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lapsed This Morning
LOSS OF LIFE IS
VARIOUSLY ESTIMATED
five Thousand Tons of Steel
Fell. Carrying Workmen to
Dcaiii Number of Rescues
Made Twenty Five Miss
ing at Noon.
(By Associated Press.)
Qiubiv. Sept. 11. The span of t?'
v., MV. sroatcst bridge collapsed auu
fe l ,nto (he bt. i.awrence uver today,
vita ;t loss ) me variously esinriaiea
from to -5. Several hours after the
arc! nt happened, at 10:30 o'clock, a
spt.iid train inlo Quebec brought 20
i;ij!'iv:l men.
Nino years ago a similar accident,
at tiie arae spot, took a tell of 7U
live;. Today no men were carried
into the river when the 5,000-ton span,
beins raked from pontoons in an en
gineering feat designed to complete
the SlT.'H'o.ooO cantalever suspension
l:'zc for Transcontinental railway
traitic. plunged a distance ot lo teet
into th water and 200 feet, perhaps
never t be recovered.
C'.'n li' ting stories were told regard
ing the collapse. The pontoon had
be?n removed and the span was being
liftf 1 by massive hydraulic jacks,
according to some of the spec-ta'oi:-.
the north end of the span
tell, with a hi caking of girders. Fran
tic rfrnrts were made to place a chain
ro:e annunl the tottering structure,
nhf-n, with a rej)i;it like a shell ex
plosion, tlie remaining support
Mit'ppH tid tlie mass disappeared
with a tremendous splash. Some ob
wr:; .aid the structure also
)' kind at the center as it fell.
Uri'iips of men, they asserted, fell
int tii" watei-. Others not on the
briic. wore injured by flying debris.
Scon;; of craft, containing spectators,
wnt to tiie rescue and their endeav-'-v
prcvetited a large loss of life.
Tli' span has been constructed on
Font 'wis ft few miles east of the.
liii'l?" site and was towed into post
tien imnif-Iiatoly under the gap left in
th" ain'nor arms of the structure.
f'hHHis. with links 30 inches in di
ai'i'tp;-. together with girders, were
thnn attached to the span and 8.000
h 'lriilic ja k3 commenced the task
o; lifting the .span 150 feet into place.
Tii" inkling of the 5,000 tons of
?,fT under unprecedented circum
5,yr" in flio Dominion attracted to
thf today several thousand
?r"tat,rs. including members of Par
Hanin t ani newspaper men, gathered
on v. sMdy by the Canadian govern-
niTit .
M' inli rs of the Dominion cabinet
iMiessf( the collapse from tlie deck
oi a vessel, while American tourists
U- hundrerls of other boats.
hnilding and members of the
All;;tralian Parliament, returning
h r " 1 afu-r d visit in Europe, also
Mttrar-ted to the scene.
First Account of the Accident.
On. !,. ,-, sp)t ii. me new central
Ht!i the Quebec bridge, the largest
cant aij vf.r suspension bridge in the
W0M collapsed in the St. Lawrence
m,i whfMi being hoisted to place to-ft'-'-
w "it probably a loss of life .
0u,'tV(.H ou slore saw a number of
Wrrkrri'ii struggling in the water.
collapse occurred when the span
w: "bunt 15 feet in the air. Early
'"'i'Htions were that the loss of life
wonli ),e heavy, for there was 90 men
" 'I'" structure when it fell. Some
of have been rescued.
Hoats from among the hundreds of
Clh. on which spectators had gather
ri. were rujjjjea to tne gpot where
,h': ian disappeared. The fallen
s,"ture sank 200 feet to the bottom
Jn,l "ngineers whV) witnessed the col
"xpress dou.)t whether it ever
brought uo again.
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'servers saidt at the span broke
" Places
Fir st, one of the cor
f '!s appeared to give 'way. this being
"owf.fi almost immediately by a
"i the center. v
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BORDER 8i PROSPERITY WAVE mULM Pi
SETS BUCK TB SWEEPS THE LAND iBM
Villi nil JUUHI Scandinavia Forgets Many feM IT
. ..UJi fi: of the Troubles of War WW tJW '
Still Discussing How The In
ternational Line Shall Be
Policed
AMERICANS HAVE
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! Withdrawal of Perishine's
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Force Only Casually Men
tioned Would be First
Step, However.
(By Associated Press.)
New London. Conn.. Sept. 11.
sion resumed today its efforts to find! state coffers to pay off. all outstand
a solution of the problems along the ! ing foreign indebtedness. So in a
International boundary. This is the
third joint sessiou.
Since their meeting three days ago
the American members have devoted
much time to the study of government
reports on the various phases of the
border problem . .They entered the
meeting today prepared to go into de- stated by a loss in value of foreign
tailed examination of the various plans exchange. The German mark has led
for a.border patrol tha't have been sug- the.4nternational monies downward
jested. So far therp has been nothing with a loss of moi"e than 30 per cent,
more than general comment by the The English pound, the American dol
Mexican members relative to General Iar. the Russian rule, the continental
Pershing's forces being withdrawn franc a11 nave been Quoted on the
from Mexico. The basis of tho plan I Scandinavian bourses at a loss of 10
for policing the line that has been cent- and upward, so that the for
talked over, however, is the returning j eign buying power of the Scandinavian
of the American troops to their terri-! crowns, when buying has been per
tory, insuring that move as tho first ' mitted. has greatly advanced. Sweden
step towards establishing a permanent ' has borrowed much money from Ger
system of protection against border ! nia"y- War-time trade with the block
bandits aflea" Germans has brought enormous
profits. This fact, combined with the
axcdaC crD cheapness of the German mark has
DAILY AVEKAGL rUK enabled the Swedish debtors to wipe
PLAGUE IS SMALLER out many miIlion 'jrowns of Teutonic
. j obligations.
(By Associated Press.) Whe Prosperity first came to
t Schandinavia it was distinctly a pros
New York, Sept. 11. Twenty-three perity of tht monied ciasses. People
more deaths from infantile paralysis j with money werc quick to take advan.
occurred during the 4S hours ending. t?ge of tne war 0pp0rtunities and not
at 10 o'clock toGay, according to a a few of them have ma(e fortunes
department of health bulletin. This'b merelv deaiing in foreign monev.
brings the total deaths up to -M23
incfe the inception of the epidemic.
Today's bulletin records 66 new
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cases. The average of new cases for . graduany tne innow of monev affect
the two days' covered in the report j ed all indu3tries. Unemployed be
is smaller than the number mentioned me unknown and the skilled labor
in Saturday's bulletin, covering Frl-ers received high wages. The farm-day-
jers participated in the prosperity from
the beginning, and their share has
PRESIDENT HURRIES
TO SISTER'S BEDSIDE
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Long Branch. N. J., Sept.
11 .
Cancelling all engagements President
W lson left here early today to go to
tho, hPdisdp of his sister. Mrs. A.E.I
Howe, who is critically ill at her home
... T , .i 1 ii r,-nn Thp PrPSlflpilt
motored, to New York, and will finish
the trip by train.
The President arose before 7 o'clock,
after having spent a restless night.
ne saicu BIB., --...w
his sister's illness. The departure off
the President did not delay the open-
inc of the summer executive oftices at
Asbury Park by a staff
of White ,
House clerks,
ber of deaths would be between 16 and the value of foreign exchange and in
20. Four men have been rescued. creasing the value of materials and
The St. Lawrence Bridge Company, j foodstuffs now in the Scandinavian
which is constructing the bridge, an- countries. There are plenty of com
nounced it would take a roll call of ' plaints naturally among the importers
its employes, in effort to determine j who appreciate the wonderful oppor
the exact loss "of life. itunities of prosperity but are not able
The St. Lawrence Bridge Company to bring in foreign goods in sufficient
at noon estimated the number of dead
at twenty-five.
The bridge is being constructed at
a cost of $17,000,000, in order to short
en the railway journey from Halifax
to the Canadian uorthwest by 200 purchaser or manuiacturea goods, es
milesi The bridge stands on the site pecially since Russian factories have
of the structure which collapsed on! been turned to munition-making. The
August 29, 1907, with a loss of 70 lives. ' Swedish manufacturers have complain
The central span, which fell today,1 ed the most bitterly against the Brit
weighed more than 5,000 tons and was , ish blockade regulations, not having
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(By Associated Press.)
Stockholm, Sweden. Sept. 11. Now
sweeping over Scandinavia has reach
! ed its crest, in the case of Sweden,
; with the greatest crop the country has
! ever known. thes northern peoples
' are forgetting some of the vicissitudes
i of the small
small neuirai in me miusi ui
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the European conflagation, even the
rigors of the blockade itself.
So great has been the prosperity
i of the last two years that it is report
ed the governments of Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden already have paid
off. or have sufficient funds in the
brief space of time the three small
neutrals lying here in the very lap of
war. but not of the war, have been
transformed from the borrowing to
the lending class.
The process of paying off foreign
obligations has been materially lac-
There were stock booms that made the
manipulators of American "war
brif,ps- anDear as amateurs. But
brides appear
! b en steadily increasing until this
. vfiii' ffiov txrill ri l v-1 A o a r-vnr vi'otrt o a .
.timated at more than $400,000,000
j against a normal of less than half that
amount. This remarkable yield is
due both to the bountiful crops and
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caught between the millstones of high
prices and big profits, the salaries
6 r, u.
Savings banks and commercial
banks show deposits far in excess
of any expectation. Luxuries are in
demand and of course bring
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ally not worried by the British block
ade for they have discovered it has
, served the double purpose of lowering
quantity to get what tney claim is ,
their due share of the good times.
Swedish manufacturers have shown
a wonderful increase since the war
.began.
Russia has become a "great
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A moneymoon hike from Chicag o to San Francisco has just been fin
ished by Mr. and Mrs. Wanderwel, w hose name is most appropriate.
The couple walked the entire di stance and carried their own baggage.
Mr. Wanderwel is twenty-two and his bride is nineteen.
BIG VOTE EXFEGTEI
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Fair Weather and Each Side
Claiming Victory Maine
is Normally Republican
(By Associated Press.)
Portland, Maine. Sept. 11. The
voters of Maine, numbering 140.000 or
more, went to the polls today to elect
a governor, two United States Sena
tors, four Representatives in congress,
a State legislature and a State auditor.
National issues have been brought to
the front and the party leaders brought
hundreds of speakers into the State,
including former Justice Hughes, for
mer Vice President Fairbanks and
members of President Wilson's cabinet
to persuade the voters to line-up with
or against the National Executive and
the majority in congress.
Maine, however, is normally Repub
lican, and Democratic leaders insist
that something more than a scant Re
publican victory will be required to
constitute repudiation of the adminis
tration, while a Democratic plurality,
however small, would be accepted by
them as an endorsement.
Pair weather prevails and this will
cause a big vote, equally desired by
both sides.
The State officers are now Demo
crats and that party has one United
States Senator and one of the four
Congressmen.
In 1914 the Progressives cast 18,
226 votes for governor. How that vote
will split today is a matter of dispute.
Both sides claim if it receives the
Progressive support they will carry
the election.
T VISITORS
IN CITY TODAY
Three Excursions Operated to
Wilmington Over Atlan
tic Coast Line.
Three excursion were operated to
Wilmington today over the Atlantic
Line, bringing all told 2,175 people
to the city for a short stay. There
were a total of 30 coaches. The ex-
cursions were from Aynor, S. C, bring
ing 741 persons; from Manning, S. C,
with 932; Mount Tabor with 405. The
excursionists will leave at 9 o'clock
tonight on the return. This is the
largest number of exursionists in the !
city for any one day this seson.
Jn MAINE TQDrY
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STATE PRIMARIES
Three Southern States, Includ
in South Carolina to Hold
Election.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 11. The Demo
crats of Georgia, Louisiana and South
Carolina will hold State primaries to
morrow, to select nominees whose
later election is assured, with few ex
ceptions by lack of opposition.
In Georgia a Governor, 12 Represen
tatives and all State officers are to
be nominated. In Louisiana Congres
sional nominations are to be made and
a contest has developed only in the
Sixth District. In the final election
the Democrats will have opposition in
one district, the Third, where Repre
sentative W. P. Martin, Progressive,
is a candidate for re-election.
In South Carolina secondary pri
maries will be held because no candi
date for the gubernatorial nomination
got a majority of the vote cast in the
primary held two weeks ago. Gov
ernor Richard I. Manning and former
Governor Cole L. Blease will contest
again.
BOMB PLANTER GOES
ON TRIAL IN 'FRISCO
(By Associated Press.)
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 11. War
ren K. Billings, who is alleged to have
planted the bomb which exploded
along the line of march of the prepar
edness parade here July 22, resulting
in the death of ten persons, was to be
placed on trial here today. Four other
suspects will be tried later.
Crickets Make Autos Skid.
Munich, Ind., Sept. 11. Munich for
several nights has been in possession
of millions of crickets which swarm
about any lighted place to the great
discomfort of pedestrians. Several in
stances of automobiles skidding when
running over the ground covered with
the insects have been reported. At
times they fly in black clouds as if
moved by a common impulse, and an
entire swarm will alight in one spot.
Street car motormen have been in
structed to watch their brakes care
fully in descending hills at night, as
the insects in places have swarmed on
the tracks, making the rails greasy.
Here to Take Position.
Mr. Wm. A. Edmunds, until recently
editor and publisher of The Jefferso
nian, of Jefferson, S. C, arrived in the
city last night to accept a position in
the printing establishment of the Le
Gwin Printing Company. He is an ex-
perienced newspaper man and will
be given a welcome to Wilmington.
GET READY TO
CALL OUT MORE
Situation in New York City
Grows More Serious Hour
ly Today
SYMJATHETIC STRIKE
MAY NOW BE CALLED
Fifty Thousand Men Can be
Called Out in Sixy Hours,
Declare Leaders Car
Traffic Still Crippled.
(By Associated Press.)
I New York. Sent 11. With t.hp
leaders of 750,000 laboring men of
Greater New York and vicinity threat
ening a sympathetic strike, traffic on
the subway and "L" lines in Manbat-
j tan and the Bronx impeded and sur
face systems in those two boroughs
and in West Chester county virtually
tied-up, the general strike situation as
sumed a more serious aspect today.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, de
clines to discuss the probability of a
general strike, but union leaders as
serted that if necessary 50,000 union
men could be called out within six
hours .
Traction officials attribute the fall
ing off in the service on the subway
and "L" lines to unprecedented in
creased in traffic caused by the tie-up
pt "all surface . lines Union -leaders
claim that deflection of employes was
responsible .
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FAILED TO FIND
VILLA BANDITS
Pershing Made Report to Furi
ston of Latest Activity of
,Men
(By Associated Press.)
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 11. Scouts
of the American army in Mexico pen
etrated the Santa Clara canyon, in
search of memfiers of the Villa band
dit gang and did not find them.
This was the substance of a mes
sage received today by General Fun
ston from General Pershing. The ex
peditionary commander; said that from
reports he had received he believed
Villa is in the vicinity of San Ondres,
about 35 miles west of Chihuahua
City. This is the first intimation in
many weeks that Pershing's men have
been in operation.
GENERAL STRIKE IS
Sympathetic Walk-Out . of
Hundreds of Thousands
Now in Balance.
(By Associated Press.)
New York Sept. 11. Members of
trade unions in New York, Yankers,
Mt. Vernon and New Rochelle found
themselves today active factors in the
dispute between the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company and its em
ployes. The various individual labor
organizations in these, cities served by
the Interborough nd subsidiary com
panies have received an appeal, draft
ed by the central labor organization
last night, requesting a sympathetic
strike of all organized wage-earners in
their jurisdiction, "in support of the
contention of the street railway men
for the right to organize."
Flies All Drunkards.
Dayton, O., Sept. 11. Flies in the
postoffice have become drunkards, ac
cording to Postmaster Forest L. May,
who says that the winged nuisances
are eating the first coat of decoration
off the postoffice walls and the alco
hol in it turns their heads.
NW
THREATENED
Offensive From Salonika
Directed Against This Balk
an Nation in New Cam
paign ;
ATTACKING FROM
NORTH AND SOUTH
Efforts Being Made to Place
Bui gars Between Two Fires.
Germans Attack Both
French and British on Som
me, But Without Success.
(By. Associated Press.)
Attacks on the Bulgarians from
both the north and the south appear
in preparation by the entente armies
in the Balkans.
A. movement from the south devel
oped today in the official news from .
Paris that the British had taken tho
offensive on the northeastern Macedo
nian front.
At the beginning of the Macedonian,
operations last month the Bulgarians
pushed down rapidly from the border",
and occupied positions in Greek terri
tory, on the right Hank of the allied
defensive line around Saloniki, push
ing their advance to the Aegean coast.
The present British thrust, which
may be the beginning of an import
ant offensive, with the object of plac
ing the Bulgarians between two fires,
is directed along the main road to
Seres, the natural avenue of advance
for an army pushing for the Bulga
rian border.
Meanwhile the efforts to encompasa
Bulgaria is. proceeding on the north,
;wiur" the repbrteUrrlvalnW-RitdtaJi-troops
in strong force to take the of
fensive against the Bulgarians,, whoj
have invaded Rumania, in Dobrudja.
In Northern France the Germans
are responding with heavy blows
where they were driven back along
a line of several miles on the Somme
front last week. Yesterday and last
night they struck hard at both the
French and the British, but, accord
ing to the entente report, were un
able to regain any of the lost ground.
In their attack on the French,
south of the Somme, the Germans
used flaming liquid. They suffered
heavily in this fruitless attempt, Paris
declared.
The British were attacked at Gin
chy, the village captured by them Sat
urday, but beat off the two advances
made by the Germans, as they did
also attempts against British positions
near Mouquet farm and Pozieres.
SISTER OF PRESIDENT
GROWING WEAKER
(By Associated Press.)
New London, Conn., Sept. 11 Mrs.
Anne E. Howe, the President's sister,
who is critically ill with peritonitis
and complications here, passed a com
fortable night, but is growing weaker,
according to a statement issued today
by the attending physician.
Messrs. Arthur Savage and Everett
McKeithan left Monday morning for
Chapel Hill, where they will enter the
University of North Carolina.
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