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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1907-09-12, Page 2IEXCURSION TRAI • Seven Persons Lose Their Lives and Many Hurt in Wreck at Horseshoe Curve --Condition of Injured. KILLED. NORMAN TWOS, Flesherton. JOSH THURSTON, Walter's loge (atngle). JANEB BANKS, Perm P. a (Wxrhid). JAMS BULLER, Primed/le. W. A..$USTROHO, Markdale ROBERT CARR, Sbelbmne. RICHARD BELL, Shrigley Post - office. 9steeae+ INJURED. *./. Robinson, Orangeville. IL Halbert, Orangeville J. M. Davis, Mark le .]lire. McCormick., Markdale. John Clayton, Markdale. Frank Graham, Markdale G. E. Gray, Markdale. Harold Mover, Idarkdale. S. Boggs, Guelph. A. McDonald, Shelburne ltfg. McDonald, Shelburne. % A. Jelly, Shelburne. H. b Jelly, Shelburne, Mie Dr. Caldwell, Fieeherton. John By d, Flesherton. Et Madtf Caleden. James Brandon, Prieeeille, Mrs S. Webster, Horning's Mills, W. L H1HAoisee. Mai I3sdgomw Su Patteteaa, . w. Margaret Wil, John 2feDietrgall, Dundalk. John Curry, t?negoville, IL X. Riotarthem, Flesherton XL IL Bunt, Flodorton Jahn Trelford, Proton. G. A1tin, Mirkdsle. Mrs Ct Weight, Venal= P. 0. Mrs. J, 0. Wilma end daughter, Mork - D: Noble, Markdale. B. J. Whittaker, Dumont, N. J. C. McMillan, Dromon. Annie Gilray, Markdale. A. E. Clark, liricerffie, G. Watson, Dundalk. Q Armstrong, Markdale. $ Smith, Black's Corners. Mrs. J. 0. Wilson and dengbter, Mark - Robert Conn, Heathcutor 11. Nicholls, Dundalk.. D. Mee, Dundalk. Jennie Sandi, Mre. R. Conn, B:eathooeje P. 0. W. Greenwood, Toronto; W. 'remiter& Dundalk., A. Heid, brakeman, Toronto Jnnotion. j, Ross, fireman, Toronto Junction. G. Hodge, engineer, Toronto Junction. M. Boyer, Calvin, P. 0. Thomas Snell, Calvin le 0. H. Holman, Calvin P. 0. Bessie Jamieson, Shrigley P. 0. Mrs. A. E. Wrigglosworth, Shelburne. Mr. Wrlggleaworth, Shelburne. Wnt. Douglass, 'Markdale. Mrs. Hanley, Ottawa. Mrs. Stewart Flesherton. Mary XmasSwintonPark. Mrs. Joh" McMillan, Ceylon. Annie Mall Ilan, (byline Mrs. James Newson, 'Tillsonburg.; Mrs. 11. Marscier, Tillsonburg, J. 8. Black. Pomona. n Willie Wilson, Flesherton Andrew Wilson, Flesherton,. Mr. Doan, Dundalk. lilr. Snore Markdale, J. Johnston, Dundalk. Mrs. Marshall, Horning's Mi Mas. Wm. Douglass, Markdale, 1'leibert J. Armstrong, Markdalo. Efts. Mary McCallum, Flosherton. Eire. 111, A. Clark, Portland, Ore. Robert Lyona, Markdale, Harold Armstrong, Markdale, Mrs. Mary Gough, Markdale. Carrie Connor, Dundalk. Wm. Brodie, :Markdale. Brodie, Markdale. M. Orange Fewsters, Shelburne. re John Duncan, Shelburne )hied Thistlethwaite, Flesherton. Mahal Thlstlethwaite, Flesherton fru. John Bouchnor, Markdale. ;)lits John Erskine, Markilale. Miss Mabel Erakino,.Mtarkdale. 'Ars. W. L. Wright, Flesherton W. J. Robinson, North Bay. Story of the Disaster. Ora vide despatch: Seven dead and Aeneas injured, many o4' them seriously, WS the awful price paid to -day by a happy train load of hoday-makers from Gey and Duffering oountiee en route Toronto Exhibition forspeed burst of p the down grade at Oaledon Moun- i.Ulm The train was an Exhibition ape- ela1, which loft Markdale at 6.30, and was due in ioroaio at 10.20. It con - /Sated of an engine and seven coaches. The engineer was George Hodge, the fireman Herbert Martin, both tried and trusted employee's of the C. P. R. The itkiln''oras erowdset with passengers, and w:ken.,Orangeville was;, reached shortly (l o'eiook it was as hour late. extracars were pile'°011. ' ' Moro era crowded ihto the train at vide, and as the, train sped south down the grade the passengers began to make remarks concerning the high rate of speed at which it was being run. There was apparently no percept- ible slackening as the "Horseshoe,' a peculiarly difficult curve between Cale. don and Cardwell Junction, was reach- ed, and when the train reached it the engine shot from the rails like a stone from a catapult, and was smashed into bite in the ditch. The first two oars that followed were telescoped against the engine, while two others were bad- ly damaged. The scene that followed was indescribable. From all quarters of the wreckage erose the aereama and groans of the injured, The care for- tunately did not take fire, and in a very few minutes dozens of willing res- cuers were dragging their less fortunate fellow•pessengers from among the debris. The engineer and fireman had jumped, sustaining severe but not; dangerous in- juries. lite cars to the rear were sole, and long before any outside help was secured the bulk of the dead and in- jurod were recovered. News of the terrible disaster which. had overtaken the Exhibition special at the horseshoe curve reached the C. P, R, officials in Toronto at about 10.30 yes. terday forenoon in the briefest possible form, the short message coming from Mono Road station and being absolutely devoid of all details. The wrecking train, fitted with a huge crane for the fitting of the ears, was at oneo des- patched, and accompanying the crew were Mr. James Oborne, general superintend- ent of the C. P. R.; Mr. A. Smith, dis- trict superintendent, and Mr, V, A. Har - Shaw, tralnmaster. At the time they started it was impossible for them to know tho extent of the disaster, the engine in its wild plunge from the track having earned, away the telegraph and telephone wires. Relief trains with nurses and doctors, were despatched from both Toronto and Orangeville, striving on the scene at 11.90. The doctors had their bands full. In six eases, however, their aid could be of no avail, but they had 'fourteen serious ambulance eases to deal with and a whole hoot of minor in- juries to attend to. Their work was accomplished with celerity, and at half - past 1 both trains were able to pull out with their freight of crippled and maimed. Scene of the Accident. A railway mac said that there was only ono other like it in Canada - the Rocky Mountain loop, Originally this piece of road was built by the old To- ronto, Grey h Bruce Rahway Company, and it is many years since the old nar- raw-gauge track was taken over by the C. P. R. About a mile in length, the curve is almost exactly the shape of a horseshoe, the extreme ends being about fifteen or sixteen rods apart, while one end of the section is fully one hundred feat lower than the other, It was at the centre of too shoe that the wreck oc- eurred, and after hearing the stories of passengers as to the rate at which the train was travelling, and seeing the mass of splintered; wood and twisted ironwork that once composed five emetics and on engine, the first . thought must be that nothing short of a miracle prevented the death roll reaching proportions which no words could adequately describe. The train when it pulled out of Orangeville was full, but not excessively crowded, Every passenger had a Brat, so that it will be apparent that there were about 400 persons on board The train bad been late in pulling out of Markdale, and was still an hour behind the selMduled time when Orangeville was reached. Saved His Life. How strenuous had been the efforts of Engineer George Hodge to make up time is best told by the words of one of the passengers, Cavid McCallum, of Shel- burne, who loft rho train at Orangeville. He was travelling in the fifth car with the unfortunate Robert Carr, and speak- ing of the occurrence, lie said; "She was going too swift for me.; Once before we got to Orangeville I was flung across the car into a man's lap. I left the train at Orangeville and took the ordinary. I tried to persuedo Carr to come as well, but he wouldn't." Yet another passen- ger, William Shepherd, who was sitting with another of the killed, A. Thurston, in the smoker at the time the wreck oc- curred, heard Conductor Walt. Grimes say, on having lost time, that twenty- five minutes had been made' up since leaving Markdale. mentarlly expecting the boiler to ex. plode, they darted away, but the anguished Dries of the injured recalled them to duty, and they rendered what assistance they could, leaving subse- quently, together with Conductor Grimes and the brakeman, both of whom es- caped injuries, but Martin had to be taken to the hospital, The tender, after literally cutting its way through the first car, a composite baggage and smoker, and knocking it to Modem, turned turtle, The second car turned turtle also and lay at right angles to the track. The third lay pertly upside down, and"part- ly on its side, locking as if iia two ends had been gripped by giant hands and twisted in opposite directions. The fourth car, partially telescoped, was stili on the tracks. The fifth was ditched The sixth was slightly damaged, while the seventh escaped entirely, and was re- turned to Orangeville. Miraculous Escapee, With ears reduced to match wood and passengers pinned down by the wreke e, there was canoe for thankful. nese that fire did not add to the horror of the scene. Some of the escapes wore miraculous. Sitting, an abieady stated, in the smoker was A, J. Shepherd, of Walker's Falls, with his hired man. Thurston just before the smash remark- ed, "We're going over -swift for me," to which Shepherd replied, "It's all right, John, you hang on; these men know the toad better than we do." The next in- stant chaos reigned. and Thurston was instantly killed, while Shepherd found himself lying with his body all but under one of tho wheels of the coach. The wheel had protected him from falling wreckage, but a difference of three inch- es and it would have crushed the Ole out of him. Still more marvellous was the escape of R, A. Jelly. of Shelburne, who was travelling by the train, accompanied by his wife and daughter, a tiny tot of two years old. They were in the fifth coach, and when it settled down bottom up there was not a single seat in the whole car that had not been smashed. Mr, Jelly found his wife and baby in the baggage rook, only a slender neck chain which the lady was wearing being brok- en, while none of the three had the slightest scratch, and, opening a window, all three were able to slip out. On Their Honeymoon Not so fortunate were Mr. and Mrs. Coon, of Heathcote, a couple who had been =tried only the day before. They were in the second car, the first to turn turtle, and Mrs. Conn was so pinned by the fallen woodwork that the axe had to be used freely to liberate her. Her injuries were most severe. One heavy piece of timber pinned her by the should - dere,' and it feared that internal in- juries of a moat serious nature were in- flicted, Even after she had been freed from that position her ankles were still confined, and the had to be used again, the unfortunate 'lady being fin- ally carried to Baxter's farm, apparently bus dying condition, her husband, who received a severe scalp wound, aselot- ing bo carry 'ser, Later in the day Mrs, Oonn's condition improved, and hope for her recovery was expressed by Dr, Watoes, who attended her. Sitting in the train vis-a-vis to Mrs, Conn had been W. A. Armstrong, of Markdale, who wan numbered among the killed. One other lady's condition was thought so serdous as to render her removal to l'oronto inadvisable. Mrs. W, T. Wright, of; Flesherton being found with one ear hanging only by a ehred of ekin and suffering from severe injuries to her breast and back. An Official Statement. General' Superintendent Osborne re.' turned to the scene of the wreck at about 8,30 and was then accompanied by Mr. Fairbairn, the company's engineer, who had come from Toronto for the pur- pose of 'examining the track and rolling stock. Mr. Osborne said: "Mr. Fairbraln has examined the track and rolling stock. I have the reports of the heads of de- partments who have charge of these mat- ters and I have made an examination myself. Thera is nothing wrong to be found, and from the look of the cars the only cause for the wreck was excessive speed," Searching the Wreck. Earlier in tho day District Superinten. dent Smith had wired to his chief, say- ing that he could see nno.appnrent rea- son for the wreck. The work of clearing the track was delayed by the fear that among the wreckage there might be some more victims.' Instead of the caro being turned holue bolus off the track they were thoroughly searched one by one, owing to a rumor that a woman and a child were missing, Before the District Supenintendont left, however, everyone of the ditched cars had been lifted and searched from end to end without any grueoome discovery being made to add to the line of poor, battered, white -sheeted figures that lay beneath the shadow of one of the wrecked conches. The Coroner's Jury. The inquest on the victims was formal- ly opened byrCoroner Dr. Samuel Ellison at Baxter .idem, the jury beteg Aliek Meteask (foreman), John Ferguoeon, Eye -witnesses, Two spectators, George Baxter and Allan McLeask, whose homes are eituat: ed within a stone -throw of the scene, witnesed the disaster. Both speak of the high rate of speed at which the train Was running, and the appalling sudden- ness with which disaster overtook it Me. Leask was standing in front of his house when he saw the engine shoot from the traek, .piough its tray a few yurde into his neighbor's field, and then the five following cars some pitching; and twisting with terrible crashes after- warde. The pitching of the engine be- fore it finally settled on iia side saved the lives of Engineer Hodge and Fire- man Herbert Martin, both of whojn re• side at Toronto Junction for t)sojt',oab was torn clean from its boltinge >and they were flupg clear of the wreck, lido• Thomas Grey, Charles Judge, William Wallach, Thomas Sweeney, Christopher Cranston, James Rutherford, Geo; At- kinson, Daniel Harrigan, Daniel Manton, Rev. Stanley Robinson, and Peter Bax- ter, The jury viewed the bodies, which were identified, and afterwards examin- ed by Dr. J. Graham, of Mono Road. Afterwards the inquiry was adjourned until the 10th list,. elan it will be re- opened at Banton II'all, Caledon, at 11 o'clock in the morning. The wreck yesterday was the third which the horseshoe curve has claimed in three weeks. The first was that of a freight train, which was ditched, while the second was that of the auxiliary which went to its assistance. VICTIMS IN TORONTO, Richard Bell Passed Away in Western Hospital. Toronto despatch: Between 35 and 40 of the people injured in the wreck of the Canadian Pacific train from Mark - dela were brought into the city yester- day afternoon in a special train. They were all taken to the Western Hospital, where their injuries were attended to. In quite a number of cases these in- juries were found to be slight, and the patients left after their wounds' were dressed. One death, however, occurred at the hospital. Richard Bell, of Shrigley, an old man, was brought fn suffering from internal injuries, and died at 8.15 last night. • He was riding In the secohd conch and was struck about the abdomen by the falling ruins of the esu•. On being taken charge of by the doctors and nurses from Toronto his condition was such that no Incision for examination could be made. He rallied, however, on the train, and, seeming to realize Ids condition, asked for a sheet of paper and a pencil IIe was too weak, how- ever, to use the pencil, and a Wore wrote his last will and testament. Ar- riving at the hospital he again soak, and his condition until death ensued at 8.15 last evening was one of alter- nate rallying and sinking. One Woman Was Paralyzed. Whether or not more deaths may come to those in the hospital is yet to be semi. Mre. James Ronson, a woman of sixty- four years, whose home is in Tillsonburg, is paralyzed from the waist down. The eurgeons fear that her back is broken, Mrs. W. R. Hanley, of Ottawa, who was on her way from Markdale, where she was visiting, to Toronto, is suffering from internal injuries and shock as well as a very badly lacerated arm. The sur - gene operated on the arm last night, Setno of the patients are suffering merely from scalp wounds. Miss Sarah Patterson, of Badegrow, lay unconscious up to a late hour lest night with a very severe wound on the head, while her els- ter, Margaret Pattereon, was also un- conscious, although her only apparent in- jury is a damaged knee. Charles Bellamy and John Clayton, boor of Flesherton, have injuries to their backs, and William Douglas, of Mark - dale, was suffering from a dislocated shoulder and a broken rib. Several. patients have broken noses, lacerated' ears and bruised or broken wrists and ankles, and othere again are the worse merely for the severe shaking up. 400 GIRL OPERATORS As Well as Men to Look for Other Work --A Superintendent Talks, New York, Sept, 9.—The World to- day says; Prom now on the striking telegraphers will seek temporary em- ployment in other trades. The 400 girls in this city will start this morning to got employment iu dry goods houses, The summer vacations are over, and theysay they can easily fled other employment, They will seek employment also as tele. phone operators. Twenty-five of the men obtained ear ployment yesterday, and on Oot. 1st next, when the 8 -hour law goes into ef- fect, compelling railroads to make three shifts of ei_bt hours each in twenty-two States, 090 men.from New York and Chi- cago will bcoome telegraphers on rail- roads. Superintendent Brooke, of the West- ern Union, said yesterday: "The mooting of the directors ' on Sept. 10th will take no action on the strike, and will simply transact routine business. The forty-five men from the different locals who are coming hero to discuss arbitration might as well save expenses and remain where they are. Their coming hero will do them no good" Running at a Fast Rate. • Tho high rate of speed at which the ill-fated train was running and the ap- parent recklessness with which it seemed to take all curves, were the features in the aeries told by some of the injured passengers,' who were brought to the city by a special C, P. R. train yesterday afternoon and -placed in the Western Hospital, The special with about thirty of the passengers injured in the wreck, pulled in at the head of Bathurst street. Two patrol wagons, three police amine lances and five private ambulances were in waiting, and under the kindly hands of nurses, doctors and trainmen the in- jured were one by ono placed in the vehicles and 'hurried to the Western Hospital, The coaches, which had been taken from the train bearing the uninjured pawners to the city and which were switched off at Toronto Junction on to the 0. P. R. tracks running along the north of the city, were filled with people with bandaged heads and arms in slings, while in the' berths several of the more seriously injured lay waiting to be re- moved. AI! the stories of those who were able to tell of their frightful experience re- ferred to the high speed at which the train was moving just before leaving the rails, and several of those seen by the Globe referred to the apparent reckless - noes which they thought they had ob- served in rounding the curves before coming to the ill-starred banshee. Took the Curves Recklessly. Mr. S. 0. Arnott, with his wife, got on the _train at Proton station, just north of Orangeville. They were in the third coach from the engine, Mrs. Arnett was cut about the head, face and shoulders, while Mr. Arnett eustained only it scalp wound. "I noticed," said the husband, `some time before we came to the horseshoe how; fast we were travelling, and that we eeemod`to take the curves recklessly. Just as we approached the scene of the accident our car leaned so that I had to hold on to the seat. `Aren't you afraid we may go over?' I asked my wife, and just as I spoke the car seemed to be turning over, and then everything was in ruins. I called for my wife, and, not receiving' any answer, feared fora mo- ment she might have been killed. Just then, however, I caught sight of her skirt, and found her pinned under some timbers. I was soon able to release her, and climbed with her through a car win - Two thing "trouble my faith; the ani. matity of most mon, the intelligence among beasts, EXPECT TO CA'TCH GANO. Capture of Chinese a Cine to Customs Officers. Ottawa, Sept, 9. --The officials of Jac Customs Department expect, a* . re- sult of the capture of thirteen Biases landed illegally the Cape Bretem, to WI' earth a of Memo* organixerlon of emog- 1itog Celia/isle into Casal: 1rtx, lire- found;and, 01 the Wanly -one who rem neatly brought Into Cap Baton, feartela have been capeated t the msd tmportwut devtboptnente ere emptied to serol from the -tisoerwr of a**tr me forget certificate whh kw oesaitinei t e Celestials ht The Chinese be. bisimigration Ant that svex(.36- 'einem Uo- nun n who fa ]eseoIiMiepos payment of the heal h►s of Wok be fur•niehed with a emit to "eouteintere a description of eagl'h,disid+eel, the 44e of his arrival, the satins of the Port of his landing and Beal eartifteeto spall be prima facie evideaes 11ha6 tiepersen pre- senting it los cam lta4.dte the requite- mente of this set. The certificate, moreover, contains .n photograph of the 41ivile-ul and fe countersigned la the controller of Chi- nese immigreeion, who ie. the Dery Minister of Trade raid Commerce. T. is passible that the forged certificate, have been collected from Chinamen who have been some time in the counter, sad forwarded to the point at whish the smuggled Celestials were intended In bo lan4eiL The spurious dooenusnhl mind at Syd- ney are now on that war to Ottawa, and the whole case is Were the Justice Do parement. PREFERRED MA• TH TA 1011001. Girl, Forced by Mor Parents to Resume Herself. Her Lessons, Shoots Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 0.—Emma Gra- ham, eighteen years old, daughter of, Burgess J. H, Graham, of Elizabeth, is dying at the Mercy Hospital from a revolver shot in her side, which she in. Dieted herself this morning,: The girl is a member of the graduating class o1 the high school, School opened en Mon- day, but she declared that she would not go. That morning, when the bell rbong, she stilt refused to go until he! mothM ordered her to dress and start for the schoolh oust. "All right," she declared, as she started upstairs. A moment later there was a revolver ehot, and etre was found uncon- scious in hat room. She was hurried to this city, wbro it is stated at the Mercy Hospital that she cannot recover. The only reason Mat can be assigned for the act is that she did not want to go to school. ICING'S SYCOND • COUSIN DEAD. Col. Fitz George, Son of Duke of Cam- bridge, by Morganatic Wife. Lucerne, Switzerland, Sept. 9. -Colonel Sir Augustus Charles Frederick Fitz - George, retired, died to -day. Cob. FitzGeorge was born on rune 12, 1847, the third son of the late Duke of Cambridge, and his morganstie wife, who was ]mown as Mrs. EinGeorge. He served in the Rifle B - • he Canada in 1865, and in India in A76. He ac- companied the Ring, then Pince of Wales, as aide-de-camp, et his Indian tour in 1876,:6, From 1556 to 1895 ho was private secretary and worry to his father. ♦-o TWO BON DROWNED. Mads a Fatal Attempt to Cross Night Hawk Lnhe, Toronto despatch; A letter received by Mr. Aubrey White. Deputy Itlihister of Lands, Forests and Minas, Nam Fire Ranger John L Campbell gives some dra. math details of the rtro of George S. Johnston, of Mrpoetge1 is Chutes and formerly of ()tient, aad Jolty lima°. Halleybury. The letter :tee not long out from Scotland, and it it mid that he was formerly a major bt ens of the Scottieh regiments of the iiritish army. Ile had no relatives fa Cans/+la. The writer asks if the Oovenneerrt bill bear the expellee of babel ID the o,ent of hie body being found, width hod sot oc- curred at the time letter 'ms writ- ten, namely, Augoet 8* CATS ANNOY THE PROFESSOR, . 1 Teacher of Music Complains of His Wife's Ten Feline Pets, Chicago, Sept 9,—flow to got rid of ten cats that are alleged to hove alien- ntrd his wife's attentions is the problem which Jacob Rosenberg, 217 Inst Super- ior street, 0 professor of music, Iris asked the police of the Chicago avenue station to solve for -him, Ile told Capt. Boreal that his house had been turned into a cattery by his wife,. and that when he begged her to diminish the number of her pets she replied: - "Get out, if .you don't like it, My dear pets, my angels. Birilie, Lulu, Wob- bly,1Snnsy, Bowie 1 egs, Boby, and the rest --they will never get out; be assured of "Mtittle;' ole enptnin,who could stand that'. the professor asked, "ts a good citiz required under the lav, to submit to e crowded out of sight In his own hate 1 a lot' cat?" "Justof i�n q'hsat eat ole,vou crowded?" inquired the captain cutbxingly. With es storm of ,tjMtures the profes- sor answered: "hrs more than,400 ways. Cats are to the right of mis,°eats aro to the left of 010, eats areverywhere, alive, sleeping, anti stuffed 1f I sit at 0 chair or sofa or p1:mo,jatoo1, 1 mid it hard to escape crnshie n cat- 1 weigh well, ns 1 have nlwn's tried to lire well, and whenever r r;tt gets caught.in a trap_ of which .1 alt the main squeeze, the fur flies in an awful Way, especially if my wife hap- pens to be an onlooker,' Aeb1 Captain, it's a frantic life that I hove in mine )tome with nil those pesky eats around!" After tiling time to mop his heated brow the professor, who is -diminutive in stature but decidedly rotund, contin- ued his tale of woe. "Why, I mu regarded as 0 freak toy home bemuse 1 object to my wife's worship of those ridiculous arts, I am' never fed. But the cats! Arc they fed? Gracious, you should sec the milk bills I )neve to pay on their account," Here he produced a bill for $18 for mm month's supply of milk, all of which, he said, had been consumed by the eats He accuses his wife also of "turning nr,ninst huu" their two ehildten Glen, who ploys the violin in Lakeview five cent theatre, and Lords, a clerk- in a downtown novelty store, Capt. Boreal was puzzled wont advice to give. "The only thing for you to do," be said, "is to get rid of the kittens in some way. Why not fill a trunk with water and drown them?" "What? Murder them! You don't know my wife!" screamed, the. professor, "No, 1 don't," the captain replied. "I suppose she would stuff them and you would have then around anyway." "That's the truth, sure as you live," "Well, if you can't get rid of them to -night," avid hte captain, closing the interview, "come hack here to -morrow morning and I will see what I can do." CRACK IN BRIDGE. PAINTER GIVES STARTLING EVI- DENCE AT QUEBEC INQUIRY. One of the Arches Had Opened Three- quarters of an Inch Wide and Twenty Inches Long, He Claimed— Subscriptions for Bereaved. Quaboo, Sept. 1.—The sensation of the sit- ting of the Coroner's inquest in connection with the bridge disaster was the testimony of Alesaader Ouimet, ono of the bridge work - mem. Ouimot, who -was a painter, had gonb to the land for drink of water, and west, returning .when he saw the, bridge begin to settle. tie at ellen started `back to land, but had one his heels caught and crushed. He stated to -day :thatbebadknown of a crack three-quarters of an inch wide and twenty Inches long 10 one of the erotica starting from the main pier, He had (mown of tots crack since May last, but bad never said anything about it, as he had :not thought Tat there was any danger. The witness Otnted out On the .plane the exact spot at which he had observed Ole crack. The meeting of citizens to take steps to provide means to relieve the pressing wants of the fanatics of the bridge victims was held this afternoon, Mayor Garueau pre- siding. The Mayor announced having receiv- ed n. number of subscriptions for the dis- tressed, and nearly a thousands dollars was Imtnedlateiy subscribed: BIG PRICES FOR PINE. New Record in Tender Accepted by Government, Toronto Sept, D. --A new bight record in the prices paid;;for the right to cut' pine timber was announced in a state- ment made yesterday as to the accept - once of several tenders by the Lands, Forest find alines Department, in re- sponse to a call by public advertisement. McGibliou & Co., n Penetatnguishene, made the record in their offer of $12211 per thousand feet, board aucnsttre, in nddiliou to stumpage dues of $2 per thousand, for the Pine on Franklin Island in the Georgian flay, The area. of the island is about three square miles. The advantageous position of the island, which will eaalde the iempsmy to float the, logs dir,et to their mills, no doubt ens atonsiderabe factor in their bid, Messrs. Booth & Shannon, of Btsaotnsim,, were the successful bidders for the richt.` to cut pine on berth 110. D. 2, near W ,. man River station,- in the Algoma dis- trict, and Loving an area of about foto square miles. They will pay $4,25 net• thousand feet, This area is somewhat difficult of access, and the logs will have to be taken out by rail For the right to i� cut on scattered lots in the townships of Beauchamp and Helmond, in the Temis. holing district, J. I1. Booth, of Ottnwr submitted the acceptable tender. ? will pay; $9.25 per 1,000 feeVi, for Tri ani 917.2.1 far red pine, 1It ;Booth Messrs, Booth & Shannon wit of m also pay the etumage dues of 1 r 1.000 feet.