Island City of St Pierre Destroyed by Mont Pelee Eruption
May 13 Fort de France Martinique 30 000 perished when Mont Pelee blast vaporized St Pierre in minutes ash rain and poisonous gases suffocated nearly all residents. survivors recount fiery cyclone and shipboard explosions while Fort de France surveys confirm the catastrophe and predict famine without aid.
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Fort de France
Martinique
Mont Pelee
Associated Press
St. Pierre
Guadaloupe
Louis H. Ayme
Ayme
Mont Pelee Crater
St. Thomas
Barbadoes
Moutet
Roraima
Stokes
H. J. Ince
Martinque
le Precheur
Co. C. Evans
John G. Morris
Mr. Evans
Carbet
Irrine
Irvine
Solent
St. Vincent
Kingston
House Passes Bill For Aid To Martinique Sufferers
The House approved a relief bill of 200000 dollars for Martinique calamity victims. It followed a Senate measure and president’s urging for 500000, with only Underwood opposing. The vote stood 196 to 9 after a brief debate.
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Martinique
Washington
House
West Indies
Senate
Heminway
Underwood
Ala
Mrs. Dimies T. S. Denison Elected President
Mrs. Denison of New York was chosen president of the Federation of Women’s Clubs on ballot. The nominating committee’s report was accepted in full, naming officers including first vice president Mrs. Burdette of California and second vice president Mrs. Fox of Michigan.
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Denison
Los Angeles
Federation of Woman's Clubs
Rebecca Lowe
Georgia
Dimies T. S. Denison
New York
Robert J. Burdette
Caliifornia
Emma Fox
Michigan
Louise Pappenheim
South Carolina
Emma van Vechten
Iowa
Queen Regent Steps Out in Spain After 1644 Years
Madrid reports the queen regent sorrowfully leaves ministers and passes royal duties to her son. She withdraws the pen conferring the Golden Fleece on the Duke of Cumberland and ends her regency though she remains official until the king's oath on May 17.
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Madrid
Spain
Duke of Cumberland
Disaster at Sheraden yards kills many in naphtha fire
A massive explosion and fire at Panhandle railroad Sheraden yards near Pittsburg traps a crowd and burns about 200 people. At least 20 deaths and 600000 dollars in property loss are reported as trains carrying naphtha burst into flames and ignite near Cork's Run.
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Pittsburg
Sheraden
Panhandle
David Smith
Albert McKean
John Swan
H. RF. Smithley
Charles Hertig
J. E. Hanna
J. J. Wallace
James Callahan
Albert Verry
Julia Hansen
Frank
Matthew Moreland
Cork
Esplenborough
Seymour Hotels
Collins House
Seymour
Mont Pelee
Hayti Revolt Sparks Three-Party Struggle For Presidency
Three parties in Port au Prince claim arms to decide Haiti’s next president after President Sam’s resignation. General Leconte has military backing, General Vilbrin is favored by the retiring president, and General Saint-Foix Colin commands local support as tensions rise. In Idaho Lewiston a doctor and a 19 year old woman died by morphine injection in a reported double tragedy.
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Port Au Prince
Sam
Leconte
Vilbrin
Saint-Foix Colin
Ford Brothers Fall in Deadly New York Shooting
Paul Leicester Ford, a novelist, was shot and killed by his brother Malcolm Webster Ford, a writer and athlete, who then killed himself. The double tragedy happened at the newly built mansion at 37 East Seventy seventh street in New York.
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Ford
New York
Paul Leicester Ford
Malcolm Webster Ford
Paul Ford
East Seventy-seventh Street
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Burlington
Chicago
Salt Lake City
MTV Hub
West Second South
R. F. Neslen
Dillon Brewery
J. L. Weiser
Prop
Superior
Dillon
Fee
Hitchings
Dinnes Salvona Soap CO
Main and Locust
ST. Louis, MO
J. L. Mead Gygle
McMillan Fur &Wool
Minneapolis
Montana
Morrison’s
Tribune Store
St Louis
Gg. H. L. Co
C. Groran
Dillon, Mont
Trittune Store
Shiloh
Karl
Geo. R. Metlen
U.k
Idaho
ILLON
Hayti
Lewiston
Ida
Oro Fino
F. J. Leadbrook
Winnie Booth
G. M. Booth
Moscow
ICA Akes
Standard Oilco
DeWitt & Co
Central Pharmacy
Ely
Warren Street
Red Cross
Vin Do Cinchona Co
Des Moines
City
Ely Brothers
Warren
N.Y
F. W. Vogler
Ek Hin
Gen. Mer
Bedrock, Salmon & Gibbonsville Stage Co
Salmon City
Shoupe
Gibbonsville
Leesburg
Blackbird
Forney
Yellow Jacket
Silvercreek
Prairie Basin
Challis
Salmon River
Red Rock
Mont
Care Stage Co
Red Rock, Mont
Stockmen’s Directory
Prises Lover
Mont. Ca
Visi
Casumone
N.G
Forrester
Sacy
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