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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1911-07-20, Page 7ROWING DETAILS OF THE 'FIRE HORROR List of Over Eighty of Known Dead in Porcupine Fire Disasters—Dreadful Experiences of Survivo-rs. Country Devastated for Many Miles—Hospitals Crowded.... Fire Swept Homesteads in Sudbury District. DEAD AT PORCUPINE Porcupine despeteli; Following la the list of identified dead: JULE.S METAYER, Freneh Consul, aged 30. AlsIDRE, LE ROUX, waiter, Metropole Hotel, Montreal, from Paris age 33, fair. AltPILA Alowrioux, Cobalt, wife at Cobalt, age 50, grey. ' OffAR1JES E. ADAMS, Phoenixville, Pa., relatives advised, age 23. JA.01e. TAYLOR, shoemaker, Pearl Lake, MACK SMITH, New Liskeard, relatives advised. R. .A. DWYER, on Porcupine Gold Mines, buried there, FRANK FLYNN, Bracebridge, brother of Mrs. Youill, Toronto, found in United, Porcupine Gold alines, buried there. ANDY y mu, superintendent, Tonne on United Poreupine, wife resides at $17 Witten aveieue, Toronto, buried at Percupine. JOE Fix,romiat, Cockerraouth, England, aged. 26, fair, buried. on Cumber- land Mine. CO. ALLAN, same address, tinned Porcupine Co. property. 'WILLIAM MOORE, Cobalt, aged 35, dark. NATHAN NAAS, Spokane, Wash.; brother wired; aged 35; dark. STANLEY NICHOLSON, Guelph; wife in. Toronto; age 28. WILLIAM GITOR, age 43. HARDY (Dome Mines), of Toronto, 180 Avenue Road, sta• dent, aged 22. JOHN ItING (Dome Mines), of Copper Cliff, aged 65. limy- JACKSON (Dome Mines), American, colored. JOHNSTON (Dome Mines), of Sudbury, (Mt, LEO. IL SULIIAN (Dome Alines), London, England, assayer. STANLEY F1TZ1ANSE (Dome Mines), of Melbourne, ,aged 27. .ROBERT 1VEISS (West Dome), of Butte, Montana, aged 60. MRS, WEISS (West Dome), Butte,. Montana, wEiss, child (Wet Dome), of Butte, Moutana. TAMES RENNIkl, 211 Farley avenue, Toronto, aged 50. ,T.A.MES WELCH, Cacheatlay, Ont., aged 30. CAPT, TIRALAS DUNBAR, of Kennedy and Dunbar. PA.1, DWYER., 111F.LVIN STRAIN. JOHN lticLAUGHLIN. T. R. GET)DES, aged 54 WILLIAM KING (West Dome), Elk (.ity, Idaho, ANGUS MeDONALD. MRS, A. E. BURT, A. E. BURT, assayer. JOHN DESTERAL 11 al. MaeQUEbild, here. 1), M. MaxQUEEN. JOHN WALL. CHARLES BROOKER. JOHN SA.UNCH. HUGH MeLEOD, CHESTER HENNINGER. J. W. GRANSTIAW. WILLIAM McLEAN. PAUL1N. 3. . S. RYAN. ALIIOD, Kelso, Inverness, N. S. E. SHERRIEN, buried. W. BESITER. Cobalt despatch says; The horrors of Porcupine's great diaster increase 'hourly. Out of the chaos and mai, sion of the first day following the fire affairs are becoming adjusted to such an extent that the terrible import of it all can be realized. But never will it be half appreciated as it is by those who went through it, Motors, nurses and. medical supplies arrived during the night, and no time was lost in get! ting to work. Hunger, the usual followei of such terrible ineidents, is the one thine°that those not other- wise injured, have to fight against, and bread and provisions are being ruehed in as fast as possible. With the execption of .what remained in the few stores of Golden City, there re- mained nothing to eat. At the beginning it was believed. that the greatest loss of life occurred at the mines and in the bush, where many prospectors mast have perished, but now tee town.s may give up the greatest number of uead, and 200 as a total is a conservative eatimate of those who lost their lives. As fas as is known there was no loss of life in Pottsville, and at first it was thought that South Porcupine's less numbered but four, but ellen then five bodies, whether of men or women is not known, have been found ln the rea.r of where the Empire Theses tre stood, making it apparent that they were endeavoring to make their escape to the north of the zone of flames. LAKE HAS GIVE'N UP V1CriliW3. Porcupine Lake has given up forty- one victims drowned by plunges into the lake, by auffoe,ation while standing in the waters or by being swamped when in canoes. Along the Shaw-Deloro line on the trail lie eight bodies of unknown dead, and on the south side of Pomo pitie Lake are three more to add to the Six on the trail between the Dome Mine and South Porcupine. Coffins are being built out of rough lumber, and. already four bodies have been shipped out. Nothing can be Addeu to the steries from the loss at the mines beyond the fact that Captain Sack Hamilton, who was at first counted among the dead at the West Dome, is alive. So is Joseph eies Tracey, accountant for Ie. A. Heinze. Treetty tells a vivid Story of the disaster as it visited the property. It appears that Manager Weiss and those who perishea did net takii to the shaft as a last resort, but, think- ing the property well cleared, was fairly, safe from the fire, went there to get away from the dense smoke with them was Mr. Tracey. sea the fire approached he went up the bids der to the eurfece and there found. the bent (ram e and shaft house ablaze. /de tried to extinguish the fire, but could. not, and so shouted down the shaft for the others to tome up and find soh* other ineens of escape. he then tushed for the swamp, back of the power house and there burned in mus- kegscaped the flames which eonsuin- ca. filo others, DEATH Ole "SHOTGUN BILL" "Shotgun Bill" Ring, prospector for Heinze, was among those who came out of the ellen after Ma Treeey, but he —4r wished on the eurface at the month of the -shaft. It is probalee that Mrs. Butts whoee body WAS found half way tip the main, Wee aleo trying to follow. It is knOivn that It, A. Meyer, Mali- nger of the Suceees, met Ids 54 men eeeisped Without %jury, and it is be• Roved that the estrum- miraculously ta- mped the flames, although on the edge of the fire zone and near the Viporith Ashlar Wog burned. Nothing bris been kora from the Golden Crown, and the wieners think Foreman Fred Constable Sitil hie men are twit. Among the narrow esespee was that of the little daughter of Dr. Ilnie Cm, a veterinary in Pottsville. In some way the litle girl Was lost in the fire, and made her way to the Vinthlitit Hoted. Her rake for het Morton, who, witit her own daughter, was making for a raft which was going out into Porcupine Lake. The little girl Wag later placed with ber mother in Golden City. SENT INTO HOSPITAL. Efforts are beteg made to make the injured as comfortable as passible, and this morning the following were sent to tee Lady Minto Hospital in Liskearde J. Daiwa°, Chielesar, Que., 37 years, French-Canadian. John Bilo, ?Wander, Dome Mines, 23 -years of age, burned. Ed, Therien, Ottawa, carpenter, Dome Mines, 18 years of age. Tom (Selmer, 11 Cedar street, Toronto, aeot ce man. Alex, Faulkener, Copper Cliff, Ont., C.aliadian, 24 years. Didodi Diepro, Assyrian. H. ,Tolirts, Englislanan, aged 40. 3. Taylor, White Horse, Yukon Territory, 18 years. Australian, Edgar A. Shakespeare, 005 Yonge etreet, Toronto. Vidor Mackie, Finlander, aged 27 years. Wm. Willson, Irishman, 44 yea' rs. B. C. 13issett, Stratheona, Alta., 30 years of age* One of the miraculous escapes re- corded is that of a woman end two chil- dren who made their way from the . Dome Camps to the North Dome. Three men are known to be dead at the Philadelphia Mine, in addition to te, E. Adams, the bookkeeper, wbo died ef heart failitre. In connection with this E. P. Ash- more may Le put down as one of the heroes of the holoesinst. After Adams' had died of heart failure hi his twins, lir. Ashmore beat his way 'beck through the flames, and, wetting is blanket, wrapped the body in it, and he this way it was saved from the flames. Mr. Ash- more was badly, but not seriOusly, burned about the hole and chest in do- ing this. On the trail from the Philadelpaie, to %teeth Poreupine there lie the bodies of ten unknown dead. Six dead bodies have been found in the bush aronad the Dome Mine. Among the more pathetic incidents Ives the burning of a woman Who was about to become it mother. This woman's hands and feet were burned off in the fire. WETTID EXPERIENCES. A. IL Crampton. and Joe Healy, man: eger and superintendent, respectively; of the Int/mile' Mines, state that the sompany suffered no lass of life and all af their Bitten employeees eseaped safe- ly. The party left the canm at twelve o clock,. as the Dames were just reaching tile buildings. In the party was Mrs. Harper, of North Cobalt, wife of the cook at the mine. She had to go a mile and a half acrossa countryfleeing from the flames until the right-of-way was struck, then the entire party had to prattieally rim four miles to South Por- cupine and Mrs. Harper also evaliced ans other two miles around the lake. Mr. Crampton told of n weird sight hi South Porcupine, after the fire, Ile sau the boake of five persons who ware burned, fie well es simc other bodies Witt had been taken from Porcupine Lake, One woman, while passing through the burned streets of South Porcupine, reached dewn and picked tie a piece of the skull of one of the unfor• tunatee, and, putting it in her handbag, elated that else would keep it as it sou, mar. Joe Healy at the time of the files went over to the efatageoll Myer, where, with a ming af eixteen others, be started a back fire' and. in this manner, the party managedto cheek the Mimes. PEARS PROSPECTORS PERISHED. Btastol Township was burned oner again, said Mrs lIettley, and he tears that many of the prospeetors lot their ayes. There were ell rtilitsmtily large number in that median. mei there was a mime af esettpe. There ere 9.5 me. in Shaw townehip'wlio stertea off item one property and have never been Weird uf einee. They may be eafp, but it r eitoeether likely that in fleeing trout tide direetion to the other direetiou thee perished hi the Mmes. Georaa Lisk, a. protector near the maker were heerd as the hotel wise West Kona, at the outbreak of the abont to be enveloped in fiercest end fire heti a molt remarkable swipe Irma else Wis tekett mit by Mra. Lindsay death, wide his brother and lattwr ` burned up betore hie very eyes, It se -ems thitt before they fun), realized it the flames were upon them, and, no matter Oat eirection they turned, the flames veined to be present, Biisadly they ran forward and. luck brought them to a email stream, into which they madly threw themselves and dashed the cool water over their burning and brute. ed bodies, Half -submerged in the Wats- or, they welted for the fire to sweep over them, which it presently did, one of the brothers, unable to stand the choking melee and the intense heat, deed on the spot. George, by rolling over and over in the shallow water, managed to survive by a. miracle, A NARROW ESCAPE, Charles W, Weirton, owner of the Weston Claims, in Ogden, anil one of the best known men in South Poreu. pine, had perhaps Ete narrow an es- cape as any Who left South Porcupine during the fire without injury. IVIr. Weston, while the flames were enter- ing South Poreupine, rushed int° Coma eelor .1<ennerly's building to recover some papers, and while there the car- load of elyeendte On the railroad at Lakeview, Porcupine, exploded. The dynamite ellattered the building ads joinieg and 111r. Weston was struck by these timbers, knocked over and cov- ered with glass. He rushed out and there found Capt. Dunbar, who died on the spot. Cepa, Dunbar was pumping water and trying to extinguish the flames. Mr. Weston milled to him to make the escape, but the captain stuck to his work, and it was probably: but a few minutes later that he perished. Making his way to the dock, Mr. Weston put the papers that he hadsaved into a canoe and, started out, ,At this time he end Mr. Kennedy saw Mrs. Williana Mar and her child standing in the dock the upper end of which was by thia time in flames, They were taken off and placed in the canoe. Horses Remus dered in the water and dogs nearly Swamped the canoe, Finally, Mr. Weston, who had but one paddle, left the moo and put the dogs in as a matter of protection for the others He waded into the wet- ter, keeping as close to the canoe as possible. In this manner ife was saved from the fire. His deseriptiou of other details occurring about the South Porcupine dock is too horrible to re- late. Attached to the first relief train front the scene of the Porcupine emitas- tropbe was a caboose temporarily fitted up as a travelling hospital ear, con- taining the injurea officials of the Dome mines on their way to the hospi- tal at Copper Cliff. In the ear were Mr, and Mrs. Meek, Mrs. Meek's mother, name un-. known; Ffarry Darling, mill foremau; Wilbur Campbell. mining engineer;J. Commie, Mr.' Wastnough, a 'Varsity) Ancient, and another man by the name of Selene% IVIrs. Meekes mother•inslaw, was badly burned about the limbs; Wil- bur Quimbell was also burnt all over the body, while Harry Darling was suf- fering from suffocation. The other mem- bers of the party show many marks as a result of their experiences laet Tuesday. 0 F. Goldthwaite. THE DEATH LIST. Toronto, July 15.—Hon, Frank Coch- rae, Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, yesterday issued a statement, in which he says that the reports of toes of life ia the forest fires have been exaggerated, and that people 9,re being alarmed unnecessarily. "While 'we do not wish to minimize Dee terrible affair," he areal, "there is every justification for feeling that the newspaper reports up to date have been very niuch exaggerated. We are not blaming the newspapers; they get the best information they can, but from the investigation made by offi- cials, we can any with certainty that there ha a been too much exaggeration, and people are being alarmed unneces- sarily., CHAIRMAN GOES NORTH. Mr, 3. L. Englehart, chairman of the Tentskaming and Northern On- tario ItailWay Commission, has gone to the north to assist in relieving the suffering there, and Secretary Magee is iinov,e,sh:ege of the local office. Be also is- sued etateraent yesterday, which fol - "I have just had a long distance 'phone conversation with Mr. Cle- ment, our chief engineer at North Bay, he having returned from Porcu- pine last night. "Mr. Clement says that the reports in the newspapers, as to thri number of deaths, are greatly exaggerated. When lie left Porcupine, the Porous pine Relief Committee eoula only ac- count for .52 deaths. The reports that 38 or 40 have bean drowned in the lake are not authentic. Prom inform- mation gathered from the men run- ning the launches, and taking people away,he would say the most by drowning *cella be six or eight. "While no doubt the affair is hor- rible, Mr. Clement is of the opinion that the dead will be about 70-, and he fettle safe in wining lie tlutt at the verY moat the death liat will be 100. 110 has good reason to believe that meet of the prospectors* 310e, in the bueh, itna not yet heard front will he found to be safe. "Mr, (lemma says, Pet at an illustra- tion of the exeggerations, due to the people being excited and Minded with smoke, while at the larederiekhoume ltivs et- he kid a report that five bodies were wnmtiimg on landing of Redetone River. Ne wee informed that the Relief Conis mittee, on senaing for the bodies, could not find any. elle reports as to the large num- her of people on the etation platform to be taken out Is not trtie, as Mr. Opulent eanee out on the last trein laet night, end there were two empty tioacetes on this train. Di rel, there were *bent 1,000 people taken nut of rot, cupine. "Mr. Clement says further, thet the reporie of men coming in, As th having etertit great ember of Aiwa and thurnertrits. boWitel along the Oen ars not "He /Ayethat so far 40 **applies are concerned, there are Siidligh itruund thes eamp to do for several dap, end whet le Medea last at MOM; le ays. tetuatie relief, opread weer the neat couple of weeks. There is nobedy not true. Many henna*, though, were sunk neat. the shore, but no one wee ina$theretiatt,t txli:erimereo.wcw to the lake- side and fouglit to get acroois into safety, Every man looked out for bine self then.. Some assayer,* ha4 two bar - Ivie of gasoline, end as it was running ont, 1 tried te get some froin them, They would not aell it except for very high prices. Frank Stewart dec1are4 he would get some. fie orgainzed a band of men aiul went to the assayere and frightened them lath giving us Seine. Another thing, the Murphy Howie put U) the price of a meal to one dollen It is sad about Billy Moore, Arehle Moore hail him Weide a canoe in the leke for half au hour, but eould not get hini up, so he had to let lent go. SHIPPING TUE BODIES. Pereupine, Oat, July O. — The preliminary work of clearing evfay the debris in Percupine has been inaugurated, ana while Wahl ere beginning to assume a normal con- dition, the realization of the terrible disaster by' no means diminielms, Every Aim beings up scene new fea. tore aa a reminder of what isi noW several days old. Bodies of many •ef the victims are being shipped out ta friends and reale atives, Among Those that Went tint yesterday- were those of "Billy" Moore, superintendent for the Armstrong -Me - Gibbon, and, Assayer and Mrs. Augus Burt, of the West Dome, No new names can be added to the list, because- of the difficulty td identify the remains that are found, some of them being but cher- red, bits of flesh and bone, Six :bodies, bealdes that of "Billy" Moore, have been added to the list taken from. Porcupine Lake it the assistance of discharging dyna- mite. ain the other band, it has been learned that Fred. Constable, Isaac Sinn and. George Wakefield, eupposea to have perished at the Gold Crown, are alive and uninjpred with the exception of slight burns. Time men fought the flames for a. 'while, and filially jumped into a seven -foot well, containing three feet of water, and survived the fire. THAWING EPFXTENOE,. Toronto, July 17. —Letters* have been received in Toronto frotil several Toronto boys, svho passed safely through the ordeal of fire in Northern Oritogioeal. Waring Clarice, M. P., who was in the offiee of alining Re- corder A. E. D. Bruce, has written is thrilling amount of hie experiences et Porcupine.- "If you can picture a wall of flame forty feet 'dashing at you wo- men crying and clutehing half smothered babes, others rushng out into the lake, trees falling, the air so dense witb amolee that you would declare it was night, horses and dogs sizzling to death and yelping to be released, people grad- ually dropping into the Nice and drowte ing with absolutely nobody to save them, is gale blowing at the rate ot six- ty miles an hour, last, but not least, tons of dynamite going off every three, minutes, breaking every . frail artiele and settiug fire to everything yen. un- touched, if, I say, you ean picture the above, you have -a vivid, natural and real picture of the Porcupine fire." Mr. Clarke says, "The death toll will be en- ormous, and I thank God that I am safe Notidditional news was received from the north yesterday, except that $5,000 had been • sent to the Porcupine Relief Committee from the Toronto Relief Committee. 'nee will be used judie- iouely to help tbe burned. out miners. All fires have burned themselves out, and :Matheson is .safe. Everything in the burned -over distriet was reported as being quiet yesterday, Ana the work of relief will proceed without delay. Hon. Ma Cochrane reeeived numerous telegraphic messages from the. north on Saturday A. S. McDonald, Crown Lands Agent nt Coehrane, wired: "So far tan ac- count for seven settlers burned out in Glaekmeyer township, and three in Tay- lor Township. Two lives loot ia Glack- tneyer—Bodies buried'! Mrs. Sinclair, wife of the minister of one of the churches at Coohrane, said that she left the town at 3 o'clock one afternoon and returned at 8 o'clock in the evening ti find it a heap of smoul- dering tnine. She said that. Mr. Rum- fotd, . Manager for the Knight Lumber 'Compariee and hie wife refused to take flight and managed to save the com- pany's property from the flames. By midnight they were selling lumber to rebuild the town, Relativea of the late Stanley Nichol- son, the Guelph adwspapennan, who as killed at the burning of Porcupine, received word on Saturday that his body had been. reeovered. The remaina will be brought to Toronto, arriving at 7.30 this neorierig. The fuheral will Hike place to Mount Pleasant Cemetery this after- notoettchnand the Knights of Pythias will at Aceording to Atm. ber bro- thers Say that the hurricane -which struck South Porcupine at the time -of the fire, lasted about twenty minutes and swept everything before it. One of the Flynn boys ran 'back into =the mine office to try to get a revolver with which to commit suicide, but waa called beck by her brother, who guided him to the hies reek, from whieh they SW Fra»g Flynn and Youille die whersi they stood. 'When the bodies of the latter were found the clothitig luta been burn- ed off them aiul their flesh eves baked by the terrifie heat. ANOTHER HORROR. Sadburys Ont., despatch: 1n is mot terrifie gale, whieh gained imptus throughout the day, fire swept, aerose the Townehipe af Hamner and CapteoI on TueedaY through a well-settled fatio- leg community and into the Townships of Wiener and Hutton along the line nf the Canadian Northern Railway, On the first and third torteesisone of Fastener and the first and seeond eoneessiona of Capreol about twenty homesteaders have been burliest out altnoet cotripletely buildings, reaps and etoek fellitig a prey to the flianee, and the people themeolvee in some eases barely eseeping with their lives. At Batiend's Siding, where a ptilp mill was eiteuttej, about twenty fatuities have been made homeless, and the countryside redueed toWitte& The 0. N. 0. nottliebounti train fortutiatele Arrived when the villagere were in dire etraits Atte itt iminineet -danger of basing finnihilated. All were reeeued and brought to Sudbury, here they are belust eared for, Tim heroient ,of Clondictor Maria, of the train erew. Is worthy of epeeist mention. 'Fearful kat someone weldsi be left beliinds he reside a Ione bip beek Into the fire sone. and was re- worded by finding and kaving a mother and two smell cleildrea huddled lit thelr Cabin awaiting the inevitelile and too - fearful to venture nut. The fire wwept norms; to Hutton Townehip, mid at Sell - wined, twerlise Iteniets are redeeed to Wits aogether with four and. a telt mitten feet of luirdser, the property of Len. land and Steele end the tramenee tale - rein of Dr. Werrea, NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF Postman Dropped Dead at ilanlon's Point, Toronto, Elderly Mao Trernpliel to Death by Stallion. Operations for Appendicitis Performed in Mid -Ocean, The Berlin, Ont., ewer romonieslon has been wiped. out by popular vote. Dr, A, 14,1 Vreelnall Was nominated for the Legislature by the Weet Victorie Conservatives. Your young Niagara Valle people ead a narrow (escape from death when their motor boat Weenie disabled above The falls. Prince Leopo1s1 of Bettenberg was threwn form hie horse at Tulworth, Dor- setshiree anti his heaa was cut eeverely. His kondition, however, is not ditoger- ous. The death occurred. at London, ling., of Alexander Dixon, of .Toronto. The lase airs Dixon is it brother ef Canon Dixon Ile was born ittToronto sixty- five years ago. Immigration dromeetor Dufour ear railed two poles just as they landed at Windsor froni a small boat near T. M. Cs docks, haviug been rowed across from Detroit. They wilt be deported. Postman Robert Mitchell, 773 Gerrard ;street eaat, Toronto, took an afternoon off Saturday and drogped dead. at Ban: Ian't Point, He had been troubled with heart failure for some throe The British steamships Alumni. arta Hallarnshire were in collision at Nor- folk, Va,, with damage to both vessele. The injury to the Almera, mi Donaldeun liner, bound for Glasgow, was serious. Rev. Samuel Wilson, superannuated Methodist clergyman)well known throughout Western .0ntario, died at Port Stanley, et the summer cottage of Mrs. Franklin T. Harrison, of London. At Portage Road, five miles from Charlottetown, P. E. 1., James Casford, 60 years old, arid unntented, was tram- pled in the yard of his brother, kir.' Stead, by a vicious stallion, and died in heif an hour. ,Silegeon Mcalaater, of the White Star eteeteship Celtie, aided by Dr. Retreads, of New York, and Dr. Rininger, of Seattle, performed operatIone for appen- theitis on two nude paseengers while the Celtie was in lied -ocean. lt is reported that 2,000 men from the Island of Madeira have joined the Por- tuguese Royalists in Spain, and are now esvaitiffog A largo consignment of gram and ammunition frora .,13elgium to re- place those seized. recently. Almost a war is going on at Naples between the clergy andsocialists. The trouble orieinated when two priestr; de, deunced th; sheath gowns worn by wo- men. Several were wounded before the police atopped a row that started. '1 and Saved,. Weut in Bathing, Two Men Upset n iNiagara River, .VIOLENT.DEATHS. Street Oar Accident, Electric Shock and Suicide Included in List. Montreal, July lOsseltive sudaen arid violent &Attie were reporteil yesterday afternoon mat evening. Christiana Mareotte, aged three anti a half years, woe strnek and killed by it street ear while delaying in !root of her home on Ontario street. B. Girofeard, • is lineman, of many yeare' experience with the Montreal Light, Heat Power Company,. received an electric shock, and was Instantle killed while 0workiag oft the Loupe Pointe road. Marcin Wasulish, is young Pole, who eitme to the city to menthe ago them the United States, eammitied smeidsk in ihkeiaairchoo.in au Therville street. Ille land. Indy found hint hanging from the ceil- ing. Ho was out of worlsahlue to 111 James Wileon, 33 yeare of age, tiled in the hospital on Saturda yevening as the result of being struelt by a heavy etone while at work on a house 'helms Nbiteillgteir Seaforth avenue, Cote des An unknown man wee struck and killed .by a ear at Montreal west on Saturday evening. Ifss is thought to be an employee of the, Dominion Tex. the company as a pay envelope was found in his pocket. DROWNED AMR ALL. The Windsor, Ont., police found John Grtenway, of Maidstone, who disappear- ed from the Arnold Home in leanest some days ago. The -old man, was in a fainting condition and was Bent to Hotel Dieu, His friends believed he had been drowned. The steamer Mariposa, from an Premise° for Tabita, reports by wire - lees that the British barque Purita.n, from Newcastle, N. S. W., for San Fran°We, was abandoned, filling with water, on ;lune 27, in latitude 26, Beath, longi- tude 142 west. News of the death of Alaa R. Mac- donald, formerly of Dorchester atreet, Montseal, was received frOili England. 11.r. Macdonald was is well-known rail. way contractor, his*last big Contract be- teg part of the National Transoattinen- tal it, partnership with SM. J. O'Brien'. Your charges of forgery,. committed over a year ago, are made against Hen- ry Brown, aged 17, of Surpeeldil road, Toronto. He is saia to have drawn cheques on the Homo Bank for $10, $10, $0 and $7. One for $10 was passed on Goodman Eros., Queen streeet west, for it watch valued at $7. Three residents of Kincarditie' have passed away: They Were: Jannis Cabs, aged 08 years, a veteran super- annuated engineer of the Grand .Trunk Railway; Mrs. Melo Barker, aged 5'4 rears, daughter of Police Magistrate er, and Murdock McDonald, aged 07 pars, a Kincardine township farmer. The Windsor police cemetission hes adopted a standard rate of fares to be charged by the taxicab concerns. Chauf- feuraro required to pay a license fee. of 26 cent* it year, while taxicab skivers are required to pay 20 eents a year lot - tine or two inachinee and $3 each for . each additienal tar. GOLFER KILLED. Was Carrying a Steel -headed Club on Shoulder at Chevy Chase. 4.01410•1•Millm.• astashinieton, July et. --While tslaying golf on an onen ettetelt of the imimevy Chase links this afternoon, Tristam 8. Johnson, former Republican alderman of the eeth disttlet, New York City. and re - centre annolnted solicitor for the Navy Donartntent. Was Struelt dead by a bolt of lightning. ne was fully to yards from tho nearest tree. The bolt learnt At the aeglening of it tnotiorde electrical storm. Johnson had *anted" els ban oft the course and was walking tolerate it with his midiron ov- er his shoulder. 'Mahout warning earn, Lha flesh end simultaneously a deafen- ing, clan of thunder. When. Johnson was nieked nil it few seconds later it was; found that the bolt h,til made it hole In the left shoulder, small and tamest ita eleamy out se it it had been bored by'a shorts nosed bui- let. The hair on his boad Wee toitipletely burned off, and his face blackened be- yond rettormition. The burn ran down over both shoulders, eobnsores eeside Was following birri only A short distant* away. The eliock threw hire an bla fee°, and it was several rainutee before he hnd recovered seem the blinding flash, EARTHQUAKE IN HUNGARY. Budapeet, Hriugery, July 17.-- There witsa returrenee of sliVerti earth ehoeks in the Xeesitemet dietriet, fifty miles south mutt of here, frefti five meth seven Wenn* Me morning. Al &mike - met the towere of the Ilynegogste and the Greek Chnrell were vereeked *ad the wane of number of belldhart were ertiektte, Buffalo, July 17,—Two men were drowned in Niagara River here at aeon to•day. At a few minutee before noon they :Narrowly eeeaped a similar death at almost the same place. Ahe men were Frank Neigee and Lewis Ludelee. They,, with William itenacott, a companion, started to spend tee day on the river. As they were leaving Strawberry Island theik boat -capsized and the three were thrown into the water, They were re- scued, with diffieulty. Then, as they were so wet, they de- cided to have e swim. WTmn, Renacott was the last to undreas. Itis friends plunged into the water and simultane- ously Shouted for help. They sank al, most instantly, Renaeott dist not enter the water, Diverit reeovered the bodies. e•s, THE THIRD RAIL. Youag Man Walked Through Detroit Tunnel. and Never Touched Wincleor, duly -16,—.Apparently ignor- ant of the Menem°. of the deadly third rail, the slightest contaet with whiell means sure and instant death, Richard Hardy,. 20, who saya his home is at Edmonton,. managed to elude the watch- man. at the mouth of the Detroit River tunnel to -day on the Amerkan side and safely made his way through the great tube to Windsor. Here he was met by one of the iminiaration officers, who took him to police headquartets, and after questioning him allowed him his liberty. He told si straight story and mild he had never heard of the third rail and could not reeognize it if he saw it, and refused to believe he had almost shaken haode with death. • a SON ILL. W. F. Cockshutt Runs to His Relief in Special Train. Termite, July 17.—Accompanied by Dr. II, A. Bruce, 64 Blear street east, and tivo trained nurses. Mr. W. F. Cockshutt, Brantioed, left the Union train for Huntsville at 8.35 o'clock last night. Mr. Cockehutt came in from Hamilton at 8.30 o'clock, when the spe- cial train was made up on his order and ready to start. It was said that a son of Mr. Cock- slautt was ill and that great haste was required to save his life. As Dr. Biome is aprominent surgeoft it is be- lieved thab an operation will be per- formed. 411'. ENGLISH WOMEN o Dcmobstrate in Favor of Arbitra- tion Agreements. London, July 17e—The women of Eng. teed are Arranging to make their voices heard on the side of arbitration pro• peseta They hold that tles of kinship and questions of peace and war affect them AS closely as they do men and purpose to hold si. great Anglo-American meeting in October as a complement to the historic Guild Mali demtinstratioli. This woman's movement is receiving support from all sectiOna of the com- munity, a,nd the Lord Mayor has grant- ed tbe Use Of the 141ailaton Rouse for the meeting. *es s MRS. WMANIGALS CASE. Los Angelo, Cale July 17.--4udge Berdwell will decide to -day whether Mrs. Ortie MeManigel's refund to ans- wer questiorte before tbe grand jery two weeks ago was justified or whether her action renderea her liable to impricen. ment for conteintit of cella. Mrs, hteManigal asterted she had been advisee byeecouneel that as the wife of a fellow •felislant of the MeNamara brothers+, charged with eomplkity in the 4Timee" dynamiting tame, she was et• erapt. from responding to (bit proaccii- lions in queries. FEARS FOR POST. North Bay, 3uly 17.e—reare are en- tettained for the safety of the Hod- son Bay Post at leort Mittaeliewan. The beet word earning out by Itt. dian =linen from the, faetor. "Steve," Lairialidet, WaS that the fire is coming aerega bath al the ricer and was ail aboat the melt, and that the Indians were leaving but that he would stay until the t ttkk Wen burned or the fire haet paeeed, over. Lafriander IS is man well UP ims mr.. Kant. mtit 'pond ell their Bove leekiree for ether nieres oportnnitite. BRITISH AIR COMPETITION e ying fi4C8 of Over Thousand Miles for $50,000 Prize. 'Flight Will ba Made in Four Stages Next Month. Must Make the Circuit Without OltAge of Machines, Lon4011, July 17. ---While the conquee terest that individual exploits did 4 year toitenshe:iiirtobaCxelZlariefit:..oaetbleonagofInthneetlittha- matter of course the flying eompeti- ago, England is to witness this moot ii,tItTlter is eourse of 1,010 miles for a prize einiost ambition atteMpts loulp Daily dietance aeroplaning yet seen. Thee evehit will be A eircult of the islancl ov. of .830,000 offered by this Loeden Charlea T. Weyman, who won the In teruational aviation cup at East Church on dilly 1, is the only Amerlean entrant while Europe will be represented by Beeurnont, t e winner of the regent Eu - ropean circuit competition) Vedrinea, who finished first in the Perin to Madrid race, and others. Valentine, the Eng. lishmau, who competed in the European eireuit, will also compete. The course to be flown over comprises fourteen, sectioes, whielt range from 20 to _In miles in leugth. The rue will be started. next Seturaay, duty 22, at Brooklands, but the day's task is only a sort of tuning -up flight of two miles to Hendon, in the northwest of Lon- don, where the competitors will rest os-er Sudsy, Oa Monday at (our in the morning they will start ,on the sec- ond' stage of 342 milers from Hendon to Edinburgh. En route they will halt after 182 miles, at Earrostgateiand af- ter aeother 68 miles, at lireweastle, then another 68 miles, at Newcastle, thence over a flight of 03 miles to the Scottish aapt tat. The third stage will be 'from Edins burgs across Scotland to Ghtsgow and thence to Bristol, altogether. 380 mites, with stops at Stirling', 31 miles; Glass, gow, e2 miles; Carlisle, 86 iniles; Man- chester, 103 miles; Bristol, 141 miles. The fourth stage' is front Bristol* to Brighton, a distance of 224 miles. On this stage stops are arranged for Exeter, 05 miles, and Selisbury Plain, 83 miles, the *final stage to Brighton being 70 miles, And lastly, a short flight of forty mil0e will be made from Brighton to the slarting paint at the Brooklands motor racing field. Whether any pf the competitors will complete the race is doubtful. Condi- tions have been establiehed which in the opinion- of experts who have observed previous races are ttlinost impossible of fulfilment. More depends upon the sta- bility of the machines than has been, re- quired in any previous race. The flying men, must do their circuit of over one thousand miles practically with their machinea intact. The most important parte of each machine are to be mark- ed, sand these parts must be kept to- gether throughout the course. The few men who finished in the re- cent ,European circuit changed their aeroplanes at some statiou of the jour. nay, made substitutes of the most- importent Deets, so that they return, ed to France with almoet entieely new machines. Renaud, who carried a pas- senger on his biplane throughout the European circuit was the only one whose machine had not suffered substitution of iniportant parts, The crucial stage of the journey. in the opinion of Airmen, will be the flight northward. from Harrotvgate to Fetin- binge'. The country le so uneven and the air currents so troublesome in this region that it will be no surprisa if the race gets its quietus along this stretch. ENDED HIS LIFE. Man Well Known in Norihwest Mining Camps Swallows Poison. Cobalt, July 16.—Mike Johnston, a Swede, well known in Porcupine and other mining eamps, sukided peaterday on the portage near Right Hawk Lake, by taking poison. Johnson apparently had no foods and was asked to eat with Mr. Yeereley's party and acted in it surly manner. Later one of the party upon investigation discovered the man wag dead. Provincial Constable Afelf.ay went to the scene, 38 miles from Porcupinegind had the remains b*roygolit in. THIRTEEN KILLED,, Express Train Derailed at Mulheimf Baden, Germany. Mulheim, Baden, Germany, July 17.-e An express train on the road milling from Duette Switzerland, to leraakfort- on-the-Main was derailed while entee- ing the state here to -day. Thirteen pas- sengers were killed. Fourteen °triers were severely ancl twenty slightly In- jured. A first elms, a second elago Ana two third Claes Cars Were telescoped. A re- lief tritin with physiciaus was sent from Xlaeil. This traitt earriea many fole eiga tourists. TENDERS FOR COTTER. Ottawa, July it—Tenders will short- ly be trilled for the eonstritetion of , a cuetouis cutter to prevent smuggling on the Atlantie and Gulf oasts. Plana have been prepared for It vessel of 000 tons, 173 feet tong ana to tost $22,000, " DROWNED FROM CANOE. ranee- Smart, July 10.--Hanalit Pom. fi ay. of Meaford, mi builder, who has beret settling ennuner esstlateee et le,int en NO. 1MS drewne.1 yesterday at that pieta, hy the upsetting of a eutne. Usa Islay liae been reeoverat. 1sierteeer Logeri left eita a eofiio to Sal Vai. rilit./N 1:0 Mi'lfarkl. teltiERA PE-NISH. Intbere, Pa.. July Id.---fieveitty-one as the result id in eN• 'plosion of tete in the Sekeeville shaft of the eleseade 0e,1 Convene, at 1,41epeet nine late IOU lecery miner itt the santhein puttee of the woreinge -ate Panel ACTS AS, SUROEON. finaband doreovie Wife; Appendix Then Carries Iler 200 Mite& Port Arthur, Ont., July 17. --On the melte of Rainy River, 200 miles direetly aortit of NettigOlt, Bee a solitary trednig station of the Itudsioa Bay Coe Fort sLope s The lettropeaus Who live ut that wdisolletaarrd e round, frm ocivilizatiom n at ueye Two weeke ago the wife of Harry ales Pherson, resideet of leort Hope, was taken ill, itad her laushane was eatiofied it Was cs case of appendicitis. The illnelle became so acute that the lumbend de - aa a. lest recourse to perform an operetion, With but si alight knowledge of wergery, entl armed with the few at'. ticiee supplied in a small -"Bret aid" else, he siteeesefully tarried out this operation. The next Matter was to reach some eieve where good nursing anti cere could 1)4 obtained, isud is start was made im• tnediately for the south, ten ITaliane heie5 hired to mike the 200,nilie journey 10 leepigoie pAy after day the journey vas contirnied. At one portage le was necessary to eerry the woman thirteen miles but she,bore the trial bravely arid now nate in Ifeliellaritospital. OUR .NOBLE QUEEN Keir Hardie Describos Hera a Sen- sible Bennie WOmgp, King George Advised ts Pay Hold to Her Counsel. . London, Jaily 17, --Mr, Keir Hardie, leader of the . socialist Party in the British House of Commons, who. bee consistently attacked King George, in an article in the Pioneer, Which is a SocialistsLabor journal, allows himeelf to admit implicit faith in the Queen. "I confess" he writes, "to is week.- new) for (hal good. lady. She is the only Royal person 1 eave ever seen who looks like a healthy human being. She is not of the wax doll or prates- sional beauty type. But she Is it handsome woman, or what in Seotbeed would be called a bonnie woman. "I hear on every hand that she le it 'hard -featured, woman. The state- ment is a libels Queen Mary's features are those of a woman of capacity, wit in her thne ha e had frequent occasim to assert herself and bas done R.), firmly and to some purpose. "To see her with her children, as I have, and to note her hearty laugh and the perfect confidence existing be- tween mother and sons, is an tae proof needed of her womanlinese. Re- membering the tragedy of her girl- hood, it is not to be wondered. at that s she shows something approaching cons tempt for the gew-gaws of amisty and— "But' I am wandering. If all the counsellors fail , King Georg', the .Queen will not fail bun, and it will he well for lam if he gives warning' ear to her et:omelet "The men who booked best one who wereelignified aud at ease every- where and all the time were the ancient peers. Their robes made one think of the Roman toga, a form of dress to which men will one day return," RED CROSS. American Society Sends $1,000 for Northern Ontario Fire Sufferers. Ottawa, July 17.—The Araerlean Red Oros,s has contributed $1,000 to- wards the relief fund of the fire sufferers in northern Ontario. Sir larilfrid Lawler has received a tele - grain from 'Huntington Wilson, of Washington. chairman of the In- ternational Red Cress) relief • fund, expreesing sympathy for the fire suf- ferers and authorizing a draft of a thousands dollars on the eoeiety through the Riggs National Bank of Washington. Sir Wilfrid replied ex. pressing thanks and accepting t,he do. nation on behalf of the Canadian. re- lief committee, THE MASONS, Members Gathering in St Catharines for Grand Lodge Meeting. St. Catharines,. Ont., July 17.—Dele- gates to the Masonic Greed Lodge of Ontario are arriving on every tram tee day, ana deepite the heavy downpour of ram, the city is puting on -4 gay ap- pearance with flags and bunting. The various committees of the Grand Lodge commenced work at ItoOn ansi will con- clude at moon toenorrosv, the orana Lodge proper ()peeing Wednesday Morn- ing. About twelve hundred delegates are expected, and private boluses ere be- ing thrown open to aecommodate all the comere. STEAMER AGROUND. Roston, Int', nmichig herway eip the main ship cloned and Armlike' in a big bank of fog, the Plant Lifle steamer Hanka, ihboutid from the Nova Seotian capital, ran aground On the easterly aide` of George's $elend to- day And betame so firmly attaelied to the gaudy beaeh 'that tugs had to brittg her passengera to the city, leaving the steamer to be floated. at high Watet this eftertiden. — FLOATING DOCK. Montreal, July 17.—it was an- nounced here thia aftetnoon that the great floating dry doek now being bisill in England by the Vickers Maxine firm for this port will be complete and will leave next gluing in time to reileh the St. Lawrence by the opening of navigation. — AVIAT I ON hi E ET. Toronto, Ittly 17s -Definite aneinges merits bete lace resale for the leg eves - tion tuft to be ma is Toronto vest month, The meeting will 1.e add t,t Don - Ludes farm front Augoet it to 10, be elueive. Tisia latm, whkIt bs ilea lea. 1de lurk -Non, on the old Belt Line Rail- way, providrs 5 girat mantel emphitet. etre and eouree two etill.e in lenette with no trees,