Forty Die As Trolley Plunges Into Pond At Stratford
Bridgeport reports a devastating accident on the Stratford extension of the Shelton Street Railway. A loaded trolley car plunges from a 440 foot iron trestle into Peck's Mill pond near Oronoque, killing many and leaving others missing as authorities improvise a morgue in Stratford town hall.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Stratford
Shelton Street Railway Company
Peck's Mill Pond
Oronoque
Shelton
Oe Peck
Bridgeport Traction Company
Gangplank Collapse Kills Dozens at Bar Harbor Ferry
A plank failure on the Mount Deseret ferry Sappho at Bar Harbor on August 7 sent about 200 people into the water as a crowd swarmed the gangway. Seventeen bodies recovered. three died aboard the vessel. Rescue efforts continued amid rough seas and shifting tolls.
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Bar Harbor
Mount Desert
Maine Central
Maine
Bangor
Mother kills daughter then drowns self in quarry
An investigation found a young girl endured an unhappy love affair. Her mother admitted to killing the daughter with a razor during a struggle and then the mother drowned herself in the quarry pool as neighbors recovered the body.
Whites and Black Clash at Poe Mills in South Carolina
A race riot at Poe cotton mills near Greenville on Sunday night wounded one white man and five negroes. After shots at Greenberg's home, a confrontation led to a jail capture of the negro leader and a mill crowd gathering.
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South Carolina
Greenville
D. C
Poe Cotton Mills
Greenberg
Ben Odom
Multiple Crises and Tragedies Highlight Midwest News
A 14-year-old boy was cut in two by a train in Paoli Kansas. A lightning strike near Eldorado killed Mrs. William Hale. An alleged kidnapper evaded lynching in Rochester Indiana. A father and son died in a Waterloo Illinois train crash. A Colorado divorce suit follows a secret nine year marriage to Eva J. Stanton. A York Nebraska train wreck killed two boys. John Williams killed his ex wife and then died by suicide in Cortland Illinois. A stockman faces $13,000 suit in Perry Oklahoma Territory. A shooting ends Clay Stinnett during a disturbance in Ardmore Oklahoma Territory. Galena and Empire City Kansas consider consolidation. A veteran in Greentown Indiana sues remorse over a 1864 murder. Emma Hart sues Sheriff Williams of Hot Springs Arkansas for $20,000 over her father’s riot death. A Lake Charles Louisiana block of buildings valued at $50,000 burned including Swift’s livery.
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Fred Phelps
Paoli
Kas
William Hale
Eldorado
Ray Jones
Nellie Berger
Rochester
Ind
John
Alphonse Coerver
Waterloo
Albert E. Carlton
Eva J. Stanton
Carlton
Colorado Springs
Colo
York
John Williams
Cortland
Ills
John Hendley
Perry
O. T
Ardmore
I. T
Clay H. Stinnett
Galena
Empire City
Greentown
Emma L. Hart
Williams
Hot Springs
Ark
James E. Hart
Lake Charles
Swift
W. H. Coleen
Fragmented notes from a damaged page depict multiple tragic events
Partial OCR fragments recount drownings in Mogollon New Mexico, a marriage and religious change in Indiana, accidental burns in Illinois, a junk cart incident, an avalanche death, and stray mentions of law enforcement, casualties, and a large employer in Alabama.
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Libbys
Johnson Creamery
Houston
Howell
Texas Bakery
Outg Plume
Otto Boehme
Bryan
Texas
J. M. Caldwell
Agt
Chas. Vesmh
New York
W. G. Murphy
Indian Territory
Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
William A. Robinson
Murphy
Robinson
Meade
Fairbury
Adam Schoenrock
Talbott
Schoenrock
Pontiac
Cleveland
General News
Mith
Breal
Our le. Lawrence Company
Jobe
Mogollon
N. M
Caver
Geneva Burson
Isaac Seer
Elkhart
Springville
Freé
Mack
Koke
Bulle
Lowley
Centra Gladison
Ala
Bryan Watt
Spilker
Union National Bank of
Austin Nursery
Irices
Ormenk
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