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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1913
Page
11
A Pennsylvania railroad excursion train jumped the rails north of Sterling station near Rochester at 9 30 this morning injuring fifty people, some seriously. Emergency crews rushed to the scene, and passengers were taken to local hospitals as investigators began detailing the cause of the derailment.
A well filled excursion train bound for Glean Rock City and Bradford derailed near Sterling at about 40 mph. The smoking car left the track and the fourth car derailment left it upright. Passengers carried the seriously hurt to a field hospital while physicians from Rochester Mt Morris and nearby towns aided. The injured were taken to hospitals in Sonyea and Rochester.
William Boyd age 35 of 9 Wendall road Quincy Point is in a cell at Quincy Point HQ on his wife's complaint for disturbing the peace. He faces a sanity examination today after police arrested him at his home late Saturday night for trying to kick the door in following an earlier failed search.
Brooklyn resident Louis Bloch reports eighteen months of a spreading facial eruption with intense itching and swelling. After trying multiple treatments he used Resinol Soap and Ointment, purchased from a druggist, and was completely cured in about three months. Resinol has long been a doctor’s prescription remedy for skin eruptions and related conditions.
London June 22 The French president Raymond Poincare will visit England as his first official trip after election. He arrives at Spithead aboard the dreadnought Jean Bart and will stay with King George until June 27, accompanied by Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon and other officials.
Great preparations mark the visit of the French President to England with lavish royal welcomes at Spithead Portsmouth and London. He will be received by King George at Victoria station, dine at Buckingham Palace, visit Windsor, the Guildhall luncheon, the Foreign Office dinner, and end with a ball. The journey concludes with a voyage from Dover aboard the Gloire.
Hundreds of children dressed in white paraded through the North End in honor of patron saint San Calogero. Mothers and fathers followed with candles. girls in white veils scattered flower baskets. A Mass at St Leonard of Port Maurice and a banquet in Commercial Street completed the day.
In Jersey City a foul tip struck official scorer Harry C. Harved on the head during a fraternal order baseball game. He died from brain hemorrhage the next day. Batter William F. Pearcey was arrested on a manslaughter charge and to be heard tomorrow.
Marcell Gomiski, 24, drowned yesterday in the Neponset River at Hyde Park while bathing. The incident occurred during a casual swim and rescue efforts were initiated but unsuccessful. Authorities are investigating to determine circumstances surrounding the accident.
Daniel Daly is named master workman with Patrick Hughes as worthy foreman and other officers elected at a largely attended meeting of Local Assembly 628 in New York. Eleven new members were initiated and $65 paid in sick benefits. Several ex-members applied for reinstatement.
Marcell Gonmiski a 22 year old resident of 495 Hyde Park Avenue Hyde Park drowned yesterday afternoon while bathing with friends in the Neponset River near the old pumping station Hyde Park. He could not swim and went beyond his depth in about ten feet of water.
Lester Doucet, 12, nearly drowned in Gloucester harbor when a boom swung and knocked him overboard. John L. Brand of Worcester, a hotel guest, rowed out in a separate boat and pulled the boy from the water by the hair as he sank. A companion boy failed to reach safety.
Dorchester police hunt two men after Chester A. Whittemore a deaf mute of Keene New Hampshire says he was enticed onto an Ashmont and Milton car by strangers late Saturday afternoon and forced to leave the vehicle. He ended in a field where one man held his hands while the other rifled his pockets taking 22 50.
Four year old Moses Horwitz lost his life after his clothes caught fire while playing with matches on Poplar street Chelsea. An unidentified man on the opposite sidewalk chased the flames by wrapping his jacket around the boy and rushed him to a physician at Frost Hospital, but the child died last night. Moses was the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Horwitz of 144 Poplar street Chelsea.
Miss Margaret Josephine O Toole sister of famed baseball player Marty O Toole married Charles R Hayes foreman for the Framingham Shoe Company. Ceremony by Rev John F Heffernan at St Stephen's parish residence. Bride formerly a Dennison Manufacturing bookkeeper. Honeymoon through Maine and New Hampshire.
Jacob F Hanson a leading Swedish American in Greater Boston and baritone soloist has died at his home 36 Union Park aged 50. He helped organize the Swedish Glee Clubs and the Harmony Singing Society and was linked with the Vega Society and the Eagles. Services at Tallberg's mortuary chapel Wednesday with burial at Woodlawn.
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