Aid Sent as Jacksonville Burns Toll Reaches Millions
The Jacksonville relief effort expands as 10,000 homeless receive food from trains and boats. A commissary opens, tents arrive, and about 3,000 flee the city. Total loss cited at 11,000,000 with hundreds still missing amid martial law and planned work relief for the unemployed.
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Jacksonville
Times Union and Citizen
Volunteer Committee of Citizens
Market Street
Market Street Pier
Relief Committee
Jennings
McKinley
el Paso
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Florida
Bodies Found After Fire Destroys Jacksonville Area
The body of real estate dealer Harry Bonnethean was recovered from the St Johns River. Two bodies of unknown race, charred and likely victims of the recent blaze, were also found as the river is watched for more remains. Residents believe the fire drove victims into the water and efforts to rescue survivors continue.
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Jacksonville
Harry Bonnethean
St. Johns River
Stock speculation and market swings in New York
Early today speculation returned with strong public suspicions of powerful interests behind the move. Large blocks traded in Atchison United States Steel Union Pacific and Northern Pacific as opening prices varied up to two points and gains reached 1 to 414 points before a dip. Ida Clark of Culver Indiana reported her fiancé Vernon Lyles vanished after she sent him seven hundred dollars following matchmaking letters.
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New York
Exchange
Atchison
United States Steel
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
la Porte
Ind
Ida Clark
Culver
Vernon Lyles
Chicago
Lyles
Butler Doctor Gartrell Falls Ill in Jail After Hemorrhage
Dr. G L Gartrell, the confessed murderer confined in the Butler Missouri jail, fell suddenly ill Saturday with a hemorrhage of the lungs. A physician arrived in time to prevent serious outcomes as extra precautions are imposed to prevent self harm.
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Butler, Mo
G. L. Gartrell
Attorney Shot Near Movers Camp in Brazil Ind
In Brazil Indiana on May 6 attorney L O Phillips was seriously shot by an unknown man after being attacked by a dog at a movers camp. Phillips fired at the dog and the assailant fled on foot. A separate wreck near Henderson Kentucky reports James Pyle killed by a northbound Illinois Central train and his wife fatally injured at a road crossing about one mile from the city.
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Brazil
Ind
L. O. Phillips
Phillips
Henderson
Ilinois Central Railroad
James Pyle
Hamburg
Berlin
L. E. Roberts
Gainesville
Tex
Lota Green
Trixie
Grandbury
Ameer
Afghanistan
Germany
Cabal
Trenton
Dinshaw Manockjee Pettit
Bombay
India
St. Louis
Kansas City
Texas
Peter Faash
Dallas
Owen Rocke
Dallas Tex
J. F. Benson
Glenn Lockbridge
Roxton Tex
Paris
Riot suppression ends in deputy sheriffs death in St Louis
Deputy Sheriff Frederick Caase was fatally hurt while trying to stop a struck moulders riot in St Louis Missouri. The report links other brief items including deaths, fires and political moves in various places.
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St. Louis
Frederick Caase
Frances Raymond
New York
Valentine
Neb
John Bull
Havana
Cuba
Vienna
Aus
Gracie Winfield
George Stover
Arkansas
Alba
Tex
England
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Underwood
Richard & Robbins
Libby
Dodson & Braun’s
Heinz
Batavia
Johnson Creamery
Houston
Howell Bros
Harder & Chatham
John Wittmann
Bryan
Bryan Steam Laundry
A. E. Worley
Change Hotel
Bryan, Texas
East Bay
Bay
Market Streets
Bowden
Macon
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
S. A. McCattery
Gardner Shipyards
Alcazar
St. Augustine
Trolley Company
Bride
Dr. Gartrell
Indiana
The
Choctaw Road
Philadelphia
J. OC. Henry
Denver
Colo
Nashville
Tenn
Montreal
Canada
Bryan Grocery
Dan J. Ford
Prop
J. R. Barnett
Ain
Battle Ax
Dee Mike, JR
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