Great Trunk collision at Wanstead kills train crew
A head on crash near Wanstead Ontario between Grand Trunk Express No 5 and a westbound freight left many dead and injured. Engineer Gillies and a fireman died. the smoker car was crushed and burned. Passengers aided each other amid snow and zero temperatures as crews fought to rescue the wounded.
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London
Ont
Wanstead
Northern Division
Grand Trunk Railroad
Pacific Express No. 5
Cuthertson
Port Huron
Howrs
Edward Debeau
Edward Boise
Prescott
Nellie Gedds
Sarnia
Burrell
Nicholas Jeffries
Alex M. Stewart
Wingham
J. J. Cuthbertson
Mich
Flossie Cuthbertson
James R. Ramblin
Toronto
Samuel Cummings
Hattie Northey
Petersboro
Ja R. Northey
Néflie Coutts
Chicago
Frank F. Baker
W. N. Moorse
Theres Coutts
George Stacey
Stead
Edward D. Evans
Basil Harvey
J. M. Stewart
Oshkosh
Wis
Russell Quinn
James Anes
Woodstock
Beatrice Gedds
Sa ‘Ia
Lottie Lynch
John Bierd
Albert Limont
Wyoing
W. Cott
Marga London
J. F. Shawles
Strathroy
W. H. Cole
Flint
Carl Stewart
McGuigan
Grand Trunk
Montreal
Bank Burglaries and Wrecks Hit Two Cities
A Waneyville work train wreck killed three men Kert Stith engineer Bell fireman and W C Roberts fireman aboard. One engine demolished three cars derailed. Center City San Pedro fire wipes out entire business block with losses near 75000 insuring about half. Bank of Union burglarized vault blown open nitroglycerin and 15000 stolen with two professional robbers. Widespread shots fired as town alerted. bank insurance covers 10000.
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Mt & Work
Waneyville
Kert Stith
Mias Bell
W. C. Roberts
San Pedro
Cal
Center’ City
Union
Bank of Union
Oscar Busch
Fr. Reinhard
A. W. Hoffman
German govern ment regrets Roosevelt decline to arbitrate
Berlin reports the German government is disappointed by President Roosevelt not serving as arbitrator in the Venezuelan dispute. It says it will correspond with Great Britain and Italy on blockade, a formal request, and will seek The Hague tribunal with Venezuela and the three powers. Rome notes Roosevelt declined but favors The Hague arbitration.
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Germany
Roosevelt
Berlin
Great Britain
Italy
Venezuela
Hague Tribunal
Washington
Hay
Castro
Rome
Foreign Office
Meyer
Invention of Scotchman wi reless Telegraphy Experiments
London reports credit James Bowman Lindsay with early belief in long distance wireless telegraphy. Marconi acknowledged Lindsay’s foresight though impractical then due to energy needs and plate spacing. Lindsay’s biographer showed original apparatus. Lindsay began pond and Dundee trials in 1844, then Portsmouth and across the Fay in 1853.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Lindsay
New York
Marconi
Dundee
London
the Tribune
James Bowman Lindsay
Lindsay
Portsmouth
Fay
Followed Her Beloved in Death at Plainfield
Miss Mabel Mitchell of Plainfield New Jersey died after caring for Professor Peck in Newberg New York. Peck taught at Lehigh University and later became ill with consumption. Mitchell resigned as an instructor at the Washington school and succumbed to the disease after nursing him following his death.
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New York
Professor Peck
Lehigh University
Mabel Mitchell
Plainfield
N. J
Peck
Miss Mitchell
Newberg
N.Y
Washington School
Noted Accountant Dead in New Jersey Home
Benjamin H. Caleb, a noted accountant, died after a long illness in his East Orange, New Jersey home. He was associated with likely firms and practices in the area, details given in the obituary summary.
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New York
Benjamin H. Caleb
East Orange
N. J
Railroad executor tied to Puullman and Lincoln figures
Western railroad enterprises lose key accountant Jay Vwouls closely linked to George M. Pullman and Robert T. Lincoln. he served as executor of the Pullman estate. Also reports cite British Columbia floods washing out Esquimault and Nanimo bridges near Koksilah halting Victoria to Nanimo trains. Chilean cabinet crisis settled with ministers remaining in post. Former U S Consul General Jones dies in Rome.
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Jay Vwouls
Granvine m. Dodge
Western Railroad Enterprises
George M. Puillman
Robert T. Lincoln
Pullman
British Columbia
Victoria
B. C
Esquimault
Nanimo
Koksilah
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Howell Brothers
Meee
Paio PO
Policie
Frederick Frelinghuysen
Ecoce
S. Derden
Texas
Otto Boehme
Franklin Brothers
James & Hart
Collison
Louisville, Ky
Illinois Central
Cincinnati
New Orleans
MR. W. B. Patton
Opera House
Herald
Valparaiso
United States
Jones
H. B. Dorsey
Bryan Ice, Storage & Coal Co
Guy Hunt
D. B. Knox
ALL White
Eastman Kodak
Haswell’s
Bryan
Arcade Hotel
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