21 Aug 1906
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1906
Page
1
Citizens of Santiago respond to widespread death with coordinated relief as disaster hits coastal areas. Officials report relatively small damages overall while efforts mobilize across cities for sister-city aid and casualty support.
Survivors suffer as Chilequake devastation floods Valparaiso and Santiago with hundreds of dead and thousands homeless. Officials report widespread ruin, with Valparaiso described uninhabitable and Villa Del Mar nearly ruined. Public subscriptions and government relief efforts mobilize.
After the earthquake a harsh suppression followed with dynamite used to quell unrest. Martial law is in effect and streets are patrolled by troops. Many robbers were shot on the spot. Communications are disrupted with telegraph down and trains not running. couriers on horseback carry letters to Santiago via Victoria square.
Refugees report 1000 corpses buried in Valparaiso as authorities crack down and looters are shot. A newspaper plant in Valparaiso survives with El Mercurio publishing daily from Valparaiso while San Francisco spared less severe damage. An earthquake shock is felt again with widespread destruction and 276000 homeless reported in a Galveston dispatch.
St Petersburg reports two members of parliament arrested with one case in Kiev province and the other in Taurida. In Cronstadt thirty seven officers resign in protest at lenient mutineer sentences. General Saranbateff appointed inspector of Infantry while remaining adjutant general and council member.
In San Marcial New Mexico on August 20 C Raw a carpenter ten miles north of town took a large quantity of morphine after the death of his wife. He was found soon after and died before medical help could reach him at San Antonio. He had been working on several buildings at Elmendorf and had only been there a few weeks.
Torrential rains in Arizona and California disrupt the Brita Fe and Southern Pacific transcontinental lines. Trains are stalled from Los Angeles to Needles and Kingman, with washouts and damaged track blocking east and westbound movements. crews repair roadbeds as delays mount and service aims to resume by tomorrow.
Three killings were narrowly averted in Pecos Valley on the first day Roswell observed the new law. A citywide sports ban sparked disorder with multiple fights as authorities moved to close the gambling hall two miles from town. Prosecuting Attorney J M Hervey aims to shut it down amid a surge of gamblers and illegal activity.
Isthmian canal commission issued specifications for bidding to furnish Chinese labor for the Panama project. Proposals due by 10 a.m. September 26. The contract may hire additional workers up to 2000 per month if needed and requires deportation of laborers and families after service. One lynching reported in Columbia as Rob Ethridge, accused of assaulting a farmer's daughter, was shot dead at the scene.
The Jamestown exposition opens April 26 1907 and will cover 400 acres of land and 260 acres of water on two grand piers in Hampton Roads near Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News. It features a four mile water front a large drill ground a canoe trail flirtation walk and expansive piers extending into the bay.
The passage recounts Jamestown as the cradle of the nation and notes its ruins on a river island near Richmond. It then tells of Jean Lafitte, the famed pirate, and Norfolk memories, racing from his Caribbean raids to a treasure found with his companion Pierre Clarkson, yielding a fortune and a death.
In Charlotte Michigan on August 20 two Italian laborers died two are dying and fifteen more are injured after an engine of a Michigan Central work train backed into the train while workers ate dinner. Many workers were on flat cars when wrecked and thrown from the track. The engineer fled after the crash as rescuers tended the injured.
W B Storey Jr is named chief engineer of the Santa Fe railway system with Chicago HQs and duties to begin September 1. He currently leads Santa Fe operations between Chicago and Albuquerque and Morse will replace him at Topeka overseeing lines west of Albuquerque.
Military orders transfer colored troops from Fort Brown Texas to Fort Reed Texas after citizen soldier clashes. White company moves to Fort Brown to replace them. Penrose cites killings and wounds at Brownsville. Culberson urges Roosevelt action.
The Pacific mail liner Manchuria struck a reef at Rabbit Island and is now hopelessly aground inside the reef near Honolulu. Efforts to float her have failed. rescue and passenger accommodations are arranged, with many passengers landing at Waimalo while engineers plan potential weeks of salvage. Captain Saunders accepts blame for misidentifying land as Mukapu Point.
In Natal near Vrantzkop colonel Royston mobilizes 3,000 levies including 1,590 from Zululand to strike at dawn against the Irreconcilable natives.
Illinois Republican convention to endorse Speaker Joseph Cannon for president in 1908 with a unified party backing. Senator Cullom expected to win reelection, signaling a harmonious gathering at the state house in Springfield August 20.
President Samuel Gompera of the American Federation of Labor declines to reply to President Cannon in his current speech. He says he will respond later in the campaign when he can proceed calmly. In Duluth, Minnesota, fires in the Mesba range burn vast property including towns and mines.
Peoria August 20 the Minow democracy state convention will endorse William J Bryan for president despite public disagreements over Roger C Sullivan Illinois move. Bryan supporters push for endorsement regardless of opposition from Sullivan forces who seek home rule.
Washington reports the Russian ambassador informed the state department that Russia will extend to the flotilla of revenue cutters patrolling the Baltic the protection of imperial navy ships. The move aims to curb firearms and explosives imports, aligned with Russian customs law and maritime law.
Wapakoneta Ohio August 20 an interurban car at Cridersville jumped the track at full speed killing three people and wounding more than twenty The dead are motor man Iotin Van Clapper and passenger Otto Koch Both from Wapakoneta Also dead Miss Iva Reinard 18 of Cridersville and other injured passengers rushed to nearby hospitals
Marty I. Anderson of the Monta Fe repair shop suffered severe injuries when a raised car slipped from jackscrews and crushed him between drawheads. He was taken to a Las Vegas hospital after fellow workers freed him from the grim accident in the repair yards at Keaton N M on August 26.
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