Storm Lashes Gulf Coast Vessels With Few Fatalities Reported
Aug 19 New Orleans reports a strong Gulf storm receded with limited loss of life. Water rose and flooded sections of the coast as ships and crews faced wrecks, including the tug Boloxi capsizing and six lives lost aboard an unknown schooner near the river mouth. Quarantine officials noted no major injuries at their station.
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Biloxi
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Cobden
Fulton
Hsther
Stevenson
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Exther
Northwest Pass
Hla
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Storm in Mobile Reports No Loss of Life
Mobile Aug 16 reports no known loss of life from the storm in Mobile or nearby areas. Seven small vessels were lost but crews are believed safe as water levels subside to near normal. sugar estate damage in Mobile is considerable though no large individual losses noted.
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Mobile
Storm at Mobile lowers water as telegraph resumes
Communication with Mobile resumed at 9 am via Meridian line. Water began to subside after midnight but remained high. Reports indicate Mobile’s water level fell at least four feet since service cut on Thursday, with Fort Morgan and Point Clear still cut off and recovery by boat expected from bay resorts.
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Atlanta
Mobile
Meridian
Fort Worgan
Point Clear
Bay
Fort
Highest Water Reaches Record Level in August at Burnside
The Cumberland River overflows banks causing severe crop damage in Burnside Kentucky as rainfall continues for 96 hours. No loss of life reported by 10 15 a m but area remains flooded with extensive impact on farms and lowlands.
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Burnside
Cumberland
Uribe Uribe Rebels Try to Oust Colombia Supreme Authority
The report traces General Uribe Uribe’s Colombian rebel movement aided by Venezuela and Ecuador aimed at overthrowing the Colombian government. It notes rebels attracting Nicaraguan recruits in Panama and the risk of U S intervention to safeguard American interests.
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New York
Venezuela
Vicereyna
Ecuador
Uribe-Uribe
Colombia
Nicar
Panama
United States
Colou
Venacanela
Gonzalez Valencia
Vealencia
Venecacia
Conca
H. Lemly
United States Artillery
Lemly
Navy
Pedro Ospina
University of California
Marino Ospina
Mosquera
Cauca
Millionaire to Blind Fish With Electric Light at Sea
W B Meade of New York plans to fish by blinding fish with a powerful electric light. Four 75 foot boats to sail to the Pacific include separate dynamos and a naval searchlight projector to illuminate and lure fish into nets. Yale scientists and inventors Hall and Burdick assisted in adapting marine electric lights for this method.
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New York
New Haven
W. B. Meade
Ies
Pacific
Yale Scological
Yale
Mr. Meade
Francis G.hall, Jr
Irving E. Burdick
Yaleen
Proclamation Spark in South Africa Crisis Debate
The article notes the British government’s plan to resume civil authority in South Africa starting September 13. Sir William Vernon-Harcourt challenges the proclamation’s terms claiming it destroys belligerent rights, while Mr. Chamberlain argues rights are revoked only if Boer actions turn to plunder and murder.
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Kitchener
South Africa
William Vernon-Harcourt
Chamberlain
Cloudburst causes heavy damage near Tehachapi
Bakersfield reports a terrible cloudburst at Tehachapi with extensive damage. Communications by wire and telephone are cut, several washouts occur, trains halted, and two inches of rain are said to have fallen in thirty minutes as crews repair the lines and track.
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Cal
Tehachapi
Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe
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