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THE OSHAWA DAILY. TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL ¢ 1929 PAGE FIVE DEBRIS IN ment on the C.P.R. near Bowman- ville en Saturday morning, when - ; 4 C. P. R, WRE CK NEAR BOWMANVILLE This picture shows some of the |Esgineer John Kennedy was pin- | gives some idea of the force with wrecked freight cars in the derail-| oq pnderneath the wreckage of | which the train went into the his engine and killed. The picture washout which d the id WASHOUT ON THE CN.R. NEAR PICKERING «= general| on the line. Only ome car left the A. CN.R. repair gang on Satur- day found a section of the track, 20 feet long, hanging in ' the air, shown above, about half a mile west of Pickering. R. H. Fish, superintendent of the southern divi- 88} sion said that passenger train No. manville, met with a similar washout 20, which was derailed near Bow- track, he decl the was going at six miles an hour at the time. dh CLOSE-UP AERIAL PICTURE ON C.N.R. WRECK The above photograph, taken from an aeroplane flying low, gives a close-up view of the overturned C. N.R. engine on the line west of Bow- manville, with the work train in at. d The engi of the train, Robert Milne, was crushed under- neath the engine and killed. NO DECISION YET AS T0 INQUEST INTO DROWNINGS ' (Continued from Page 1) pad not made up his mind, and would not do so until after the confer- erice being held this afternoon. Looking to the other side of the matter, however, Dr. Rundle agreed that there were some points which might be cleared up by an inquest "The department of highways is jnvoived, he said, "because the ridge which collapsed did not have sufficient span, nor was .it wide enough to take the water away at flood time. The bridge, too, was not built at the right angle for the chan- nel, and when I bought the property out there a year or so ago, I wrote to the department of highways offer- ing to co-operate in hawing this con- dition put right by making a new channel. The department sent down an engineer to look over the situa- tion, but no action has been taken. This would all come out if an in- quest were held. . Asked if he did not feel that this would be a good and sufficient rea- yon for holding an inquest, Dr. Rundle said that he was inclined to agree with the crown attorney, who was out of the city today, that noth- ing was to be gained by holding an inquest. He felt, however, on the other hand, that one of - the chief objects of holding inquests was to satisfy the public mind that all the facts had been brought to light, and that something was being done for the public protection. Apart from that, he was not sure that anything would be accomplished by going to the expense of 'an inquest in this case, although his mind was by no means made up. "There is the other question," said Dr. Rundle, "of who was"driving the car at the time of the tragedy. If the man who was killed were driv ing, little could be gained by an in- quest, but, on the other hand, if one of .the surviving boys were driving, an inquest ought to be held. I am to see them this afternoon, and af- ter I have interviewed them, . and find out what light they can throw on the matter, I will decide definitely what action should be taken." When some people pay a compli- ment they act as though they want- ed a receipt for it--The Looker-On, London, Fi No man ever had any luck mak- ing love to a woman who was con- scious of looking her worst.--Robert Quillen, 400 YDS. OF TRACK SUSPENDED IN AIR BY TORONTO SLIDE Toronto, Apr. 8. -- An after ef- fect of yesterday's severe rain- storm was a landslide on the Can- adian Pacific Railway tracks four hundred yards north Bloor streét Jyiaduct today, when thousands of tons of earth suddenly shifted and left four hundréd yards of trackage suspended off the ground. It was announced, however, that train service with eastern points would not be affected as different routes had been adopted. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, April 8= Matt Moroney, : chief of police of Esponalo on Saturday night seized a high powered sedan carrying a large quantity of liquor, and' arrest- ed two of its occupants, on the Soo- Sudbury highway between that town and Nairn. A third man escaped. The two arrested were N. Justi, dri- ver of the car, who is held on $200 bail, and L. Valpato, Sudbury, held on bail. : STILL HUNTING 'FOR GIRL'S BODY (Continued from Page 1) of the bridge on the * Kingston Highway and further efforts to locate the body will be made this afternoon at that point. No on Inquest A meeting of the surviving members of the Northop party has been called for this afternoon when Coroner Dr. F. J. Rundle also in the death car at the time of the accident are being brought back from Petereboro, and it will be decided at this meeting whether an inquest is considered necessary. will preside. Stanley and Harry Northop of Peterboro, who were Local and provincial police will be represented. Traffic Resumed Traffic on the Kingston High- way was resumed last night at 6.32 o'clock when the improvised bridge structures at the two points east and west of Harmony where wash-outs occurred were completed. The large wooden structures were raised in record time and hundreds of automobiles were on the scene ready to proceed in both directions as soon as the highway was opened. In fact the highway both east and west of Harmony was lined with cars all day yesterday, some parking their vehicles along the road in order to be in line when the passageway over the sunken bridge was again mended. Throughout the whole day Satur- day and Sunday sight-seers visited and re-visited the place, and it was necessary to .station a squad of provincial traffic officers at the city limits and at the bridge in order to prevent further accidents to cars and pedestrians, Improvised Structure The improvised structure was early . Saturday morning when large foot-square timbers were brought on the scene, A large gang of workmeR were se- cured and work commenced at daylight. To W. M. Gilbert of the Oshawa Lumber Company should go a great deal of credit for his interest and ability in supervising the early construction of the bridge. When Mr. Gilbert heard of the unfortunate occurrence, he visited the scene, and seeing the situation, immediatey ordered lumber from his yards on the spot. William Etcher had ghortly before been made superintendent of oper- ations on the scene and he concur- red with Mr. Gilbert in the latter's decision concerning the placing of jlumber as soon as possible. The opening of the bridge to traffic would otherwise have been held up considerably. W. J. Trick also gave valuable assistance, with his fleet of trucks. The Oshawa Lum- ber Company's employees with those of Mr. Trick worked contin- uously throughout Saturday and Sunday on the job. A Trying Situation Referring to the accident. today Fire Chief Wesley Elliott stated that the occurrence was one of the most trying situations which he and his men have ever labored under. The chief had stayed at the head of his men all Saturday morning from a few minutes af- ter the fatal happening until Sat- urday night. Every man was soak- 'led through by the driving rain, and great credit is due them for their pursifance of duty under such trying circumstances. Chief Elliott also paid tribute to the entire police force of the city, many members. of which stayed on the scene long after the body of Mr. Northop was found, in an effort to locate the body of Miss Wright. Chief Elliott stated that had it not been for the pres- ence of mind of fireman George Roughley of the local department he too would have been washed under by the quickly flowing flood. He paid tribute to the work of Joe Wright, traffic officer of the Oshawa police force, who stood up to his waist in water in a successful effort to bring Harry Northop safely to the bank, W. Burns, E. 8S. Haines, P. C. Eng- land. and others who lent their aid are mentioned favorably by Chief Elliott as those whose ser- vices were highly valuable during the tdying hours following the accident. Due to the heavy work which has been placed upon it during the last few days, the new fire truck pumper has been taken back to Woodstock for repairs. It is ex- pected to be back in the course of a day or so. - Although the east Harmony bridge has figured in the week- end episode less than the west bridge, the heavy floods caused much damage at this point also. A gang of workmen were placed cn the job soon after the accident and work commenced to reconstruct the edifice. The wooden bridge opened up soon after the west span was opened, and through traffic allowed. Traffic east and west commenced about 6.30 for the first time in forty-eight hours. Many cars and- pepole were held up on either side and unable, to get ot their destinations because of the wash-outs,' and Harmony became jhe centre of wide-spread interest/ and a mecca for sight- seers Saturday and Sunday. During h eek-end police were stationed n the provincial highway just east of Toronto and warned mot- orists that it was impossible to proceed east of Oshawa. "SHAW" REGISTERS | PARLIAMENT'S BOOK Toronto, Apr. 8.~Under date of April 6th, the name "Orval Shaw," Skunk's Misery," appears on the Ontario Government's visitors: book placed in the main corridor of the Legislative buildings, just a few paces from the office or the Commissoner of Police, whose of- ficers have carried on a long search to! apprehend the much- wanted man. The registration is thought. to have been made by a joker. : Harmony Creek early on S photograph, taken from an aeroplane. b OSHAWA 15 STILL ISOLATED BY RAIL (Continued from Page 1) the officials would hazard a state- ment as to when the service would be resumed on a normal basis. The Biggest Washout The biggest washout in this dis- trict, and one that was described by many railway men as the worst they had ever experienced, occurred about three miles east of Oshawa on the Canadian National. Here about 75 feet of the tracks was hanging sus- pended in mid air, the roadbed hav- ing been washed out beneath it to a depth of 30 feet. This washout de- veloped just after passenger train No. 20, which was fated to be derail- ed east of Darlington, had passed over it early Saturday morning. It was discovered by section men, how- ever, before any trains could crash through it. Filling Up Gaps Pile_drivers, operated by auxiliary crews from Danforth, have been working' night and day since Satur- day noon filling up this gap in the soad bed, and it was expected that this afternoon would see their efforts completed. In the meantime, several other smaller washouts that were discovered in the Bowmanville vicin- ity and between Oshawa and Tor- onto have been repaired. Up to to- day, until the roadbed was put in a safer condition, only light auxiliary trains had been allowed to pass over the track between Oshawa and-Tor- onto Ballast to practically construct a new road bed in many places, had to be brought 110 miles to Oshawa from Paris Junction, Ont. The con- ditions caused by the severe storm made it impossible to obtain ballast from any of the railway's pits in this district. Bad On C.P.R. The : Canadian Pacific at noon to- day could not even bring anything through from - Toronto, owing to washouts between Oshawa and Tor- onto that auxiliary crews were still working on. The track had been cleared at the scene off the wreck near Bowmanville, and the auxiliary had advanced to a point about three miles east of Oshawa, where a big washout had developed. Although not quite as bad as the one on the Canadian National, it was a very ser- ious break in the roadbed. 1 i o Industry The situation provided ' consider- able inconvenience to industry in Oshawa, although none of the fag- tories were obliged to seriously cur- tail their operations. 'A. W. Bell, traffic manager of General Motors of Canada, Limited, 'stated today that the opening of traffic through to Toronto via C.N.R. would relieve the situation at General Motors to a large extent, as most of the supply of raw: materials came in from the west. The factory was in: the for- tunate position of having sufficient empty cars on hand to take care of the production over tomorrow, and by that time it was expected that the traffic situation would be relieved. Other industries reported that they were making temporary shipments by truck to tide over their customers until the railways opened up again. Passengers Marooned Several hundred passengers on both the Canadian Pacific and Cana- dian National lines were marooned in Oshawa, Bowmanville and Whitby on Saturday. as trains were held, un- able to go either west or east. Most of them were taken .to Toronto by buses after the road was opened through, while passengers on the Canadian Pacific train held at Bow- manville' were taken on to Trenton by bus and sent forward from there. Onions are said to throw off violet rays, and when eaten raw they throw oft a lot of other things as well-- Oshawa Times. Some, of the "United 'States coast guards seem to have the idea that they have to guard the whole ocean. ~--Toronto Daily. Star, ; 4 WHERE TWO MOTORISTS LOST THEIR LIVES The gap caused in the highway by the collapse of the bridge over the | Northop, of Peterboro, lost their lives when the car in which they were Miss Helen Wright and Walter The scene 6f the tragedy at Harmony Creek, where two Peter- boro motorists lost thier lives when their car crashed over the broken bridge early on Saturday morning, is vividly portrayed in the two pictures shown above. These pictures were taken from an aeroplane which flew over the scene on Saturday morning. The | | / 'Toronto Telegram Photo "3 aturday morning is vividly shown in the above | driving crashed through the bridge into the raging torrent of water beneath, THE WASHED OUT BRIDGE AT HARMONY CREEK upper picture gives a fairly close view of the collapsed bridge, while the lower one is a general view of the surroundings as well, : THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS DAMAGE DONE IN OSHAWA recurrence of the electrical storm on Sunday afternoon and evening, accompanied by another heavy downpour .of rain. The day was sultry an mid, and the storm broke ork Oshawa about four o'clock, brifiging with it a brief deluge, which was very intense for a few minutes, and then quietened down to intermittent showers which lasted throughout most of the evening. Between nine and ten o'clock, another brief but in- tense storm came over the district, with the rain pouring in torrents. In some places where the water from. Saturday morning's storm had not dried up, there was furth- er flooding and the new rainfall caused a great deal of anxiety to those people whose homes and places of business had suffered on the previous day. The rain, for- tunately, was not sustained for nearly so long a period as on Fri- day night and Saturday morning, so that there was nothing like tue same amount. of damage. Trouble With, Power Trouble with transformers and street lighting circuits was experi-, enced by the local hydro staff throughout the week-end and there was one brief stoppage of power early yesterday morning. By last nigt, however, everything had been put right, and the street lighting services were back at normal, The wires of the C.P.R, tele- graphs were badly disorganized during the early part of this fore- noon, this condition affecting the special leased wire carrying news direct to the office of The Times, but shortly after one o'clock this afternoon the trouble was cleared up and the regular service resum- ed. Wires at the Canadian Na- tional Telegraphs were operating as 'usual today. SAULT STE MARIE AREA ESCAPES STORM (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., April, 8.-- This section of Ontario escaped the worst features of the storm which the lower portion of the province suffered during the week-end, and no damage was reported. 'The thermometer dropped during the night and today is quite chilly. Re- ports received here indicate that the ice would offer little trouble to the opening of navigation: