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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1903
Page
1
Four persons are instantly killed and twelve seriously injured as a bleacher collapse at a baseball game sends about three thousand spectators into chaos. Emergency crews work amid confusion and pain as others seek aid and safety.
A wooden boardwalk over the field bleachers collapsed at Philadelphia National League park during a doubleheader between Boston and Philadelphia. About 4 killed and at least 12 fatally injured with roughly 150 hurt, hundreds crowded the street as救 victims were rushed to St. Joseph's hospital and other facilities. Clergy and civic leaders aided victims while investigations noted rotten supports and a panic on the stands.
Miss Lilly Mo ran, an aeronaut, barely escaped suffocation during a Joliet flight. She descended with her pet dog, could not release the parachute, and the balloon enveloped her on landing. Men rushed to aid her, preventing a worse fate.
Denver Aug 0 Carnahan a prominent mining man fired four shots at Hugh Swearinger a contracting freight solicitor of the Burlington in the Burlington ticket office this afternoon. Swearinger escaped injury though struck by blows before bystanders separated the pair. Police deem the incident possibly a jealousy case with unclear motive.
Honolulu reports Kilauea volcano nearly lifeless after a massive lava slide from the crater rim. No steam or smoke has risen since. Nearby Mauna Loa columns rose briefly to 13 000 feet yesterday but vanished. the mountain now sits unusually quiet, while Kilauea remains the world's largest active volcano.
Alexander Sheeley was arraigned in Judge N D Johnsons court on murder in the first degree for the killing of Albert Crawford. He pleaded not guilty and the preliminary examination was set for Tuesday Aug 18. Alkire, the other man shot, remains in critical condition with slim chances of recovery.
In Hattiesburg a mob hanged Amos Jones after he shot jailer M. M. Sexton. MekElroy aided the breakout, while two white prisoners restrained Sexton. Sheriff Battson was seized. firemen refused to help disperse the mob as about 500 people dragged Jones to Gordon Creek bridge and hanged him from a telegraph pole.
Judge Fulton French of Winchester opened the defense case in Cynthiana Kentucky with a focus on Captain Ewen the main prosecution witness and the attempted impeachment of Ewen’s credibility.
Off Bar Harbor Maine on August 8 the Olympia detected and signaled the enemy white squadron approaching Winter Harbor. The Olympia and Kearsarge coordinated reinforcements, forcing the hostile fleet to retreat and return toward Bar Harbor under fog and wireless relay. The action underscored wireless telegraphy as vital for fleet coordination ahead of a presidential review near Oyster Bay.
Paris court hears Theressa Humbert Frederick Humbert and brothers charged with forgery and swindling in what officials call the greatest swindle of the century. Eva Humbert and Marie Duignac released. Theressa vows to reveal American millionaires believed tied to loans.
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