Mine disaster horror claims many lives in Brooklyn and New York
Reports from New York describe a gas explosion on Gold Street, Brooklyn, entombing up to 25 people. Fifteen buried under earth and timbers, ten missing, as rescuers dig through fifty feet of debris to recover bodies. a woman and two children perished with others nearby.
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Red Lodge
New York
York
Gold Street
Brooklyn
SD Lodge
Southwest Improvement Company
Pacife
Ming
Foreman
Hasgerty
John
Flaherty
Iger
White
Beate Ware
Montana
Habe
Finhinders
Bandits threaten New Haven guard in bold robbery caper
A dozen bandits rode to Silver Bow saloon near New Haven and staged a bold robbery, seizing cash and valuables from proprietor William Campbell and others. Police pursued in a fast-moving case, with detectives and deputies racing toward the scene as witnesses reported masked attackers and a hurried exit.
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New Haven
Prince
William Campbell
Silver
Bert
Campbell
Explosion in Street Tunnel Kills Men and Traps Others
A gas and water main explosion in a street excavation blew walls into a trench forty feet deep trapping and mortally injuring workers. Foreman Samuel Trout died while rushing to save a woman and three children. Only four men escaped, including Arthur Strand and John Cran, who fought through water and debris toward the river outlet as rescue efforts and firefighting crews scrambled to control gas, water, and collapse.
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Ming
N'Tlock
Tite
Eree
Opin
Willand Haggerty
Eminema
I 4
Henic Reyners
Samuel ‘Trout
Arthur Strand
Frank Schwald
John “Cran
Strand
Charles Schiffndver
Schittmeyer
City Water Department
Gay Company
Mystery in Death Mrs Gunness Alive in Flora Reeves Case
Special Dispatch from San Francisco reports police detaining Alma Reeves husband Marlo Reeves and roomer George Smith after the death of Flora Reeves at 1 Alma Street. Autopsy pending, husband claims alcohol issues, investigators consider death by own actions while weighing suspects and possible arson tied to Mrs Gunness case.
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Standard
San Francisco
Fiona Reeves
Alma Street
Marlo Reeves
George Smith
Reeves
Sister
Tutte
Mont
Earthfall at Plains Kills Workers in Tunnel Collapse
A rock and earth slide buried workers during a concrete pit at a mountain tunnel near Paradise Street, Plains. Barton was injured and hospitalized at Lebecher's hospital as coroner Seward and a special train brought the bodies to the scene. The incident occurred near Thatex and Range Gump with a fatal eastern collapse.
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Relal
Standard
Plains
Thatex & Range Gump
England
T Tat Dake
Ohio
Ais
Chewelith
Wash
Cattle Disease Outbreak Triggers Quarantines New York
Washington reports alarming results from foot and mouth disease outbreaks in New York and Pennsylvania forcing interstate shipment bans. A dispatch to Secretary Wattson notes four children in Danville Pennsylvania contracted the disease and a vigorous probe to find other cases. Officials fear a grave spread but expect containment efforts to limit transmission.
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Washington
New York
Pennsylvania
Wattson
Daneville
Auto plunge at Calumet River claims two lives
Four chauffeurs and four passengers fled from a speeding auto near the Torrence avenue bridge over the Calumet River when it swerved. One car plunged 2.106 Armour avenue embankment into the water. The tender and three companions rescued three others, but Joseph Bo Meyer and Margaret Atkins drowned.
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Chica
Chicago
Torrence Avenue
Joseph Bo Meyer
Margaret Atkins
Robbers Hold Citizens at Bay in Henninger & Silcox Heist
At Attica Ohio on November 2 robbers held several citizens at bay while blowing open and robbing the Henninger and Silcox office safe of eighty thousand dollars. The assailants fired on bystanders but escaped.
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Attica
Ohio
Henninger & Silcox
Emperor William Referenced in Courtly Deliberations
Reported discussions reveal a staged decision to avoid all reference to Emperor William amid press attention. Princess van Buelow hinted she and her husband might soon depart, as the diplomatic scene winds down and resignation chatter grows.
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Feri
Channotton von Tielow
Oldstage
Eimperor William
Prince van Buetow
Toray
Princess van Buelow
Trial trip for Montana postponed to December eighteenth
Norfolk Va November twenty The final official trip of the battleship Montana has been deferred until December on account of docking The Montana had been scheduled to sail about December with the new Atlantic fleet for the Mediterranean to meet the home-coming Datship fleet now in the Orient
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Norfolk
United States
Montana
Mediterranean
Orient
Painter Kills Lover Then Commits Suicide in Portland
In Portland on November 22 Will Grande Jean, a painter, attacked his sweetheart Carrie Swofford with a meat axe and, believing he had killed her, killed himself by ingesting carbolic acid. The injured woman is expected to recover. Jaalouay is believed to have incited the tragedy.
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Laporte
Ind
Glal
Lamapiere
Val Haines
Chicago
Pekom
Andrew — Heliele
Firs
Worden
Mra
Gunness
Portland
Ore
Will Grande Jean
Carrie Swofford
Iun
Jaalouay
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Nicholas Will
Promynny
Alexis
Nerburg
Alexin
Cheibathon
Nicholas
Nicholas Station
O Peter and Paul
Sriciing
Awmin
Mtorringey
Wheeler
Richards
Silver Row
Belley
Severnt Gay Voor Enthusiasts
Conn
Harvard
Yale
Jon Dight
Barrington
College
Prospect Mill
Samuel Gaspers
John HL Maptsos
Andrew G. Gorkila
Might and Main
Baxing
Hachelder
Iver
Wark
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