Rioting in New Orleans over streetcar operations turns violent
An early morning riot on Canal Street pits strikers and supporters against non union workers as a streetcar operated under guard. Shots fire, several people injured including officers, a motorman and a bystander. Chicago men aiding the strike are arrested as governor calls for troops.
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New Orleans
Canal Street
Peter Johnson
Alfred Clarke
Home Detective Agency
St Louis
Fred Nintz
Chicago
M. L. Kennedy
Alfred Clark
Dorgenois Street
R. D. Kouitz
Luray
Clark
Johnson
Schlessinger
Ferguson
Kennedy
Nintz
Heard
Alexander Derbes
Farmville
St. Louis
Fordyce
Fire at Spindletop Oil Field Causes Heavy Loss
Fire at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont Texas started when a watchman snuffed his lantern and dozed. The blaze consumed 12 to 25 lives feared and 40 derricks burned with losses estimated up to 3 million dollars and property damage around 200 thousand to 250 thousand dollars. Sixty more rigs burned and 150 companies faced potential bankruptcies as the fire raged across half of block 38 on Spindletop avenue.
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Beaumont
Tex
Thomas Rowley
Brice Company
J. S. Corbett
Henry Hurd
Corbett Well
Hoge-Swayne
Hogg-Swayne
Kansas City Oil and Gas Company
Block 38
Spindletop Avenue
Satisfactory Conference For Coal Field Resumption
A conference in Buffalo between a national Manufacturers' Association committee and President Mitchell and aides at the Iroquois hotel failed to reach a definite plan for partial resumption in the anthracite fields. The manufacturers' group said communication with operators via long distance telephone was established and a Philadelphia meeting was scheduled, seen as significant progress.
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Buffalo
N. Y
National Manufacturers’ Association
Mitchell
Iroquois Hotel
Philadelphia
Section Hand Killed Near Corsicana Texas
Dennis Coughlin a longtime section hand on the Houston and Texas Central was killed by a freight train five miles south of Corsicana Texas. An iron plate on the engine struck his left temple. the wound looked as if caused by an ax. He had apparently slept beside the track when struck.
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Corsicana
Tex
Dennis Coughlin
Houston and
Texas Central
Here
Coughlin
Saloon Shooting Ends in Fatality Over Threatening Knife Fight
In Lovelake Louisiana a man shot John H. Vickers in a Texas street saloon after a dispute with Crawford's son. Dr. Crawford testified he fired to save his son as Vickers advanced with a knife. The ball pierced Vickers brain and death was instantaneous.
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Lovelake
John H. Vickers
Texas
Crawford
Vickers
Burst of a Fly Wheel at Lone Star Brewery
A driving wheel shattered at the Lone Star brewery in San Antonio on October 8 causing about 1000 dollars in equipment damage. Several workers escaped injury as fragments flew through the room.
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San Antonio
Lone Star
Former Brooklyn coal leader Patterson dies in Brooklyn
Died from worry in Brooklyn at his home on October 8. Thomas J. Patterson, former borough assessor and collector and general manager and largest stockholder of the Lehigh and Scranton Coal company, was prominent in the Brooklyn Coal Exchange and served as its president and as a director of several banks.
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New York
Thomas J. Patterson
Lehigh and &Cranton Coal Company
Brooklyn
Patterson
Brooklyn Coal Exchange
Shreveport Doctor Crawford Noted Leader
Shreveport physician Dr. Ga Crawford, a prominent local figure, is cited in a Shout column entry dated October 8, highlighting his standing in the medical community.
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Shreveport
Ga, Crawford
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Hutchinson
Bryan
E. C. Harder & Co
Kandy Kitchen
Orleens
Dudley & Kel
BIG 4
Billy Kersands
Clarence Powell
S. H. Dudley
Dude Kelley
50 Emperors of Minstrels
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