Thirteen Fires Sweep St Louis as Mills Burn
Thirteen alarms and numerous blazes shattered St Louis as the Plant Milling Company mill and the Mansur Tibbett building burned. Two firemen were injured and later rescued after being buried by falling timbers. Losses reach about 9 million with the Plant Milling Company and Mansur Implement Company each facing hundreds of thousands in damages. A strong south wind fanned the flames, hampering extinguishment as warehouses and lumber yards burned.
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St. Loni
Willion
S Company
Choteau Avenue
Amnin ‘ Ling
Coltapes
Tris
Spruce
Tenth and
Spruce Streets
HS P. m
Fie
Pacific Storage ‘Company
Mansur Tibbett, Farming Implement Company
Fores
T. Louis
eHorte
Manibbett
Imam
Mansur Implement Company
Collisr
Poperions
Bridge Opens and Fatal River Tragedy in Chicago
A Washington street bridge in Chicago opened to let a vessel pass. A coupe driven by Rufus Terry with Marie Green and Inaace Shelton plunged into the river as the car crossed the viaduct. Terry and Green drowned. Shelton survived but was injured. Green and Terry were identified as mulatto.
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Loups
Mersant
Chicago
Washington Street
Rufus Terry
Marie Green
Inaae Shelton
Shelton
Terry
Miss Green
Worman
Mr. Green
Kent
Woman shoots assailant in justifiable homicide ruling
Sept 29 Mrs White shot and killed Mr Belle Jamison after he attacked her with a revolver. She fired twice at him in the breast and head, killing him instantly. The coroner returned a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Seevant
Lls
White Caps Whip Woman in Mentor Indiana At Night
Thirty five men abducted Mrs Harmon from her home in Mentor and subjected her to brutal flaying with a hickory near a tree. The attack left deep gashes exposing internal tissue. Mia Freeman, also known as a similar character, was warned to flee the town by the White Caps and departed immediately.
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Mentor
Mento
Ind
Mia. Freeman
Forest Fires Rage Near Green Bay and Peninsula
Smoke hangs over Green Bay as forest fires burn across the peninsula. In the Upper Peninsula Abraham's district is described as desperate with thousands battling the flames. Fifteen farmhouses northwest of Green Bay are reported destroyed as Peshtigo residents dig trenches to defend against the advancing fire.
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Peninenta
Green Bax
Wis
Upper Peninsula
Abraham’s
Rnydervilla Ja
Peshtigo
Turtle Lake Surrounded by Flames. Family Feared Burned to Death
Fire surrounds Turtle Lake Wisconsin as flames lick through the area. Word reaches that farmer Neave's family Wensell his wife and several children were hemmed in and likely perished, with no help able to reach them.
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Entiraty
Encireted
jarnex—Fatalitias Fenrede Tonos Laxt
Wis
The Chilian rumor statement theater may have arreate d
Washington September 20. For two hours the president consulted with state and navy department representatives. It is conjectured that minister Egon and Captain Bobley discussed vacant occurrences in Chili. A dispatch from Valparaiso in the New York Herald claimed three U S citizens were arrested at Bantingo by order of the junta and a police cordon surrounded the United States legation.
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Palice
United States
Legation
Wien
Hil
Channaia
Wasitinarox
State Department
Egan
San Francisco
Payta
Acapulco
Foye
Chili
Fierce Wind Storm Destroys Timber in Minnesota
A severe wind storm swept northern Beltrami County Minnesota causing massive pine timber destruction. The report notes a surveying party chief was killed and many fatalities feared as towns were wiped out. Half a million dollars in property damaged and several firemen injured in Philadelphia and Grann Rarins are mentioned in stray lines. The center of destruction lay 30 to 40 miles north of the local boundary.
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Grann Rarins
Minn
Severil United States Surveying Partiye
Wore
Gorin
C. T
Chandler
Seiument
Pellmell
Misa Daisy
Guthrie News
Fire Devastates Barge Building Area In Philadelphia
A disastrous blaze around September 9 in Philadelphia, centered at the Barge building on North Delaware Avenue, caused over half a million dollars in damage. Firemen, injured while battling flames, faced collapsing walls as Water Street fires spread to nearby mills, packing houses, and oil tanks. Insurance coverage stood at roughly half the loss.
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Philadelphia
Pintapeureia
Barge
North Delaware Averas
Phillips & Cunningham
Howe
Water Street
Gpice Mills
North Water Street
Front Street
Armour Packing Place
Jessp & Moore Company
Dis
Cunningham
Thomaz Wilson
Najoi
Eureka Company
G. W. Elkins
Jessup & Moore Company
Delaware Avenue
Negro Strikers Shot in Arkansas After Murder
Excitement in Lee County Arkansas follows the murder of Thomas Miller by Negro strikers. Sheriff Werner of Crittenden County sends thirty men armed with Winchesters to Lee County with orders to shoot if needed. News reports say whites surrounded a barbecue gathering and two Blacks attempting to flee were shot.
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Lee County
Arkansas
Mewenis
Tenn
Thomas Miller
Werner
Crittenden County
Hanging the Deputy and Jail Runaway Gang Alarm
Sept 20 report from Sthovla Ganenex describes a brutal incident where a gang of white robbers overpowered Deputy Sheriff Melton in jail and attempted to hang him before Policeman Roper intervened. Two inmates wounded. Melton resists and survives.
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Sthovla
Ganenex
W. F. Bentley
John Bentley
Aling Cagee
Harvey Thompas
James Crow
Baren Letherow
Sherif Melton
Roper
Melton
Jolley Named GOP Nominee At Aberdeen Convention
South Dakota Republicans convened in Aberdeen to nominate John ZL Jolley of Clay County for Congress after a orderly session. Jolley led early ballots with 199 votes as French 108 and Lucas 66. the party planned a united front with Jolley’s nomination moved to unanimous support.
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South Dakota
Aberdeen
John ZL. Jolley
Clay County
Aarmany
Clough
State Central Committee
Shelland
Carl G. Sherwood
Clark
Blaine
Blaine ”. B. Murphy
Brookings
HL. P. Packard
Spink
Jolley
Marshall County Wea
John L. Jolley
William E Russell
Russell
William Rousell
John W. Corcoran
Linton
Eldridge Cushman
J. 8. Grinnell
Greenfield
Treasies
Musblev
Deathbed confession ties three murders to Sunbury men
A man dying of typhoid fever confesses to killing Oscar Cluck seven years earlier with a partner named Charles Ward during railroad work. The body was buried under an old tool house and later linked to further robberies and deaths in a chain of events including a swamp burial and a murdered peddler with $150. The tale spans Sunbury, Shamokin, and Chambersburg area clues with suspects fleeing to Poland.
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Shawoxis
John Gtrock
Sunbury
Charles Ward
Oscar Cluck
Oscar
Poland
Richard
Crothar
Conple
Shamokin
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White Cape
Hardin Piatt
Ald
Piatt
Massachusetts
W. Bi. Russell
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Miss
Mechanica Hall
Patrick A. Collins
Mgr. Collins
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Bntonese Destures
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Paris
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Baron
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Min Carey
John Jacob Astor
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