Waine train disaster victims identified
Authorities reveal the identities of the dead in the Waine train disaster as investigators confirm the victims and the line of inquiry proceeds. Families await further details while officials pledge updates.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1907
Page
13
Authorities reveal the identities of the dead in the Waine train disaster as investigators confirm the victims and the line of inquiry proceeds. Families await further details while officials pledge updates.
Concord dispatch lists identified dead from yesterday rail disaster. Victims include Timothy Shaughnessy Manchester New Hampshire and Mrs M E Warren Haverhill Massachusetts among others from New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts and Quebec. In hospital at Hanover NH the injured are listed with Miss Allina Juron Nashua and several Saunders family members. Calamity blamed on train order mishandling as railroad officers remove station agent from service.
Twelve of the 27 people taken to Margaret Hitchcock hospital after the West Canaan railroad wreck, which killed 16, were well enough to leave today. Fifteen remain hospitalized. The item continues on page six.
Four surgeons of the marine hospital service were ordered to assist Dr Rupert Blue who, at the mayor’s request, leads the bubonic plague response in San Francisco. Blue has set 12 district headquarters and will receive daily reports from district physicians. More surgeons may be dispatched as needed.
President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor will issue an appeal for aid to support the striking telegraphers. He said the document is completed and will be made public tomorrow and calls for organized labor to provide financial and moral assistance per federation pledges.
New York reports street disorders as 5000 furriers strike after a lockout on Saturday. About a score of strikers were arrested amid labor unrest. St Paul also reports 110 men arriving to fill boilermaker posts on five roads, with more on the way. In Spokane nine boilermakers quit, leaving repairs to a reduced crew, as Northern Pacific and Great Northern employees strike.
New York report states the Union Pacific syndicated underwriter for 75 million in convertible bonds dissolved today. About 70 million unsold bonds were distributed to participants while stockholders and managers took small portions. Bonds quoted at 85 today.
John L. Snyder of Columbia county sues Oregon & California Railroad and Union Trust in federal court to decide if federal acts of April 10 1869 and May 4 1870 required the railroad to allow U S citizens to settle lands granted to railroads at $2 50 per acre and limit to quarter sections, with the railroad acting as trustee. The suit could affect millions of acres in Oregon and California as the railroad allegedly withholds lands for its own use.
Frederick McNally, three year president of Rand McNally & Co., died today in Chicago after three weeks of illness from nervous prostration. The longtime publishing executive shaped the firm’s direction during a period of growth.
From a Salt Lake paper, Miss Elizabeth C White of the Dressmakers' Protective association proclaims new straight gown fashions will curb crime by removing curves. She argues modest, dented designs replace tight serpentine effects, promising a return to colonial style and suppression of lacing and pads.
New York reports E H Garey, chairman of United States Steel, says a general business upturn will follow sales of 7 billion dollars worth of crops, anticipated in weeks if weather stays favorable. He predicts the public will gain a rare chance to buy good securities, enabling firms to raise funds for renewals and extensions.
Kamura states that Japanese forces are satisfied with the status quo amid regional tensions. He reiterates restraint and calls for dialogue to ease strain in the area.
Baron Komura, Japan's ambassador to Great Britain, met Sir Edward Grey at the foreign office to discuss anti oriental disturbances in Vancouver. He carried dispatches from Vancouver and Ottawa and said Japan trusts Canada will punish those responsible and supports actions already taken.
Ottawa dispatch reports Vancouver's mayor stating Hindus are not paupers but the health officer calls the sanitarian situation serious with only the Sanitary building available. Laurier replies he misunderstood housing at government expense and will send a special officer to investigate the western case.
In Boston on September 16, testimony described Henry H. Rogers as very weak with distorted face and impaired speech. His left side affected and he cannot transact business. Rogers Jr. noted only three checks and a power of attorney since July 22 and said Rogers was told to resume his business. Judge Hammond denied bringing him into court to testify.
Special Correspondence reports James Edwards and Jaimes Thompson escaped from Glendive Montana jail after exploiting a broken Yale lock and padlock removal. They crawled through a hole in the brick wall and fled to the corridor, then disappeared as guards returned. Sheriff Larson issued alerts nationwide. It is the second jail breakout in two months.
The Oregonian reports a new Bitter Root railway incorporation by Oregon, rail officials, aiming to build from Spaulding to Butte, Mont. It signals renewed hostilities between Harriman and Hill, dissolves the O R N and Northern Pacific compact, and seeks Lewiston Huntington cutoff completion. Lewiston surveys snake river route to Riparia with most rights secured.
Kansas City September 14 The Star reports 97 percent of Missouri Pacific engineers favor a strike over roundhousing locomotives at end of runs. A nationwide effect could involve Gould lines and others including Tron Mountain, Denver Rio Grande, Waves, Texas Pacific, and International Great Northern with about 1200 engineers affected. Siemens representatives discussed joining the action during Kansas City visit. A conference between engineers and railroad officials is planned in St Louis this week.
The Kansas state railroad board prepared a tariff sheet proposing a 33 1 3 percent freight rate cut. Governor Hoch hints at a special session if railroads do not adopt a 2 cent fare. The board aims to enable quick investigation of distance tariff changes.
Odessa on September 16 reports show the Black Hundred firing revolvers, looting homes, and beating people during the police official’s funeral. Two Jews were killed and many Christians injured amid widespread violence and raid reports from other locations.
Antonio Villareal Ricardo Flores Magon and Librado Riviera, alleged Mexican revolutionists, were freed by police on libel and resisting officers charges then rearrested on murder and robbery claims by Deputy U S Marshal. Consul Lozano said affidavits rest on Enrique Creel. Prisoners appeared in Judge Fredrickson's court amid cheering supporters.
Lincoln Neb September 16 Supreme Counsel A R Talbot of the Modern Woodmen, issuing from Rock Island Ala headquarters, asks all 12 000 camps of the order to hold anniversary celebrations January 5 and to initiate 25 members each, aiming to exceed one million total members.
Police report a bold heist at Oriental Limited with suspects described as Hubbers taking a large sum in coins. Authorities say three men fled the scene leaving scarce clues as detectives investigate the overnight robbery.
Rumors say bandits who robbed the Oriental Limited near Spokane last week aimed at a specific money package from Chicago, with fireman Pearson used as an opportunistic aid. Insurance covers losses, and authorities note the heist revealed knowledge of money shipments and dispatch routes rather than any passengers.
Pittsburg Kansas September 16 at Crowe burg a new mining camp in the northern part of the county two Italians were killed and two fatally wounded. The mine boss Charles Gardner and his sister Mrs George Rexford were waylaid on the road home by several Italians and shot and probably fatally wounded. Gardner returned fire and killed two Italians. Names not given.
San Francisco report notes Judge Dunnell orders the house of confinement used by elisor to be closed by nightfall and Abraham Ruef moved to another location for safekeeping. Chief of Police Biggy states decision on next action is not yet made.
Miss Carrie Myers, 32, known as Mrs W H Wilcox, leaped from a balloon at 700 feet during the Olean fair crowd of 10 000. The parachute failed to open until after a 300 foot fall, killing her instantly with a shattered body near the Pennsylvania rail tracks.
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