the coach. The trio named were at tho end next to the baggage ear, which, being portly telescoped, immed- iately broke into flames, A REVOLVER SHOT. One incident of the search worthy of note was the discharge of n revolver in the wreckage, a clear, sharp report rang out, followed by the silence of death. Undoubtedly this was the revolver of Express Messenger Whitelaw, but wheth- er he fired it himself, committing• sua vide, rather than suffer the agonies of a slow death from the flames, which enveloped him where he had been pin- ned beyond rescue, or whether it ex- ploded as a result of the fire reaching it, will never be known, for when final- ly his body was found the uppee half had been burned off. MOGUL ENGINE AT FAULT. As , to the cense, railway men are teemed that the passenger train bad the clear right of way, running withoub orders, and that the mogul engine, in rumting froin Stratford to Fort Erie, should have waited at Drumbo until the passenger train had passed.The feet thae the latter was seventeen minutes late may have been an inducement to the mogul crew to make Paris, if possi- ble, and tbere await it, or they may have known nothing. of the passenger train's whereabouts. At any rate it seems clear the mogul overran its rights, and was wholly responsible for the dis- aster though where tbe negligence in this connection is to be placed Neill of course be determinea by the inquiry. OTHER FORTUNATE PASSENGERS. Other Brantford people on tbe train who. escaped injury are George Hunt and R. Hays, the latter a Grand Trunk engineer, who was going to Stratford on a visit. No bodies were brought to Brantford, all being taken to Stratford or Goder- ich. Messrs. Henderson and McIntialt, wbile in bed, are not seriously injured, although the former appears to be suf- fering considerably from shock. He is a prominent IL 0., and a former resi- dent of Stratford, where he was going to visit bis mother. MR. MAY'S EXPERIENCE. Goderich, Feb. 4.—The shock of the terrible railway fatality near Paris last night is most deplorably felt by the en- tire community, particularly in the Joss of three of the town's most estimable citizens. The miraeulous escape of Mr. John May, mail clerk, the only surviv- ing occupant of the express and said ears, who was brought home on the train replacing the wrecked express, is graphi- cally depicted in his story of the inci- dent lie was standing beside his senior companion and had Nat handed him the regieter slip from some midi sacks, when with terrific impaee the cars crashed to- gether. Apparently Mr. May was drop- ped through an openiug in the floor when the cars buckled, and, after re- coveringfront them teeorary shock, he found himself imprisoned in the wreck- age of timbers and twisted stay rods, but the blaze from the fire winch fol- lowed showed an opening overhead, through width he forced -himself and crawled to safety. Althouga burned, and scalded, he walked a mile and a half to tbe nearest farm house, where bis in- juries were dressed. To -day he is rest- ing easily and a speedy recovery is anti- cipated. Conductor Ansebrooke and his brake- man, both residents of Goderielt, were in the rear of the train, and, with the passengers, fortunately escaped. injury. RtaIDENTS OF GODERICH. The deceased Mr. Win. D. Tye was a most populnr citizen emicaxed to all by his amiable vaunter and promient in the affairs of the Episcopal Church. He was a past grand officer of the Masonic Grand. Lodge of Canada, and pat mas- ter of Maitland, Lodge, and is survived by naWife, two sons and two daughters. Mr. Peter aladatelane, the unfortu- nate batr,gareeraan, was an old employee of the Grand Trunk. Ile had been a life-long resident of the town and a member of the Masonic eraft and Inde- pendent Order of Oddfellowe, He is survived by his wife, Particularly distressing is the be- reavement of the young wife of Express Messenger Whitelaw, who had been mar- ried but a few months. His home Is in Whitby, but had been statiortea hero several years while oif the Buffalo run. Ea was Most popular on the road and in town, and was a member of the Ma- sonic craft and the rnelepeluleut Order of 0(1:Hol1ows. NO MORE DEATHS. 4), NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF Both Arms and a Leg of Toronto Workman Fractured. Smallpox Makes Its Appearance at Maxville, Ont. ••••••,••••••••••,,, Bad Indian Given Year at Belleville for Cutting Loose, The hiethodists of Toronto will raise 5180,000 for missions. Turkc, has pureitasea the North Ger- man Lloyd eetenter Roland far trana Port purposes in tonnection with the ris- ing In Yemen. Court proceedings back—been ineti. tilted at :Moscow Against Jewielt titer chants who are wirnout right of reel donee there. Thomas Robb, 103 Iiithrow avenue, styes held up on Danforth avenue, To. route, as ite was goiug home, shortiy jii fere midnight, and robbed of about, ad. Fire in the building ocettpied by the Merchants Bank of eanade at Halifax did about 515,000 .daznage to the bald - mg. Thm bank's loss is about $1,000 in fixtures. Major D. 1. V. Baton, of Otte.wa. takes over the eommand of 11 Rattera, C. 11. A., Kington, replacing Major Hem) Pend, who has lion °Melva to Alder - shoe, lengland. A Grand Trunk Egress seruck a bug- gy at the Belle River crossing, and Mrs, Catberine Heys, 45 years old, who was driving it, was seriously injured. The rig was demolished. Cabled reports front London, fasten- ing the identity of. "Harriet" .on a cer- tain "Miss Steedman" are absolutely without foundation. Miss Steednum is a victim of hallucinations. The London Daily Chronicic adieves tbat irbatever immediately letppene, resistless pressure of events will compel Ameriea to remove the teriff barriera ereeted on the Canadien. boundary, Mujor and Quartermaster O. Thorn, 211d Queen's Own-. Rifles, Teronto, has sent in his resignation to .the G. 0. C., Western Ontario. Major Thorn has been on the active list for nenrly 31 years, While driving home from Chatham, Mrs. Odette and Mrs. attherine Hoyt, were struelcamear Bloomfield by a, west- bound train on the G. T. R. Mrs. Od- ette was brought to that city seriously injured. Hon. Frank Cochrane, Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, teceival word of the death of hie mother at the family homestead, Clarenceville. The late ?Ira Cochrane, who NN aS 8S years of age, WAS 00111 in lreland. Owing to the death of his cousin, who diedaafter beingmauled by a lion in British East Africa, Earl Grey did. not attend the Canadian Club lusteheon on Saturday. . The Rideau Hall skating party wee also postponed, Joseph Kirby, of 1$8 Montrose avenue, suffered severe injuries oa $atnality while at work at the John Ines boiler factory. Toronto. A pile of lealer plate weighing abottt four tone foil ou and he had both his legs and r:ght arm fractured. John Maraele. an Indian, of the Mo- hawk reservation. was eentencal at Belleville by Judge Dernehe to one year in the Central Priem], on charges or as- seulting hig wife, assaulting a man nem - ea arm with it stone, and two ether cha rgee o assault. "Society ia cureed with affeetatOm, religion abounds with sham, and never has it been so hard for a man to he lea] as it is to -day," said Rev. W. A. Cam - emu, pastor or the Bloor Street Baptist Church, Toronto, in an aadress to youn meu. The Russian Government has etarted 11 erhninal prosecution against Gen. Pasilevsky and a number of senior of- ficers, charged, with fraud in connection with contracts for the construction of forts and barracks at Port Arthur ten years ago. While in the stollen for his hour on Saturday night Policeman Alex. Gardner, of No.8 division Toronto, Netts taken suddenly ill, and it while it was thought he would die. He was hustled to Grace Hospital, and after at- tention he recovered. Thinking that the Grand Trunk Hall' road trapt was not going to stop at South Iedian yesterday, Adeline Sem- mure, it native of that place, reshed down the corridor and jumped 'befihse she could be stopped. When the tram pulled up, she was found to be unhurt, have led in the present circumstances to disseeslone and bee bleed." Gavin Rowat, otie of the best known business men of Western Ontnrio, died in Victoria Ilospita, London, aged 66. Ile was at one time head of the firm of Rowat, McMahen atel Granger, evholc. sale dry geode, and with William Lind, Who died, recently, was founder of the Western Ontario Commercial Travel- lers' Association. Injured in NI* -.Accident Aro Alt Wing Well.. Brantford, Feb. 6,---Thero will be no other deaths as a result of the Paris-Drumbo wreck. All thee° in* jurea aro doing well including 111a1I Clerk May who is at Godetieb, and City Solleitor Henderson and Uns- tame Clerk McIntosh, of Brantford, both Of Whom ere out to -day. The la queet opens at Prineetonthis after. noon, After viewing the beaieS an adjournment will be made till Wed- nesday. The eauee of the wreck un. doubtedly was the mognl rllflhling Post Drumbo where it should 'have waited for the passenger, but who is reeNnsible in., this connection, only enquiry will reveal. CANNOT VINT) 31M011ASL London, Ont., Feb. 0.---11eIativee of Condueter arceeliem, who is sought in eonnection with the Grata Trunk wreck neer Paris on Sittordety night, say that they beet neither etein nor heard of him. Local rAilway officiAIs have been loels- Ng for him for many hours unatiteetra fully. It le enid flint Nieeelnuti want to Detroit. WAS HE MURDERED? Missing Farmer% Body round in Detroit RivEr. Windsor, Feb. 6.—The body of Dolphus Drouillard, the River Canard farmer, missing since December 5 last, was found in the Deeroit River at gandwieh at the erid of the Government fish haeoh- "Y Pier yesterday by fishermen. There was it gash on the forehead, and e search of his pockets revealed the faet thet $100 in cash and the gold \veldt Dronil- lard was known to have had with hint when last seen were. missing. The theory of the police IS that Brouillard wee knocked down, robbed and thrown i»to the river. Mother cit. eunistance whieli strengthens the sitapi. don of foul play is that Drouillard, eybo wag intoxicated when last mem, could never have readied the ena of the pier without aseistance. The pier -extends 50 feet into the river, aria le but two feet wide. The body wee found at the ex - 110180 end. Coroner ,T. S. Lajelle ordered the re- mains taken to Lesaslines undertaking establishment, And will hold an inquest next Friday. Drouillard is it evidoever: and levee eke smell ehildren. The $200 retvaril offered by Dr. Ifrouillerel, of Wyandotte, Miele, for the diatovery Of the betty will prthaMy NI divided hs• tWeell lienry Laforet and Michael Itajor. SOARED HIM. Montreal Highwayman Arrested After Trying to Rob- Man, Montreal, Feb. 64—.A.fter holding up Frank Mareovitch, a collector ,at the Poinb of a MI Bomar Bougie was run down and captured in a shed, en West Notre Dam street. Marcovitoh, who had $800 in his pock. et e was suddenly aecoeted by Bougie With "I want your money or Pll take your life." Marcovitch was so frightened that in- stead of handing over the coin he set up such An outcry that residents nearby immediately ran for the spot whereup- oa Bougie fled, hotly pursued by the crowd, and police, at whom he fired several shots. no will appear for hear- ing to -day. AUSTRIA ARMING ••••••,...1,01•1•11.1 To Create. a Fleet of Sixteen First. Class Battleships. 0•61,•••••••••••• Between Forty and Fifty Millions More Money That Must be Got. 1,•••••,MT,•••• Vienna, Feb. 6. --Great concern has been eaneed the newspapers and the pub. Ile by the ministerial revelation in the Delegations at Budapeet of aormottely increased credlee for the army and navy. The total extra redits amount to 0,140,- 000,000 for the army and 585,000,000 for the navy during tee next bear years, afinistere intimated also that the estimates will &till further Mere:Ise later, the annual requirement for the navy being nearly 530,000,000 as cempared. with an average of $10,0e0,000 hereto - fere. Viee-Admiral Monte-Cuecoli, cam - mender of the. Austrian navy, announced that his ()Welt was the creation if a fleet of sixteen first-class battleships, and declared that only in this way could Anetrit. keep her place with the other powere. None nf the Ministers, how- ever, wile able to tell ]'ow the money is to be found, except hy incurring a new debt, and stonily debates are expecte(' when the Reichsmth comes te discuss ways ana moons. 4 • te TO DISBAND IT 40.••••••••••••• Dissensions in Montreal's Crack Regi- ment Lead to Disorganization. Montreal, Feb. 5.—alue1t extettnint hasb en caused here by the oficial an- nouncement that the Prince of Wales' Fusiliers, the oldest regiment in Canada, and the first on the militia list, is to be disbanded, This course was taken on re. comendatioa of the Inspector -General, Mei reported to the Militia council that the regiment was under -officered and undermanned, and generally in bad sbape. The only remedy, he suggested was that it should be disbanded for re- organization, and this course was decide ed upon, after consultation with the Montreal officers, For many years past there have 'been troubles in the regiment of variou.s whieh have ledto frequent changes le its staff of officers,and general lack of interest. The 0 f ficia Gaze t le s:gni f ken tly states that all the officers will be put on the reserve of officers, and when remeganization is affected such of them as may be required will be given cem- missione, At the same time captain and Brevet -Major Stairs, D. ea 0., who won fame and rank as eapialu of n Com- pany, the Nova Seabee:, at the eaptare of •Cronje at Paardeberg, 'tee been gazet. tea afajor cf the P. W. F., with Major Stuart, of Montreal, wha is bretight from the R. 0. It is expected they will have a good deal of work to ..dri'ivith the reorganization of the regiment. •• • DIVORCE EVIL Cardinal Gibbons Spoke Strongly Against It Yesterday. Baltiniore, Feb. 7.—In a sermon sit the cAthedral yesterday, Cardinal Gib- bons spoke strongly against the evils of divorce, saying in part: "If Christianity is the highest type of civilization—and who can deny it?— then is it not true that we are retro- grading instead of advancing olx certain lines? "There is it social scourge moro blight- ing and more destructive of family life than Mormonism. It is the feerfully creasing number of divorce mills throughout the United States, These mills, like the mills of the gods, are slow- ly but surely grinding to powder the domestic altars Of the nation. Bus - bawls and. wives are separated on the most flimsy pretexts, and as if the dif- ferent States of the union were not Ind- ficiontly accommodating in this respect, ono Siete hes the unenviable distinctiOn Of granting a bill Of divorce for the nter•3 asking of it en the sole condition of a brief sojourn within her borders." ea.* FOR HAMILTON, Toronto, Feb, 4,—With the first lot of immigrants of the setteon on beard a 'special C. P. IL train steamea la° the Union Station at an early hour tide morning front Montreal, The paseeng- era were !ended froni the ettarmsep Empress of Britain nt, Halifax the lat- ter end of the week. Aboard the train were eighty-six pas- sengers for Toronto, thirty for Ifiimilton and sixty for. points farther west. The train Was due to nrrive here at 7 p.m., ha owing to operating diffieultiee there wets a delay of more than five hours on the run front Montreal, .•• • LORD :KNOLLYS RETIRES. Lendone F. 3.---Loza lee/oi1y4, the late Kin; Edwald's raeathaul mate It is unleretooa. preposes te rennin:eh his mesent. office WI the King's wive te mere. tar y atar the einamittlen. Ile ern be sueeetelal ay far Artlinr Bigge, who .icted iit that ecteaelty for teveral yeats In the meeent King when be wae prieee eif Wake. lt :deo stated Grit So' MOM!' Will reeeive a peerage, GENERAL CRONE PASSES AWAY ".1.1.16•aff gm. The Lion of Africa, Hero of Paarde- burg, Died on Saturday. The Story of His Final Battle Against the Forces of the Empire. ••••,••••.....,•••• The Part the Canadians Took in the Fight—A Reminiscence. Kierdsdorp,Feb,—Gen- ae .1.--e—ansvard, eral Piet Create, :me of the prominent Boer lenders in the war with Great Bra thin, died Saturday. Piet A, Cronje'e surrender to Lord Roberta at Paardnberg on February 27, 1990, woe the turning pora in the Boer War. He lived to see that the war WM a terrible mistake; that It would have beea better to have given tho English all they asked for when Prosideut Krug- er and Lord Milner met in conference, and that he never expected to see an- other national eprising in the Transvaal. General Cronje was of IluguenOt de- scent, Ife was born about 1835. Be was by preferenee a Dutch farmer, but fig- ured in severe' uprisings that preceeded the Boer War. He beeieged Potchef- stroom in 1881, and received its capitu- lation, keeping the garrison in Ignorance of the fact that an armistice had been declared. He frustrated the raid ot Dr. Jameson at Krugersdorp in 1895. Crouje tried to arre,st the British ad. vauee upon Preteria, but failed. At Paardeberg lie was headed off by Brit- inli cavelry,' and hail to surrender with 4,080 men after ten days' heroic resis- tance. It was in these battles that the Canadians so distinguished themselves. After the war Cronje was sent to St. Helena. With hine weat his wife, a Pre- torian women. Ile returned to the Tranevaal in 190a and settled down to run his farm and assist his people. He came to America and engaged in ex - batons of the "South African war game." General Cronjo's wife having died, he was married again in St. Louis in 1904 to Mrs, JohAnne StertzeI, of Pre- toria, a widow of a former comrade of the General, BROUGHT TO BAY. Forced by General French to raise the siege of Kimberley on February 15, 1900, Cronje withdrew his harassed commando by a eeries of forced marches that ex- cited tlie Admiration of the British of- ficers and fleally brought to bay in the bed of the Modder River at Paardeberg on February 18, hemmed in by' a super- ior 'foree and unable to obtain the re- lief he had hoped for from Generals De Wet and Botha. For eight days the old Boer warrior maintained with stub- born doggedness the unequal struggle, the combined siege and field guns of the British pouring a, ceaseless rain of high explosives. When all hope of reinforce- ments or of retreat was abandoned, when the British bayonets had crept up to striking distance and his position was seen to be untenable, the brave old lion, on the anhiversary of Majuba Hill, marched into the British camp and sur- rendered in person to Lord Roberts, the commander of the British forme, Taken to Cape Town, Cronje was oat with other prisoners to St. Helonae•that had great Napoleon in his last bitter days of lonely exile, and finally returned to the Transvaal after the couclusion Of Peane‘.TllECANADIANS PAARDEBERG. The death of General Cronje ---- the rough, burly, steely grey -eyed Boer, with the heavy knitted eyebrows, the man whom his countrymen trusted in the hour of battle and danger— recalls the first important engagement in whieli the first regiment of the Canadian troop" in South Africa were engaged, and in which they won glory for their country. In its issue of February 21, 1900, appeared a -despatch from The Globe's war correspondent, Mr. Freder- ick Hamilton, announcing the result of the first big engagement in which the Canadians received their baptism of fire, and in whieh tbe contingent lost nineteen killed and sixty-one wound- ed, at the Madder River, on Febria any 8, On the same day came the news of the relief of Ladysmith by General Buller, the first fruits of Lord Roberts' big sweeping movement on the flank of the enemy. THE QUEEN'S SORROW. The Canadians* formed a part of the forte which, under General Smith-Dor- rien, crossed the Madder River at the drift in an effort to reach the enemy's laager, On February 27, 1900, her late Majesty Queen Victoria sent the fol- lowing message through the Colonial Office to Lord Minto: "Her 'Majesty the Queen desires you to express to the people of the Do- minion her admiration of 'the gallant conduct of her Canadian troops m the late engagement, and her Borrow at the loss of go many brave men." PRAISE FROM ROBERTS. Tlds message was read by Sir Wle frid Lanier in the House. It was fol- lowed by one from Lord Roberts, also read by the Premier, in which the British commander reported the Can. adian casualties. The despatch stated: "At 3 a. in. today a. most dashing ad- vance was made bythe Comedian regi - merit and some Engineers, supported by by the ist Clordon Highlanders and 2nd Shropshires, resulting in our gaining it point spine 604 yards nearer the en- emy, and within about SO yards of his trenehes, where our melt entreechee themselves and maintained their eosl- dons until morning. A gallant dead, worthy of our colonial comrades, which, I am glad to say, was attenena by comparatively green loss. This u.p. parently clinched matters for at day- light to -day it letter signed by General Cron* in which he stated that h3 sur- rendered unconditionally, was bre Hit to the outplude under a flag of trim." The intense silence in the ;Paw during tbe reading of Ale deepeleh Was broken at ite -close by lonr cheer'', tribtite to the bravery and middy- anee of the (..atnadiert fro. ope al the front. WASN'T DRUNK. 4•1•001,••••••.10 Richard Porter Dies at Guelph From Fall Downstairs, 1•••••••01,..... Quetta), Feb. 5,—Ilichard Porter, a man about fifty years of age, died end. denly at the Ueneral Hospital as a re- sult of injuries sustained, it is thought, by falling down the stairs of the Vie. torin Rotel, leading to the lavatory. When found it was thought he had been drinking to excess, and the doctor Celled was at first of that opinion, but on a later visit, when the injured man said, "Vm feeling very badly, doctor," it was found that he was severely injured. Ire Was sent to the hospital, where lie :lied four hours later. An inquest will be beld. fie was unmarried, and for some time worked as a picture framer, .t. HONORS MTURDY Made Spectacular FI ght and Met With Ovation at Havana. Presented With Purse of $5,000 For Previous Trip by Vice,President. Havana, Feb. 6.—With practically the entire population of Havana looking on. hleCurdy, the Canadian aviator. 'evlio .recently crossed the Straits tf Florida in a biplane, Med° a.magnificent- ly spectacular flight to -day from the drill -grounds at Crimp Columbia to Mor- rtuornliegdh.thouse, which be eirel)ed airel re- Thtee cannon shots from Cabanas fort- ress and a red flag flung from Morro at 9 o'dock in the morning, announced the flight was about to begin. Inetantiy the streets were deserted, the people mak- ing for the sea front, the roofs of houses and the highest points of vantage throughout the city. A few minutes after 0 MeCtnely's aero- plane was seen topping Principe Hill at a high altitude. It was coming at it great speed against it stiff easterly wind. Passing over San Lazar° Hospital the aviator left land behind and wept acroes the shallow outer bay at an al- titude of 30 feet, straight for Morro. He circled the great lighthouse fifty feet above the lantern. Swinging to the left McCurdy darted .seaward, the nwheeled again and circled the tower once more, and straightened Out gracefully on the return course. lit was saluted hy the batteries of Cabanas and the cheers of all Havana, The official time waa sixteen minutes and twelve seconds. The estimated distance was eleven miles, The machine used by McCurdy was a fifty horse power biplane, and the prize for the flight was $3,000 offer- ed by tho city. This, however, is open to competition until February 28. A great ovation was given McCurdy at the Albisu Theatre. Vice -President Alfredo Zayas presided, and presented McCurdy with the purse of $5,000 given by the Havana Post for hie flight from Key Wese to Havana. CHURCH UNION. 111.1M.1•11..0.1•••••• How the Vote Stands Among Presby- teries of the Great West. •••••••••.I....1** Winnipeg, Man., Fob. 0.—The question of Church Union le taking very definite shape in the west, Of twenty-eight Pres- byteries in the four western synod§ but four have voted, two in favor ane two against. Brandon has voted in favor 21 to • 7. Hight River also in favor, 11 to 6. In Vermillion the vote wes :1 to 4 agathst and in Westminster /2 to 13 against. In 'Westminster Presbytery, the influence of Principal MacKay of Weet- minster College, leader of the anti -On- ion forces was expected. to secure a large majority against union. In the Synod of Saskatchewan no vote has been tak- en. Winnipeg votes on Wednesday. The total vote cast to date stands thus: Twenty-four presbyteries for; six against; two modified approval. Congregations of the Congregational Union have voted votedstrongly in favor. MORE SUMMONSES SPOILED CELEBRATION, Ottawft, 8. --The celebration by the local Chineee eolony of their New Year to -night was marred by reieense inepeetot Enright, Who made three seizures on Saturday rii fat embracing twentY•five and a half &tete; of Chi - 'lege native whiskey from loll: 5103-0- 1108508. Three oases weee also Seized M the store of UUOM QUOi. Fbs *Ada. key will be sent to Torsito 1.1 tautly- I AIN and if it contains ton muel, eleoltol ehergee will be laid at the l'clite Contt, Further Action Taken in Farmers Bank Case by Official Referee, Toronto, Felt. Q.---Sunpeonses have been issued by Mr. 4', A. Me McAndrew, official referee of the Farmeee Bank, calling James Gallagher, A, 5, 54own, A, Fraser, Sohn Watson and Dr, john Fer- guson, provieioual directors of the bank, to show why they should not make good any loss the bank may have snstained by reason of their acts. The inclusion of the name of Gallagher, who is dead, is taken to indicate that proceedirige will be instituted against his estate for the rceovery of any money that he teeeivad in this connection. The summonses give as a reason for the hearing: "That it may be decided that the said provisional directorare jointly and severally liable to the bank, and to G. T. Clarkson, as the liquidator, to the amounts of the moneys which it may be found were disbursed by the di- rectors for which tbey are acceuntable, and also are liable for any loss Which the bank nuty have suetainea, and MAY be ordered to contribute to the ass* of the bank suck sums as the court mey deem fit." .."'""""'"'"""•111.114,...* ON VOLUNTEERS; Duke Commends Discipline and fhysi- quo and Fine Sooting. ......1.••••1•11•••41, London, Pelt. 5. ---The Nike of Cato naught, praking yeeteraay at the Ter- ritorial priee-giving, snia he had been very much struck in Another portion of the Empire by the very fine body of volunteers, who were good shots, and who in discipline end physique, had lind the many advantegee of Active service. We are glad to think that the inove- Merit started at heme fifty years ago had grown In the different parts of the Empire, and that we had ett 511Pet- ample here thee haul been followed there, A LONG STRIKE ENDS IN DEFEAT Chicago Garment Workers Lese the Fight Against Employers. ••••••,•••••••••••,. SaM Landers Tells Striker; to Go Back to Work, ••••{•.•,,,mr••,..• • Must Go Back Unconditionally and Accept What They Can Get. ,f1,1••••••1,1....• Chicago, Feb. gement work - ors' strike was called off yesterday. Realizing that it woulkl be uselese longer to continue the Mangle tee exeeutive committee of the strike committee of thirty-five took action ordering the long drown out fifeet against the "associe- Mu" clothing houses at an end. The action was taken quietly at a SOS - S108 Of the committee and with the emo- tion of President Thomas A Rickert, of the United Garment workers of Ameri- ca, The action was tantamount to c de- claration of ueconditional surrender. At the dose of the meeting Vora was passed out among the strikersthat the welk-out wes at an. end and that all pickets were withdrawn from the strike- bound shops, The announcement was re- ceived without demonstrations of any kind, and it was mid to be practically certain that the remainder of the etrila ere will apply for their old places as in- dividuals, The effeet of calling the strike off will be that: • The strikera must return to work in the shops of the "assoeiation" houses as individuals. ' The open shop policy of tbe employers will be maintained. All grievanceself any, will be adjasted ebyt0ce. 1;employers with each irel individ nipi Action of terminating the strike wits taken without consulting with President John Fitzpatrick, of the Chicago Federa- tion of Leber and Mrs. Raymond Robins, President of the Women's Trade Union League, principal leaders of the strike and heads of the joint conference board. Mrs. Robins did not relish the action of the strikers, executive committee, and when site learned that tho strike was ended alio said: "Well, we are defeated, but not con- quered. The executive committee did notconsult with us, but I suppose they know what they are doing." Committees of the Garment Workers' Union visited several clothing houses during the day and informed the offi- cials that the strikers were ready to ac- cept the offer of the employers to be taken back to work unconditionally. 01- ficials of Kuh, Nathan & Fischer and the Royal Tailors promised that their form- er employees will be taken back as fast as room can be made for them. When these promises had been.obtain- ed Organizers Samuel L. Landers, Victor Altman, Miss Margaret Daly, and other officials of the union went to the vari- ous meeting halls on the west side and aneounced the ending of the strike. "Men and women. the strike is called off; we have hest, and the lent thing for you to do Is to go back to work as fast as you on," was the announcement giv- en the waiting strikers, One of the principal factors in forcing a 'termination of the strike was the lack of funds. The strike fund was exhaust- ed several days ago, and it is likely the joint strike conference board Will be left with a big debt on its hande. A total of $154,000 has been spent by organized la- bor for the support of the strikers. of this amount $9,000 was spent by the citi- zens' committee for supplying milk to babies of strikers, The milk fund, of which adrs. Joseph T. Bowen was treasurer, was exhausted three weeks ago, and the milk during the last few weeks has been supplied by Mrs. Scott Rurand. of Lake Forest, ata cost to her of about $150 a day. Estimates of the number of strikers still out vary from 5,000 to 15,000. A large number returned to work during the last few weeks, especially since Jan. 14, when Hart, Schaffner & Marx signed an arbitration agreement, tinder which 10,000 strikers returned to work in the shops of that firm. Failure of the Senate liweetigating counnmittee to bring about a settlement also Wa.s a factor in hastening the ter- mination of the strike. When the sen- ate committee failed to get a settlement proposition from the "Assoelation" hous- es, the union officials lost all hope of bringing tbe eninleyena to terms with an agreement, ••••••••••••••••411..... NOT TO BLAME. Verdict on Death of Children Burned at Montreal. 4/1•1••Y•411 11.011treal I nib. 5. --airs. Geo. Maileau, mother of the two children suffocatee s:noke as a result a it fire tlitz broke mit in the elarleau home, 100 Chatham street, while the children were altme in the licuse on Friday afternoon. nee exonerated of cienertal regime:Beaty at the inquest held, at the nuntane 021 Satnrdey morning. Coroner altafalioa, 18 allressing the any, said he thought the fire was of in. ceudiary origin, and that Mrs. Matleau should not be hele eriminally responsible for the deaths of the children. Wite.it the juey retired to consider their vete diet eleven of them were of the same mina as the eoroner, hat Wiihrel Les- sard, wha is the tether of six eltiltiren, said he thought Nye, Marken Mutual be held eriminatly responsible, era refeeea to sign the verdiet. TROUBLE WITH REPORTER._ Washington, Feb. 4.--.A. remarkable scene oeeured In the. House tealay, when Air. aliteen, or Arkansas, on motion of privilege, arraigned newspapermen, who lie elaimed sought to intimidate hlin and mennatioalty asked what proteetien members or Congress had, 'The incident VMS an outgrowth of it passage on Sate Imlay between the Mimeses represent. Delve and a newspaper carrespondea, whom he bail denounced. ...1*.4104.4164Mo. ROOOED RESTAIIR Cideage, Feb. armed men held up and toblied Rector's Restanr- ant at 10 &elm* today. The restser- arit is located in the heatt of the busliteas section of the eity. The 'ab- hors seemed etomewhere bet Vent. eftit tee Ott Iraq pun 000lt pus 000,0 In making flash onenpo. SAD CASE. Husband Died of Exposure and Wife Had Hands and Feet Frozen. •10.4.T.P111.11111 North Bay, Eeb. belly of HO- MO' Wilson, the unfortunate young pros' petor, who WAS fawn to death in the Gewgaw/a, wilds, Was breught to North ilay by his brother, and taken on to Lake Linden, Michigan, where the par - elite reside. The brother had a, very hard trip, driving a distance of 160 ndlee over the indifferent and bad trails. Mrs. Wile son, the young widow of the unfortunate proapector, had to be left behind at Gow- gamin, as she is suffering greatly from her terrible experience of exposure in the northern bush, having both hands and feet frozen. She is being tekieled by it physkian at Clowganda, and it is hop - ea. that amputation will not be necee- sitry. Wilson, in going to visit some traps, went through the ice, and upon getting out, his wet and frozen garments pre. seuted him making the return trip to the sheet; ,and he died from exposure. The wife, becoming alarmed for her hueband's anxiety, 'anted out in searck of tine but made little progrees in the deep snow, and had great difficulty mak- ing tte return trip to the shack, where, wet and cold and unable to build a fire, she Was found in. a frozen conditionaby the rescue party. LIVING TOMB Two Men Had Been Buried in Marl Pit for Thirteen Days. ••••r....m.11••••••et• Had Food and Thought They Had Been Interred Only a Week. • ..1.,••••••••••••••• London, Ftee 5.—The two men, Groat and Bellenger, who have been buried in .1 marl pit near Rotten for uearly thee teen days, have been reeened. A squat of engineer soldiers who alai been work - Mg night and day, driving a shaft pita aliel to the one which collapsed, rettehed the imprisoned num at one o'clock iv the morning. Bellenger was taken • ont first and hurried on. a streaker to the mairie, Groult was then broaght to the sui face. They wero both in fairly geed health and spirits, Of tee food let down to them they had still two ten -pound loaves of bread. Four candlee rental:tea, and they had never been in au -knees. They had suffered chiefly from Wait and cold, as the cider lowered down to them had given rut some days ago. They had to quench their thirst with the feweirops of water which trickled throng* the mare In order to keep therraelvee warm they ' had started to dig their way through the marl and had taken out thirty cubic metres. Unfortunately they had dug in the oppesite direction to that from will& assietenee was COlaing, so tha their efforts did net aid their rescuers. They hail eompletely lost count of time, They were ef opinion that they had only been a week under ground, while in reality it was nearly thirteen days, SEEN ITS BEST DAYS New York's Growth and Supremacy • Threatened by Other Cities. fi Canadian Ports Becoming Important Competitors to It. 11111Mleamill•••••• New York, Feb. G.— The Times to -day says: That New York City has nearly reached its maximum of growth, and will find its supremacy as the biggest City and the most important commer- cial centre in the western world threa- tened by competitors during the next twenty years, la the belief of Walter Laidlaw, secretary of the New York Federation of Christian organizations, and a census expert of note. In it long report on "New York' Growth," Dr. Laidlaw notes that the twa.ehief causes of the eity's rapid rise to pre-eminence were the building of the Erie Canal and innnense inIrragra- tion, and he declares that there are now certain factors working against it contiauea inerease. In the first place, Dr. Laidlaw Bees a continuation in the decline of the share of New York in the foreign corn - mem of the nation. In the last thirty years it has fallen from 54.8 to 47.7. Canada is becoming a.n important corn- petitor and other American ports are doing their best to overhaul New York. CALGARY'S POPULATION. Calgary, Alta., Feb. 6. — Calgary's population is 65,330, aceording to the tetimate of the directory authorities. This means an increase of over 9,000 in the past year. One 'fact in the growth of Calgary is revealed in this year's directory ,and that, is that the city shows a greater proportion of growth ht English-speaking people than in almost any other eity in the west, A slight foreign-epeaking in- crease is shown in the north and east of the city. 1-4. CARIBOU COME SOUTH. Edmonton, Alta., Feb. 6.—Edward Wylie, of Fort Chippewyan, who rea.ched this city to -day, atter neatly it month's trip frotrt north by dog team, reports that caribou are haunt- ing Lake Athabasca in vast herds, and eoming nearer to civilization than ever before. He gives as a reason the eXCesSiVe cold facing the herds into thiek timber that fritigea the north elate Of the lake. SHOT TO DEATH. cane Unman, rob. aiontreltd Guillaume. who was one of the strongest suPPorters of ex -president Nord Alexis and who was implicated in the exeeutioh at Port Au Prinee In Maven, 1998, was ventured by the governntnent troops near bete yesterday morning and Mot 10 death. Perlin, Feb, 1. ---Lt„ Steil, of the Ger- man military aviation service, was in- stantly killed while making it flight over the military aviation field at Dot berite to -day, The aeroplane droppod $1. height of elety-five feet. Thew Liettterletttai skul1 was crtuthett.