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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
3
Fontanet Ind Oct 17 Thirty eight lives lost and about six hundred injured with fifty seriously hurt and $750000 property damage from a blast at Dupont powder mills. A hot box on the shafting likely sparked the explosion. Town under martial law as state militia and a coroner investigate.
The latest death toll from the disaster lists thirty eight known dead with two bodies still unidentified in a morgue sack. New names include Mrs Ethel Taylor sister of Mrs Monahan Frank Cockerell Mrs Anns Heins aged nineteen Fred Onsley Oustey child of Mrs Onsley and an unidentified body thought to be August Girard. Two unidentified corpses lie among eleven awaiting burial, charred remains in sacks. Relatives of the Monahan family have come from Dayton and Columbus to oversee burial in Jackson Ohio. The skull of Frank Kellin of Wilmington Delaware was found near Monahan. Morgues are crowded with heartbroken and injured women seeking husbands lost in the disaster as homeless women wander ruins around the powder mills.
Private dispatches from abroad report Mr and Mrs W K Vanderbilt and the Duchess of Marlborough leaving for New York to arrive in time for society events honoring Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and her fiancé Count Tasza Szechenyi and to attend the wedding planned for December 4 in New York.
Kings County hospital doctors found Rev Maxwell Valenta of St. Lucas German Evangelical Lutheran church Williamsburg and Mrs Kora Bauer insane. Both were discharged in police court after arrest on charges of offending public decency, tied to Bauer’s husband Louis A. Bauer.
In St. Louis on October 17 twenty two shoe factories closed for five weeks due to a strike have reopened. Many strikers returned, factories resumed, but production remained limited. Union official Geo Frank said about one percent of the 23 000 strikers had returned to work.
At the fourth annual meeting in New York the board of casualty and surety underwriters urged federal regulation of insurance to end conflicting state laws. Speakers said such conflicts cause ventatious confusion and raise business costs.
Two twenty foot? boats built by Buford Murray and Edgar Allender in a East Burlington workshop will sail from Burlington toward sunny south lands after a test on Fumphrey's pond. Each craft measures fifteen feet with a one horsepower engine and screw propeller. The builders plan a months long Mississippi voyage to New Orleans.
Frank H. Stewart and Miss Luln Vernon of Fairfield wed in Chicago on Tuesday October 15. Rev Henry Stewart of Greenville officiated. The couple will reside in Chicago and have wide circles of friends here and elsewhere.
After a two week outage at Fairfield Electric Power plant the city regained light last night. A 4500 pound Westinghouse dynamo from Carthage Mo will double capacity and be in operation tonight or Thursday. A Dean automatic boiler feed pump was installed and three dynamos will be ready, reducing interruption risk.
Mace Chinkenbeard of this city and Donald Fitzgerald of New York have leased over 2000 acres for mining in Jefferson county in the Fairfield Keosauqua and Memphis interurban railway plan. Seven leases filed with the county recorder promise 30 year terms, mining shafts and rail rights, with cabins on nearby land. Leased lands cover Center Liberty and Cedar townships, signaling imminent construction along the proposed route.
Hawkeye Rebekah Lodge No. 386 staged a friendly surprise for Mrs. Mark Doughty before her move to Davenport. The group gathered at Miss Cora Dexter’s home and then visited the Doughty residence, presenting a berry spoon and sharing ice cream, cake, and music.
Hartman Hartman’s Ice Cream factory on Cast Adams street expands with a new front thirty feet long and a basement. The cement block front matches the existing back portion built last year. The basement will run the full length, boosting production capacity as the business grows. The new front should be finished by November 1.
The Allen case against C B Q by Co was postponed due to Hon C D Leggett illness. Damages of 35000 were sought for injuries from the November 1905 Burlington No 6 wreck at Lockridge. The court then called the George D Henry case for 50000 damages. Grand jury indictments for larceny seduction rape and obtaining signatures by false representation were announced and several cases prepared for trial.
The City Transfer company will take baggage to any part of the city or to and from trains. Baggage looked after. Phone 62.
Advertisement claims rheumatism stems from kidney malfunction and uric acid buildup. Promotes Hollle ter's Rocky Mountain Tea to remove the cause, available as tea or tablets for $5, with Shriner as the seller.
An old advertisement promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and Tablets claiming to cleanse the food canal and prevent disease for 35 cents. The notice credits F.S. Snriner as the seller.
The ninth plenary session of the peace conference opened amid Latin American protest over a suppressed phrase on juridical equality in the proposed permanent court of justice. James B. Scott argued the mistake was minor as the court would be based on equality, while Mexico pressed that the suppression altered the document's meaning and demanded reaffirmation.
Senor Esteve explains Mexico will not accept a convention establishing a permanent court of justice unless it guarantees complete state equality and non political influence. Dr Barbosa supports the project with conditions based on juridical equality, as thirty eight countries vote yes while several nations abstain or withhold.
King Alfonso and Vrenier Maura depart Madrid to tour Spain’s Moulded districts while California residents, especially in San Francisco, anticipate a royal reception for the battleship fleet passing the Golden Gate next spring. The Twenty fourth Japanese diet is expected to assemble on December 25. A Shanghai steamer Tafoo fire killed over 100 Chinese due to a cigarette.
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