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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
9
Reports from Kingfisher and Oklahoma City describe Rock Island No. 12 derailing at a wooden bridge over the Cimarron River. Estimates vary but up to around 100 missing or dead, with fifty to a hundred feared drowned and several cars submerged. Rescue teams and physicians were dispatched. bridge damage blamed on recent heavy rains and aging structure.
Reports from Dover and Kingfisher Oklahoma recount a deadly Rock Island wreck near the Cimarron River. Forty seven bodies placed in a temporary morgue at Dover with many more presumed dead or missing after a bridge collapse and flood.
Officials in Chicago report train No 12 breached a Cimarron River bridge with two injured crew members and no passengers harmed. Oklahoma City sources say local Rock Island officials know little, while at Chickasha both the superintendent and trainmaster head to the wreck site amid confusion over casualties.
An Oklahoma City report details the Dover train catastrophe on the Cimarron River where the northbound Rock Island train plunged after a bridge failure. Rescue efforts are underway as townspeople assist, and hours later a Kingfisher undertaker relays fatal news. Also noted is a Kansas City Lawton Pacific rail proposal seeking $25,000 cash bonus and land right of way to spur a Lawton to Muskogee line.
Officials in Topeka quote Chicago Rock Island and Pacific that engine baggage car mail car and one coach of northbound train No 12 lie buried in Cimarron river bed just south of Dover Oklahoma with the smoker partly submerged Two Pullmans a chair car and a coach stayed on the track after the train crossed the bridge about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning
Oklahoma board of agriculture secretary C A McNabb criticizes recent fertilizer advice for Oklahoma wheat. He calls the fertilizer approach unnecessary and costly on lands cultivated only a few years, urging rest and crop rotation to restore soil and yield. He faults inexperienced voices overruling agricultural college experts.
In Chickasha Judge J T Dickerson faces a $500 damages suit from A Washmood a murder suspect in Ardmore jail for refusing to issue a habeas corpus writ. The case may go before Judge Townsend or Judge Clayton. Dickerson is noted as fearless and four years on the bench.
A state constitutional committee formed in Shawnee by Farmers Union and labor delegates maps demands for the new constitution. W. T. Field chairs. J. Harvey Lynch secretary. E. Duffy treasurer. They seek 70 percent union representation in the constitutional convention and outline 16 policy goals from initiative rights to corporate taxation and mine safety.
In Tulsa a one story brick building under Smith construction collapsed twice after a defective wall. Fire Chief R C Alder was critically injured while rescuing. Mrs George Perryman narrowly escaped after shielding her infant by lying over it. Rescue teams race to reach entombed workers as damage tops $13,000.
Atlantic City selected as the site for the National Hoo Hoo organization’s next meeting. The fifteenth annual convention closed with installation of supreme officers at the opera house led by A C Ramsey of St. Louis as Supreme snark and T H Rogers of Oklahoma City as senior hoo hoo. Other officers included W W Everett San Francisco bosun and J H Baird Nashville supreme scrivenoter.
Washington Jett of Enid Machinery and Supply company was operating a threshing machine when it exploded. The force hurled him twenty feet into a tank of boiling water from which he crawled out on hands and knees, his body nearly cooked. The accident, described as potentially fatal, occurred near Enid.
Reparations completed for Ardmore event as the second annual fair opens on September 25 for a three day run. Officials expect community participation and local vendors to showcase products and crafts.
In M’Aleister, a booklet for a senatorial committee titled The Truth About the Segregated Coal Lands will be published in mid November. Locals dispute the claims of vast riches, with J G Puterbaugh saying much segregated land is not worth much, though others warn the coal trust could inflate value. Current haul rate is forty cents per ton.
Residents of Sulphur and Ada push for a name change with Platt City or Artisia as leading options. The movement centers on local identity and community pride amid ongoing discussions.
A joint Christian church committee from Oklahoma and Indian Territory will meet in Guthrie on October 1 and 2 to choose a site for a new college to be built by the church in the state. Enid and other towns seek the college and delegations are expected from several towns.
Judge J. H. Maxey of Shawnee was nominated to be delegate to the constitutional convention by Democrats of the Thirty first district after a spirited 123 ballot contest with Pendleton and Pitman. Maxey helped to form the Missouri state constitution.
William E. Rutledge of Mound City after visiting nine Philippine schools says Filipinos are small because they smoke and carry loads on their heads. He reports little enthusiasm among Filipino pupils for work.
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