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EIGHTY KILLED. Bridge Near Quebec Collapsed With ratal Results-Scores of Work men Precipitated 'Into the River. Quebec, Aug, 29.-The great Que bec bridge collapsed late this after noon and now the vast mass of steel work lies a tangled wreck across the St. Lawrence channel. A careful es timate of the loss of life is 84. The bridge fell at exactly 23 minutes to 6 this evening, just as many of thq workm4n 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 as to the cause of the disaz ter. Quebec, Aug. 29.-A section of the new bridge across the St. Lawrence river, five miles below this city, col lapsed late today, carrying scores of bridge workmen and machinists into the water. It is estimated that the loss of life is more than 60 and may Oxceed that number by 20. The bridge was about a NOh Mai a half in length and half of it, from the south shore to midstream, crump led up and dropped into the water. Ninety men were at work on this section of the structure and the whis tle 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 turnee to see what had happened and an in stanf 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 I 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 the water were res cued and taken to the hospital at Lev-| is. The steamer GLenamont had just cleared the bridge when the first sec tion fell. The water thrown up by 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 sunk en wreckage for half an hour, but there was no sign of life. The twist ed 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 wei-e the only signs that anything un~ usual had happened. There was not a ripple on the smoot~h surface of the St. Lawimee as it swept along' toward the gulf. All the men drown-' 'e were omiployes of the Phoenixville Bridge company and subcontraetors of Quebec andt Montreal. At 10 o'clock tonight 16 bodies had been picked ap and of the eight meii in the hospital two are not expeeted to live throughout the night. The Quebec bridge was begun about seven years ago and it was to be fin ished in 1909. Subsidies had been granted by the federal and provineial governments and the city of Quebec, and the estimated 'cost of the work was $10,000,000. The Phoenixville Bridge company of Pennsylvania had the 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 are a number of wounded men pinned in the wreekage near the shore. Their groans and shrieks can be plainly heard by the crowds who have gather ed at the water's edge, but nothing so far can be done to relieve their sufferings. There are no search lights available and by the feeble light of lanterns it is impossible to locate some of the sufferers. MESSAGE TOO LATE TO SAVE DISASTE3. 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, feels keenly the accident that cost the lives of 79 working men. In a statement made to a reporter he reproached himself for not having visited the works in two years, though ill health has kept him here and he tried to ob tain his release from the responsibil ity of the position for that reason. Mr. Cooper also made the state ment that on Thursday morning after his inspector had come to see him and *ol him that things did not look well I for the brnie. he had sent a telegram to the man in eharge of the work to ,et off the bride and stay off it un til it could be examined. Mr. Coop er has not been notified whether the warning was too late. "Of course we believed that the work as planned was absolutely safe," Mr. Cooper said, "though in deal ing with even an old type of work on a hitherto unparalleled scale, new and unexpected problems now and then < arise. One can not prophecy with in- I fallibility about something that is en- ] tirely new. I can not tell what is i coming out of this; maybe we shall learn about things we never knew be- I fore.' Mr. Cooper is one of the most dis tinguished engineers in this country, as well as one of the most experienc ed. He is 68 years old. He was asso ciated with James B. Eads in con- i structing the St. Louis bridge over t the Mississippi river from 1872 to 4 1875. He was superintendent of the J Delaware Bridge works and has been < long considered a bridge in the Unit- I ed States, aCnada and Mexico. Be- I sides a number of engineering pa- s pers, he is the author of "Cooper's Specifications for the Superstructure < of Railroad and Highway Bridges." Hehas twice received the Norman 1 medal given by the American Society of Qivil Engineers. MEXICAN MULES. J C or Individuality They Beat All Oth- I ers Hybrids. "It is trite to say that mules are a brainy, but the mules of old Mexico. s I believe, have something on all mul- r es the world over for individuality of s character and, if I may be credited, d a sort of prescience of their own, e said a man who had spent many years a in the neighboring republic. V "A Mexican mule will do just so E much work and no more. They're used for all sorts of purposes down a there. We vastly prefer them to I horses for riding over the mountains 1 on account of their superiority in a the matter of surefootedness. their P instinct for the correct path without 1 eing guided, and their andeviating r edurance. This Mexican -muie has wice as much of what you might call t etthereness as the horse. He'll stiek t t his amble without a break until he r as done what he knows to be his t ay's stunt, and that stunt is invari- u ably a big one. s ''But you can't get a Mexican o aule to do anything more than what c e knows to be his day's work. Such t< thing would be impossible. The o riding mule. is fully aware of the dis- r, Lance, down to the rod, he is suppos- t< d and required to traverse in the rogress of one day's travelling Jay, k and all the sharp stieks or goa4s or b ynamite on earth won't get him to o a bit more than what he knows to e the correct distance, "The Mexicans have got a pecul- * jar saying in tonection with this tbbrnntes of the Mexican mule ebnhe is asked to do more in a day than he knows to be right. You ask Mexican for instance, how far it is, ~ y mule back, to such and such a >oint. "'Two days' journey if you are not rushed, but three days if you arey in a hurry,' the Mexican will reply. "He~means that if you don't asks ny more of your mule than you should ask of him the mule will be able to make the trip you have in mind within the two days. But if inC hurry and not acquainted with. the S ways of Mexican mules ydu attempt o drive the animal he'll soldier on you, will that mule, and delay andb hold you at every stage of the game y nce he finds you are trying to make v him do more than the contract and the tradition calls for, and in conse- t quence the journey will take you a three days. ' "There's no chance on earth of pushing a Mexican mule forward once z e makes up his mind that he's done is bit for the day-and it should be ' said of him that he never makes upJ is mind until he has performed the whole task. He doesn't want any fa- C vors from you and is willing to go through the Jay's performance with out the least urgirg. But when his ~ portion of the entertainment is fin-. ished that's sufficiency, so far as he's ~ onerned. He's through. You siightI as well hay him down if be makes up his mind that it's time to quit when you reach a camp, or if you're out inE the open when he reaches the same conclusion it's up to you to dismount and make yourself and him comfor table for the night, for that's as far as he's going. No Mexican will think of urging a mule when the mule j stops of his own volition at the end of his day's stunt. The Mexican knows that it can't be done and the out. The mule. ik sil, r re,ards the tenderfoot out of his eye. with the in.serutablelness of tlh( .pIIinx, but he doesn't locomote an3 nore. You can build a fire under hin ind he'll take a few steps out of thk 6vay of the blaze and smoke, bu that's all. He won't carry you for ,vard. "Now for the prescience of th Nlexican mule, of which I spoke. ] Ion't .know what else to call it. Th( atest instance I saw of it was wher was riding through the state of So nora a month or so ago on an old Pray mule that knew every turn and: :wist of the road I was taking sc horoughly that I let the bridle reinc iang on his neck and permitted hir :o go it alone. "Along toward evening a terrifi( hunderstorm came up. We were ight in the middle of it, for the alti ude was more than 5,000 feet. The lectrical storms of Mexico are terri ying in the extreme. The bolts ar( ontinuous. and you have a sort ol eeling that a good conscience is a )retty good thing to possess amid uch an appalling disturbance. '"The air was heavy with the fumes f sulphur-something I had heard bout but never experienced. The oad was rocky and bad; and there vas only an occasional scrub pine longside. The mule, when the torm reached its height, stopped his og of a sudden and stood in the mid Jle of the road, peacefully enough. le was worried, apparently, but he hought that'that was a pretty good >lace to stand during the continu nee of the tremendous electrical torm, for it was out in the open. For nyself I wanted to get under 'the helter of a pine tree about a hun red yards ahead of me. But the mule ouldn't see it. Him for the open, nd there he stood. I prodded him ith the spurs, but he merely'look d around at me In a disgusted, faude-like way. Then I dismounted nd tried to lead him. Nothing doing. le wouldn't budge. So at length giv g it to him that he knew more bout it than I did, I wrapped my oneho about my head and stood at is head, waiting for the s.torm to ass. "I hadn't stood by the mule in at way for more than three minu es before I saw a couple of balls of ed fire playing around the trunk of e pine tree that I'd wanted to get nder the shelter of. Then, an in tant after I had seen the red balls f fire, there was a deafening rash, and the pine. tree whose shel er I had desired so badly was prone n the ground, stretched across the ad, and a good part of it in splin ers. "I suppose maybe that mule didn't now. I give it to him, ainyhow, that e did." -Washington Star. The EeB,per of Coals. Mrs. Fanny Crosby, the farmous an ior of "Resenie the Perishing," ~Safe in the Arms of Jesus,'' and undreds of other hymns, is still, bough eighty-seven years of age, in rst-rate health, says the Minneapolis ournal. "Not long ago,'' said a New York lergymnan, "I visited Mrs. Crosby in tridgeport, and found her exceeding. 7 erntertaining. I shan't soon forget nine of the youthful memories that he recounted. "Our talk turned to the subject of hildren 's quaint misunderstanding f Biblical metaphors and parables, nd Mrs. Crosby told an amusing tory on this head. "She said that a little boy came on e one day from school in a very ad humor. Another boy, Jack Jones, ad given him a thrashing, and he ranted revenge. "'Oh,' said his mother, 'don't hink of revenge, Willie. Be kind tc ack. Heap coals of fire on his head. Ten he will become your friend.' "Willie thought he would try this :ethod. He did not see Jack Jones ill the next day at recess. Just as he as buying a lemon pie for lunch ack appeared and said: "'Look here, I licked you yester lay, but I didn't give you enough row, I'm going to lick you again.' "And he planted a rhard blow on Villie 's little stomach. "Willie gasped and grunted, but nstead of striking back he extended i pie to Jones. " 'Here,'' he said in a kindly voice, I'll ,.ive you this. I make you a pres. nt of it.' ".Jack Jones, in glad amazement, 'eli upon the pie greedily, and it had oon disappeared. " Gosh, it was good,' he said. 'What id you give it to me for!' " 'Beczause you struck me,' said the eaper of coals. "Instanly Jones hauled off and truck him again. 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Leave Augusta Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays ;1eave Ashe ville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days. Note: The above arrivals and de partures, as well as connections with other companies, are given as infor mation, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Cen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, . Greenville, 8. C. Gen. Agt., Worked Like a Charm. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va., says: "I ran a nail in my foot last week and at once applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve. No inflamation followed; the salve simply healed the wound.'' Heals eres, burns and skin diseases. Guaran teed at W. E Pelham & Son, Druggists. CHEAP RATES Via Southern Railway. Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk, Va. On account of the above occasion the following instruetions will gov ern the sale of round trip tickets to Norfolk, Va. from Ntwberry, S. C. Season ticket-$19.55. 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