x errible Disasters in 1881 That of 190%. . TALES OF THE DISASTER. Miss Ethel Earle, one of the girls who was caught in the falling ruin of floors and walls in the terrible disaster at London on Tuesday of last week, but who was extricated, is one of the pa- tients in the hospital. In conversation " with a reporter she described her ex- perience. . DEATH OF CLARA MULLIN. "] was standing near 'the centre of the Brewster store with Libbie Smith and May Hardingham, when, willwput any warning at all, there was a_ splitting crash and a roar that sounded like an explosion, and the walls of the build- ing seemed to be sliding westward. I remember crying out, 'Libbie, we will never get out of this alive.' I took about two steps and was then hemmed in by fhe ruin. Libbie ran to me and we placed our arms around one another, and the debris seemed to surround us in a minute. It was the most frightful ex- rience I ever went through, and I eli you that the ordinary person-has no idea of how it feels to be caught.in.a trap like that. One reads of a tragedy ¥ike the Francisco earthquake, but cannot begin to realize it, unless they have an experience like mine. Poor 'ara: Mullin was~standing near-us, and after the walls had fallen I could hear her moaning where she lay. She must have been in great pain, for we heard her sobbing and crying, and yet we cculd not move to do anything to assist her. Not long after her moans ceased, and instinctively we knew that the poor > girl was dead. "We were hemmed in on all sides. We lay in perfect darkness. We might have been five or fifty feet under head- heavy walls, bricks and beams for all we knew, for we could hear nothing. U seemed like eternity before help came. 1 wonder my hair is not grey." Miss Libbie Smith, who is a steno- grapher, was injured internally, but she worked with the instinct of one to whom life is dear and death is not far distant, 4. retain her senses after the «rash. ESCAPED SUFFOCATION. "IE it had not been for the fact Uhat my right arm was free and uninjured, I would, undoubtedly, have choked and suffocated after the accident," she said. "it-came without a moment's warnins, Elhel Farle and I were set tas apart when it seemed to me that the whole buikling shivered. Then there was @ deafening roar and clatter and the building seemed to crumple up. It was a most terrifying moment. The next thing I knew I was swept off my feet and was caught fast in a mass of debris. A dense, choking dust rose from around me and a stream of dust and what seemed like ashes began to rain down around from the ruins above. In a short time this filled my ears and got through my hair. 1 got my right arm free and 1 warded off the stuff as it trickled dewn from entering my mouth and nostrils. Otherwise | should have been suffocated." : PRAYED TO DIE. "While my plight seemed most des- perate, I shall never forget one terrible part of it, Where I lay 1 could hear the moans of Frank Smith, manager cf afterwards taken He hat he might die and I as I never before prayed repeatedly | have his terrible sufferings ended. heard him gasp finaly, 'O. my God, me die.' It seemed more like a prayer of resignation than anything else, .al- though. I knew that his injuries must Have been terrible from the agony in tus voice. 1 heard no more from him, and he must have dicd soon after. IN A TRAP. "No words can begin to picture the tcrror of this time. To be alive, yet "hemmed in by solid substances that seemed as: if no human force could exer move them, sends the blood to the feart in a sickening" feeling of fear. 'Ore would do anything, I think, in a {time like"that, to save his life, but when "gs added to that the cries of cthers bad- Hay hurt, it is terrible. ing ters blame is a the aley, {hat the suppo adequate. which will ded its felling.timbers, fortunate .viclims, have had a chance 0 eave-in occurred -imm City Engineer's offic £02 people were Pp drowned. thought! ana 10" ~t crowned in § women and helple watery ¢ wiped ou catastrophe. UNDER TERRIBLE SHADOW. comes the great calamily viclims again: No sooner is most forgotlen than an- e shadow of ca- known quently t) provi is in ¢ went to fal, W lime, time th notified steamer And now' of 1907 with its toll of well up in dou one tragedy al ether occurs, lamily seems otherwise beau heard him, ture, which h incensed poured a can of g fire to his clothes and left h thwaite, waking speedily, about the : clothes: appeared wilh smothered the flames. burned and was here. he will be but will probably recover. fe lays anoth he is able to tal he must go to jail. Ys department was but refused he makes complaint. terr' es. the Queen's Birthday, hundred excursionists were returning on Victoria" Thames. Carrying a load far in excess ot her- capacity, the steamer collapsed halfow water." Strugearg ss children went to le families were that brief but agonizing raves, t in "A despatch from R. Hebblethwaite, about in the t}on a charge of d de for he hospital brooding taste of fiery tormen He came drunk, and, sleep at h ne wi drunkenness, leave the hospi The Attorney-Genera he wife's action, of t lo prosecute unless failing wen yard until neigh , 1883, 1898 and Now and the suggestion. is mada ris were altogether in- This, however, is a foint have to be cleared "up at the uest, and although in certain quar- being altached to certain individuals, the bulk of the citizens are wisety withholding their censure until they have obtained proper grounds which to base their verdict. _ PREVIOUS DISASTERS IN LONDON. London, Ontario, seems {o. be a city terrible tragedies. precipitating about jarge iron safe, e, and Numerous on and. who ble figures. Truly to to perpetually he tiful Canadian city. ----{r-- WIFE'S PATIENCE GONE. Pours Gasoline on Erring Hlusba Lights It. town Police Court, his wife t. is fa remov' and when { escaping: ediately over the recipitated into the funnel-shaped. death trap. svith the sale and a heavy steam coll of them. Groans from agonizing cr ied in an appallin gctten chorus. capes were recorded. FLOOD CLAIMED 22. It was the flood that caused the his- toric disaster preceding that. 10 and 11, 1883, the Thames overflowed its banks, and twenty-two people were They were chiefly residents cf the west of London. WHOLE-FAMILIES WIPED OUT. Bul the greatest tragedy of all -- a tragedy which it is hoped will never bo duplicated--occurred in 1881. It hap- pened in the midst of merriment an s mirth of the celebration «! May 24. falling on top the dying and ies from the injured, ming- g and never to be for- thrilling es-- Vancouver to get into th in the-back yard. t out and read him a lec- e never heard. Becoming jlure to answer, she asoline over him, set Hebble- g upon Near ad- more than 4 On May Five the River haunt this nd and says: was arre runkenness and failure and children, and on a fore- home | % e house, His wife im. ran yellin bors in night blankets d He was badly ed to the hospi- confined for some an . Mean er charge © The'| car lots 'on lrack- here. Toronto, Jily -23.--Ontario Wheat -- Bull; No: 2 white, 8874¢ to 893<¢c. - Manitoba Wheat--No, 1 hard, nomin- on TN 1noihern, 98e;"No. 2 northern, Barley--Noninal. * Qats--Ontaio--No 45c, outside. Manitoba--No. 2 white, 453gc to 46c on track at elevator. 50; $4.30. Bran--$17 to $17.50, outsidé; shorts, atout $20 oltside, ---- COJNTRY PRODUCE, ~ --Butler--Grameries» are -- quiet, dairies are : good demand. Creamery prits ....%++++ ++ 21 "do SOLAS 6... gevvee covers Doiry prints.... .. GO SOLS 220 sees vee Cheese--12 lo 12c $%c for twns, in job lots here. re firm at 17} to 18c. $1.70 for hand-picked and $1.50 tc $1.55 for primes. Potatoes--)ull. Delawares, 90c to $1, in car lots in track here. Baled Ha:-$14 to $15 for No, 1 tim- othy; No...2 $12.50. * Baled Strw--S7 to, $225-per ton, in but « sees 17 0-00 for large and 1 PROVISIONS. Dressed logs--$9.25 for lightweights and $8.75 i $9 for heavies Pork--Shet cut, $22.75 to rel, mess, $1 {o $21.50. Smoked ad Dry Salted Meats--Long clear bacon,lic to 113%4c for tons and ceses; hams. medium: and light, 153¢c to 16c; heavy -t434c to 15c; backs, 167¢c to 17; shoulers, 10%c to lic; rolls, 11%; out ofpickle, 1c less than smok' Lard--Stedy; tierces, 12c; tubs, 12 pails, 12)4c. $23 per bar- --_--_ MON'REAL MARKETS. Montreal, uly 23.--Oats remain firm, with small emand. Sales of Manitoba No. 2 whitevere made at 49¢ to 494c; Ontario No. , at 484c to 49c; No. 3, al 7c to 48c,and No. 4 al 46)¢c to A7c cer bushel, «-slore. Flour--Choe spring wheat patents, £5.10 to $5.2; seconds, $4.50 to $4.60; winter wheal patents, $4.85; straight rollers, $4.10. to $4.25; do., in bags, 1.90 to $2.4 shorts, $23; ontario 5) to $19" sherts, $22 to $23; milled mouille, $24 & #8 per ton, and straight grain, $30 to 532. Rolled Oats-The demand for rolled cals is limitei at $2.25 per bag; corn- meal is wichinged at $1.45 to $1.50. Hay--No. 1, &6 to $16.50; No. 2, $15 to $15.50; clwer $13.50 to $14, and clo- ver, mixed, 12.10 to $13 per ton in car aN cts. Butter--Tonsiips, 20}¢¢ to 20%c; Quebec, Beto - 20%; Ontario, 19%c; Eggs--No. andled, at 17c; 2 eandied, at k,and No. 2 straight, at don '{rrels short cut mass, $22.50naf barrels, $11.25 to $11.- g to 1334c; hums, 14c to size; preakfast banjl4%c to 15c; Windsor bacon, 1534c! ke; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs$95 to $10; alive, $7.25 te $7.40. . BUFLO MARKET. - Buffalo, Ji 4. -- Flour -- Steady. Wheat--Sprit, asy; No. 1 Northern, $1.03%; Witr, quiet. Corn--Little demand; No2 ellow, 58%c; No. 2, while, 5734} Jals--Steady;" No. 2 while, 493%{cJo2 mixed, 46c, Barley --Little dot. .Rye--Chicago cash, - f -- NEW YK /HEAT MARKET. Corn--Gontnues-normal; No. 2 yellow, | 2 white, 4434c to +A i bran, in bags, $18.- "Tell My Friends That I Have Gone : ce OE, A despatch from Niagara Falls, N.Y-, Says: People who had on Thursday evening gathered in Prospect Park and in Victoria Park, were startled at 7.40 o'clock to see the-body of a man come dancing down the rapids of the Ameri- can channel and plunge over the Ameri- can Falls. As the man came sweeping along with the currents and waves it looked as though he was waving fare- well to those on shore, but it.is likely that the waves gave the motion they felt was a human effort to say fareewell. This latest suicide is known to have entered the bridge between the main- land and Green Island from the island end. He walked out to the second bay on a crutch and a Gane, and there he cljmbed over the wall of the bridge and dropped into the rapids. He left his crutch and cane behind, also 8 note which reads: "Tell my friends that | note as well "3D. cents per pound. Ewes were worth 4.50 to $4.75. per ewk, and bucks and culls sold at $3.50 ta $4 per cwt. The prices of lambs ranged' from' $8 to $8.40 per cwt. . Select hogs sold at $6.90, and lighls 'and fats at $6.95 per:.cwt, -- STATESMAN STOLE $500,060. Signor Nasi, Former Minister, Arrested by Order of Italian Senate. A despatch from Rome says: General surprise has been 'caused here by the arrest of Signor Nasi, ex-Minister of Public Instruction, who is charged with having embezzled ; rem G) State treasury. His secretary was also arrested. Signor Nasi frotested through counsel that his arrest was il- egal. The arrests were made at the direction of the Senate, before which the ex-Minister will be tried. He recentl tedk his seat as a member of the Cham- her of Deputies. LE -- JUMPED TO DEATII. Chicago Stenographer Leaped From Fil- teenth Floor to Pavement. A despatch from Chicago says: While talking to friends on the fifteenth floor a! the Masonic Temple,.on Thursday, ETB aATSS oni ee eee eae es window and without a * threw herself to the slone pavement of the rotunda, 250 feet below. The girl was mutilated almost beyond recogni- pg No cause is known for the sui- cide. ee nen CHILD IMPALED ON HAYFORK. Terrible Accident to a Four-year-old Daughter of Southwold Farmer. A despatch from St. Thomas says: The four-year-old daughter of James Jones, of Southwold, was terribly in- jured on Saturday. The child was caught in the hooks of a hayfork. One of the prongs, after entering the back, passed completely through the body. The child is in a_critical condilion, ed Mr. C: E. Dewey has been appointed Assistant General Freight Agent of the G. T. R Wolves have destroyed a number of horses, valued at 25,000, in the Dun- Bak Re vt oe word of warning | . ¥ SHOT HIS WIFE DEAD. North Ontario County Farmer Used. Gun With Awful Effect, A. despatch from Sunderland, Ont., says: Adam. Lodwick, of Vallentyne,' about 4% miles west of this place, shot: and killed his wife at an early hour on' seems Lodwi placed the mu wife's face and literally blew off the top; of her head. Strange to say, the baby was not injured. T. H. Glendinning, 1.P., and County Constable Davidson, of: Sunderland, were telephoned for, and on arriving found Lodwick in an un- conscious condition, seated in an arms chair. Dr. Blanchard was sent for, and after a few hours Lodwick recovered sufficiently to acknowledge taking tho entire contents of a bottle, which~ the dcctor found to be a preparation he had left for the man for his nerves, with which he had been troubled. Deceased was a daughter of Mr. Philip St. John, a highly-respected farmer of Vallentyne, and leaves a family of five to mourn her terrible death. DASHED. BABE TO DEATH. Terrible Crime of a Drunken Negro in' New York. A despatch lrom-stew-Tork- seys: In; a frenzy, John Hesler, a negro who had! been drinking, seized the year-and-a- half-old son of Mrs. Samuel Fischer, at; Leng Branch, N. J., on Wednesday,} and_ swinging him high above his head) di Shed the child upon the pavement.| The baby may die. The Fischer child, who was only able to toddle about, was playing in front of his home when - ergan grinder came along. The baby' attempts to dance to the music caught the negro's eye. Hester caught him upj and began to whirl around with the} boy in his arms. Alarmed, Mrs. Fischer called to him to put the baby down,, whereupon he hurled him wrathfully. to the stone pavement and ran. The! negro was caught. Nearly two thousand ore dockmen are on strike at Duluth, Superior, and other Lake Superior harbors. Five persons died in New York yess terday from the extreme heat. : At Utica, N.Y., Charles Stucka felh seven storeys and was instantly killed,' and struck a pedestrian who may 'also, vegan and Fort St. John districts in die. I ? A Marquette Thirty Persons Killed on the Pere Railread. | A despatch from Salem, Michigan, stricken" ers, who had been' -- ' ALL NIGHT. ADRIET f New York, )ly}.--Wheat--Spot firm; | says : Thirty persons are known to be No. 2 red, Selator; No. 2 red, 89%c | dead and sixty are injured as the result to.b. afloat;). dorthern Duluth, $1.11 | of a wreck on the Pere Marquette Rail- 'ob. afloatjo? hard winter, 100% | road, near this place, shortly before 10 "o.b. afloat. | - "" le'clock on"Saturday morming. A special . train of eleven coaches left Ionia with between 800:and 1,000 of the employes of the Pere Marquette" for the annual excursion to Detroit, and about half-way between: here, and Plymouth the special train had a head-on collision with a west-bound freight train. .. e passenger train had been given the right-of-way, but because of some blunder on the"part of the crew of the freight train it*kept on instead of wait- ing at Plymouth,«which is the despatch- ing headquarters for this division, to let r pass. ger train was just rounding hbourne Crossing, "] wonder . ) §s difficult pilched into the middle of the cars,) nearly all of them more or less injured and crazed with fright. There was a stampede, the terrorstricken people fighting to get out of tq doors and win- dows, while from the pile of wreckage! came the cries of those who were pin- ned down. by the weight, suffering; agonies from broken bones and man- gied flesh and with no hope of bein extricated until a wrecking train Pt rived from Detroit. . The fear that the pile of wreckage, tn which many fpersons both dead . and alive were buried might catch fire, nerved the survivors to the work off 'rescue, @ work in which they were as-/ "sisted -by the-farmers in the vicinity, With their bare hands or with impro-) vised tools they set to work to raise tha heavy timbers, under which human be-j ings Re kee: and one after ano : was "until when 'the nt Out in a © Four: Port Ryerse Girls We ; Punt. ° A despatch from Simcoe Says > 'Four girls, Misses Winter, Stickney, d her sister, residing near Port out.for a boat ride on Sat- o'clock in @ hunter's punt, with only a pole_to guide the punt. The land breeze drove them over to Long Point. Their absence was not noticed until nearly dark, when word was sen tc Port Dover, and & general search was by the fishing tugs of that search was unsuccessful un- jnjoon on Sunday, re found near f % go to sleep { 'acry. In my fancy fallen again." FULL INVESTIGATION DEMANDED, Rv common consent it is admitted 'that there must be o thorough investi- gation into the cause of the disaster and dhe responsible parties brought to book. se of the i MARKET, ° ' Toronto, ¥ Buyers complained about the yt ality. of many of the butchers' cal bight forward. Choice values, the range per cwt. Me- Crystal Hall gave way, Ages the outer portion, whicl aSSen and demolished the Brewster store. An- dvanced that it f the building ence, excep were brought to Po Angler, and driven {o their Port Ryerse. ----F--_---- { ee 'opinion is firmly held: t con vs a