12 PAGES itpggututtetd Arrears rr reeed - 4 / GREAT CATASTROPHE "AT QUEBEC BRIDGE Central Span Collapsed And Fell Into. River-- Supports Gave Way---Feared That the Loss of Life is Heavy. some defect in the steel strips up which it was creeping two feet at a time with the aid of hydraulic lifts, or whether the structure itself buck- (Special To The Whigh Quebéc City, Sept. 11,--The great five thousand ton central span of the Quebee National Transcontinental | Railway Bridge, which was being | | suse differ. raised into position, a hundred and Hon. J. D. Hazen jays the struc river 'hich was 640 feet long, seem- fifty feet above the river, this morn- | ture, w ; ing, in the presence of many notables, | €d to buckle in the céntre, tary . . f { one side and fall into the river w collapsed when it was about fi teen |. hunderous roar. feet in the air and fell into the river.! (gl : J N y pr T | says that the span settled slightly Ninety workmen were engaged in the | says t operation, and it is feared the loss of | On the corner, then turned and 5 : ' . | wrecked itself as it fell, . The first intimation of the disas- ter was felt not long after the steam- ers bearing the press and parlia- mentary party, including Sir Wilfrid Laurier and many distinguished min- isters, ex-ministers, members of par- life is heavy. . | The great structure had been safe- Iy towed Gut of Silleiy Cove and lift- ad to pontoons amidst great excite ment and whistling of hundreds of river craft. The pontoons had been removed, and it wus being jacked up ih the greatest feat in bridge building in history. Suddenly there wads a ripping poise at the north end, and the whole span dropped into .the stream at one end. . Frantic efforts were made to get a chain rope around the tottering beam had left the scene convinced that the operation was a success. ¢ Just at sunrise the fleat of pas- sehger steamers, barges, tugs, naval patrols and private yachts, number- ing about hundred, commenced to fill the river on the way to the scene. A somewhat heavy mist hung over the river, but this vanished before | the 'warmth of the September sun- | shine, dnd weather conditions for the engineering feat were almost ideal. | The signal flags fluttering from .the | | vessels gave color, life and cheerful- ness to the picture, Crowds on the decks gazed eagerly | ahead where powerful tugs were puf- fing as they pulled the scows on | which rested the gigantic span. | Farther ahead the clearing mist re-| vealed the mammoth arms of what was to be the longest span cantilever bridge in ® the world. Everything worked like clockwork. At seven) o'clock with high tide water and no the span was fitted into TWENTY-FIVE DEAD (Special to the Whig.) 2 Montreal, Sept, 11.--An esti- mate at noon by officials of the St. Lawrense Bridge Company, placed the death list in the Que- bec bridge disaster at twenty- five, PPb Pret resd tre tet ress | : : : ed ------------ | but to no avail. The remaining sup- | ports then gave way, and the whole | span disappeared with a mighty splash into the channel of the river. | a rent Boats hurriedly endeavored to res- place. cue the workmen swimming about in| One story of the disaster says the the river, ition at | accident was caused by the collapse } Fhe Span Was loved 10 Jost oa f one of the bidsaslisally operated | high tide © B a span. lover arms. . When the tide fell the Jacks at one corner of the sp seows d away, leaving -the span suspended, after which by means of eight jacks and hoisting chains it was to be raised 150 feet. er of the span was raised too high! and the jack gave way. !thus caused the span to Break in the} p re, ¢ of the steel girders giv Not Practicable to Raise Span. ny Ne, x t { It was on August 29th, 1907, that| 'When the big span was brought by | the superstructure of this bridge col- | geows directly below its place the | lapsed with the loss of sixty lives and | hydraulic lifts started to work, hoist-| one million five hundred thousand | ing two\fegt at a time. each lift be- dollars, The monetary loss in 10-| ing brac by great pins, which were | day's collapse will be much more. [fitted thfough the bands of steel Engineers say it will not be prac-|Gradually the weight of the span was ticable to-raise it from th¥ river bed, taken-up by the bridge and the scows although portions may have to be|ppge higher and higher. Finally the blown upg clear the channel for span was clear above the scows. At navigation ' 8.16 the pontoons drifted into the It was after the 1907 calamity shat| under current and were guided by the Canadian Government called on|iygs down the river. Looking up at| - the most eminent engineers thatthe great arms of the bridge oné| could be secured to rebuild and com- {could see many people gazing down plete the structure. The contractors at the span' or the animated scene on "were the St. Lawrence Bridge Coni-|the river below. These people were pany, and their contracts for com- in a position of desperate danger, as pleting the work was let in April,{ developments proved. One man was 1911. The bridge was built for the thrown from the shére arm on the 'Purpose of shortening the railway| Levis side and hurled down, disap-| journey across the continent by about pearing in the river, He was pro-| two hundred miles. It was to be us- bably drowned. On the centre span ed by eight ratiways, the C.P.R.|itself, which had only about twenty Grand Trunk, Delaware and Hudson {feet to fall, there were about thirty Intercolonial, Quebec Central, Que- men. LS. Odell, Montreal, an eye- bec and Lake St. John, Quebee and|{witness: says the span buckled in the Saguenay and Canadian Northern, centre and' then collapsed. also" for street railway and vehicular Hon. .J. D. Hazen, also a neye-wit- traffic, ness, said that everything was work- The length of the bridge from ing smoothly, and he had just con- shore to shore is 3,890 feet. The|gratulated Engineer Gray on the bridge has a channel span of 90 feet | great success of the undertaking, longer than the Forth Bridge in when someone shouted, "There goes Scotland, which has previously held the bridge." As he looked the span the world's record in that respect. | seemed to buckle in the centre, roll The weight of steel in the bridge was over with a terrible grinding roar 180,000,000 pounds and 'the cost|and sink. The scene that followed $11,000,000. was one of pathetic confusion. The first man saved was a fore- man who was groaning with a broken leg. It is y Hoey that owing to the great depth of water, about 150 feet, navigation on the St. Lawrence will not be Blocked. The bridge now looks just as it dit Ngfore the centre span was float- ed in; There is a gaping , vacant spot in the centre. The steel work of the lost span has disappeared en- tirely in two hundred feet of water. The Cause Unknown. (Spemal to the Whig.) Quebec, Sept. 11.--The following official statement was issued at 2.30 o'clock by the St. Lawrence Bridge mpany : "The connection holding the sus- pended span on, the south side failed, letting. the span drop and dragging away the north connection. The cause is unknown." What Caused the Disaster? (Special To The Whig) Quebec, Sept. 1t.--For the second time grim disaster has cast its sha- dow of death over this gigantic transcontinental railway bridge structure, and at an hour when the great and daring engineering project was destined to complete success. At 1.p. m. the number of dead was estimated all the way from three to twenty-three. The span itself, which is a complete wreck, cost more than 4 million dollars. Should the catag- trophe mean the abandonment of the great project it would mean frons the first to last, Including the old and the new, loss to ¢anada of from twenty-five to Jorty 'million dollars, an 'Whether the span dropped through A A Anais tli. WHIG CONTENTS dead and seven saved. Engineer Herbert McMillan is the only staff man injured. He is in the h tal with a broken leg. Those killed are mostly French-Canadians. It is semi- officially announced that the work of building a new span will be com- 1 2 ebec Bridge Colapse; bs heing Out the Foe; 4 4 ng. British on a. Ranch; Struck by a Street Car, I-Rutions 0 the Editor; May Transfer Hospital. torial Rahdom Ed Mission; Local tern Ontario. 8. Announcements alters: Theatrical War Camp News. ns of Roxane; led is a question on which eye-wit- | McBain, oh the other hand, liament and the Australian delegates | Through some error a i # on.the part of the workiieth a The stress 2 | Macedonia. 'me a f At 2 p.m, there are nine known |F! Letter; News From of Sport, KINGSTON, LANDING OF THE R » Picture illustrates the recent lan y Allied power now has troops, the most cosmopolitan in the world. a boatload of t at Salonika, where ever making the city one of Upper picture shows part of the Russian staff. mt ne, SERBS DRIVIN OUT THE FOE Doria ¥ all fe BOMBARDMENT ALONG GREAT PATROLS 'OF ALLIES B British Carry, Out a Successful Raid | on the Doiran Front--Biilgarians Retreat in Disorder Before Serbian Troops, Paris, Sept, 11.-- "There has been much activity among patrols and in- termittent bombardment along a great part of the front," says the of- filial communication given out today in regard to operations in Greek "The Bulgarians aban- doned several trenches in the district east of Vetrenik, leaving munitions." The Serbian official statement issued today reads: "An artillery duel occurred along the entire fromt Saturday, while in the direction of Florina our artilléry forced the Bulgarians to retire in dis- order from some of their advanced trenches, where we found 60 rifles, many bjimbs and other material, **In fhe direction of Korzani we ex- pelled the Bulgarians from the vil- lages of Poleschori and\Emboria," The following British\communica- tion concerning the operations in Macedonia was issued last night: "On the Salonika-Struma front during the night we shelled Jenikoi and Nevolyen. Enemy patrols and working parties were dispersed by our machin® gun fire. A successful raid was carried out on the Doiran front." ®: . ee ------------ BERLIN "ADMITS LOSS Of Some Advanced Trenches to the British. £ eclal To The Whig) Bertin, Sept. 11,--The '108s of ad- vanced trenches to the British be- tween Gipphy an Gombles in a furious tle, was admitted by the War Office this afternoon. Fightihg for possession of the village of Ginchy 7 tines. . South of 'the Som- houses in the village of Berny have heen recaptured. from the 'rench, * PREPARING FOR BIG MOVE. First t GiCanadian 'Division Out of Trenches, First Since May, 1915. "4 letter from Col. A. E. Ross fo a friend states that the first Kibesion division was out of the Was preparing for a drive, --- lars of a said, doubt be, viewed by th Fogel all ¥ P| ------------------ nl -- R. Stickwood, ONTARIO, 'USSIAN ARMY IN COSMO | | | | i ding of Russian troops roops lower one shows N |srrerresssrsrnnnsnrrrens L > 1 FOOLING THE PEOPLE. + | ® -- +> L Toronto, Sept. Ne Forno > #+ hotel and shopkeepers: rhave been + EY on the public # + Next | rio goes dry, W # but, instead of waiting for that + # event, the liquor men have % # been selling local option non- # {* intoxicating ' beer for weeks. |* They have been selling it simp- {% ly as "beer" and the public # {% hasn't known the difference. <+ + A GENERAL STRIKE | IN NEW YORK] Union Heads Asked to go Out in Sympathy With Transit Strike. (Special to the Whig.) New York, Sept. 11.--An order re- commending a general strike of New | York's 800,000 trade unionists in | sympathy with the transit strike which today affected New York Bronx and Queen's counties went out to the union heads today. The union heads recommended a general strike with which action they claimed Gompers was in com- plete sympathy. The union com- mitten 4vhich will direct the propos- ed general strike, openell headquart- ers today and will be in daily session. BRITISH IN BALKANS | the | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER | | | | | fiercely, * {in the Verdun sec 11. 1816 POLITAN SALONIKA. HONS SLOWLY "LOSING GROUND Daily Rol of Prisoners At Verdun Indicates French Activity. CNG FORWARD LS -- TOWARDS VAUX, CHAPITRE WOOD AND FLEURY. -- Germans Revert to Old Style Pha- lanx Formation For Assault, But Machine Guns Wither the Storming Columns. New York, Sept. 11.--A New York World correspondent cables the fol- lowing from Paris: a Although the French Somme bat- tles have been lulled during the past twenty-four hours, the fierce con- flagration kindled by the 'Crown Prince at Verdun continues to blaze but the flames are blowing in the opposite direction and beating back the Germans. Very slowly but inexorably Nivelle edges forward a simultaneous on the German occupation of the remnants of Chapitre Wood and en- larging his gains on Fleury. Relentless Acitvity. The dally roll of German prisoners tor 'indicates the activity. Although captured in smaller batches at' Ver- dun than on the Somme, the taking of prisoners by Gen. Neville is more significant, as the Verdun operations comprise a consistent, interminable bammering, whereas the mighty Somme strokes are delivered meth- odically, at intervals after exhaustive artillery preparations. Nearly 500 Germans were round- y Gen, relentless French { Chautnes the ed up in the Vaux-Chapitre section in twenty-four hours and 1,000 from south of the Somme. Between Vermandovillers Germans reverted to their old style phalanx formation of assault--the tactics used before the French reequipped themselves with machine guns--butthe machine 'Buns withered the German's storming columns, driving the survivors to shelter, " War Tidings, : : The ' Germran-Bulgarian offensive in Roumania apparently is slacken- ing under more stubborn Russo Rumanian resistance, Turkish troops have come to the and They Have Taken the Offensive-- | Fighting Heavy, ! « cial t+ the Whig.) { Paris, Sept. 11. -- The British 'troops have taken the offensive in the | Balkans it was officially announced | here today. The British crossed the Struma River at'Orljax and attacked | the Bulgarians at Nivolgen and Karad Jaqueil. Heavy fighting is going on, Distribution to Farmers, Ottawa, Sept. 11.--By instructions of the Minister of Agriculture a dis-| tribution of superior sorts of grain and potatoes will be made during the coming winter and spring to Can- adian farmers. The samples for general distribution will edhaiat. of spring wheat, about 5 Ibs, while oats about 4 Ibs, barley about 6 Ibs., and field peas about 5 Ibs. These will be sent out from Ottawa. A dis- tribution of potatoes in samples of about 3 1bs., will be carried on from several of the experimental farms, the central farm at Ottawa supply- ing only the Provintes of Ontario 'and Quebec, All samples will be sent free by mail. hada tn onan sg ta +> 2 London, Sept. 11.--For Ger- # |® many the Somme is becoming + %'a_maelstrom as leadly as-Ver- % din. Repeatedly the German 4 # press has announced that the # {* Allied offensive had reached its + ,# limit. On the contrary, it has 4 |% gone on with steady, mathe- + + matical precision. = The ground + |® which the Germany army orders 1§ Jomred vital vas bisa % and never regained. , etfectiv -* * ) * + ely imposed their & enemy, rE rescue of-the hard-pressed Teutous in Galacia to check tue Russian ad- vance on the fortified city of Haliez. The Germans are now entirely on the defence around 'Verdun. The great battle, begun 201 days ago, has entered its third stage. The French are steadily winning back their lost positions, ® The Bulgarians were driven from Dobric in southeastern Rumania by Russian and Rumanian troops. In northern Transylvannia six towns were occupied: a0 The Austrians have begun blowing up forts at Halicay Galacia. Russians already occupying some.of them. The French captured a section of German trenches east of Fleury on the Verdun front. : King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his staff arrived at German head- quarters for a conference with the Kaiser, A French aviator dropped bombs on a powder factory at Rottweil, do- ing heavy damage. Bulgarians abandoned several trenches in east Macedonia, leaving prisoners and munitions. The Berlin War Office says a Cer- man-Bulgar army captured the Ru- manian fortress of Silistria on the A German monoplane, after be- ing hit in the wings and petrol tank by bullets of Dutch soldiers while flying 'over Duteh territory, landed in the Dutch village of in. The aviator was interned. ~- The German commandant has "in- .vited the Greek authorities to quit Florina where the Greek. tration will be suppressed. + encroaches] ». aE . .®| Danube, sixty miles south east of | -AGERMAN MAELSTROM. # Bucharest, ; : ° LAST BDITION 1 to evacuate their -seaport of Varna on the Black Sea. 3 German losses to date dre nearly three apd a half millions. The rn war office has order- ed all civilians to leave Rovereto, twelve miles south of Trieste, The Berlin War Office admits that the Teutonic forces in the Carath- anians are retiring before the Rus- | sians. British aviators have again at- tacked German aerodtomes in Berlin | with great success. Depots were left in flames, i Austrigns gained a temporary foot- | ing in Ifalian trenches in the Adigo | valley, but were driven out with fear- | ful losses, ' ! Italian large section of railway. SOMME CANNONADE HAS NO PRECEDENT Violence of Bombardment Now in Progress Never Equaled. Mac a Success Atack Along Thee And 2 Half Mie Front. THE CAPTIRE OF GNGHY the Duino-Viestel WAS MADE SATURDAY BY IRISH | REGIMENTS x All German Counter Attacks Were Repulsed North-east of Pozieres-- Advances Were Also Made by the British, (Special to the Whig). London, Sept, 11.--In an attack along a front of three and a half | miles the British occupied the whole | of Ginchy village and territory be- "tween Ginghy and Leuze wood. East | of Sigh wood and northwest of Poz- miles of fighting front in the Somme | jeres advances were also made on sector is thus described in the des- Saturday. patches to-day -from the authorized | The British made further advances correspondent of La Liberte with the on the Somme Saturday night and French army: { Sunday morning. All ground gained 'From tne end to the other of the is firmly held, attacking front the cannonade raged | tacks by the Germans in an effort to yesterday evening, reaching a degree recapture the lost ground failing of intensity hitherto without prece vith heavy enemy losses dent. Each day it seems as if the ex- |® Two heavy German counter-at- cach day the Bombardment sy (40Ke St night against the village ¢ n of Ginchy, captured by Irish ! regi- grows in violence and fury. The French and British batteries ments eporied tis afternoon. Gen. along the whole front never cease to | [1818 reported rr pour out a deluge of thousands and i" thousands of shells of every calibre. 'Never before have I witnessed such | a spectacle,' said an officer who had |, Faris, Sept. J=The Germata just ariived at the front near Ver-| French lines south ae aa. vd mandovillers, { y h : "The German positions at the close | en Dergy aut a Joint south u of yesterday evening were surround- | fire Th » War of » using Ju : ed with clouds of duSt and smoke | 4, * thes attack os ARnounce i h through which objects could be dis- artiller Sri vd Shee a { y tinguished faintly. One frightful ex- | bei . . ermans losing plosion followed 'another. From | oe time to time one saw enormous masses of earth and material thrown | up, and among it all the bodies of, (Special To The Whig) : the dead, torn to fragments. , London, Sept. 11.--The Germans | 8 "When night came the sky, stretch | iiacked near Mouquet Parm, but ed out like one vast furnace, so that! were no im ortant operations on the as far as one could see, there was BOT tore front P Between Neu- nothing but a horizon of fire." 4 Y v = a! | ville, St. Vaast and La Bassee Canal It Briti tere CHILDREN ST VING : | the ritish entered the enemy WHILE AT SCHOOL {trenches at several points, taking a i number of prisoners, _ Condition of Belgian Kiddies| La a War Veuty Office, , ndon, -- _. to Sieve Boon Shorionsa. | ARS WR So: e . inte ated a 1 central ---- authority, whose task it will be to London Sept, 11--The want of food | Suppress usury as exceeding maxi- in Antwerp is so great that the child- |'mum prices, and excessive raising of ren can no longer stand. the strain|the price of food-stuffs. 'The new. of a full day in school and class hours | body will be called the war usury have been reduced om account of| office. the pupils' debility." * THe significance of this can Hardly | dedviede debdodrddd bbb ddd bbbbd drs be appreciated where people are re-|% : ae ceiving plenty to eat and prosperity is | * CANADIANS FIGHTING, prevalent. If this is the state of the --_-- J children the condition of their par-| * (Special to the Whig.) p ents can only be imagined. | % 3 Ottawa, Sept. 11 Casual- + The Empire has promised to sup-|* ties indicate that the Canadian + port these people, to guard their in-|¥ forces have .been in action on % terests, and care for them and their|¥ the Somme front. Le children in their helpless state, but | this report from Antwerp is one which should set Britons and Cana- dians to thinking. To Canada Bel- gium must look for most of her aid, for there are the life-saving fields of wheat that ke the flour which is the one salvation of these people, Paris, Sept. 11.--Thé pver-increas- ing violence of the bombardment now In progress along more than thirty Germans Losing Heavily. (Special To The Whig) Taking Prisoners. Columbia Premier and Mr. Brewster, the Liberal leader, have returned to Vancouver from the country ridings to close their cam- paign, which ends next Thursday. Sir Charles Hibbert Tuppe continuing The Belgian Relief Committee has to assist the Liberals; and will speak its branch at 59 St. Peter street, | in New Westmi on the eve of the Montreal, and also sub-branches and | glection." ; local committees throughout the - | Edward Conway, a Hamilton jitney minion. These branches are exerting | driver, was charged at the instance every ~effort -to-give these Belgian of Magistrate Jeify with forgery for children--starving in their seats in| changing the number of-his license. school--the bare food that is 'justly . - theirs. The task is a big one and DAILY MEMORAVDI'M needs the co-operation of the father "Silent Sue," Grand, 8.15 p.m. and mother of every Canadian school | on Dro hI mat child. Two dollars and a half will I BI ea theson (converted pug: save two of these children and their {list and saloon keeper) at Market parents from starvation for a month, | Square tonight, 8 o'clock. a rr AAA Why not do if row? | | BORN. CANADIAN WAR LOAN MAYWIARD--In Kingston, on Sept. 11th LOOKS VERY POPULAR 1916. to Mr. and Mrs Jack Hay- © ward, Sixth street, a son. "~ ----------------. a ----------_--~------~ Sr m---- And It Is Expected It Will ' Soon Be Over- subscribed. DIED. TT---At Detroit, Mich, August 20th, - (Special To The Whig) te Toronto, Sept. 11.--Despite the) 1916, Daniel Archibald Bott aged 18 years, 8 months, youngest son of Mr. and, Mrs. Jerome M. Bot, Condor, Alberta, formerly of Har- lowe, Ontarfo. fact that the terms of the new war | loan are not to be officially made'! Inte public till to-morrow, the indications here are that here will be a big re-| sponse, specially from small invest- ors. No doubt is-expressed in bank- ing and 'brokerage circles here that! there will be a great. demand for! these bonds, and that it will soon be! oversubscribed. Many enquiries have already been received from all classes of the investing public. in, SHIPS BEARING DUKES TO PASS ON ATLANTIC New Governor-General t6 Be 'at Rideau Hall in a . | BO ASTERTON=In KINgeron, on Sept Sth, 1916, Billen Lorraine, daughter of Mr. a Casterton, aged 2 rment at St. Mary's cemetery. BMITH--On Sunday afternoon. at his late residence, 472. Brock street, Thomas C. Smith, formerly of - den Island. Funeral from hid late residence, 10 _ a.m, on nesday to Wolfé Ie nd. Friends and acquaintances respectfully ! invited to attend . | WHITNEY At Coaldale, South Alberta, i on Sept. 4th, 1916, Walter Alex- ander ney, son of the late Benjami'k Whitney, of Pittsburgh township. . Ky Few Otfawsa, Sept. 11.--The Duke 'of Connaught expects to lea: | Strong counter at- . PAGES 18 | CINHY VILAGE < infant