Tragic Collinwood School Fire Claims Many Children
A three story Col linwood school building fire in Cleveland on March 4 killed about 150 children and injured many more. Overheated furnace sparked flames trapping students in hallways and at a jammed front exit, with several leaping from windows to escape.
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Cleveland, O
Collamer Avenue
Collinwood
Walter C. Kelley
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern Railway Company
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company
Cleveland
Mary Ridgeway
Anna Roth
Gertrude Davis
Horn
Blame Sought After Linwood School Fire Deaths
Cleveland coroner Burke declares the Linwood school fire deaths absolutely excusable and says some one is responsible. He calls the scene a trap where children were crushed and burned. He postpones naming a specific party as he weighs charges.
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Cleveland
Collinwood
Burke
Fale Rei
Fire destroys Union school at Napoleon in Ohio
Toledo reports the Union school at Napoleon Ohio, the largest in the state, was gutted by fire. Rebuilt only last April at a cost of 119000 dollars, the blaze raced from a furnace chimney nine o'clock brought sudden attendance down to empty seats. Eight hundred pupils were enrolled.
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Toledo
Union School
Napoleon
Collinwood
Benner
White
Watson Leads Rush for Allen County Delegates in Fort Wayne
Congressman James I. Watson quickly assumed control of a local Republican organization in Fort Wayne on Monday evening. He launched a high speed push to elect Watson delegates to the Republican state convention. Rushville’s James I. Watson will visit shops and factories and hold a rapid series of ward meetings as the campaign heats up. Charles W. Miller of Goshen arrived to boost the efforts as the governorship primary approaches Friday. Miller plans limited talks and may establish headquarters in Fort Wayne to sustain momentum through the primaries.
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Fort Wayne
James I. Watson
Watson
Allen County
Rushville
Charles W. Miller
Goshen
Fire destroys laundry building at Soldiers' Orphans' Home
A laundry building at the Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Bloomington Iowa was destroyed by fire. The blaze endangered the main complex housing 300 children but all were removed safely via the fire escape. Loss estimated at ten thousand dollars.
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Bloomington
Maron 10
Poisons Investigated in Van Wert Woman's Death
Fort Wayne chemists Dr. B. W. Rhamy and Dr. W. O. Gross completed a stomach analysis for Mrs. Martin B. Brown of Van Wert Ohio, amid claims of strychnine poisoning by her husband. The report has been sent to the coroner and prosecutor, with grand jury summons expected next Tuesday or Wednesday, though no statement is yet issued. Van Wert papers report poison. Fort Wayne findings to support it.
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B. W. Rham
W. O. Gross
Martin B. Brown
van Wert
Ohio
Fort Wayne
Gross
Alfonso Receives Warm Barcelona Welcome on Visit
King Alfonso arrived in Barcelona tonight after departing Madrid. He checked into General Linares’s residence in Catalonia and was greeted by a cordial crowd with no disturbances during his arrival.
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Barcelona
Spain
Alfonso
Madrid
Linares
Catalonia
Cool Banker Sits Half Hour With Anarchist
An unknown anarchist entered the Merchants National Bank in Omaha March 10 and demanded a large sum of money while displaying a nitro glycerine bottle and threatening to blow up the bank if refused. He asked to see Vice President Luther Drake in his private office.
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Omaha
Neb
Merchants’ National Bank
Luther Drake
Night Riders Drive Negroes Out of the Town
Paducah Kentucky reports a mob of about one hundred masked night riders entered Birmingham Marshall county near midnight. Six or more black residents were shot with at least one believed fatally wounded. The mob seized the town, fired on negro cabins, and whipped five men and women before forcing others to the Tennessee bank.
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Paducah
Birmingham
Marshall County
John Scruggs
Scruggs
Tennessee
Floods Crest in Fort Wayne Amid Record High Water
The Maumee level peaked at 22.5 feet with broad flooding across Fort Wayne. By Sunday the water fell, allowing residents to return home as streets cleared and dikes strengthened. Three young men survived a raft rescue near the river and the city began to recover with new flood districts exposed.
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Fort Wayne
St. Mary's
St. Joe
Maumee
Manin Street
West Superior Street
Spy Run Avenue
Main Street
Swinney Park
van Buren Street
Lakeside Bridge
Walton Avenue
Sox Run
West Main Street
Pape Avenue
Spy Run
Riverside Avenue
Lawton Park
Lakeside
Maunee
Henry Krauskopf
Albert Krauskopf
Harry Hilgeman
Krauskopf
Hilgemuan
B. J. Voors
Hilgeman
Henry Kranskopf
Henry
Mr. Woors
Frank Kronkheit
Prospect
Riverside Avenues
Tom
Wagner Street
St. Joseph
Spw Run Avenue
Riverside
Indiana interurban crash injures nine near Noblesville
A northbound passenger car and a southbound freight on the Indiana Union Traction Noblesville branch collided at Bray's Crossing two miles north of Noblesville at 1:30 PM. Nine people were seriously injured including Simon Ullman and Allen Abrahams. several others suffered lesser injuries.
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Noblesville
Ind
Indiana Union Traction
Indianapolis
Brays Crossing
Simon Ullman
Cincinnati
Allen Abrahams
Joshua Crofton
Joshua Lowekl
M. Grubbs
West Fourteenth Street
O. S. Akers
Tipton
H. W. Smith
East Seventeenth Street
H. BE. Montgomery
Bray’s Crossing
Abrahams
Here
Tim Yent
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Ward
Miller
Anarchist
Kuklux
Kentucky
Ciese
Indiana Union Interurban
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