The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-27
and other Vehicles Load
with Plensure-seekers Precipi-
tated 100 Feet Into a River.
RIVER STEAMER CAPSIZED
AND FOURTEEN LIVES LOST IN THE
OHIO NEAR CAIRO, ILL.
Forty.One People Dead In Michigan
as the Result of Mondays Tornado
and Scores Seriously Injured.

VICTORIA, b. c., May ga bridge gave
way here to-day and carried crowded
street-car with Il. a sham fight and review
was to take place at Macauley's Point, near
Esquimault this afternoon, and crowds were
making their way there. All the tram-cars
were packed. Two cars left Government
street with upwards Of a hundred people.
The first got over Point Ellie bridge. which
crosses at Victoria Arm. safely. but when
the other was about half way over the mid
die span of the bridge, about 100 feet In
length, gave way and the car plunged into
the water. one hundred feet below The car
was submerged, and all on board, probably
over sixty, were drowned. with the exception
OF some of those on the platforms, who
managed to save themselves by swimming
ashore. Numbers Of the bodies have al
ready been recovered, and identification Is
proceeding. 1t is a difficult matter. as a
great many of the people who lost their lives
were visitors. The known dead are
Mrs. Adams, Frederick Adams. ana son, f:
B. Charmichael and wife, J. B. Gordon, of
Vancouver, representative of Bradstreers;
Edmonds w. Pembroke, Miss Natnan.
ton, son Of w A. Fullerton, Spring Ridge;
Mrs. Heatherbel, wife OF William Heather
bel; D. Wilson, son of superintendent VIII
son; j. A. Van Bookelen, Port Townsend;
Miss Annie Keast, daughter, and Arthur
Keast. deputy register OF the Supreme Court:
Captain Leveridge, Spring Ridge; Mrs. q. l.
Post, James McSurdy, Port Townsend. T.. q.
Carmichael, commission agent; Master Post.
son of c. /. Post; Archie Biggar, aged six,
SON of George w. Bggar; Miss Biggar, aged
oresta. 6ootblack; Miss Minnie Robertson.
Carmichael; ~ Holmes, bookkeeper Of the
sasMafS smlsS: Miss ns Bips. Anaeosles wash James
Lcrie, William Pearson, Miss Turner,
the. two Misses Bownes, Miss +. Jackson.
SIucahy, IlTsRpe Emma Grace Afford, James v. and
Thomas Patterson, Gabriel Matters, Mrs.
Trout, Mrs. Woodhouse, Seattle; Mrs. Jack
man; Geo. c. Farr, conductor; Mrs. Houson,
James Henry Tyack. Miss Ida Goodacre,
Tacoma.
All of the above. with the exceptions
noted, belong in this city. Besides those
ramed, Mrs. Lot, of Seattle, and Miss Ida
Goodacre are known to have been on the car
and are missing.
Among the injured are ex-Alderman ". A.
Robertson, bruised and nearly drowned; G.
w. Biggar, badly cut about the head; Mrs.
Biggar, bruised and nearly drowned; DR..
Lang, badly bruised.
When the bridge broke there were several
carriages on it and these also We're precipi.
tated into the water. Superintendent Wilson
was driving one Of these and had his five
children with him. He succeeded in saving
himself and four Of the children. The fifth
a little boy, wedged between the iror
bars and was drowned. AS soon as the new:
of the accident reached Macaulay Point, the
review was brought 10 a speedy termination
A dispatch from Port Townsend says: j. A
| Van Bookelin and James McCurdy were
| killed in the Victoria disaster. Van Booke
| lin was a native of this city. and prominen-
| in the politics OF the State. He had beer
| secretary OF the Republican State centra
| committee ami held several offices OF trust
| James McCurdy was a pioneer of the North
west, resident Of Port Townsend for thir
| ty-seven years and prominently identified
| with the history Of Puget sound.