Destructive Caribbean Storm Devastates St Vincent and Nearby Islands
Reports from St Lucia, Guadeloupe and St Vincent describe a violent cyclone with tidal waves and heavy rains. Kingston is destroyed, about 300 lives lost, 20 000 homeless, widespread ruin across towns and estates, with bodies buried in trenches and ships stranded along the Windward coast.
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D. W.L
St. Lucia
Guadeloupe
Leeward
St. Vincent
Barbadoes
Grenada
Kingston
Diphtheria Claims Leesville and Baltimore Figures
Diphtheria deaths are reported in Leesville Texas where Earl Moore aged 8 died, and another fatal case is noted in Baltimore where Colonel Richard Malcom Johnson, a novelist and magnate, is reported dying at the city hospital.
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Baltimore
Richard Malcom Johnson
The
City
Hos
Eastern Squadron Disbanded and New Command Arrangements
Secretary of the navy disbands the eastern squadron and assigns Commodore J. G. Watson as commandant of Mare Island navy yard. Watson will voyage to Port Antonio aboard the Newark and then proceed to New York. Captain C. F. Goodrich remains senior officer in southern Caban waters with the cruiser Newark and nearby ships. The Navy plans to keep several ships in reserve and distribute armorclads across stations once peace treaty is signed.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
J. G. Watson
Mare Island Navy Yard
Cervera
Camara
Philippines
Spain
Watson
Newark
Port Antonio
New York
Department
Caban
C. F. Goodrich
Goodrich
Guantanamo
Hist
Scorpion
Leonidas
Nashville
Gibrara
Long
Ram
Columbia
Minneapolis
League Island
Europe
United States Navy
J. P. McIntyre
Oregon
Sampson
R.D Evans
Denver
Lemley
C. H. Laucheimer
Marine Corps
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Ohio
Cramps
Maine
Newport News
Missouri
Vesuvius Grandspectacle Outburst Destroys Rail Line
Naples reports Mount Vesuvius in a violent outburst the grandest since 1872. Lava and ashes spew from the central crater and new vents. Three lava streams burn chestnut woods to Mount Somma, nearly reach the observatory, and threaten the Funicular railroad and Carbineers barracks.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Chestnut Woods
Somma
Death of Dr Samuel Eliot Former Trinity College President
Beverly Mass Sept 15 Dr Samuel Eliot former president of Trinity College Hartford Conn is dead he was 78 Hanged for Wife Murder Brace Bridge Ont Sept 15 William James Hammond was hanged here for the murder of his wife
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Boston
F. W. Lincoln
Dorchester
Mr. Lincoln
A. M
Lincoln
Paul Revere
Cincinnati
Charles Spinks
Newport
Ohio River
Spinks
Beverly
Mass
Samuel Eliot
Trinity College At
Hartford, Conn
Brace Bridge
Ont
William James Hammond
Popular Low Rate Excursion to Hot Springs Arkansas
I and G N R R offers excursion tickets to Hot Springs on September 10 with return by September 15 at five fifty Palestine, seven fifty to Galveston and San Antonio, and other points in proportion. Tickets valid until Sept 15 with 30 day extension on payment of fare. Inquiries to nearest agent or D J Price G P and T A Palestine Texas.
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Hot Springs
Palestine
Galveston
San Antonio
D. J. Price
G. P
T. A
Texas
Wonderful nerve of a death by own action
Fred Langsdorff, 44, a Kansas City bookbinder and spinalist, was found dead by the Kaw near Armourdale after four days of self poisoning. An ante mortem note details his planned suicide using morphine and prussic acid, with repeated doses and lingering hope of death.
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Kansas City
Fred Langsdorff
Kaw
Armourdale
Langsdorff
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