05 Mar 1908
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
1
Miss Vivian Phillips a 22 year old resident of 5 Sycamore street Worcester was shot by her lover Harry Mounier of Philadelphia who also killed himself by shooting. Mounier died at City Hospital at midnight.
The story describes a fatal incident without witnesses, alleging jealousy by Mounier, about 28, who was devoted to his partner. The couple, expected to marry soon, triggered the gunfire at 11:30 with three shots within a minute, awakening boarders.
Washington March 4 United States Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont died at his apartments in Washington news notes his passing and sums up the sudden loss in the capital.
A United States Senator from Vermont died yesterday in Washington. The death prompted tributes from colleagues and calls for orderly succession as the state and nation mourn the loss of a prominent lawmaker.
The Vermont senator died after a week of grip that progressed to pleurisy with pneumonic heart complications. His son Governor Fletcher Proctor was at the bedside with his wife and several intimate friends. The death followed a short illness and occurred in Champlain this afternoon.
The janitor Herter describes sweeping in the basement when smoke appeared from the front stairway and a fire alarm brought the alarm gong. He says he saw flames fill the building as children fled through them and he could not reach his daughter Helen, who died.
A mother, Mrs. Spring, rushed to a burning schoolhouse to reach her seven year old son Alven in the second grade. She set a ladder at a window and, while attempting to pull him to safety, lost her grip as his hair burned away and he fell back into the flames.
Mrs. John Phillips frantically searched a schoolhouse fire scene for her 15-year-old daughter among victims. A 4-year-old son alerted her to the blaze, and she pulled at the girl’s hands as smoke and falling glass wounded her before the child died before her eyes.
Miss Catherine Weller a ninth teacher at the school died while leading her class to safety during a hall crush after the fire alarm. She died beneath the crowd as pupils surged toward the rear door in a tragic failed escape.
Eyewitness accounts describe children crushed and piled against inward opening doors at the rear of a burning building. Firemen broke the door as flames enveloped the aisle and women outside fainted from the dreadful sight of white faces and struggling bodies.
For forty years Sanford's Ginger has been favored for everyday ills and as a standard of purity flavor and strength. Look for the Owl Trade Mark on the wrapper when you buy. Public notice We remind you to read our advertisement on the last page. Holland Wine Co 47 Boylston St or Adams Sq.
A Cleveland suburb fire at North Collinwood School killed many children and left dozens more missing or injured. The two story brick building had inward opening doors and a single rear fire escape, trapping students as flames from a furnace spread swiftly through the halls.
Walter C. Kelley of the Cleveland Leader reports that the back door of the schoolhouse was locked as a fatal fire raged. Mrs. Kelley and an unknown man tried to force the door without success. They smashed some windows to rescue several pupils amid screams from victims.
Boston school officials assert strong fire safety performance with daily drills and rapid evacuation plans. Superintendent Brooks emphasizes that Boston schools can clear all students within two to three minutes, while noting no drill guarantees absolute safety in a disaster like Collinwood.
Locomotive engineers firemen conductors and trainmen on the Boston and Maine rail road face a vote this week on accepting a five percent wage cut. The cut would run through July 1. Early sentiment favors rejecting the reduction, with a referendum to determine if a strike will occur.
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair Thursday with possible rain or snow Friday and a bit warmer conditions with variable winds turning easterly to southerly. Washington summary adds New England and eastern New York fair Thursday, Friday rain in the south and snow or rain in the north, slight warming with light north winds then variable.
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