Horror's Climax Exceeds All Railroad Disasters
A Toledo Peoria & Western excursion train with 960 passengers fell through a burning bridge near Chatsworth Illinois. One hundred eighteen were killed and about four times that number wounded as cars piled, fire burned, and heroic salvage and field hospitals formed. Rescue spread from Chatsworth to nearby towns as plunderers raided the dead amid a grim dawn of survivors and aid.
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Chicago
Times
Forrest
Chatsworth
Toledo, Peoria & Western Road
Niagara Falls
Toledo
Peoria
Rostock
Here
Brldge
McClintock
Applegate
Forest
Piper City
Steele
Ina
Martin
Baker
Flagpere
Johnson
Teoria
Red Men
Order of United
Mass Casualties Reported After Disaster At Piper City
The list includes Mus, Wat Bach and daughter from Peoria B F Wryart, E P OwELL and son Dr W Coniurs from Galesburg, J Bony Breeds Station, KALES Breeds Station, Jonnx A Moone Jacksonville, A McPanpen Peoria, AMLEE A Martry Bloomington, and A Gaexx Breeds Station. About twenty dead at Piper City and thirty to forty more bodies awaiting identification, eight or ten of them children aged 2 to 8 months.
Unrest and Editorials Spanning North Dakota to Boston News
A mixed dispatch covers J A F of Grand Forks praising Governor Church amid local criticism, plus remarks on ex Governor Pierce’s UND presidency, and reports on grave desecration allegations near Boston's public library. Olympic and local baseball scores follow with Northwestern League results. Aberdeen land office July summary notes preemption and homestead filings. Also included are Dublin church notes and a Duluth rail update with Soldiers Home Commission actions in St Paul.
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Territorial Democratic Central Committee
ML Will
Territory
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Qhureh
Aberdeen
Huron
Pierce
Hill
University of North Dakota
George B. Winship
The
Herald
Professor Montgomery
Boston Commans
Boston
the Record
Boylston Street
Edison Electric Light Company
Wisconsin Brigands Revolt as Freebooters Are Traced
Lancaster detective Charles Bennett tracks a Waterloo Grant county gang of nine burglars led by James Kelly. Oglesby and Chase arrested. others fled to woods. Kelly wounded, officers expect further violence tonight as pursuit continues.
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Wis
Waterloo
Grant County
Charles Bennett
Lancaster
Anthony Oglesby
Frank Swartz
James Kelly
James Greenwood
William Robinson
Aaron Chase
Oglesby
Chase
Kelly
Wells land speculation and a world tour in a chariot
The piece notes that the president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad owns 64,000 acres in Wells county near Ontario, with New York buyers planning a Dawson to Ontario railroad and $100,000 already put up. It highlights local real estate and rail interests driving development, then shifts to a publicity note about Phillip Phillips presenting Around the World in a Chariot of Song in Ontario. It also reports various brief items from Aug 9 including Hudson Strait navigation, Minnesota fair plans, hail losses, and other regional notices.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Wells County
Ontario
Wells
DR. Cook
New York
Dawson
Sook
Iajids
Wells and
Kidder
Ople
Phillip Phillips
J. W. Clarke
Cushman Case Again Hearings on Land Claim
The U S land office orders a new hearing on Charles M Cushman s claim to the southwest quarter of section 24 township 188 range 1 adjoining Manian with affidavits alleging Cushman never lived there and resided in Bismarck. Meat claims heirship and misconduct while Mead left the country amid questions of an earlier contest, prompting a fresh investigation into the long disputed entry.
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United States Land Office
Charles M. Cushman
Sestion 24
Cushman
Iiterior
Aother
James W. Mead
James Brown
E. W.joy
John Hannah
Alex Holmworth
Bismarck
Mean
Mead
Pie Mehd
S. E. Mead
Milwaukee Storm Wrecks Buildings At State Fair Grounds
A severe gale swept Milwaukee around 4 o clock injuring no one but causing extensive damage at Cold Spring park state fair grounds where the main building and several minor structures were wrecked. Heavy rain followed for an hour and was reported across the state, ending a drought that had lasted sixty days and harmed farmers with thousands of dollars in losses.
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Milwaukee
Ang
Cold Spring’ Park
Drouth and fires hit St Louis and Chicago area.
The news reports a St Louis blaze that killed five firemen and a bystander, plus a Chicago prairie fire destroying Weber wagon works and a nearby school and flats. It notes widespread drought damaging Illinois agriculture, with grim outlooks for Indiana Iowa and southern Michigan Wisconsin in a prolonged dry spell.
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Lilivls
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
North American
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