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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-03-23, Page 7FIRST ARMY COVERINfi THE RUSSIAN RETREAT. Japanese Batteries Keeping Pace With the Russian Column on the Right. linevitch Wires That the• Russian Armies Continue the Work of Concentration. Kouropatkin Acknowledges His Dismissal and Linevitch Ws Acceptance of Ws Appointment. Gunshu Pass (about 105 miles north wand of the first army, under Gen. of Mukden), Mach /0.-The'first army," Linevitch. According to the Novoe Vremya, the doubling a the track of the Trans-Si- berian Railway 'has ben finally aban. cloned, because tbe work woulddim.ganize traffic over the line and because ib would be very difficult owing to the scarcity of labor. which has been covering the retreat of the Russien forces from the south, is. withdrawing slowly, checkieg emptier- atively Tight attacks by the Japanese. The japariese are conducting a flanking operation on the right, and from the Russian column Japanese batteries are visible keeping, pace a short distance away. - The Red Cross detachinents at all of the intermediate stations to Harbin are working night and day, operating, ban- daging and fening the wounded. The Chinese are leaving Gunshu Pass for Kirin, and the labor question is therefore growing critical, though Ch1. nese receive the unprecedentedly high wages of 40 to 50 cents a day. On Saturday, while the correspondent was proceeding almost with the rear- guard, he stopped et a Chinese village, where several natives *came to the com- manding officer and asked for permis- sion to accompany the column with their families, saying the women" feared the Japenese, who treated. them -worse than did the Chinese bandits. Praetieally the entire village accepted the officer's per- inissien to accompany the rear -guard. Thu Japanesehave ordered"all Chinese in Mukden having Russian money to ap- pear at the police station and exchange paper and silver moiley for Japanese notes issued specially for Manchuria. The mistake was made before the de- struction of several Russian commissa- riat depots of issuing spirits to private soldiers to whom officers had given re- nisition slips. Kaiyuan Evacuated. Tokio, March 19. -Headquarters of the Japanese armies in the field, reporting under to-da,y's date, says: "Our detachment, continuing its ad- vance north, pursued the enemy to Kai - yuan (some 20 miles north of Tie Pass). Kaiynan was exicuated by the enemy on Saturdar after ho had set fire to the railroad station." Occupied Fakoman. St. Petersburg, March 11-Command- Lineviteb, in a telegram dated Saturday, says: "On March 17 Japanese batteries bom- barded our divisions in the Valleys of Tavanpu and Yanpu. The enemy an - peered near Taotitse (on the railroad about 22-.ini1es north of Tie Pass), and their ciValry has occupied Fakoman. Our armies continue their concentration." A Severe Action. Yinkow, Manchuria, March 19. --Itis reported tb that e Russian rear -guard' is fighting a heavy dation in the vicinity o Kaiyuan, about 20 miles north of Tie Pass. ' AGAIN CONCENTRATING. Forces Gathering xoo Miles North of Tieling. Tokio, March 10.-e-T1ie Japanese are pursuing the enemy closely. It is im- probable that another: stand- will be made before the Russians' reach Chang- .chun'150 miles front Tieling. A afespatalt from Kupantse says the Nitssians are now concentrated at I.Cung- ichulung, 100 miles north of Tieling. - The Russian extreme left was de- deated itt Kingpan on Marelt 11. The survivors escaped. into the mountains. 'They are now cut off, and it is feared Chat most •of them•will starve. It is officially stated that Russian frisoners say that Gen. Kouropatkin pereconallY commanded the fighting be- fore 'Dialing. The Kokumin announces that the Emperor ol Core tsiI1 deeaatch Prince alichaiekak to Tokio to congratulate the Mikado upon the victory at Muk- den. Experts attribute the Russbu defeat before Mukden to the weakness of the defences on the Hun River east of *Madan, wbieli allowed the Japanese right wing' to break through and join __the left wing, uthieh was carrying out a flanking movement, from the west. The latter marched 30 miles on !March 13.,10 mites, on Mareli 7, 20 1111l0S. on March 8, and 15 miles on Diaveli 0, 'reaching the rear of Mukden. Then it .41etete1nnent was ilespatchea to cut, off ,the retreating Russians and another to Ascertain the whereabouts of'. Gen. Kouropatkin. It was found that the latter had already gone north, where- upon preparations ,were immediately made for the advance against Tieling, which began March 0. Just as the Jap' anese were starting the Rarmien gen• oral reserves, numbering 40,000, alio bad been rotted to the south, deliver- ed. a desperate flank attack. A severe bayonet fight followed. .The struggle was not decided until it detachment of the Japanese appeared northeast of Mukden. The Russians - were totally enveloped, and were subject to sevete slaughter. A majority of them surren- dered. 'The Koktuniii states that Gen. Kouropatkin was ignorant of the feet that the Japanese left was rapidly marching north. Consequently lie mass- ed not only his reserves, Ina Ills cavalry, lit the Engem district, expeeting that the Japanese woeld attack from the en mountains. G. Kotiropatkin having, aioaste& that ho oultt sign peace at Tokio, the Japanese- generals OM ilia- appoisted at the failure to capture him and bring him here. In it report, nutde .publie bet night, aba-shril Oyhtut stud the ..1Apanese right twiny, ureter Kuroki, is proceeding rapidly abeg the Kiriht road above Tie Pass, /6 le tuppased that the -object of this movement, in tonjunetion with it simi- lar flanking eperation by 40ktee army on the west, ie to take It position in the rear tA the latistian tomtit retreating toward lberlyin Ana to isolate it. ROPE 'FOR-kOtillOPATEIN. '-'---'ported to Ittive Been Given •StiliOrdin- Russian DROW. NEI.Leeo GUNS. Russian Panic at Mukden-Wounded in Pitiable Plight. London, March 20. -The Tokio cor- respondent of the Times says it is be- lieved that the Russians threw more than four hundred guns into the' river at Mukden. The Times' St. Petersburg corre- spondent says it private telegram from Harbin states that sixty surgeons and 150 nurses have to attend surgeons nearly 70,000 sick and wounded there. Two surgeons have become insane. Tim correspondent refers definitely to the mobilization in the military districts of Mascow, Odessa .and Warsaw, af if the order therefor had been issued. A despatch to the Daily Telegraph from .Antwerp says the .Russian agent there was recently ordered to cease buying. He has now been instructed to purchase $1,250,000 worth of shrap- nel and twenty,four field batteries. Tho • • Moscow corespondent of the Standard says it is announced that •Gen. Lineovitch will make a stand at Taoli-• elm°, where the -.railway crosses thb Sungari River. The .Tokio correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the Russians who re- treated from the Shingking direction are in a pitiable plight among the 'Minn - tains. They are without food, and are killing and eating their horses. They are completely enveloped' by -the Jap- anese. Yaiyen and Kirin will somr be occupied by the Japanese. The Rus- sians main retreat is directed towards Harbin. The Japanese do not intend to allow them to loiter. HARD PRESSED. -- Kuroki on the Heels of the Retreating Russians. • Gen. Kuroki's Headquarters in the Field, March 10, by way of Fusa.n.- Gen. KurokPs army continues to lead the japanese force which have now been engaged . for nine days, in a hard pursuit, and they have covered a die: tame' of more than 95 mileS, with fre- quent fighting. The weather in the mountains is very cold, with frequent hard storms. The. brigade in advance occupied Tie Pass Wednesday night,. after a brief engagement: The Russian retreat became more diq- organized daily after the storm. During the, first day the Russians buried their dead, but since then have left •the dead wherever they fell. Tuesday the Rus- sians made an attempt at resistance in entrenchments north of the Hun River, felt abandoned them after they had beai. shelled for two hours. Gen. Karoki's army captured the cat- ers of the alfth Remmett 'of RifIce. The colors were inscribed as having been pre- sented. to the 1 -regiment by the Emperor in 1834. Most of the captured organiza- tions succeeded in burning their steed- ards before surrendering. °A few prison- ers are secured daily. 11. is reported that during Gen. Kom.o- patkiide resistance at Tower Hill on the first day's battle he was slightly wound- ed by fragments of it 11 -inch shell, which fell near him. The Chinese officials receive the Jap - rules./ generals with soldiers and bannese at most of the large towns entered. Everything now seems . to be in favor of the Japanese. They have it mag- nificent army, in the -highest spirits, which is rapidly recuperating from the effects of the recent brtttle,andwhichis• fully equipped with everything neces- sary for Manchurian campaigning, in- cluding great quantities of supplies, ae- mandated during the winter, together with several lines of communication amt. the best season of the year before -them. . The gain of the strongest natural position on the entire railway whereon much money and labor wns expended in defences' under Gem Kouropatkin's persenal direction, without it brtttle, was hardly expected. The greatly elated ariny shows how thoroughly batten are the Russians. All indications point to a contingence of the retreat of the lat- ter to Harbin. Before leaving the town the Russians fired railway buildings and those supplies which they • CELEBRATE VICTORY. • I. 3.i...1. .1.6 •,. •I • 1.61•11 I 1.1 IN • .11.e,.1 I, Y.:• GENERAL LINEVITCH, Placed in Supreme CoMmand of the Russian Forces at the Front, t • vras almost no pain,. and except for a him again on February 20. Then there change had taken place. Ire examined . cEDR/c,,s sToRmy TRip . , ... hard. sear little remained of the deep, - - - -.' - - - .. • . , / The point chiefly criticized is the fact I ' 4 tagged, indurated ulcer. . that, although five doctors pronounced the ease one of cancer., no mictoseopleal examination was made, and therefore the diagnosis is discredited. DISMISSED IN DIBGRACA, Russian Officers in charge " of Saluting: St. Peto-eburg, 18. -The verdict of the court-martial whith tried the offa eers and men of the several batteries of artillery from one of which it shell was fired during the blessing of the waters of the Neva ou January 19, seatteriug mis- siles in the vicinity of the Imperial pavie • lion, was announced to -day, .Captaan - Davidoff and sub -Lieut. Kutzefi of the .- 17th Battery, 1st Regiment Horse .A.r- tillery of the- Guard, were founa guilty - of negleet of duty and sentenced to be dismissed from the army and to impriss•- onment in it fortress, Davidoff to a year- end it half rina Kmaeff to a year and: five mantle. Sub-Lient. Roth, jun., was • sentenced to imprisonment for it year and four months, Lieut, Roth, sen., to detention in -quarters fdr three months,. aud two gunners to detention with disci- , plivary battalions for two years. Lieut..: a.nd (limner Patrikeff were I • The court found. there was no connec- tion on the part of any of those on trial with a plot to assassinate the Emperor. esty, I assumed command W -day (March ' THE LAW STEPS IN. , 17) of all our forces, military and. naval, , - operating against the Japanese." To Punish Holders of Guessing Contests A. couple of brief messages. from Kou- for Money Value. - ropatkin, dated March 10, says: "The rear -guard of our armies was engar,ed New York, March la -District Attor- March 15 "On a ridge southeast of be Pass and near the Village of Pelitzuan.• At night the rear -guard fell back to it position at the bond of the Liao River, near the Village of Kamluitza, without being pressed by the enemy: "On March 16 our armies continued their mareh. "On- March 15 the Town of Fakoman, 25 miles northeast of Mukden, was oc- cepiea by Chinese bandits." . • WRECKS AT PORT ARTHUR, Few of Russian Ships of Value to the Japanese. London, March 19. -The correspondent of the Times at Port Arthur sends it de- tailed description of the condition. of the Russian warships sunk in the harbor. He says that so far as has yet been ascer- tained all of there saffered enormous in- jury, both at tile hands of the Japanese and the Russians themselves, when or- ders were given to scuttle the vessels.. Li describing the warships as they lie sunk at all angles in the harbor, the cor- respondent says: "They haidly resemble real Ships, so twisted and burned are the funnels and superstructures." • t • . LAPOINTE ACUITTED. . , End of a Trial for Wife Murder at Montreal. Montreal, March 10. -Mrs. Lapointe, a it dissolute character; who lived on Mary Anne street, was found dead in her bed- room last' December with marks of vio- lence on her body. The' staircase and walls of the stairway showed blood marks and it is supposed that the woman either fell downstairs or was beaten and thrown down and then carried back again. Betause her husband. had been seen quarkelling with her the day before Lapointe was arrested and charged with murder. The Crown endeavored to 'rave that the blood spots on 'the stairway and the bruises on the body could not have come there Unless the. woman had fallen down. The defence was that the womanlad been subject to epileptic fits, and that 'she had also been drinking. heavily. The trial was concluded yester- day; and the jury, after the Judge had charged against the prisoner, brought in a :verdict of not guilty. . • t GET SALMON FROM CANADA. Will Stock the Rivers and Streams of France. New York, March 10. -The Tribune publishes the .following cable from Paris: Enormous quattitiea of satinet spawn from Canada and the United States are. to be imported by- the French Fish Com- missiotets. Twenty . thousand dollars has been annually expended in stocking the French. rivers with the spawn .01 eal- mon and of trout,obtained Seotiana and In the United States. The revival of salmon in France seC1118 110W. an AS- fitet. . 11 was only last year that the salmon supply was -so defieient 'that eight mil- lion pounds of this much sought. for fish were purchased dn. Great Britam alone at an average price- of fifty •ceate a .pound; To -day there -is such it large quantity of native French• salmon in the Paris market, that the retail priee for the best prime. cats is only sixty cents a pound -'- a price ten per cent. lower than has been known here for a quarter of it century. Great excitement las been caused by the capture this ayeek of a salmon in the River Yonne, it •tributary of the Seine, at a point a hundred miles southwest of Paris, Strange to say, the sabnon must have found their way from the Atlantic, up the passing through Paris and the innumerable locks and barrage of the river. Tokio Statesmen and Officers Attended - • JAMES LAIDLAW DEAD. Demonstration. Tokio,' March 10, -Thirty thousand Former Member for South Wellington in persous went to Hibiya Pass yesterday Legislature Passes Away. to etteua exercises conmemorating she Guelph, Ont., March 10. -Mr. James Japenese victory of Mukden. Members of the Cabinet, the elder Laidlaw, ex -M. P. P., died this morning. Deceased represented South Wellington statesmen, meny officers of tlx arMY in the Legislature for many years. rind navy, and members of the Diet The late James Laidlaw was born in were present. Mayor Osaki•reaa a con. Roxburghshire, Sal:land, in 1822, and gratulatory telegram to be sent to Field -Marshal Oyanut on behalf of the come to Canada in 1831. filled the offices of councillor and reeve of Guelph municipality, the erowd cheering its ap• Townsbip and was warden of the Comity proVa In 1875 he was tempo - ',lent -General Terauchi, Minister of of Welnildfou. Minis- arv manager of the Goamenment Vann War, mei Atbuiral Yamamoto, .and School of ,Agricelture. Ile was first ter of the Navy, spoke on behalf of t army nit nary reepeetseely, teeneeif.; returned to the Legislative Assembly at , the general elections in 1810, and was re - the people For the support they eno. elected at the following general election. given the Government during the war. Sports in the afternoon and a displey of fireworks at eight conducted. the celebration, BANDED OVER COMMAND. Neatens Paris .inarried people by an Itouropatkin Bends Brief Message to the men:hue/it to the marriage clause in the Czar. , eivit code, proposed by Paul Herein, and St. Petersburg, March 18.-A telegram a:bided by the -Committee for the Re - from Gen. Kouropatkin to Emperor Nieh- form of the Code. Formerly married peo- olae, dated Mirth 17, says: "In accord- pie were held to owe nuiturd fidelity, eum mice with the orders of your Majesty, tor, luta assistence, but tow compliea. reeds ed abr.+ Ira I banded over to Gen. Goes are addea to the already difficult ate Command. „ isneetteli fo-day the conarated Of the legal obligations by the further demand "St. Poterslatteg, March. 10. --Ib Stat. land and' tam Item operating against esd, apparently from it trustworthy the japenese." Warm., that aa,the -result of tele- Get. Linevitch, re telegram to the Igraplue cenvereation with •th,6 .Cxer, 'Emperor, under the seem date, says: Gele Xettrepatkin 11as tfikon the com- "in pursuance of the orders of your Maj - 1 TO MAKE LOVE COMPULSORY. Aniendinent is PropoSed to Marriage Clause in French Code, Paris March 10.-A new danger ney Jerome has brought suits aggregat- ing $287,000 against the American To. baceo Company, the Continental To- bacco Company, the " American. Cigar Company and •the Floridora Tag Com- pany,. all subsidiary concerns of the American Tobacco Company, for alleged violation of the lottery laws of the State.The suits grew out of the guessing contests organized by the concerns. About a, year ago the companies of- fered $142,000 to. those who made the nearest .guesses to the number of cigars of certain brands which would be taxed within a stated period of time by the :Federal Government. Last year they of- fered $145,000 to those who made the nearest guesses of the actual •number of votes cast for the winner of the last presidential election. • According to the section of the penal code under .which the suit is brought, even though the prizes offered have been paid, the company must again pay out the money to New York county should the district attorney svin thc suits. - t :1- . • PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER • M. C. R. Locomotive jumped Snubbing Block at Niagara Falls. •Niagara Falls, Ont., March 19. -An engine and one car, part of a -train of fifteen CM'S of dressed beef, plunged. into the Niagara River gbont 7.3.0 o'clock last night close to the Canadian end of the International Bridge. The train was on the Michigan Central tracks and. was•a Michigan 'Central train. 11- was op-, preaching the bridge wben the accidetit happened. There is a down grade just before the bridge is reached, and directly in front of the bridge is a switch leading to the old 13axter elevator. Whether the switch was Open or not may not be de- termined until, a later elate, but it certain the engine took the side track and sailed down the hill leading to the elevator. Engineer Delaney stuck to Ms post to the last, thinking to cheek the speed of -his s engine,. but. when lie saw he could. not he yelled to his fireman to jump and then jumped. himself. De- laney is from St. 'Thomas, and is con- sidered onc of the most competent men on the Miebigan Central. Cenauctor Higgens, of Bridgburg, also jumped afid • .escaped unhurt. -The engine and one ear jumped the snubbing- block at. the foot. of the decline and plunged into. the rivet. • ALSACE IN BUNDESRATH, Count Von Buelow Says Views of All States -Must Fest Be Obtained. • Berlin, March al. -Count von Bbelow, speaking in the Reichstag yesterday on it resolution asking the Government to give Alsace-Lerraine independent repre- sentation in the Bundesrath, said they would- have to seek the views of all the ConfederateitStates. For the Viceroy of Alsaae-Lorraine to lmae power to appoint o representative in Gm Bundesrath would virutally gat Prussia power in the Bun. desrath not contemplated. by the consti- tution.• The. desire of Alsace-Lorraine to have independent representation show- ed. the strength of the tic •binding the ; province to the empire. t7 ''7"" NIAGARA POWER FOR WEST. • Development Plans to be Carried Out Immediately. Toronto, aMrch 21. ----The Ontario Elec- trical Development Company, which has just let contracts for a new half -million dollar power house at Niagara Falls, has -;• PARADISE AND THE FLOOD Are of Doubtful Accuracy, Says Dr. Foote, of johns Hopkiss. • Balthnore, aid,, March 18. -The Bibli- cal stories of Paradise and. the . toed were, said to be of doubtful accuracy by Dr. 1Theodore Clinton Foote, instructor in Biblical literature at the Johns Hop- kins University, during it lecture he de - layered to -day before the Philological Asoeiation of the university. Dr. Foote argues that higher criticism so "called. will ultimately • render faith more rational and Hem. The bistorical value of the stories of Paradise andthe flood, he does not consider very high, al- though he regards their maral utility as very considerable and "quite independ- ent of their historical accuracy." "In the same way," he continues, "one does not demand historical accuracy in the parables. of Jesus. "The first result of Biblical research," he said, "was the discovery that the first five books ascribed to Moses, are, in fact, composite in origin, If this be true it followe that the traditional view of verbal inspiration for which there has never been any valid grounds, must give way to a truer belief." WILL KEEP ON SHOVELLING. Promise of a Dying Man leepeated in a Will Case at Ottawa. Ottawa, a.farch 21.--e-aI am going into the next world, and I will be kept busy shovelling coal for you and McElroy. I will go there -ahead. of you, and I will tnitiamleneit hot for the doctor and Mc- Elroy. • I will shovel in lots of coal for The above statement. were said in the dying .houre of the late John Good, Marlborough township, .shown in a case before Judge O'Meara :this morn- ing to establish the will which was drawn for the deceased by Dr. Shannon - house and Mr. Wm. McElroy, Richmond, the day before his death. The first statement was given,in evidence by Dr. Shannothause and the second by an-, other .witness. .• 1 • VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION. .• Throws Out Burning Lava and Red Hot ' Stones. , • Naples, „March B. -Mount -Vesuvius is again in eruption, and is throwing out burning lova, red hot stones •and a high column of •smoke, while detonations are heard at long distances. The eruption it attributed to an earthquake, which was felt for eighty miles. . . Many foreigners have been attracted by the inagnificent spedtacle, but are un- able to approach the crater, because of the - immense quantity of incandescent matter that is being emitted. . • A Naples despatch to the .New York Herald- says: Repeated shocks. of earth- quake were. felt here to -day (Friday), and at Avellino and Beeavento, sev- eral plades the inhabitants fell into a re- ported. .bet no serious damage is re- . .. WHERE . IS. THE TERMINAL That G. T. R. Will ,Have Nearer Than • the St. Lawrence?. • London, March 21. -Though designed Or a speed of seventeen and a halt knots the new Allan liner Victorian attained nearly twenty knots at -her trials on the Clyde yesterday. .At the luncheon on board, Mr, N. Dunlop, chairman of the Allan company, said. he believed the Grand Trunk Railway contemplated. hav- ing a great terminal point nearer the ocean that the St. Lawrence. Then the Canadian route would, be the great wat- erway to the American continent, with steamers running at imequalled speed and safety. The Victorian V.1- for Liverpool on Thursday- with 1,300 passengers and melts for the other side. s • decided: on a very extensive scheme of SECRETARY 0.? STATE HAY ILL, power development • for the villages, - towns aint cities of Western Ontario, in Seized With Fit of Weakness as He addition to the power to be deliv'ered in Boarded the Cretic, 1 oronto. Worst Voyage of Her Career, the Seas Breaking 120 Feet Higher Than Her Brodge. The Steamer Spartan With Five of the Crew Wrecked Off Rhode Island. Ten Fishing Vessels Driven Ashore in a Storm Last Night at Highland Light. 1 New York, March zo.-More than three and a half days bebina her beat record tithe for the voyage, the big White Star liner Cedric -came into pert to -4V after the /nest turbulent voyage of her career. Ft0n1 the outset of the voyage the Cedric encountered heavy weather. The force of the gales was terrific, and at times assumed hurricane proportions with trementions seas. On March 12, with the gale blowing out of the nortlivreet, it long, heavy, rolling sea, which met a southerly swell, caused a frightful coati, shin of waters.. Theseas broke more than rao feeter higher than the Cedricte bridge, and were estimated to be sixty feet high frorn the hollow to the crest.. Her officers say that although the huge ship rolled and pitched violently, she behaved splendidly. The days' runs show the character of the weather.. They were: $06, 222, 213, 177, 144, 108, 282, 385, 397, 06 and 245. Among the passengers on the Cedric was Jabez White, the Britist ist, and his manager, Charles W. W. Mitchell. White is matched to fight jimmy Britt at San Francisco. .Another passenger was Luke Crabtree, a British dog fancier, who is going to Buffalo to judge the bull dogs' &IOW. Steamer Spartan Ashore. to the lecal haddock fleet, Were driven Block Island, R. Mareh 20,- The , ashore on the flats in the harbor lint - steamer Spartan, ashore on the east side i ing last night and early to -day ware of the Island, was being battered at 8 I being forced. still further up by the gale a. in. to -day by it severe northeast storm. I blowing from the northeast. A. large Five of the crew were still on board. The I icablock passing around. the Truro there steamer's bulkheads had all been smash- yesterday blocked the harbor eatrapee ed and there seemed little hope of saving when the wind shifted to the eaoterly lier as the storm seemed to be increa:s- last night and foreed the fishormea on the flats. As the vessels all rest ot a soft bottom it is believed they will come oovffers.vith little damage as the storm is lug. Ten Driven Ashore. Highland Light, Mass., March 20. -Ten fishing vessels, most of them belonging A SHOE FACTORY FIRE; ENOINE BOILER EXPLODED. Fifty of the Six Hundred Employees Un- accounted for. ' Brockton, Mass., March 20. -Within an hour after the six hundred or inore em- ployees at the R. B. Grover's Shoe Fac- tory had begun work to-aay a boiler blew up in the factory engine room, wrecking a section of the building and starting a fire which destroyed the ruins and spread to other buildings near by. Owing to the nature of the accident. and the speed with which the flames seized upon the section which fell after the ex- plosion and the excitement, any accurate estimate of the loss of life was impossi- ble. It was understood that upwards of two hundred persons were -at work in the departments near the boiler room and the first indications were that hardly one could have escaped. Later, howevere, it was learned that about fifty were un- accounted for, and it was believed that many of this number might be dead or injured. -The factory, it large four -storey wood- en structure, was in ashes within an hour. • The flames. extended to several dwell- ing houses near by ana to the Dahlburg block, across the street, front the Gro- ver faetory. These also were consumed and other property was damaged. At 10.30 o'clock it was believed that the fire was under control and the financial loss was estimated at $200,000. The boiler which exploded was located on the g.round floor of an L which ex- tended from the main building. In the three storeys of the L were 'located workrooma. persons living near heard a dull roar and saw a cloud of smoke rising, and the L of the factory falling to the gonna.. Almost immediately flames burst forth from the ruins of the boiler room and quickly enveloped the wreckage of the L. Befoia the hundreds of persons in the main building had left it the fire jumped from the L and in a few minutes the entire structure was it repring furnace. Most of these, however, in the main past of the plant succeeded in escaping, although in the terrible pasde which followed the explosion quite. a number were injured. The Grover factory was situated at the corner of Main and. Calmar streets, la the Compello district, about a mile soutit of the city proper. The district is with- in the city limits of Brockton. A series of alarms summoned all the fire appara- tus in the city to the scene and aid was also sent from near -by places, mostly shoe manufacturing towns. The &emit experienced the greatest difficulty ta battling with the flames as the Grover factory was of an extremely Mamma. ble character. The flames extended to the Dahlburg block, it four -storey woad. en building on the opposite corner of the street and. to a number of other wooden dwellings half it dozen or mere of which were dest'royed., The Dahlburg block was also burned. - Reports received at Brockton hospital at 9.40 were to the effect: that 11 were dead and it score or more injured. Tye of the injured had reached the hospiila at that hour. Twenty-five Bodies Found. Twenty-five bodies up to 11.30 liad been taken. from the ruins. Many of them were so terribly .mutilated Qua burned as to make identification diffi. cult if not impossible. Believe Fifty Perished. • At noon City Fire Marshal Boyden ie. sued it etatement saying that reports made to him tip to that hour indicate:a that the number of dead might rear& 50. Lists of the employes in the differeat departments of the fectory have been posted at the fire station and calls have been sent out for every. person who es- capea to indicate the fact on the list. In this way it is hoped a fairly accurate es- timate of the number of dead may be ob- tained. Engineer Detained, Brockton, Mass., March 20. ---Davit Rockwell, the engineer in charge of tee boiler which exploded has been detain- ed by the police pending an Me -catty, tion of the accident. SHOT WIFE AND BABY. MURDERED HIS SON. . A Shocking Crime Committed at Mont-, Peculiar Accident in Pritchard Household Near Reaburn, Man. real by an Insane Father. Montreal, March 20. -A terrible mine Portage la Prairie, March 10.-A peen. liar and distressing accident happened der was committed here on Saturday, . not far from the village le worried by near Reaburn. W. O. Pritchard, living when William Phelan batterea his son's skull with d long iron poker as the lat. the presence of -ivolves,,and yesterday ter lay asleep in bed. The son was ser- tfihreed.wsivnidthowa ogfulhiisathortuse. band Ratilioadrougink enteen yeara old, and bore samet'name be let the butt end of the gala fall to • .1 A dd f't of insanity the floor rather heavily, -whoa it went Surveyinseparties will start out imnie- New York, March 18 -Secretory of , the chime ping through tbe eisil• diately to lbeate eoutes for power cables, State Hay, as he was boarding the I is supposed to have induced the awftil . ionfgf, and striking his wife, shattering her to Brantford, Paris, Guelph, Galt, Pres- steamship Cacti° to sail for Europe to-- deed. There bad been no estrangement, left wrist and also the baby's lowev ton, Berlin, Ayr, and all places requiring day, was seized. with a fit of weakness ' as far as is known, between father and power in those districts, while Stratford, as he stepped upon the gang plank and son, and nothing but the hallucination litTiblie injured woman was taken to the roundiug.these reties will all be given the with his daughter, Mrs. aalllef1 W. of a weak mind can ebitedfi.titnlagmiinulesdsiont.hat - could have aroused the previously de - eery to amputate her hand tit the wrist. London and places in the districts - sur- nearly collapeed. As he was going aboard - hospital here, where it was found meet:. power from Niagara. • Secretary WAS seen to tarn- pale, stag- voted father to so dr The mat and boy lived in comfortable not much the worse for the adventure. opportunity in the near future 01 using Wrubworth, jun., and Henry Adams, the 'Shot was taken front the baby., who is . t. , t . at 42 Dorton street, where' Ire is three years of ege. 'VIOLET LEAVES A CURE. ger, gasp as if for breath, and he would quartos have fallen hall not his friends support. the father kept it small grocery. The ed bite. lb wris taken to a pile of boy's aunt lived with them. About four Cancer Patient in an English Hospital freight, where sat down until attend- months ago the mother diea rather mid - 1 = I Claims It Was Effective. ants brought him rt wheel chair, on width denly, and that together svith the dig... BEATEN AND ROBBED. Finlanders Lose AliTheirWinter Earn - he was token aboard the Cretie. appoiutinent over it failure to transfer . New York, March 10. -The Sun pub- The Cretie left her dock with the . some property is suppoged -to have de- - lishes the following crible from London: Secretes.y stet on Weird, mid as she : ranged the old man's mina. Phelan Ilea Inge Near Fort Prances. Wiliam (11ordon, it physician in it i)evin• passed Sandy Hook the Cretie displayed been in low spirits, but had not been . Winnipeg, March 10. -Three Finland. Exeter hospital, reports it .supposed pure a signet saying that Seeretary Ttay was drinkine nor hail he shown any dis o- . ere who had just returnea from the ad*. for cancer to The laineet, and. 11 hal, much better, s aroused considerable jublie interest. --es - - The patient was it limn of 53, who had 'TWENTYPOUR KILLED IN MINE, been tola by five doctors that he had - cancer of the tongue. lie refused. to ExPlesiOn Shook reaudatiOns of the Yesterday morning instead. of doing $200 in caeb, watchea, tinge end othee undergo an operation, and continence(' this, the father shed his son's blood, valuables, and left in it badly bruised Mountains in West Virginia. on Xovember 10 to treat himself as fel- and now his in jail on the ebarge of eonditioe. The two men who held there Iowa: ;•.,it, AV Charlestown, W. Va., March 19. --As =hien After he had committea the:deed UP ar•P supposed to have cseaped over lie poured it pint of boiling water dyer .the result of the explosion in the Ilush• he went and told his sister what he the river to the alinnteota side. O handful of violet leaves end: left them 'run and Bed Ash mines near Thurniona luta done, and offered no mom. He - - • • • LO soak for 24 bears, He dividea the last tight twenty-four men are dead then idaced his face in his hands and sition timer& violenee. It had been int ter lumber vamps were assaulted witk custom to wake his son early in order cluba by unknown robbers outside Of to get him to his place of employment Fort Frances last night. They were re- itt 1 time lievea of all the winter savings, 80M0 Empress 11./fado Amends, liquid into two equal parts rata drank in the two mines. Ten of these were set with his elbows on his knees, rock- %alio, March 10. -The earriege of the ono once, and in the next 24 hours killed in the explosion on Saturday, ing, AS if in great agony. MI wa.4. in tiopmA ran over it six-year.ourbey heiro used the other. -Hot fomentation:1 were Dela the other fourteen were a resent/114 thet position when the sister Conducted yesterday. Her alejesty alighted eta eontinuously to the outside of party Who entered the mine to -day. the pollee to where he AAt. When arrest- cor.panied the pollee. who earried the ' thne e ek on tho left side for two hours These latter were killtd, by it SOCODtt ed pliclan made no statementboy to the nearest atibulatiee, where ebb of loving one another. Should the each night. hometimes lie used the plosion and the afterdfunp. The first ex- , sit ci firet aid to Gte ' • d or husband May eall a genderme to the for/mutations on all night. of the mountains, and the flash from the for the opening et nealeatIoe is halal to Penn Ste. Merle, Ont. -The probable ante litindlzerehief as a, latedege. Later she sent toys to the bOy's Woe, and °Tared ! amended clause become ft law, the -wife leaN OR Aq poultice and sometimes kept plosion stetted to shrike the foundation. arrest her Or his mate whose affeetions The aoctor extunined him on January two neighboring drift months lighted up roreenst, but emu -Wens are abet It will be her own physician to,attend him until be tire not up to the legal standard. 23 and found that an extthordinarY the heavens fOr mites around. lawn the rivet. AThere ato Welles ot lee recover:1.