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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1904
Page
5
Noah Woolard, a Hartford City gambler, swallowed carbolic acid in a grove after shouting farewell. His companions jeered and questioned his nerve before lawmen found him dead an hour later near Gadby’s woods.
A Denver and Rio Grande train plunges through a damaged Dry Creek bridge after a cloudburst floods the trestle. Many passengers perish or are swept away as cars and baggage are carried downstream. J M Killen of Puebla suffers a narrow escape. Engineers and crew are believed injured in the disaster, with rescue efforts continuing.
Disaster occurred as a train crossed a water covered trestle over Dry Creek one mile north of Eden. Cars plunged into the stream, bodies recovered below the wreck. Police, undertaker, and 200 volunteers assist in search. 125 believed lost. Engine and cars washed away. express car found near scene with safe open. Prompt relief trains, surgeons, and nurses rushed to aid.
New York August 8 The Denver and Rio Grande office reports an estimate of seventy dead from the Pueblo wreck A telegram from division superintendent R H Bowren lists passengers saved and injured naming John M Killen Pueblo Tony Fisher Pueblo H S Gilbert Oklahoma and others possibly lost with several accompanying names including Mrs Mary Wolf Chicago and Miss Mary Price LaSalle Ill among probable losses
Passenger flyer No 41 of the Denver and Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific left Denver at five with six cars nearly full. It ran to Colorado Springs in two hours five minutes and to Pueblo in one hour ten minutes. The train was in charge of conductor J H Smith and it is feared several crew members are lost. High officials were away, but relief actions were issued immediately.
Ali Salman Kapoor confessed to killing Mahood Hamzy with an ax in Hamilton Ohio. He and Syrians Salah Mashud and Hamad Hassan were taken to view the victim at Wagner's morgue for identification. Warrant issued for first degree murder. Jo seph Aschar aided Fort Wayne and Hamilton police.
Aldermen join the stock yards strike effort to curb housing of strike breakers at packer plants. City officials meet with labor leaders to outline grievances and plan to present them to Mayor Harrison, seeking action by Building Commissioner Williams and Health Commissioner Reynolds.
Albert James, 18, shot and killed his 16 year old sister at their rural Petersburg area home twelve miles from town. He mistook her movement for a burglar and fired as she walked across the room. She died instantly.
A. Kellar of 157 Wells street reports long running kidney trouble improved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He describes backache dizziness and swelling diminishing with the full treatment. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by dealers at 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y, sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
The American Motor League offers a free hand book on Macadam roads packed with illustrations. It covers road basics from materials and stone types to rolling, drainage, maintenance, and cost estimates. A final chapter includes road maintenance by G A Boullier of Flushing New York. Five thousand copies available via stamp to Vanderbilt Building New York.
Architect BR A Bradley prepares plans for a Missionary Church college building to rise at South Wayne and Richardville in Fort Wayne. Frontage will face South Wayne with overall dimensions 53 by 144 feet and the contractor awaits plans in about three weeks on a 247 by 303 foot site. Also notes a medicinal claim for Pincules sold by Moyer Bros. Co. and A C Gocke.
Burglars entered the home of M Seitz a saloonkeeper in Muncie Indiana early today and took money and property valued at 3200 dollars Nine hundred dollars in cash a 400 diamond and three pocketbooks with 1800 in notes were hidden in a dresser drawer A B R Bass Morgantown Indiana suffered back pain kidneys and was revived by Foley s Kidney Cure sold by Dreier Bro
Coroner Hollis was notified that Dr LF Prayer of Port Wayne found large quantities of strychnine poison. He analyzed contents of a bottle found near Crystal Krauss and reported to authorities. Mrs Krauss claimed the bottle was under the dead girl’s pillow. White arsenic alleged in the bottle.
New York reports the largest jewelry robbery in U S history with losses around 200000 dollars. The June 21 theft at a prominent Newport resident's home remains shrouded in secrecy as detectives and private agencies hunt for the missing diamonds and other stones while brokers are warned to prevent resale.
Defense concedes the girl died of poison and the preliminary examination ends with Mrs. Krauss bound over to the October circuit court term. The district records include a Dunreath Indiana testimony about diabetes and Foley’s Kidney Cure. A Dunreath resident and a Fort Wayne mint image mention city funds and an 1862 steam fire engine note.
A framed five cent certificate from Fort Wayne issued by the city to pay for its first steam fire engine recalls war time scarcity. The large bill, nearly the size of current currency, hangs in H C Paul’s Fort Wayne Gas office, linking past finance to present reminders.
Many persons in this community are suffering from kidney complaint who could avoid fatal results by using Foley's Kidney Cure. Sold by Drejer & Bro.
John Shafer and Miss Eunice Had don of Avilla were united in marriage Sunday evening. The ceremony was performed by Rev. 4. C. Darwin at the Simpson M. Ey ehurch following a church service. The groom is a painter and decorator, and the bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Thomas Hudson of near Avilla. They will reside at 826 Calhoun Street.
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