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i 1 12 PAGES } ¥ i \ 1 1) | / x Bobi aie apes XEAR 86---No. 184. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAX, AUGUST 11, 1919 LAST EDITION. 'BURNED TO DEATH IN PARK HORROR Ril And Scenic Railway at Mon- Bin treal Destroyed By Fire. ME 30S NOD | CHARRED BEYOND THE POSSI. SIBILITY OF RECOGNITION. Firemen Unablo to Ald Victims Who Shouted and Moanod For Help Cigarette or Match Likely Caused Catastrophe. 1 (Canddisn Press Despatch.) Montreal, Aug. 11.--Charred be- yond the possibility of = recognition, the bodies of three men, three women and a boy 'were taken from the ruins of the Mystic Rill and part of the scénic railway, which were destroyed « by fire at Dominfon Park, an amuse- ment resort near this city, last even- ! ing. 'It is thought several more bodies will be recovered when the wreck is seArched. The cause of fire 18 unknown, but it is thought that it may have been caused by a cigarette or a match, The flames spread guickly and were 'fanned by west winds, which blew towards the river front, and it is to this that is due the salvation of the entire park. When the firemen arrived, the Mystic Rill was enveloped in flames, "They heard shouis for help and moans of agony, but it was fmpossi- ble to aid tho victims. They broke down the walls and in this way got a few persons ouf. The seonic rail- way fell with @ crash into a roaring furnace. It is stated there wns a Jcarload of people on it at the time. The only way the firemen could tell the sex of the bodies as they were recovered, was by a gold watch in ofie case, Two other hodies were found closely huddled together and later a body which is believed to lave been a boy was found. No of the bodies had any head, arms or legs, mor Was there anything by which they could be identified.' The search among ruins of} the old mill has brought to light two C odies, raising the over-night cas § from the disaster @ bodies found this 'were those of Suda and a . Nene.of the remains found at ean be positively identified on account of their charred condition. Ue rm pt. a "New York Stocks. 2 Opening. Close. LLY 9214 oo 42% 42% 154 Atchison ... «vu 4 Betlilehem, Steel .. Tot. Nickel ... .... 2% Rep. Steel™™. ... « 89% UB. Steel ... .... 105% Canadian Stocks. Maivee oo BER : Cement... 69% Steamship ...." 64 A i iotana 88D. S. Smelters .... 29% of Canada ,.. 68 SR ---------------- ROUMANIANS TO STAY. to remain in 'troops tc eady the situation at} iE Council today, | ) oct reply to its m from Roumanian govern- Ph and telephe throughout Unites 'was serious KINGSTON' TINE 10 TAKE ACTION And Urge Upon Government the Advisz- bility of Building Elevators Here. PORT COLBORNE ELEVATOR CANNOT BE REBUILT IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS. By ThatiTime the New Welland Will Be Compléte and the Big Vessels Can Come to Kingston to Trans. ship. Kingston will urge upon the Do- minion Gevernment the advisability of at once starting to build at this port two or three big elevators for the western grain trans-shipment trade. The destruction of the large government elevator at Port Colborne on Saturday is likely to aid this city in regard to its national harbor plans. It would. take two years to rebuild the elevator at Port Col- borne, and by that time the new Welland canal should be about com- pleted and the big freighters would then be able to run east to Kingston and trans-ship their cargoes here inty smaller vessels for Montreal. The difficulty 'during the past two or three years has been that the large upper lake vessels could not get through the Welland canal to bring their grain - to Kingston elevators, and the government had to erect a large elevator at Port Colborne above the Welland.. Now that this elevator is destroyed, the government has a problem on its hands, and according to the best information the Whig can get from grain and elevator experts to-day is that Kingston is the logi- cal pldce for government elevators and that pressure ' should be brought to bear upon the powers Ne oaawa lo adopt Cy harbor im- ns e the Department of Public Works i conjunction with the engineers of the G.T.R., the C.P.R. and the C.N.R. companies. These plans provide for the erection of at least two elevators down in the lower harbor and' the butlding of railway lines to them.' A meeting of the harbor commit tee has been called for this evening by J. M. Campbell, president of the Board of Trade, and it is likely that a aebutation will be sent this week to awa to interview the cabinet mem. bers at. present there. It Is possible that in view of the burning of the Port Colborne eleva- tor, the local levator of the Montreal Transportation Company may be again put into commission to take care of some of the grain coming from the west, TARRED AND FEATHERED = WIFE OF A FARMER Woman Dragged From He Bed hs Hor Husband ' Was Away: § Malone, N.¥., Aug. 11.---All the countryside around West Bangor, near Malone, is inflamed over the tar and feathering of a woman. The vietim is 'Mrs. Prosper La Pleche, 42 who is now here in Alice Hyde Hos- pital with her life in the balance. Early Saturday morning three men climbed of a ladder to the chamber window of Mrs, Le Fleche in & farmhouse at West Bangor and dragged her from her bed while her husband was miles away working on the state highways. : Before the eyes of her helpless el- even-year-old son: and six-year-old daughter, they dragged her scream- ing down {0 the ground: 'while ogg of the assailants held her another ap- plied the coat of tar and feathers. The men departed and Mrs. Lel® eche was found ungonscious in her yard when daylight broke by John Manchester, a neighboring farmer, tio assing by. S gmoned Dr. Sampson from + Who had the woman rush- ambulance to the Malone Manchester came to- Malone| jorted affai the 10'cloek this morning, atter an illness of less than three days, with bron} HON. W. L. MACKENZIE KING, The new leader of tho taken after Mr. King's nn nD ANDREW CARNEGE PASSES AWAY The Great Sicel Magnate Died at Len: nox, Mass., Monday Morning. ILL ONLY THREE DAYS OF BRONCHIAL-PNEUMONIA AT HIS SUMMER HOME, His Death Came Suddenlys.dn His Eighty-fourth Year--Had Enjoyed Fishing and Riding Until Res cently, Lennox, Mass., Aug. 11.--Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philan- thropist, died at his Lennox summer house, "Shadow Brook," at 7.10 chial-proumonia. . So sudden was his death that his daughter, Mrs, Miller, Was unable {o: get to hes father's bedside before he died. g Although Mr. Carnegie was in his eighty-fourth year, he had beewt an invalid since 1917, when he suffered an attack of grippe. The news of his death was a shock to his old friends. and former business associates. Since his previous serious illness, he had becn under the care of two nurses. My. Carnegie leaves his wife, who was Miss Loulse Whitefield of New York, and his = daughter Margaret, why married, last April, Ensign Ros well Miller of New York, Mr. Carnegie had spent m the summer at Lennox. He went up late in May.and up to a few weeks ago} enjoyed himself in'almost daily fish=] ing trips, and in riding about his grounds. He was taken ill on Friday] and grew steadily worse. His ad- vanced age and weakened powers of resistence hastened the end. tof The strike of the Liverpool tram- ways id settled. Work was resumed on Saturday. Liberal party, from a photograph election in Ottawa on Thursday. ~ SOME STRIKERS BACK. While Others Will Not Return Til} Demands Arranged. (Canadian Press Despatch) Chicago, Aug. 11.-~The striking federated railroad shopmen returned to work at a number of points today while at others they voted to remain ouk until their demands for an in- crease of wages were granted. Plans for holding a national conference of strikers, called for next Thursday, went forward today by the Chicago district council. THE PRINCE NEAR SHORE. The Battleship Renown Sighted off Newfoundland. (Canadian Press Despatch) St, Johns, Nfid,, Aug. 11.--- The British Battleship Remown bringing the Prince of Wales te Newfound- land was sighted at 4€ a.m., today from Cape St. Franels lighthouse at the southern entrance of Conception Bay. The Renown' and her escort, the Cruiser Dragon, were about fif- teen miles away proceeding slowly. | + RE i a. 2 ANDREW OARNEGIE Former Steel Magnate, died at Lenox. Mass, at 8 a.m. on Monday. Liverpool riot damage is estimated at a quarter of a 'million sterling, © As in former years, a campaign {s about to funds to guarantee the suecess of the Kingston Abernethy, Allan Reid and R. chairman, has been formed, an which is this year to be held during the last w occupying five days. A committee, » | ourred. Mrs. BG ELEVATOR 5 DESTROYED Ten Persons Killed And Nine Injured At Port Colborne. MT. C0. BARGE QUEBEC WAS SUNK AND CAPT, H. LATOUR INJURED. A Spontaneous Combustion Caused the Explosion--400,000 Bushels 'of Grain Was Stored In the Elevator. Port Colborne, Aug 11.--Ten per- sons are known to have been killed, and ning injured as the result of an explosion, here at 1.15 Saturday af- ternoon, which completely wrecked the government elevator. The barge Quebec of the Montreal Transporta- tion Company was sunk. Spontane- ous combustion caused the explosion. Four bodies have been recovered and identified: Alfred Leslie, L. Dunham, Wiliam Cook, Charles Aston, A Beck, B. Dunlop, J. Hanham and a man named Michener, are missing, Among the injured are: C. Hart, S. Mouck, George Current, B. Black and H, Armstrong. With the exception of the captain of the barge, all the men are resi- dents of Port Colborne. ; The elevator was completely wrecked, The top was blown off. The barge Quebé¢ of the Montreal Tran- spomtasion Company was sunk by the debris projected: by the explo- sion, Port Colborne is at the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal, twenty miles" west of Buffalo. It isin the township of Humberstone, Welland county. . The elevator was one of the finest on the continent, was built by the Ca- nadian government and cost between three and four millions. It had about 400,000 bushels of grain in store, The grain is slowly burning. The Maple Leaf Milling Co. has its big grinding plant about 700 feet away from the elevator. The windows of the mills were blown out and oth- erwise more or less damaged, but to no great loss. Caused Tremendous Surprise. Port Colborne, Aug. 11.--All of the bodies of the elevator victims have been recovered except those of Beck and Dunlap, but there is no doubt as to their fate. 'The Montreal Transportation Com- pany" , Queb®t, was being load- ed with grain in the slip east of the elevator and. the falling mass of con- ¢rete enve it. Five men were killed on the barge, all but one, the sor of Captain Latour, being resi- dents of Quebec. The other victims were employees of the elevator and met death in the upper part of the structure, called the working depart- ment. There is where the explosion, due to grain dust, occurred. Its force jlifted off the top half of the great building, which was 200 feet high "land built of concrete. Captain Latour was at dinner on the barge Quebec with his wife and five children when the explosion oc- 'Latour instinctively arose to pick up her six months' old baby as the roof of the little cabin was crushed in. She was the most seriously hurt of any of the family. A representative of the United States Grain Corporation, who has arrived to investigate the disaster, stated that the affair had caused tre- mendous surprise in grain circles in the United States, where the Port Colborne elevator as the last word in construction and equipment. In fact, one of the best in the world. x: 2 14, is generally accepted mow that the.explosion was the result of spon- taneous combustion. Methods to pre- went repetition of disaster in any of @ scores of similar elevators on the continent will be formulated by experts now on the ground. ofticials of Dominion govern- nent and varfous milling concerns have arranged to deliver to other ports, steamers loaded with grain, in- tended for the elevator here. Capt. Hector Latour of the barge Quebec and members of his family are recovering rapidly, and other in- jured are progress ng favorably. The Salvaging of the grain is in hands of a large force of men. It is expected that reconstruction of the elevator will be commenced e- diately. Quien latour, mate of the barge yy Se Cee th, me To Montreal for he past Two gests «| 10t se the rifle go off. vas looked upon |' as the through the Welland canal to trans- wr. A YOUTH MEETS TRAGIC DEAT William " Fifteen, Receives mt WAS: PREPARING T0 SHOOT AT A TARGET AT KINGSTON MILLS, SUNDAY Thought He Was Looking Down the Barrel--Boy Died in General Hos- pital Soon -After Being Conveyed There, ~~ A sad fatality occurred at a Sun- day picnic at Kingston Mills, when William Cannem, 15 years old, son of Walter Cannem, of 69 Lower Ba- got street, was shot in the forehead from a 22 calibre rifle in his own hands. The rifie had been present. ed to him by his father upon his pass- ing the entrdnce examinations ' in July. Mr, and Mrs. Cannem, Mr. and Mrs. H. Simmons, Mr, and Mrs. Find- lay, with other guests of Mr. Sim- mons, went to Kingston Mills on Sunday morning in Mr. Simmons' motor boat for an outing. With them were William Cannem, the boy wie was shot; Bert Simmons, aged 12, and Harold Harper, aged 12. Lunch was served at the foot of the locks, and the three lads, two of whom had rifles, left the party and went up the hill to shoot. They made a target by piling up stones, shooting at the top one. Harold Harper states that after he fired he handed the rifie to the Cannem lad, and then went to fix up the target, calling out to the others, "Don't shoot." William Cannem and Bert Simmons were on the side of a bank waiting for him to fix the target. When he returne oung. Cannem 'was lying down, and he saw a trickle of blood on his forehead. . He call- ed to him, but got no answer. Bert Simmons states that he was a few feet from Cannem, whose turn it was to fire next. He heard a shot and saw Cannem lying on the bank. Nei- ther of the boys could say just how the accident happened, as they did Bert Sim- mons' remembered that Cannem re- marked that the riff®wneeded clean- ing, and he might have been looking down the barrel while his companion was fixing the target. One of the boys ran to break the news fo the rest of the party, and Mr. 8immOns secured & ear and took the dying boy home with his parents. \Dr Huycke was summoned, and af- ter an examination held out no hépe. The lad passed away soon after with. out gaining consciousness, The deceased lad was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Can- nem. He was a member of Cooke's Sunday school and of the boys' de- partment of the Y. M. C, A., and was a promising young athlete, havin won several prizes for swimming an other "Y" events , The burial ser. vice Tuesday afternoon is to be con- ducted by Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Chal- mers Church, The occurrence was a shock to the weommunity, and Mr. ahd Mrs. Can- nem are receiving the sympathy of a wide circle of friends in their bhe- reavement. 1,000,000 HOUSES ARE NEEDED IN THE U.S. Senator Calder Urges Congres= sional Action to Stimulate Home=~bullding. Washington, August 11---The Unit- ed States is 1,000,000 houses behind the needs of its people, Senator Cald- er, New York, asserted in a Senate speech, urging Congressional action to stimulate home building. 4 Calder advocated passage of his bill creating "home loan banks," the establishment of which, he said, would make available $2,000,000,000 for home construction. High rents must continue, Calder warned, unless some way is found to increase the number of home own- ers. : Abnormal profits in building ma- terials should be reduced, he said. . "My own opinion. is that we a not, for many years, going to haw [any cheaper construction. . While it is rue that the wages of workmen are high, still in comparison with . the things these wages purchase, they are not too high," said Calder, i ARATE DAYFOR ~~ ° ¥ DAY Fo, i Sonia fer Holding the Provincial fer ding the Pre oll FOOD CONTROL U.S. President Wilson Outings Pian to Cut Prices of A Necessities, GST OF HS PROPOSALS STRIKES MAKE MATTERS WORSE SAYS CHIEF EXBOUTIVE, Warns Congress "It Is Idle to Look for Permanent Relief" While There Is Possibility Peace Terms May Be Changed. Washington, Aug. 11.--Address- ing Congress and proposing reme- | dies to check the high cost of living, President Wilson declared that ex- isting laws were inadequate and that ! high prices were not justified by ' shortage of supply, present or pros- bective but were created in many cases "artificially and deliberately" by "vicious practices." The president resommended that the food control act be extended to peace time operation and that it be provided with a substantial penalty for profiteering. He linked the peace treaty delay with the economic crisis and stated that people could not ex- pect peace prices with the country on a war basis. Here is President Wilson's remedy for the high cost of living: : 1--Extend the food control act to peace time operation and, by act of congress, bar from shipment goods which do not comply with its provi- sicns, 2-~Provide the food law with a substantial penalty for profiteering. 3--Enact a cold storage law mod- eled after the law in New Jersey, which places a time limit on cold storage. 4--Mark all goods released from storage with the price prevailing when they went into storage. 6~~Mark goods in interstate eom- merce with the prices at which they left thé producers. 6--Create a federal licensing sys- tem for corperations engaged in in- terstate commerce which would em- body regulations to insure competi- tive selling 'and prevent unconscion- able profits in the method 0f market- ing." 7--Pass a law immediately desi- gned to control issues of securities. The president told congress "a pro- cess has set in which is Hkely, unless something is done, to push prices-and rents and the whole cost of Myving higher and yet higher in a viclous cycle to which there is no logical or natural end, . "Some of the methods by which these prices are produced are already illegal, some of them criminal, and those who employ them will be ener- getically proceeded against; but oth- ers have not yet been brought under the law and should be dealt with at once by legislation." Strikes undertaken at this time, the president told congress, would only make matters worse, and he ex- pressed his confidence that the labor men would realize jt. { "No remedy is possible while mén are in a temper," sald the president, "and there can' be no settlement which does not have as its motive and standard the general interest." Secret Service Turned Loose on Food Hoarders. Washington, Aug. 11.--America's army of secret service agents was turned loose on the food hoarders Saturday. a Orders were flashed from Washing ton to hundreds of special operati- ves of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice all over the United States, instructing them to co-operate with federal district attorneys in the profiteer hunt. This adds materially to the num- erical strength of the force which is bending all its energies to opening the warehouses and putting stored food on the market to force down prices. ; Sm ine line russels to Antwerp, and will cost 16,0000,000 francs. Other lines LA TARE RN aE ein a omni