AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GREW SAVED, VANCOUVER, Feb 17. The crew of the Tuscan Prince were all rescued. The vessel will probably be a total loss. BLIZZARD FATALITIES. NEW YORK, Feb 16. Belated country wide reports at least twenty-two lives were lostl; « a result of the blizzard. FIRE IN ASYLUM. MANY INMATES PERISH. NEW YORK, Feb IS. ThiHy maniacs perished and more than one hundred were severely hurt and twenty-two patients are missing ill a fire which destroyed one of the buildings in the State Hospital for iusanl at Ward’s Island. A short circuit due to nearby blasting, caused a blaze ill which the inmate's, with madmen’s proverbial strength fought the firemen who were rushing in and sought to wrest axes from them. The firemen were com polled to fell their assailants with the blunt side of the axes. Other inmates hurled themselves upon rescuers clawing, ripping and tearing; clothes while the flames approached amt smoke hit into their eyes and lungs. Some witless men refused to he rescued and were removed only after being rendered insensible hy firemen’s blows. It is believed three nurses perished in th endeavour to remove obstinate patients. LINERS ICE-COATED. *> NEW YORK. February 17. The gales and the zero weather which started on Wednesday, still continue unabated. The weather is playing havoc with the Atlantic shipping.^ The steamer Moncenisie is stil not reported, and it is believed that she has been lost with all hands. The liner Vasari rescued the crew of dismasted British schooner, the Do-

The incoming liners are crusted with ice. The passengers were kept below throughout the crossing of the Atlantic Inland the greatest suffering has been ,-t caused through the lack of coal, the Government having refused to put an embargo on coal shipments to Canada, The populations in various towns in Upper New York State are threatening to' forcibly seize the coal trains, as they pass, in order to supply their homes and the hospitals. Throughout; the country the transportation is still paralysed. FATE OF “TUSCAN PRINCE.” 4? VANCOUVER, February 16. The Tuscan Prince was found stranded on Village Island, in Barclay Sound The crew are safe and are being taken off. HOPE OF WORLD. “PUSSYFOOT’S' ’ OPINION. NEW YORK, February 18. Pussyfoot Johnson, in a speech, said that- when America adopted national prohibition, it started a movement all over the world. There had. not been a law-making body in a civilised country during the last twenty years that had considered the liquor traffic something to encourage, but something to destroy, as speedily as possible. M. Johnson decries the talk that America was flooded with liquor. He said that when a man gets drunk now and beats his wife, it is news, whereas before prohibition, forty men could do the same thing, and not a line would appear in the newspapers; America was the supreme hope -of the world.