Train Dug Out After Snow Drift Traps Passengers
In Decatur Illinois March 20 a Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton passenger train from Indianapolis was trapped in a snow drift six miles east of Decatur all day Monday and overnight. It was dug out Tuesday with fifty passengers receiving food and hot suppers in sleeping cars. The city recorded fourteen inches of snow. Other trains faced drifts and delays including the Illinois Central to Champaign and the Andalla line, while the Continental Limited from New York to St. Louis passed Decatur after spending seven hours in a drift near Philo Illinois. Passengers suffered cold as heat was cut off during the extraction.
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Worst Ever Known Snowstorm Closes Big Piney Ranches
March 20 Big Piney Wyoming reports the region endured a historic snowstorm from March 10 with feet of snow on the ground. Stage and mail service halted. Sheep losses feared in the desert east of town as flocks wiped out. Herders missing and ranches snowed in with several houses buried. Travel only possible on snowshoes between ranches.
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Submerged Schooner C. C Lane Rescued Off Boston Ledge
A heavily swelled sea following a Monday gale left the masted schooner C. C Lane nearly submerged near Boston Light Ledges. Storey Beach life saving crew rescued three men aboard. the vessel bound from New Haven to Portland laden with clay is a total loss.
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Wallace backs straight sea level canal plan
John F. Wallace, former Panama Canal Commission chief engineer, told the senate committee on interoceanic canals on Tuesday that a straight sea level canal of ample width and depth is the best type.
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John F. Wallace
Panama Canal Commission
Senate Committee On
Snowslide Fatality at Mammoth Mountain Mine
Creedem Colorado March 20 A snow slide from Mammoth mountain at East Willow Mining Co plant killed Sam East and destroyed the blacksmith shop. About 100 men with shovels labored to save him but he was killed instantly, his body found under six feet of snow within an hour. The slide hurled mining timbers more than 200 feet into the canyon opposite.
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Mammoth Mountain
East Willow Mining Company
Sam East
Former lieutenant Schmidt executed with three sailors
The former Black Sea fleet lieutenant Schmidt who led mutinied ships in November last year was shot at Otchakoff along with three of his sailors.
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Tai
St. Petersburg
Black Sea
Otchakoff
Cottages and City Lots Offered for Quick Sale
Local real estate line offers for a few days R lots and an 8 room Main Street house priced at 450 dollars, 36 acres inside city limits, 2 acres with two four room houses, a 9 room house in need of repair with barn and garden. Maps and plats from official records show county tracts. farm land listings appear in weekly Bryan newspapers.
Croft's Double Deed Ends Tragedy and Career
In Memphis on March 20 Leon Croft 30 a night watchman mortally wounds his divorced wife Lena Croft then dies by suicide. Mrs Croft dies in a hospital Tuesday morning after a quarrel spurred by his visit to their child.
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Leon Crow
Lena
Croft
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