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THE NEWMARKET ERA FRIDAY NOV 20 1Q03 CHINA in fl Boiler Explodes at the United Factories HALL A SPECIAL SNAP For a couple of weeks TenPiece Toilet Sets 3 COLORS PINK BROWN Roll New Shape for One Killed Another Five Others 2 We like to stock of LAM NEW STYLES Imported by us Direct are much lower in price For will one nicely Grocery Dept LEMON PEEL I5c LB NEW ORANGE PEEL lb NEW CITRON PEEL Hi CHOICE NEW SELECTED VALENCIA RAISINS 3 lbs NEW FIGS and Mc lb CHOICE NEW TABLE RAISINS TEAS New Japan Tea Sililqr Buy fay line lb or lb for Japan Tea at You cannot kit at The worst disaster that has ever jr worked in occurred in Newmarket happened a Clothespin on 2nd floor few minutes before nine oclock on east wing was struck in the eye Wednesday morning when one of the a piece of brick and also had his boilers in United Factories ex- ankle hurt blowing tJie whole brick boiler bouse about feet square together OTHER PARTICULARS with contents into a of ruins The power for the factory was burying four men under the plied by lour boiler Football The match at Bradford last Friday i between the High School boys of Newmarket and Bradford resulted in a draw Neither side scored Our boys say it was a good match but pretty rough When the alarm of fire was sounded by the WaterWorks whistle about seven oclock last Friday evening there was no need to enquire Wheres No for the eastern part of the town was already lit up with the blaze firemen respond ed quickly and also a big crowd of people The Ore was in a stable at cor ner of the Fair Grounds about a hundred feet from the Main Building on the property belonging to the and was hit by falling pieces He Estate The firemen were slow started to grope his way out but was letting the hose connected but after attracted by the screams of Harry was turned on it only who was pinned fast By a minutes to drown out the heroic efforts he released him and Some lumber and furniture- bo- two crawled out of a hole in the wiging to Mr Win the ten- wall were burned also a buggy be- fllan Died Shortly Badly FLA As we intend to put in a Hardware New Stock of Dry Goods Our Stock of The boiler that exploded was a new one sis years ago They were all placed side by side and developing inspected regularly by the Boiler In- The fire alarm was rung and as the between and horsepower number sounded on the waterworks row numbering from whistle indicated the United Fac tories hundreds of people Hocked to the East exploded and was separated in the centre Half of it was blown the scene with the firemen but the Sid services of latter were not need- 1 machine shop and the other half so much as the doctors four of through the North brick wall The whom were in attendance in a few on the West side of it was employment but all who wish to will minutes Wesley Scott Webb knocked through two brick walls engaged in cleaning the and Greenwood dumped upon the machinery in he wreck and rebuilding spector and are cleaned out every month The firm carried an insurance f on the boilers hut it will take to- put the factory in good running order again men are thrown out of f to Mr Rush No insurance It is supposed the lire was started by the electric wires of the town system that were attached to the building as the roof was alt ablaze- the was discovered The heat was so great that it molt ed the wires and the lights had to be turned off while the line was properly repaired for fear of somebody being injured with the electric current It was only a delay oi a few minutes but it caused considerable worry to people depending upon the current I Is too large and make room we intend to give CALL AND SEE Special Comfort Soap 7 bars for a Quarter WITH The Leading Reliable Grocer Telephone H Sovereign Aphorized Capital J Head Office Toronto- piston Mount Albert Now murk el Pel lb Toronto Stirling Waterloo Zurich fe 7VrJ Wsgi- 5t M j 1 Square Clover Honey Malta Vita i Cans Corn or Peas Cans Tomatoes lb9 Granulated Sugar Si lbs Brown Sugar Toilet Soap bar 3c Ginger Cookies lb Sodas lb fte Bilking Powder per tumbler glass worth the money Canned lie Pork and Beans and IV Supplies Cheap The A OK 11 Pail The two boilers on the The Insurance Inspector and inem- side were Knocked through a of the from Toronto were brick wall and piled one on top of in town on afternoon and the other in the engine room The work was commenced It OK Savings Bank Department ttiowM a Jcpoitt or Wllb- on or lntJay J lit Von to lihur at any or UN A UK The lactory men set to work at once looking for their companions and seeing were missing As soon as they were found they were carried into the and Blacksmith shop j roof the boilerhouse was supported will probably be six weeks Irffore the where stretchers were improvised and J by iron rails such as is used on the is running again injured promptly attended to the railroad track The entire roof was is crowded with orders so doctors being heroically assisted by I up and scattered in the firm is just as anxious as Miss a professional nurse reel ion One of these iron rails to with all possible two ofhee Miss and came down endways and pierced a haste fttiss and also Mrs hole through the roof in he Hoop The telephone men from Toronto Cane over the machine shop- A came up on the one oclock car and THE plank came down endways and pierced repaired the lines which were a hole through the roof of the Ware- knocked of commission around the- on the opposite side of factory stieel from the factory Oilier pieces The specialty Works shut ill and down tor an hour while ijielr men chunks of brick fell went to wreck render any roofs or i In feci and possible were in all directions were The position of the Boiler Mouse hundreds men employed and can seen in it is miraculous that there were not of the premises liUwu or twenty men killed I tun It was a finestory brick building lo- of have been here to hack of the smoke stack view the wreck everybody Says a vacant space of about our they never saw anything like it be- feel around it This whole fore I lie debris was scattered in was blown away and great all directions war thick for led into- all the adjoining around the factory A piece of walls of the factory surrounding it throtigli a window A in Mr mm barn nearly yards away The explosion Dr Greenwood Coroner empanelled shook the buildings in the vicinity the following jury for an inquest on nid Mrs who on the the reniains of late John end of Queen street yards at the Hall yesterday away thought that every window in morning via A the house would be broken they J Martin Card of Thanks To the the Era Sin Kindly allow me your to thnuk ninl No for I heir anil Tor In be of SI bold by my biiHbund Vtmra A TOOLE was and partly j and parls of out of our Utile M you one WWallace Bruce Manager NEWMARKET J8tark ALBERT BRANCH YOU WANT TO and Gamey call thin but that A r W ilnr Daniel look Was a saw by machinery in the Iron Department was knocked feet under an iron lathe that covered with brie en was badly cut boil I the and and Win Hell a helper in the machine shop who was iii the dynamo room wan badly cut about ilic head ami liainK and also hurl in his side Jus who worked in the pailbottom on the- 2nd story was in the bead hands- and arms and badly scalded His back is a mass of blis ters and he is in a critical condition Harry who was acting gineer in place of Atex Potter lie hitter duty on jwreoiint of the dcith his mother was caught in a pusageway the engine room atd boiler house and for a door falling partly over he Would no doubt brick and other mat scalded ami badly but will probably rrx Frank one the firemen was blown mit of the door of the severely bruised and Foresters and carried a policy evening of next weeK badly scalded The top of his head was caved in and he- only lived about Frank the other an hour afur this- accident inn was loaves a wife and family three conscious to the last moment small children lie belonged to the John the other was and carried still missing and it was aloui Much sympathy is expressed of general purgatory Take a little bereaved families Nervilinc in sweetened water and RAILWAY SYSTEM Special ExcursionTickels Are on Mlv dully until in In British Columbia California Colorado Idaho Montana Oregon Utah Washington Live Stock Exposition Chicago hut hint aJI been killed John who was iaughlin lie was killed came here from two bruised generally or three years ago and has been in Jackson the employ of the firm for about McKay the latter being mouths Ho leaves a wife family lie was a member Morgan J Mc Laughlin Rogers if Webb it and J I elected Core- but no foreman After viewing the remains of the the incst adjourned until Thursday llKART PALPITATION AT Rattles even the strongest man but to the average woman it is a taste hour after the explosion the doubt was recovered lie had killed instantly as remaiis were found in corner of the boilerroom cover ed with of debris and My scalded Rarnell Howard supt of the Paint was badly wounded in the I tbe engineer in away goes the palpitation Youll be inJ f iinrrir Knrii no t his mangled has been in the employ of the saved lots of worry by keeping north- Company for about IK years and lint on hand which is a treasure having competent for the position previously taken charge during temporary absence of engineer Potter Many narrow- escapes arc reported Four young men jumped from the second story they were so frightened Lead by a falling brick Albert Stork in the Pail was knocked down twice in getting them out Ho was cut over the eye and Mr Silas Wright had a narrow had his bruised cape He was a barrow in in the same had r the boiler room hurt was struck in head He had a finger bally and immediately he was ro tided by dust and escaping steam lor all sorts of pains and aches cures headache stomach and bowel troubles quickly Costs for a large bottle NOT in using Dr Hamiltons Pills of the whole building was coming down Mandrake and Butternut for constipa tion or piles Highly recommended because they cause no griping pains For promt and certain core use only Dr Hamiltons Pills Price the months New- Nov uli mid 1st- rtlfd before Clemens Mineral Baths SitUiUid Quickly ami foriiibly readied by Hie The St Catharines Well if this fanious well for dlnnrtlere tfltimtedun direct Hup of the Trunk eleven For Pll to Write to J I District IMucUtfcr for descriptive reirnrdlinc the above resorts BUS IN ESS AND SHORTHAND It will pay you to get information regarding the Y A BUILDING TORONTO ONTARIO If you are in the work of highgrade business school CATALOGUE It J W BROOK8 Principal -oo- Here is the Cheapest Place in Town For Potatoes Carrots Apples and in fncl every kind of Vegetable and Fruits- Fresh and Cured Meats and Sausage Fish and Dried Haddie AT FLANAGAN Main Street South and Fruit epot Pears25c Bas Grapes Bas Nice Bright Bananas Sweet Potatoes lbs for 25c lb Baking Powder Stew Kettle Pure Lard 10c lb by the pail Mixed Tea 20c pound Bean or Ground Coffee lb Fruit Biscuits 10c lb w Honey 10c pound Fresh Oysters and Sausage ATKINSON Optician NEWMARKET KNOW Li Grocery and Provision TOR want Rood Pork Sausage try ours The very lest made daily at per Headcheese I locks per lb Picnic Hams per lb All kinds of Canned goods at Lowest Prices 3 cans Peas 3 Cans Corn cans Salmon v good Mushrooms Asparagus 36c American Coal Oil gal All kinds of taken in ex change KNOWlES Money Wanted wanted at once security on town property Enquire at Era office or Hunter con- H pays to In the Era Butcher Business ailk w For sale In Apply toj tractor and builder st jr market