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The Herald, 1907-03-08, Page 6.. _ e" tali e oncttrred on the sz.•eid , ooao •. Lx -Mayor O'Doniare to a r arei, wee shot across the NO whoret, tves malaria the rapid ee eert down wrl•thii embairkfert, and loaded, on his head.an the clothes •rack abova;,tho wmcl�o+ks. His neck ap 'lrear- r3 ed ee have been broken. He was. killed einstautly, Charles, Rankin was on his way home to Stratford after wit- nessiri g a hockey mately rat the Mutual Str eeitit "'Rini,, `i�ormrto, last night• He was [fors erly aerie of the best-known hocks } players in the Pf evince. ` Of date years has not plat} ealaut has acted as r9.0 00 a at on games : ale eon - Ex -Mayor onohue and Charles Rankin, of Strat- ford, and Little Girl Killed, ' About Forty Injured—Broken Rail the Cause --- Cars Rolled Down Embankment. THE DEAD. 1.olui D. Beatty, Sarnia, head injur- John O'Donohue, ex -Mayor, Stratford.. ed. Charles Raaisin, Stratford. -y .1. H. Hetherman, superinten.i•�ut C. n- Fourear�ald elm of H. C. Walker, adieu Express Co., Stratford, two scalp Teterboro', brother of 0. E. Wreaker, wounds: ane big, but not dangerous. Guelph, ticket agent G. T. R. dames Ryan, Guelph, left foot l •idly • THE INJURED. crushed: amputation may be neeeserrey. Harold Walker, Peterboro', arm and Mrs. John L. Doran, Toronto, lying side hurt. in St. Joseph's Hospital, semi-conscious, ;yi• A. reverend, Dominion Line freight recovery doubtful. agent, Toronto, slightly injured m rem. John L. Doran, Toronto, part owner L. 1•Iutclenson, Listowel, head and : n Sleeman brewery, Guelph, injured in kde hurt. side. Jodtn Arksey, Addington, Man., arm John Doran, jun., Toronto. 8 months bruised. eld, badly injured about head. .1. S, 1.nirews, Goderich, head injured Thomas Scott, Listowel, three ribs R F. Sheriss, Treaders' Bank, Toronto, broken; injured internally; not e .pe::ted shaken up. to sive T. E. Hayden, Stratford, hand. injured. • H. S. Snead, Toronto, head cut. ,I. P. Wright, Detroit, head injured. J. Anderson. Acton, arra bruised. E. Bachelor, Tavistiek, arm bruised. B. A. Perry, Toronto, back hart \Vin Sutton, Stratford, arni injured. Archibald Priest; Toronto,]rand hurt II Helen, Berlin, head and hands and ribs broken. cut. William Alderson, Toronbo, 0. T. R. D 0. Ritz, Berlin; hand injured. ear inspector, four riles broken and fore- H. W. Atkisson, Walkerville, head head hurt; not dangerous. bruised. Adman Klippert, Toronto, right arra D. W. lnderson, Toronto. back hurt. broken. Thos. Meadows, Stratford, injured R. L. Cross, Toronto, ribs fractured. about the head. • cut on head; not serious. A. Brechlin, Tavistock. arm hurt. Miss Starr, Toronto, ear painfully F. J. Locke, St. Thomas. cut about face an" head. Gras - torn. Richard Polley, Toronto, head injured. aS Sterling, traveller for \Veld, Gras - Rev. R.,E. Knowles, Presbyterian min- ett &Darling. Toronto, head cut. later, Galt, shoulder dislocated. George Hughes, Toronto, Fhaken up. W. E. Buckingham, Guelph, head cu How It Happened. . badly and body bruised. D. N. Dennison, Stratford, knee sprain- Guelphdespatch: Trainer's Cut. about ed, two and a half miles east of Guelph, was R. Pearson, Hickson. head cut. the ,Scene of a serious accident to the H. M. Patterson, Stratford, lower jaw Grand Trunk train from Toronto at 2.40 crushed. this afternoon, in which two men and a Miss K. Cowan, Sarnia, suffering from vouna child were killed and about forty duetevc,".•',.;a restaurant and; coufectionery store,* s A sad •feature et his death is the fa"et that he had be$p married only a little over ti, week. Th �'i'Walker child that tins killed was seat . beside her little,,airother, the cbila n being aeompanr'ed by their another. • When the cars left the track thelealittle onedisappeared; fromvie' ed 31, 471a Sturbam street. anti. pit is thought ht she'went; through 'the principal, win row and underneath the ear. Her t WM. JOHN ZIMMERMAN, aged 7, ag ht+tal brother was not seriously hurt. 411 Aylwin street, .only son of W. Thhirtother was injured, but not badly. Zimrnerman. Shelves .Almost prostrated by the shock JAMES PILI�INGTON LINDLEY, aged of the death of her child 0, 119 Aylwin street, son of J. P. Lind - On rt of the best known ,#tion on the ley. treat:awes Rev. R. E.Knowles, Knox 4 EDITH GOLSON, aged 6 years and 6 Church• Galt. Be was he'. the fateful months, 311 Stadacona stret, daughter eat and in the bump twcl ;men were of John Golson, machinist. throiir; rip in the air and: fell on tot ALBERT EDWARD JACKSON, aged .of him* His left hand wee badly bumf; 6, 22 Wurtele street, shock. Geo. Wilson, machinist, head hurt. Miss M. McWhinnie, Stratford, head hurt. Frank Kelly, Galt, side hurt. uised and M. D. Barry, Rockwood, badly shaken up. Mrs. Donald leleGregor, Acton West, cut about head and shoulders; not seri- ous. Mr. Jones, Mitchell, side badly sprain- ed. Mr. Strong, Ancestor, not serious. W. A. Rolling, Berlin, not serious. Frederick Davis, recently from London, iEngland, and on his way to Clifford to farm, had his left hand badly cut, 1 Mrs. Ellen May, nurse to Doran child, Toronto, severely injured. I Miss Gertie Walters, Acton, arm brok- en; not serious. Mrs. John Walters, Acton, baolc in- jured; not serious, • Miss Mabel Randall, Camlaehie, shoul- der hurt; not Bellows. : Albert Roger_, Oshawa, artery out in thumb• ' William 3. Nee-, Strafford, s:nr lack - en. H. J. Vaite. Port Huron, shoulder bruised. SIXT[[N C IL r Principle of the School Loses Her Life "]hying to Save Kindergarten Children. Elder Children Escaped—Little Tots Perished—Fire- men's Heroic Efforts. THE DEAD, school, gave her life for her charges. She MISS SARAH MAXWELL, school was on the first floor at the time of the alarm and might easily have escaped, but she rushed upstairs "through the school urging the children to flee. On the top floor the little kindergarten tots were gathered, and it was here that Miss Maxwell was overcome. She was last seen at the window, breaking the glass in her effort to get air into the room. She was noticed falling back, and now the mortal remains of this brave woman are lying at the morgue cold in death. • Smoke Shut Off the Stairs. There were about 150 pupils hi the and bi boulder aliparenrvtly; was dislo- cated.' from ire car through the wnidowv He said abbe scene was harro .g,• and one vehieh he never would j,:get. Mr. ] nowvles was on his way''•lgome`from Ottawa, after lectur- ing tbere, „ Down Sixty Feet. Thea rj'fter Ida ?•ng the track, slid part of •t �s '.,•ay down."the sixty -foot em- basnkmnes i+ en turner` over. The three passe -erg c aches were strung out in line, ne ; uncoupled, a tf. near by was the colY1dination car, sinned in such a positioni+as to form thea -letter L. The baggage• r rolled dove n the bank some distances urther on. 'The train was in Charge .cif Conductor Woods, Port Huron, and,' the engine crew's were William 'Chonsvpson, engineer, and .William A. Hurx n, fireman. All tli4e crew escaped vv it]jont injury. The passengers were atthrown pro- mieenously about in the cats when they landed at thebottom of the decline, and fees came. cute unscathed. •FCn the first passengers were more or less injured f passenger eoacf 1vas James Ryan, a well - The train was bound for Chicago. and l.n'own resident of Guelph+'; whose foot left Toronto at 1 :o'clock. It was travel- vvas b, dry crushed. It is Bared ampu" ing at the rate of about fifty miles en tation may be necessary. M. and fiefs. hour when a rail broke and' caused the Down and child were in tit. car. Mrs. disaster. fled 'ieverelyeen the top The rail broke on the south side of the track. and almost immediately after, ward a fish plate at the north rat] gave way Then three passenger eoaelie including the parlor; ce.r the train, and the aiserii 9artiaur grin to pound the ties. After travel'fnjr; in this way about fifty yards they broke' froir. the forward portion of the train and went down the steep embankuicnt to the north of the track, into a swamp. The engine, tender and baggage car went about two hundred yards further on, bumping on the ties at a consider= able speed, when the baggage car broke loose, and pulled the tender from the rails. The locomotive remained on the track, the engineer having applied the emergency brake, and only the rear wheels were pulled off the track. At the point where the accident oe- cnrred there is a slight curve, and it iseustonrary for the engineer to shut off steam a short distance • nearer Guelph as the train enters the city, being down Derail • was br of the head. lis feared. Guelph to v and child home ie �ed and c H, J. Port Huron, Mayor 0'D oncussion o ithe brain gran was coalingto ends, and Mr Doran g on to her lfermer •,Dorauea. ireee, ead.. a. T. R. empl.;*ee of ,n the car in which ex - e met dai li' Mr. son of John H. school at the time; but the bigger boys Jckson, cotton expert at Alaska Feather and •girls on the tve�o lower floors es - and Down Works. caped. It was the poor helpless little LILLIAN RIDGE, aged. 5, 35 Maribor- children on the top floor that suffered. ough street, daughter of Harrison Ridge, There were no fire escapes on the carpenter. school, and fire drill was only held once MYRTLE SPRAGGS and MABEL a week. The smoke blocked the stairs SPRAGGS, aged 5 and 3 years, respec- and shut off the escape of the little tively, daughters of A. Spraggs, builder, tots on the top floor. 1,726 St. Catharine street. The parents were frantic, and it was EDNA DAVEY, aged 5 years, 14 impossible to get any details from the broken-hearted people w. ho lost their Marlborough street, daughter of John loved ones. As fast as the children were Davey, engineer. taken from the building they were re- JAMES M'PHERSON, aged 7, 333 moved to the morgue amid. the heart- Prefontaine street, son of James Me- breaking odes and sobs of mothers and Pherson, foreman C. N. R. freight sheds. fathers. The disaster is one of the most ANNIE JACKSON ANDREW, aged 8, awful that ever took place here, and daughter of Andrew Jackson, 63 Cuvillier has cast a gloom over the entire city.. O'Donohue r} ting on the• Side of the car opposite Waite. He saidi'•lxe thought ala'ahe ears slid down the btibit right side ups until they reached the ?ottom, then fell over on their sides. The first of the three cars, however, as soon as it reach- ed -the bottom, shot off endwise into a chimp of trees. street Children at Every Window. CECILIA FORBES, aged 6, daughter At every window were seen the im- . of Thomas Forbes, compositor, 59 Cuvil- prisoned children and teachers, while lier street. from the windows on the lower flat JOHN LOMAS, aged 6, son of George nothing could be seen but evideucee Lomas, bleacher, 111 Davison street. JAMES FREDERICK ANDERSON, ofc+Capt Carson at once organized his men to set up an extension ladder to. aged 64years, only child of J. F. the second storey window, where Miss Anderson, 94 St. Germain street. Maxwell was signalling for help. The GLADYS KINGSTON, aged 6, daughter ladder was promptly run up, and of Wm. Hingston, 57a Rouville street. every man who could crowd upon it JOSEPH JOHNSON, aged 7, 424 Cuvil- got in position to make a living chain lier street, son of John Johnson, time- to rescue the little ones. Capt. Car - keeper at Angus shops. son headed the ladder. Inside the ETHEL LAMBTON, aged 5?a years, window was Miss Maxwell, surrounded daughter of Geo. Lambton, foreman, 345 by a swarm of children and excited al - Moreau street. most to the limits of endurance. As soon as the firemen had formed • ..14lontreal despatch: A terrible disaster their living chain to safety, Miss Max - occurred this afternoon when the iiochel- wel handed her little pupils pne by aga Protestant School at 30 Prefontaine one to Capt. Carson, and they were street was burned, sixteen charred bod- swiftly pased down the ladder from ies of little children tell a story more hand to .hand to the ground. Thus the work went on. until probably forty t heart-rending than any that the pen of man can describe. The fire originated of the children had been saved, and made it seemed that none were left. Then in the basement • about 2.30, and. considerable headway before it was no' Capt. Carson called to Miss Maxwell to tired. An alarm was turned ino Fire save herself, Station No. 13, a block away, brit when the firemen had reached the school the, . Teacher's Heroism and Death. fire had gripped the upper parts of the "No, there are others inside, and we building and smoke was belching forth must save them," she replied, and ran from the windows. back to look for the other little ones• who she knew must 'be on the upper Firemen to the Rescue. Without a thought of stopping the fire floor. That was the end. the men started the work of rescue. Lad- "is Maswl ran we celedsto her toe come out,astheanroom was full of smoke and flames," said Capt. Carson. "I saw her hurrying to look for any of the other children who might have been overcome. We could not folow her, it would have been simply suicide. A moment later she fell in the thick smoke. It was all we could do, and an hour later her body was carried through the window, along with those of the children she had tried so hard to save." The fire broke out in the cellar, where there were two furnaces for the hot air heating system and large piles of , wood. The Genoa Corriere fercantile has published a statement tfat the family f the afar les of Cattairo which was in postession of fourteen. paintings by ito e l Van l yke has 'sold ;Sea of thein o floor nand aq scc le of children were soon J. P 'i f �- ,, organ or a , carried out In the meantime the flames ofs a,1o\ You can put on a roof that will last a hundred years and be the right kind of a roof every minute. Or you can put on a ten-year roof that will probably leak after the first rain hits it, andkeep leaking ther is will cost you about the same in looney at the start. 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Simplest thing you know—can't et 'ern on Wrong. "Oshawa" Shingles lock on all four sed whole roof is practically one sheet of double -galvanized steel, that never needs painting. And GUARANTEED -- don't overlook, that. Guar- anteed in writing,, .saver the in plain tYsof a corny 'with a uarter-million eapttal,.— guarrF Eealnglish withaatt any ifs or bats, fob 25 long years.anteed That's the • argument in a nutshell dist the same "O3hawa" Galvanized Steell Shingles a r e GUARANTEED in. every way for Twenty -Five Years Ought to Last a Century What would y our mill -man say if you asked him to guarantee cedar shingles for even ten years ? He certainly would make remarks ! And even the best cedar -shingled roof will be leaking badly inside of ten years. Seven out of ten of thein leak the first time it rants. No wood - shingled roof is fire -proof for a minute, and the first high wind a , that ^ catches a loose shingle-- 2I whoo.,,yr . goes half your shingled roof over into the next tawnahip. X, ,i 111 10?, i • �� MONTREAL TORONTO O.1'7CAWl avassasmagatotal as wood - shingles ; fi ,, proof, water eproof, and s roof l�ightning -prood' '' easier to part... on ;. . proof That 'the the c' Oshawa '. proposition ! Tell us the ineasuren , lit of any roof, and we'll tell' you eXaCtly what it will cost to roof • it with legis work and for less money. • Plenty of facts that concern your pocket book cone .to you; se soon as you axle 'l''ol. otic gree book, "Roofing Right " !A. po ire card, will.. do to on. 4- a uty l� eople • ser,. w. ,. P �,C;4N1UC41.1 �6 aao Craire 3t.117. 11'Colborne St. 423 Sussex St. 4 j "^ �t5� iWW (4 00 »ondzya St. OW T tqatziamvsknom leIC$t tJVJlR 11X5 Ponder St. had gripped the building and had reach- ed the top floor. The fire raged for twen- ty minutes before a drop of water was turned on. The firemen were trying to save lives. The building is a three-storey brick structure, but the interior wood- work burned very rapidly and gave out a pungent smoke which suffocated the children. The firemen did splendid ser- vice, and stuck to the work of rescue until driven out by flames and smoke. ' Other fire brigades clime up in respose f to a general alarm, and after three-quar- ters of an hour's work they had the fire under control. In the Teeth of the Fire. The work of the firemen was worthy of their escape. f heroes. They battled right in the Oswald Thompson, a lad of about ten years old, had escape, and told his story, as the school burned itself out.. "I am in the fourth form, with Miss.' Maxwell," lie said, "and was at school in the afternoon, when a boy, named Wylie Gilbert, went out of the room, and ran back up to Miss Maxwell and said, the hall was full of smoke. Teacher then went out to see, and came back very white and told us to get dressed and hurry home. I saw the smoke right. away, and as I was running out of the building I saw Miss Maxwell hurrying upstairs to try and save the little chil- dren up there. My brother was up therein the kindergarten and he got out all' richt " Frank Thompson, an eight•yearoldi student in the fatal kindergarten, had an interesting tale to tell, which was• emphasized by his tear -stained cheeks, although he sturdily denied having been - "scared" at any time. "We heard a Iroise outside," said he,. "and. teacher went to see. Then Miss Keyes came back and said, `Class, get your clothes and run right home."'.Chen' the smoke carne in and a lot of the chil- dren started to cry. There was not much,. noise, and I was not shared a bit, but the children seemed to be frightened. Most of them ran to the dressing room in. front'to get her clothes, and Miss Max- well looked in and told us. to burry out. "I and my brother ran downstairs first, but the stairs were so full of smoke that Stories of Survivors. Some of the pupils who escaped front the burning building tell thrilling stories teeth of the fire. Branch crews strug- gled through the thick smoke, fairly • fighting : They foughtihard there, way into tbeca rsehe tofl the bodies of the children, and made great efforts to prevent a further spread of the fire so that the little bodies would not be burned. Now and then a man would be seen driven to a window, but he would go back, and soon would reach out, swing to a ladder and descend with a sad little object in his arms. The men covered each corpse with a tarpaulin, transferring their gruesome load to the mournful -looking morgue wagon. The Anguish of the Mothers. The nevus of the fearful tragedy had spread, and parents of the children were , rushing to the place. Mothers, dishevel- led, wild-eyed and fearful, would spring intoforward as each little sight. 0 e woman sereane brought was w with terror as she tried to raise a cover. Al- though she lhhad not seen glimpse ofthe the little face tot's clothes, she shrieked: "Oh 1 it's she; it's sheIt]" was not hers, and as a kindly hand drew her back ,she staggered back to the waiting line, sobbing and praying. The 'crowd of men and won= wore quiet, standing hushed in the presence of the awful tragedy that was being enacted before their eyes, Many men tried to make their way to the front, eager to ve a helping hand. gi Even the stern police officers, semis- most of the kids were afraid to go. tomed to the horror of fire, were plain-. Miss Keyes, the teacher, stayed to sea ly affected. Some of them ars fathers, us out, and when 2 went out 1 saw her and they felt keenly the grief these poor I getting her purse out of the desk, When people must have been experiencing, they got her out of the window sbe was Her Life for Her Pupils. aimosti dead. I• ran home tie fast as X Miss Maxwell, the Principal of the' could as soon as I got away."