Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

A terrible accident occurred at Victoria, B. C., Tutwlay. A sham fight and review was to take pla<;tT aCMaeauliiy Point, near Esquimanlt, and crowds were making their way there by every route. All the tram cars were packed. Two cars left Government stfeet with more' than TOO jiebpte? The fifst gi7t safely:over ,Poiut E 1 lice , bridge, which crosses Viff toria. arni. When the other was about half way over the middle span of the bridge, about 150 feet in length, gave way and the car plunged ■‘into the water 100 feet below. The ear was completely submerged, and all pn board were drowned with the exception of some of those who were standing on the platform and who/ escaping injury from the falling timbers, managed to save themselves by using the floating ruins ,of theTjridge and thus got ashore. Sixty bodies.had been recovered at 10 o'clock at night. Only a few of them, however, have been identified, Vl ar has again been declared against the Chicago-St. Paul railtoads by the Lake Michigan Car Ferey Company. About two weeks ago the latter agreed to test ore Chicago-St. Pa ul rates to the basis -of 60-eeuts-per-100-poumls-first-class, the same as charged by the railroad lines. Wednesday, however, the company notified Commissioner Midgley, of the Western Ereight reissue a tariff on the basis of 50 cents? per JOO pounds first class, Chicago to St, Paul, This.is the sarug tate as charged by the Lake Superior steamboat lines, which have always enjoyed the privilege of a 10? cent differential below the all-rail rat,e. The latter insist on charging a differential of 5 cents below the rate of the car ferry line, and will, no doubt, at once meet the action of the car ferry line by issuing a tariff on the basis of 45 cents per 100 pounds first class, Chicago to St. Paul, and as the Lake Michigan car ferry’s policy now is to make the same rates as the boat lines, rates will soon reach rock bottom. The Chicago Great Western is determined to meet any rate the Faithorn car ferry may make, and this will compel all the other ChicagoSt. Pau! lines to do likewise. To aggravate the situation, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, which runs a transfer boat line across the lake, announces it will make the same rates via Mackinaw as are made by Faithorn’s Lake Michigan car ferry line, and it is understood the Kewaunee route, which also runs a car ferry across Lake Michigan, will insist upon making the same rates. The Canadian Pacific is blamed for the trouble brought upon the Chicago-St. Paul line by the Lake Michigan Car Ferry Company; The TSftet IT4Tcnd3 outlet to St Paul and Minneapolis upon the Soo line, which is controlled by the Oanadian Pacific, and without its co-operation could not issue any through t ariffs between Chicago aud St. Paul.