Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fl A great fire broke out in Antwerp
last night, and FIVE vast woodyards
we're blazing furiously at midnight.
A big railroad depot and several
houses also were burned. The glare
was visible as far as Brussels. All the
firemen OF the district we're called out
but were powerless to check the flames
The fire is believed to be the most
extensive in Antwerp in years and
the damage is estimated in the mil
lions. 1t will probably be several days
before the fire burns itself out
A cyclone which swept over Corinto,
Nicaragua, yesterday, resulted in the
loss OF several lives, the destruction
OF pier and several large buildings,
and the inundation OF the custom
house. Much merchandise stored
there was destroyed. The crew OF the
United States gunboat Vicksburg aided
in the rescue work.
The Saxon army msneuvers assumed
a realistic character yesterday when
II Uhlans lost their lives in the
water of ~the Elbe. These cavalry
scouts were drowned while attempting
to swim the river near Pirna.
William Derber, 16 years old, a
sergeant in the hospital corps of the
Boys Brigade, Baltimore, was fatally
shot about 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon near Gwynn's Falls Park by
youth with gang OF boys who be-
came enraged at Derber and his COM
panions. The shooting was the result
of an alteration between the groups.
1t WAS caused by Derber taking OPP
position youths to task for firing while
he and his friends we're 10 the water.
Derber was shot in the right temple
and died an hour later.
1t became known in Philadelphia
yesterday that revision OF the plans
for the greater Broad Street Station may
call for expenditures, as variously
estimated, OF $50, 100000 to $40, 0Oo,'
900. This station will rival that of the
company's New York terminal in pro-
portions and architectural beauty.
Il
by each Selling a girl by the
hair and swimming half a mile with
her two young men saved their OWL
lives and the lives Of two girls at Flint
Mich, Monday night. Roy B. Dia-
mond and Leroy Havers, students,
we're on Lake Long in gasoline
launch with Misses Charlotte Temple
and Grace Devan, OF New York, when
the gasoline tank exploded and set fire
to the boat. While the clothing o.
the men was burning they yelled tc
the girls to leap into the water. Neithe,
girl could swim, but both jumped
The men towed them ashore.
By breaking of wire cable. q
trip of four loaded cars ran away il
the slope at the Maryine collierY al
Scranton, Pa, yesterday and killed fou1
men, besides injuriug o fifth, who viii
probably die. The men are all for
eigners. The cable parted as the car:
we're emerging from the mouth OF the
slope, and they travelled 1000 fee
down o 45-degree slope, where they
dashed. into the FIVE miners. Theil
bodies were frightfully mangled and
the cars were smashed into splinters.
A food of molasses swept down
several streets leading from a storage
warehouse in New Orleans Monday
when tank containing about l 900, 600
gallons OF this Louisiana product burst
with a tremendous report. A sticky
morass Is inches deep covered Mar
ket street for nearly mile. Thrifty
residents secured q years supply by
merely scooping up the syrup with
buckets. The explosion was caused
by the collapse OF a wall supporting
five similar tanks. The flow of the
molasses was so swift that two boilers
weighing Is tons, and near the ware
house, were swept from their founda.
tons and carried across the street.
The loss is estimated at $50, 900.