27 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
1
City council meets as Mayor Spencer requests three week unpaid leave to focus on civic work. He says he will still assist when possible and asks for no undue influence on department heads. Ald. Evans questions the pay suspension while Ald. Brown supports the request and motion passes.
Dayton residents in air refuges atop the city report 65 000 workers stranded after a catastrophic blaze at the Patterson Supply Co. As smoke and fire raged overnight from the upper floors, rescue chances remained unclear and many lives were feared lost.
Premier Sifton will visit to address a local Liberal meeting at the Monarch theatre on Wednesday April 2. Also scheduled to speak are Hon. C. R. Mitchell and C. B. Pingle, Liberal candidates in Medicine Hat and Redcliff.
A ferocious snowstorm strikes Toronto and western Ontario causing widespread delays. Rail schedules are abandoned, snow plows operate nationwide, and telegraph lines fail from Hamilton to Niagara Falls. A sleet storm affects the Atlantic coast as crews rush repairs with no clear timetable yet.
Manitoba observance of Arbor Day fixed for May fifth announced in Winnipeg. Local officials state the event will promote tree planting and civic greenery across communities.
The city and Ansley Coal Co. debated extending the spur from the city limits to the mine amid changes from the original document. Ald. Ansley, present as a private citizen, said he needed time to study the revised agreement and would bring it to the regular meeting Monday night.
Port Arthur reports trains resuming flow after a snow blockade. Twelve trains pass westward over the P R inside twelve hours, with the first arriving at 8:80 this morning, originally due Tuesday. Passengers include fifteen hundred migrants.
Ohio reels from record flood with Dayton worst hit and state death toll potentially over two thousand. Gov. Cox's private secretary traversed dangerous routes to assess damage as rail service resumes amid widespread washouts. Rescue efforts mobilize with militia bringing food and blankets while health officials plan sanitation to avert epidemics.
Alderman Pratt, chairing the grant committee, reported to the council that a written report was not yet prepared and that the committee had reviewed figures with the board of trade and industrial bureau. He noted large entertainment and salary costs but said prior underfunding had caused higher actual costs, citing $1,000 planned for maps and booklets but $600 spent in three months, with 20,000 maps and booklets already distributed this year. He suggested a $2,800 figure and observed Western cities grant more to similar boards, while the effort relies on supporters working hard for the city.
London march 27 over six thousand troops will form an escort at the funeral of the late Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley at St Pauls Cathedral Monday. The invited pall bearers include H R H the Duke of Connaught Lord Roberts Sir Evelyn Woods Lord Grenfell Sir G P Brownle Lord Kitchener Lord Méthuen and Lord Nicholson.
Reports from Celina Ohio claim the Grand Reservoir, largest of its kind, has broken threatening severe floods across eastern Indiana and western Ohio. South Bend notes thousands in peril as northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana face danger of town wipeouts and hindered rescue efforts at Peru. Pennsylvania Railway sends a special train toward the stricken area under General Superintendent McCarthy.
E. D. Bennett Alderman W. H. Doty 2 M. Murphy and others sold 160 acres adjoining the demonstration farm for 160000 dollars to eastern capitalists. The price is a record for that locality.
Edmonton Liberals unanimous on Hon. C. W. Cross and Hon. A. G. MacKay as standard bearers. Convention praised for harmony with leaders and policy aims beyond provincial bounds, endorsing Laurier and federal principles amid a large turnout.
Fragmentary report mentions a convention and a candidate, with unclear details on participants or outcomes. No clear names, dates, or organizations are readable to confirm specifics.
Dispatch reports 5,000 dead in Dayton area with bodies removed from the river at Riverdale. Officials say the death toll may never be known as the flood continues to claim lives and the river level falls this afternoon.
Ajd Johnston questioned an early closing by law for barber shops cited as eight o'clock. City Solicitor O Neall explained a by law change from twenty four hour to twelve hour day causing a misprint. The by law was drafted last summer, only passed two days ago after delays with Edmonton and press notices.
Dominion immigration officer George Howson announces 1000 bushels of good clean wheat allocated for needy settlers. Wheat will be distributed in lots from ten to one hundred fifty bushels to applicants who lost crops to storms or frost, with requests to be submitted at once for immediate attention.
Canadian Pacific S S Lake Manitoba reported by wireless 460 miles from St John due St John March 26 passengers due Medicine Hat March 30. Montezuma from Antwerp reported 876 miles from St John due St John March 29 passengers due Medicine Hat April 2. Cunard S S Carmania docked at New York March 24. Ansonia sailed from Southampton March 20 for St John. Andania launched at Greenock March 22. Caronia arrived Madeira from New York March 28.
The highest authority states the Ottawa report is unfounded. Officials in Ottawa say Canadian Northern Railway did apply for a loan of thirty five to forty million dollars to finance its transcontinental links.
Telegram from New York reports unexpected complications in the recovery of Hon. Colin Campbell. Partners state Campbell will spend time at Citfiton Springs, New York, as a result of the illness, delaying previously announced plans.
Gov. Cox telegraphs from Columbus warning of a massive Ohio flood with towns in the south and southwest at risk of being wiped out. He urges wide publicity for relief appeals as Dayton faces approaching conflagration and rivers rise across Muskingum, Zanesville, Marietta, and other towns.
In London on March 27 a despatch from the legation describes a fatal event in a town with a similar name. The report notes a despatch line and references an attack or disaster implied by the incomplete text.
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