The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-22
issued: 1912-07-02
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0384795/source.json
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note: EIGHT PAGES 50 CENTS A MONTH JUL 6- HI2 (oG1 oGbAG&tflED ADS 1 CENT A WOm VOL. 11 NELSON. B. C. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1912 NO. 66 MARTIAL LAW NOW REIGNS IN REGINA JJKnown Victims of Cyclone Number Twenty-Six MONEY DAMAGE • FIVE MILLIONS ((Scores Injured and Five Hundred Families Home- ii less—Awful Havoa (By* Dally News Leased Wire.) REGINA, Susie, July 1—Dominion day, 1912, will lung be remembered by iUho people of Regina. With flags at half mast, with over 500 families homeless, many of them destitute hut for tho kindness of friends or the assistance of olvic authorities, with a known death list of i!G and with hospitals filled with Injured, the day thai should have been a day of rojblcing and festivities, has been one of nniurn- lng In Scores of homes and genera! gloom In the city. Martial Law Proclaimed . Tho local militia units returned l! early in the day from Sewell camp nnd took over with the mounted police the task of protecting the affected area from looters and tlie* authorities proclaimed the city under martial low and that aj.\ citizens must be off the streets by 10 o'clock unless provided with passes signed by the officer com- mnndini/T During; the day the city authorities received a telegram from Sir Thomas Shatighnessy contributing ?ii,000 from the Canadian Pacific railway to the relief fund, Nothing definite has yet been arranged with regard to the burial of the victims. This will probably lake place on Wednesday or Thursday but whether funerals will bo of u ptibjlc nature or private has not been decided mid will depend upon wishes of relatives. It Is probable, however, that great mass memorial services will bo held in aome one of Ihe public buildings that escaped damage. Heavy Losses Little has been done as yet In the mnkin;,- of detailed estimates of damages, the total of which Is approximately placed at $[..000,000. jn addition to the $150,000.loss of the Canadian Pacific, other heavy losers are: L. O. Kerr, $75,000; II. W. Laird, $100,000; Ma…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0384795
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text