OCR Text |
Show THE MONTREAL FIRE. Latest Details Itopcctlug the Destruction De-struction of Tongno 1'olntc Asylum. FINANCIAL LOSS ESTIMATED AT $1,500,000. Thole Rooms Tull or Insane Patients Pa-tients Perish in the Flames. SERIOUS FIRE AT SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA. Action Against Joseph Jefferson, the Actor. The Italian Agila tors, Etc. cr Telerranh to the N r.ws.1 TiiCTOMiic roi.vr dihis.tl.ii. tthole Ilooms lull or Insane I'n-(leul. I'n-(leul. Perishes! lu Ihe Ilauirv. Touue IVjist, May 7. Sister Therese D'Jesu, suju-rlor or the burned asylum, places the low or lifo at twenty and .ossibly ildy. Dr. Dugrete, Xbu government medical medi-cal Iiuqiector, plates tbe loss or lire at at leat sixty. He is strongly opposed op-posed lo the system of placing lunatics luna-tics uuder the care ol sisters and will ask tlie government to place incurables ana furious lunatics in small institutions where they can liatc skilled treatment. Tho harmless harm-less iiiraue. could, he sai J, bo placed to greater advantage uuder the care of sisters. The ruins of tlie ostium were visited this morning. Nothing but heaps or smoking brick nod mortar are seen, and no vestige or the dead can be traced. Iu the rear or the asylum are the stables, where about loo men talieuts were quartered last night, under supervision or the sisters and four Montreal policemen. Ihe scene was not one to be easily described and surely not to be e-aslly forgotten. Lying on lien ps of straw, sice nud feeble, Uie lunatics were to be seen, meaning, gibbering, shrinking, shrink-ing, twisting aud jumping. Itmade one shudder to loss down between the two large haymows In which were confined the worst cases, so fierce was the expression of their countenances. IX THE LAUNDRY are 100 iaticnts, moitly quiet, who have alued in putting things in shape. Some of them did most heroic work in re-cuing the unfortunates unfor-tunates from the flames. Oueof the attendants said cuTeu lay nuns perished. per-ished. Thu loss financially Is placed as high as $1,500,000, Insurance, $300,-000. $300,-000. A procetslou or lunatics was taken up early this morning and while in progress the whole length or the road was crowded witli vehicles. 1 1 is yet men ly n matter or spet u-lation u-lation as to the numlerof dead, but the general cunet,sus is that it cannot can-not be rewer than 100, iKrhais nearly double that The only names of the victims known are: Sister Gravel, Sister llruteller, Sister Lumine, Skier Victoria and Sister Xahalre ot IheSacred Heart Convent. The latter was a aticnl In a violent ward. The oilier patients' names are Mrs. Kelly, Montreal; Mis. Williams, Halifax; Rridgu Malone, Montreal; Miss lalburnay, Malson- 11V. ()llils-e? Mlri IiMlllm, nml Miss Therioult of Montreal. MIss-iug, MIss-iug, Victoria Reaudry, Augustiue Lurult, Candle ManJimont, Del-phlue Del-phlue Archambault, Marie St Denis, Eli St louls, and Christine D-melo. Ah tTI.1, DtTTAILS of tho fire become known, the horror hor-ror Is intensified, and tho Sister Is de-ildeel w ho as-erts that tlie number of dead dues not exceed sixty. It Is kuown by tlie last retort to the Que-lec Que-lec government that there were 17-h) iumates, Instead of 1300, and this much Is certain, that no one will ever know thu number of victim-. Front collateral Information there uiUotbeloO dead, ir enough mater! il can bu round au inquest will bu held. The firemen nave left the ground and theheatlsdyiug out of the ruins. An As-oclated Press reiorter was on the siot nil d 13", his horse floundering through the mud aud ashes. A di-cliargcd patient to-day affirmed af-firmed that to all Inquiries sent by friends as to tbe progress iallenls were making one stcreotyl answer an-swer was given, without any restriction re-striction as to accuracy: "Your friend's physical condition Is excellent, excel-lent, but mentally there is no Improvement" Im-provement" It Is now kuown that many or the wards were locked, iu cases where friends did not break In, anl whole rooms full perished miserably. rlreat Seranlon. Pa. SeTRAXTOX, Pa., May 7. Til's evening a fire broke out in the Rloom Carriage Manufacturing ComnanVs works on Kiehth Street Thu ilarnes spread rapidly to tlie adjoining ad-joining property aud destroyed eighteen private dwellings, tho at-tern at-tern shop and boiler house and Fruch's foundry nnd the screen works or Rrock Js Roes. For two hours tbe fire raged with great fury. Most of the families In Ihe burned dwellings removed their effects. ef-fects. The loss will reach $100,000, only part or which la covered by Insurance. In-surance. Italian Aflfators. Rome, May 7. Premier Cilspl, In a confidential note to KJeig Humbert Hum-bert on the May Day demonstrations, demonstra-tions, states that six foreign agitators agitat-ors were expelled from Italy, 1000 Italians distributing revolutionary pamphlets were arrested, 8000 sus-ji-cta were punished or warned, and t00 soldiers possessing manlietttr) were punished. Action Against Joseph Jeirerson. New York, May 7. The actor Joi-eph Jefferson is defendant Jit a suit brought iu llrooklyu by a foimir intimate friend, Henry R. Witty, to recover possession or real estate valued at SI00.00O. Thu suit grows out of the foreclosure or a mortgage held by Jetlerson on Witty Wit-ty 'a property In 1675. Another Defanller. New York, May 7. It Is dlscov. treil that William H. Gulon. the well-known shipping man, Is a defaulter de-faulter to the amount or $30,000. ISonds were stolen by Guiou, which formed tartofthesectiri ties, amounting amount-ing in all to $150,000, deposited with Gulon by the Rrltish American Insurance In-surance Company of Toronto, in accordance ac-cordance with the law, which requires re-quires foreign iusurauce companies lioiugbuslness in this State to keep a certain projortlon of their resources resour-ces here for the protection of local customers. TheCushlna:. W'ASnxtTTON, May 7. Tbe members of t&e Senate naval committee com-mittee were taken down the Potomac today on board tbe new torpedo boat CWitno-. She ran at the rate or 27 miles an hour, reversed at IS miles and turned within Iter own length. . A NlrlUe. roittLAXD, May 7. No rreight trains have been moving on the Union Pacific lietween Portland and Umatilla since Sunday, owing to n strike or conductors and brake-men brake-men en account or a reduction or wages. Tiie conductors were cut down to $2.75 and lite brakemen to $2 on the round trip. Manager Smith expecU to have the trains moving tomorrow. Beyond IteeoTerjr. New York, May 7. The statement state-ment is published that Richard Crocker, tlie Tammany leader, now at Wiesbaden, is suffering from an affection resembling cancer of tha live r, and will probably not recover. Held Ur nnd Kolrs!. IiA8 Veuas, N. M., May 7. At 1:40 tills momlng'two men, armed with revolvers, held up thu night operator, two conductor, two engineers engin-eers and a watchman at lamy Junction, Junc-tion, whilo their trains were awaiting await-ing orders, nud secured seven watches and $25 in cash. After leaving the depot Ihe robbers went to a store, liut could srtnro nothing. Night clerk Ixrniey recognized one of the robbers as Liee WhiKyi notorious notori-ous horctblcfnnd high way ma u w ho was released rrom the penitentiary nt Stnta Fe yestenlny on tail. The shcrlfl or Santa Fe county and rt posse arulu hot pursuit ratal Dlspnte. New- Lisnox, O.. May 7. Near Fairfield this morning Ira Marlatt, Uerrick Ashtou and Lewis Iteil quarreled about the signing of notes. Marlatt drew a revolver nnd shot down the other men, killing Ash-ton Ash-ton and seriously wounding Hell. He fled anil took refuge in his motherV house. A slicriirv jossu surrounded the house late this afternoon after-noon and Sheilff Wyman knocked at the door. No reply was made and he proceeded to batter the door In. As it was nit-ncd, Marlatt shot the sheriff" in the side, iullict-ing iullict-ing a slight wound. He was quickly quick-ly overpowered aud brought here. |