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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1907
Page
1
A spectacular blaze in the William Zoeller Packing Co on Garden Avenue Allegheny sparked by a warehouse fire holding 500 000 pounds of lard. Amid the flames ammonia tanks exploded sending debris and a public panic with no injuries. Loss estimated at 300000.
Snow and freezing conditions spread from northern Kansas and Missouri into Nebraska Iowa and parts of Texas Panhandle. St Joseph Missouri recorded several hours of snow in the morning and Colorado Springs faced light snow and cold. A Belva County Fruit Growers letter warns of widespread crop damage in Colorado.
In Guntersville Alabama on April 25 Bob Waters, a young man who killed Perd Winkles, an elderly Confederate veteran in 1905, was hanged in the jail yard under grim circumstances. Waters resisted with a knife, ammonia was used to overcome him, and he was carried to the scaffold coughing and moaning. He denied the crime when asked for a statement.
A massive rice shipment from eastern Texas arrived in New Orleans on April 25, estimated at 1,200,000 pounds. Merchants say it is the largest single shipment of rice on record, requiring twenty-three freight cars, with a large portion destined for export.
A Greenfield dispatch reports lakefront devastation with over 100 cottages burned along with a hotel, railroad station, and boathouse at Lake Pleasant. The fire is said to have started in a cottage and wiped out numerous structures.
President met with S B Haemmock and R M Graham at the White House to discuss labor organizations and the Haywood Moyer dispute. He spoke of his advocacy for railway employes and safety appliance laws, leaving both visitors satisfied with his views.
Thaddeus S. Ross a post office clerk was shot and killed by his former sweetheart Miss Isabella Stroup twenty eight. She then shot herself through the heart. Both stem from a personal crisis as Ross was to marry Miss Drusilla Sampsell that evening. The tragedy occurred in Dr George W Magees office in Oil City Pennsylvania. Miss Stroup had arrived from Bradford and contacted Ross by telephone while he dined at his home. Miss Sampsell is prostrated.
A smoke stack collapsed through a work room at the T. C. Wheaton & Co. glass factory in Millville N J killing three young women named Lena Doughty Lydia Thurston and Sylvia Gallagher who were employed there.
A tank containing 100,000 gallons ruptured during the sportsman's show in the Duquesne gardens east end Pittsburg. The flood damaged decorations and forced hundreds to flee exits in panic though no injuries were reported.
J. B. Fairchild, age 77, a longtime Sherman resident of 35 years, collapsed and died. He formerly served as president of the City Bank, and was a stockholder in Commercial National Bank and Greiner Kelly Drug Co of Dallas.
Readable text describes two brick structures on Bryan street with dimensions 50 by 115 feet. No further context or ownership details provided.
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