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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-08-14, Page 8TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AT PORT COLBORNE DOTHELEVATOR WRECKS A- Ten Dead, Sixteen Hurt, in Upheaval Wiping Out Big Govern- , ment Grain Building With Two Million D011ar Loss. Port Colborne, Aug.' 10.—At ten One slab of concrete, 80 feet square, +y was found '150 feet away. The dead are: Joseph Latour, mate of the barge Quebec, married, Cote St. Paul, Que.; Charles Aston, elevator weighmaster, Port Colborne, married; William Cook, assistant weightnaster, Port Colborne, married;,J. P. Benham, chief Spooner, Port Colborne, married; E. W. Myc'hener, assistant spouter, Port Colborne, married; Alfred Leslie, laborer, Port Colborne, married; Al- bert Beck, ass; Stant shipper, Port Col- borne, married; Albert Dunlap, mar- ine towerman, Port Colborne, single, returned soldier; Clarence Hart, steve- dore, Port Colborne, single. Besides the terrible death toll, the explosion is serious, in that It will minutes after one o'clock on Saturday .afternoon a ter fie explosion at the mammoth Government elevator here killed ten men, five of whom were members of the crew of the barge Quebec, loading grain at the elevator, severely injured nearly a score, com- pletely wrecked the building, and caused a property loss of over one million dollars. Fire followed the ex- plosion, and the flames are described by survivors as more like the flash of electricity than an ordinary fire. The immense building of concrete and steel shook as if it were some toy in the hand of a giant, the concrete roof was. thrown off, and the concrete floors below were shattered. Two storeys were blown from the lower section paralyze the removal of the Western of the building, which was 150 feet crop to the seaboard and the world's high, and the higher section, while market, The monetary loss is well it is partly intact, is like a rubbish over $2,000,000. The elevator will heap, with dangling girders and gap- handle no grain for a year, and the lug ends. big grain steamer Quebec, which was. The whole countryside was aroused loading at the time, is almost a corn - by the tremors of the explosion and plete wreck. Much of the grain can the air was filled with flying debris, be salvaged. SOI' IER CENOTAPH LEADING MARKETS MADE PERMANENT MM'Sonunient in Whitehall to be Breadstuffs. �` y Toronto, Aug. 12.—Man. wheat— No. 1 Northern, $2.24%; No. 2 North- ern, 32.211,5; No. 3 Northern, 32,17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11, in store Fort Wil - ham, Manitoba oats—No. 2 CW, 87%c; No. 3 CW, 845,lc; extra No. 1 feed, 85%e. No. 1 feed, 88%e; No, 2 feed, Removed to Parliament Square. London. Aug. 10.—A large number of British people strongly resent the i 80eisc, in store Fort Witham. • deefelon of the Government not tot Man, barley—No. 3 CW, 31.38%; allow them to construct private; No. 4 CW, $1.33%; rejected, $1271/.1; - memorials over the graves of rein -I fed,$1.27nxcorn—No, 3 yellow, nom- inal; killed on the battlefields of Ameinal• No, 4 yellow, nominal, France, at the Dardanelles and other Ontario oats—IS o, 3 white, 84 to places, and to keep all memoriale uni-, 87e, according to freights outside, • form. They say they should be allow-; Ontario wheat—No. 1 Winter, per ed to honor their dead as they wish: car lot, nominal; No. 2, do., $2.03 to thein to be honored. and all the study $2.08; No. 3, do, nominal, f.o.b. ship- . independence of mind of the British ere ping points, according to freigh s. - and3 is aroused. The queetimt affect; every: Ontario wheat home throughout the eour.'i •. Spring. nrb1 final. o i Ba ley—halting, $1:_9 to $1.33. ac - The question or the pe"maency ofeoedin to freights outside,, (hr• cenotaph to "the glorious dead"! � Buekwheat—Nominal- • now standing in Whitehall also is he- Rye--Naminal. • iced Every day -ora the rich Manitoba flour—Government. stand - snit poor, of an ing nag , d .d yamg. .rinwt •ng i arc: $11, Toronto. Wreaths to placeon the coni, tint mOntario flour—Government stand- - ited ard, $10.25 to $10,50, in bags, Mon- procire the mtiddle c.f i bt ,.y street' areal, prompt shipment; do, $10.25 to 0 procyi thn of isnrtof Itl realtdemo-i 10.50, in jute bags, Toronto, prompt cracy there r o , +'ah no other cu--. tinction, amu w,; '.'.lase gathered! shipment. around the einiele r . rumert to pay • biilifeed—Car lots, delivered Mon - their t. ::e:: lot hi the • treal freights, bags included, bran, 66 to 68c. tern' "Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, par ton, $42 to $45; shorts, per on,; era` , $44 to $50; good feed flour, per bag, 60c; roosters, 28 to 80e• fowl, 37 to Many t.`a+., Mire 1,,,,,,„ r c 1, the $,,3,2.i to $3,35. • `x4. 38c; turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings, lb„ the spot has bonnie ..cred to the :lav—ho, 1, per ton, $22 to , 96 to 40e. squabs, doz,, $7; geese, •28 mer who c' ei Now it is proposed mixed, per tau, $10 to $19, track, To- to 30c. to rC:110 e 'lir., monument to Perna- ronto. Live poultry—Spring chickens, 45c; meat Snua_o it' front of \[ cetmirster Straw—Car lots, per ton, $10 to $11, fowl, 30 to 35c. Abbey and to malcc it marble. But it track, Toronto. Beans—Canadian, hand-picked, bus., • is pointed out that mar3,1.• :s uns'iit- Country Produce—Wholesale. $5; primes $3.50 to $4; Imported hand - Great Britain. In able in ec':hty years Butter—Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36':o picked Burma or Indian, $3.50; Limas, marrle monuments fall to pieces, the 38c; prints, 38 to 40c;xcreanxe is fx60a1a 16clloney—Extracted clover, 6 -lb. tins, inscription: be orsa unt e n r:r' le, and made solids, 50 to 60 ,ec, Orin , �', 24 to 25e; 10-Ih. tins, 23% to 24c; to 51e, 20-1'b, tins 28 to 24e; buckwheat one marble statue lose. at 'per cent. Fg'gs-44 to •45e, , , 00 -lb. of its weight .in a year in nineheeter. Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, tins, 18 to 19c, Comb -16 -oz,, $4,50 Portland stone is recommended, es 45e; roosters, 25e; fowl, 80 to 32c; to $5 doze 10 -or.., $3,60 to :g doz. the "King Charles the first" plhnth ducklings,- 32e; turkeys, 35 to 40c; Maple products—Syrup, per imper- •mad•e of tbrs material, resisted the squabs, doz., $6. ia'l gallon, $2.45 to $2.50' per 5 imper- weather two hundred and fifty years. Live poultry—eSpring chickens, 36c; iel gallone, $7.f.15 to $2.O; sugar, lb., There is now to he a keeper, prefer- roosters, os ers, turkeys,c; w,26 326, to 30c; duck- 27c. - ably a soldier's widow, for the ceno-Provisions—Wholesale. Wholesalers are selling to the retail Smoked meats—Hams, med., 47 to tanks to keep the flowers and wreaths trade at alio following Prices; 48e; do., heavy, s0 to 4`.Ic; cooked, f,3 in order. Cheese—New, large, 28 to 29c; to 65e; rolls 35 to 3Cc; • breakfast - - -- — - --•- --- - — --- ----- bacon, 49 to 55 - backs,.plain, 56 to SCENIC RAILWAY Y AT 51c; boneless, 56 to 58c; clear bellies, -SCENIC 5a i tl' s a li MONTREAL 33 to 36c. • Cured t 1 me loin bicron 32 THE REAL PILLAR OF SOCIETY. It's a good rule that works BOTH ways. 'When the farmer supports the home merchant and the home merchant supports the farmer, you have the real pillar of society. The farmer would have a poor farm if be did not have a good home market. And the merchant can't build up the home market alone. He mast have the sup- port -of the farmer. Likewise, the merchant has poor business when the SERVICE he gives is not the best pos- sible. Thp trade must be even. The services must be mutual. So, the picture you are looking at NOWe. should bfrom both ends. If It doesn't quite suit you this way, turn the paper around. NOW you hare seen the true o REAL PILLAR OF SOCIETY. The farmer upholding the merchant and the merchant upholding the farmer. ' i 29 ..c• triplets, 29 to P Liberal ° a tarns, ilio to >- , p The New Leader of the Liberal Party c; Stilton, 29 to 30c, Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to 48c; creamery prints, 55 to 56e. Margarhre-36 to 38c. William Lyon Mackenzie King, into Eggs—No. l's, 63 to 54c; selects, whose hands has been entrusted the mantle of leadership laid aside by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, is a direct descend- ant upon the maternal side of 'William are meets— ,, , DESTRDESTROYED BY PIKE �'1T LOSS OF LIFE to 33e; clear beliiee, 31 to i:!e ' OYED S � Lard—Pure tierces " to 86%c; tubs, 3745 to 38c; pails, 37% to 881/eo; prints, 38% to 39e. Compound tierces, Number of Victims i ay Rene t Twen tyWoo dei Structure at 31F0 to 32c• tubs, 32 to 50h,, pails, 1,1. to 3° c' prints 33 to 38%c.Dominion Park Takes Fire While Horrified Spectators 32Montreal, Aug. 12.—Oats, extra No. Powerless to Help. 1 feed, 9745c. Flour—new standard grade, $11 to $11,10. Rolled oats, ran nor s Montreal Aug;. 10.—(-1'...ered be- yond ties pe;taibility of recognition, the! bodies of three men, three women and a boy were ,erovered to -night from. the ruins of the Mystic Rill and part of the Scenic Railway, which were destroyed by fire at Dominion Park,' an amusement resort near this dile!It is thought that several more bodies' will be recovered to -morrow, when the wreck is searched. The exact cause of the fire is unknown, but it is; thought it may hare been started byl a cigarette or a match. The flames' spread quickly and were fanned by al westerly wind, which blew toward the bags, 90 lbs, $5.26 B , $42 SI t , $44. Hay—No. 2, per ton, car lots, , $28. Cheese, finest easterns, 25e, Butter, choicest creamery, 52% to 53c. Eggs, fresh, 62 to 64c; selected, 58c; No. 1 stock, 52c; No, 2 stock, 46o. Po- tatoes, per bag, car lots, $2.25 to river front, and it is to -this that is due the salvation of the entire park. When the firemen arrived the Mystic Rill was enveloped in flames. They heard shouts for help and moans of agony, but ;it was impossible to aid $2.75. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, the victims. They broke down the $33 to $38.50. Lard, Pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 38%c. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, dug. 12,—Choice heavy walls, and in this way got a few per- sons out. When the Scenic Railway fell with a crash into the roaring fur- nace, it is 'stated that there was a car- steers, $14 to $14.75; ' good heavy load of people on it at the time. steers, $13 to $18.50; butchers' cattle, The death -list of the Dominion choice, $12.75 to $13.25; do, •.good, do11,25 to Park fire, may be increased to possibly $11.50; do, c1.75 to orn., $7 to $8; bulls choice, fifteen or twenty, $10 to $11; do, med., $10,25 to $10.75; AUSTRIA 'EP IE TO PEACE TREATY TY Prepared to Sign But Thinks Conditions Should Be Modified. A despatch from penis says:— The Austrian counter -proposals to the a result of further chapters in the old peace terms have been handed to the story of the Liverpool clock workers' Allied Mission at St. Germain -en- strike, military sailings are again de - Lays. Tho counter -proposals were layed and the repatriation of Canada's brought at once to Paris and delivered soldiers is once more in a state of to the Supreme Council of 'the Peace flux. The. Caronia -is held up bodefin- Conference. Italy. The Megantic, Corsican, and Tho Austrian . observations on the Uruguay were hookedto sail on Fri. treaty were considered in Peace Con- day, and the Cassandra on Saturday. ference circles to be very tentporate What the situation will be after that in tone, depends entirely on the whim of the The Austrian reply said the dale' dock workers, gallon realized Austria's position was The present strike is more or less that of a defeated power, but, cone- in sympathy with the police strike, pleined that its territory had been which has been more successful in limited in too sweeping a manner. Liverpool than in, London, and the Particulaf objection was offered to dock workers threaten to tie up all the loss of Southern Bohemia and the shipping unless the striking po'icetnen Tyrol district. reistated. The Austrians state they also be- are Trannsport sailings are not the only lieve they have been greatly over-, ones affected by the labor trcabies. charged, as two-thirds of the debt of Departures of all liners have been the Austro-Hungarian 'State is being', postponed from a week to two weeks. loaded upon them. They say that pro-, It is understood prominent ship - portion is too heavy, considering their i owners 'have made the 'statement that small population, and they are not, if conditions do not improve they will sure they can Live under such condi-' lay up their vessels for two months to tions. bring the workers to their senses. A special appeal was made by the ______e_____ Austrians for an oral discuesian of, the treaty They said they believed i GERMAN � such a discussion would result in a'k'',EI�IEA REPATRIATION DE - LA ED BY STRIKES Canadian Troops Held UP by Dock Workers' Strike at Liverpool A despatch from London says:—As more complete understanding of the conditions imposed. Although the Austrians indicated very clearly their intention of sign- ing, even if the treaty is not modi- fied, yet they expressed the lhopd that some modification may be effect- ed. BRITAIN LEADS IN BUILDING OF SHIPS ARE RULED 0E7 Barred From Taking Part in Fly- ing Content Between New York and Toronto. A despatch from New York says: Three Gelman Fol:leer type airplanes, which were to have been piloted by Canadian and American army officers A despatch from London says:— in the international flying contest be - Great Britain maintains the lead in tween New York and Toronto on Aug, the world's chipping, although the 26, have been ruled out, itwas an - margin of superiority has .been vastly pounced by the American Flying Club. reduced by the United States ship- The 'planes, which are trophies hries of. building output and the losses duo to war surrendered to the Br tith and the war. American armies, were . originally In the new edition of Lloyd's Reg-, entered, according to a statement by ister, which is the first issued free the Flying Club, to demonstrate the of censorship since the beginning of superiority of allied models over the the war, the race between this coun- best type of German machine, but try and the United States is clearly when a vigorous protest was entered shown. It demonstrates that in spite by Captain Bose, of the French Iligh of competition from the American Commission, against what he termed side, Great Bnitain4 advantage, in the "Advertisement of German .male bigger ships particularly, is high, al- goods," the club immediately caiteet- though the tables are incomplete, in led the entries. so far as they do not take into ac- It is understood that Captain Pose from 1897 to 1900. I3is deep interest count the distribution among 'the al- has cabled the French Govevament lice of 1,768. German boats which at for ;permission to enter three French in labor questions led to his aster of the date of the armistice had not been machines in place of the Fokkers. mint in 1900 as Deputy -Minister eight years oe captured or"requisitioned. Labor and during the eight years he I' served in that capacity he acted as conciliator in tivt4`-score of important Lyon Mackenzie, a fact that has been industrial strikes. He was called into a potent influence in winning him rev- the Cabinet of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1909, and for two years acted as Min- ister of Labor. In the reciprocity election of 1911 he went down to de- feat with many of -his colleagues, and retired from public life for the time. Some years ago he accepted service with the Rockefeller Foundation in connection with social investigations. The new leader is 44 years old, of Scotch ancestry and a Presbyterian. ognition and preferment in the Liberal party. He was Canada's first Minister of Labor, but back of his appointment were years of definite preparation for just such a post. He :began his train- ing in the University of Toronto, where he won the Blake Scholarship in. Arts and Law in 1898, Later, 'he took a course in political economy at Chicago in 1896-7, and at Harvard do, rough, $8 to $8.T5; butchers' cows,ORDER OF MERIT - choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $O:2G1n to $9.75; do, med., $8.50- to $9; do, r� coin, $7 to,,„$8; stockers, $8.75 to FOR LOYD GEORGE Ei $11.75; feeders, $11.50 to $12; canners ,LOfi and cutters, $4.50 to $6.26; milkers, good to choice, $110 to $140; do, coma and need., $66 to $75• springers, $90 to $156; light ewes, $8 to $10; year- lings, $10.60 to $13; spring lambs, per cwt., $17 to $20 • calves, good to choice, $17.50 to $20,50; hogs, fed and water- ed, $24.75; do, weighed off cars, $25; do, f.o.b., $23,75. Montreal, Aug. 12.—Hogs, $24 to $24.50 per 100 lbs„ weighed off cars; lambs, 160 per lb. Butches' cattle, $99.50 to $11.50; canners, $6 to $9„per 1lbs. BRITISH MOTOR CREW • "RED” • SINKSRED CRUISER Libau Lettlan Aug. 10.—It is now revealed that a British motorboat crew of four men only torpedoed the Bolshevik cruiser Clog, of 6,770 tons, in the Gulf of Finland, -- One whole building will be devoted to Canadian war trophies at the Can- adian National Exhibition, while the big guns, aeroplanes and other large relics will be distributed around the grounds, giving the Big Fair a truly victory atmosphere. His Majesty the King Acknow- ledges Services of Prime Minister. A despatch' from London says:— King 'George has conferred upon Pre- mier David Lloyd George the Order of Merit as a sign of his appreciation of Mr. Lloyd George's•war services. In a letter to the Premier, dated Buck- ingham Palace, Aug, 5, announcing the award, the King says: "My Dear Prime Minister,—Honors and rewards to officers of the army, navy and air force having been sub- mitted to Parliament, I feel that my people will share with me regret that it is not possible to express the na- tion's grateful recognition of the per- sistent services rendered by the Prime Minister, both in carrying the war to a victorious end, and in securing an honorable peace. To rectify some- what this omission, and personally to mark my high appreciation of these services, it gives me g.rent pleasure `to confer upon you the Order of Merit, "Believe me, your very sincerely, "GEORGE R.I.” e0' BRITISH LABOR SITUATION UNCHANGED A despatch from London si.ys:— There is virtually no change in the MANITOBA WILL HARVEST 45,000,090 BUSHELS WHEAT' A despatch from Winnipeg says:— Manitoba will harvest approximately 45,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, labor situation. The strikes of bakers according to an estimate given out by and Yorkshire miners are still unset- Hon. Winkler., Provincial Minister of tied, but the railway position in Lon- Agriculture. He predicts the average don is resuming its normal condition, yield will be .fifteen bushels to the The situation at Liverpool is greatly acre. The wheat acreage of the prey - improved, but the tramway strike con- ince is said to be nearly 3,000,000 tinues and there is a great scarcity acres. of bread. Estimating the price of wheat at It was announced in the House of $2.25 per bushel, Manitoba's wheat crop thus will be worth $101,250,000, as compared with $112,710,000 last year, when the yield was 51,000,000 bushels and the price $2.21 per bushel. Red rust is reported in to number Commons that for the week ending July 26 the coal output was r-Cearly fifty per cent. under the previous average. Other interesting announce- ments in Parliament were that the Governenent was preparing a bill for future regulation of the liquor trade and also that, in a few exceptional oases, Germans were being admitted to England to trade under close scrutiny. .—� -- AFGHAN AMIR LOSES SUBSIDY Simla, India, Aug. 10,—The Amir of Afghanistan, under the`peace tre:+- tw signed with Great Britain last week, not only loses his annual sub- sidy of $600,000, but more than $6.- 000,000 5.000,000 in subsidy which it appears be had on deposit with the Government of India. Confiscation of these ar- rears is a hard ,blow for Raoi- bulla'h, The vietory spirittwill dominate the Canadian National Exhibition this pear, and the Dominion war trophies, the Canadian War Memorials paint- ings, Grenadier Guards Band, and Gelman U-boat will furnish a real khaki background for the event. kt • i "C L € ':Ii0 •cidTe.T TED 30.,,a -v -,01N4 dl t ` "� a . 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'.3i - III Sr irTc.. ,<, • .... ll`! :. Illi i t 1, t[ •`" --. .j, (� ` r fli .-. _-�;'i,,. i III :I! I, III !I!I�I :ir. _{ II II II I I ,+?t.,,f �tL;'.s'•,,",?iu II y�,•l�K?4AA. g,,. ir4. . ssriR {t. -'a.• "'t . �� � - .. yyIIaf:'C I' iI I'II 4• '� , r • I , I!1 !.% §�?'.. .{.y,�'( .e. , '�� , t �} :. �q I. I - ' +. iF,K, �,yT"Yw ,. ..� . -. 1`""' '. \ ' I 17'b - �. �, `l "KMt , •;.a'n - t gni �: � ..W..,. I4 . • ✓ •. \ .,vt . >Mii�..,,. `, ,,`L+ YEA ``-X ,� t ' I n• ..... . ?�, "� ± --LC y'i k ,f+ Western Harvest Two' Weeks Earlier Than Average A despatch from Winnipeg says:— The Free Press crop report indicates that in the sixteen days which have elepeetl since the last report, condi- tions in the Prairie Provinces have changed materially for the better in some sections and for the worse in others. Tfo-day wheat harvesting is general, -virtually, throughout the West, fully two weeks ahead of the average date of harvesting since 1905. As seeding was not exceptionally early, it follows, says the report theii'the crop harvest under - has not-gime to nor- mal conditions Inc any of the Provinces. 150,000 ITALIAN IRON WORKERS STRIKE A despatch from Rome says: Workmen in iron foundries to the number of 150,000 have struck for higher wages, At Genoa the launching of the Angelo Bond, the largest steamer built in Italy since the war, leas been postponed owing to the strik , SOLDIERS' WIVES COMING TO CANADA A despatch from London says British wives of Canadian' soldiers now going out to settle In the Dora 'n - ori now member tleirby thousand. The' pyeinent initiated by the Khaki Col - •o to gibe special training to these ter Canadian life, has been remerla- ably successful. H,R.Il. the Prince of Wales will re- view the Boy Sooute while in Toronto. An invitation will toe issued by the Canadiaq National Exhibition to the vgrlous Boy Scout eouncile through- out the province, 'and it is expeeted that the gp.theging will be quite the lg'f! eet, scout gathering ever held he Toronto. '