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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1907
Page
9
Rotterdam dispatch says Berlin wreck agents estimate about 120 passengers and 60 crew were aboard the steamer when she wrecked during the gale. Names and exact figures uncertain.
Disaster strikes the Berlin bound Harwich to Hook of Holland as a southwesterly gale drives the British steamer onto a sand bank near the north jetty. Of 141 aboard 140 perish with only one survivor. 19 German Opera company members and Arthur Herbert among the dead or missing.
After more than thirty hours of tireless effort the Dutch lifeboat crew reached the Berlin wreck near the Hook of Holland. Ten survivors were found in the after part of the British steamer and were saved despite fierce conditions and repeated setbacks.
A bundle containing clothing and certificates of deposit, notes, and other items stolen from Harrison Arney in St Joe Township was found in front of his house and returned to owners. Police had few clues. the pension check, watch, and cash were not recovered.
Corn growing specialists from Purdue University will discuss every stage from soil prep to harvest at a March 7 Fort Wayne session in the Allen County courthouse assembly room. The event accompanies a Northern Indiana corn train carrying seed, fertilizers, and talks. Charles Bush will deliver the welcome address.
Following a raid on a Sandford liquor shop, dynamite wrecked the Methodist church and two general stores owned by J. W. Reese and Shickel Johnson. Sheriff Horsley and detectives are on the case. A witness says former miner McDonald fled the scene, and an unexploded dynamite stick was found near the Reese store.
A terrorist raid on the post office in Warsaw, then Russian Poland, killed the postmaster, two clerks, and two soldiers. The attackers, linked to the fighting socialists, looted cash and stamps worth several thousand roubles and fled in cabs, igniting fears of renewed violence after two months.
Indianapolis Feb 22. The supreme court rules the metropolitan police law constitutional and not repealed by the cities and towns act. The decision affirms a Kokomo city controller order to pay warrants issued by the police commissioners. The court holds peace and crime control are general state interests and legislature may regulate cities and towns statewide.
The famous 18 hour New York Chicago Pennsylvania RR line derailed near Mineral Point seven miles east of Johnstown Pa. Fifty four passengers were injured though none killed. one severely. Eight treated at Altoona, four to Pittsburgh. Relief trains and a special westbound train followed. A state of disorder marked the scene as investigators prepared a report.
A Pennsylvania Railroad statement says fifty four passengers and about a dozen in the train crew were injured in the wreck of the Pennsylvania special near Black Diamond Pennsylvania seven miles east of Johnstown just after midnight. No deaths reported.
Pittsburgh Pa February 23 Following is a correct list of those injured in the Pennsylvania wreck at Black Diamond Pa as gathered by the Pennsylvania railroad J Wood Wilson Marion Ind Frederick A Busse Chicago post master Samuel F Nixon New York of Nixon Zimmerman theatrical promoters Felix Isman Philadelphia real estate dealer Mrs L Miller Lexington hotel Chicago C B Coats Chicago P E Ferguson St Louis James Blakely colored New York Charles Dickinson Chicago Mrs H Sanborn Troy N Y Theodore Douglas New York H S Beardsley New York H S Piepintrink Joliet Ill Alfred R Urign attorney Chicago FI Tyre Salt Lake City Utah Rev Edgar Cape Philadelphia W O Dunkle Chicago Frank Brown Chicago E J Murphy Joliet I Mrs Franzolia and nine year old daughter Margaret Tacoma Wash Mrs Garnet Jersey City W R Beall and wife Reading Cal W E Wirtz Pullman conductor S W Prince Chicago Frank A O Neill Chicago Charles S Knight Jr assistant sales manager American Steel and Continued on Page Ten
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