In A Bad Place

Two freight trains collided on a trestle eighty feet high on the Canadian Paoiflc railway near Schrieber. The accident occurred at what is known tu the '"horseshoo curve," near Bed Sucker C'ove, and between the stations of Península and Btowart. Two freight trains, ono east bound and the other west, collided on the trestle-work bridge. The trestle gave way and the trains tumbled car after car into the ravine below, adistanceof eighty feet. The engine drivers, flremau and three brakemen, -even in all wers hurled down with the cars and instantly killed. The conductor who orcupied van-; at the rear end of the trams are sai. i to have escaped, as well as one brnkeman, who managcd to jump safely in a tree, and was ouly slightly injured. The entine driver of the west bound train, ('har. es Atkinson of Brockville. is the only one of the seven men who were killed whose name is a yet known. W.lll. ,t i riailiTC. At present Mexican war veterans must, if healthy, have reached the age of i :.i be fore securing a pension. Knlisted sorvanta are not entitled to a pension. Vetorans of both the Mexicun and the late war can ■ eueive but one pension. Twenty veterans uf the Hexlcau war met in Chicago the other day and drafted a bilí to preBent to congress de.signed to remove the age limit, to üllow eniisted servan ts pensions and to allow veterans of both wars to draw pensions for each.