HATTIESBURG HOSPITALS RECEIVE 200 INJURED
Mobile reports from April 27 describe Hattiesburg becoming a hospital camp with about 200 injured treated in hotels infirmaries and homes. Telegraph manager Hughes notes search parties forming for Purvis and nearby towns while Mississippi timber losses may exceed 1 million dollars and rail traffic is halted by storms.
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Hughes
Western Union Telegraph Company
Hattiesburg
Miss
Hattiésburg
Purvis
McCallum
Mississippi
Bank Victimized By Trusted Employees Fraud
Manila reports Banco Espanol suffers about 60000 in gold frauds blamed on trusted staff working with outside accomplices. Cashier says employees honored checks for non existent accounts and altered books to hide the scheme. One clerk is under arrest with more expected. property seizures will help recover losses.
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Manila
Banco Espanel
Tornado death toll rose across Louisiana and Mississippi
Reports from Richton Mississippi and areas between Purvis and the Gulf and Ship Island railroad tallied fatalities and injuries. Governor Noel accepted Roosevelt's aid, sent tents to Purvis, and relief in Amite City improved as tents and rations arrived. Georgia faced rising floods near Columbus with significant damage and two steamboats lost.
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Louisiana
Mississippi
Calhoula Parish
Richton
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Purvis
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
Noel
Roosevelt
Amite City
Atlanta
Alabama
Georgia
Columbus
Chattoochie
Poisoning of Children in Shreveport Well
United States marshal and Shreveport police were notified that twenty to thirty school children near Verde, Louisiana, drank water from a well into which a drug was poured. Seven children were seriously ill. The poisoner is unknown and an investigation is ongoing.
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Shreveport
United States Marshal's Office
Verde
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