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EIGHTY KILLED. Bridge Near Quebec Collapsed With Fatal Results?Scores of Workmen Precipitated Into the River. I Quebec, Aug, 29.?-The great Queboc bridge collapsed late this aftcrnoon and now the vast mass of steel work lies a tangled wreck across the St. Lawrence channel. A careful estimate of the loss of life is 84. The bridge fell at exactly 23 minutes to G this evening, just as many of tliQ workman were preparing to leave. The accident was so terrible in its effectiveness in wiping out the lives of the men employed that very little is known ns to the cause of the disaster. Quebec, Aug. 20.?A section of tiro new bridge across the St. Lawrence river, live miles below this city, collapsed late today, carrying scores of bridge workmen and machinists into the water. It is estimated that the loss of life is more than GO and may gxcced that number by 20. The bridge was about a milt ttf a half in length and half of it, from the south shore to midstream, crumpled up and dropped into the water. Ninety men were at work on this section of the structure and the whistle had just blown at 5.30 for the men to quit work for the day when there came a grinding sound from the bridge midstream. The men turned to see what had happened and an instant later the cry went up "The bridge is falling." The men made a rush shoreward but the distance was too great -for them to escape. The fallen section of the bridge dragged others after it, the snapping girders and cables booming like a crash of artillery. Terror lent fleetness to the feet of the frightened workmen as they sped shoreward but only a few of them reached safety before the last piece of iron work on the south shore was dragged into the water. Near the shore the wreckage of the bridge did not go below the surface of the water and eight, workmen who remained above Hie water were res- i cued and taken to the hospital a I Lev- ' is. The steamer Olennmont had just, cleared the bridge when tho first sec-1 tion fell. The water thrown up by I the debris went clear over the bridge of the steamer. The captain at once lowered boats. The small boats plied backward and forward over the sunken wreckage for half an hour, but there was no sign of: life. The twisted iron and steel had its victims in a terrible death grip. A few floating timbers and the broken strands of the bridge toward the north shore wore the only signs that anything unusual had happened. There was not a ripple on the smooth surface of the St. Ln\Vl'6tt(^ as It swept along toward the gulf. All the men drowned were employes of the Phoenixville | Bridge company and subcontractors of Quebec and Montreal. At .10 o'clock tonight 1G bodies had been picked up and of the eight men in the hospital two are not expected to live throughout the night. ; The Quebec bridge was begun about seven years ago and it was to be finished in 1000. Subsidies had been granted by the federal and provincial governments and the city of Quebec, and the estimated cost of the work \ was $10,000,000. The Phoenixville Bridge company of Pennsylvania had (he contract, for the construction of the bridge and were working from both sides of the river. The horror of the situation is increased by the fact that there arc a number of wounded men pinned in the wreckage near the shore. Their groans and shrieks can bo plainly heard by the crowds who have gathered at the water's edge, but nothing so far can be done to relieve their sufferings. There are no searchlights available and by the feeble light of lanterns it is impossible to locate some of the sufferers. MESSAGE TOO LATE TO SAVE DISASTER. New York, Aug. 31.-?Theodore Cooper of this city, who has been the | consulting engineer in charge of the work on the huge cantilever bridge across the St. Lawrence river, which collapsed Thursday evening, fools 'A keenly the accident that cost the lives of 70 working men. Tn a statement f7 made to a reporter he reproached ^ himself for not having visited the I works in two years, though ill health has kept him hero and he tried to obtain his release from the responsibility of the position for that reason. Mr. Cooper also made the statement that on Thursday morning after his inspector had come to see him and , fcold him that things did not look well I for the bridge, lie had .sent a telegram to the man in charge of the work to i ?et off the bridge and slay off it until it could be examined. Mr. Coop- ! or has not been notified whether the i warning was too late. i "Of course we believed that the ' work as planned was absolutely safe," 1 Mr. Cooper said, "though in deal- 1 ing with even an old typo of work on a hitherto unparalleled scale, new and unexpected problems now and then < arise. One can not prophecy with in- 1 fallibility about something that is en- ] tirely new. I can not tell what is i coming out of this; maybe we shall j learn about things we never knew be- J fore.' I Mr. Cooper is one of the most dis- ' tinguishcd engineers in this country, 1 as well as one of the most experienced. He is 68 years old. He was asso- i ciated with James B. Eads in con- i structing the St. Louis bridge over I the Mississippi river from 1872 to < 1875. He was superintendent of the : Delaware Bridge works and has been < long considered a bridge in the United States, aCnada and Mexico. He- | sides a number of engineering pa- . pers, he is the author of "Cooper's Specifications for 1 lie Superstructure < of Railroad and Highway Bridges." , Holias twice received the Norman , medal given by the American Society , of Qivil Engineers. } - - j. MEXICAN MULES. j ( For Individuality They Beat All Oth- 1 ers Hybrids. I 1 "It is trite to say that mules arc i brainy, but the mules of <>I?1 Mexico. I believe, have something on all mill- i cs the world over for individuality of > I character and, if 1 may be credited, < | a sort of prescience of their own," < said a man who had spent many years : in I he neighboring republic. \ ''A Mexican mule will do just so ' much work and no more. They're ' used for all sorts of purposes down s there. "We vastly prefer them (o ^ horses for riding over the mountains ' on account of their superiority in : i he matter of sure too ted lies.*, their 1 instinct for ihe correct path without ' being guided, and their undeviating I endurance. This Mexican mule has twice as much of what you might call i gettherenoss as the horse. He'll stick l at his amble without a break until lie i has done what he knows to be his t day's stunt, and that stunt is invari- i ably a big one. < "But you can't get a Mexican < mule to do anything more than what < he knows to be his day's work. Such I a thing would be impossible. The ? riding mule is fully aware of the dis- i tance, down to the rod, he is suppos- t ed and required to traverse in the progress of one day's travelling day, j, and all the sharp sticks or goads or j dynamite on earth won't get him to do a bit more than what lie knows to be the correct distauce. "The Mexican* hrtVi) got a peculiar saying in connection with this J stnbbornne&i of the Mexican mule j j when he is asked to do more in a day j than he knows to be right. You ask j a Mexican for instance, how far it is, by mule back, to such and such a point. "'Two days' journey if you are ' not rushed, but three days if you are j in a hurry,' the Mexican will reply. "lie means that if you don't ask < any more of your mule than you should ask of him the mule will bo able to make the trip you have in ' mind within the two days. But if in a hurry and not acquainted with the ] ways of Mexican mules you attempt to drive the animal he'll soldier on j you, will that mule, and delay and i hold you at every stage of Ihe game once he finds you are trying to make him do more than the contract and the tradition calls for, and in consequence the journey will take you , three days. ' "There's no chance on earth of pushing a Mexican mule forward once he makes up his mind that he's done his bit for the day?and it should be said of him that he never makes up his mind until he has performed the whole task. He doesn't want any favors from you and is willing to go through the day's performance without the least urging. But when his portion of the entertainment is finished that's sufficiency, so far as lie's concerned. He's through. You might, as well hay him down if he makes up his mind that it's lime to quit when you reach a camp, or if you're out in the open when he reaches the samo conclusion it's up to you to dismount and make yourself and him comfortable for the night, for that's as far as he's going. No Mexican will think of urging a mule when the mule stops of his own volition at tho end i of his day's stunt. Tho Mexican )knows that it can't be done and the I tenderfoot who tries it soon finds it - - ? - - I out. The mulo, stock still, merely regards the tenderfoot out of his eyes | with the inscrutableucss of the | Sphinx, but lie doesn't loeomote any more. You can build a fire under him and he'll take a few steps out of the way of the blaze and smoke, but that's all. lie won't carry you forward. "Now for the prescience of the Mexican mule, of which I spoke. I don't know what else to call it. The latest instance I saw of it was when [ was riding through the state of Sotnora a month or so ago on an old ?ray mulo that knew every turn and' twist of the road I was taking- sol thoroughly that I let the bridle reins' Itang on his neck and permit led him to go it. alone; "Along- toward evening a terrific thunderstorm came up. We were right in the middle of it, for the altitude was more than 5,000 feet. The I'lectrical storms of Mexico are terrifying in the extreme. The bolts are continuous, and you have a sort of feeling' that a good conscience is a t>rotly good thing to possess amid such an appalling disturbance. "The air was heavy with the fumes >f sulphur?something I had heard ibout but never experienced. The oad was rocky and bad; and there tvas only an occasional scrub pine alongside. The mule, when the storm reached its height, stopped his iog of a sudden and stood in the midllo of the road, peacefully enough. !le was worried, apparently, but lie bought thai that was ;i pretty good >laee to stand during I he conlinuinee of the tremendous electrical >torm, lor il was nut in the open, For nysell I wanted to gel under the shelter of a pine tree about a hunIred yards ahead of me. lint the mule ouldn 't sec it. Him for the open, ind there he stood. 1 prodded him .villi the spurs, but he merely look d around at me iu a disgusted, Maude-like way. Then 1 dismounted tnd tried to lead him. Nothing doing, fe wouldn't budge. So at length givng it to him that he knew more ibout il than I did, 1 wrapped my loiicho about my head and stood at lis head, wailing for the storm to >ass. ''I hadn't stood by the mule in hat way for more than three mimics before I saw a couple of balls of ed fire playing around the trunk of he pine lice that I'd wanted to gel mder the shelter of. Then, an install I after I had seen the red balls >1 fire, (here was a deafening rash, and the pine, tree whose slider I had desired so badly was prone >n the ground, stretched across the oad, and a good part of it in spliners. "1 suppose maybe that mule didn't enow. T give il to him, tnyhow, that ie did."?"Washington Star. -V The He&ptir of Coals. Ma*s. Fanny Crosby, the farmous aiv hor of "Rescue the Perishing," 'Safe in the Arms of Jesus," and lundreds of other hymns, is still, hough eighty-seven years of age, ii: irst-rale health, says the Minneapolis Journal. "Not long ago," said a New York flergyman, "I visited Mrs. Crosby in Bridgeport, and found her exceedingly entertaining. I shan't soon forget *onie of the youthful memories that die recounted. "Our talk turned to the subject of children's quaint misunderstanding? >f Biblical metaphors and parables, end Mrs. Crosby told an amusing ?lorv on this head. "She said that a little boy came lion e one day from school in a very !>ad humor. Another boy, Jack Jones, had given him a thrashing, and he! wanted revenge. "'Oh,' said his mother, 'don't think of revenge, Willie. Bo kind to Tack. Heap coals of fire on his head. Then he will become your friend.' "Willie thought lie would try this method. He did not see Jack Jones till the next day at recess. Just as ho was buying a lemon pie for lunch Jack appeared and said : " 'Look here, T licked you yesterday, but T didn't give you enough. Now, I'm going to lick you again.' "And he planted a hard blow on Willie's little stomach. "Willie gasped and grunted, but instead of striking back he extended his pie lo Jones. " 'Here," he said in a kindly voice, j 'I'll give you this. I make you a pros- | en I of il,.' "Jack Jones, in glad amazement, fell upon the pie greedily, and it had soon disappeared. " Oosh, it was good,' he said. 'What did you give it to me fort' " 'Bec-ause you struck me,' said the heaper of coals. "Tnsfanly Jones hauled off and struck him again. " 'Now, go and gel another pie,' he said." Saved Her Son's Lifo. ?f A?J "ule to"" vritr.c- llrs- h Ruppee. She % jtll Midi st'rim "F| "K? ,IIJ >S?" WaS llow?> ilm I)r. kTK N, w n! bcgon K'vniK iinK's N iO ni ' arpenter work I)r. juunintc-ivf i ?covcry saved his life " ?y W f p't col,Kj1 ?"d cold remedy oc IT V,V'! & S??. Druggists ,oc. .111(1 Ji.oo. 1 rial Dottle free A"BilioH8 Attack.**' Symptoms. Sour stomac h. nwy taste in mouth, suit neaaache, sallow complexion, the world your enemy. Cause. Constipation, inacn?ve liver, overflow of bile into the system. Relief. Treatment for two nights before retiring with AKD TONIC PELLETS One a night, don't worry, sleep well and Nature'lldo the rest. Entire Trootmont 25 Cta, How to Remain Young. tremrM?,,l|ilUle n,yollIIS >" health and '?e?K?i, do as Mrs. N. I?\ Rowan Mo ,?? . ;iw si,e s?ys: ""h. hroi.i.'ii 'te"!c,lli"crS cure<1 "'<= ?f l n. a" ,slon,ach double, com'icnt -.1 with such an unhealthy con s u.uiiii 1. I am now practically 2? venre winger tlm? before I took Klectrie niters. I tan now do all my work with "mm, , a?'Sl 1,1 ,nv '"wkaiid's store ? ;ua.anu-e.' at \V. I{. pclhain & So,;,s K 5^'oie. Price 50c. CHARLESTON be WESTERN CAROLINA RY. Schedule in effect Juno 9tli, 1907 /v- ;N*ewhe.Ty(C N & L.) 12:46 p. m 'nurcns 1:52 p.m.' w. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m. Vr. .reenville 3:40 p. m< .JV> Lam'cns 1:58 p. m. ' NwNnnburg 3:30 p m ,jV' 7 "'tanburg (So. Ry.) 3:40 p. m. , loiKlorsonville (i :25 p. m ' ;Vsl,?vil!c 7:30 p. In.' jV- '*ai|rens (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m. . ';roc'"u'o?(l 2:5(j p. m. Jr. McCorniick 3;55 p> m Vi. Augusta 5.4O pt m Pullman Chair Cars between Au:?sta, Laurens and Asheville, triweekly. Ijcuyo Augusta Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdfiys ;leave Ashe, 'e Mondays, Wednesdays and Frilays. Note; The above arrivals and de itirtures, as well as connections with ?ther companies, are given as infornation, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Cen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Qa. Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. (. Gen. Agt., Worked Like a Charm. ,^Ir' P" Wn,ker? editor of that spicy Enterprise, I.ouisa, Va? tu\' ?? ran a 1" foot last week I I at ??ce applied Hucklen's Arnica >alve. Jso liiflamation followed- the alve simply healed the wound " Heals eedSnft,IST<ailD ;S,ki" <liscnses- Guaranted at VV. h Pelhatn & vSon, Druggists. CHEAP RATES Via Southern Railway. Jamestown Jer-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk, v a. On account of the above occasion e following instructions will govM-n the sale of round trip tickets (c Norfolk, Vn. from Ntwberrv, S C Season liokci??10.r>S. This Vickel "ill lie sold daily April ]f)||, to ant including November 30th, 1007, fina ate to leave Norflok rcturnin" De member 15th, 1007. AO day ticket?$10.30. This ticket jvill he sold daily April 10th to ano including November 30th, 1007, fina date to leave Norfolk returning six l.v (00) days from cwte of sale an< not lated than december 15th, 1007. Fifteen day ticket?.$14.30. This ticket iwll be sold daily April lfltl '<> and including November 30th 1007, final date to leave Norfolk re turning fifteen (15) days from dat< f)f sale. Coach Excusion ticket?$8.55. This ticket is not god in sleeping, Pull man, or Parlor cars, and will be soh Tuesday of each week during per ">d of the exposition, final date f< leave Norfolk returning ton (10) days from dale of sale. 1*01' routes, si op-overs, etc., writ* or call on us. Found at Laafc. J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, West Va j'T:. ,ast \ have found the perfec pin that never disappoints me; and fo the benefit of others afflicted with torpi< liver and chronic constipation, will say take Dr King's New I.ife Pills." (j?ar anteed .satiafactory, 25c. at W. K. Pelhan tv boil. Druggists. livery7 ?AND? Sale St. 1 have opened i street, near the dej Feed and Sale Stab pleased to have m\ and will endeavor the very best servi< Give meatrial and 6. M. B. E NEWBERRY C Classicc Scientif Technic Expenses very moderate, surpassed. For catalogue dent, JAS. A I have just received a Ladies' Cuff Pins, Scarf Pins, Brooches Hat Pit Cu Call and see them. My prii | And don't forget to buy Watch. Mayes' Boo ; OPENING DAY! ? The simultaneous Opening Day |?r ' throughout America, for the sale Prices of the new VICTOR RKCOR1XS is Club L the 2?Stli of the month before. On better ' the 2<sth inst. tlie leading news , I JOSS 11 1 papers in till the large! cities in the south will contain a quarter page ?"ers advertisement giving a complete Wr ' list of the September records; as the lumbi I majority of these papers will be in tnrmH 1 the hands of the public by noon of - j the 28th, an immediate demand for 1 j these selections is sure to occur, An ' and while we have ordered very Sell * heavily in these records, the Sep- niHj , i tember list is, us you will see, one j , of the strongest of the year, and )01,y - the marked superiority of many of j these selections is sure to create a ^T?- b large demand, so come at once ^?- 1 s while stock is complete to No. 1 ! SALTER'S Si I ! No. f 3; Art and Variety Store, Newberry's Victor Store. ''v'0, !1 No. 1 Tin r? women for collecting , t |?|(|aBa names and selling our novel- on' v r|l 11 In Lb tics, we tfivc Big Premium*, feed II Send your name to-day for our new j)lan out n : | of Big Profits with little work. Write r i - I to-day. Address C. T. MOSELEY Pre v i j iniuin department, 32 I v. 23d Street, New York City. FEED able. ip on Friend Dot, a Livery, ?Ie. I will be / friends call, to give them :e. beconvinced. PTING. " II? ??a?a??a?bhpbb?w?B COLLEGE. ll! ic! M iall Health record unaddress the Presik. B. SCHERER, Newberry, S. C, beautiful lot of / 5 is, and iff Buttons. ces are reasonable, an Ingersoll $1.00 k Store. WANTED D PIANOS AND ORGANS which we will allow tlie highest towards now Instruments. No rates |<> offer, hut wo Pledge ' Instruments for 'he same or none v. than these at Hub rue ite Malo'ies Music IIouso, ("lift, ?S. C., for special prices; and 'i ival and Departure of Trains. icdulcs of passenger trains i;? )ut of the Union Station, Xcw, S. C. Southern Trainn. r> for Greenville .... 8.50 a. m. 2 for Columbia ....10 .'12 a. in. 8 for Columbia .... 1.50 p. m. f) for Greenville .... 7.35 p. rn, 1 for Greenville .... 4.42 p. rn, 0 for Columbia .... 0.-17 p. in, 0., N. & L. Trains. 35 for Laurens .... 5.19 a. rn. 12 for Columbia .... 9.47 a. ni. >2 for Greenville ..12 4(J p. m. >3 for Columbia .... .'{.10 p. m. il for Laurens .... 7.25 p. m. 14 for Columbia .... 8.30 p. m. 3 foregoing schedules are given for information, are not guaranand arc subject to change wit.hotice. 15, 1007. G. L. Robinson, Station Master.