05 Jun 1896
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1896
Page
1
A chaotic scene at the coronation events in Moscow ended in a deadly crush. Crowds surged for food and gifts, trampling many attendants and causing numerous deaths. An official count cited 1,882 casualties, with the Czar ordering a monetary relief to the bereaved.
Vicious floods hit Neosho and Seneca in Missouri early Saturday wiping out several buildings, damaging crops and furniture, and submerging many homes. The number drowned is unclear with initial estimates around twenty.
Returned convict Murlug the strike of 1801 is welcomed back to camp by about 2,500 people in Wilotorts Calo. Mayor Moyle delivers a speech of welcome. The procession passes to Fort Dean where the fort, destroyed in the riot, stands as a backdrop to the event.
A cable from Yokohama reports the death of KAIE.B1ILD, a renowned journalist, from pneumonia in Honolua. The obituary notes her prominence, mentions a signatory A. Thurston and disputes over world fair medal spellings, while also listing various other local notices and incidents from the era.
Dispatches from Associated Press recount a devastating cyclone sweeping across Missouri and Illinois causing extensive destruction in St Louis and East St Louis. Widespread wreckage includes ruined factories, downed wires, collapsed buildings, and hundreds feared killed or injured.
The week features a mixed global market picture with exports of gold totaling $9,090,000 and varied wheat and cotton shipments, alongside a brutal murder spree in Campbell California where five people are killed and a lone survivor fled. Dispatches also note unrest in Valparaiso elections, forgery arrests in Kansas City, and a compressed air rail car project in New York.
A sensational account of a fierce cyclone striking St Louis causing boats to capsize along the river, city buildings blown down, trains derailed, and hundreds killed or wounded. The disaster disrupted telegraph lines, transportation, and daily life as fires and debris spread through the urban center.
Turbulent disaster narrative details East St Louis and St Louis face a violent cyclone. Tracks turn up roads. Rail yards and warehouses collapse under wreckage while telegraph wires snap. City reels as hundreds killed or left homeless. relief efforts begin amid confusion and darkness.
Fragmentary report recalls the Johnstown flood of May 1880 when the Conemaugh River levee failed and many lives were lost. It notes the scale of property destruction and the crowd that gathered as rescue efforts began. Police pursued perpetrators as details emerge of the riot that followed the catastrophe.
A massive cyclone swept through St Louis and surrounding areas causing widespread destruction. The storm levelled the grandstand at the fairgrounds, destroyed the great bridge approaches, sunk river steamers, burned facilities, and left the city in darkness. Telegraph lines down and emergency services overwhelmed. hundreds killed or injured and thousands displaced.
A garbled brainteaser of storm like chaos describes a vast catastrophe: loud cracking sounds, structures toppled, people thrown hundreds of feet, cities from New York to San Michellen wrecked, and coastal ships overwhelmed. The text references widespread destruction, injured and drowned, with "Ney the Cry of Monroy" among famed packets, hinting at a national calamity and massive loss.
The article announces Ellen M. Maher of Brooklyn as a new professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor department of something like humanities. It notes prior dean Murthy J. D’Ooxe and hints at personal relations and a shift to urban life in Ann Arbor and New York.
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