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The Herald, 1909-11-19, Page 2FOURTEEN MEET mETH. Awful Disaster on Vancouver Electric Road. Runaway Freight Car the Cause of the Disaster. Passengers Had Practically No Chance of Escape. THE DEAD. R. S. Lyon, 1,604 Fourth avenue east. T. Farmer. T. Bowes, William street. J. F. Stevens. W. Stevens. William Johnston. J. H. Crowther, 112 Sixth avenue east, E. Holland, 1833 Keefer street. George Thorburn, motorman, 1110 Odlum Drive. S. M. Mitchell, 241 Keefer street. A. S. Wilkinson, 13th avenue T. Tuttle (or Turtle). Harry Slayton. F. Poehin, 1852 Third avenue east. R. S. Lyon, one of the men killed, is a brother of Mr. Stewart Lyon, news editor of The Globe, Toronto. The two Stevenses mentioned are father and son. THE INJURED. Those who were injured, and who are now in the General Hospital, are: Wm. Barris, conductor, Campbell avenue, fractured arm and skull, condition grave; J. T. Carey, Columbia street, New Westminster, compound fracture of the skull, condition grave; Geo. Craw- ford, 508 McMartin street, New West- minster, internal• abdominak• injuries, condition grave; 'F'ir. T. Heins, Burrard Hotel, city, scalp wound and pelvis crushed; Thomas E. Jackson ,Fraser Ho- tel, New Westminster, ribs and chest injured; J. W. Rushton, 1005 Queen's avenue, New Westminster, fracture of of shoulder bones, serious; Eli Zimmer- man. Central Park, scalp wounds and compound fracture dislocation of ankle; Robert Forsythe, °731 Homer street, scalp wounds and extensive contusions of chest and back; W. C. Corison, 135 Hastings street east, extensive scalp wounds. SMASHED CAR. A Vancouver despatch says: Help- lessly swept from their seats, half crouched for the spring they dared not take, fourteen workmen were hurled to instant death here to -day. i flat car loaded with lumber was climbing the h411 ' advance of the' passenger a^ roke fr L pt g e. up guile from La,e- aime -viewrwr Station, four miles from 'Vaneou- ver, and swept dawn the hill -with frightful :velocity. It crashed into the advancing car. A. heavy mass of tim- bers, twelve by twelve, hurled forward by the terrific impact, swept straight into the passenger car, cutting every- thing before it, leaving only the floor behind. The helpless passengers were swept off the car like checkers off a checker -board. The top and sidese.of the car crumbled like paper and the mass of timbers and shrieking men was hurled twelve feet down into the gully on the left side of Lakeview Station. Of the twenty-four •men in the car none was able to crawl away from the blood-stained sand. To the fourteen who perished death canoe mercifully swift. One ma.n's head was severed from his body, and others were mutilat- ed beyond recognition. Residents of sur- rounding districts hastened to aid the injured; relief cars, with doctors sod medicine on board, were rushed from the city. The dead and injured were the pas- sengers and crew of the interurban car, which Ieft Vancouver at ten minutes to $, bound for New Westminster. It had just cleared the city boundary-, and was going round a curve when, without any warning, the heavily loaded freight ear rushed into it, the motorman not seeing it in the darkness of early morning. He himself had no time to escape, showing the suddenness of the collision. The escape of the freight car is told by the crew who were Handling it, and later was repeated in an official state- ment Banded out by the company. An electric motor with n C. P. R. flatcar loaded with lumber left Vancouver at 5.05, with orders to go to Central Park, six miles out. On reaching the switch, about a. mile out of the city, for which the lumber car was intended, an empty box ear was found in the way, and was removed, and the lumber ear cou- pled up again. The Ioconaotive had pro- ceeded but a short distance when the coupling broke and the men were unable to stop the car. which was on a down grade, and by the time it reached the plaee of the collision was proceeding at a high rate of speed. The freight crew were Conductor Wig- gins,' Motorman ''tiffDonough and 13rake- snan Burrows. The brakeman. after Reeing that he could not stop the oa.r, Stunned. These men were detained at police headquarters, but were released this evening. Regarding the rause of the aceidenf•,, Police Detectives McLeod and Thorny - eon, who visited the scene, officially' re- port the couplings were both closed. and in good order, and they state that the car Was not coupled et all. The scene of the aeeident was an awful one. and' as it was yet dusk made ('natters worse. The injured. :wen were held under the heevy time hers, which were difficult- to remove, and it was some time ebefore they could be relieved, People from the surrounding houses—for there is a large settlement in the neighborhood —turned oue with lanterns and gave what assistance they could. The con- fusion was indescribable, and the cries of the injured and the mutilated and disfigured bodies piled with the lumbar and, debris of the cleared passenger car completed a scene not surpassed in any big 'railway accident. y` .my of those engaged in relief work were overcome and had to leave the scene. INVESTIGATION CALLED FOR. The Vancouver World in an editorial to -night deplored the occurrence, and says that nothing less will satisfy the public than a searching, pitiless investi- gation into the cause of the accident and the nature and extent of the safeguards for its prevention. The disaster is un- paralleled in the history of Vaneonver. There has been nothing like it in the history of British Columbia except the Point Ellice bridge disaster at Victoria, in May, 1896, when fifty-three were killed and twenty-eight injured. NINE DEAD. Loss of Life at Colliery at Manticoke. Wilkesbarro, Pa., Nov. 1r. --The loss of life in the fire following the explo- sion yesterday afternoon in the Auchin- eloss colliery of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western Railway Co. at Nanticoke, readied nine to -day. When the ninth body was brought to the sur- face this morning it was believed that all the Hien in the underground working when the explosion occurred had been accounted for. With one exception, all the dead miners are Slays. It was at first thought that only four men were ('aught behind the fire, but when the flames were brought partly under control seven bodies were found. This caused the superintendent to in- crease the force of rescuers, who last night searched all parts of the nine. The fire is still burning to -day, but is under control. It is not yet known what the financial loss will be. "HIL O, ID." Toronto Men Heavily Fined For Using the Phrase, A Toronto despatch: Saying "Hello, kid!" to young women on the streets' of Toronto will soon rank among the more expensive amusements, if Mr. Kingsford has his way. In, the Police Court yesterday afternoon he fined ld ed. Leadley ten dollars and costs tag +lliie of` isive phrase to.three ou _, women d'e`nKeele street. Henry Rennie, who was with Leadley at the time, and who figured in the disorder- ly conduct which followed the girls' eomplaint, was fined $5 and costs. The three young women all said that Leadley accosted them with the words, "Hello, kid!" so they com- plained to an officer. The defendant protested against the fine, saying that one of the girls had used improper language to him. "I am sorry- to say I do, not believe your evidence. I do believe the evi- dence of the girls," said his Wor- ship. OUR FACES. Punch on J. A. Macdonald's Im- pressions of England. London.Nov. 15.—This week's Punch has a witty article regarding Mr. J. A. Macdonald's impressions of Eng- land. It is entitled "In Defence • of Our Faces," and comprises letters of protest from the different cities singled out by Mr. Macdonald. Each is sign 'd Ali -ed Smith, probably the uniden0i:fied individual .who earned notoriety in the Bermondsey bye -elec- tion by writing from a., fictitious num- ber in an alleged street in Leicester on the horror of free trade. Smith, in these letters, gives various humorous reasons why, at the precise moment Mr. Macdonald) happened to look at him and his wife "Imperially," they presented the hopeless physiogno- mies, hollow chests and' 'anaemic ap- pearances described by the editor of the Globe. MONEY FOR HIM. Quarter of Million Dollars For Missing Man. New York, Nov. 15. — If James J. Corbett (not the boxer), who left Bos- ton in 1873, after he had been wrong- fully accused of robbery, will make known his whereabouts, he will find a Boston attorney ready to hand over to him a quarter of a million dollars, which was left him by his brother, Wiliam J, Corbett,. who "died a few days ago. The son of a promineift Boston fam- ily; Corbett lived a jolly life, and finally get into trouble with the Boston police. Although vindicated, he could not bear the humiliation caused by his arrest, and left• the city. Though private de- tectives and lawyers engaged by the family have tried continually to find him. they have had no success. 1'i ,r; to detectives have been enlisted, and the search is being made for a man with "J. C." tattooed on his right arm. 0coo00oo00 O©0000OOOs'1 HM'E AI f THERE d00000000m000pow0000000S The t'ndergra.i, Ates" Parliament asked the Toronto Tinl'ereity Caput to be lenient with students note under suspen- sior;, 7'lie Onfarro .laileva} Board is heatl'ing the claim of \'('aterloo fora share of ilio Berlin .Street; Railway receipts, as the road runts psi -sly on the streets of llratterloo. \rests Victoi 5, the actzess, leas re- ported to the Inindon police that she was icnbbed of a ; earl n. ekiere while watan- ing the Lord Mild or•s procession, Ac- eor•dfngllyCost to ite$5r0,eot(ioi•v,io. the necklace orig- ina The managers d•f the Grand Opera House and the new 'Majestic Music Hall, Toronto, have been fined $5 and costs in the Police Court for permitting per- sons to stand in the aisles at last Sat- urday evening's performances. During the trial of the Kiel dockyard graft case on Tisesday Admiral Usedom, superintendent of Lb.' yard, defended the Administratioa against the charges of negloectn. and rai'znanagernent. He cited instances of his ownownitersoual care and attent] Six companies of the First Regiment of Indiana uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, and the Colonel of the regi- ment, Frank Shellhouse, Indianapolis, were -expelled from the order by Briga- dier -General Wilson, ou the charge of insubordination. The annual report of Medical Health Officer Pearsin, gives Brantford a death rate of 13.03 per thousand. There were 274 deaths during the year, a decrease of 40 from the previous year. There were 121 cases of contagious disease, 9 of which were fatal. Guilleli Dagonga, a. Frenchman aged twenty-one, working for the Canadian Portland cement works, Port Colborne, was killed by slipping into a bin and be- ing covered with cement . and smothered to death. , He intended leaving for France in a few days. Capt. H. St. George Lindsay, for the past two years Marine Superintendent of the Allan Line at Montreal, has re- signed. He will be succeeded by W. J. MoGriffin, formerly assistant marine superintendent of the Aliens, but more recently in the employ' of the C. P. R. Atlantic Line. Daniel McDougalI, President of the organization of United Mine Workers at Glace Bay, which organized the miners' strike against the Dominion Coal C ma - pally, was committed for trial in the Court of King's ii"nch, Montreal, os the charge of uttering a libel against the coal company. A new wood -working company, com- posed mostly of American capitalists, assoeinted with. Robert Stewart,' jun., of the Robert ' +.wart Company, Limit - ode Guelphi has leased twelve, acres of land at 'rteelraod front Alexander Harper. end will erect a faetory for manufacturing woods of different kinds. Jules Kusell; who was stricken blind on the stage while playing in Toronto three weeks ago, died at the Hotel Rem- ington. New York. He was supposed to be improving, and was booked to play at the Plaza Theatre next week, sup- porting his wife. who was known on the stage as Estelir Wordette. Superintendent F. S. Hussey. of the Provincial police denies the alarmist re- ports being sent .from Hazelton regard- ing the Indian troubles in northern Bri- tish Columbia. His latest information is that all is quiet, though naturally the et is a feeling of unrest amongst the i.et- tlers in that remote district. Grave robbers have been at work in the vicinity of Glen's Falls. N. Y., and the police are on the lookout for further depredations. The superintendent of the Tinian cemetery there reported yester- day that the grave of J. Edward How- land, a, Sandyhil] millionaire who died a few months ago, hadbeen opened during the night and the body robbed .of several valuable pieces of jewelry. The first train load of wheat shipped over the N. T. R. readied the lake ter- minals on Tuesday. Et consisted of ten cars. which were pulled nut of Winnipeg last Saturday about noon, and followed the official inspection party to the Mime. The run was made entirely with - nut a mishap. The train made Good time, as it was ..laid ttp over ,Sunday. This makes good the promise on the contract to have the line in shape to assist in hauling out the crop this fall. Trumbull Scatoherd, formerly of Lon- don, Ont., was stabbed to the heart by an Indian while he was looking over some mining properties in the Becky Mountains. It is stated that his condi- tion is such that he cannot live more than a few days. Trumbull Scatcherd was a pupil at the London Collegiate In- stitute "until last September, when, 'with his parents, he went to reside in Cal- gary. He is eighteen years old and a son of Mr. Erwin Scateherd, formerly of Wyton. teed - THREE KILLED. Thirty -Five Also Hurt by Collision in Tennessee. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 15. --Three trainmen were killed and 35 persons in- jured in a wreck at Kleinert Station, twenty miles north of here, early to- day. The north bound through Louis- ville & Nashville passenger train to Cincinnati, which leaves Knoxville at 11 p. m., .collided with a southbound freight. The wreck destroyed wire com- munication and blocked the Louisville & Nashville tracks, but part of the train was sent out over the southern and it arrived here at daybreak bear- ing the dead and injured. o • 770 E. POLISH Look how much "131ack Knight" Stove Polish you get for Dec. None of your stingy little tins of fine powder (that must be mixed with water) or a hard cake (that must, be scraped), -but a. big generous tin of coal black paste, that is easily applied, and bursts into a brilliant, lasting shine after a few rubs. You certainly do get roc. worth of•the best stove polish, in the big roc. cans of "Black Knight." 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PND., N.5.4. re...t.ereenoCIANA.nar,r.zralanien.nellanatemaaaene THE FARM werseeectewaseesaeaseameseeasseereaseessoki 'SIZE IN DRAFT HORSES. (Tlie Farm.) At the Canadian National Exhibition it was very easily discovered that breed- ers of draft horses, both coidmeroial and pure-bred stpck, are demanding more size in the stallions they buy. It was noticeable also that the importers have done all they could to bring big horses with them this year. There are Clydesdale stallions in Scotland with plenty of size and some of them no doubt could be bought. The trouble is that size with quality and individual ex- cellence is worth a lot of money, and there is certainly no inducement for any importer to put more money iuto his lot than he knows he will be able to get out of it again. If the breeders are de- termined to have size, they must also make up their minds to pay for it. On the same line of reasoning that a good big one will always beat a good little one, a good big one always costs more money. Hence, those who buy on this side of the water must' meet the import- er half way. $c+otchmen do not want to increase the average size of the Clydes- dale breed. They say it suits them veru well as it is. Our people want more size and must have it. It looks as though our breeders will have to pay longer prices if they . are ever to add the 'ulk which they now need. THINKING AND KICKING. Dominion Department of Agriculture branch of the Dairy and Cold Stor- age Commissioner. A ..,cent issue of the "Creamery Journal" states that the farriers of Iowa are taking a special interest in cow testing. 2'o quote a vigorous edi- torial. "An intellectual' bomb has ex- ploded. farmers are thinking. Hun- dreds are kicking themselves for have ing so long fooled away their time and effort and money- chasing the dual-purpose nonsenses phantom. Breeders of dairy rattle are simply swamped with business. Dealers in dairy utensils report whirlwind sales ,of scales and Babcock testers." Farmers of Canada. are you going to let farmers of adjoining states beat yon in advanced dairy thought given to cow testing, and in resultant businesslike action? One main ob- ject of testing individual cows is to ascertain what difference there is between the product or profit of a good cow and a poor one. If. our poorest cows were known they would quickly be discarded because there can be no object in retaining •them. The trouble is that they are not known. Often the poor ones are be- lieved to be good. They will . be de- tected only when records are kept. A more careful study. of feeding, and some associated plan of breed- ing from good pure bred sires will work wonders ine improved cows on Canadian farms. Cow testing a.ssoci- ations should exist by the hundred, every county needs several; they were never more needed than at present. Who owns the best cow in your county? number- of bushels of grain raised, and tell fain` accurately the number of tons of hay grown, but when it comes to the really moot important income of the farm., the product of each cow, it's all a blank, and they say, "Oh, I don't know. I get my cheque each month; that's all 1 euro about." While a knowledge of the total weight Of milk delivered at the factory le ne- cessary, it never conveys. to the farmer the information he stands in need •.if its to the profit Heade by each cow in the stable. That information is absolutely necessary to hien if he desires to consid- er himself a credit to his profession, a first class, businesslike dairyman. Oth- erwise these satisfying totals or delu- sive averages will continue to allow the One or two poor cows in every herd to consume good feedfor which no pr !fit- ablc return is ever given. In many herds where no attempt at checking up individual performancee bas been made. there is frequently to be found a difference of $30 or $40 in the caviling power of the best and po..ireet cow. 1"arnters need to consider that statement carefully, In the Dominion are to be found herds, let us say of 12 or 14 cows, with a fairly good average yield of perhaps as high as 5,500 pounds. of milk. where the highest yield is close cu to 8,(100 pounds of milk and :330 pounds of fat; but, where the lowest yield is only about :3,700 pounds of milk and 150 pounds of fat. Such compari• sons are only made possible by noting the actual performance of each indivi- dual cow for her full milking period. Weigh and sample. regularly, and snake sure that each cow blengs iestgood profit. IMPROVE SHEEP BREEDING. (Eight demonstration flocks of grade sheep, bred and kept for commercial pity. poses, are being; eetaibiished at repre- s-entat]tve poiuts in the Province of On- tario, one in Middlesex, one in Huron or (truce, another in Brants one near To- ronto, one in Sirncoe county, one in Vic- toria. and one in the neighborhood of Kingston or east. This enterprise hi me dt:rt.aken at the irlstalree of the Ontaric !beep -breeders' Association, supported by the Proviueia,l Department of Agricul- ture. The Association recommended the appointment. of two. innpectors, John Campbell. of Woodville, and Lieut. -Col, llobt. feEwell, of Byron. These two men .are now, and have been, selecting the flocks with which to demonstrate. Ten or twelve good. ewes are chosen in each case, and with them one ram of each of the following breeds will he respect- ively mated, viz., Southdown, Dorset Horned, Shropshire, Hampshire, Cots- wold, Leicester,' Lincoln, and Oxford. One flock has been already selected in &ar- boro township, and a Southdown ram chosen for it. the objeet being at this station to eater to the market for early lambs. In the Muskoka or Simcoe dis- telet, it is expected to produce lambs for the summer trade, which should be lit' good demand at tourist and summer -re- sort points. At other' stations, the lambs will probably be carried along over winter, and sold in spring. The re- sult.; of the, various flocks will be widely published, and it is hoped in this way to create a practical interest in and en- courage the 'extension of the sheep in - d ustry.—Farmers' Advocate. -C. F. W. The At,tenida,nt--You Mustn't hl.ndle the musical instruments, air. The Visitor 011, don't you be afraid—I can'ta l Most farmers can estimate closely the 'eml"--Cleveland Plain Dueler. play COW TESTING ASSOCIATIONS. SU�. THE KIND THAT PLEASES :. ooe Pik THE PEOPLE! PUREfyy otic cirrfsre Adlic FAKING POWDER. MADE IN CANADA. E.W. GILL,ETT. CO. 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