24 Aug 1883
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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1883
Page
1
Wild searchers scour the ruins after a cyclone devastates northern Rochester area. Survivors describe trapped, injured, and missing as the storm destroys homes, flips trains, and cuts a path toward St Charles. Reports name Helen Beck and the Gisen family among the affected.
The Navy reports suspected yellow fever in Pensacola and Warrington with two deaths and multiple cases. A house on Palafroct wharf is quarantined, bedding and clothing destroyed, premises fumigated, guard stationed, patients moved to Santa Kiow Island quarantine hospital per Surgeon General orders.
In Brooklyn Fort Greene pedestrians witnessed a man in a violent episode. He tested a knife in a box then wounded himself on the throat, bleeding heavily. A tailor named Harrick Madden, previously prosperous, reportedly faced recent reverses and spoke from a critical moment before condition. Police and bystanders aided him near a street alley as he received hospital care.
The article details reforms in mail handling and security as postal services reduce bank note losses and theft via theft risk, noting figures like 32,000,000 in checks and valuables. It reports on the Dead Letter Office andTreasury actions, and mentions an August report and postal reform debates in Washington.
Report covers a chaotic Gallatin court day with spectators and jurors, selection of jurors and witnesses. Notes arrival of Charley Ford and Dick Little missing, while tension rises ahead of the trial. Also reports Brooklyn incident where a pastor brandished a weapon during Sunday school and a separate threat involving a man claiming religious duty.
Tony a Hero reports the brave locomotive engineer Martin Tliggins of the Elizabethtown Railway wounded last Thursday. He remained in a dying condition at Covington after his engine collided with a cow and overturned. Firemen rescued him beneath the boiler as heat and steam surged. His wife from Elizabethtown Kentucky arrived by his side.
Directors of the Pacific Railway Company travel by special Grand Trunk train with financiers from across the continent for a celebratory dip over the Canadian Pacific route. Notables present include Prince entohe and brother, Vice Admiral Chichen of Genoa, Earl Lathan, and Lov Elssantestenne.
A troubling tale emerges of a girl abducted in Carroll County near the Palla Poosa River. Officers traced suspect Grantt and Oliver Kelly, with a detailed description offered and a reward proposed, while a bonnet bearing a severed hair strand was found nearby as evidence. A county notice warns of upcoming actions against the accused in the murder case.
A fragmented report from New Beororp Massachusetts notes a sunken yacht found yesterday morning three-fourths of a mile northeast near the entrance. The piece mentions chickens and many visitors, but details are unclear due to OCR damage.
Ashland dispatch reports forest fires raging around the city all day with a narrow escape from destruction. Fire mills and meat depots suffered damage while the Hoaha depot caught fire several times but was saved. Around a hundred men were deployed along the town border with citizens. At nine in the evening a ray appeared and the fire began to extinguish.
Dispatches describe Franco–Vietnamese battles in Tonquin with French columns advancing and suffering casualties while repulsing assaults near Hanoi. Flooding across the Red River delta devastates villages, and thousands reportedly drown. Reports from Hong Kong note French gains at Haiphong and Hanoi fronts amid disarray among Annamite forces and disease challenges in the French ranks.
Brooklyn wedding and the death of Miss Sara Brewer were published together. She had been engaged to Dr. Willard of Jonesboro and was married at his request on her dying bed, in a special dispatch from New York. A separate note from New York reports Hildia Balsons arriving from Paris, claiming he will attempt the whirlpool rap at Niagara on a $1000 wager.
A partial dispatch from Boston reports a sad incident involving local residents Wells and another party. The details are unclear due to damaged text but indicate a somber event with notable individuals mentioned in the report.
Reports of hurricane damage in the Ottawa district hit barns fences and crops. Names Thenshaw and John McClair linked to a fatal shooting by a hired associate. Eastern towns report fires and arson claims with heavy losses. Toledo politics shift as Williams Beatty seeks Democratic representation. Yellow fever outbreaks prompt quarantines and health actions. Industrial strikes and wage talks in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh loom as contracts near renewal. A physician, Dr. Hudson, shot by a patient’s relative, survives critical injuries.
Secretary of the Treasury invites each state to send two delegates to a capital meeting on October 1 to discuss abolishing faith customs houses under the constitutional amendment and to consider equitable taxes. The extension of railroads has made customs houses impracticable, and the convention will also address constitutional prohibitions on excise duties. Two Italian laborers were killed on the Boston and Maine Railway in a separate incident.
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