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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1898
Page
1
Two children died while playing in a yard when they decided to build a fire in a smokehouse. Investigators are tracing the incident and identifying witnesses as the fire damaged the small outbuilding and spread to surrounding area.
A five gallon oil can exploded causing a house fire that killed two young twins aged seven and one sibling who was removed from the blaze but died soon after. Authorities investigate cause and safety factors at the scene.
A long wire of notices from Waco to New York recount tragedies and naval incidents. A house fire killed three children after a coal oil explosion during play near Spoegleville. The battleship Iowa in dry dock suffered flooding from an open valve, with crews working to assess damage. Reports also note Manila voyage arrivals, Madrid political moves, a Texas death at Sherman, and a Yukon prospectors clash with Indians.
The funeral for the slain man noted as negro Robinson drew attendance from black and white union labor organizations. The remains were sent from Galveston for burial. In Chicago a severe thunderstorm cooled the heat wave with one reported death and several prostrations, none serious.
War department announced that troops will not march in New York or elsewhere as a unit on arrival. Transports with General Miles and volunteers expected off New York next Tuesday. In Huntsville, Lieut. Col. R. P. Strong prepared the muster for the Fifth Maryland Infantry which is ordered to depart for Baltimore. Walls Willis, a colored teamster, was killed by a train on the Southern railway. In Houston, Daniel Graves, a colored man, died under suspicious circumstances suggesting morphine poisoning.
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