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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1893
Page
6
A blaze at the World Fair Cold Storage in Chicaco results in thirteen firemen and four guards killed and twenty four people seriously injured. Several workers are reported missing, possibly burned to death, as flames trap men on the roof and a tall chimney failure sparks the disaster.
An eight alarm fire at a cold storage warehouse sent firemen climbing a 91 foot tower. Flames erupted trapping and killing several firefighters including Capt. Fitzpatrick and Lieut. Moulter. Rescue efforts failed as the tower collapsed and victims fell or burned on the roof and below.
At the fairgrounds a massive fire guts the storage building and tower, killing or maiming workers. Firemen battle the blaze amid crowds of 20 000 spectators and a rushed hospital response with ambulances and relief subscriptions.
The Cham berlain Investment company, a major western real estate firm, closed under $2.36 million direct and contingent liabilities with $3 million assets. An attachment by D H Burgeson of Denver Savings Bank led to the sheriff seizure. The vice president may face liabilities in London, while Col Lewis C Ellsworth is appointed assignee.
Reports from Mecca describe dire cholera conditions among pilgrims. Dead bodies lie unburied on roads between Mecca and Mouna, with graveyard shortages and decomposing corpses. Separate dispatch notes renewed outbreaks in Kherson province along the Dnieper and Dniester.
Des Moines July 8 Gov Boies fills Judge Wright vacancy by appointing Mrs Cora Weed of Muscatine to the Soldiers Monument Commission and its executive committee. Weed led efforts for state support, donating time and energy to honor Iowa valor.
The late Judge Grant of Davenport left £1000 and a “good education” to his grand-niece Bessie Cassell. Courts must decide how much education the judge intended and the amount required to fund it.
Reports sketch global agricultural shifts with Fiji abandoning bananas for sugar, a caterpillar invasion in Yoone France, and locust plagues in Algeria. The bees thrive in Queensland as markets for London honey are explored. Indian tea output for 1892 95 stands at 115 687 000 pounds, with prior seasons noted. Epigramun recalls large city cow counts with 22 000 in Epigruren, Dublin 11 000 and London 8 000.
Chicago July 15 1893 directors of the World Columbian Exposition vote 24 to 4 to rescind Sunday opening after tomorrow citing lack of public desire and the burden on exhibitors and workers. Director-General Davis announced Sunday closing and predicted financial benefit to the fair.
The item notes 1 693 000 seamen among mercantile and armed natives, seven Confederate generals still living, and the Pennsylvania National Guard declining a world’s fair visit to hold a state encampment. It mentions Swedish navy officers in full dress with spurs, Dr DeLaAvan Bioopcoon retiring in August, the cruiser Philadelphia embarking on a three year cruise toward the western coast of South America then toward Honolulu or Samoa, and Theodore Runyon presenting credentials to Germany in Major General attire.
A collection of aphorisms about character, generosity, hunger, and attitudes. It urges resilience and utility, noting a good man does not gain from defeat and selfishness appears when hungry. It also observes lighted streets attract more traffic and encourages smiling to be useful.
Mrs Temrie wife of the bishop of London is a shorthand writer Princess May will receive a wedding ring crafted from a half ounce nugget of gold donated by Welsh miners William Walport Astor has purchased Cliveden estate on the Thames from the duke of Westminster Amrnor Banrovr credits his sister Agnes as his political helper who serves as housekeeper and reads newspapers daily to mark items for him
Governor Horace Boies travels to Pomeroy scene of the cyclone and urges swift statewide relief. He reports forty two dead and over one hundred injured in a town of about one thousand, with homes destroyed and hundreds made homeless. He calls for city and town relief committees and funds to rebuild and provides direction to forward aid to the Relief Committee of Pomeroy Iowa.
The State Commission on Revision filed its report with changes to revenue laws. Proposed: realty assessments every five years, exemptions removed for farming tools and libraries, forestry exemption struck, indebtedness exemptions removed, full returns required, utilities assessed by the executive council, expanded state board of equalization, franchise tax on new corporations, inheritance taxes set with thresholds, road taxes to county treasury, and no shift in general tax collection.
About twenty saloons will close this month in Sioux City as the city’s license fee plan reduces openings. A year ago about 100 saloons operated under a $50 monthly fee, and the total has declined for six months, with expectations that not more than sixty five will pay this month.
Ernstes Olsen, in America about four months, was found dying on the E. C. Peck farm northwest of Creston where he worked as a farm hand. He was not used to outdoor labor and suffered a sunstroke.
A roundup reports drownings and deaths across towns including Ottumwa Des Moines and Centerville. Events include a river drowning a boating victim, a death in Independence, accidents from carbolic acid and gunplay, a fatal cannon explosion, a major Des Moines fire, and multiple illnesses and suicides.
Heavy withdrawals force the National Bank of Kansas City to suspend payments with liabilities about 1 million and assets between 2 and 5 million. Franklin Savings Bank assigns for creditors. Brown Palace Hotel trustees assign liabilities 650 thousand with 2.22 million assets. St Louis Lumber Company and several others fail amid market stringency. Buckeye Cycle Company also fails in Cincinnati with assets 81 thousand liabilities 50 thousand.
Vincennes Ind July 15 Allen Butler a wealthy colored man of Lawrence County was found dead hanging near his Sumner home early Thursday. Evidence suggests a mob lynched him Wednesday night amid alleged abortion charges. Butler and his son had waived examination and were bound over though the son remained jailed.
Sneak thieves took a tray of diamonds worth about 10000 dollars from T V Dickinson’s store in the Hotel Imperial block. Several visitors were in the shop that night and clues point to a strange couple who later disappeared. Police guard bridges and issued a general alarm with no arrests.
Historical notes list early milestones: linen in England by Flemish refugees under Henry III in 1253, brass coins circa 1184 B C, Pheidon’s gold and silver coins circa 862 B C, Robert Barker’s Edinburgh panorama around 1788, first champagne by Dom Perignon in the 1600s, Pliny’s Natural History as the first encyclopedia, micrable scenery in theater by Baldassare Peruzzi in 1508.
Lizzie Dorpen invited by the Globe-Democrat to lecture Mrs Vankleren of Leeds Cant rejoices in four children born at one birth Mantua Jornan of Dallas said to be first colored woman in the U S to study dentistry Miss Puorn J Woopman Whittier’s niece to wed Caliga a Boston artist Emmy Louis Gerry of New Haven daughter of Elbridge Gerry signer of the Declaration Gerry is said to be the last living child of a signer
Seventy five convicts attempted an escape at the Ionia Michigan house of correction as 11 a m work shifts were underway. Leader William Smith No 708 led a charge using ladders toward the west wall. A general clash with guards ensued with several convicts injured and Oscar Miller killed after a guard shot him during the yard battle.
A Memphis area report says a negro captured at Milan Tennessee claims he helped Miller commit the Ray sisters murder. Bardwell Kentucky officials were notified of the arrest and a potential new lynching risk loomed. The man allegedly confessed after resistance and related that Miller knew the killer but would not reveal it.
Louis Nape a lineman was killed while repairing a pole top in Toledo Torepo Ohio Monday morning. He believed the wire was dead but it was alive igniting insulation. His spur touched a grounded line completing the circuit and his body hung on a rope between poles as flames showed at contact points.
The July 11 blast in a south Denver storage house leveled the area at 4 30 am blowing out windows and doors. Two men are believed killed, with clothing fragments and a revolver found nearby. investigators suspect tramp involvement though the cause remains unknown.
Word reaches Topeka that William Waddell his wife and four children were drowned at an Englewood Stark county camp awaiting the Cherokee strip opening. A child’s body has been recovered. presumed floodwaters swept the dugout in a valley during heavy rains the prior Thursday and Friday.
California banks resume operations with the Southern California National Bank and University Bank opening Monday morning in Los Angeles. The First National remains closed awaiting Comptroller Eckels’ orders. Only two of six banks that closed two weeks ago remain shut. In Indiana, Gov. Matthews reportedly selects Judge Joseph C. Dailey of Hartford City as successor to Judge Olds on the state supreme bench. formal announcement planned for Wednesday.
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