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Toi ive, 4 1 i ducks, hacer. 9 to. 106; do, = live, alm: geese 109 DAIRY Ai Re Butler~-Ponnd rolls are quoted at 9% to 24a; tubs, 20 to 22c; large Jolie, £9 to 1230. sell al 26 to to 2c; eae; Logs. ; ahs, 13%c; ; % to 8c pe rload: Puan at. XL Potider uf 'Ind., five: miles t : Terre Haute, rn number of in ur " will 'total' at least thirty-five. vicause of the disaster has not been. oly + I'shack explained. The result was terrible. The was felt for 'thirty 'miles, many '| believing it 'an earthquake. <The rendire Arain, including the loco- lard ettle motive, was blown [rom the track, the to 1 fresh: killed abattoir 95, Eggs--Selects, ; No. 2¢northern, 7 %e. Rye--No, 1, 68 to ~=No. 2, 56 10 563%; sample, 'Corn--No. 3, cash, Moxey 92---Wheat-=-No. 1 hand; 0c; No. s northern, 783¢¢; No.2 norih- ern; Xe; May, He; July. 0c. b s, Jan. 22. ~ Wheat -- Cash, 3 May, 783cs July, Thc, CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Jan. 29 Heavy deliveries 'of {l¢, sheep and hogs were recorded at s the 'Western Market to-day. For choice exporlers' the demand was | tmaintained. The beller grades sold at $5 10 $5.60 per cwt, while' straight loads of fair to good animals brought $4.85 to $4.90 per cwt. €hoice butchers', $440 to $4.75; heavy butchers', $4. 1o $4.35; mixed butchers', 2 [including canners, $1.50 to $2.90; fat cows, $3.50 to. 83.75; common cows, mixed, $1.50 to $3.85 per cwi. Short-keeps were 'worth $4 to 84.25; *Heeders, $3.40 to $3.90; stockers, $1.75 10 Dressed hogs in car. lots are' firmer, with prices quoted a © $5.50 to Son here. | Bao lear, 113% lo 83, 25 358 per whe "Grain-fed lambs sold at $6.50 to 86.75; common lambs at 85 lo $6; expart > owes al $4.25 to $4.85; and export bucks Jai 83 10 $3.50 per owt. Select hogs were firm at $6.90, and 3 fats and lights sold at $6.65 per cwh at Antung, where small "relief se been starled. Bul the off: in mystery, but it. 'appears to be firs 'coaches werd demolished, "the engine r| was hurled fifly feet and the passen- gers. were either blown to pieces, con- sumed by fire or rescued in an injured "dondition. Some of the injured will die, According to frainmen of the freight 'train the explosion of 'the powder 'was caused by the concussion of the "pas: Senger train wihikh was slowing down '1}1tor Sandford, Another theory is that gos escaping: from an: oll: pipe line en: the powder car standing by the pipe, and that a spark from the pas- senger locomotive 'ignited the gas. Eel another is. that the disaster was due fo. the act of a tramp or an Intoxicated 'man who may have fired. a shot ito the: car. The freight train drew in on a side track to let the passenger train go by. Shortly afterward the passenger train WHOLE FAMILY FROZEN. Calgary' Household Were Unable to Protect Themselves From the' Cold, A despatch from Calgary, Alberta, says: Their frozen bodies lying in their house within a stane's throw of the fash- ifonable residential" quarter of {his city was the gruesome 'discovery: made. 'by the "police. on' Saturday, John Ferdin- and, proprietor, his. wife, and a new born child are dead, and the other chil dren, aged two and four years, are in the hospital here so severely frozen that iliey cannot recover, None of the family had been seen for a week, and neighbors enquiring into the circumstances, finding = the house su- spiciously silent, nolified the police, who broke 4nta the prémises and were" con: fronted with the sight of Mrs. Ferdin. 'and's body,' parily dressed, lying dead on the kitchen floor, Further search revealed Ferdinand 180° dead In bed with his two-year-old son alive, but: unconscious, his' arm around his dead parent's neck. The boy was barely alive, but his legs were ffozen to. the Waist. _ A new-born baby also dead was lying on' the bed, while in & nearby cot: the four-year-old son was almost dead, . bis feet, legs and ronds being horribly frozen. No hopes {8 are enterlained: for the recovery of the two children, The whole 'tragedy is still shrouded a case of partial asphyxiation by "gas, followed. by death due lo the inlense 'cold experienced fn this section during =the past' forin}, ght. Mrs. Ferdinand had: partly robed Yer ol sell' and évidently attempted io light 2, ithe kitchen fire when the: fumes from the coal fire overcome her. = When the search party broke into. the house there was still a smell of coal gas, which had probably overcome the rest | CWT while sleeping, and they ' a tone before id ould reach. them, for the wounded. The bb threw opén their homes to the injured and worked lerolcally all night, Cries of the'injilred an aa © {-of the flames spurred ihe frantic work, but they were soo) Lack by the terrible heat, lng live. be ling ve. held many. persons | FIFTEEN. LIVES LOST. "A despalch from Fowler, Indiana, says: Fifteen persons at least wers| killed or cremated here on Saturday in & head-on collision between the Bi Four pussenger express, which left Chi cago at 11.80 Friday night, and a Ireight train. The collision occurred a dense fog" a mile east of the depot.| The passenger. train, in the fog, ran past d 'signal set against if, - More than! a score of persons were injured, some, 0" them fatally, The two engines met With terrific: im- pact, crumpled together, and. left the track. ' The comibination car of the senger train was telescoped and spline tered in the first crash. The wreck ol the' combination' car was: ablaze. with five. minutés "of the wreck, and S000, wis a veritable furnace. Only one'man, Paul. D. Harris, «of | Chicago, escaped from this car uninjured. MAPLE CREEK OUT OF COAL. The Thermometér Is at Below Zero. A despatch from Maple. Creek, Sask., says! The coal situation is ~desperat here. 'No coal' is to bé had, Severa families are now sle¢ping, eating an cooking in one room, due ta scarcity' of! fuel. Some people are obligéd to leave their homes and: live wilh other people. Unless something is done soon there will be suffering, * The thermometer-has been ranging all the way from 20 to 40 below zero for the past week. The slock Is suffering 'now and dying on the range, and if the present weather continues much longer there will be heavy logses probably 25 per cent. enorfferrinn HACKED TO DEATIL and . Robbery at Penticton, British Columbia. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C. says: Jeweller 'W." Zimmerman, who was brutally murdered at Pénticton on' Thursday night by 'a thief, Who hacks ed' him on fhe head with a halchet,] came from Winnipeg two years ago. The police think Indians are respon=| sible for the crime," as the only things known to be missing are twenty watch es loft for repairs and a few rings of small value, which white thieves would Times Forty Murder ti not have taken, rn nn EARTHQUAKES SN SCOTLAND. Inhabitants. of Seaport Town Were: 'Greally Alarmed. A despatch from. London says i Two earthquakes, 'which, although harmless, great) alarmed = the inhabitants, oc. on Thursday afternoon at Oban, seaport town 'in Scotland, and the elgnbaring districts. ane first aoc acoompanied by a report, an 88 = Tallow 15 minutes 'later by 'a rum. bling noise. Hous i Victoria, B. Ca says: |! cto tell of increas: af the gre great famine. in Cen-