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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1910
Page
9
Spencer Trask a noted financier is the victim in a train wreck that killed a banker and left financial circles stunned. Authorities investigation focuses on the collision and its impact on the financial community.
Spencer Trask banker and fiscal agent for Queen Victoria, was killed when a freight train struck the Montreal express rear sleepers near Croton New York on return from his Saratoga country home. He survived a few months earlier eye loss and leaves a novelist wife Katrina Nichols.
James H. Collins declares he will stay in the highway superintendent's office until midnight, insisting he will collect $40,000 back salary and fees after court-ordered reinstatement. He set up a barricade last Wednesday and has resisted all attempts to be ousted. His removal in 1904 by Borough President Ahearn was ruled illegal.
New York dispatch reports banker Charles W. Morse will likely depart for the federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia, before noon on New Year’s Day. Mrs. Morse and two sons will accompany or follow him, with no application filed for a writ of error by his counsel. Deputy escorts and family members are noted, as Morse’s affairs remain in the hands of Campbell and Sawyer.
Sixty nine men were thrown into the Missouri River from New Bridge as a tug skipper saved scores of people during the incident.
A Missouri ice jam toppled 300 feet of falsework on the McKinley Bridge realigning across the Missouri River. Captain John Short, commanding a tug and two barges frozen in the river, fought the floes for two hours to rescue forty workers and bring them ashore. Sixty nine men were lost or missing, with property damage estimated at 250000 dollars and bridge completion delayed months.
A letter to the Chicago Tribune signed "O Hodges" threatens to blow up the United States Senate with nitroglycerin and kill himself. Federal authorities pursued the author, identified as "C Hodges," after reports he had six months to live and once planned to use morphine.
During a blaze at the Dyer block two men jumped from a third story window and may be fatally injured. Ten girls were rescued by three men as flames raged through the building in Providence RR L. Dec 31.
Gloucester Massachusetts reports that the fishing fleet lost four ships and 47 men this year. the tragedy left 72 widows and two fatherless children.
A Rock Island California special derailed two miles south of Trenton Missouri at 8:30 AM. Three people died and at least 43 were injured, with heroic rescues as fire followed the crash and passengers aided each other amid flames.
Dorothy Taft twelve year old cousin of President Taft disappeared from a Southern Pacific train that arrived in Los Angeles at 1 30 p m. Her mother Mrs H C Bowen had placed her on the train after visiting Pomona. Mrs Taft met the train and found Dorothy missing. Police search continues.
Francis Drysdale a 21 year old man from St Joseph Missouri died after living more than seven weeks with a bullet in his heart. Doctors had performed a delicate operation removing a rib and closing a hole in the heart but did not extract the bullet for fear of fatal consequences.
Special dispatch from Kalispell reports that all light and power and telephone service in Flathead valley and Northwestern Montana and Idaho will shift to the Northern Idaho and Montana Power company. The Big Bend Light and Power plant at Whitefish will retire, with management possibly retained. Franchises across the county are secured, though strong opposition in Polson is expected to spur a franchise revocation request at the next county commissioners session.
Montreal reports a terrific explosion at Place Viger station of the Canadian Pacific tonight. The crowded New Year’s throng on the platform was buried in debris as a gas plant rupture on the Quebec train is blamed. Officials fear a large death toll and the Quebec train was due to depart.
Flames engulfed New York's theater district destroying a block of warehouses and offices including the American Express and Adams Express headquarters. The combined loss from fire and water nears a million dollars with many express packages ruined and numerous people treated for injuries.
A posse foiled a bank robbery at an Oklahoma bank after bandits attempted entry through a rear door. The dramatic confrontation halted the crime as officers closed in, with no immediate word on injuries or suspects.
Five men planned to rob three banks and the Harrah post office in Oklahoma. A posse led by U.S. Marshal Abernathy caught them midway. two robbers were killed, two jailed, and one wounded. Frank Quigg was killed. Carpenter and Dubeck were wounded. Rogers and Wilson were later linked as accomplices.
Workers across several unions cast ballots on whether to strike over contract terms. Members awaited final tallies as leadership prepared to review the outcome and next steps depending on the vote.
A union headquarters report says several affiliated orders of the railway branch of the AFL have voted on striking, but no results are yet known and it is unclear if action will be by independent orders or a full body. The state railway commission issued a traffic update after polling 500 cities about coal shortages and public inconvenience.
Frank Quigg of Atchison was shot and killed today by a marshal's posse during a bank raid in Harrah Oklahoma. His brother George served with Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish American War and died last year at the National Soldiers Home in Leavenworth Kansas.
16 year old heiress Roberta E Delanon, who vanished from Philadelphia, is believed to have traveled to New York with Frederick Cohen a Bellevue Stratford waiter nearly 50. Private detectives and police pursue leads while the missing girl’s grandfather Robert Buist asks authorities to locate both.
St Louis December 31 The board of health and police board regulate United Railroads cars and require a special police detail as inspectors next Monday. Any car found dirty foul unsanitary or not to the patrolman's comfort will be removed from service. The move follows numerous complaints of cold and unsanitary cars.
Nicaragua's Jose Santos Zelaya, still avoiding newspaper questions, made a private call to Frederico Gamboa, Mexico's foreign office sub secretary. Officials in Mexico said no communications about Zelaya's presence passed with Washington authorities.
In Nashville Tenn the state law outlawing manufacture of intoxicating liquor took effect at midnight Forty one distilleries and five large breweries announced suspension of operations with the close of business today.
Washington is awaiting mediation as the government board, led by Knapp and Neil with H B Perham, considers remedies for the St. Paul switchmen strike. Perham says no Taft meeting planned. talks unlikely before Monday. Railroads maintain control, demanding vacancies, while switchmen seek full reinstatement without prejudice.
Chicago December 21 managers refused the switchmen bid for time and a half overtime and Sundays noting no extra pay for rest days in passenger and freight operations. They said railroads are just emerging from a business depression and future volume is uncertain. Further conferences will be held and arbitration is likely.
Los Angeles December 31 sheriff John Branstetter of Greenoounty Indiana served extradition papers on Rev R A Tilburn alias A O Osborne former pastor of the Linton Indiana church who was arrested in Pasadena for embezzlement. Sheriff Branstetter was accompanied by Jel Smith father of Mary organist with whom Tilburn is said to have eloped.
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