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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1899
Page
8
Details of the Nutmeg State disaster chronicle brutal freight handlers forcing women and children into the sea amid a chaotic shipboard evacuation. Six bodies confirmed with six more missing, many presumed drowned, as crews and rescuers battled flames and wreckage near Sands Point.
An ad proclaims the Shamrock replaced by the Traveler shoe as a superior waterproof invention. It claims the Traveler is a sure winner and highlights leather construction made in a factory. The message lists prices and store locations in Boston Providence New York Newark Philadelphia and other cities with a Springfield factory.
Relatives from Eroomeport claimed the body of Samuel M. Jayne baggage master of the steamboat Nutmeg State. The body was picked up by the City of Lawrence and brought to New York and shipped to Bridgeport tonight.
At Norwich terminus four boxes of bees escaped from the night mail guard’s van. The box collapsed delaying the mail for twenty minutes. Bees swarmed the platform and were finally caged in the booking office after officials were stung during the standstill.
The annual meeting of the Hibernian Total Abstainers Association met at Naomi Hall on Washington street. President Maurice Dinneen of Malden chaired as officers were elected including President Maurice Dinreen of Malden Division 12 and others for Boston Brookline Cambridge Roxbury and Milton. Remarks on welfare were given by treasurer Roche, and officers Hickey McCarthy and McGarry spoke.
Rear Admiral Sampson in a Boston interview sharpens his attack on General Shafter, credits Captain Chadwick for Toral's surrender before Santiago, and challenges Shafter's claims. He endorses harbor work and Boston's potential as a transatlantic passenger hub, and comments on Cuban annexation sentiment and Dewey's presidential prospects.
James H. Eckels former comptroller of the currency and now bank president in Chicago was knocked down by a heavily laden express wagon at Fifth Avenue and Twenty eighth Street. He sustained severe facial bleeding but remained conscious and was taken to the Holland House by Bellevue ambulance. Police arrested Clarence Laviness of 510 Second Avenue after the incident.
John Bowes, 45, of Poughkeepsie, was struck and instantly killed by a passenger train on the Poughkeepsie and Eastern railroad while en route to visit his wife’s grave at St Peter’s Catholic cemetery. His wife had died four years earlier and Bowes kept visiting the grave every Sunday.
Eastport Maine October 15 a Maine Central train struck two Passamaquoddy women on a Pleasant Point trestle. One leaped into a ravine to live another fell and lost an arm when the engine struck. Passengers were thrown from seats as the engineer reversed suddenly.
The German emperor telegrams Mrs J Bruce Ismay in Liverpool expressing hope for her husband’s recovery, calling him a prominent shipping figure and noting a Teutonic visit. He recalls a passenger praising the Oceanic and the line and its owner.
A company sailed for the United States this morning aboard the Atlantic transport line steamer Marquette. The ship is expected to reach New York on October 25 or 26. Many shop and personal friends accompanied the actors from the Albert dock to Gravesend and a farewell breakfast was held onboard.
Boston police report a surge of crowds after Admiral Dewey’s visit, with Chief Watts’s force arresting twenty five noted pickpockets. Detective Edith Thompson from R H White Co. nabbed three notorious men at Hotel Touraine, Tremont Street, then Scollay Square.
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