Train blocked fire crew delay in fatal Chicago blaze
Chicago May 6 seven people burned to death as a three story building collapsed after a freight train blocked engines responding to an apartment fire. Firemen claimed trainmen refused to move. crew were arrested then bailed. A two year old girl was severely burned and her father resisted medical aid amid the chaos.
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Chicago
Driscoll
Fire Department
Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway
Brown
Christiansen
Dowie
Lufkin Fire Levels Dozens Of Buildings In Texas Blast
A major blaze in Lufkin Texas on Saturday destroyed seventeen business houses four hotels three restaurants four warehouses and several residences. Loss pegged around sixty thousand dollars as the fire started at the Chaney restaurant and swept across a block of frame buildings. In Hebronville a constable killed his wife then shot himself. Jealousy blamed. In Round Rock a freight wreck damaged track and injured fireman Charles E Nolen tearing up 200 yards of track and seven cars.
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Lufkin
Tex
Chaney
Round Rock
Charles E. Nolen
Fire destroys Rock Island Plow building by lightning
In Dallas on May 6 a four story Rock Island Plow company building burned Saturday night. Loss estimated at 237000 with no insurance. No injuries reported.
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Dallas
Rock Island Plow Company
Abilene
Tex
Anson
Fire destroys Brunelle's hotel in Maissoneuve suburb
A Sunday blaze gutted Brunelle's hotel in Maissonneuve, Montreal. Three people died including Mrs. Brunelle wife of the owner Octave Leussier and Mrs Leussier, while others escaped.
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Montreal
Brunelle
Maissoneuve
Octave Leussier
Leussier
Mexican officials honor U S President in El Paso visit
The presidential party arrives in El Paso at nine Sunday morning and departs at noon today. Mexican General Juan Hernandez and Governor Miguel Amuhada travel to pay respects, delivering good wishes to President McKinley. The president and cabinet attend church and a quiet drive ends with a serenade by a Mexican band.
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el Paso
Tex
Mexico
Diaz
Juan Hernandez
Chihuahua
United States
Miguel Amuhada
Hernandez
Gen. Hernandez
Dina
Washington to cut army in the Philippines to forty thousand
The administration plans a reduction of the Philippine Army to 40 000 men hoping this suffices for current needs. If conditions improve, further cuts may follow. Volunteers are expected to depart by end of June leaving only regulars, who will return after volunteers leave. New York plans for the Mexican Central railway board election. H Clay Pierce elected chairman. The line to Manzanillo will become a key transcontinental route via Tampico with exchange terms at El Paso.
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Washington
Philippines
War Department
Manila
New York
Mexican Central Railway
H. Clay Pierce
St. Louis
Mexican Central
Manzanillo
Tampico
Far East
el Paso
Riot in Columbus as soldiers clash with crowd at saloon
In Columbus on Sunday afternoon a riot erupted between a crowd of Black residents and soldiers. Soldiers fired shots and were repelled as stones and bricks flew. Dick Adams' saloon allegedly housed a trough house. Adams was arrested after using a shotgun. Seven soldiers were injured and John Fox, mistaken for a soldier, was badly beaten.
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Columbus
Dick Adams
Adams
John Fox
Mrs McKinley to name battleship Ohio launch
In San Francisco on May 6 Mrs McKinley will press the button to release the battleship Ohio rope at 12 26 pm. Miss Helen Deshler of Columbus will break California wine over the bow and name the ship Ohio. Kansas City reports ninety Commercial Club members depart by special Rock Island train for a week touring southern Kansas Oklahoma Indian Territory northern Texas and southwestern Missouri. A London World dispatch cites the Daily Express on J P Morgan plans to control European canals for cheaper steel delivery. Germany denies acquiring a coaling station on Margarita island Venezuela.
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Colorado Chautauqua
Boulder
Colo
Rocky Mountain
Texas
Denver
Fort Worth
Denver Road
San Francisco
Ohio
McKinley
Helen Deshler
Columbus
California
Kansas City
Commercial Club
Rock Island Rad
Kansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Missouri
New York
London
London Daily Express
J. P. Morgan
Europe
Berlin
Foreign Office
Associated Press
Germany
Margarita
Venezuela
Poole Acquitted in State Banner Fuller Killing Case
Orange Texas on May 6 reports Thomas Poole was acquitted of the charge in the killing of State Banner Fuller, delivering a not guilty verdict after trial.
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Corsicana
Tex
H. N. Ely
Orange
Thomas Poole
Banner Fuller
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