Great New York Explosion Destroys Dozens of Buildings
A small fire triggered successive chemical blasts at a drugstore at Warren and Greenwich streets in New York. Dozens of buildings toppled, with an estimated property loss of 1.5 million dollars. As night fell, about thirty bodies were believed buried in the ruins, and thirty five people were reported missing while about a hundred were injured.
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New York
Warren
Greenwich
Windsor Hotel
Croker
Explosion Tears Through Warren Street Fire Aftermath
Captain Devanney ordered his crew back into the building when a second explosion sent flames and debris across Greenwich Street. Firemen rescued evacuees from homes and a restaurant as walls collapsed and fires spread along Warren Street, with Deputy Chief Ahearn ordering a fifth alarm. Dozens were injured and hundreds feared dead as crowds gathered amid the catastrophe.
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Devanney
Greenwich Street
Warren Street
Debris from downtown blaze hits Irving Bank district
A downtown fire caused a train to stop at Warren Street station on the Ninth Avenue elevated line as a massive explosion wrecked the station and surrounding offices. Bank officials and detectives were present as debris and scattered money created chaos, with rescue efforts risking the flying wreckage.
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Warren Street
Ninth Avenue
Barclay Street
Irving National Bank
Irving Bank
Mecklem Brothers
Fancher
McCluskey
Detective Bureau
Nightmare on New York Streets After Factory Blast
The 29 October explosion near Warren Street and Broadway caused chaos as thousands gathered, with police protecting the site. Two suspected robbers were mobbed but saved by officers. Rev. Martin Luther narrowly escaped injury, and longshoreman John J. Kirk protected seventeen women at the Jackson flag factory during the disaster.
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Martin Luther
Franklin Street Ferry
John Street Methodist Church
St. Peter’s Church
Barclay
Church Streets
M. F. Kelleher
John J. Kirk
Jackson
Flag
Mr. Kirk
Explosions Shatter New York Fire Scene and Office Panic
William Black of Starin Transportation recounts the Cortlandt Street fire at the Tarrant Building. Explosions, flying glass, and falling debris injured several in the lunchroom across Greenwich Street, with panic spreading to Wall Street and Trinity Church area.
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Commission
Washington Street
Warren Street
Tarrant
Mr. Tarrant
Mir. Tarrant
John Heidelbach
Greenwich Street
Lower Broadway
Wall Street
Lower East Side
Trinity Church
Explosion at Tarrant Co Drug Store After Fire
A fire at the Tarrant Co medicinal shop at Greenwich and Warren streets triggered a blast about 12 15 PM. The explosion hurled glass and debris onto the street, injuring Fireman Brown and Engineer Rocksberry, with another crew member hurt as alarms escalated to third.
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Tarrant & Co
Greenwich
Warren Streets
Chambers Street
Tarrant
Rocksberry
Brown
Officials hurry to scene after disastrous blaze and explosions
City leaders and police chiefs rushed to the fire site with Fire Chief Croker seconds after the blast. Ambulances and hundreds of officers filled the streets while priests aided the injured amid smoke and uncontrolled flames. A second explosion caused widespread destruction, but a ten minute warning helped save lives.
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Devery
Police Department
McLaughlin
Brooks
McCluskey
Croker
Prince Christian Victor Dies in Pretoria
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig Holstein, born 1867, eldest son of Princess Helene of England and grandson of Queen Victoria, died of enteric fever in Pretoria. He served as a Major in the King's Royal Rifles. The death was kept private to avoid gloom during City Imperial Volunteer festivities.
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Prince Victor
Schleswig-Holstein
Pretoria
London
Christian Victor
Helene
England
Victoria
King’s Royal Rifles
Prince of Wales
Alvord Arrested in Boston After $700,000 Bank Theft
Cornelius L. Alvord Jr., the absconding note teller from the First National Bank of New York City, was captured in Boston by Chief Inspector Watts and Detective Armstrong. He admitted spending about $50,000 yearly on horses and said he would accept his sentence and seek life afterward.
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Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr
First National Bank
New York City
William B. Watts
Armstrong
New York
West Newton Street
Burlington Avenue
Alvord
Tinker
Watts
Mt. Vernon
Carlist Uprising in Spain Near Badalona
In Madrid on October 29 a clash near Badalona between 24 armed Carlists and gendarmes left the Carlist chief dead and another wounded. Carlist General Solivar was arrested in Barcelona as authorities crack down. The group, dressed in red caps, aimed to seize the Badalona municipal Treasury and fled toward Moncada, pursued by cavalry and infantry.
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Badalona
Madrid
Moncada
Solivar
Barcelona
Carlos
Wild Sets Fresh Record With Five Quarts Strawberries
South Bend reports Jacob Wild marketing five quarts of large strawberries from his patch, surpassing all prior local records in this harvest season. The item notes the bountiful yield and the notable size of the berries spreading from the patch.
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Commercial Tribune
South Bend
Ind
Jacob Wild
Baby found dead in vault amid murder claim in Wellston
In Wellston Ohio on October 29 a full grown male baby was found dead in a vault near Benjamin Allen’s house. Coroner notified and a physician suggested the mother Sophia Canter who had been staying at Allen’s home probably drowned the infant shortly after birth. The father is said to be a local Wellston man and the mother remains under surveillance awaiting possible arrest tomorrow.
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Commercial Tribune
Wellston, O
Benjamin Allen
Sophia Canter
Allen
Wellston
Youth to death by carbolic acid after father’s disappearance
Indianapolis Oct 29 Driven to temporary insanity by the mysterious disappearance of his father last June Frank A Baney 21 years old today ended his life by taking four ounces of carbolic acid and died almost instantly The tragedy underscores the impact of unresolved loss on a young man and concludes with a fatal act.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Frank A. Baney
Baney
Miss Mai Lucy Leeton and Senator Sullivan in breach case
Miss Mai Lucy Leeton of Lafayette Mississippi sues Senator William Van Amberg Sullivan of Mississippi for 50000 dollars alleging they lived as husband and wife after which he refused marriage and sent her to college. Sullivan denies the claim and calls it an extortion attempt.
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Mai Lucy Leeton
Lafayette
Miss
William van Amberg Sullivan
Mississippi
Washington
Miss Leeton
Sullivan
Alvord Embezzlement Case Spurs Bank Clerk Graft Fears
New York Oct 29 The embezzlement case of Nate Teller Alvord of the First National Bank has spurred published fears of tighter banking discipline. Reports say five clerks at the German Savings Bank were fired after detectives found they were gamblers. three allegedly held stakes in a local bookmaking firm near race tracks.
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Alvord
New York
Two Prison Breakers Kill Keeper at West Side Institution
Two black prisoners jailed for burglary at the West Side Court prison in New York locked their cell bars, killed keeper Hugh McGovern with an iron bar, escaped by climbing down a improvised rope, and left one inmate dead in a yard crash. One fellow prisoner injured and another fugitive remains at large.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
West Side Court
West Fifty-fourth Street
Hugh M’govern
West Forty-third Street
Frank Emerson
West Fifty-fifth Street
Emerson
Arthur Flanagan
West Sixty-sixth Street
Ninth Avenue
Flanagan
White
Frank Lantry
Brothers in deadly fight near Bush leaves Hale dead
In Kentucky at Bush near the Laurel and Clay lines a clash between Thomas Hale and others and the Smith brothers left Hale badly cut. He rode to fetch his Winchester but died today as his father stopped further violence. No arrests yet.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Bush
Laurel and
Clay County
Thomas Hale
Smith Boys
Marshall Smith
Hale
Smiths
Winchester
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