31 Dec 1906
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1906
Page
1
A dense fog disaster on the Baltimore & Ohio line near Terra Cotta Maryland leaves 38 dead and over 50 injured as Frederick special No 66 collides with a deadhead passenger train of eight cars. Rescue teams and doctors rush to the scene. the engineer is arrested amid conflicting accounts.
Slippery rails and a failed brake on car No. 1 on the Price Hill line caused a wreck at 3:15 pm yesterday. Debris scattered as the motorman and many passengers suffered serious injuries. The dead and injured were rushed to City and Seton hospitals.
A long casualty list from a wreck near Washington includes Elizabeth Pearman Takoma Park and Commodore F. Brown among the injured or missing. Names span Washington D C Kensington Md and nearby towns with many white and negro victims. Fatalities include Colonel Robert Anderson Newark Ohio and John Martin Harpers Ferry W Va. Dr Herron among the dead.
Archbishop Ireland, at Immaculate Conception Church in Minneapolis, defends the French church in its struggle with the government. He cites church state history, blames agitators, and predicts eventual victory for the church and its rights. Boston Catholics protest to Pope Pius X and a Washington mass condemns France’s confiscation of church property.
Five unidentified tramps were killed when a freight train wreck occurred at Floriston Station near Truckee. A broken truck on a box car caused the accident and the men were ground to pieces beneath the wreckage.
Stockholm December 30 The Bulletin reports King Oscar’s health improving with a temperature of 98.6 Saturday and 98.8 Sunday morning He slept well and has a good appetite Heart action remains unchanged There is still some mucus discharge from the windpipe.
Mrs. Henry Anderson, wife of a prominent local retired farmer, was shot in bed at Canbridge this morning. A Black man arrested at Galva, fifteen miles away, is held as the alleged killer.
John Price, jailed since December 8, confessed to Philadelphia detectives that he killed Mrs. Maurice Lewis on September 10. He and a companion, posing as plumbers, entered her home to rob her, a struggle ensued, and Price used a ligature to silence her before drawing a stolen lance. He says absinthe fueled planning and constant saloon stops.
Thomas Fanning aged 80, a Kansas City property owner living alone, was murdered at his home. His head was hacked with a hatchet. His nephew William Fanning reported the crime. Robbery not suspected as $2,700 was found in the chest. Fanning had lived there since his wife died on December 21.
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