Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-12-23

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it forms huge crystal praries thirty
feet thick and with superficial area
of many miles driven this way and
that by the changing winds.
The lowering of the temper
ture caused by this immense body OF
ice most certainly helps to create the
tpresent tempestuous conditions Incl
dent to winter in the st. Lawrence re-
gion. and there is little doubt that
If the flow of this frigid current, with
its flow of ice masses, should be di-
verted in some other direction. q very
marked betterment in the climatic
conditions would ensue. Indeed. 1t
is by no means improbable that the
outcome would be that the daming ci
the strait would so alter the meteor
illogical outlook that the Gulf and
River st. Lawrence might be rade
navigable all winter, certainly as far
as Quebec, and possibly inland To
| Montreal.
Practically all the ice which now
forms in the upper part of the river
IS "harbor ice," which takes shape IN
the coves, creeks, bayous and havens
on both sides, the lowering of TEN
perature over the whole region conse
quent upon the thrush from the arc
tics causing the congealing of the sur
face. If the navigation Of the ST
Lawrence for the whole year could be
assured by this experiment 1t would
be money well spent for Canada to
take hold of it.
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 20.-Much has
been expected of today's first pub
lie celebration in connection with the
worlds fair, to be opened in st. Louis
in 1903, commemorative OF the ami
ven sary of the Louisiana purchase.
| Bitter cold weather. however, stop
ped nearly all the outdoor proceed
ings, and the great military parade.
with the expected impressive cere-
monies of breaking ground in Forest
Park had to be abandoned.
The day has been a holiday in St
Louis, and while the biting weather
prevented the regular exercises.
thousands We're packed into Coliseum
hall. The theatres were filled for
an extra matinee and the city today
wore a midwinter Fourth of July
appearance.
Instead of going on horseback at
the head of his small army, General
Bates, commanding the department OF
| Missouri. entered closed carriage
with his staff and were driven out to
the park. where a huge fire was built
on the ground to soften the earth
and enable the hundreds of muf1led
| fingers, including those of several CON
gressmen. to perform their duties
The governor and exposition commits
sioners shoveled a little bit of the
| frozen ground and declared the event
carried out Then everybody ad
| iourned to Coliseum hall where the
| remainder of the exercises were car
ried out.
The public schools were closed and
school children occupied the CALLER
| les OF the immense auditorium and
| listened to the addresses made by
| Congressman Tawney, Commissioner
| Allen, Governor Francis, Governor
Yates and number of the lady man
| ayers. The speakers explained that
| the Louisiana Purchase was made BY
the government in 1903, securing
from France all the land lying be-
| IhtNu lllt hiiooiooippI anu lh'
| Rocky mountains, more than million
| square miles 1t was stated that the
| city and citizens OF St Louis had sub
scrbed ten million dollars for the
| fair Missouri one million, the United
| States five millions and several 9th
er states amounts ranging from fif
teen thousand to quarter of a mil
lion dollars.
| PITTSBURG, &c. 20.-This morn
ing terrific explosion occurred in
the Black Diamond steel works. re-
sulting in frightful disaster.
| Thus far six are dead. three miss
| ing and dozen or more are badly in.
| jured.
The last reports up to this time in
dicate the deaths of fifty people, but
this seems an exaggeration, although
the killed and missing may run up
| into the twenties
At noon it is generally reported
that from ten to twenty men were kill
ed in the Black Diamond steel works
explosion. but it will not be known
just how many are dead until the en-
tire wreckage is cleared away, which
will be late this afternoon.
The explosion occurred shortly af
ter o'clock, when four boilers in
mill No. 8 burst, scattering death and
destruction. The wreck is complete
and debris is piled up fifty feet high.
Six dead and twelve injured have a
ready been removed. Five of the
dead cannot be identified, so horri
Bile has been their mutilation. Not
a straight piece of iron or shafting is
left in the entire building. Sixty
men were at work when the explos-
ion took place. The injured and the
dead are being found in the wreckage
and in the yard of the mill where
they had run in the hope of saving
themselves.
LONDON, Dec, 220.-The jury this
morning found the Jacksons guilty OF
gross immortality. The judge there
upon sentenced Jackson to Is years
penal servitude and his wife, Ann