Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 12, 1898, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vol the mount Vesuvius a in Hall Maine arrived at new the a races of saturday were la Patrio of Montreal 18 opposed to l was destroyed by fire three lives Rossland Oro shipments aggregated tons last four persons were killed by an explosion at the locomotive firemen convention opens at Toronto the government of Antigua to relieve the Ozara Peaco message is with scepticism in a Brandon Man is charged with 8t to Matins to shoot uis a heavy Snow fall is in Colo Kansas and Field trials Chan i will be run today at Silver the Drey Iua Case will be referred to six prominent French several deaths join fever occurred in Louisiana and conto reports favourably on Navi gation Tiroui Teslin Lake to fort Sel i two prominent Chicago journalists were drowned in Johns i i i the announcement of the Anglo German agreement caused great excitement in i a had Hia leg Cut off by the cars at la Empress Elizabeth of Austria murdered by an anarchist at Chamberlain will Likely visit Ottawa in connection with the Pacific fable a Man Anil woman were arrested a three divers in connection with 1 a Altanee sew la almost completely destroyed by Severa lives Are property Loes the for Man Toba fair and warmer with South to went we nah local showers to night or Minnesota and Nortu Dakota threatening weather southerly Marine destruction of new ten thousand people homeless and destitute several lives with the whole business portion of the City swept fanned by a High spread new Witt the chief cry on the Frasor a fearful scene of lation that fire has wiped out the whole of the business poly there is not a Public building standing in the Central portion of tier the Royal City is in Sacii Wae the startling message that sped along the wires from new West Muster at the last men Engo from the Central in the employees stated that even their building was in imminent danger and they were evacuating it at Short their fear were Well for later news shows that the office id no your correspondent took a wheel Over from Here directly the first news was twelve Milet had to be Ridden and then one Law the fearful havoc that the dreadful lire had fierce almost a the which started on the Winter Side by Sparks from a spread with Buch awful rapidity that ten streets tort str merchandise cleared Light Owen passed the r Salt were blazing in Throe hours and Only smoking ashes Marks where the and Koby Down City of Colling Sault sept Glas Fronte Superior City of Down Boa Buckeye peer i i John Golden Salt sept Northern Sama downed Boa Mel Angud Sam Mit Bailit sept Down passed Little Little up pity of arrived Ocean arrived from Winnipeg father Point Liverpool Manchester father Point brazilian father Point London join Halifax London cephalonia Boston Nebraska Moville York la Yolk Friesland Southampton York Baron Belhaven father Point Shields father Point Newcastle Montreal Belfast if intros Bristol Vancouver Montreal Liverpool us Etlan Montreal Liverpool Winnipeg Quebec Liverpool Njaa Chester Quebec Manchester London Oai Moro Quebec Liverpool London Montreal sailed Halifax London Hamburg London Montreal Montreal Ard Rossoni Montreal hande Omo Banks Ano Church a up in the Dijai of the i Octal is to ii univ deeds of people Are homeless and re lion a being rushed from Thijs City Twenty five thousand feet of Hose Over to new Westminster and it waa badly the two newspaper offices Are the Alaee River the railway Bridge and a number of lives it is feared that lives must in lost from the is know that one woman who had just been con is dead frown and aide woman who had two cof fins Wera out the Street with corpses in hundreds of loaves of bread and various other food Liaf been sent sixty tents Anc blankets Are being prepared f the sufferers clothes Are also Beding hurried the Telegraph office at Haw been destroyed so that All huh to be sent Symdon City Hall ca1ne tto author at has Kiev Erash from with red Beard and Hall nine arrived Here the Campania a great of Universal he Lias the English mans scepticism of the czars proposal for a general which seems grotesque in coming oct Hillh such a he be eggs to doubt the want inability of an it would be a great guard t the worlds peace if it he Canadian were the of a of Keturia ing to Ara Couver from fire razed new Westminster is like coming from a land of desolation and ruin to another of smiling in this City blocks Are going up by Tho and Prosperity is evident on at in new Westminster not a Stone p the business houses remains stand ing after the terrible fire of thit Murnion despair and buffering Are the lot of hundreds of poor clothing and Aid of Al kinds is being dispatched from Van Couver to the ill fated City at the time of writing it is not known How Many people lost their lives but it is feared several most have been burned to it issak that a fell on the proof of a burning building aug waa while a woman d dead from it is that one poor who iiad1een confined a Day or two died while they were removing her the burning while another female suffering from who had to be twice removed from Resia Knees which were in the burning zone do for survive the so extreme do Roserly fierce were the flames that apples on the Trees on the Side of the Street opposite where the houses were Burn l As if it on fire River steamers As Well As if put for the three destroyed Are the and Bon Accord Westminster today is with Deffle to estimate the amount of damage was elected ice Lias been cloth commercial London Assn Frince Al Moti aft my 11 in n 1 Uli hotel saw Mill merchants of All to tiling w Ith which to to in Surace men must face a huge Lowi a Eye witness an eyewitness this evening gave Roar reporter a description of what he he said the fire was first noticed Blackmun Nuil kers a liar on front from Thero it spread Down to the Sta it did not Cross the Street till that Point was from there it went taking the other 4de of front and also Colum Bia the chief business thoroughfare of the Block after Block fire and in n few minutes there was nothing left if that had been the a Sinasi of new from Columbia Street it spread up Hill and the great of the fire became the Burdine built up Oil Priem in the Gully bridged by Caria Voi there Nas Here a whirlwind of which bellied Fuoroli from Liis Point the fire spread tie English Cath dial was ii sickly at the Baptist Church followed ind the Central methodist Church All were just hero too a Large number of residences they All went up in and tie to 1 Lee for1 their the fire set ept Down car Narvon Street aral quickly encompassed the big Brick court House and the wooden City fortunately a a Bix open space Here Ami the flames ult to leap for enough to take Iii the big Central Agnes Grid got alight and one Side of Royal All the houses there being completely burned the wind waf3 blowing furiously Down Fraser River towards the Mouth if it had been blowing the other Way Tho whole of the Catholic Church built Ings Hospital and other structures would have been How did the fire get such control v the difficulty seems to be that the firemen got their Hose had a great stretch Laid water Tjimis morning nere was no water Supply for use of Tho burned out there was not a single by Bakers or provision shop that was not and there was Only one Small hotel the columbian newspaper has not got single line of to jape it Lead just got in three years Supply of homeless some of the burned out people retired in the Early hours this morning in Tho open air in front of the school Tihey covered themselves with blankets and Lay Down to sleep under the their sleep was the sleep of All they had was lost to origin of the the fire originated by a stray spark igniting some Straw on Brack Man and kers that had been lying there for Over a the Straw set fire to the three steamers Bon Accord and tied to the their moorings Burnt and they floated Down help ing the furious wind in the work of destruction by setting fire to All the buildings on the water for oct before they the flames were soon fanned by Tjie High wind into Ter Rible and to the consternation of the fire it was Dis covered that the water Reservoir for fire purposes had been allowed to run almost at 2 three hours after the fire Vatri conver w to made the twelve Miles Between the cities in an hour end fifteen came on the scene and not till then any attempt successful to Stop the which had covered six blocks one Way and seven embrace Feig an area of Over Lulf a mile and including the entire business por Tion of the there Are some 10 000 people homeless and there Are a provisions but All Day Long blankets and food have been hauled Over by charitable people of the Sis an 1 those companies Iowa tin is of Tho is hold among Tho following companies London As now Souldern besides the River front for a 000 tie insurance not being Over Tente Western fisheries with 3 fire wharf and Canadian Pacific railway Caledonia Quong onto company Welsh Brackman kers store and full Stock of James Wise Holbrook Charles Mcdonough eng Leahh Wiehoff i Mcgillivray on Columbia the principal business the buildings destroyed include Occidental Armstron Burk Macarthur Iron Annadele and Fales Bank of Douglas t y Douglas Elliott Hambly 5 Westminster Bank of British new Westminster Belle win termites furniture Bakers m fire Hall Library most office and custonui1 Ellard Blackie colonial Globe House Mead Grotto Central Telephone Trapps auction Lasonio building and Odd Fellows Lewis i Bishop o a visitor in whose Cathedral was destroyed a the great fire commercial Norwich Lozi Jon and Lancashire North British am guar North National of Scottini plio3iiis of lives five people Are reported and two women Are dying by being pre maturely confined As they were the in carried ont of burning a Wing Ivas found Deur Iii a building with bags of Gold gripped in his he died of three were injury two internally they Are not expected to another the loss by the new Westminster fire is roughly estimated at insurance the Prin Cipal lose is incurred by the London Assurance ten streets were Bank vaults with stood the one i surant com pants vault was blown Ufa by gun a citizens committee Lias been de ii Vancouver to give Relief to suf eer8 Relief East Kesl the provincial government i3 tie finance minister received the news in Victoria he got blankets tents and Othor supplies loaded on a special which reached a Miles in less than two the Steamer Lent by was in Readis Ness there Ana got to Vancouver in record Here a special freight was ready and Tho supplies were loaded and round to Westr minister for the Betts of new who is in to attending the methodist con will have a sad h58 Church and parsonage have Bem and his valuable Library us Ter cities and Beds Are being made of boots was burned in the some m tie exposition while Hun of effects dress Are being billeted at the and fire appalling estimated nature of the new Westminster fire kers a liar and navigation Sinclair Canning company build ing and seasons Central depot True methodist Church Baptist Church Episcopalian Cathedral Presb Terlan leonards court City i Herrins opera House Lewis i hotel merchants chinese ewans residence and about two Hundred and fifty Bouse on Agnes Royal Douglas Street and other leakst2d the news of the new Westminster Dis Aster reached Winnipeg by dryly be fore noon yesterday and was promptly Bull tined by the free Dur ing the and evening Many inquiries were made regarding the fire by citizens w have relatives and friends in the ill fated if Bishop of new Iliof has been spending a couple of Days the in route to was Muc Lii affected when Stow 11 the free Inetri giving an account of the he Felt much concerned for those whose pro Perty had been and those Luo had to Sec the Iii he Felt that there would Ibe some though assured that Succour would speedily be sent from Vic and other place Hill Cathe w Holch waa valued it several other valuable including Church also fell a prey to the devouring and their lose will be a severe his lordship did not wish to pre stot what the effect of the fire would have on of new but was doubtful if some of the destroyed buildings would Ever be As the City has in recent years lost considerable of its prestige As a com owing to the diversion of business to his lord ship contemplated returning to the coast but that his presence there would not Avail any and will continue his journey to England has family at pre sent axe inthe among the sufferers by the Are la a Well known her Bert son of Harry of the City Kirk was for a number of years with and removed to new Westminster about fire years he purchased the hardware business of a widespread cowardly assassination of the Empress of Austria by an italian he declares it was the intention to kill crowned Heads of Pont Linued on j la septem her Empress of Austria was assassinated at the hotel Beaurivage this afternoon by an anarchist who was he stabbed her majesty with appears that her majesty wan walking from her hotel to the Landing place of a Steamer about 1 when an italian anarchist suddenly approached and Stab bed her to the the Empress got up again acid was carried to the Steamer the boat but sening the had not recovered the Captain returned Aiu the Empress was curried to the hotel where she the the murderer is a Man named Luc he was born in of ital Ian the news in Story of the Assata nation of the of aus Tria reached Here through the Paris office of the havas news the French foreign office confirms the report of the grave fears Are already expressed Ore regarding the effect the us sails nation of the Empress May Hare upon the emperor of whose health never recovered from the of own Prince rudolphs tragic awl it is known that his majesty has lately been very another an other account of the assassination of Tho Empress of Austria says after being stabbed from behind Tho Empress Rosy and walked on Board the Liere she the Captain did not wish to put off from the but did de at the request of the pm press and their there leg no apprehension that she w As seriously the Steamer was turned Back before reaching the open the Empress remained unconscious and was carried to tie hotel on n St re Empress of Austria has been stopping at the hotel Beaurivage for several it was first thought the wound would not be serious but she died in a few a fiendish the As Sassin of the of was picked with seven others at a meet ing of italian anarchists held to assassinate the principal sovereigns of including the King of the As Sassin of the said that he Isune to kill the due he said he committed the crime for the Sake of the he has an anarchist since he was thirteen years he said if All anarchists would do their duty As he had done there would be no Bourgeois he used a which cannot be Swiss president of and other members of the wer stunned with horror and grief flier ithe news reached the to Batty so beloved by All had fa8 victim to an Assassin within the Borders of their they immediately arranged to hold an extraordinary Federal Council on sunday in order to consider the measures to take against the As the latter must be tried according to the statutes of the can ton in which the crime commit which forbid capital icon Lehment and make life the most severe penalty which can be impose the austrian count was informed of the he hurried to the and was met with of the deep est As soon As a special train could be the minister started for accompanied by the Deputy prosecutor who took up the Case at is chief betas on a he will hold a preliminary inquiry at As Boon As and return tumor in order to report to the Federal the Federal Oceen of the Tvett of the pm and they notified Gover firs of the Canton that the Empress expected to instructing them to take special police for her Comfort and if it appeared be they were not informed of her majesty intention to visit Gen nor were local officials there an Are of her As she was travelling hence the pol ice Are not the circumstances responsible for the Lack of precautions Are widely All Switzerland is profoundly stirred sorrow and the papers of All the cities Irve printed extra editions expressing horror Over the the news in news of Tho assassination became known hero shortly before 0 Oclock this after it spread like Tho streets were suddenly tilled with peo Many becoming impassable for be kit in editions were issued by All the Many Visnu fed co so i in tie report incr Durile until the sem official a confirming tie statements of the other All the a prs to comp aided the announcement with warm tributes to tie they Wero eagerly snatched from the of Tjo Sellers and read aloud to groups of citizens an indescribable grief overpowers the tie perform ances at the court theatre Anil Tho Jubilee exhibition have been after the Stretcher on no Rich tie Empress no carried to the was hastily improvised Wotli and sail doctors Ami priests were immediately and a Telegram wus sent to emperor Francis All efforts to re Vive her majesty were nil he expired at 3 medi Cal examination a lined that the Easson must have used a Small Tri angular after striking the blow lie ran along Rue Deri nit i the evident of entering the Square cais Dee before reaching he Wum seized by two cab who had witnessed the they handed him Over to a Boatman Hind a w a rave Neil him u the police the prisoner made no he event a walked saying i Dkl and she must be at the police station he declared that he was a starving Wilth in hat red for tie but Only for the later when taken to the court House and interrogated by a magistrate in the presence of three members of the local government and the police he pretended not know French and refused to answer tie police on Fea Chimg urn found a document shoning Hla to be Luigi in in and Ais italian Tho while being interrogated by the said he oame to Geneva with the intention of killing the due but the latter had already the murderers Lauc Henl followed the Duke to about 25 Miles Northeast of on the where he waa again he then returned to Geneva Ana Learned from the Par Peers of the presence of the austrian yesterday he dogged her but found no Opportunity to carry out his though a watched the hotel Beaurivage All i i t1h3 this afternoon about one he said is saw the Valet of the pm press leaving the hotel and going Tor wards the he inferred from this that the Empress was going to the Steamboat and he hid behind a tree Oji the with the file in Hla right in a few minutes the accompanied by her lady of and ithe ass Shin struck the file the bereaved Francis Joseph returned to Vienna yesterday from the army manoeuvres in the South of and Nhou id have gone tomorrow to attend the Man in North Bat in Stead he charged staff major Beck to replace the remains at and goes to Morrow to the Railroad station to meet his younger who is hurrying there to console Ner grief stricken every one sympathizes in the terrible misfortune which has befallen the who seems to be chosen by destiny to suffer the direct which have reached their crowning height in the year of his but those who know him Are that his deep religious feeling and sense of duty will sustain the countess one of the empresses ladies in telegraphed the fall news to count who received the message about 4 Oclock this and upon him fell the painful task of informing the when count Parr informed the emperor of the murder his majesty was wholly he Sank to the ground and cried am Inot to be spared pain or grief la this late this evening the emperor saw to the lord Prince ugh ten Stern it is incomprehensible that any one should 07hands upon a Wax ;