Turbulent Times Reported Across Nation and China
Reports from Elgin Echo compile a wide range of 191? era events: mine disasters at Cherry Illinois with many missing and feared collapse. riots and lynching accusations in Cairo. labor unrest and the A F of L convention altercation. graft claims in the Interior Department. a potential billion dollar copper merger. Hope diamond sinking. Western Union sale. Taft and foreign policy notes on China and Japan open door.
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Cairo
Cherry
Department of Commerce and Labor
China
Taft
Wall Street
Big Four
Cincinnati
Knox
Japan
Senate Committee On Irrigation
Interior Department
Ill
Charles N. Crittenton
San Francisco
Regular Army
Alice Roosevelt
Hope
Ocean
Western Union Telegraph Company
Goulds
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Cherry (Jr
The Cherry mine disaster 370 feet of flame and death
The Cherry mine in Bureau County Illinois suffered a devastating fire at 1:30 p.m. trapping about 665 workers. Engineer John Cowley and Dr. L B Howe are credited for acts of heroism as 300 miners remained entombed. Rescue efforts continued amid extreme heat and deadly conditions. Funeral trains transported eight recovered bodies to nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Iitele
Cherry
Bureau County
St. Paul Coal Company
John Cowley
America
L. B. Howe
St. Paul
Thia
Ladd
Spring Valley
la Balle
Mendota
Shipwreck rescue ends with 21 saved on Lake Superior
After a two day struggle to reach the steamer Hoyt wrecked near Otter Island in Lake Superior, the tug Helm rescued 21 crew members. A northeast gale and heavy snowstorm lashed the scene as the ship, driven by a tornado, was likely total loss. No lives were reported lost. A masked bandit robbed claimholder Parcell of 3473 while en route from Huron, South Dakota.
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Tee
Boyt
Lake Superior
Hoyt
Loven Big Parse
J. A. Parcell
Brushie, &. C
Parcell
Huron
8. D
Horsea and
Houshold
Otter Island
Helm
Duluth
Heroes of Cherry Mine Buried After Fatal Disaster
Funeral processions and church prayers mark the burials of heroes who sacrificed themselves in the Cherry mine fire. Fifteen members of the Cherry lodge of the Knights of Pythias answered roll call as coffins arrived from Chicago. A special train car carried the coffins and a cemetery plot was provided behind the local church, while families and townspeople mourned.
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Cherry Mine
Cherry
Cherry Lodge
Knighte of Pythias
Chicago
Flood Drives Kansans From Homes As High Water Rises
Eastern Kansas rivers and streams reach record levels after three days of heavy rain. Towns Frankfort Centralia Viets Ver milion flooded and residents seek shelter on high ground Monday night. Kansas River at Lawrence higher than ever for this season, causing evacuations in low lands. Salina Manhattan Junction City experience anxiety as Smoky Hill and Republican rivers remain unusually high and rising. A separate report notes gas dangers in mines with explosions and deadly afterdamp from firedamp.
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Kansas
Frankfort
Centralia
Viets
Vermilion
Lawrence
Salina
Manhattan
Junction City
Western Star Mill
Smoky Hill
Republican
Deaths in Recent Mine Disasters Across Years
A catalog of fatal mine accidents lists places such as Fraterville Tennessee Rolling Mill Pennsylvania Hanna Wyoming Lackawanna Pennsylvania Toreio California Virginia City Alabama Welton Kentucky and others with casualty figures ranging from single digits to hundreds. Entries span 1902 through 1907 or 1908, noting mines near Calais France and regions like West Virginia and Saarbruck. The record emphasizes the human cost of mining accidents in early industrial years.
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Fraterville
Tenn
Rolling Mill Mine
Hanna
Wyo
S.s
Lackawanna Mine
Toreio
Cal
Virginia City
Ziegler
Welch Coal Mine
How Deadly Fire Damp Works In Mines
The text explains fire damp or coal gas as a light colorless odorless gas produced by plant decay. It is dangerous only when mixed with air and can drift silently through mine shafts gathering in upper chambers before ignition risks arise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truain
Football Hills Ohio Youth Fatality in Grand Rapids
Royal Vogel a schoolboy who suffered a footwell game injury two weeks ago died in Grand Rapids Ohio. Doctors reported a ruptured blood vessel in his head and said he was unconscious for thirteen days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Football Hills
Ohio
Royal Vogel
Grand Rapids
Cherry Illinois Mining Town Grows Near Rail Line
In Bureau County Cherry grew from a crossroads hamlet to a mining center after the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line extension opened nearby. The St Paul Coal Company mine, about five years old, employed nearly 500 miners. The town’s population is composed mainly of miners’ families and local shopkeepers.
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Cherry
Bureau County
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Ladd
la Salle
Spring Valley
Davis Junction
St. Paul Coal Company
The
St. Paul Railroad
Losses from Jamaica storm rise to millions
Weather has abated and reports from Jamaica describe terrible destruction in eastern and central parishes. The storm's impact includes a million dollar loss to the battaning trade, about thirty drownings, and thousands of acres flooded with extensive private and public property damage.
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Jamaica
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised in testimonial
A testimonial extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for multiple female ailments from backache to nervous prostration. It claims years of relief after doctors and a husband advised its use, with thousands of testimonials on file at the Lynn Massachusetts laboratory. The piece also includes a note on women balancing femininity with office work and domestic embroidery.
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Howe
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Chad
Norelieg
Yale Vipkan
Anade
Pinkham
Ana
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Lynn
Mass
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Elgin” Echo
Hughes
Elgin
Pope King X
Mlinois
State Board of Equalization
Frederick Dent Grant
John Mitchell
A. B F. of L
Richard Watson Gilder
New York
Iinois University
Nicaragua
Deneen
Iinals
Frank R. Davis
James
Wells Fargo Express Company
Peary
North Pole
Washington
Cook
Eudora
Kan
Miinois National Guard
Alexander
Kankakee
Justlee
Raymond Patterson
Chicago Tribune
St. Paul Company
Cherry, Til
Mme
Steinhil
Paris
Lymen J. Gage
Secretary of the Treasury
Ballou
Point Loma
Horrole Mine
Hécomes
Missouri Pacific Railway
Wichita
Kas
Dato
Lee
Bureal ™ Co
DE Hall
A Salle
San LO
Livingston
Heroes
Kansas Town
Shook
Las Esperangzas
Mexico
Monongahela
Tokyo
Jacob's Creek
Monongah
W. Va
Yolande
Ala
McAlester
Hamm
Westphalia
Ger
Ziegler, I
Vienna
W.va
Dodds
Eest Ag
Oli
Carters
Central Ave
Cliclnantl
Ahention Pitey World
National Patent Investment & BN. Ge
Stom
Touay
Uwatoun, Wis
Lanly Soware Agate Nock
Tossze Spare Tne
Mayetene Aalerals Flan
Tiemnped Enrelers
Allen Ten
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