WORKING IN WATER AS CREVASSE FIGHT SHIFTS TO CRIBBING
New Orleans April 2 report on Hymela crevasse repair. Southern Pacific dispatched seasoned crevasse fighters and pile drivers as cribbing ends near each other. Water depth about eight feet with bottom stakes, cribbing extension reducing discharge and raising pressure, hopeful progress but may take a week to secure.
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New Orleans
Hymela
Efed
LaFourche
Brady
Southern Pacific Railway
President Roosevelt rides cabinet to Altoona on a special train
President Roosevelt, aboard a special train, rode about fifty miles in the cab with Engineer Robert McLaine and Fireman Hunter, passing through Altoona to Seward with Loeb and others. He noted enjoying the experience, spoke briefly at Harrisburg, and greeted state officials before continuing.
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Pittsburg
Roosevelt
Horseshoe Curve
Altoona
Alleghaney
Loeb
A. Keiser
Robert McLaine
H. T. McCormick
Hunter
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Galitzen
Seward
Reading
Baltimore
Harrisburg
State Senate
State House of Representatives
Diaz Opens Mexican Congress in City of Mexico
President Diaz opened the Mexican Congress in City of Mexico on Wednesday night with a brilliant audience including many visiting Americans of distinction invited for the occasion.
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Mexican Congress
City of
Mexico
Diaz
Congress
Massive Labor Guides Hymelia Levee Completion
Over two thousand men work through the night at Hymelia New Orleans to complete cribbing and interlining along the break in the levee. By nine o clock this morning the final stakes were driven joining the two wings despite heavy water discharge indicating improved stability. The crevasse at Angola is 200 feet wide with the island submerged by three to fifteen feet of water while convicts reinforce the new levee.
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Hymelia
New Orleans
Angola
Jeffries and Corbett to Clash in San Francisco
The Yosemite club of San Francisco won the bid to stage the heavyweight title fight between James J. Jeffries and James J. Corbett. The bout is set for late August with a choice of either a $20,000 cash guarantee or 70 percent of gross receipts. Officials must decide final terms by May 15.
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Jeffries
Corbett
California Metropolis
San Francisco
Yosemite
James J. Jeffries
James J. Corbett
Not Allowed to Land in New York
Miss Lena Hurley, claiming to be the daughter of Barbadoes postmaster general, was denied admission to the United States in New York on April 2 due to almost total blindness and lack of any friends or acquaintances in the country.
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New York
Lena Hurley
Island of
Barbadoes
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Royal Blend
Howell Brothers
Bryan Steam Laundry
the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Prederick Frelinghuysen
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S. Derden
Man Fio Witt IN IO
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ASTIR
Crescent City
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Memphis Bugle Corps
St. Charles Avenue
Melpomene
Lee Circle
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Canal Street
St. Charles Street
Canal
United States
St. Charles Hotel
Fair Grounds
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John B. Mike
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Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
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