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_-,' . The train was just approaching _ the large steel bridge spanning the l _ , river. when the accident happened, _, and the cause,- whether a broken _ T rail or a. broken truck, may never V be. known, as the track is torn up. _ 4 - _ r,i?ly:t?iipians were hurried torthe "rv..,.--'----)):??,!"),",,!',.';',;,',:'-:,;-,) m Sudbury as marines cue--- ' ' "iF-iii,',)::'-),),) is %'*%‘iid”'a' “tracking l ,1 triu'rips'i" __ “elf-1M!"=fi?ES?li7§)éri'n‘feindâ€" _ q ent Gutulius, made a record time '. from. North Bay. Arrangements . were made to rush a diver on a special train from Sault Ste. Marie ' to recover the bodies from the sub- _ merged cars. " r,'i,ifi,i'9., Passengers from the eastbound "Soo" express are being transfer- red around the wreck. as the bridge is considered unsafe, which kwill cause considerable delay to 'triigie. - A despatch from Toronto says: The'remarkablc 47211110 to Ontario of thy 1etNur,ustit underdrdinage c)r)era- tions going B'ilriii"'the Province is set forth in "an agricultural report iubt issued by the department. Each acre that has been so drained, ‘t points out, produces on an average about $20 more per year' than for- merly. The injured were rushed to Sud- lgury Hospital. where one, Mrs. Houcle, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., died. All the others will recover. The engine, baggage, express, mail andene second-class car re- mained en the rails, while one see- ond-class, one first-class, the diner and a sleeper left the rails, plung- ing clown thelembankment. The first-class car and diner went into the river. The sleeper and sceoncl, class ear remained on the ground, but _the second-class car was burn- ed. Engineer Trelford and the train crew, with 'the exception of Conduetor Reynolds, escaped in, jury. NEARLY FOUR MILLIONS Prof. W. H. Day of the Ontario Agricultural College estimates that €35 least, one-thire. of the. cleared land of the Province, or 4,7l0,000 Jacres, is in urgent need of 1tnder- draina-ge. Vee If that were all drained pnd each acre produced $20 more khan is dares now, the increase in iii'hirothl be worth $94,flt)0,000 an- Annual Increase in Ontario Crops as Result of Drainage.’ f‘The totalmumbey of acres drain- ;e=1 cluring"_he N years 1905-1909," says- the report, "is 193,436, the product of which, at $20 increase per acre, would be worth 83,858,- 220 more each year than before be- ing; drained." When the ears left the rails, tearing loose from the front rrwct offlse train, the crash of timbers, the groaning of girders and shrieks of twisting steel was speedily fol, lowed by cries of injured paSsen- gers, as the water of the Spanish River filled the doomed ears. Fourteen passengers were enjoy- ing lunch in the dining car when the accident happened, but it is stated that they all got out safely. About "25 passengers Were in the first-class car, which is partially submerged, and how many are dead will not be known until the diver, who is being rushed on a special train from Sault Ste. Marie, arrives at the scene. Twenty passengers at least were in the second-class car, which took fire and was burned, adding addi- tional horror to the terrifying spee- tacle. Bow many escaped from thediery furnace of death is not known as yet, as there is no tele- graphic communication with the wreck at present. It is impossible to obtain a cor- rect estimate of the dead, reports varying all the way from 35 to 45. The number of injured will total between 50 and 70. The express was speeding along with a good passenger list, when, without warning of any kind, sep- eral of the cars left the rails and plunged down a steep embank- ment, two of the cars going into the Spanish River, adding death by drowning to the horrors of the tragedy. A dining car is partially submerged and a first-class car is almost wholly under water. AWFUL RAILWAY WRECK A despatch from North Bay says: A terrible accident occurred on Friday afternoon on the "Soo" branch of-the C. P. R., 37 miles west of/Sudbury, when express No. 7, en’ route to Sault Ste. Marie, was derailed, taking heavy toll in déath and injury among the pas- Sengers. Passenger Train From‘Montreal to Sault Ste. Marie Plunges Into Spanish River, (all; The value of 'au'iie/d crops "But that does not tell the whole story of the possibilities of under- drainage," adds Prof. Day. "On- tario has 2,250,000 acres of slash land and 2,750,000 acres of swan”), marsh and waste land, or 5,000,- 000 altogether, much of which I'e- mains in this comparatively USP- less state only because it would be too wet for cultivation. On much of the slash and marsh a comparatively small amount of la- bor would do the necessary clear- ing, and underdrainage would 1'e- claim the land and make it equal to the best. The swamp, too, when cleared; would yield to' drainage in the same" Way. Thus an immense area could be added to the arable land of the Prbv"ince." _ in Ontario in 1908, according td the latest report of the Bureau of In- dustries, was $164,077,000. Thus drainage of all the cleared land needing it might increase Ontario's field crop about 57.4 per cent. At the present rate it would take 100 years to complete the drainage New Brunswick Lad. Carried it ” Length of Platform. A despatch from St. John, N. B., Says: An English boy named White fell under a C. P. R. train at Harvey Station and had one arm cut off, on Thursday. He picked up the severed member and car- ried it the whole length of the sta- cover. Young Man Accidentally Shoots Himself Near Stratford. , A despatch from Stratford says: Roy V. Shore, 21 years old, was found dead in his father's barn on Thursday afternoon. He had left the house at noon with the in- tention of shooting sparrows, and when discovered it was found that the top of his head had been blown away by the discharge of the gun, The unfortunate young man had evidently slipped on the barn tloor and, in doing so, accidentally set off the gun. tion platform. He was-brought to the hospital here, and may le- C. Carey, Montreal, ORR. air brake inspector; Wm. Lavery, C. P. R. fireman, North Bay. A despatch from Montreal says: Following is the official list of the dead in the wreck at Spanish Riv- er, issued by the C. P. R. on Mon- day night: » Father Chaillou, Borval, Que.; J. Henault, Matheson, Ont., died in Sudbury Hospital, Jan. 22; Tato- forf Hoppe, Mrs. G. Houde, "Soo," Ont., drowned in diner; George McIlhenney, North Bay, Ont., C. P. R. fireman; George McLaugh- lin, Barrie, Ont., farmer 22 years old, fro'm Antons'Mills, Ont., sev- eral ribs fractured on right side, suffered from shock, died night of Jan. 22 in Sudbury Hos- pital; Nick Nikolanko, 150 Walley Street, Lawrence, Mass.,' died on way to hospital; John Ilesback, North Bay, C. P. R. fireman; S. J. Saunders, Orillia, Ont., commer- cial traveller, drowned in diner; body taken to Sudbury; Zonnum Spinkzie, going to Chisholm, Man., died in Sudbury Hospital Jan. 22; T, H. Watt, Renfrew, or some place in Montana, drowned, body taken out of diner and sent to Sud- ,bury; unknown man, Italian or lFrench; -. Bosenza, foreigner; ‘Rev. Mr. Childerhose, North Batu,i Ont., Superintendent of Presbyter-l ian Missions; R. A. Booth, 13 'ifar/I, rier Avenue, Toronto; C. J. Rob-l ertson/ Arnprior, travelling audi- tor C.P.R.; Patrick Kinehan, Bruce Mines; Clara Tees, aged 4, Bruce Mines; E. G. Bemmels, Liv. bon, North Dakota; elderly woman, unidentified; middle-aged woman, unidentified; Thomas Aussant, Blind River, Ont.; unidentified boy, 12 years old; Hiram Jolmston,i Montreal, president of the Hiram! Johnston Co., Limited; unidenti-l fied Woman. unidentified woman,‘ unidentified boy, 10 years old; Dr. Whitehead, Powassan, Indian, -ii,i,/-i dieine vendor; Geo. McDougall, Copper Cliff; Mrs. Stankie, Shaw-J ville, Que.; Joseph Kelly, Leaven-l worth, Wash. I PICKED UP SEVERED ARM. TOP OF READ BLOWN OFF; DEATH LIST TO DATE IS 33 MISSING The, Statement shows amount represented by c- short loans by the banks t security of stocks and bo; creased by $5,b"i'5,545. f, loans, too,” increased by' s2,500,000, standing at thi the month at $592,741,812. oembcr S'Ist the chartered 7 Canada had at rest or $77,847,333. V , Twenty Stores on East; Town Destroyed. a ‘A dospatch from Elk Lat says: Fire destroyed over east side of Elk Lake early day morning. The flames t ed in a pool room, a mat knocked over a gasoline sh loss is over 8100,000, witf cally no insurance. About stores were destroyed a1 p"'eaiolte are homeless. F That for December Shows the Country is Prospering.’ A 'despateh from Ottawa says: The December bank statement) just issued, reveals a substantial addition to the country) prosper- ity. While the notes in air , >5" " as compared with the m November show a decrease' 000,000, and the current de shrinkage of a similar amc savings deposits show an from $493,253,823 in Noven $499.082,024 at the end of ber. This increase is to h as an indication of the e: which the results of ‘the hard been placed _in . the stdclsin'g.' As, for the deer note circulation, it is" sai' due tb-the fact that severe banks took advantage dup: vernber of the recent Act 0 ment legalizing increased, tion for the purpose of fan crop movement, and then ly returned to normal Cir. A new comet, which can be seen in the day time, has been discover- ed by _ Prof. Drake of Johannes- burg. '.. _ TV .' e" Louis Paulhan, the French avi- ator, flew 23 miles across country near Los Angeles and returned Without landing. Two wonién and a man were murdered in a flat in New York's east st,ii,dp)ci,i.t.i,tilr,si7lltt,vrsdas. -' . "v/c-sith "iirhitcfstti"tFisii" man murdered a jeweller in a Brooklyn store and then committed suicide, on Thurs; day . s' It ?‘ Four girls and one man Idlst their lives in a fire in a shortwaist factory in Philadelphia, on Wed- nesday. It has come to light in Liverpool that a womanwscrving a sentence there for breaking the windows of the jail is Lady Constance Lytton, a prominent suffragette, who was recently released from prison. Mr. Redmond has announced that it is not the intention of the Na- tionalists to embarrass the Gov- ernment by demands for homemule until the Commons have settled with the Lords. ' , Mr. Lloyd-George, speaking at Bangor, said the Government would have a good working major- IO'. Mr. Asquith, speaking at said he regarded the vote great industrial centres as diet against Tariff Reform. Morris Hickey, a Windsor but, cher who failed, left an insurance policy with Judge McHugh for the benefit of his creditors, and the proceeds will, it is expected, satis- fy all claims. Mr. George McL. Brown has been appointed European man- ager of the C. P. R. Mrs. Bell of Montreal was shown t1 have taught her eleven-year-old son to steal, and the boy was sent to the reformatory. T Rubber manufacturers and job- bers decided at; a meeting at Mont- real on a general increase in pric- es. Ottawa City Council has voted for a reduction in the number of licenses from 67 to 58, and shop li- censes from 26 to 21. The British Columbia Legisla- ture was opened on Thursday, and Mr. D. M. Eberts was elected Speaker. Ten /housand Italians are need- ed for railway construction work in British Columbia. Toronto's fire losses last year totalled $740,931. Telegrapnio Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries ot Reco.nt Events. CANADA. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS BAI‘t’ENINGS may ALL own THE GLOBE. c, 00 D BANK STATE RENT. ELK GREAT BRITAIN. LAKE FIRE SW UNITED STATES: GENERAL. Leven, of the a ver- Vi/l'. _Montreal. Jan. 25.--oats, No. 2 Canadian .Western, 45% to 45%0; No. 2, 44% to 44340; Ontario No. 2 white, 430. Ontario No. 3 white, 420 ;' Ontario No. 4 white, 410. Kar: léV~NO. 2, 68 to 69C; Maditoha Barns-Light to medium, 15% to 1,6erdp.iheavy, 14% to 15c; rolls, 1'4 to 14%0; shoulders, 13 lo 13%0; backs, 19 to 21c; breakfast bacon, 1.7% 139180. 'fsi1,rd,--Tierces, 15)de; tubs, 160, pails, 16)de. Bacon-Long clear, 14% to 150 per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $27 to $27150; short cut, $29 to $29.50. . Cheirie--. and at 13c Butter-j-pound prints, 23 to 25c; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 220; in- ferior, 18 to 200; Creamery, 27 to 28e, and solids, 26 to 26yf.e perulb. I _ "-r2." L'v- ‘Iv‘ Eggs-Cate Lots of new laid, 32c per dozen,:_gnd storage, 250 per dozen. A; e Har-No. 1 timothy, $13.50 to $14, and No. 2 at $12 to $12.50 on track, Toronto. Straw-mutt on track, Toronto. _ Potatoes-w to 500 per bag on Hack for Ontarios. poultry-Turkeys, dressed 17 to 18e per lb.; ducks, 13 to 15c; geese 12 to 13e; chickens, 13 to 14e, and fowl, 10 to Ile. Beans-C-Car iots ouside, $1.65 to $1.70, and small lots here at $1.50 to 82. Honey-Combs, dozen, 3 $3; extyyeted, 10%0 per lb Apples-tergo to $t per barrel, according fo quality. Barley-No, 2, 58c outside; No, 3 extra, 55 to 560; No. 3, 50 to 52c, and feed 48e outside. Oats-mo, 2 Ontario white, 37% to 381/10 outside, and 391/2 to 40c on track, Toronto. Canada West oats, 41)4e for No. 2, and 40y.fe for No. 3, Bay Ports. Peas-e to 86c outside. 1tye.---No 2, 67c outside. Buckwheat-L-rec high freights, and 530 low freights. Corn-New No. 2 yellow, 75 to 7534c, Toronto, and selected No. 3 at 73 to 73'Ae Toronto. Bran--421 in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $22.50 to $23, in bags, To- ronto. Toronto, Jan. 25.--Flour - On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $4.25 to $4.30 in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and $4.20 to $4.25 outside, in buyers' sacks. Mani- toba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.10 to $5.20, and strong bakers', $4.90 to $5, on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat-No, 1 North- ern, $1.12, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northern, $1.10 Bay ports. Ontarid Wheat-io.' - 2 mixed $1.06, and No. 2 white and red $1.07 outside. THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING V TRADE CENTRES. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL rices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Rome and Abroad. _ BREADSTUFFS. THE DAIRY MARKETS COUNTRY PRODUCE. HOG PRODUCTS. for e per lb. for large, ‘ twins. .2.25 to 2%0 per lb. There were about an qual number of milch cows and Springers on the market. The former were in active demand at from $30 to $60 each. Calves sold at 3 to near 60 per lb.; sheep about, 41Aie per lb.; lambs, 6% to a little over 6).f.c per lb. Good fat hogs 9e per lb. Montreal, Jan 25. --- Prime beeves sold at 5% to near 6%; per lb.; pretty good animals 4% to 5)dc; common stock, 3 to do per 1b., and the lean canners at about "How some of them can pass any thorougl1 system of inspection is a mystery; the genera paretics, the pretocious clement, the obvious degenerate all slip-by and‘reach us in a surprisingly short time. Surely it Would be wisdom and good economy on the part of the Federal authorities to have some of their medical inspectors trainfed in psychiatry. Even a mere tyro A despatch from Toronto says: The Province of Ontario'deported 263 "undesirable persons" during the year'1908, according to the of- ficial report on prisons and asy- lums, issued the other day. In the two previous years, 87 and 19, ret,?ectively,tere the figures. The report says: "An analysis of the admissions proves most strilr- ingly the importance of carefully scrutinizing those who come to Our shores. Messrs. Viekers, Sons & Maxim have received the order to build the truise1'-battleship. This vessel will have a replacement of about 22,000, and will have turbine en- gines capable of giving her a speed of thirty knots an hour. The Vick- ers firm is already building the turbine machinery for the Lion. Importation of Boys and Girls of DefectiVe Type Should Be Discouraged. - IMMIGRANTS TO BE (jlulll] * A H“, u. 'rAAE.WV “Nina“, to be good authority, says The Manchester Guardian, that the Admiralty has placed orders for the building of two battleships of the Dreadnought type, but repre- senting improvements upon the original, and that a conditional of- fer has been made to the Thames Ironworks Company to accept their tender forthe constructiorrof a third. A fourth vessel which has been ordered is a cruiser-battleship similar to the Lion, recently laid down at Davenport. The Ships Are to Represent Improvements . on the Original Warship, FOUR NEW DREADNUUGHTS Itimls ffptrtetVor1 what appears LIVE STOCK MARKETS. O Irs, an’S Selilor's Charred Body Found Near Moose Jaw. 'f A despateh from Moose Jaw, Sask., says: Martin Rach was burned to, a crisp in his home'stead- er's shack south of Moose Jaw, in the district known as "The Gap." Rach was in the city a few days ago on legal business, and a bro, ther came to town on Friday, and reported that he had gone over to a tail measuring twenty-two de- grees, equal to about thirty-five million miles. Great intefest was aroused generally, as the majority thought it was Halley’s comet which had suddenly made its first appearance. The strange visitor was plainly visible for upwards of an hour. _ Mr. S. A, Armstrong, Deputy Provincial Secretary, submits charts which show the alarming proportions of English and fore- ign-born inmates of Ontario's pri-, sons alsl 1xEylurnss._1, __ fl we should be to have a thorough examination of their antecedents made before admitting them. Bet- ter still would be to exclude them altogether, and when I say this I voice the opinion of many of those who have had to deal with these questions practically." _ "The importation of boys and girls of distinctly defective type should be absolutely discouraged. Our experiences with these weak- lings make us realize how great a menace they are, and how careful in the study of psychiatric prob- lems would be able to detect the weak spots in many of those who at present safely run the gauntlet or port of arrival inspection.' The Press Association confirm, this statement, and adds that an order for a battleship of the Dreadnought type, but larger, has been placed with Sir W. Arm- strong, Whitworth k Co., of New, castle and Manchester. Orders for turbine engines and boilers have been placed with Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., New-' castle. A similar vessel and ma- chinery has been ordered from Messrs. Beardmore of Clydebank. The armaments of the three ships definitely ordered have been allot- ted in equal proportions between Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., and Vickers, Sons & Maxim.. Each battleship will be 600 feet long and 68 feet broad, and will be armed with ten 12-in. guns, yhiel‘txwill be' available for use on either FMttie side. The Admiralty order for the Tyne is estimated at S2,500,000. BI'RNED IN HIS SHACK. nmnnénn and Faun S