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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1899
Page
3
A fragmentary time table from Hearne shows northbound and southbound train numbers with departure and arrival windows. Entries note No 2 and No 4 trains leaving in the morning and afternoon, with Hearne to San Antonio timing and several arrivals listed.
L Seigle went to St Louis yesterday. Luther Clarke returned to Dallas. Col D McNaughton of Marquez visited. Miss Annie Deering visiting Millican. Spurr’s Revere coffee and Kernole’s priced deals. Many local social moves, marriages, sales, and a funeral notice for Norma Foster. Delegates named for Galveston deep water convention. Several holiday visits and shop notices.
A note on patents focusing on mechanical inventions highlights attention to securing patents. It mentions Prices Law and records an office located in the Taliaferro building near the courthouse.
Scenes of sadness unfold as four more bodies are recovered at the ill fated Brazwell mine near Brownsville. News travels by overland routes since telegraph and telephone links are absent. Families suffer as workers toil in exhausting conditions and pay day earlier in the week left many men in the mine.
At Braznell mine Brownsville Pa December 26 the search recovered five more bodies raising the dead to twenty. Many remains are mutilated preventing identification. Officials expect no further deaths and plan three weeks to a month for mine cleanup and reentry. Inspectors Blick and Loutitt will report findings to the coroner. Thirteen victims were cremated with funerals held for the town’s residents.
The battleship Texas arrived Newport News with the remains of 151 Maine sailors from the Maine disaster. The bodies will be loaded onto a Chesapeake and Ohio train for interment at Arlington National Cemetery next Thursday. Father Chidwick, chaplain of the Maine, will accompany the coffins to Washington. Only a few bodies were identified. No ceremonies were held in Birmingham on Christmas Day after a busy docket.
In Eagle Pass Texas two horses ridden by George Lege and Oscar Cook were killed after a collision caused by frightened reactions to firecrackers. The riders escaped with slight bruises. In Newburyport Massachusetts the steamer Laura Marion wrecked nearby with all aboard perishing.
San Augustine Florida December 26 Major General Brooke has arrived from Havana en route to Washington. The crossing marks a notable movement as military officials confirm the general will proceed to the capital for unspecified assignments.
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