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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1906-11-09, Page 2AWFUL. BATTLE ON SUNKEN CARS. WOMAN LOOKED THREE TIMES INTO AN INFERNO. Saved Lives of Four Men -•-Dived to Coach Window and Dragged. Them Out --Got Her Husband at Last. Atlantic City, Nov. 5.—Standing out conspicuously among the deeds of heroism which characterized the wreck at Atlantic City on Stmclay, i❑ which 62 lives were lost, is the figure of llrs. Harriet Meetloitnld, of Philadelphia. She was in the third car, in front, with her husband. Here is her own same: "I spent most of 'the summer a .Atlantic City, and, although I've a ways been a good swimmer, 1 mad myself a better swimmer there, than the Lord, now. „"My husband and 1 were ging down to spend a couple of days. NN ben the first pitch of the trach: mute 1 aseeined to lcnow the danger. 1 was looking out of the window. It was open. When we pitched down the wa- ter began to rush in. We sank, and. the car was in gray darkness. "Behind and all around rine I lsearcl terrible sounds like animals fighting. It was terrible. I knew we were all doomed, but somehow I broke the window in the upper part, But first I had taken a long breath, "I did not think of my husband then. I thought of nothing except es- cape sod the awfulness of the noise like animals fighting behind me. Some- how I broke the ethnicity. I crept out. The suction was territitic'. Fought Her Way Through. "The water, rushing into the car tiast me, tried to force ine back, I held ght to the window- sashes. The brok- en glass cut me deep, but I did not mind. I pushed myself through. I float- ed up through the water and saw the sky. "Then I thought of my linsband and those terrible wninds. 1 dived. I felt the coach and opened my eyes end looked in. Oh, I cannot tell you what I sawn. It was worse than any nightmare; it wee a glimpse of hell. `Listen—there were incn and wwo- snen fighting, eintehing, tearing each other. Tho women's hair was stream- ing down over their faces, which were 'bleeding. The men's 'faces were also bleeding. Streams of water were pour- ing in everywhere. From -cracks windows, from broken panes, from eracks in doors. It was surging up to their breasts, but still they fought. Olt, it was like a look into an inferno, and over all was thut ghastly grey -green .light. 'hi broke a window. God knows how. I saw fighting there my husband. 1 tried to drawn his el es to the win.. *tow. I could not. Aly breath was fail - 'big, and I reached in and seized one tired 1 could' hardly muster strength enough to sink, bub I did. I could not see into the car this time. I had not strength nor Mileage, but I found my window; and 1 thanked God when I felt the water still rushing in, heesuse I knew that there still thrust be air with- in. "Blindly -I throat my hands in, and they were- caught agar,:. 1 had uo hope in my ;wart, bat there came to me the •thought that at least I could save :Someone. Husband at Last. "1 pulled and rose, and when I open- ed my el as at the top of the wator 1 saw that it was nty• husband I had caught. "Can't tn't tell yc'u how 1 felt, It, was as though 1 had alwoys been in darkness and had conte to . "My lits anal was nearly dead, and had only etrougull enough to cling feebly to me, and :I bad been very t tired, but I crit tioug--ars strong could '- be. e "I swam i o the shore with him and. K. the people rushed down and I nearly fainted, but 1 didnt, and then he grew stronger and wve cache away. I couldn't dive any more. lint. oh, those poor souls' si rnggling and fighting there, for life, and, oh, that poor woman who looked at me. I can ser her eyes now, so plainly,." .by the hands. I hoped it was . my* hus- band. 1 dragged the hands through }and up to the surface. It. was not my husband. It was a roan, his face bleeding, and one eye torn from the eocket. He could swim, and he reached shore as I dived again. Same Hellish Scene. "I looked thrr, : ;:h again, and still there was that~ ,errible, silent, hellish scene within. 'It was t . u t seed. The water had not gotten +oel higher—not enough to help. th : ,I:t my husband saw my face at the window and he began to fight his way up. I sunk to the brok- en window, reached in again, felt my hands seized and again arose with a body. It was not my husband. "That was terrible. Think, every minute counted. There he was in that awful place and I could not save him. A man in a boat took the man I had pulled out. He tried to hold ore, and I did so want to creep into that boat and rest. I was so tired, but how could I with my husband dying down there under the water. "I dived again. My head felt as though it was bursting, and surely my heart was heavy enough to keep me below. I struck the coach and went down slowly. The water had risen very high. Only the strongest were left, and these were floating to their thins. I looked, and me husband was one of them. Oh, how my heart jump- ed. I tried so hard to make him see. He did see use, and he waved his hand in a despairing gesture. He was near the 'window and I thought I must be able to reach him. I pushed my arms through. The glass out me ter- ribly, but 1 did not feel it. A Woman's Face. "Suddenly my hands were held tight- ly. My heart leaped wildly. That's surely be, 1 thought and pulled hard. I braced my feet against the woodwork and pulled. 1 opened my eyes in the salt water. Oli, I remember it so•• --a woman, with her black hair floating behind her, louketi at nte. Se said something; her eyes opened wildly, and she held out a hand. "I could not see who had, my hands. His head was under the rushing water from the window. I could not see my husband, and .thought it was he. 1 pulled, and the body came through. .t gain I arose with it, and again, and then I thought my heart would stop beating. It was not my husband. `All this takes long to tell, but in reality the time taken was very, very short. I don't Think it could have been four minutes, for each time I brought w man utp I only; stayed long enough to get my breath: it could not have been long, because the water would lttive filled the ear if it had, been. But It seemed an eternity. "I was absolutely hopeless. I wag so A MARTYRS CROWN COMING SOME DAY FOR BRITISH SUFFRAGISTS. Miss Parkhurst Thinks the Day Will Be When Some Women Agitators Will Have to Die for Their Cause. London, Nw: .i.--- Miss (:hristabel Pankhurst, who has had a leadingpart in the recent demonstrations through whir}i the suffragists have sought to attract the attention they demand for votos for women, holds up the startling prospect that in clue season some of tltc suffrag ites will s,rcri';cc their lives for the cruse., rhe time is' not yet ri•re for that sort of thing. ,She thinks it fs not even ripe enough. to wtu•rant prcrs- iure on the suffreeites to serve out the terms of imprisonment passed upon them the other day. It, is all right. :Miss I'ani.:.cnst says, for any of the halted -up ones who are 1 ill, to square themselves selves with the court and come out of their cells. But by -and- t bye it will be different. The, time is cont- ing When a snffr;tgite must be ,prepared to yield herself with smiling lips to death's embrace. ileally, 'Miss Pankhurst and her associates seem to be on the road to a dangerous fanaticism. THE BUCKINGHAM LABOR RIOT. A VERDICT MAY BE REACHED BY THE JURYMEN TO -DAY. • Both' Prepared to Fight—Got Arms Be- fore 'Batle--Evidence at Bucking- ham Strike Inquest That, Maclareus Fired First Shots. A Deckiu hale, Que., despatch: Over SO witnesses have soon heard in the 13uc1;- inghanz. ingtie-t by Coroner McMahon, and the .,evitbnee is so eontradietery that the jtirr of •eight English and eight. Frenchfnen" will de well to r: -encs- a ver- dict to -morrow, as there are :still ,etre 15 Witnesses yet to call.. To -day's evidr'nce trait very itnpontaztt, several hardware deniers testifying that both the detc: tiw es and, triket•s pttr- ehased arms and ammunition, thus sbow- ing that trouble was anticipated. on both sides. Detective 1T.t'iakill expects to have several it arrests to make as -a result of the iaiJnest. The prisoners -will be taken to hull, {here to an-ait • the con - elusion of the Lncicronte nni'lcr Trial at Bryson. hef me re cit in! their pre- liminary hearing. Two avitnssses broke down this after- noon. One was Louis. Couture. who. according to eereral witnesses, took a prominent -Tart to the riot, and threat- ened to riddle a gran naznel Dan Lou- den, who was merely helping a wound- ed detective. Mrs. Belanger and 11rs. Merin nit, widows of the itch 011whom the in- clue.st is bold, were examined, but they declared that their hnSands lead 00 firearms to their knowledge. The beet witness of the day was a 15 -year-old lad.•C:hisboinn Yeareon, whose •direct evidence was so firer that the` must severe croeseesaminna- tioat could not shake it. Ile. told cir- cumstantially that Dr. ituderig;ne, the local coroner, had covered up the rifles that the strikers were transporting: to the scene of the fight. The doctor had denied knowledge of the rifles. while tdnti.ttin; that he rode in the rig they Ire known to have been in. If Antoine Pari;ieaz's evidence is to b. reliored, Alex. liaeLaron will be charged veldt shooting Belanger. Pa.risien swears hat Mr. Maclaren fired. two shots itt he strikers' leader. Alex. Cunningham, a Buckingham umber merchant, •sw,ore that ire was most sure- Alexander M•acLaren fired the firs tshot and Albert MacLarea the econd. Mrsa William Baker, a German lady, testified t.Iiobinson• Oroteau, who nee hoarded. It her, asked for his din - r> '"'rlry of .the strike, say- ing that ho wanted-to'go home for his ;,*tits, bemuse. there was going to be bloodshed in the afternoon. Charlie Johnson told that an old comm, Thtopbile Chenier, wanted to borrow a gun from him that day, Bay- ne:that he was going to do some hooting in the afternoon. Johnson did of lend Ilia ,firearm, and did not see heeler in the riot. , Domase Bornrassa, a striker, related hat two anion Wren told him they were going to bring rifles. He saw guns, at he strikers' hall, 'laze same witnesses also swore bat the strikers had gathered fire - Ma with the deliberate ,purpose of o e MANAGER'S RIGHTS. ONTARIO BANK CASE WILL GO TO THE HIGHER COURTS. Preliminary Examination WIII Consist Principally of Production of Certain Documents From Bankand Govern - merit Returns for Said. Time. A Toronto. Ont., despatch The preliminary examinations of Mr. 1 Charles Me(1i11 and Mr. 0. 11. R. Cock- burn, which will begin on Monday need, wvi11 probably be of short duration. Very ; t little evidence will be brought out be- a fore Magistrate Denison, as when a case 11 sufficient for a committal is secured the counsel for the defence will consent 1.o a M trial of the Ontario Bank case in the higher courts. It is in the Assizes that A the real contest wi.Il begin, and it may see many other courts before the issue is decided. Mr. E. F. D. Johnston, R. C., the eoun- sel who was retained to defend. Mr. Mee t secured ail of the material necessary for 1 the defence.. He did not think, how- ever, that the ease would take up much i of the time of the lower courts. "The farts may be easily ascertained," t' said Mr. Johnston yesterday, "but the p legal aspect may not be so easily set - tied." "That means that the question will. t, arise as to what. legal bounds there are b upon a General Manager?" the counsel s was asked. ; u "'let means that the case may decide p how much was left to the manager's m discretion," returned Mr. Johnston, e It is understood that the defence will be offered that everything Mr. McGill a did was for the purposes of the bank c and that a General Manager's position nt is one which practically gives a free sing them on the police. aro ALTA.'S BELLS STILL RING OUT. rchbishop Forbids Discussion of Their Efficacy in Storms. Valetta, Malta, Nov. v.—It is yet he custom here, as in mediaeval times, o ring bells in stormy weather for the >urpose of warding off evil spirits and term disasters. The bells for this pm - me are blessed by priests, and they are ung even in the deicd of night, to 'the erpetual annoyance of unbelievers. , Tempests have been frequent the est summer, and the bells have been bnornielly bue-y-. Hence there las een a lively public discussion orf the uhjeet. Local scientists have taken p the cudgels on behalf of the pro- le who are annoyed. by the uproar ade by the 'bells, and the shocked eclesiastics have warmly responded. The Archbishop has now solemnly and uthoritatively proclaimed that the. clis- ussioai of the efficacy of.the sacred bells met not henceforth be conducted ex- ept by persons who are •ec lssiasticaliy t •ie. (3{1], said yestehday that he had not yet hand. autl of z d ' This point will alone make the trial a most interesting event from a financial point of view. Oe ¢v ARRANGED TEMPORARILY. Newfoundland Modus Vivendi Not In- tended to be Permanent. London, Nov. 5.—Replying, to further questions in the House of Commons to -day regarding the Newfoundland fish- eries question, Mr. Churchill, the Par- liamentary Secretary for the Colonial Office, explained that the modus vi- vendi was a temporary arrangement made with the United States intended to avoid the occurrence of untoward ' incidents during the negotiations neces- sitated by the action taken by the colonial Government in spite of the rep- resentations of his Majesty's Govern- ment. Ample preeodent for the course adopted could be found in the modus vivendi into which the late Marquis of Salisbury entered with France respect- ing the Newfonndland lobster fisheries, Sir I;dwnril Grey, Foreign Secretary, announced that the correspondence with. tile• United States and Newfoundland would be presented to the House so soon as it could be prepared. U. S. CONDUCTORS, TOO. four of Them Suspended by G. T. R. at Port Huron. Port Huron; Mich., Nov. 5.—Four Grand Trunk eonductoras have -been .let out here. They are Albert Fite, John, E. Lindsay, John W. Phillips and Con- ductor Cowan. Fite and Lindsay r are among the oldest men on the main line running to Chicago. It was at first sup- posed that only Canadian conductors were to be let out, and this is the first indication that United States men are to be among those suspendedr POINT OF CHURCH LAW, Bishop Carnfichael's Election Disputed by Two Priests. Montreal report An interesting dis- pute has arisen over the proposal to en- throne Bishop Carmichael as Bishop of Montreal at Christ Church Cathedial on Sunday next, ILOva. Edmund Wood and Arthur French, priests of the Church of John the Evangciict, have advised Bishop Carmichael that the could ret give him ca,nnatical obedience unless he be legally elected Bishop; They declare . that their protest is made on - purely technical grounds, without any eletnc nt of personality, They assert that Dr, Carmichael was not legally elected with the right of cue - cession, and point•.nut that when I)r, ('':irniiehatel was chose -n coadjutor Bishop Of Montreal, the Constitution of rho synod only provided for the election •of n Bishop -it•jron the See twos vacant, atul as this -was not the ease another form had to be followed. A new canon empower- ing the synod to elect a coadjutor Bishop with right of ,ueeession was then adept - ed. m NOT GOING TO STARVE. UTE INDIANS REFUSE TO RETURN TOUTAH. Scouts Say They ryMean to Fight, and Are Seeking Assistance From the Cheyennes— More Troops Sent to the Scene. Sheridan, Wyo., Nov. 5.—"We are going to visit Chief White Cow Bull, of the Cheyennes; at any^ cast., and will not be taken back to Utah to starve. We would rather die first," is the. substitute of the answer of Chief Eannapp to the soldiers. The latest report from the front locates Inc main 'tate band in the vicinity of Moorehead, going rapidly to- ward the Cheyenne reservation. Two more troops' trains are reported out of l''ort Robinson following the first train unloaded at Aravado this snorn- tng. The Indians are becoming more bold. Doe Spear and E. I1. (lettings, who en- countered a band of thirty Indians, were fired upon and nue of their horses was killed, Their ramp wagon was looted by another band of Utes, who left the cook bound and gaged and carried off all supplies and bedding. Settlers near Moorehead, Mont.. are r sending their women and children tet places of safety, and have turned the ISpear blaelcsmitlt shop into a fort, banking the steles and boring loopholes in the tog walls. •Col. I3ansel, wwho was Government scout and interpreter in the battle of Wounded Knee, says the Indians mean fight, and believes they have sent mes- sensrerc to seek ltssistanee of the warlike Cheyennes. —_a IS THERE A HITCH ? CENTRAL SUPPLY ASSOCIATION CASE TO COME UP. Argument Will Be Heard by Court of Appeal at the November Sittings- There Have AIready Been a Number of Delays. Toronto despatch: The appeal of the Central Supply Association against the judgment of Mr. Justice Clute is set down for argument at the fall sitting of the Court of Appeal, which commences on Monday, Nov. 12. Mr. Justice Clute imposed heavy penalties on the members of the Master Plumbers' Association and also upon the members of the Central Supply Association for breach of the provisions of the law against combines. The plumbers paid their fines and prac- tically disbanded their organization, but the supply men's association appealed against the decision of the court. The appeal was set down for hearing on Jan. 22 last, but owing to the evidence in the C11.$113 not being ready, argument was post- poned until April 2. On that date for a similar reason argument was again de- ferred. On Sept. 3 everything was ready for argument, but at the request of the Deputy Attorney -General, who has charge of the Crown's case, a further delves oc- curred. The charge of combining. in restraint of trade against the individual members of the Supply Association was tried before Chief Justice Mulock, who reserved judgment. It is not anticipated in legal circles that this ;judgment will be rendered until after the Court of Ap- peal has given its decision upon the noi.sets of law, and has construed the "combine" clause of the criminal code. as there are some points involved which are common to both eases. Hon. J. J. Foy was asked what were the intentions of the Government re- garding other combines, and he replied that he would not discuss eases before the courts or likely to be brought before the courts, .a. 4. - COOKED RATS HEALTHY. Dr. Treves Says There is Far More Danger itt Milk. London, Nov. 5.—Dr, Sir Frederick Treves, addressing the National Health Society, ridiculed the recent outcry against canned meats, when he said virtually everybody- was indifferent to the far greater danger in fresh food and milk laden with death -dealing germs, The public did, not seem to mind swallowing anything they could not see. Milk and meat as now unsanitarily cooked, are swarmed with the bacilli of typhoid and other diseases, but as these are invisible, the public did not etre. Cannad meats which contained floor - sweepings and pieces of rat and man were harmless, because they were cook- ed and . probably were healthy before they were cooked. Peale were straining et a gnat and swallowing a camel. The present treatment of meat before it was eaten was not in the least more sanitary than it was in the days of the neolithie cave -dwellers. SLEEPING SICKNESS. ` CURE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY FRENCH DOCTORS, Ravages of the Dreaded African and Asiatic Scourge Can Be Checked by Thymol, tin Extract of Thyme, the Well-known Herb. Marscillett, Nov. 5.— Letters have been received hero from Saigon, French Coohin China, saying that two French doctors have discovered that the hither- to fatal sleeping sickness can be cured by means of thymol. One hundred and fifty patiente have been treated with this remedy and a large nnajoiity of them have recovered. Great Britain, Franec and Germany have had commissions employed for sev- eral years seeking a remedy for the sleeping sickness, which has depopulated entire districts in tropical Aifrica and Asia, Professor Robert Koch, lecturing in Berlin last March, declared that since the beginning of the last century two hundred thousand persons had dried of this baffling scourge in equatorial Africa. On June 20 Lieut. Tulloch, who had as- companied the 13rititlh Royal Commission to Uganda and had contracted the dis- ease while dissecting an inoculated rat, died 10 London, in spite of all that science could do to cheek the progress of the poi- son in bis blood. Neither the exact na- ture nor the origin of the sleeping sick- ness has been satisfactorily* determined The infection is spread from human to human by the sting of a small fly, the glossina palpalis. Fever is the earliest positive symptom. The patient then be- comes incoherent and enfeebled and fin- ally is seized by the sleep mania, which ends in death. Thymol, mentioned in the despatches as a cure, is a crystalline pro. dad of thyme, a familiar aromatic herb, Distilled and diluted it has an agreeable, cooling taste and has long been valued in medical practice as, a powerful anti- septic adapted to the healing of wounds and the treatment of affections of the nose and throat. Yr• PRINCE RUPERT. THE G. T. P. TERMINAL CITY IS BE- GINNING TO TAKE FORM. Three Hundred Acres of the Townsite Are to be Cleared The First Street is Now Being Planked and Houses Are in Process of Construction. Vancouver, B. C,, Nov. b.—Prince Ru- pert, the newest Transcontinental Rail- way terminus on the Pacific coast, al- ready has a population of several hun- dred and expects within three months to be lighted by electricity. A big Eng- lish company ultimately will light the town, but for the present the current for illuminating purposes will be fur- nished from the sawmill plant of the British Columbia Tie and Lumber Com- pany, which has been erected at Prince Rupert to carry out several important contracts with the Grand Trunk Pacific. Mr. Russell, who for some time was confidential agent for the railway com- pany on the coast, has been appointed postmaster and customs collector at tate new terminal. The townsite, which a few months ago was covered with timber, is being cleared and altogether Prince Rupert, the new city, bears an ap- pearance just like Vaneonver when the C. P. B. arrived here in 1S86. Thomas Dunn, formerly of this city, but who has now joined a big firm which is starting at Prince Rupert. said in an interview: 'Engineer Pillsbury, of the Grand Trunk Pacific, has seventy men at work laying out the townsite and already the first street. which is 100 feet wide and starts at the wharf, is being plank- ed. The clearing of 300 acres of the townsite will he commenced right away. Lumber for the construction of the - Imitates which the railway company will build at Prince Rupert had commenced to arrive before I left for the south. �Pm4 DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED. Capital Punishment No Longer to be- Administered eAdministered in France. Paris, Nov. 6,—The Cabinet held a meeting to -clay and approved a meas- ure providing for dere abolition of the death penalty. This means that Pax- Militant, at its coming session, will enact a law to that effect. Such action hate been expected since the office of "Monsieur de Paris," or, public: executor, was suppressed a few months ago by tine excision of Itis salary front the budget. At that time neither the Sanien Ministry nor the Chamber of Deputies took formal action, declaring that capital ptunishment would no lonecr be, inflicted in Prance, but M. Cienrenccau. the Prime Minister, has de- cided on taking a definite step to that end. MOB N TIED NEGRO. if Colored Man Had Killed Deputy Sheriff' • and Wounded Constable. llnmphia, Tenn.. Nov. 5.-- George, Estes, who on Sunday night shotand ]tilled Dopnty Sheriff Safely and wound- ed (loustable ;Colin Bowers, when the . officers at Ilalespoint, Tenn., raided: a, crap game in which the negro was par- ticipating, was taken from a Sheriff's posse by an armed mob at that pie* last night and .hanged. The negro wait' in custody of Sheriff Penningtonand; a ; force of deputies+, en rotnto to Ripley',, the comity seat, when overtaken by',the snob. The Sheriff amt leis posse meat every means to protect the negro, but.: were overpowered, end the negro was secured and etccetited. The mob then quietly dispersed,