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The Wingham Advance, 1906-11-29, Page 7RIOTING IN HAMILTON . .....lie ma sleeking ,wRick or RtsoLuTt near the Time* offitee,thed Wee felii to. the , • grimed. Juet aa. George Mersin Barton sexed ett•st., eterds out of Dr. Rooebrufles. LAST SATURDAY NIlir":117114iltrIII°eE,F',.,15',: - • • • • • • -• • • • - • GUT jthe &der, to hove ids head dreseed. AM* Therelay, a south eider, seeot to polio Iteadquarteen to molten complaint, Crowd Stone Street Cars and Attacic Non-union !end wee threatened With arreet, unteen ee )11e doom. out. His heed wan badly tut. wieo40.41(14M1Y tke 441Wit iw 1414b,d NUS WIN . tne stem awl boat sw : Away, stri big hen t book if the . 'neck and throwing hien overboard. AND n j tunately he fell within ante* latonds ai ouost of the ehip'e boat that W441. et144Y AT TORONTO HARBOReioset.". :!cts eneh*atuni:IlvrterlatGr ily,t); 1*.i: Graphic Description of the iDesperate Struggle for Conductors and Tviotormen. John Oliver, e'eirmouot ovenue, one of a number ef prisoner* beivg -conveyed, to Life With the Waves. No. 3 police station, Ives :struck on the head end eeriously cut ,lty a, stone thrown when the mob attaeltell the 'wagon at the corner of Icing William and Hugheen street. The stone levet emcee Sergt. lenoxn helmet and &wed off, strikhvg Oliver, " Military From Toronto and London Clear the Streets and Police Charge the Crowd 41. Hamilton despatch says: Such rioting -and bloodshed as bel- lowed the xemlieg of the Riot Act has nevee been equalled h ay Ceneeliao city. On Friday might a wild, booting, jeering mob, defying la,W ane pollee an. thority, wrecking and emashing eel be- fore it, beld sway, Saturday nigitt the pollee, backed by the military, -were in enntrol, and stern justice was tooted out w ith a.n, iron bane. There netts never anything like it in. Hamilton before. The scene WaS SAMOSt iudeert1th1e On,Sat- u rday alternoon when the troops march- ed out for the first time .they woo ee- garded as somewhat of a joke. Before many nitrates of duty at night they Were eooked, upon as a force to conjure with. The &lily part a the evening was spent by small boys and foolielt seen in guying the soldiers, giving eat yells and hunting abuse. "Fifty cents a day men!" some hood- lum would &noun "Don't they look it, too?" another would say; The soldiers, with bayonets fixed, marched up ' -and. down the street within a few feet of the crowd. on the °web, unmindful of the rude jibes. The Dra- goons, too, ignored the insulting re - Marks intended for their ears. "Gee, ain't it eool up there, now hon- est, mister?" a little street'urehin would pipe, smirking to himself, at the Drai- goons. The jest would be treated With e•• la boisterous laugh by the crawl. An intoxicated man, who WaS indig- nant with what he considered an iater- ferenee with his eight, guyed. the Dee - pone. Some of them rode close to a, rig which be WAS seated.. "Who's got a right to bother nie; am driving down the right side, ain't I.' boys?" he appealed to the erowd. 'You bet!' urged the crowd, as it cheered. ".And I can go right up tile other side if I feel like it, ain't that right boys?" There was another encouraging cheer and more jibes foe the sold:lees. it was incidents dike this that attracted the crowd. Shortly before 7 .ceelock the streets were so quiet that mane people thought the very appearance of the sol- diers had warded off any sign of trouble. The police who had (loped with n Kam. Mon mob knew better, and the author- ities made plans to meet it. Before the clock struck 7 an immense mob that lined both sides. of James street triad erowded out on the woad was diming and yelling. The nppeara.nee of the eel - diens marching and riding up and down the street seemed to set the crowd wild with excitement. BUSINESS SUSPENDED. !Merchants Lose Heavily—Lady Clerks Fainted in the Stores. Business was practically suspended from 6.30 on Saturday night, and the lose, the exact amount of nvhieh it .would be hard to 'estimate, must :have reached far op into the thousands. The wild rumors brought in trom the street cow- ed, terror aanostg .the lady clerks. Time and again when the troops went :down King street, driving the crowds before them, people sought shelter in the stores, Sometimes a hundred would rush in at a time and go half way through the big stores, only to be followed by the In- fantry with bayonets and driven out egain. The appearance of the crowd and the armed soldiers almost mannsome of the clerks into hysterics and caused ethere to faint. The slightest offer at resisbanoe caused "Tommy" to poke you in the ribs. sometimes witil the butt of the rifle and in one or two incidentswith the "peaked?' end. Probably $200 damage was done 4n a, Greek candy shop on King street, eitet of Catharine street. This WAS la the viein- ity of the worst fight of the night, wheat the cox was wrecked. at Walnut street. When the troops arrived they scattered arrival shortly after midnight on Fri- day, The first appearance of the !sob eiers attracted considerable 01.1404tY4 and while it had a quieting effect on the crowds for a while, the hoodlums loosen- ed up later in the afternoon, and at fre- quent intervals hissee and jeered them as they marched up and down the street. Up till darkness set in, however, there had been no disorder of a serious nature, although the police looked forward with fear to what the oight might develop. As soon as a crowd began to gather at different point( shortly before 3 o'clock in the afternoon the officers in charge of the troops detailed squads for different parts of the city. Many complaints were made by the company about the crowds interfering with the switches, and the soldiers were marched off to protect the various corners. Wearing greatcoats and service uniforms, with bayonets fixed, the squads left the Drill Hall, ready for duty. A squad of Dra- goons, armed with swords, rode up James street at a canter, and patrolled the line from Barton street to the Locke street car sheds. The officials early in the afternoon detailed squads of infantrymen to all the car sheds to guard against trouble. There was no sign of an attack, however, ne any of these points during the after- noon. A squad of infantrymen &maul a large crowd away from Barton end James streets, a point which has been the scene of much stone throwing since the strike began. Another crow% was dispersed at Stuart and James streets. Until darkness rumther small squad of infantry with ,fixed bayonets end in charge of one of the lieutenants, stood at ease at the corner of King and James streets. They attracted nmch attention. "Is that the best Toronto can pro- duce?" a woman asked one of the police- men. "You must not ask questions like that at a time like this," said the man in blue. The soldiers had put up with a lot of jollying during the afternoon, but did not seem to mind it. A crowd of urchins gathered around the two soldiers with fixed bayonets, and gazed at them in awe for a few minutes. Then they began to laugh and crack jokes until a police- man came along and swept them away. Now and again the crowd jeered the soldiers and roared "Scab!" as one of the ears swept by. AN AWFUL SIGHT. Way Police Used Clubs on Crowd Awed People. Within three minutes of the reading of the Riot Act the streets presented a scene that made women faint and strong men turn pale as they watched with awe the fieree charge of the police, back- ed up by the troops. Hundreds of peo- ple were hurt, men, women and ehildren, some of them seriously. The Medical Health Office in the City Hall was turn- ed into an emergency Hospital, and Dr. 'Angell, senior, was kept busy for near- ly two hours mending broken heads, The drug stores were crowded all night by wounded people taking refuge there to have their injuries attended to. The doctors near the centre of the city were working overtime. As the police struck right and left with their batons terri- fied men fleeing• for safety fell in their path, and at times James street was strewn with a score of men who were knocked senseless by raps from police- men's clubs. With blood streaming down their faces, with dishevelled hair and fre- quently minus their hats. boys and men staggered along James and the side streets. -Many of them before they got out of harm's way being struck again. People gasped with awe as they watched the officers sweep through the crowds. Scores of people with broken heads had their injuries attended to and left without giving their names. SOME OF THE INJURED. Many Complain Bitterly of the Sweep - the peeple. big crowd ran inbo the ing Onelaught mauler stare and the soldiers followed bo; /t - ore is a partial list of those attend - °lease them out. A young man was eat- I ing doe cream with a latly, and a, man ed. by Dr. Lawrie; who when arrested gave bee game as Ben Ogilvie, commercial braveller, Kerr was playine the piano. It is SAM wounded in the head by. flying stones. , the soldier pointed his bayonet .over the John Mepham, 129 Caroline street girl's head, when emneone threw a chair north, struck on the bend by policeman. at him. Kerr got. a jab Mat cut ! Peter McRoberts, Florence street, mouth and loosened some of hie teeth. ! sbruek on the head by a polic,entan end His friends say be was perfecbly inno- burly elle, cent of any -weongloing. P. C, Ifallisey, struck on side by In some eases ownme of sfOrn objed" acme, injured internally. s ed to allowing: the soldiers to force pee- James _Baeoey, out en, teed by potiee- pie out of their stores, not knowing the mann club. John Oliver, struck on head awl badly cut by a stone. Others who were injured in the rush met power they possess at such tames. THE RIOT ACT. were mete mimed G111, Sullivan, Harry The Proclamation in the Name of His Onneminge, Michael McKenna, Thomas Majesty the King. Udine, W, Birdsall and Hems Hansen. The Riot Act, whielt consists of four- I "1.1 there is any justice in Oan&da, someone will nay. for thin" eried aai teen clauses, is a historic document men dozen, as he helped his wf np which has figured in many e stormy the City Inell steps past Mayor Biggar . and took lise. out the back way. She time. When the Riot Act is read mill of civic t • Ned ben knooked down; be said, by a' toy force comes to the nicl . - epelteenian, and almost trampled .u.ntler a The reiteing of the act is generally the trooper's horse when rescued. Hee bee best resource of the majesty of the law . WAS blaek and blue as a result of a to maintain its supremacy, and all the 11!olv. 1 Anothew man with blood. gemming force of the British empire is supposed f,,ece, etapere,d. up the ethos. to be at its beck. Imprisonment for life ; "vt, hat sane et a Mee 14 this, MC. May - is ono of the penalties, and it may in -or t" he asked, no deelttred Iliad gone terost some of those who have been en- to a. dreg :store to get oteeieine for his gaged in the work of smashing windows she: wife, awl was knocked down by o to know that they ate liable to a term 51 of severt years imttm prisoent. The mere imaetvinura's elab ashe "Med fat° the ow presence of a person in a CVOW41. con- "Smeone ill pay dewily for str"'t• " stitutes an infrimthindie thasetteneel.nge ent of the act, and „ no matter though people are killed by 1 "au'"lualw'n, 4.5 Fergueeat avenue em . the police and. other constituted author- south, m ' ity in suppressing the mob no charge eat)., 15151 by a blow at Merrick was on his way home, was. street, and Feet eie hat. In a dazee condition lie be brought' against them. Here is the • wanteerea up to a dreg store and had the full text of the proelonuttion of the act, . wound &tome He had just readied the that Which was rend by Sheriff Middle- elity.ITall truer on his way tome when ton on Saturday eight: 1 he wile open cracked on the head. Ile Our Sovereign Lord the • Xing cont. staggered to a doctor's to have the sec - mends. all persons being assembled Won& cqui injury hefted. diately to disperse and peaceably to de -1 Dodsworth, et member of ‘7the part to their habit/Alerts or to their Iwo I irekla'Y Irving Coe who pluyod the load in 1 Opera House When be got tan - guilty of an offence, on conviction of 41114 in a ',sow& that the police eltarg- which they may be sentenced to imprison-, ed on. The terrified actor WAS chased FeVi ral Weeks nod felled by a policeman's Ment for life. • doh, lie was rather badly injured and God eve the Xing. • mull not leave the eity yeetertley with 4.4.2* TROOPS APPEARED. lit eonpouy. Another tigeti woanto who WAS on ber way dime King William street from the 'Patrolled the Streets, and Guarded Central Market earreing matt and other switCheit On Saturday Afternoon. neoeseities for tliti 'Sunday dinner 'WAS ful business, upon the pain of beingi'rkliA1:1'" WaS ,011 his way front the Fred. Small, a traveller, was hit on the knee with a stone white standiog in front of Joseph Mills' store. • ODD INCIDENTS, Many Unoffendiug Persons Injured or Ceased. "Mile 'ere Woollen' country es A 'ell! Of a place. That's wot think," WAS the very natural earl -meet of a. newcomer 1/0 the eltY AS he applied. o surgeon to have two bad cuts in ids scalp stitchea. "Ere was I goin? up town, quiet and Peoper, to get my Saterday anarketieg dope, and blame me if I was botheeing anybody. Ana wet do you think, I come up against company of tommies nod they turned .me Wel: and run Inc down the pike bard's I <mak]. run, and drove me right into a squad. of cops whacking everybody, .tund they give me two omens on the out. Now, weatel you do about that? I !Wok We a bloineed eletane, so I do." And the surgeon agreed, with him. Two physielans were preeeeding north on A.m.; stret and had oesely reaelted the Royal Hotel, when the Dragoons swept northward, covering the street from wall to wall. The meths. .sprented and anade phenomenal time to Vine street. But dodging down Vine street did not .enable them to escape. The horsmiten were close behind, and pressed heed the legit:I:me took refuge in a miukly alley. One of them—a ilrenvy- weight—deolares be can make ilia iLlthr deed, yards in ten seconds now. Another peoleseloted. Mao fOreed 10 do some qui& dodging near the Omni Opera, 'Home antl he is congratetteting himeelf that lute a. sound head to -day. A sad. and wegrettable feattere of the dieturbatiee Wits the injtoing of namber of women, •ane mueh sympathy was expressed for them. Convene:tear° made that in some eases them was un- nesessary harshness. in neighborhoods where they .wene not in crown% asid women were the victims. It is a pity that any innocent person ehould suffer, especially women. Now that all know the delver it is hoped that ano•thers, wives and daughters keep out of the Ivey; mid that the police will strive bo &void injury to them to the best of their ability. A sttrgeon, in the enteral section :mend- ed seven broken heade. A young woman was brought into his •office hysteeies and it required some One to calm her. A peominent lawyer is raid to bane covered bhe distamee from Ring street to the T., IL & 33. station in phenomenal time, with a row of bayonets' not tar behind him. He says it looked like real war. First Assistant 'Chief James, of the eke Department, Wita going peaceablo ielong King • street on Satarday night when a eke> was raised thmaterangiy abere his heal He missed being Int, however, but this del not salve his feel- ings, toward the pelieeman any way. On Antes street in front of the City Hall a ear went off the track about 9 o'clock. The strike breakers filed out and displayed their °lobs as they march- ed around the caw. They succeeded in getting it on the track again. It was badly battered. with bricks furthee up the street: MANY REVOLVERS Said to Have Been Sold Since the Trouble Began. The shotting on Saturday night and use of dynamite during the past three days is taken by the police as signifi- cant. They fear that while •the back of mob rule was broken oil Saturday night, there will be more serious trouble than yet occurred. Many were the threats made by fellows who got whacked on the head with a policeman's baton. Stories were in circulation yesterday that over a hundred revolvers and ammunition had been sold by the hardware stores, and that there was danger of a pitched liat- tle some night between the representa- tives of the law and a mob. Sheriff Middleton was asked about the story of the large sale of revolvers at noon to- day. "Yes, I heard that myself," he said. "Aro you taking any action to stop the sale of weapons?" "That rests with the Chief, and I un- derstand he is taking precautions, al- though I am tole Borne of the stores sold revolvers even after that." There ie a story in police oinks that one of the prisoners arrested carried a dangerous explosive. He was caught throwing a brick by Captain Burnham's squad. "I am an Americen citizen. I come front Mello," he said. "I am Just here on a visit." "It will be a pretty long visit. You won't see Buffalo for a long time," said the soldiers, as they marched him off to the cells. "Now, I am not going. to tell you what wits found on that fellow," was all the sheriff would say when asked about it. The sheriff says things will be mighty unpleasane for any crowd that tataclos the ear sheds to -night. JUDGE SNIDER'S STAND. Says He Won't Investigate Any Charges Against Police. d'udge Snider to -day made the fallow- ing statement: "I am very earrry if any innocent pee. sone, in the mob on. Saturday itight, get injured, bat they have only theinselvee to blew, as the "Mayor's proelamateon in the nftornoon moons of .011 day, mmanled all peens to stay off bee t..1,V0e! As owe 'of the Polite Commie- sionere will not enterteni any investi- gation egainet any of the peliee offieers, tte they were fully jestified in their tee - Winne' 4 4. U. S. DESIRMS. 'Washineton, Nov. 20.—Desertion 18 On the inerease in the 'United States army. The annual reoprt of the military Ste. retail shows that in the year ending June Seth there Were 6,25S desertions or 7.4 for every 100 soldiers in the army. In 1905 tee rate of desertion was only ,6.8, and for the three years previous to that swooped down that We the rate of desertion was only The regulars patrolled the streets ibis eangsbi bY 0. Tath afternoon for the first time since their from damet street. An officer's 'Nub 0.1. • Low Water and No Life -Saving" Appliances Blamed for the Disaster. A. Toronto despatch: The great waves Ai& yawred. hungrily throughout a Wog day and eight off Toronto Island for the steam beano Resolute gained their prey in the early houre of neetee- day morning. The prize of the etorm was the ship and six saelore. The ilong contest had beeu unequal. The barge hive a comma to protect and the chances of a !tele haven cut off. More than ems its crew ted manoeuveml to escape from the terailse fury- el the gate into the safe watere of the terbor, 'but the ehollow eliannels presented dangers even werse thou eitip (mead fear in the (leen lake, The best harbor upon the ..-:AtSt WAS kin sig,ht of the mew of the Re - ',elute, bet the storm had blocked the marance end. kept the vessel in. the even, where the wind could work Uneven lite allure gaud safety were within cabl- ing distanc.., hut the .drowiring sail:ar- nica knew too well that no belp eould wine from it. They realized; when tee eteuns were openiug under them that no Me -saving rocket would come &lough the darkness, that no e safetifa•saisiv-ngi mew would, take them off, because a ben eficent Cloven's:neat had. not ioug t i worth while to provide rd focr the life .of a lake sailor. So alter mak- ing the bravest fight recorded, in, the tragic) 'annals of the lake storms tee mew of the Resolute saw their ship go down, tine then lost :half their num ber trying to Rave themselves. ether emit, the schooner St. Louis end tete Reeolute's consort, the barge I'. S. neeke, rade out the starlit and these united crews of fifteen &seeped. • Dining tee terrific gale which ragee over Lake Ontario yesterday milting, the eteant barge Resolute, belonging to Haney & Miller, contractors, went to pieces hot outside the western gap and six lives out of the erew of twelve were lost in, one of the difeboats, which capsized in the heavy seas as it was leaving the wreck. A second lifeboat, in command of Capt. John Fahey, •,reaelfed the land in safety af- ter an hour's hard 'battle against the warm Capt. John Sullivan, who stuck to the vessel until she broke up, was washed ashore through the gap, cling- ing for life to the top of the wrecked vessel's cabin. Thomas Topping, the second: engineer, one of those cap- sized feam the first lifeboat, dung to the cabin -top with Capirt Sullivan me tii he lost his hold and sank from exhaustion. The sethooner P. 13. Locke, wad& was in tow of the Resolute, withstood the fume of the storm, and lies anchored a short distanee from elle spot when one mast and bhe top of & wfteel-house meek all that is aelt of the wreck. The Looke's crew- was taken all by a surf boat towed out by the bug Maggie Mitchell and in eommond of Capt. Ward. The erew of the schooner St. lends, which had al- so sought shelter from the stone near the gap; wee also taken off by toe mil boat. The Resolute, in command of Capt. Mahey, came from Erie, Pa., laden with a heavy` cargo of coal for Haney and Miller, and bringing in tow the P. B. Locke, also coal laden. The two vessels locked down the Welland Canal and left Port Dalhousie on Tuesday evening. Although the seas were heavy they crossed the lake without mishap reaching the Eastern Gap on Wednesday morning at four o'clock. They tried th make the gap, but the heavy northwest wind was too strong and they were beaten back. Capt. Sullivan, with a cOnple of men in a boat, made a landing, and after seeing Capt. Hall, Deputy Harbormas- ter, and S. W. Ross, superintendent of Haney and Miller, he went beck to the steamer. As there was said to be only ten feet of water in the eastern gap, and as the Resolute in her heavily -laden condition drew eleven feet, six incLes, it was decided not to make the trial. Found an Anchorage. Finding an entrance impossible, teme Fahey •put about and headed for the Western Gap, where an anchorage was found on the sandbar. All day Wednesday, the gale gra- dually increassed its force, and both vessels began to be in imminent dale ler. Capt. Sullivan, who is commo- lore of the Haney and Miller fleet, knew that it would be even more dangeroua to try to go through the ,Western Gap, and he decided to lie there nail the sea went down. About eleven o'clock that nighe the wind shifted suddenly to the west and be- came a regular hurricane, exposing the tugging, straining, vessels to the danger of the leeshore, and the pros- pect of being dashed to pieces on the sandbar. For a time the two vessels rode the breakers, but the barge could not stand the battering that the scooner could and the heavy seas broke heavily over her. Another at- tempt was made to take the barge through the Eastern Gap, but the storm swepe the vessels past the en- trance by a good hundred yards. Again shelter was sought down at die western aide of the Island, and by that time tbe barge was leaking badly. The steam pumps had been working steadily slime three o'clock in the afternoon, but the water in the hold. gained steadily, and as soon as site reached her anchorage she began Lo fill rapidly. Seas twenty feet high swept the vessel from bow to stern and the water continued to rise in her hold. The pumps and syphons were worked to their full limit until the water pat out, the fires under the boilers, and the 500 tons of loose zeal in the hold 'began to make the vessel roll deeper and deeper with each succeeding wave. A hissing of steam and several muffled. explosions told the now Manned crow that the water had reached the boilers. They found that the doomed vessel was be- ginning to list badly at the stern, She Wois sinking fast and there was no time to sighed for assistanee. The whole crew hurriedly donned life- heIts and prepared 90 leave with all bade. The first boat was lowered from the top of the cabin deck. Har- rison, the chief engineer, and five others, Topping, lima. engineer ; Gregory and Barnes, firemen; Neilson. the Norwegian wherdsmare. and White, a deekluted, all got into it. The remaining members, Of the erew boded theintelvet with the other boat. Itar. riSert and MS tommats pita away into the darkness, but they must have been immediately swamped, for they vanished from the sight of those ' left no board, and they were never ; eeen again. I The mond lifeboat was launched i under the direction of Capt, Fahey 1 and in it were Mrs. Elizabeth Cal- lagban, the cook; Michael Raney, the !mate; Andrew flicks, wheeleman, and 1Erneet Metleth, a young fireman. At the tene the vessel began to show signs of breaking up, the cook was asleep in the cabin, ahd when she was called she was only able to seize a skirt and pull it on over her night- dress. The surviving party got safely under way, however, and by alternate. ly rowing and baling they got into the gap after an hour's hard fight against the waves. They landed be- hind the National Yacht and Skiff Club -house, half drowned and fainting. Their boat was one-third filled with water when they got in. Mrs. Cal- laghan, the 'cook, was nearly , dead from the cold, and the men carried her into the lighthouse on the Queen's Wharf, where she was eared for by Capt. Hall. The reat of tbe party found their way to a hotel. Desolate at Dawn. With the dawn a desolate prospect was disclosed from the shore of the Island sandbar. The sand was litter- ed with wreckage washed up from the ill -fatal barge. Trunks, bedding, ropes, spars and portions of the hull lined. the beach. Out over the wave - tossed expanse the wrecked vessel's consort, the P. B. Locke, heaved hard at her anchor ont far from what re- mained of the steamer. Further south was anchored the schooner St Louis, loaded with coal, which had come ur the lake from Oswego with the east viveiinadattn 11B estoltitglelethesnhielletrenr idiiinpblenhyiendd etilgui. nals of distress, but it was io o'clock before any move was made to send them assistance. Two tugs, the W. R. McRae, belonging to Haney and Miller, and the Roy Mac tried the passage of the gap, but turned back. Then the Maggie R. Mitchell, of St. Catharines, with the lifeboat in tow, steamed labor- iously out past the Locke and droppee the Bfebottt nearby. By rowing it was brought up alongside the plunging ves- sel and the entire crew of seven people, five men and two women, were taken off. The lifeboat east off and after a long, hard pull the rescued ones were landed on the Queen's Wharf. They were; Captain Barney McIntyre, Port Dalhousie. William Staunton, Port Dal- houisie• }ferry Johnston, Toronto; Rich- ard Marshall, Port Dalhousie; R. Mor• rison, Mrs. Delia Ayres, Kingston; Liz- zie Jones, cook. The tug Mitchell, picking up the life- boat a second time, made her way to the St. Louis, which was also flying a distress signal. The difficult job of dropping the lifeboat a second time was accomplished, and Capto Williamson, his crew of five, and the cook were taken off. Mr. Solomon Sylvester, one of the firm owning the St. Louis, criticized the action of the crew in leaving the schoon- er. She was not dragging, he declared, and there was no need for them to come off. Watchers on the Island beach found the boat in which Harrison and his eive unfortunate comrades were capsized, washed up on the beach. Topping's Body Recovered. The body of Topping, who was drowned from the improvised raft to which Capt. Sullivan owed his life, was recovered about 10 o'clock yesterday morning, in the western ehanel. it was removed into an undertaker's. Top- ping's borthers at Deseronto were noti- fied by telegraph. and they arrived in the city last night to take charge of the remains. The deceased was married and leaves a widow and two children. None of the bodies of the other victims were recovered yesterday. Chief Engineer Harrison ' was 56 years of age, married, and also lived in Deseronto. Ile was well known in the Bay of Quinte and through the islands, and was for many years chief engineer of the passenger steamer Ella. Ross. Harry Gregory, the fireman, who was drowned, Wee' an Englishman, who came out last spring. He was only 22 years of age. David 'White, the deekhand, who was in the ill-fated lifeboat, is believed to belong to Cleveland. That was where he origirmlly shipped with the Reso- lute. He left her a couple of trips ago, end only rejoined her at the canal on Tuesday. He was a young man. "Cap." Sullivan Interviewed. Capt, Sullivan was not master of the Resolute, but aeted as manager and commodore of that section of the Haney - Miller service. List Sunday he boarded her in Toronto and went to Erie Pa., on Lake Eric, for a load of coal for the To- ronto Electric Light Company. They left Erie Monday night, with the. schooner T,oeke as consort, in tow, also laden with coal for the Haney -Willer firm, Speaking yesterday he said that the harbor faeilities provided here, for a city and port of this size are shame- fully inadequate With the Sea running as it was on Wednesday morning at 2 onloek it is dangerous to attempt the gap with a draft of more than eleven feet, The Resolute drew about eleven feet six inches. The captain is 58 years of age, and has been in several other wrecks, but never before in one in which lives were lost, The cabin -top on which he floated to safety was east up at the foot of York street yesterday, end an examina tion showed the wood in it to be -rotten with age. Capt. Sullivan's watch stopped tit 10 minutes past 4, and it was half -past 5 when he was pulled out, Ite had been iti the water for nearly an hour and it half. • Cook is in the Hospital. . Mrs. Elizabeth Callaghan, the cook, was prostrated by her terrible experi- ence on the wrecked vessel, and the - tied Quarrelled Over the Purriame of Some furniture. CSAMOVIA, MiOlur Nov. SO.—Delos WWI 4 Well-known and respected Tamar living a half mile west of town, On Wed- nesday evening shot and killed Ids paging wife of three menthe 4114 01411 ended Ws own life with the 4111114 revolver. The double tragedy took Oboe at the Highland farm home, and follow. ed a quarrel between the pair .ver the proposed purchaee of ome holsee- hold fureitUre. The pair came to h:t- ter words over the matter on We lacsday morning, the husband onpos'ag the buying of the furniture denee4t by Lis wife. Mrs. Highland has been teach- ing in the town schools, ant ehen 414 left for her work the ill -fee ing vc as still in evidence between her husbend anoidve.hrerselAf.t Doouring,ciotehke, ilavybornhe band went to the town and seeuroj. a re. v Highland returned home, ne folil wed her into the ,house, anti in their Slipp- ing room upstairs the quarrel was re- newed. Mrs. Highland's mother, who was downstairs, heard lea- danglitf r scream, and then several shon. The eta lady ran to the house cf a neighbor, crying for help, and when the neighbors returned with her to the Highland home, both husband and wife weriedead. arn.uigbinnd iatr at the head of the stairs, shot in the back of the neck, while her husband lay in the n tre of tbe room with a bullet bole in his temple. Tbe position of the bodies iedicatml that the young Wo- man was attempting to escape from her husband's attack when the bullet over- took her. Highland was 2f1 years old and his wife was 22. Ire owned a valuable farm and was well-tO-do. The couple were married only three months ago, the bride being a popular school teacher of this place, drew Hicks reached out and grabbed him and pulled MIA into the boat. The Resolute was A wooden vessel, built in Deseronto in 1882, for Rathbun 44 Co. She had a registration of 226 tens, and WM 138 feet long by 28 feet wide. Until last spring she was em- ployed chiefly in lumber freight work for Rathbun% plying between Lake Superior and. Montreal. Last spring she was pur- chased by Haney & Miller, and her work has taken her from Georgian Bay to below Quebec. This was to have been her last trip of the season. Sullivan's Awful Ride. Copt, Sullivan, who was hi a weak condition after hie thrilling fight with the raging sea, when gem at his home, said that it was the most trying experi- ence he had ever endured. Capt. Sullivan explained that he was net the master, but the superintendent of the vessels comprising the fleet of the Haney -Miller line. Last Sunday he boarded the Reso- lute M Toronto and went to Erie, Pa, for inspection purposes. The voyage across the lake was more or less rougb all the way. "But we began to feel it worse when we arrived off the eastern channel," said Capt. Sullivan. "The harbor facilities provided here for a city and a port of this size are shamefully inadeuate. With the sett running as it was on Wednesday morning at 2 o'clock it was dangerous to attempt that chan- nel with a draught of more than eleven feet. We drew about eleven feet six inches, and I knew it was useless trying to get into the harbor. It was futile to try the western gap either, the water was so shallow. They ought to build a longer breakwater at both gaps before they have any more wrecks." On the anchorage off the west Island shore Captain Sullivan thought himself fairly sale, but about 11 onlock on Tuesday eventing the wind veered around to the southwest, and a. hurricane came. For et time the barge azul her consort rode on the waves, but it was soon noticeable that the -steam barge could not stanxl the battering. The heavy broadside to the waves, the tembees ST. PAUL'S OUT OF PLUMB. seas pouren over her as she remained strained and eraeked, and great volumes of water poured into the hatchways. "It was a ease of every man for him- self," said Captain Sullivan. "There were two lifeboats on the barge. I sow one of them slide into the water. Three of the crew got aboard, and as three others who were dinging .to the rigging were about to leave the vessel the small craft capsized. I think some of the crew must laxe been washed off the deck before we took to the boats. His Battle for Life. "I was trying to launch one of the lifeboats when it tu.rched, acad I was thrown into the water. Mrs. Callaghan, the cook, and some of the men managed to get into the other boat. That was the lase I saw of them. I got in,to a lifeboat for the seeond tinie, only to be again hurled, into the water. Topping was with me, and atter a desperate struggle we managed to get on a. piece of wreckage. Toppiug clung to the wreckage until we struck the clung He dropp,ed time was then washed on the breakers. "I remember being :bumped; up against the piers at the Queen's Wiharf, and then swished around the corner. I lbung on for all I was worth until 1 struok the booms near the steamer Chippewa. Then ono of the mates and a can taker of one of the steamers came to my assistance." Canteen Sullivan's 'Mate"' stopped at ten minutes to tour, He was reamed at 5 o'clock. Why Lives Were Lost. Captain Williamson, of the St. Louis, commented bitterly 'upon the entire ab- sents of life-saving applienees, which laok occasioned the loss of life. "It is a shame," he said!, "that the Government does not maintain a life- saving crew or at least certain appli- ances whith could be used by those on shore. If there had been proper ap- pliances a line could have -been shot out to the arm of the Resolute and no lives. need .have been lost, in the Am- erican ports a sailor is sure of life-sav- ing applinttees a.nd a life-saving crew." TO SEE THE POPE RING GEORGE AND DAUGHTER TO CALL UPON Rome, Nov. 213.—After many contra- dictory reports it was Li•nally decided thus morning that King George of Greecet would Visit the Pope this ofternoon. Iuus Majesty will first go to the 1.3ritieli Em- bassy, where his daughter, the Grand Duette-se, eetieleteloviteh of Russia, bas been stopping, and together the Ring and the Grand DticaleSS Will drive to the Vatican, Ring George win leave Italy toortor- row for Greece. - • *4 IN SORCERESS' POWER. Boy Sets Fire to Houses in Alleged Obedience to Witch. Montreal, Nov, 26.—Mrs. Dupuis, of Domodossola frequent fires recently occured, destroying numerous houses. The people, greatly alarmed and sus- pecting incendiarism, set a trap tine caught a boy of fourteen in the act of throwing lighted matches into it 'table. When arrested the boy confessed the aim& affirming that he wits obeying injunctions of it sorceress. Ile was eentiewee to imprisonment for fifteen months. TRAINING SHIP BURNED. Vessel Carrying soo Men Burned at French Port, Toulon, Nov. An. --The old wooden warship Algeciras, used As a training ship for engin- eers of torpedo boats, caught fire to -night. She burned like paper, the flames ascending to a height of 10 feet, and she was quickly destroyed. Hundreds of them were injured. Three are missing. The small boats ot the Algeciras yere launched, filled with men, and raved away, while those who could not leave in this man- ner awaited the arrival of their reectors. A few' of them, however, were forced by the flames to jump overboard and swim away. Six torpedoes on board the school ship ex- ploded while the men were leaving the vessel. WAS FIRST KILLED. GRACE BROWN WAS lealiaam DEAD IN BEFORE LAItE, BODY uner, . . Y„ Nov. 26. --ler. G. A. venturesome trip to land in the bopt. Douglas went on the wawa) stand in She luta boat nearly all her clothing itha Gillette trial here to -day, arta teato fied that Gritee Brown waa killed by in - ;fairs inflicted before her body fell into Big 'Mow Lake, whare it was Smith 1\f. rE. honey , of Buffalo, one of the • when the steamer weet down. Yester- day afternoon the was removed to St. Mielutel's hospital in an ambulance. Ideselute's erew, had a nerrove cern:Del F.iruno, an Italian, was found guilty from being drowned. Ire was standing ,of the murder of a felIow-eountryman near the stern paying out the line of the named Angiello at the Port Arthur As - first boat that got away from the vessel, sizes. London Cathedral Endangered by Under- ground Railway Floods. London, Nov. 22.—The architect to St. Paul's, has discovered that the southwest tower of the cathedral is leaning 13 inches to the south, and that its movement to the southward has by no means ceased. The flood1ng of the underground railway in the vicinity of the cathe- dral has made constant pumping ne- cessary. This operation, by with- drawing the moisture from the soil, has caused a gradual subsidence of the south side of Ludgate Hill and of St. Paul's churchyard, The discovery probably will compel the abandonment of the proposed sewer near the cathedral. Experts say that the excavation for the sewer would naturally increase the risk of further subsidences. Nearly two years ago it was dis- covered that the cross which sur- mounts the dome of St. Paul's, nearly 400 feet above the ground, was three feet out of plumb. Mr. Hovenden, secretary of the London Association, then said: `St Pattie; is built upore a founda- tion of pot earth,under which is a lied of water bearing gravel. Beneath that again is the London clay. The danger has been caused by the gravel hed sinking, owing to its moisture be- ing withdrawn. BEARS CHARMED LIFE. Wellington County Farmer Has Had Many Narrow Escapes. A Guelph, Ont., despatch: Four times during the past few months has death by violence stared a yoling- awn named Wan. Rife. son of ex-Ald. Rife, who resides near Respeler, in bhe face, and each time he has escaped almost unscathed-. The first *evident occurred in J-une, when he was struck by lightning. The fiery fluid caused a few bums, but that was all. The see- ond accident was \viten he was caught ha between the top of a been and a load, of bay. It was a tight squeeze, but le was shoved off to the ground in safiety. Then he started for the Northwest, passing through the Azilda wreck, where so mealy lives wer.e lest. The last ad- venture occunred meently, when he was attacked in his father's barnyard by a savage Holstein bull. This time, before lie could escape, the frenziedanimal had gored him and cruised serious injuries. THAT COLLISION. GERMAN VESSEL TO BLAME—PAS- SENGERS TO SAIL ON MONDAY. Cherbourg Despatch.—The preliminary in- vestigation made by the Contain 01 the Pert into the cause of the collision Wednesday tight off this portbetween the north Ger- man Lloyd steamer Heiser der Grosse and the British Royal Mall steamer Orinoco seems to establish the fact that the former vessel should have heard the orinoco's signal that she was going to starboard of the Ger- man ship, The second and third class passengers of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse will be for- warded to New York by a special steamer which is now on her way hero from Bremen. The damaged steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse will be repaired at Bremen. Her second cabin and steerage passengers Will sail for New York sundae on the day on the German Lloyd steamer Rhein and the first cabin passengers will leave Cherbourg for Now York tO-nlertOw Oh the American line steamer St. Paul and the French line steamer La Lorraine. • STOVE POLISH EXPLODED. Margaret Gardiner Badly Burned at Her Home lu Toronto. Toronto, Nov. 26. --Margaret Gardiner, A twelve -year-old girl, was defining the stove in her home at 19 Euclid avenue yesterday, when some polish that she spilled exploded, severely burning her hands and Mee. The girl ran out tette street. and a man who was paiseing en. tinguielse the flames by wrapping hie overeoet about her. Culling her back into the house, the man called in Dr. A. 11 Watson. who did everything poeeible to relieve the girles suffering. She is in serious condition. 44 mud. on Railway Track. Woodstock, Nov. 26. -Charles 14e1'nelds, ef Stratford, struck by an Cid-bound freight at the Wilton street trussing of the G.T.R. at 4.20 on Saturday Afternoon, died In Weed - stock Hospital this morning. IteYtiolds had both his logs tut off, Ond at the atikle and the other a little higher up, and rot:geed heavy blow in the forehead. seriseless and dying, he was hUrrled to the hospital, but never retevered consciousness. Pell in Pont of Engine. tnIdaebtt-a, Nov. 24-4arnot lererett, n Toone Matt of About 25 'rears of age, wiftleyed by the Miebigart Central Railway A* yard brake - Man, was inattudly 'kilted about $ ontoek to -day by falling In treat et his sagine, liVerett was a reading of this pleas.