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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1907
Page
1
A massive gunpowder magazine explosion in Canton causes extensive death and destruction. Twenty one bodies recovered. hundreds injured. fifteen buildings razed and over a hundred seriously damaged. Foreign quarter largely spared though some establishments demolished. Officials and hospitals mobilize aid as the city faces enormous losses.
Snow depth reached four inches in parts of Nebraska on Friday marking a May blizzard and freezing temperatures. Omaha reports fruit and vegetables killed. Missouri and Kansas towns report snow and sleet with 30 degree lows. In Mississippi a freight train wreck near Hattiesburg kills Engineer Messe and fatally injures Fireman Hudson.
William Cross his wife and their two sons were found dead from inhaling illuminating gas at their home in Jersey City New Jersey. Gas was pouring from a disconnected pipe in the kitchen.
Edward Gibson, a Black man, assaulted Dorothy Paris, a nineteen year old Wenonah girl, on Monday night. He pleaded guilty at arraignment in Woodbury and was sentenced to twelve years in prison and a $3000 fine, the harshest known penalties under New York law for the offense.
Four major St Louis newspapers Globe-Democrat Post-Dispatch Republic and Star-Chronicle report a strike by Web Pressmen's union No 2. They accuse publishers of violating arbitration contracts while offering pay raises. international union officials disapprove and warn of contempt.
Paul Morton president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and former secretary of the navy arrives in Wheeling to mark the Equitable agency’s twentieth anniversary. He endorses Theodore Roosevelt for a renewed presidential bid stating there is no doubt the Republican convention would nominate him by acclamation if he ran. He notes Roosevelt wrote he would not accept a third term and believes it was a firm decision.
In New York on May 3 a jury found Baroness Anisia de Massy guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for the Nov 19 shooting of Gustav Simon a shirtwaist manufacturer. The defendant a pattern designer employed by Simon admitted a wage dispute and left the office before arrest but denied any role in the killing and was remanded to the tombs until May 9 for sentence.
Three foreign miners were killed and six injured when a mine car derailed from a trestle in Ridlesburg Bedford county during ore unloading. The engine backed to the main track striking the car, sending it thirty feet into a creek below.
Republicans in Oklahoma City at a state committee meeting pass the hat and raise 63 for Caleb Powers the Kentucky former secretary of state facing a fourth Goebel murder trial Powers is represented by James H Moore of Georgetown Kentucky a boyhood friend
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