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The Wingham Advance, 1907-08-15, Page 7DEATH AND HAVOC; DYN ITE DISASTER Two Train Hands Blown to Pieces and Invalid Doctor Fatally Shocked. Awful Results of the Explosion at Essex -Many Hurt and Much Property Ruined. DEAD, Joseph McNaty, Antheratburg, brakeman on plug train., Leo Cou1ii, Amherstburg, brake- man on plug train. Dr. James Brien, iU in bed, ex- pired from shear. SERIOUSLY INJURED. James Brown, Amherstburg, grain merchant, struck by iron brace, injured internally, James Maddigan, fireman of the plug train, five scalp wounds, badly contused shoulder and right side.; condition very serious,' A. 0. Stimers, station agent a Essex Centre, stunned and cut; condition critical. Thomas Barry, Amherstburg, conductor of plug train, cut about the head, face and chest, David -Cottrell, engineer of plug train, januned in cab of engine; taken to St. Thomas, SIGHTLY INJURED. J. A. .Abbott, day operator, cut about the head, David Hess, aged Li, blown through corner of warehouse, badly cut. Michael Faraugh, mill hand, blown into street; cut about the head, Bert Esseltine, mill hand, cut on nose, head and arms. Mrs. Jos. Bailey, of Gesto, cut on head. Mrs. Martin, Ypsilanti, colored, cut by falling debris in station. j. R. Clines, night operator, cut about the head. Miss May Cockburn, telephone Operator, Struck by falling bottles in drug store. Mrs. A. 0. Stimers, wife of sta- tion agent, cut by falling timbers in her home. Probably a score of other people were cut by falling glass in the various stores and houses. -)11 444 -4. -44 -÷444++++++++++++++ -at Esse; Aug. 11.—As a result of what was apparently gross criminal care. liessuese, the responsibility for which remains to be fixed, two alichigan Central trainmen met death in a hor. rible fashion, the end of an aged ana respected citiien was hastened, three men are lying dangerouely injured at Hotel Dieu, Windsor, and scorta of residents of this town bear the marks of hurts ranging from fractured limbs down to minor cuts and bruises. In addition the ealichigan Central railway station roof was wrecked, four or five factories lie in ruine and a seem of residences and out -buildings are so wrecked and twisted that they will have to be razed and rebuilt. Tha property loss will be heavy, runniug from $200,000 to 2e0,000, and the thriv- ing little town of Essex has received a blow from which it will not soon recover. Looking at the wreeked buildings and the wide -flung debris, the wonder is that there were not a score or more deaths. 4 The havoc was wrottglit by the ca- lf. plosion of a half carload of dynamite on Saturday =mine, and the time was definitely fixed by the clock on the cracked wall of the station, the terra fie concussion having stopped the hands at 0.47. Essex Ceutee, which is situated about 18 miles southeast of Windsbr, is a junction pia, on the Michigan Central main lino between Buffalo and Detroit, a short "plug" Iine turning off to Autherstburg, the latter point is opposite the Lime Kiln Crossing, where exteneire blasting opera. ions have been for some time carried on to remove obstruetions in the river, the work being done for the Mindere Government by a. contractor. For these Operations large. quantities of high ex- plosives are required, and two or three days a week ears wholly or partiaily loaded with dynamite have bee» broogid from Black Rock, near iluffitio, to Essex Centre, arriving there in the afternoon and being eidetraeked till the follow- ing morning, when it would be at. tutted to the "plug," a short, mixed train which leaves for Amherstburg *about II o'clock. To understand the causes of the ac- cident, one must remember that dyna- mite is made by mixing, the lipid nitro-glycerine with some suitable nb• eorbent, such as sawdust, The pro- portions vary, the ni t'o-glyeerine sometbnes being 70 or 80 per tient. of the total bulk. If kept at an equable temperature, and protected from Knock or friction, dynamite is comparatively safe to handle, but at a temperature of about 88, it commences to disinte. grate and the nitro-glycerine liquifies and oozes out. Leaking Nito-glycerine. On Friday afternoon a half ear load of dynamite was put on the siding, and stood there over »ight, The afternomi Was n warnt one, and the process of separation of the nitro was probably stet up, or else the explosive had been improperly made or carelessly peeked. At any rate, when morning came, there were greasy stains on the eidetraels where the ear had stood, nnd later, when an engine was pulling the ear !from siding to sidiug to attach to the plug train, little them of dirty yellow - fah brown fluid fell from the ear but- -1( tore to the rail, end as the wheels passed over them little crackling explo. *does were heard. Conductor Thomas Batty, of the plug train, lied never been enemorea of the highly dangerous eirrgo which ito frequently formed part of hie treat A bystiorder trilled hie attention to the. itElc*plosions on Saturday ntorni»g attul he proeemled to investigate. Climbing Into the dynamite car, he found the boxve piled up at the (met end in careless fashion, ;tome of them • having even twee leid down without heed tu the injunetion, 'Title side up" • The conduetor and Brakeman Jose MeNery, of Amhersthurse rt' -arranged tb few of the boxes, and the conductor • also ruentiorwd tile (IllhgerellS eundi- tion of the ear to Station Agent Mem- el% • A minute or two later, hest as the engine was being eouplen to the dYnth • mite car, the crash came. Evidently the wheels of the engine staid: a larger pool of the epAt explosive on the truck and the force of the concussion was sufficient to discharge the whole con. signment in the car and let loose the terrible forces of destructiveness impri- soned in tho inuocent looking yellow sticks of dynamite. The two brakemen, Joe MeNary and Leo Conlin were in- stantly killed. Oonlin's nuuegfed herul was blown fifty feet to the southward of the trek, where it was stopped by a lumber pile, while his trunk - went hurl- ing through the trees to the northward flying a good hundred feet before it was tallied against a picket fence, which broke from the impact. A cup- like hole 10 to 15 feet deep was scoop- ed out of the ground where the ear had stood and iu this hole .Joe Me - Nary% charred, body was found a eonsiderable time after the explosion. The firemen who were engaged in ex. tinguiehing the blaze, which started in one of the wrecked buildings, final- ly turned their attention to what they thought was a piece of burniug rubbish, only to find to their horror that it was- poor MeNary's body, his clothing having been set on fre by the explosion. The finding of a human hand two blocks away -from the tanek gave rise Lo the rumor that an uu known men had also perished, but the gruesome fragment was found to be part of Leo Conlin's remains. • Conlin was, until two weeks ago, em- ployed on the main line of the M. C. R., residing at Si. Thomas and had not yet removed his wife arid child to Aanhersaburg. Ile will be buried at St. 'Phonies. Another death which isattributed to the explosion is that of Dr. James Brien, aged 59 years, who had been lying critically all at his home. He died within two minutes of the stock, which is thought to have precipitated the end, though local physicians state that his death was a. matter of otritt a few lions at the most. Were Painfully Hurt, Although only distant from the cen- tre of the explosion a few yards fur- ther than the two ill-fated brakes - men, half -a -doze -a railway employees and spectators escaped withtheir law, but only at the cost of fright- ful injuries. The station agent,- Alonzo 0. Stimers, was walkinig toward the train to hand some official papers to the express messenger, when he was hurled to the ground, receiving in- juries to his head, arm and leg, which may prove fatal. Conductor Thomas Barry, who was standing on the sta- tion platform, was lifted bodily and thrown through a window into the sta- tion, and was cut about the head, lave and Wiest. James Meddigan, watchman at•the Amherstburg roundhouse and tem- porarily acting as fireman of the plug train, was blown from his seat in the engine cab. He suffered five bed scalp wounds and his right side Was cruebed and when the doctors saw him fiesta they though him dying. These three in- juded men were later put on a secret -a train and taken to the Hotel Dieu Hos- pital at Windsor, where they lie- ender the care of the good sisters. David Cut - &ell, the engineer, was thrown resainst the wall of the cab and severely bruie- ed. He was taken to St. Thomas, James Brown, an Amherstburg grain buyer, was struck by a flying pieee of hon. Ile • was taken home. J. A. Abbott, day operator at the station, was standing at the station door when the blewina oecurred, He MS painfully cut, but pluckily remained on duty. A train carrying several hundred ex- cursionists from Brantford to Detroit was scheduled to arrive at Ewe: sta- tion at the very minute at whim *the explosion occurred, Providentially At was delayed down the line and did not reach Fesex till 15 minutes later, Conductor Barry's Story. Condiwtor Barry, when seen at the hospitel in Windsor, told a most pathetic story of the catastrophe. "To me it scomea like two separate explosions," he seia, "here first was a violent concus- sion, which seemed as if it was tearing the flesh from the bones. My first sou- setioo was that my body was being cut iz two across the rhest. Then calm a ertore ethic* shock, which I canuot be - seethe. It lifted me and flung me into the StAtiell, but whether through the door or the window I cannot tell you." Describing the events immediately be- fore the explosion, Mr. Barry said: "I uever liked 'earrying the dynamite, and witett lot* this so carelessly packed, I wee nereous about it. In rearranging the boxes, MeNary and I both got the stuff on our hands, and I warned hint to be careful in wiping it off. It was all over the car floor, and I told lihn to flit his feet and not scrape them on the li- quid. Poor MeNary, who lived for yenta at .Amberstburg, and bad seen the men there throw frozen dynamite around in sport, laughed itt nu; for my nervous - nese." Mr. Barry said that °op of hie ears was; still deaf from tint concuseion, while Ike left side of his head felt numb. "It rui if half my brain Was blurred," he sold, The two other victims at the hospital, Stimere and Maddigau, were pitiable sights: as they lay with heads muffled and. hamlaged bftnbs. 13oth were in menteonscious state, and suffering ease from deafness, walnut they could neith- er hear nor uuderstand questions re- garding their terrible experience. Mr. Stintere Was so deaf oritSaturday even- ing that Messages had to be written and shown to him before he could under. ;steed them. This morning his condition wee gomewhet improvea, but in the ea ternooe he relaspea into a stupor. IR; is being attended by Mrs. Stimers, who was heveelf ent on the head by' failing debris in her home. Maddigau lies in a I semi -private ward, groaning ne the pa from his hurts become acute, and dose tion over night was also oho whieh wd, by moving a fait to keep aWity the to wentieg Diem leech elens a hie itt ttlievred with euts and wretches:I, Co dueler Barry is in better altar, ben able to sit up on his bed, Property Destroyed, It is witeu the havoe wrought t buildings in the town la viewed that th wonder grows tliat se few lives wer hat. Strticturce near the station, an ties of leaving -the caro containing larg d quantities of dynamite at Essex St ae. FANATICAL ARABS SWOOP ,,,, CLEAR yr ow wrirratack 1, ,.4 1 , t Wounded, Viro Mee A.oundkit c nian—Toni DOWN ON FRENCH FORCES'. .....:.7:7rt:.. a woman with ri Mite in ter reaterease et 017 Aberdeen *trot irest evening mad the wort • of her alleged eetiallitet way rtsolk 14 Weer. J lag two murder meraselee VW *we reatete- ; But Are Met by Withering Fire—The Political 'tvgvbetirow;t1tutturrifn' 1" 1444.- . rar, tbaty-flve setae; ord. weer wee Maga 1 Sguation—The Casa Blanca Strugglea foam, it is thought.00ssibie that a pretense 00 not relished by the people of the towl O although the railivay company paia ma be seen throng the bandages at • watehnuin to see that no rash treepa ig set's approached the car. Tito relatives of the dead, the injured. mous, and the scores Who had their factories • homes and placee of business either wip O ed out or greatly damaged, will meal • with anxiety the fixing of reepansibil g lay for the rweident. The jury is coin the latter edifice itselt, eaught the ful •posea of solid citizens of Essex foul will tone or the fatal blastgbut Macke away its eifects were strikingly displayeta The station itself handsome and sole ally-coutarueted hoiiaing of undressed etemg embedded ie mortar. The thick walk withstood the shock, but the root was shatteyed in a dozen plaeee, and fall- ing Limbere carried down the ceilings. To -lay the railwaya business is trans- acted in a day comet and it box car on a siding. Acrose the track from the station there stood the C. It, fraight sheds, the Laing, Ritchie Cm's. planing mill, C. E. Naylor's gait mill, Greena grain warehouse and McDougall's carriage Inc. tory. To -day they lie ruins, their splintered walls and floors fit only for nuttchwood. Although men. were work. tug in all these establishments, every one escaped from the collapsing buildings with miuor injeries, The tirst impres- sion tweeted in the town by the shook' west that the boiler in Nitylora weld& alma furnished power for the elec. Lae light plant, had expleded. This im- pression Was added to by the fact that the explosion broke the connecting pipes on the Naylor engine, ellowing a cloud of steam to escime front the ruins of the mill. All the buildings mentioned will have to be rebuilt and refitted, aud meanwhile their two score or more of employees. must be idle or find other work. Residences Were Wrecked. Perhaps more striking even than the demolitton of the factories nearest the station was the ruin and chaos wrought on half a dozen residences situated far. Cher away from tea explosion. One of the oddest incidents of the day is con - netted with the damage done to two houeess south of the track, recently pur- chased by George Beattie, of Lettuung. toe, both of which will be a total loss, One wes occupied by Harry Welsher, eta ghteer of the town lighting plant. Do had worked late Friday night and was takine an extra nap when itis wife called him ibor breakfast. Like a dutiful bus - band. lie obeyed, and thereby .probably saved his life. He was dressing whorl the shock came, and when he looked round his disturbed bedroom, the couth he luta lately occupied was nowhere to be seen. It bad been blown through the window, across an intervening space of ten or fifteen yards, and through the board wall of it hay loft at the rear of the house. North of the track was where the resi- dences suffered most. Station Agent &liners not only nearly lost las life, but was robbed of his cosy home. The ex- plosive blast fteemed. to rush eight through it, leaving only wreckage. be- hind, Mrs. Stimers was struck on the head by some falling object and received a painful cut. Unmindful of herself she hurried her mother out of the house and then ran towards the station looking for her husband. Wifen she saw him see • did. not -recognize him, so scarred and blackened was he. A huge hardwood tie, twice the size of the .ordinary rail- way tie, was hurled into the garden of the Stimers' house, alig,hting on the spot where Mr. Stimers' mother had stood tending some flowers not five minutes before. The brick houses of William Trimble and Thomas McDonakt are .totally ruined. Fortunately both families aro away in the Northwest for the sum- mer, otherwise lives would probably have been lost, as the brick walls cot lapsed. A steel rail 25 feet long, and weighing 90 pounds to the yard, was bent into it crescent and thrown into 'Trimble's garden, twenty yards or more from the track.. Andrew Wag- ner's frame house suffered severely, ana would have been demolished had not the Thimble house protected it from the full force of the concussion. in George Thomas' house every piece of crockery was smashed, while for a airline of 1500 yards bousewives lost their stores of preserved fruits. The .damage to buildings was not confined. to those in the vicinity of the station. The afethodist Church was badly damaged, and the Graud Central Hotel has been condemned as unsafe. The Essex Manufacturing Company's structure also suffered severely. All along Talbot street plate. glass win- dows were shattered and merchants' stock thrown into confusion. 'The Sovereign and the Imperial Banks, both blocks away from the station, had their windows destroyed, while even on the outskirts of the town, windows cot ered with boards, oilcloth, or car, pet show where the glass panes were shattered. Donne of houses will need new ehinmewe, replastering or other re. pairs before they will be safe or cemfort- able for habitation. Maly buildings were damaged by flying missitee in the shade of portions of rails and ear wheels, and pieces of wood. Michael letraugh, who was blown out of the Laing Ritchie mill, found time it section or rail had drop. mid through las house roof, four blocks away. A two -foot long rail broke a. bed- stead in Ed. Parks' house just After' it had been vacated, Physicians Were Scarce. Although there are five physicians and three gnalified Assistants located in the town, the only one at home when the blast came was Dr. Stewart, assistant to Dr. 4. W. Brien. He de- voted las attention chiefly to Fireman Marldigam. who .seemed to be the worst injured. Other physicians appeared on the scene, and gradually all the injured were attended to. Dr. j. W. Brien, eousin of Die ,Tames Brien, whose death immediately followed the explosion, ena paneled a jury Saturday afternoon, auto had the bodies viewed. The inquest weer then adjettened until Tuesday. One of the narrowest eseames was that of Bert Eseolstine, a teamster for Laing & Ritchie. His horse and wagon were standing in front of the planing mill, and Esseitine was walking toward -Him when the air was filled with fly- ing partielee. A piece of steel nail was blown clear through the horse's body, aud the wegon was; shattered, but the teamster escaped with a badly bettered face. Fixing the Responsibility, The responsibility far the (Ironclad emu -rare would seem to rest be- tween the slipper who sent out euelt t powerful explosive in euch a slump that it was n, deadly menitee to life and property. and the Michigan Contra MI. way, which WWI to have taken no ex. ha precautions in the forwarding of dangerooe lortd. it is mid that lie Shipment of dyntaulte Whielle era fancied Was sea its far as St. Thomas by way of freight whieh Walla that it woe put in ear Obit was opened. at various earliness to allow the Yew- val or entry of other freight. The prao. • • alexia unterneeloess ea tees emery** et her so plain an object lesson before them . as is furniehed by the overthrown ansi damaged buildings, they may be relied upon to bring in au outspoken verdict. Many people along the line of the M. 0, R. are aeking whether it would not bra a surer andsafer plan to ship the dynamite by boat, when both the shippieg point and destination are se readily accessible by water. The element of danger from maiden jar, eitemviitnealtileea Inet;idfreilgthtwtor:lide, it)teeniahni east; matter to &Vise a method of shipping in eulemerged tanks; which would re- duce the pcsealbility of tweidental ex- plosion to the vanishing point. At Worst,only the lives of those actually conveying tee explosive would be en. dangered during is transit, while Saturday's explosion proves that in endive( it by rail personal eafety and property rights • are threatemel all. aloug the rcute of a railway which runs through it populous section of the provinee, lItttI the explosion walleyed in it more closely -built municipitlity, ouch as St. Thomas, the loss of life and the damage to buildings; could not have failed to be greater, THOUGHT MILL BLEW UP. Injured Engineer Did Not Know What Had Happened, St, Thomas, Aug, IL—The injured engineer, David Cottrell, who was theme several hundred. yards by the dynamite explosion at Eseex, was brought to St. Timms end taken to hiss home on Saturday night. He is atifering intensely from internal in- juries and Shea, as Well AS 511'0111 tar juries to his head. He pessed a bad night. Tgle aeaurett men when he .regesined eonseiousmas did not have the fainteat Iden of what had happened. He told las friends he thought it was the planing mill that blew up, Cottrell is 42 years of ago. with a wife and several chil- dren. The attendiag physicians have hopes of hie recovery. The two dead trainmen. Geo. A. Cori- ng and Joseph a.feNary resided in St. Thomas. Conlin Wil6 was 24 years of age. The burial -Oa take place in Amberstburg in the fata- lly burying ground. MeNaey, was 25 years of age and married. The body is expected to arrive in this city for burial on Monday. 4.• FELT IN DETROIT. Windows Broken on Jefferson Ave.—A Former Disaster. Detroit, Aug„ IL—Detroit and sub- urbs were shaken up by the explosion which completely wrecked the Town of lassex yesterday. The dull report of the explosion was heard distinctly in all parts of this city and its shock caused considerable loss through the vibration that followed. So severe was the coneussion, even 17 mites from the scene of the explosion that houses were shaken on their foun- dations, windows broken, crockery thrown from pantry shelves and pic- tures hurled frem their hangings on the walls, In some places the vibration was so intense that the etoutest beveled plate glass gave way to it. Along Jefferson avenue's automobile row, plate glass craelsed and splintered on the sidewalks front different display windows over Yenarea of two blacks. The great dieplay window in the Ford Motor Co.'s salesroom ryas smashed to Hinders, with the exception of OM small eheet of glass. A large plate glass window in EH- bert Bros.' store, Elie street, Wyondotte Wait broken, and almost the entire stock of canned goods, precipitated from the ;shelves to the floor, • Stratford Had Case. An accident similar to that at Essex on Saturda,y oceurred at Stratford on May 15, 1878. On that -occasion 1,300 pounds of nitro-glycerine contained in a Grand Trunk freight ear exploded, causing awful ditmage to property. Three persons were killed and over fifty in- jured. Echoes of the Explosion, Eseex, Ont., Aug. Ia.—County Atter. tiff Dodd says that no matter what the verdict of the MMUS' jury is, he will commence it prosecution. The cap of a bottle marked "Nitro Glyeerine" was pieked np yesterday by Frank flame, And while it, WAS some dhitance from the wreck, watt ras surrounded by debris its to leave little doubt that nitro glycerine Was being (serried in the car. This is against the Canadian law and will' end to damage any defence on the part of the company. Further evidence of damage to build- ings in the village came to light on Sun- day in the shape of cracked foundations, splietered windows and broken china. Witte. It is understood that the railway company will attempt a settlement with out recourse to law. Want Investigation. Ottawa, tad., Aug., 12,—(Special).— Tier Mayor of Essex has wired the Board of Railway Commissioners asking for an inve.stigatiou of the expleelon of the ear of dynamite which wrecked part of the town on Seturdny last; Mr. E. C. La- londe. chief accideet impeder of the Board, has beret instructed to proceed at once to Essex. • • * OUTING PROVES TRAGEDY. Prank Eden Leaps From Naphtha Launch and Drowns. Detroit, Aug, Ile—Frank von, agod 22, of 420 East Alexandrine avenue, went for a ride with Nicholas Dung, of 203 Leland street, earn? Saturday evening, in 11, naptha launch, and, according to !hang, without any werning, Ite leaped from the boat to the river end WAS drowned, The Mundt was some 500 feet out in the river off the foot of Taylor avenue, Fairview, when the tragedy occurred. Brang says he poked around in the seater foe some time, and then, unable to locate. the body, put ashore and no- tified Eden's relatives. There wits more delay, and some hours afterward the pollee were notified. Pre - elect Detective Repp, of the Cherie stret sttiout, went to Eden's home, but conla learn nothing that throws light on the situation. A new Wash boiler 19 a seetional lid withal greatly fiteilitatia the laundry work. ' Paris, Ang, 12, --The effleial news re- Morocco is not toncealed. How otherwiree sieved ironi 'Tangier yesterday -shows e - can rvance be Paid,the newol'allers Task. aerions eaeditieu of affairs- there. The The Casa Blanca Fight. region around Casa Mama is swarming Londou, Aug. 12.-13clated Casa Blanca despatelme reaching. Mae. draw Ilvvlittils1, trlini2elltld6 oonf siZeliii"IletilrisbeZniin pietuive of the scenes of desolation and swooping dowe incessantly upou the oltuensyers4.tior tshbeesdiadylegeecrlivirileinfhteheiusaetbis- French forces, but are never able to were fiercely attacking the consulates, aw, jetyji,,erilzgfeiretheefierifaitetegeelicled gerhieneoef tit: owing to the inadequately. small force troupe. 'Lite reemes"eurage 01 the liaLideedomfrom the French cruiser Du Obey: le for their defense, It seems that tin which they return to the onslaught. pletely plunderen threou:ootriiisair tribesmen is itttested by the manner in anell jewish quarters, and lusting to Aside from the trouble at (nee Dian- tfluierythzupstiunfidresit., otfitealeat rdtre away the ea the situation seems to be a threaten. guards around the cousulates, which ing one lower down the coast, Ports attaeks Friday night and Satur- day afternoon at Casa Bianca. The lat. uneeded shlpoplaelsell:At:11,isti,e. urday night Rear Admiral Philebert re. would 4pal itteiel e itrb len eilen;.op lot la the wireless despatches dated Sat. quite brillimitly repulsed." tel°;:1117e(Itoansdavree8t,°huereesitQlfittitijoenu.t. ter the Admiral deecribee as "heavy, but sieve, who with 300 men was sent by the. Two of hie men were wounded. He abs beeame so bold and determined that reports also that nuiny horsomeu are they succeeded in occupying a deserted approacitiag tbe Mazagan west aud that Freneh hotel, a high stone building in. the city of Mazagan is threatened. side the British consulate line and also close to the Spanish consulate, from Sultan on the Move. which they poured 0 furious rifle fire. Smaller houses near both consulates Tangier, Aug. 12,_There is a peesiea were elmilarly ocenpied. It. ..was then ent rumor here which comes from Moor. that Lieut. De Tyssiers deektee upon a bat sources end cannot be confirmed that sortie. Hie small but brave baud re - the Sultan has left Fez for Rabat and, travelling by forced elevates, has arrived 'turned from the sortie with dripping bayonets, having taken the Arabs com- ets alazagan, pletely by surprise. Soon afterward an - There is still mu& uncertainty aa to thesprogreee that has been made 1 other officer from the Duchayla arrived negotiations for the release of Sir Harry it the upon the scene with a machine gun, which was place(' in positiou -upon the Maclean. There are rumors that a hitch reef, end ditl effective executio-n' Even him oecurred in the negotiations. then the Arabs continued their attacks Letters received here from Fez state until deterred., and it was only upon the that the Sultan upon hearing of the ie- arriral of additional warsbips that the tendon.; of the French and Spanielt to fighting ended, One correspondent thus (weepy Oise, Blanca became seriously describes what followed: alarmed and. said that such a step would "By evening the town was clear of leasj to a eevolution, through Morocco, Arabs; except those in hiding who were and endanger the lives of all Europeanslinable to escape. The Spaniards came The Political Side. first, each ml'an guardine hie own shop Paris, Aug. 12 -While it is officially ,ityneldvs rocbrbephtig thimisime3esi, gf-Ildraonrls.v.Tiehi:nbiatinhge declared that the French Government places and began to prowl about, looting will not extend the scope of it's action wheeevee they could. When the foreign' in Morocco beyond the restoration of legion was distributed throughout the order and the organization of the inter- town to preserve order then enure the national pollee it may be significant of most awful and thorough pillage of ell." a possible change in the atitude of Awful suffering has beeen causd by France &s she had cleaned to agree to a shortage of food, which sold at Min- tier invitation of Spain to send a new me prices. Looters are now shot on sight, joint note to thepowees, reaffirming tbe many baying already paid the penalty solidity of the views and actions of the for their crimes, two governments. Property estimated at $2,500.000 has Without doubt France desires to keep been destroyed. A Council of war was within the terms of the Algeciras con. held on Saturday- to discuss) the bast vention, but she is reluctant to joie means to deal with the nightly attacks Spain in the new note to the powers in on the encampments and at the elose of the face of it 'situation which each may the council .another vigoroue attack was force her hand Of course the natural se- made by the Moors from three differ. quel to the conquest, the a.beorption of ent directions. CONTINUOUS FIGHT. FRENCH DRIVING THE MOORS I3AC1 FROM CASA. BLANCA. Aletrnately Shelling and Charging the Savage Tribesmen—Twenty Thou- sand Horse Gathering in Interior— The Sultan Promises to Make Amends. Tangier, Aug. 11.—Fierce fighting be- tween fanatic tribesmen and the Frenca forces outside Casa Blanca was still in progress Saturday when a French vessel left the port. The battle started Thursday with a deterneued attack by the Moors. After a hard struggle the tribesmen were driven beet: with great loss by the de- fending force, commanded by General Drude, of the Algerian tiraitleurs. Un- dismayed, the Moors continued to fight, despite the terrible havoc wrought in their ranks by the French artillery. The latest reports say, however, that the trate:men are being ,gradually driven back, the French cavalry and artillery Saturday being seven and it half miles from the city and alternately shelling and eharging the savage fanatics. It is reported that 20,000°Arab horsemen are mobilizing in the interior for it de - emit on General Dilutes' eamp. Casa Blanco, itself is quiet. The deetruction wrought by the shells of the French cruisers is more extensive than at first was thought. Not a housse, shop or warehouse is left un- dantaged, streets are still en. cumbered Wit 11 1)(403 of dead na- tives, the removal of which is being carried out slowly. It is an appall- ing sight. AS the French and Span- iards are unable to turn all the bodies colleeted in the eity and its vicinity, deep trenches ate being due outside the it ails and the piles of deal. carted from the .city are being thrown into them and sprinkled with quick lime and other -disinfectantsbefore they are eovered with earth. The Sultan of Morocco, through Ben Sliman, the Moroccan Foreign Minister, has transmitted to the French Consul at Fes an expression of the deep grief with which he learned of the assaesivation 01 the Europeans at Casa Blanca, saying that no one more than he condemned the act which cost five French lives. The Sultan added that he was ready to named any satisfaction demanded. notably the dismissal of the Pasha of CASA Blanca and the purdshesent of the guilty persons. A COFFINED MADMAN. —....._.._ A Grim and Ghastly Story All the Way Prom Russia, Loudon, Aug. 11.--A curious story comes from St. Peter -Aare. In a village church ie. the Edi.Kotile district of Rue. sie a dead man's body ley awaiting the last rites. A madman entered the build. ing dragged the body out of the eoffin, loawa it up ill A VeSbllellt .. elleSt, hilllSelf 001; the phwe of the data nem, and went to sleep. . Three homer litter the priest end mourners orrived, find the touching Orthoaox serviee for the departed be- gan. The ehauting of the priest and the choir, the aromatic perfume of the in• eense arta the movement around him roused the sleeping mailman, who sud- denly sat tip in the coffin, The priest fell down dead with fright, lend the -congregation fled from the church, followed by the madman. The noise and crieS attracted a doecon to the place, who, overcome with gvief et seeing the priest derta, desired to offer prayer for the repoee of las soul. lte went to the vestment chest to get his robe, and, as he unlocked the door, the corpse placed there by the madman fell on him, and he sank down in a swoon. A few members of the congregation, who had returned, again fled with cries of horror. 4 4. BURNED CARS. TRACTION COMPANY IN LONDON SUFFERS FROM FIRE. Loss Amounts to $roo,000—Sheds Were Also Destroyed—System Will Be Tied Up for Several Days, London, Ont., Aug. 11. ---The sheds of the South-western Traction -Company on Emery street and five ears were destroyed by fire on Saturday, entailing a loss estimated at about $100,000. The eause was crossed wires. The fire was discovered by a motorman, who succeed- ed in getting one of the cars out. His attempt to get out a second was unsuc- cessful, the ear bursting into flames as he stepped on the platform. By the time the firemen arrived the building was a mass of flames and little could be (1011P. The building was 143 feet long and 40 feet wide, and there were four tracks. It was fitted out with all rummer of repair material ansi necessary tackle for a trol. ley line, and ail of this was lost. Three of the five ears which were lost ware practically new, and the other two had been in the ilerViee since the opening ot the road. Each car WAS worth in the neighborhood. of $12,000, andtItis is a low estimate. The loss is fully covered by insurance, and the sheds will be rebuilt at once. ANOTHER YACHT ON FIRE. Toronto Party Had Narrow Escape Off Scarborot Beach. Toronto, Aug. 12.—Six persons, two remelt and four men, had a narrow es- cape front a terrible death late Saturday night in the lake just opposite Scarboro' Berteh Park. The party were in Mr. A, 0. Ileardmore's gasoline launeh, and when about twenty-five feet front the end of the pier some of the woodwork around the engine (alight fire. The flames spread with fearful rapidity until those in the launch were calling for help. A boat tastily put out front the beach and rescued the unfortunate party. The park's private fire department was (middy called into requisition. The yacht was in comparatively shallow water, So that two men who waded out kept her. from drifting while the hull was filled full of water. The blazing gasolineanade o brilliant reflection until the vessel WA4 seuttlea. The pessongers were safely landed and hastened away after thanking the res. eu • • • AGED 85; TOOK POISON, Princeton Woman Takes Paris Green to End a Long Life. Princeton, Aug. Joseph altorpe, it woman of 85 .years of age, took it dose of paris green, on purpose, it is Najd, to end her life. She died Friday morning, about 0 o'clock, in great agony. Mrs. la Baiman„grand- daughter; of the deceased lady, with whom site lived, noticed soon after tlw rash deed had boon committed, that eomethiug Was wroug. The old lady became very slick, and At once eom- theneed to vomit violently. Medical aid Wag stlinirioned,, Ind Was ripparently of II() IWO% Duving Thursday night her conaition became rapidly WOrae, and at daybreak 131te died, beta at the Maxwell etreet Station AM'bo cbargell with the dereta of 4 wOniait 14 Italy anti that of a mau la New York. For five years hdrit. Murray has cared for the lilting roOms of her fellow -tenant, JaMea WS,. wbn Owns a growl, in another Part of the building. Yesterday De l•flra e01/1Plaill•14 that elle was net doing her work properly. A.11 argument followed and De Lara, It is charg- ed, Attacked bet- with A knife. The woman was cut several times before she fled. glie falete(i on reaching tbe tenet and was found suffering from 1ot of blood by P011esanan O'Connell. A.fter receiving the attention of a PhY- Celan, Mrs. Murray maxi° a. statement to Lieut. Thomas Cougilit eanceraing her as- sailant. "De Dara is net his right, name," Mrs. Murray told the police. "Ile Is known in Italy as Carlos Msateleno, and is wanted there for the murder of a Woulau in 180d. He escaped from Italy, and came to NOW York under the nanlo of Charles 1)0 LAM There be murdered a man at Cenel and Front street, and came to Chicago. While In Now York he owned the Hotel Calebrop. and catered to immigrant IthIlana." To support her statements, hirs. Murray said that De tiara aS he Is known, had several scars op his body, received in his fight with the man who she said he Mur- dered In New York. On examination the nonce sled they found the scars, but De Lora explained their pretenee by saying they were relies of it fight he had when he was it boy. Demos of both aocusationa were made by De Lora. The Italian consul and the New 'York police have taken up the investigation, UNION MEN BARRED. Cripple Creek Operators Will Not Hire any W. F. M. Members. Victor, Wm, Aug. 12.----A. prominent official of the Mine Owners' Association who lives in this city said to -night that, notwithstanding all reports to the eon. trary, it was the unanimous decision of thc association at the meeting of ite members held in Colorado Springs Mon- day rigidly to enforce the association's card system in every mine in the Cripple Creek district, and especially to see that 110 miners holding Western Federation ekawradis msigen. be permitted to work in any This °Melia further stated that with- in a few days every union trainer now at work in the district will have been dis- charged and that any miner that makes application for an association card will be compelled to renounce the Western Federation and at once give evidence that he has surrendered whatever affila ations he may have had with that or- ganization. The official stated that the Mine Own- ers' Association knows precisely the number of members in the local miners' union and that' it did not exceed 100. The association, bus claimed, has mem- beer in the union acting as detectives. The merging of the Federation with the United Mine Workers is taken serious- ly here, for the reason that it has brought together as an adjunct to the Western Federation the great mine workers' membership. • • • THE BELFAST RIOT. TROUBLE WITH CAVALRY AND STRIKERS LAST NIGHT. Wrecked Condition of Streets and Houses —Sixty People Hurt and Being Treated in the Hospitals. Belfast, Aug. 12.—The wrecked condi- tion of the streets and houses in the Calls and Grosvenor districts of this city testify to the severity of the rioting last night. Hardly it window or a street lamp remains intact, while doom have been smashed in by the heavy stones hurled by the strikers on the advancing ...ovally, and the street pavement is torn np On all sides, having served the rioters with missiles. There were no fatalities but over 00 persons, about equally da vided among the troops and rioters, are being treated in the hospitals for severe injuries, The strikers are still in au aggressive mood. Only the strong forcee of troops on duty prevent them from attacking the men who ore at work. — se BULL RUNS AMUCK. Cleared Out the Business Streets of Toronto Junction. Toronto, Aug. 12.—A wild bull, which broke loose; from. the Union stock yards on Saturday night, created a rather large.sized panic at the corner of Eeele and Dundas streets Toronto Junction, shortly after 11 o'clock. The bull was preceded by about fifty yards by a stock yards employee on horseback, who warn- ed the people, of whom there -were a large number, to get out of the way. And then eame the bull. He weighed about 2.000 pounds., and the velocity with which he dashea into telegraph poles resembled Somewhat it western tornado. Win. Tay- lor, of Uttley street, is eongratulating himself upon a very narrow escape. He was standieg on the corner and noticed the mad rush of the bull, whieh was coming direetly at hint. He had just time to get helped it telegraph pole when the bull charged. The earnestness of the latter can be well understood when it is known that a dent was left in the post fully an inch in depth. Then the hull started on a ;career up and down Keele street that was safest to witness from proper seeurity. In the meantime the employees of the yard had rounded up some twenty head of cattle, and when there were brought dorm the bull joined them and was easily driven back to the ards. 4 it NO DARE XNEES AT PICNIC. -- Political Picnic Not to Haft Women's Wading Contest. • Cleveland, Aug. la.—There will be no bare knees nt the Republican League plena. on Aug. 24. The outcry from all points; of the compass, and the protests of the wonten's organhations and the ministers ana religious bodies caused the committee on arrangements to declare off the wading mateh. Chaivmau Glebe:viler, of the itepublierm League, dial:hes Mayor Johnson and his administration are- reepousible for the outcry rimiest the winling eontest, ite- mising them of arousing sentiment to &taut from the pienie, withal Was re- garded as the opening of the eampaigit ligarieletr"etb.Arif3.1.1r. tproposed, the worriers wailing deepest without getting her Skirts wet WaS '10 get a prize. Maas—There are it. great ninny ways of losing money. Joax—Yes, money esti bit .10St in more woe Ann Won.