The Herald, 1910-07-22, Page 6o PBUILD
CAMPRELLTON
Tremendous Gale Fanned the Flames
That Wiped Out Town.
'J@eavy Rains Without Shelter Make
People Miserable.
Particulars of the Catastrophe----
Some Narrow Escapes,
Dalhousie, N. B., despatch: Campbell -
ton will be rebuilt. The citizens of the
stricken border town of the north are
gat optimistic lot and in the face of an
sdmost overwhelming calamity they are
already mapping out a. future Campbell -
ton. "I am confident that the work of
rebuilding will begin at onceee said May-
er
ayer Murray to a correspondent to -moat
as lie: east )ries eye over the eharred and
smouldering mase which marks the site
of the thriving town of yesterday. This
is the sentiment of axi, and there are
many men hereabouts who were afflu-
ent before the fire, who are paupers to-
night.
About one-third a# Campbellton's pep -
elation, which is estimated at 5,500, lost
their entire worldly goods, save the
clothes they stood in when tine fire com-
menced, but the other two-thirds have
Something left and that something in al-
most every case will assist in. rearing a
new Campbeillton.
Various estimates of the total loss are
made. Some say it is about $2,000,000,
while others maintain that it will mean-
while reach nearly $6000,000. It is im-
possible just now to he even approxi-
mately correct. Seven dwellings are the
sole survivors of the terrible conflagra-
tion and they will form the nucleus of
the new Campbellton.
Nobody is going hungry. All are be-
ing provided for, but of course the pres-
ent supply of food will not last for any
length of time; and fresh supplies ars
urgently Needed.
"What do you need most?" Dr. Mur-
ray was asked last night.
"Food and shelter," said he in reply.
A gale, whose velocity is almost un-
precedented in the bistory of Resti-
gouche County, is chiefly responsible for
the devastation of the town. After the
fire was discovered in the cook house
of the _:ai11 of the William Richards Com-
pany, situated at almost the extreme
west end of elle town, the fire brigade
was on tbe smile with three good
streams of water and in a short time
the bin.ze was under control. but a, ter-
rific northwest wind was blowing and
sparks from the roof of the cook house
were carried to the roof of Edmond El-
lington's store, a quarter of a mile away,
and there was soon another blaze of
large-sized proportions. A minute or
two later a barn, a half mile away, was
discovered in flames. Ten min rtes later
the residence of Angus Denven, nearby,
was a sheet of flames, and almost at the
same time the Shivers mill, nearly a mile
from the original blare, was nlso on fire.
Flames seemed to spring up in all di-
rections. The Richards mill e,.aught end
was soon hopelessly in the grip or: tbe
flames. Ciitiaens began to realize that
the town could not possibly be saved and
the brigade began to relax their efforts.
Swiftly the flames spread and by 6
o'clock the whole town was a seething
mass, and the six or seven streams of
hose which had played on the flames,
were nowhere' th evidenee. People tried
to save what••tite'y could, but in nearly
every case the rescued articles were
ania)I of bulk .arid. ,principally trinkets
and jewelry
The horroretatt's.nhedto the disastrous
fire which devasteted Campbealton on
Monday were Jurther rneree.sed to -day
when a heav}eiteiri'fel1 al iistantly, mek-
leg almost neabrciralale the Miserable, lot
of the uniortuna'te people who are now
homelees and vinf; ,their; weary heads
to rest in the epee fields, an`th'e shelter
of trees, on 'the etc—airier-4; an'd:in fart in
almoet all places where they ran do so
without being. troubled by .the neat and
flames. While the nth) was pot weleom-
ed in this r'e-dpect. 'i was a 'benefit' to
the peoplein cooling the air and"iii
quenching tite,frarog ., Wile tbeanume.
leers of peopl who eiav,e made Baines
for tbemseles ate 'tke' 'dpeii bate' ksse°ird&
even since yesterday, there are still
many hundreeenneteeneaseesekealcuge¢,
night with 1i ,]e more than the aka to
cower them. ttndreds of the homeleic
are being ear d for on the eee;a.niers in
the river, wh1 . great rmmhers are to be
found at the dints onpoeiter.
'With sorrow/ gee rra4'eye' me.winplo4,
Cs
o-�
rt�:l
tears and sighs anywhere, however, and
no disorder worth mentioning A few
homeless lumbermen carne in from the
Tobique country and attempted looting
on a small scale, but were quickly
rounded up by the police and driven
home last night. Mayor Murray swore
in eight special constables to easiet the
town policemen in preserving order and
preventing looting.
There were only a few inmates of the
Hotel Dieu, the home of the Sisters of.
Charity, and these were quickly des-
patched to places of safety by tbe nuns.
The nuns themselves journeyed by foot
to a distant point at the rear of the
town and then travelled westward until
they reached the Athol Church, which is
located at a point about three miles
from the town.
During the mad flight from the
flames a few old men became confused
and had to be carried to places of safe-
ty. Many worsen made their escape ear-
ring infants in their arms. IIundrecls
congregated in the old Catholie cemetery
at the rear of the town. One family per-
sisted in staying in their house, although
the flames were mowing down struc-
tures on all sides of it, Postmaster Mac -
Kendrick ,realizing their peril, had to
forcibly drag two of the women from the
house. When he hacl succeeded in get-
ting them out, one yelled to her husband
that she had forgotten something In a
drawer. The husband re-entered the
house, anti it was with difficulty that
Mr. MacKendriek and others got him
out safely.
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LAST PRIZE HHTS
E:-President Roosevelt Denounces
the decoLxnahition
And Declares Himself Opposed to
Jnuwing tight t'lcttart,s.
\ew l erk, ,;ray ie.—Mayor Gaynor
t'Y a..• uV- A44'1,1 4.0
Ui A.u.a .,raa..acd-JVIA aadVra inns:: apt pa,:-
tures, in spite of tine pr,..eets and ep-
ee.— atLd a ll (aLa,ej
•
geruzatio e, r..cearU.a,g 1u .a statement
netted oat a, at a orrice late to-uay.
Another maeiolirnent in the fight. to e
ape.. a t:ie - a.iv dem of L1,pieta me,
came in advance elueets front the OuC-
lu�K far slwy 1•u, wawa cantaana a sin -
ed eaate:nen. nee former Pres dent Reuse -
vett speaking ...gams:, the production of
the pieturee. Lae Outlouk .article by
ex-Taeaadent Rouseconcludes
ven by say -
rug:
el am sure that what has happened
in New York vdui )rappe.n in the nation
at large, and that p.nie Lghring will be
as it ought to be stopped in every State
1n the .union. S:noc it was stopped in
New York the condition eurnoaading
the ring have grown worse, and nothe.-ter.
"'The money prizes fought for are
enormous and are a potent .source of
demoralization in themselves, while they
are often ao arranged as either to he a
premium on crookednes3 or else to re-
ward nearly as amply the man echo f:ai:s
as the man. who succeeds. The battieg
end gambling upon the result are than
oughly unhealthy, and the moving.pie:
ture part of the proceedings has intro-
duced a new methnd of money -getting
end dern oreI zatitan.
"In addition the la..st contest provoke)
a very unfortunate display of race an-
tagonism. I sincerely trust that public
sentiment will he so aroused and will
make itself felt se effectively as to gene.antee that this is the lest pr:zs fight
to take place ii thr t ritr,i States; and
it would. he an adR:i''ab'e thing if some
method could be devised to stop the ee-
hibition of the mor ne ra ores thereof."
BALLOON VICTIMS.
Will be Buried Together and Monu-
ment Erected,
ls'I �:
Leichiingen, 1 hin)sh Prussia, July
18. --The bodies of Oscar J rbsloctt, the
baloonfet, and his four eompanlons,
who were killed when their dirigible
craft was wrecked by an explosion yes-
terday, will be buried together, and the
place of inteireent will he marked by a
monument erected by the airstrip eom-
pany which owned the ill-fated balloon.
AVIATIONS DEA'rr{ LIST.
Capt. !Rolls is the twelfth victim of
lite science of aviation. The death roll
Tallows:
1908.
September 17—Selfriuge, Lieut. Thomas,
E. U.S, ,, ti]led in fall with Orville
leright {rear Washington.
1900.
.t, .epte. .er 17—Selfridge, Lient "Phomas
mein machine of his own in -
be • e -I -_Lefebvre, E., killed in
eienihk 'at Jasivy-Sur-Orge,
her 22 —.Ferber, Capt. Louie .t'.
Boulogne, France,
x 1 e c:r f, eliateatio Fernandez, n
t paniar , 1.?illetl-, at cNice, falling 1,000
feet of r >tor e.t eeeed.,
a ata .:tleelAntatege Leon, killed
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belongings, th men,.
effort to save
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NEWS OE THE
DAY B' DRIEF
Man Given Four Months For As-
saulting License Inspector.
Forest Fires in Northern Ontario Are
Extinguished.
Toronto Railway Co. Agrees to Lay
Additional Tracks.
The City of Toronto will assist the
sufferers by the fire in Oampbellton,
B., to the extent of a gift of $1,000.
!Kilpatrick was sentenced to four
months in jail at New Liskeard for an
unprovoked assault en License Inspec-
tor Blue1-y: e11.
The forest fires which have .been rag-
ing in different sections of northern On-
tario dnrino the pasieseveral weeks are
now extinguished. •
The elaborate funeral given Xing Ed-
ward cost the nation $$202,500, as is
shown in the supplementary financial
estimate issued to -day.
The Inter -State Commerce Commission
to -day announced its refusal to suspend
the increased .commutation rates into
and ont of New York city.
It is announced that the Dominion
Government is considering the question
of Indian education in the west with a
view to its betterment.
tuns ,Hannah •Mcfrtirur, the eldest
daughter of Mrs. J. McArthur, Thor-
old, was found dead in bed. Death ap-
parently was caused by heart failure.
The Department of :Dade apd Com-
merce has been advised that R. 11. Cur-
ry, its trade .agent at Nassau, Bahama
island,, has been elected to the Legis-
lature.
Pulpwood concessions around Lake
Nipegon are to be sold by the Provin-
eiai Government subject to condition
that the wood is manufactured into pa-
per in Celt -arid,
The Ontario Raneley and Municipal
Board has received a letter from the
Toronto Pathway 1 which the latter
agrc:ee to lay the ad; itional tracks ord-
ered 'e. the 'board.
Mr. Asquith annoyneed in the House
or C:ormnone to-day.that the accession
declaration bill willebe taken up the
week after next, a'd he sent to the
Lo c'cl
A proposed new .working agreement,
which will Dail for awage increase of 25
per cent., has been adopted by the in-
ternational jewelry workers' convention
in Roston.
Mrs. Mary hunt Storey, widow of
Marion Storey, and'A. Murray Young, a
ew- York banker, were married at St,
George's Church, Hanover Square, Lon-
don, to -day.
The Forget interests in the Nova Sco-
tia steel announce they have sold out
to President Harris. The famous fight
between the two interests in the com-
pany is consequently at an end.
Robert eleighen, president of the Lake
of the Woods Milling Company, bas wir-
ed to the Mayor of Campbellton of a
carload of flour for the fire sufferers or
its equivalent in cash up to $1,000.
The 1 nter-State Commission to -day an-
nounced its intention to suspend :ea tar-
iffs naming general and important ad-
vances pending investigation into the
reasonableness of the proposed advances.
M. i''irveI, a prominent railroad man
from Lahore, India, now in Canada,
al, as there was no sedition in the
Northwest, where he was situated. The
trouble was confined. to, Bengal almost
entirely,
'W. D. Scott, Commissioner of Immigra.
tion, left to -day for England. He will
he away ahorat six weeks and will iti
sprat the different immigration offices
end eonditione in general in connection
with them.
Meror Wm. T. White, of Lawrence,
11 isee and four other residents of that
city, have been fount guilty, of eonspir-
a'y jai counation with the selection of
'tenet Ilitir.•ilton of the Lawrence ffre de -
pa ruses t.
The engagement was annotuneed to-
day in London of Mies, Claire l!'rewen,
daughter of Morton Frewen, the econo-
mist and author, and Brinslev Sheridan,
son .of Algernon Thomas Brinsley Sher-
idan.
Fire, broke out in the planing mil at
Atwood, Ont.. owned by the Forrest es -
tato on Wednesday, The, mill has not
been running for some time. '177e dam-
nge is wen,stimated at aI'out :$1,000; cause
uukno
Contracts nee let for the new wing
of the General and Marino Hospital at
Owen Sound. The annex., which is to
cost over thirty thonsa'.nd dollars, will
be moat modern in its construction and
n
eq ui1
nen.t.
Hun.
Dr. Fyne, Minister of Education,
lett this waning fox Paris, where he
will •re;aresent the Province at the Inter-
national convention on school Hygiene,
whir)) eb P.n Pi' s on the first of A.ugnst, and
w"l clntinue for nweek.
Determined to see the eights of
Scot:Wel, whether his father Would
take him or not, a': twelve -year-old
Atwood )ad, named Walln,ce McBain. is
somewhere between hie home and Mon-
'ftreal,, and his peretitshave called upon
7iL atatt-'rttta'•rrtaeesr t,.',au a
the Provincial Pollee for :assistance in
finding him,
"Thirty-five thousand ship yard work-
ers at Hamburg united to -day in a de-
mand upon their emeloyers fox anin-
creesq•; of ten per cent, in wages and a
fifty-three ,!tour week. They, threaten
to strike in the event; that the oonces-
si'0ns are refused.
Tenders for the purchase .of the 're-
cent issue of debentures at Regina, am-
ounting to $586,500, were opened on
Tuesday, the successful tender being
that of the Canadian Agency, Limited,
London, England, whose bid was $572,-
849.
What might have been a fatal acci-
dent mulled at , the Townsite mine,
Cobalt. in loading holes preparatory to
shooting, M. Halca]a, a helper, was
slightly injured, and E. Johnson, ma-
cbine aunuer, will lose part of his right
arra:
The prisoners who were put to
work on the roads in Northern Ontario
already have cut three milds and graded
two miles west of Matheson. The men
like the work, and no attempts at esealeni
have been made since the two who did
got away were eaught and sent to King-
ston for two years each,
Two Italian fruit dealers got into an
argument yesterday afternoon at St.
Andrew's market, Toronto, and indulged
in some primitive methods of fighting
before they settled their argument, As
a resu]t one of them is minus a piece of
his lip and the other lost a portion of
one of his fingers.
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CAMP BURNED
Workmen Took to the River to Save
Their Lives.
Bush Fires Wipe Out Camp on the
National Transcontinental.
Kingston Despatch --News of a disas-
trous fire in a construction camp on
the National Transcontinental has reach-
ed here. P, Courney, one of O'Brien's
contractors, situated at Mileage 147, or
100 miles west of Cochrane, was burned
out on Sunday last by one of the num-
emus bush fires now raging. The
whole camp was destroyed, the damage
amounting to $25,000, partly covered by
insurance.
The fire is supposed to have started
from section men burning brush on the
right-of-way. It covered about six miles
, an. hour. The men sought -refuge in
the Valentyne river, t quarter of a mile
away. In this stey stood up to their
r.oekzitsand to kee a from burning as the
fire swept by kept eontinualy clucking
!tinder water. The river literally ran
cinders after the flee passed over it. One
man, Daniel Egan, suffered severe burns
on the arms and face, and was hurried,
to the hospital at Miseanibi river, 85
miles away.
Owing to the foresight of Mr. Court-
ney great loss of life was avoided. The
powder house, containing five tone of
dynamite and one hundred cases of black
powder. had just been banked with clay
two feet thick: Eight horses, out loose,
saved themselves by running directly
west through the fire. The men saved
nothing except the clothes they were
wearing, and even these were burned
from sparks.
STRONG DRINK:
Archie McLaughlin's Warning to
Young Men,
of Archie McLaughlin After
executionW. B. e
called the reporters about him and said
that, at McLa.ughlin's request, he would
hand to the representative of Tho Globe
the only statement the condemned man
had made. It vas as hollows:
"Archibald McLaughlin hes taken Dr.
Abraham and myself into his confidence
and admits the justice of his sentence.
He has been truly and sincerely penitent
and, assured of divine forgiveness, dies
at peace with God and men. Ilse leaves
a message for young men: 'Be careful of
the company you keep, 'and above all
things keep away from all forms of
strong drink, which has been my undo-
ing.' At his own request I. make this
statement for The Toronto Globe exelu-
sively. (Signed) W. B. Tighe."
The crime for which McLaughlin
died was inspired by infatuation for
a young woman of his acquaintance,
and in the hope that the death of his
wife would leave him free to marry
her. On October 29 last, at 'Uxbridge,
people returning from a party at a
late hour saw McLaughlin's house on
fire, and Molaughlin himself in a dazed
condition outside the •house, with his
five-year-old daughter, Mona.
When asked where his wife and two
yonnger
children e were, his reply was,
"Poor r Ma
r I
do not of know.
Several witnesses at the trial were of
.opinion that it would have been easy to
rescue the three if Me,Laughlin had told
thein what rooms they were in, but he
appeared pp to be dazed, �hand when found
all three were dear!. Some time after the
funeral the body of Mrs, McLaughlin was
exhumed, and an analysis showed traces
of strychnine in the stomach. It ems
proved at the trial that McLaughlin had
bought strychnine shortly before the
tragedy. -
CAN
Condition of Field Crops Good, Ex-
cept For Drought.
Reports From Northwest Provinces
Vary in Different Districts.
Otttawa, Judy 18,—The monthly crop
report of the Census and Statistics
Office issued to -day, shows that the
condition of the field crops through-
out Canada at the end of June was
generally satisfactory, with the ex
ception of parts of the west, where
drought had done considerable dam-
age. Fall wheat for all is reported at
85.47 per vent, of standard condition.
The conditions of all field crops are
good in Ontario, toe highest being
94.24 for fall wheat and the lowest
84.79 for spring wheat. Quebec crops
range from 74.45 for mixed grains to
10'2,58 for hay and clover. Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta have low
averages throughout owing to a light
rainfall in June.
The general condition of crops in
Manitoba is much below the average.
Correspondents in nearly every dis-
trict report no rains, only a few light
showers and hot dry winds that ab-
sorbed the moisture and withered the
crops. The lowest average condition
is reported front around Brandon and
the highest from Marquette where it
is placed at a standard. In Saskatch-
ewan the crops do not appear to have
suffered from climatic conditions to
the same extent as in either Mani-
toba or Alberta, as there have been
many local showers.
The reports from Lloydminster,
Battleford, Indian Head are very
favorable, the condition of wheat
being placed at 100 and over. The
prevailing conditions of crops in that
part of Alberta south of townships
number thirty is below the average
in consequence of the drought and
hot winds. In the Edmonton dis-
trict the grains, although suffering
to some extent from the same causes,
are in much better conditions. The
best reports couae trona the Strath-
cons district and those from Atha-
basca Landing and Saddle Lake dis-
tricts aro also particularly favorable.
U.S, TRIBAL FUftDS
Canadian "Indians Not Entitled to Any
'Sham Says Washington.
Had Moved to Canada Before Treaty
of 1885.
Washington, July t8. --Ottawa: (Algon-
quin] and Chippewa Indiana, who long
ago erossed the border to Canada, are
not regarded by the Interior Depart-
ment as United States redmen entitled
to share in the funds of their tribes.
This position was asserted by the de-
partment some time ago, and affirmed
by Acting Secretary Greer to -day, after
hearing the arguxneut of representatives
of the Canadian Indians.
The Ottawa and Chippewas, who fax
earlier days migrated from Michigan to
Walpole Island in Canada, claimed that
they should sharp in the tribal funds,
aggregating $131,188, awarded these
tribes by the court. of elalma in 1907.
The department held that they did not
prove that they or their ancestors were
enrolled in 1870 when the Iast record of
the tribes was taken; that they proba-
bly had moved out of the country before
the treaty of 1895, and that they had
been receiving benefits from the Cana -
than Government.
FRUIT CROP.
^'t
Government Report For the Niagara
District,
,Apples—The early varieties have set
for a better crop than last year. Winter
and fall apples are at most a medal=
crop. The Duchess, generally, is set for
a full erop. dstraehans, Wealthy, Gra-
vensteins and Farneuse for a medouni to
full crop, Teen Davis, Greening, and
vensteins and Fameuee fora medittm to
full crop; Baldwins and Kings a medium
crop, with Spys light to medium.
Pears --Standard, varieties promise .
well. Bartletts, Bose, Clargeau show
for a medium' to null crop; Clapp's Fav-
orite, Anjou, Flemish Beauty, Kieffer
and Winter Wells are generally reported
a
medium a d m crop
the Duchess is showing
•
fora light to medium crop.
Plums—There was a heavy bloom of
nearly all varieties in the Niagara dis-
trict and other parts of •southern On
talo, but a great deal of fruit has fall.
en, reducing the crop .materially, espeei-
alty of the Japan varieties. Some orclt-
aide are exceptionally promising, while
others arc the reverse. The :majority of
corerspontlents report a light crop of
Japan plums, a e ght to medium crop of
Europeanar�sd a medium crop of Ameri
cast lura.