lg : 'which was due eg T KINGOTON, pry AY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1026. . , FURSD, ORDA DEATH 101 Two of Airplane Crew Are Burned to Death; ~ Capt. Fonck cae Tosh Ends the Non-Stop Flight to Paris the Trans-Atlantic Airplane Starts of al a Westbury, N.Y.--Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff Victims. Westbury, N.Y., Sept. 21.--Two men lost their lives this morning When the trans-Atlantic aeroplane of Capt. Rene Fonck crashed in flames Pin an attempt to tke off on a 3,600-mile non-stop flight to Paris. They Were Charles Clavier, French radio operator, and Jacob Islamoff, Russian mechanic. They were trapped in the closed cabin of the huge three-mo- tored biplane. Capt. Fonck, French ace in command of the flight, and Lieut. L. W. Curtin, United States navy, alternate pilot, escaped to safety before the Ppiane burst into flames. Capt. Fonck was slightly scratched about the face. After the flames died out, the bodies were left in it pending the arrival of a coroner. & ¢ The plane, whoch was valued at $100,000 without motors, was a total los: An attempt was made to take off last Thursday, but had to be postponed on account of gasoline leakage discovered at the last min- ute. Afterwards the Parisian friends of Capt. Fonck urged him to attempa a flight for the honor of France, even at the risk of death. The crash was caused by the buckiing of a wheel on the extra land- ing gear that was to have been dropped into the ocean as soon as the plane got under way. The plane burst into flames an inetant after 'the two pilots leaped from it. miles an' hour, but had not left the It had been travelling at a speed of sixty-five ground. Nearly 1,000 spectators crowded around the plane and several wo- men fainted and one man went into hysterics. The fire raged for more than an hour after, consuming 2,300 gallons of gasoline in the tanks, and The C. N. R. passenger train to arrive here at 10.30 Tuesday morning, was derail ed porth of Tamworth. The train was erowded with children going to * he ool Fair at Camden East. But 'the Whig got into communica- 'ton with Tamworth it was found 'that there were no casualties. A freight train had torn up sev- eral of the tracks during the night and derailed, and when the pas- or trafu came this morning it ort the track too. Only one 2 fi Soach 'wag derailed and jt did not up- "_sceme of the accident. © set. A wrecking crew was sent to the ho . Sagging rails on the culvert, af- fected by heavy rains, caused the ! * $ Washington, § Sept. 21.-- The + & tropical storm, 'after reaching + ® vicinity of Mobile, Ala, has % % turned west with diminishing ¢ + intensity, the weather bureau re- ¢ + ports. + * teeter tet ete A Coup D'Etat Is Feared In Barcelona London, Sept. 21.--The' pondent of the Daily Cerberre, France, says he learns from Barcelona, Spain, that all posts of civil 'guards in Barcelona and suburbs have been doubled and that the provincial army garrisons been placed under supervision of civil guards. He adds that the pro- vinelal governor is strongly guard- ed and that a coup d 'etat is fear- ed. corres- Express at Goes to Cornwall School. Georgetown, Sept. 21.--J. Nor. man Bird, M.A. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bird of Georgetown, joined the staff of the Cornwall ollegiate Insiitute and will be head of the Department of Science and Agriculture. [| w Dead; 5,000 Injured Miami, Fla., Sept. 21.--Four hun- dred dead and five thousand injured was the estimate placed to-day as the result of Saturday's hurricanes which laid waste a 60 mile stretch of Florida's east coast. Fifty per- sons are missing. As out of the way places became accessible, more. in: Jured refugees were found and more bodies located. The monetary dam- age also was increased. Actual dam- age to homes and business buildings were estimated at nearly $40,000, 000 but many held that the value of millions of priceless palms and pines which were uprooted or cut to the ground would double the damage estimate, Their_Excellencies Pay a Last Visit to Toronto Toronto, Sept. 21.--Baron Byng, of Vimy, Governor-General of Can- ada, and Lady Byng, were officially welcomed to the city of Toronto to- day on the occasion of their farewell vigit here. * His Excellency was pre- * sented with an address by Mayor Thomas Foster, the function taking place at the ¢ity hall at fioon. Hun- dreds of Torontonians paid their re- speocts do Their Excellencies. RUSH REL INTO FLORIDA Numerous Trains Headed Into Stricken Area -- Tetanus Anti=Toxin Has Been Sent. Miami, Fla, Sept. 21.--A number of looters are reported to have been shot at Hialeah, a suburh of Miami. The two cities were without water for forty-eight hours, and yesterday and arrive from northward. Numerous relief trains.and parties have moved and are headed into the stricken area, carrying physicians, nurses and medi- cal and provision supplies. Speeding from: the north was the relief train from Chicago, breaking all records and following no schedule, having as passengers experts in healing and sal- «| vation work. Jacksonville was acting as a relay city in work of rushing aid down state, and numerous cities of North Florida were organizing to rush sup- plies into the region through Jack- sonville. Many organizations and leading business men and municipalities of ithe country were preparing to - aid Florida. Messages of condolence from practicplly every section of the United States were received by Governor Martin, and news despatches indi- 'cated that relief funds, amounting to thousands of dollars, and much need ed supplies would soon be pouring into the state. France and Germany have express ed their sympathy to President Cool- idge and United States. Efforts were being made io rush tetanus anti-toxin into the region. An aeroplane and its cargo of 46,000 units of anti-toxin was marooned at Jacksonville yesterday, due to an acci- dent in landing, areas strove for complete check of UP THE DEAD ALONG COAST Death Toll at Miami, Floride, Is Yet Uncertain. RESCUERS ARE BUSY bina ork Peasacola and ad Was. 2404900000000 0s * *| + HEAVY DAMAGE DONE * | AT PENSACOLA, FLA. + BP -- % Birmingham, Sept. 21---Word # received here to-day said there # had been heavy property damage 4 at Pensacola with probable loss & of lite. This was the first word # received from this city since + communication was cut off there + this morning. Pe Ibe Iss, * 2400000800003 004 4 New Orleans, la, Sept. 21-- Swelping with diminishing force along the Gulf coast from Pensacola, Florida, where it struck Sunday night, the tropical hurricane was | subsiding with checked violemce last aight as it spread over interior Ala- bame and portions of Mississippi and Louisiana. x Although it vented the fury of a 100-mile gale against Western Filori- da and portions of Alabama, the toll of the storm through the Gulf. re- gon was ibly lighter than when #t swept with, vigor across XB P c d ; Montgomery, Alta, Sept. 21 Meagre reports' from Mobila early today 'indicated that. the West In dian hurricane which swept the re gion yesterday had taken liftle or no toll 'of life, Anxiety was felt, however, . for -a group. of fishing towns along the coast and resort towns in the Baldwin county across Mobile Bay, Estimates of property damage are varying and uncertain until the storm passes and makes a survey of the territory possible. Rescuers at Work. Miami, Fla., Sept. 21--While the first relief contingent were arriving here today rescue workers continued their efforts at . identification and 'burial of the dead, relief of the in- jured and grester task of supplying food, clothing and shelter to thous ands' made homeless by the hurri- cane which Saturday lashed the coastal area from West Palm Beach to Miami, The known dead early today stood at 369. This steadily increased as aditional bodies, cast up by the watérs of Biscayne Bay and found in tangled w ge, torn buildings, | Dy were brou to temporary morgues and rescue workers believe the death list will reach more than 700. The list-of known injured was placed at 1,532, while it is estimated that a complete chee ll reveal the mar ed list to more 4,000. Varying reports from. the entire storm ares place the damage at be- tween $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. ---- 2 For Pensacola. hile ae ny and surfounding its dead and injured, grave fears were felt for Pensacola on the north Tustern of Florida and directly short time before the special train Lord add Lady Byng Were Greeted at Yarker By the School Children Monday Afternoon' Their Excellencies the Governor- General and the Lady Byng of 5+" * passed through the-villege of Yarker at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon, on their way 16 pay a farewell visit to Toronto. + Word was" received in Yarker a was due to arrive that Their Excel- lencies would pass through, and the school teachers, who had the pupils on parade in preparation for the school fair to be held on Tuesday, marched the youngsters to the sta- tion to doer the: visit of Their Bx: cellencies, who were cheered by the young people, His Excellency made the children very happy when he declared a half holiday for them just as the 'train was leaving for Toronto. from Pensacola yesterday before, wire communication was severed' told of gale there approaching an 1n- tensity of 100 miles an hour. Scarcely a city on town in the storm area escaped the death tot! left in the wake of the hurricane. The greatest havoc was done in Mi- ami and Hollywood, where more than 300 are known to' have been killed and drowned by the rushing waters which swept in from the Gulf Stream. The known injured in thess two citie§ alone is fixed above 500, while the estimated preperty dam- age, has been placed at more thar $60,000,000. Fifty-six deaths are known to have occurred at Moore- haven, Dania reported 14, Fort Lau- dordale 13, Homestead 10, Clewis- ton 11, Coral Gables, Miami shores, Little Rover, and Hialeah, outlying suburbs of Miami had a combined death toll of 45, while a score of ci- | ties along the coast from Deerfield on the north to Florida city on the south, reported scattering casualties ranging from one to seven. Injured in Other Places. No estimate has been placed on the number of injured in other ci- ties, where the force of the wind was said to have been high. Martial law, established Sunday in Miami, Hollywood and other cities in the storm-torn area, continued in effect today, and National Guards: men patrolled the streets. 'oodstock, | that the Ku Kine, Kl Knights of Columbus had Gontbined to defeat him in last week's election, Hon. Donald Sutherlandl; the defeat- ed Conservative candidate in South Oxford yesterday issued a statement in which he strongly condemned the alleged tactics of the Liberals in the riding, He charges that, on the eve of the election, a fleet of cars from London had gone over the riding and placed election cards of a mis- leading and malicious nature in the mail boxes, and these had been ordered by a prominent Ku Klux Kian official in London, and dis- tributed from London Liberal head- quarters. He also charges that whis- pers had been spread around that he was a prominent official in the Klan himself, and concludes his statement by saying: 'It may have been a wonderful achievenient to marshal the forces of the Knights of Columbus and Ku Klux Klan be- hind the Grit candidate, but the word 'clean' is hardly applicable to the process." AGAIN HEADS K. OF C. . Broderick Reapainbed to New Brunswick Post. - St' John, N.B. Sept. 31.--Dr. WH- [largest since 1932, MAY BE UNABLE TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Owing to Forming Cabinet and Arranging for Bye- Elections. London, Sept. 21.--According 'to the Ottawa correspondent of the Daily Express Right Hon. W. Li. Mackenzie King, in an interview de- clared: "I doubt .whether Canada, in the unprecedented predicament in which the Government-elect finds itself, can be represented at the Im- perial Conference in iondon." Mr. King is quoted as saying that "if he were called on to form a new government, he and all his Min. isters. must be re-elected: "We can- not travel to the Imperial Confer- ence while these bye-elections are being held. In the first place where would the money come from? Secondly, I shall not be really Prime Minister until I am re-elected." The Premier-elect suggested the possibility of a further postpone- ment of the conference, according to the Canadian correspondent, but was unable to say how long, as it would depend on when Parliament could be assembled and on other con- tingencies. CANADIAN RALLY led 1.7 Passengers Killed In 19285. - Ottawa, Sept. 21.--For each bile Jon miles travelled by pi ers on Canadian railways in 1925, 1.7 pass- engers were killed, and 128.5 pases engers were Injured. This statement, illustrative of the safety of travel on Canadian rafiways, is contained in the summary report on 'steam radlways just issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. During the same yedr, according to this official report, five passengers were killed in train accidents and 374 were injured, out of a total of 41,458,084 passetigers, carried a distance of 2,910,760,047 miles, or one passenger killed out of each 8% million carried, and one Passenger injured out of each 111,- 000 carried. Employees killed and injured were 82 and 2,158 respectively, and other persons numbered 198 killed and 563 injured. Of these, 107 fa- talities were of trespassers stealing rides, walking on the track, etc., and 81 were persons killed at highways Althodgh the number of persons riding in' motor vehicles that were killed "at Bay Stusings was loss than in 19 being 66, as against 18, a injured, 311, was the when this segre- d lgation was first made in the statis- ment of Crown Prince Leopold," 24- year-old Belgian heir apparent, to Princess Astrid, of Sweden, aged 20, path ot the gale. Late reports jas announced yesterday. tics. PIRST SEAPLANE 10 FLY ACROSS CANADA _ TRAVEL VERY SAFE: OPEN A SEAT FOR - HIMS Beare Gui ng Olle bs Be Years Age. NAY BE . THORSDAY Belore the Cabinet ~ Now in Hcl 8 Ottawa, Sept. 21.--Owing fo 'the non-arrival of British Colom} members of the Meighen Cabin which made a full meeting of Cabinet Council impossible, consequently, prevented the el ing up of the work of the retirh Government, Rt. Hom, Arthur shen did not place the resignation his ministry in the hands or tne ernor-General yesterday, as had' expected. As His Excellency left Toronto in the afternoon, and not return to Ottawa until Wed day night or Thursday, the tion of the defeated Governmant not take place until then. In a b statement issued subsequent meeting of the Council yeste Mr. Meighen left the date or res nation open, merely saying that resignation of. t Gove would be sent in this! week." The Government will have wo up its affairs by Wednesday and be prepared to resign on that but thé tendering of the &) tion will await 'the return of Governor-General, who may uvt in until Thursday. Meantime other meeting of the Cabinet C eil will be held to-day. 4:3 steps to open a seat x the House of Commons. To do would have to follow the mi employed after his defeat in when he opened the riding of ville--that of appointing one ¢ Conservative members-slect to * "Childern Hundreds." As there is Speaker of the Commons, a ber cannot resign his seat, and 'only 'way he could vacate it would that of accepting a position emolument under the Crown. When his Government was feated In 1921 dnd himself Portage la Prairie, Mr. Meighen, fore his retirement from the miership, appointed the mambs Grenville 'to a position in the ernment service, thereby openin riding. He was severely eri this 'action by his successor. Hon. Mackenzie King. - Conservative If Mr. Meighen takes this eo! it will indicate his intention of . tinuing in the leadership of the € servative party. Were he not to vide a seat for himself now, he not be in the House to lead position during the fortheomi umn session, as none of his f ers would be able to make him until after the House and elected a Speaker. The intention of Mr. this respect of course is not | itely known, but it is dust many of his followers