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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-07-24, Page 7F1VE PERSONS KILLED. BY TERRIFIC CYCLONE. Dreadful Tornado Visits Dundas and Stormont. About a Duzett People Also injured Damages Over $200.000 --».Jelin Kearns' douse Blown Away With the Painlie lnsiee--.--James genres, Dwelling Wrecked - -.-Buildings Love ileq In the Path of the Storni-.--. Three Women a Buy meta flan Killed --.-,Terrible Scenes of Deya:ttation 10 the Path of the Storni. Dead. Mee John Q. Kearns,' elieste vele, married Weigel', aged 113 years. 1tdward Kearns, Cl'testerville, aged 7, *on of the above. Miss MacGregor, Orluond, aged 85. Mrs. Nelsou Hart, Grantley,, aged 2$. • y'illlam Breokstead; Grantley,, Injured. John W. Kearns, Chestervilie, frao- turad Ldp. Nora Kearns, aged 12, compound fracturo right arm, fracture left leg anis coneessioe of brain ; recovery doubtful. Marguerite Kearns, aged L, trao- tura left aria, rase anti legs injur- ed. stead N l u L contest tt n o i U ne mu i d not r.- stick is scut standing, and the ouse- hold furniture shattered into frag- ments', is spread far anti wide!, hun- dreds of perdu away, and tate conk - stove was carried away by the storm, and has not been found since. A sew - nib machine was split into fragments, heavy Sarni Iniploenente were rent asunder and carried in every direc- tion, and ti few fowls were to -night roosting on the dobris of the barn. About 3,e roils from the sato of John rearm' house is the one-story frame dwelling of hid uncle, Janice ii.earns. it was badly wrecked by the Morin, 'tee roof being blown off and a hole knocked in the most end and the barn was also demolished. :firs. James Itiearns and her throe daugh- ters were more or less injured, sine two cattle and a horse were kltlr,•cl Outright. Shortly before the storm Jar. Kearns, leis wife, and two of his daughters, Alice and Julia, were out milking in the cow stable, which Ie attached to the barn. Tlie mother and two girls went toward the house, and Mr. lenar•ns went on milking ,but 1n looking out of the window saw the, funnel -slurped cloud coming down from the west, and just as the women readied the front door the storm burst upon them, and they were thrown down and carried away, Mrs. Kearns being badly cut about the face and lege. Julia, who was blown from the front door into the oroliard, also received tnjaries., "Tine stable went like a feather," said 'Mr. James Kearns, iin speaking .of w'hwwt hap- pened, "and .L was thrown among thio cows, The wind carried the ann- rnails and myself for a distance of twelve fent. ;When 1 collected my senses The rook of my barn, had gone, and T esa s looking nisi at the sky." The iuteriror of Mr. Jae. Kearns' hottest wee turned topsy-turvy, one some or time houisehold furneture de- posited on atihe treetops, two hune deed yards dLsitoart. Mr. (trade's Burn 1)entolithed. Time miles in a. southeasterly dir- eoti.oin from. the Keaa.nts farm stood the dwelling and been of Mr. Michael Grady. Mr. Grady was in Chester- vLllo wihen•the oyclan.e ru•ehed down, and lids were and roue children and the haired man wore to the barn milk- ing. Tee building is 72 feet bong by 24 feet wiirde, and it went down like a. 'eouise of cases. The occupants es- caped by a miraole. Some Tattling tim- bere were cave% on, a couple of up- rights, mild znadie a sort of shelter, and into this Mrs: Grady, the chil- dren, and the hired man crawled ler safety. Sadly Graedy, the four-year- old cited, was struck about her head, but her eonalltion is not serious. Ten out of four'teeu cows in Ute barn were killed, • William 13reclrstead's Death. William Breckstead worked for Simon Droppo, a farmer, In the township of I''inch. The barn was• Okesterviile, July 1$. -Dive persons killed, a dozen injured, and about • le00,000 worth of buildings, crops and live altook destroyed, are the appalling results of a cyclone which struck this seett'on of the fertile County of Dundas yesterday after- noon, in the form, of a huge funnel- ehaped cloud. The cyclone swept across the Townsle'ps or Winchester, Finch and O;nabruek, carrying death and destruction witil it. There is no parallel for it in the annals of eastern Ontario, and we rust look to the tornado -swept western States of the American Union to find an equal. For the halt hour which death and ruin swept over this district dwelling houses and bairns were swept from their foundations, and with their contents caroled for hundreds of yards, split into matalr- wood, and the cyclone, in its course, wrought vagaries or the most start- ling description. It was about 5.80 wben the awful storm made its ap- pearance in the district, and it struck the Township of Winchester, in what is known as the Ormond sell' ement', in the northwest cor- ner. and rushed like a demon of fury in a southeastern direction across tho Townships of Winchester, b'lueh and Osnabruck, to the St. Lawrence River. Mearns' Vexedly Sutler. Ane of its worst putbroaks of fury occurred at the farm of John H. Kearns, which ie situated about four rn:las from the silage c•f Cltosterville, and as a result Air. Kearns' wife and seven-year-old son are lying dead, a A.welve-year-old daughter is not ex- pected to recover and the father and a four -year -tics daughter are tossing with fractured iambs on a bed of pain, and a deep lt.:lo 18 b;,' 24 feet marks the site of What war once b, 000nfortable one -storied dwell- ing'Tlie house was. carried .off bodily and spread in splinters hundreds of yards away, and the remains of a (barn, which stood north of it, lie in a t'wis'ted mase. The roof and sides of it are scattered over the adjoin- ing fields in the form of matchwood. set the time of the storrn's advent John H. Kearns, the stead of the family, was in the open, and Mrs. Kearne, with the cirillren, were in the house. airs. Keane, with the :throe little ones, aver° carried away With the Arouse. The mother was titrown into a potato patch on the adjoining farm and her battered re- mains .v1th a cruel wound on the temple `were round ween the storm. was over. Some clietance away Ed- ward Kearns, 4r -,r sevon-dear-via son, fell •witbt a broken neck. In another direction Nornir, 'aged twelve, and 2i'arguerite, aged four, W01,3 flung math brutal Force and their limbs fractured. The father, whu had rushed to the rescue of hie loved ones, was caught up by the storm and tossed hinter and thither like a cork. Finally, to too, was flung to ttl1 . earth, and lay with a fraetured Thigh. his ]lands dug into the earth to keep himself from further buffet - fags. When the storm had ceased willing Bands carried the corpses of The mother and little b.ty to the house of Richard Kelly, a neighbor- ing farmer, and the surviving mem- bers of the family were borne there also on improvised ,stretchers, and afterwards the two dead bailee were tnke)n into the village of Chester- ville and prepared for ]nterm^nt, Which „takes place to -morrow. The fattier and 'two daughters are still alt the Ictally homestead, and to -night it is take that Novell cannot' recover. Mr. Kearns' Story. Although racked with pain, Me. Kearns gave the reporter a very graphic story of the disaster this evening. Ile said.: "1 saw: the storm coming when it was about half a mile away, and I started for the barn to turn the cattle and Iwrsns loose, but the building was blown cloven. When I turned to get my iunlsy to a place of safety tltef big funnel -shaped cloud then seemed to be only 50 yarde away, and itt was carrying trees, boards and meter - late of all kinds, and I could not ,reach the House in time and threw Myself down to the ground. At last the storm struck me and• I was car- ried away with it. I was thrown down and picked up several times, and struck by boards and timbers several times, and something struck me over 'Oxalate acrd broke It. t began to fancy I would bo killed, and tho (heavy coat I wore was torn from me Under any menet I looked round e.nd saw no sign ot tiro lions() or bern. I salted for my 'wife, but there was) no response. Several times I tried to get up and failed, but at last Drawled to a couple of pieeee of boards and used them as crutches rind I crawled around slowly and beard crying;% et war my youngest Child, Marguerite, Drying for her Mother,and farther ..away lay N trait, aged 12, and I supposed she was dead. 1 proved towards her and came across the body of my boy Edward, Ile was stone dead, and then I moved around to find my wire, but I got ck and feint and lay down be(side my Iittlo boy. I felt I intuit leave 'firings as they were. When the storni Wee over they found my wife, lila,/ have another little ferl, Genevieve, but she was at her uncle's, and ho escaped." . A c'is'tern of Ruin. A negro complete picture of ruin than the site trfi tho ICoa,kns home. KING ATTENDS SERVICE, ('ondueted by (.emntaneer of'Y►►cht- Progress Surprises 1)ootcrs. Cowes, Isla of Wight, duly L'O. - King Rdward to -day attended di- vine services, which were conducted by Commodore Lambton, the com- mander of the Yiotoria and Albert.. Queen Alexandra, and the other members of the Royal family aboard the yacht wore also present, A cold north-east wind necessitated the onelosing of the sides and stern of tho deck when the, King ustra.liy stays. zits 1klajesty now arises at nine o'clock le tee morning and takes ide breakfast a half-hour later, after wideh he is visited by his physleitens. The Ring;;', progress continues to surprise the doctors. AIHEFIE 15 MA. THOMAS FLYNN? Left His Money Behind Him Eight Years Ago. HAS NOT BEEN HEARD OF Mines tie Went to the West and His Pile Now Amounts to Ot er $1,000 -Has then Frequently Adver- tised !or but without Avail. A. Hamilton ciespate,it say a : A Somme rat strange disappear- ance of a Hamilton man has been broughit to light by an advertisement in a Chicago newspaper and a trade journal. TJro man souglvt• for is Mr. Thomas S'lynn ; he formerly worked In the G. T. It. shops, and resided on York street, near Magill street. Tile Hurn wlto is seeking to find hien is Mr. Daniel Cotter, of the Wentworth Park Flotel, wleo has had a bank Look of his, allowing au $SOU (Wilmette for the past eight or nine years. When questioned about the matter Mr. Cotter declined to reveal any family secrets, but promptly said he luta bceu making; efforts to 11nd zf13'nu and teat he held leis bank book, welch is good for more than $1,000. The story groes that Flynn's fattier, who died about ton years ago, out . this son off entirely. The missing man instituted legal proceedings, with a view to breaking the will, the result Wittig that the legatees decided to offer hien $1,000. Flynn accepted this amount and decided to leave the city. Tic banked '$800, keeping $200. His bank book was handed to his former 'then shopinate, Mr. Cotter;, with in- structions that if he sent for money ho wanted it forwarded to him. Flynn, when leaving the city, said he was going to Chicago, and so far as can bo learned no word Iters been re- ceive;. from him since, although he has been advertised for throughout the western States. His sister, who Married a man named Jones, has since died, bat J1 is said hes brother, James Flynn, is living in New York. It is feared the man died among etrangees or was killed, The official Gazette, of Caracas), publishes an official decree adding Carupano to the list of ports closed to trade and declared to bo block - sided. LORD DUNDONALD, Who is on itis Way to Assume Command of the Canadian flilitia, blown clown and Breckstead fatally hurt by falling timbers. Miss MacGregor belonged to Or- mond settlement, and no particu- lars were obtainable hero to -night as to how, she mot her death. Mts. Nelson Bart was reported to be sufferings only from a fric- ture:s hip 11111s morning, but to- night the ,news was brought to Chestcrville that site had died. Relief Measures. A meeting of residents of Cdl'34- t0rvi110 was held hero to -night in Order to see what relief measures could he devised for the sufferers tram the disaster. A committee of amen was appointed to, go throng li the devastated area and report to a Mass meeting to be ]tell on 'Cu •'r- day evening. No accurate st:ate. wont or tiro tinaneiat Losses is pro - Curable, but It in estimated they will easily iUitduut to $200,000. Ilexmnn Shaver's brick hotes'e, about flys miles from t:die,.terviill-, was blown clown and the furniture completely destroyed, and only the parlor was ,left intact. lir. Shaver wan buriel in: brick up to his weed, but escaped serious injuries. The. cuter members of the family erawl- 01 nailer a table and escapees in- eary. d;ltolern, be increasing in China and the P1lilippInesr TORNADO AT BALTIMEJRE. Eleven Suffered Death Various Ways. NiNE DROWNED iN HARBR one Was Killed by a Veiling Tree aud 04e by a Live Wire --•Havoc at a eamp Meeting. -The Loss Manyri tsitr edsof Thousands of Dollars. Baltimore, July 20.•.-.A fierce tor- nado, characterized by a windstorm of extra/nefrnary velocity, thunder, vivid lightning and a heavy rain, suddenly buret upon Baltimore at 1.80 p. m. to -day, coming from t southwest. Eleven persons lost th lives, hundreds of houses were u roofed, trees in the public parks and streets were torn up by the roots, many buildings damaged reed sev- brar people injured. The etorm ex- hausted Lts fury In less thein fifteen he sir n- mtnutes. The damage done in the business part of the city was Com- parattvely slight. it was in the residence portions of the city alon,.; the river front, and In the harbor where the wind spent its violence. Of those who peri$hed nine were drowned in the hareor from open boats, one was killed by a tailing tree and one by- a live wire. The following is a list of the killed: Drowned in the Harbor. Roy Bateman, 12 years old. Joseph Cain, 1.17 years eke ,John Cain, 6 years old. Thomas Carroll, 21. years old. Harry McCormick, 19 years oil. Mrs. Mary Schuler, 28 years old. Harry S. •Schuler, 10 months old. Olive Schuler, 4 years old. Charles Schuler, 7 years old. • 'lulled by S'n:Lng Tree. Wiliam Cornish, colored. Kilted by Live two. Charles Scherer. The three first victims oa the above list were out in a rowboat on tho river, with three other com- panions. When the storm broke the boat was capsized. Capsized Sailing Critft. The drowning of Mrs. Schuler and her children was the most pathetic Lucidont of the hurricane,, Michael S,obuler, with his wife and three children, acconlpanied by his br0- ther-in-law, Joseph Cooper, and his wire, had gone out into the lrar- bor for a. sail. When the sterns came Schuler and Cooper took in sails. Scituter sent his wife and childre,e into the little cabin, and lie stood act the tiller to keep the vessel's head toward the wind. A sudden gust of wind. threw the boom of the vessel around, knocked Schuler down, and pinned him to 'the deck. Another gust capsized the boat, re- leasing Schuler, wlro, with Cooper and his wife, was thrown into the water, leaving Mrs. Schuler and her children pinned in the cabin. Coop- er saved himself and his wife by hanging; to the bottom of the over- turned boat, and Schuler saved himself in the same way, after mak- ing frantic efforte to get at his imprisoned wife and children. A crew from 'the schooner Henry Hunt rescued Bohuler and Cooper and wife and towed the capsized vessel to the wharf, where it was righted and tate dead bodies of Mrs. Sdhuler and her three children taken from the cabin. Thomas Carrott, with four young men, was out in the harbor in a rowboat, which was capsized. Car- roll was drowned. . Havoc at a Gump Meeting. A colored (tamp meeting was in progress in Paradise Grove, near P,owJea.ttan. A huge oak tree fell upon the tent. Several of the wor- shippers were caught beneath it as it fell, anti William Cornish was crushed to death. The others wore net seriously injured. The Sea Cath- olic Church in South Baltimore was damaged to the amount of $7,000. At the foot of Concord street, the Merchants' and Miners' Transporta- tion Company's warehouse was un- roofed, with small damage to the building, but the rain poured in on the valuable cargo stored therein, doing a damage which is estimated at from $100,000 to $300,000. Tlee gas reservoir In South Balti- more, containing about 300,000 test of gas, was "blown dyer, the gas( ex- ploding without injuring anyone, the damage being plaeocl at $15,000. Tile damage' to the shipping in the harbor was general, ♦ but not of a serious nature. Tito weather bureau here reports that it was more in the nature ori a3 whirlwind than a tornado. Tho wind blew at the rate of 61 miles an hour, and the rainfall was 56-100 of an Inch. Reports from outlying districts are meagre, but so far tis known the storm was confined to Baltimore and suburbs. --- Struck by a Squall. T,nlchester, Md., July 20, -Jas. 13. st, aged 20, anti Theodore C. arker, aged 21, of Baltimore, who me here to -day on an excursion, ere drowned this afternoon. They, it'h four companions, were rowing the bay. A wind squall overturn - the boat. The others were res - ea ed. A BAY'S WILD YOYACE,' Swept Through a Sewer a Distance of 1,000 Feet. EMERGED ALIVE AND GOT OUT, Jamestown, N. Y., July 21. -- Another terrific storm passed over Chatauqua County yesterday and last night, doing great damage to growing crops, delaying traffic or the Erie and Dunkirk, Allegheny 'Valley and Pittsburg hallways, and cutting smelt holes in highways that travel across country is almost lin- poseible. Geo, Courtney was drown- ed at rematch Creek, while trying to ford a Swollen stream. A bridge across a culvert in the elty broke down while George Sin - Wear, a 6 -year-old boy, was stand - big on it, and fro was qusekly car- ried Into a sewer, through which he cafes swept with terrifi!foreo more than ono thousand feet, coming out at the lower endir, loss than. three minutes in a frightfully cut and bruised condition, but alive and able to crawl to a mace or safety: TRAINING OP KAISER'S ..ONS (i i'i,rait)'s Ruler ilclleves in Deny- ing eny- ing '1' h e►i► Many Things. Berlin, July 20. -Emperor W11111atn has allowed Primo Adelbort, his third son, to set up a separate, es- tablishment in a house built for him at Kiel,'The Prince is now eighteen years old and is having his first taste of independence, sa far as the entourage of iris Instructors or— nates. Ile begged his father to al-• low lam four horses for his Carriage bnt the Rrnperor refused. The Emperor's system or bringing up hie 'ohildron is to deny them as many things as ,posslbie consistent With their position, so that they may look forward to something to niain- tain the zest of lite, at tenet' until their eddcation le finished. /emperor William's own youth was regu- lated on that principle. Ire Is aredit- el with raying that the most inalan- eholy sight en earth to stint is a prince to whom lire is exhausted. OARMGNT WORKERS OUT. Twenty.flus Thousand on Strike in New York. Now York, July 20, --Twenty-five thousand East Side garment workers went on strike to.4ay, and It is Pre' dieted 10,000 more will follow. The Brotherhood of Tailors de- mands of the manufacturers a 06 - hour working week, the payment of in Year's union scale, a guarantee that the contractors or mtddiemen will pay union wagers anti employ union men, and also a guarantee that in 0000 of middlemen .defaulting they will Melt their wages. 'rile employers were willing to great the 56 -hour working week, but were not willing to take any pledges as to the payment of wages by the o!ontractors,. SWEPT BY CLOUDBUASTSI Four Persons Lose Their Lives in the Floods. $200,000 .DAMAGE DONE. The Disaster in Broome Couu y, New York State -31111 1)it►n Broken and it III Old Factory I3utidiag Carried Dowit with the hush of :voter -triunity hurled to Dente. Binghamton, N. Y., July 20. -The heavy raians %vlach have prevailed in thin • sectilotn icor the past fen days reached a climax last eight, wllien 'three sepeasete cloudbursts occurred 'vft'hfn the emits of Broome Couamty alpine, and several un 'surrounridmg territory to the uor't'hiward, bromide* mill dams, wclshbng one railroad tracks and RICE'S CRJME EXPLtTIID; THE LAW SATISFIED. Siept Welt awl Went to alis Doom With Fortitude -...'Herr Mother Will Take the Body for Burial. to Illinois—Tine Career and Crimes of the :Head Alan-. --1 ow He «pent tits Last Hours on Earth. Toronto, July 1S,-Jerea Lee Itiae, I 1115 LAST 1%t3CAYAl , the murderer of Coisnuty Constable Weibull Boyd, was hanged bere this moi'l'ing rz S.03 0'01o0k. He welvta to the $caffold with a set, de- term;aned expression, very pale and rigid, and notwithstanding the fact that he bad refused the usual given stimulant bythe doctor, c t0 r sub- mitted b mitted to the ordeal without any apparent tremor. He saki nothing; in fact, the usual question as to his desire in this reelect was not asked. Tile officiating clergyman, Rev. Robert; flail, city missionary, when asked if tlio doomed man bad made any confession, said that he could say nothing touching upon that point until he had consulted with Airs. Rice, deceased's mother, who was in the city to receive the body and to have Lt takento the family burying; plot at Champaign, Ili. Last flours. Bice retired Last night at 10.45 P• 7l'•, and lay for some time chat- ting with his guards. He had spent Most of the day with his spiritual adviser, Mr. Ball, and was prcpartd to meet his fate. me said to the guard that it was hard to face the music alone, 'meaning in the ab- sence o1 his egmpanions in crime, Frank Rutledge and Frank Jones. Then he fell asleep and seemed to pass a restful night. rite Scaffold Scene. At 5.30 he arose and was met by his guard, to whom he spoke a word of greeting. ler, Hall was early at the jail, and after Rice had eaten a light breakfast the minister and THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, Who Will Succeed Lord Salisbury as Leader in the Lords. highway bridges, and doing much minor damage, as well as delaying trains. As a result of the water's mad work, dour are killed and two seritoesly injured, and $200,000 mon- etary damage has been done. Telae dead: James Cook, drowned at Afton, Ohenaango County ; Mrs. Jas. Cook, wife of above ; six -menthe -old d=''ikt of Mr. and Mrs. Cools ; Michael J. Ryan, of tele city, killed in' wash - ant at Harpursvilie, Broome County, tear Delaware & Hudson Railroad. Seriously injured: Engineer Edward Fa,rrin, of tills city; Fireman Wil- lis le Martha, of this oily. At 8.30 o'clock Saturday evening a cloudburst oeeurreti in the town of Coventry, on the watershed drain- ed by I3nrnp Creek, Tate downpour soon sent this creek nut of bounds. Tile nails -dam of 1. W. Seeley's mill, two miles west of Alton, went cul, carrying with it a great quantity of lain, sawed logs and sawed tim- ber to Inc Chenango River, two miles below. 'i'ne water from the liberated ni111 pond rushed down the narrow valley in a wall ten feet high. The Taft mill -dam and an old furniture factory, iodated about a simile above Afton, stood on the edge of a bluff with a deep ravine below. When the water reached this point, neighbors heard the Cook family, who lived in the upper part of the furniture factory, scream. When they ar- rived tine water was ten feet deep in the yard, and on the bank anis new -formed lake 'they paused. Just as they arrived the mill -dam, build- ing and family were washed over the bluff, and the building and contents werb literally ground to pieces in the raging water. Tho bodies of the Cook family were found to -day, a mile below the scone of the feed. The railroad men mentioned In the Itst above were on train No. 01, ot ilio Delaware & Hudson Railroad, which e'en into a,large wash-out two males this side of Harpursvidlo abort 11. o`clock Seturday tight. The train, a heavy freight, rolled down a 00 - foot embankment. At Oxford, Chewing() county, an- other cloudburst occurred, and the village Is reported Much damaged, hut, no lives were lost. TOO ARDUOUS FOR MILNER, Appolninteet of 'Transvaal leoveraor is hailed With iatisf„etiot,. London, July 20. --Referring to the appointment of Sir Arthur Lawley ilk Lieut.-GoVeraos of the Transvaal. Colony. the drintes' correspondent at Johannesburg says: "The necessity for cancer an appointment has long boort foreseen there, as the strain of administrative work on Lord Miner Was too arduous for Any ono man.” The Correspondent says the nppointment of $br Arthur has been well reeeivedd, go his popularity in Ilhode,;ia is remembered. It is sup- posed he will reside in Pretoria,. Barns near I'enetangnisht'ne acid Guelph were burned by lightning. he were left atone, and from then until the arrival of Hangman Rad- cliffe, the time waS spent in prayer. Simultaneously with the entrance of I,adt lifle the black flag of death was hoisted above the jail. Tile march to the ecaftold took two minutes, and the body was cut down 45 minutes later. The pulse stopped beating twelve minutes al, ter the drop. The coroner'aa jury found that death was duo to strata- gelation. An attempt may he made to show that the hanging was bungled, but bottf the doctors and the hangman say, that the man was unconscious after the drop, and that it is al- most impossible to break a man s neck by hanging. !Lice's l,itst i),ty. The doomed man spent Iris last day upon earth yesterday very quietly. He devoted a good deal oil time to religious exercises, in company wild. Rev. Robert Hall, Des spiritual ad- viser.: He was apparently prepared to meet clots fate, and showed no signs or desponden(tyg 13e seemed to have no desire to cheat the gallows, and was ready to meet the death wtibeh the law of the land has or- dered for Ihsml He never seriously contemplated suleide; his opportun- ity came when) Franck Rutledge jump- ed over else railitng in the jail more than a year ago( Rice head then a etharnce to go down to death. with Rutledge, but the refused to take it.. ire is reported to have said that no rope would be placed around aids meek, meaning that he 'would avoki the stigmia of hanging. It is (salol, hiowiever, that the pris- oners regard for his mother's peace of mints itna the future prevented him from making any attempt on his own life. 1 3' 11 is VW eel': Shr years ago Fred. Lee Rico was the pride of ]tis family in their happy home, four miles from Champaign, Illinois. Fred. was an only son, and had been carefully educated by his parents, who were then well-to-do. Ile was secretary or the telephone company, and each day was to be seen driving to and fro between his hone and the town, with a black attendant. At that time heenjcyed the respect of the townspeople. But evil association fell to his lot, and swift has been his downward course tinea then, and to -day ho is the vic- tim of the hangman's noose. Of his companions in his final 05110es, Rut- ledge lies buried in the cemetery of his native town of Streetsville, and Jones, or to will him by hist• propel' name, Ryan, lies beneath tiro sod of St. Michael's Cemetery, in "i `fronto. (Meters of the Crown were besieged yesterday by morbid persons, seek- ing admission tickets to the serene of the execution. In these cases the n.p- plieatic:,ne were refused, it being ton- tridered that the event should not bo made an exhibition for the gra tifieation of peeulinr curiosity. One malt slunk away after being told by the Crown Attorney that a hanging was ne plaeo for 'any man. '1 'he Critne for W Melt lie Sp#i'ered the 1xtrentti l?euatty, Fred Lea 'nice, who wag, hanged tele morning for the murder 01 etanthe last 01 th tri ofinoto Boyd, was burglars, known as the '•Aurora Bank rs r . i Mayd 9 n loot , tame e men,,tubsealuentle dentilled as Frank Rut'. age, Thomas Junes and Fred Lee Moe, broke into and robbed J. L. Ross' private bank at Aurora, Ont.. of also,91. robbed ur om The Bettie nighpost-office tv a large amount of money, stamps and mining stock certificates, and this; robber, 'vas 'traced to the same ri R nd drove to Toren onto, horse where they boarded a ;train, and were next located itt Chicago several weeks later. After a long fight in the courts the trio were finally brought back to Toronto, whore tltey were tried and convicted,, and on Juno 4tli, 1901, sentenced to twenty-one years' imprfsoument eaeit on the two charges of rolbbery and one of horse Stealing. That evening while the prisoners, guarded by three acnsta- bleu, were being conveyed in a cab tb the Jail,a stranger. 'whose iden- tity has never been discovered to this day, 'threw three revolvers one after another into the carriage. Tho prisoners grabbed 'the weapons and began firing, 'and the police drew their revalvors ;and returned the lire. Constable Boyd was shot dead, and the prisoner Jones in attempt- ing to escape was shot by Constable Stewart, and died two days later, On June 7th Rutledge committed sui- cide by jumping lrom the interior gallery of the jail to the pavement, thirty feet 'below. Rice was placed an trial at the last Spring Assizes for the murder of Constable Boyd, and was convicted on the most un - controvertible evidence. T. C. Robin- ette, the condenrned man's counsel, made a 'tenacious and plucky right for a new trial, and, then, failing itt that, sought a commutation of the sentence ,to life imprisonment, but in this also his efforts were un- successfuI. ' Mother Will .Get the Body. In view of the exceptional circum- stances Of the case, the Government has decided to surrender the body to his relatives. The decision was arrived at yesterday morning, af- ter the Ministers wbo are in town had been addressed upon the sub- ject by Air. T. C. Robinette, K. C. Earlier in the day Mr. Robinette had an interview with Mr. Har- court in regard to the matter. lastss. Ricent nigltteat the hems and her 4t lir. ter Robe Hall, city missionary, the spiritual adviser of Rice, to whom the con- dtachedemned. man had been greatly at.. RICE'S LAST STATEMENT, Did Not Fire the Shot That Killed Constable Boyd, HIS GRATITUDE TO GOVERNOR, Toronto, July g1. -Rev. Robert Hall, who was tile spiritual adviser of Fred, Lee Rice, said on Saturday that some time ago Rice had made a ietatement to him, which he had not withdrawn. "He said distinct- ly that he never fired the .shot -and I believed him," were Mr. Hall's words, adding that Rice made no recent statement. Rice's mother and sister, who stayed at Mr. Hall's house curing their few days spent in Toronto, Left on Saturday after- noon for Champaign, Iii. Following is the wording of a let- ter from Rice to the governor of Toronto jail: Tpronito, Ont., July 17, 1902. Governor VanZant, Toronto -My Dear Sir, -I want to express to you my heartfelt gratitude for all the kindness and considerate treat- ment that has been shown to me all along by you and the officers of the jail. It has been a long, sore trial to all, and I know that you have found your duty often a bitter task, bub I am, thankful to all for continu- ous kindness and sympathy. Kindly coney to each and every one ot your officers my esteem and gratitude. Sincerely and faithfully yours, Fred. Lee Rice. P. S. -Please do not mention this to the officers until after tomor- row. t 1''. L. R. PITTING IITH CANADIANS. Reference by Gen, lan Hainil- ton to Their Bravery. HELPED TO ESTABLISH PEACE. Ottawa, July 20.--A letter from Mayor Bliss to the Deputy Minister of Militia contains tt farewell order from Gen. Ian Hamilton to the See- ono.0. 5'11. R. under Col. Evans, which reads its follows: "I am ordered to revert to my post as chief of staff at headquar- ters, acyl must, therefore, bid you and your gallant troops farewell. Please convey- to 'theta my hearty good wls1ies, and congratulate them from rue on hating players 50 dlstingutslied and leading a part in tate closing scones of the S nth African war, whereby I ant convinced yeti 1iAVO contributed In a very Special degree to the termination or hostilities. In cennecticn with this it may be noted til.tt ''Gen..Iia11i'Iton command• ed the column in ,which the first Canadian contingent fought from 13iocrntoutein to Pretoria, and hie rarewell to That regiment contained very much the same expression of reeling; Negroes Shot to Death. I osctuske, Miss., July 19.' .Two negroes, ltionroe Hallman and Jas. Gaston, were shot to death at Cross - reside, 13 miles 'west Of ICoseinsko, by a Mob. Tim trouble arose from the organization of secret societies of negroos, with the Intention, It is sand, or Netting` the negroes to vio- lefl Agatha the whites.