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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1906
Page
1
Government approves 100000 for relief and family care after the Dieppe Coves mine disaster. Death toll climbs past 1100 as crowds flood the pit, rescuers chase trapped workers, and ministers work on scene with soldiers guarding the entrance. Victims’ families flock to the mine as officers pledge funds and aid.
Half of the recovered bodies have been identified as volunteers press on despite danger. Many who escaped earlier return to the shaft repeatedly. One rescuer suffocated on his fifteenth ascent after bringing up fourteen bodies. Gas fills the mine as more rescuers are brought out unconscious. Women break windows to reveal possible hurriedly removed bodies. Miners from pits 11 and 3 escape by a ladder, visibly injured and distressed.
Unfinished two story frame building owned by J Reilly collapsed in high winds in San Francisco killing Fred Chenique and injuring John Roach and Bes Miller. Roach suffered a fractured skull and did not survive. Miller remained seriously injured as builders rushed to finish the project. In Montana a severe storm rages with 12 below at Marysville and 18 below at Livingston as statewide snow piles up. Livestock stocks threatened by continuing blizzard conditions.
A race riot near Wilmer Alabama leaves A J Elles fatally wounded and Cole Daniels wounded while F W Pringle and Sam McPaston are also injured. Nearly 200 armed white men gathered at Wilmer as four blacks were arrested and escorted to Mobile, tensions stemming from prior threats in turpentine camps.
Metz reports German corps distribute a fifty page bound pocket manual titled What You Must Know About the French Army detailing uniforms, regiments, formations, patrols, and outpost deployment with a phonetic Franco-German QandA section for peasants. Other corps in Westphalia and S Germany also issued the manual amid tense wartime notices. no telegraphers strike anticipated.
The railroad rate bill is the centerpiece of the Senate agenda with Tillman guiding a written report amid expected speeches for and against. Divisions arise over court review of Interstate Commerce Commission findings, while Bailey and others seek amendments to require court review and preserve commission orders. House Ways and Means also debates limiting appropriations with new age rules for clerks and a long close to the week.
Two freight trains and a passenger train collided near Bloomdale causing two deaths and fifteen injuries with one more expected to die. Engines and many cars were wrecked and later burned as emergency crews responded.
Special to the Morning Journal Alamogordo New Mexico March 11 Ranger Dudley of the New Mexico mounted police captured five prisoners in the last forty eight hours Two were taken at Gallives Station along the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad and three in the Gallinas mountains after a three day chase The men named Dwyer Valiroux Fitzmuses Hanley and Edwards are accused of organized car theft along the Gallinas region and along the Southwestern line Various stolen whiskey dry goods hardware and merchandise were reported missing and no property recovered yet pending questioning of the prisoners.
The anthracite operators deny the miners' wage readjustment proposal and propose a three year continuation of current awards from April 1 1906. They reject a union agreement, argue wage uniformity is impracticable and state the ten hour day should be restored though willing to accept the commission's ruling. Miners in Shamokin say many will quit April 1 without concessions. Newman and Mitchell hold a conference in Philadelphia amid grave regional tensions.
In Fraga Ara kon province a mob of unemployed men assaulted the municipal buildings. Gendarmes inside fired on the assailants, killing four and wounding three. one soldier was wounded in the clash.
The Supreme Court will decide today whether to strike out major parts of the defense’s claim in the habeas corpus proceedings to secure release of Charles H. Moyer and associates arrested in Denver for Governor Brennenberg’s murder. If upheld, the motion could dispose of the case. bail will be pressed for Moyer who has asthma and dangers to his health if kept confined.
New York March 11. Father Mayer superior general of the Carmelite order arrives to oversee all houses in the United States Canada and South America. He will travel about 46 000 miles ending in Rome early next year with only a small handbag for toilet articles and an empty purse under the order’s vow of poverty. Mayer, an American formerly of Pittsburgh, expects to remain in the United States and Canada until July then sail to Brazil. The trip aims to inspect the order every three years. Progress is slow in some regions but Spain and Italy show promise. In Amarillo Texas the Carson building the citys largest was destroyed by fire early today causing $20
General Henry C. Corbin Returns from the Orient with a calm view of tensions with China. He describes Manila as peaceful and improving under American rule, cites new streets, a harbor program, and electric railways. He notes unification of forces to support civil government and declares Moros mostly ungovernable but now steadier under U.S. troops.
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