Officials escape as car burns on Pennsylvania train
First President Joseph Wood Second Vice President J J Turner and Chief Engineer Thomas Rodd were aboard a private car that caught fire between Hanna and Davis while on train No 15 en route from Pittsburgh to Chicago. Turner was cut by glass but all survived. the car burned after the crew detached it from the train. Bromine cases in the freight, tied to photographers and chemists, were largely undamaged with one case destroyed.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Chicago
Joseph Wood
J. J. Turner
Thomas Rodd
Mr. Wood
Fort Wayne
Hanna
Davis
Wood
Mr. Turner
Mr. Todd
Mr. Rodd
Turner
Barnett
Foreman Rees
Cr. M. Hammond
Freight Claims Department
The
East St. Louis
Bunker Hill
Peru
Indiana Union Traction Lne
Avilla High School
Wells County
Birdie Smith Baker
Auburn
Denison
New Lodge
American Woodmen
Keystone
Straus Bros. & Co
Columbia City
Warren A. Kohler
Leesburg
Kosciusko County
Geneva
Isaac Finkhouser
Studebaker Tigers
157Th Regiment
Indiana Volunteers
Elkhart
Charles Messick
Lagrange
Jefferson Addis
Monroeville
Logansport
Angola Congregational Church
Goshen
Nappanee
Wabash
R. M. Desjardines
Vawter Park
Lake Wawasee
Wabash County
Bell
Frank Brahm
Baker
Ella Baker
Rebekah Lodge
Whitley County Option League
Frank Law
Law
Martin Shields
Altona
Garrett Yards
L. C. Hughes
L. C. Coverdale
Decatur
Marion
Ala
State Health Board
George Dierstein
Kendallville
Elks' Band
Mabel Jacobson
Wilkhart
Nicholas DeWitt
Kitty V. Warner
Frederick E. Warner
Corunna
Lake Shore Railroad
State Railroad Commission
Lake Shore
Edwin Shelmadine
Simonton Lake
Oil and Gas Company
Jack Tillett
Trenton Rock
Philip Anthes, Jr
Whitley County
Elmer Slick
Doland C. Lang
Charles T. Mattingly
Col. A. F. Fleet
Pottawatomie Monument
Culver Military Academy
Plymouth
Silas Holler
Millersburg
Indianapolis
Jearning
Bromine fumes hospitalize twenty two freight yard workers
A broken bottle of bromine fumes escaped in a freight car at the main freight house shed near the Pennsylvania depot. Twenty two employees were treated at St Joseph's hospital with several facing further care while eleven returned to work and others remained home. George Ember, a colored worker, first entered the car and collapsed from the fumes before others helped pull him out.
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Pennsylvania
St. Joseph's Hospital
George Ember
Lafayette
Holman Streets
John Laler
Warsaw Street
George ¥. Koop
Smith Street
John Kissner
F. C. Keller
Elm Street
A. A. Willig
McCulloch
R. W. Eddington
Calhoun Street
Christ Kees
Wilt Street
G. Lochner
Williams Street
Alfred C. Minnick
East Washington Street
Nelson Getts
Holman Street
Jacob H. Guthrie
Oakley Street
Oscar Woebbeking
Broadway
Ames
Melita Street
Fred Haigselman
Masterson
H. H. Bornkamp
Gay Street
Karl Weithaus
Colerick Street
Alfred Nepke
John Street
WW. V. Showard
Frank Jones
Walton Avene
L. G. Fets
Venedocia
Ora! Doo
Masterson Avenue
Christ Rees
Ember
Foreman Rees
William Biddle
Peru
John W. Eaton
Garrett
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Architect Elders
Marion
Methodist Home For
Warren
Jonathan Whitelock
Huntington County
C. W. Whitelock
Huntington
Whitelock
R. M. Desjardines
Vawter Park
Angola Commercial Club
Angola Engine Co
Auburn
DeKalb County
Butler
Waterloo
St. Joe
Corunna
Monticello
Indiana
Zoe M. Blue
William O. Coughton
Andrew J. Briggs
Union Township
Whitley County
Jesse A. Briggs
Churubusco
South Whitley High School
Buncie Combs
Helene Edwards
Elnora McConnell
Rosella Matson
Hildreth Kannaberg
Edna Stumpff
Mark Miller
Raymond Pressler
Amos Glassley
Russell Holden
Chester Bollinger
Frank Fisher
Laegrange
Joseph Barcellona
Barcellona
Alva Tritch
Elmira
Bluffton
John W. McCray
Frank M. Johnson
Philmont Oil Company
Theodore F. Miller
W. W. Bell
Wells
Jay
Adams
Yard Conductor Jesse Wagner Killed At Freight House Mist
Jesse O Wagner a Pennsylvania yard conductor was crushed to death at 11 50 Friday night while riding the footboard of switch engine 9376 near track 4 His death followed injuries from being pulled between the tender and platform Survivors include his wife two children and his father and siblings Funeral plans were set with services in Fort Wayne and Decatur under the B R T lodge with burial in Decatur
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Jesse O. Wagner
Pennsylvania
J. H. Minnick
J. H. Dietsch
Hfe
A. J. Kesler
Getz & Cahill
J. Charles McDonald
W. A. Grayless
James Wagner
Adams County
Fort Wayne
Wagner
Eva
Margaret
Decatur
Hayden Street
Fort Wayne Lodge
Keystone Grocery
the Pennsylvania
Old Shopman Hurt at Pennsylvania Shops
James R. Metzner, a long time planer at the Pennsylvania shops, suffered injuries after falling from a car. He injured his back and nose, and requires a cane to walk. He was treated by the company surgeon and sent home, expected to be unable to work for about a week.
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James R. Metzner
Pennsylvania
Metzner
Planing Mills
Electrician suffers severe arm burns in short circuit
Frank B. Brownsberger, a Fort Wayne Electric Works electrician in the testing department, sustained a severe burn to his left arm Friday morning when a rheostat caused a short circuit. The burn extended from just below the elbow to the wrist with four deep spur wounds. He is single and boards on Wall Street.
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Frank B. Brownsberger
Fort Wayne Electric Works
Brownsberger
Wall Street
Arm Scalded at Pennsylvania Power Station
An incident Thursday afternoon at the Pennsylvania shops power station left HL Weldéelman with a severe scald on the left arm when hot water spilled from a pipe during the drawing of water.
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Pennsylvania
HL W.weldéelman
Local notices and accidents fill Indiana counties report
Readable fragments from Noble, Elkhart, Kosciusko and surrounding counties show a mix of obituaries official changes chief of police Elkhart, road paving petitions Kendallville, a boy burned by ammonia, a fatal shooting remnant, school age counts, railway and telephone incidents, saloon closures, and civic improvements across towns like Angola, Lagrange, Warsaw, Huntington, Goshen, Waterloo, and Logansport.
News and Gossips and Local Notices Across Indiana
A sprawling roundup of city items from Elkhart to Huntington notes hotel construction at Oakwood park, a 17 000 dollar steel bridge project, post office changes, court cases, church repairs, storms damage, school enrollments, murders and divorces, robberies, industry deals, and local civic bids. Named places include Elkhart, Angola, Roanoke, Decatur, Garrett, Wabash, Warsaw, Logansport, Huntington, Marion, and Fort Wayne with multiple individuals and organizations.
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D. D.spangier
Rev. L. Newman
Elkhart
Oakwood Park
Lake Wawatee
Cutter J. Cannon
Angola Post Office
Max Barkind
South Bend
Grand Rapids and Indiana
Decatur
Peter Amspaugh
Roanoke
St. Joseph's Church
Garrett
Charles Hiller
Albion
Samuel Andress
Auburn
Kesciusko County
Warsaw
Mabel Kester
Longcliffe
Asylum
Logansport
Peter Dinius
Albert Stauch
Huntington
Lewis J. Brawley
Warren
Carrie Porter
Marion
S. Dart Sewall
Town Board of
Nappanee
Harry McIntyre
Auburn- Fort Wayne
David Taylor
Uniondale
Wells County
Kent
Robert Little
Winchester
Charles Little
Wabash
Washington M. E
C. A. Wade
John Mitchell
Kendallville
Paris
Mitchell
L. E. McCloud
Liberty Center
Mary E. Wright
Ind
Bismark
North Dakota
Beulah Cox
James Graves
Wm. Grege
Elizabeth McCune
Methodist Memorial Home
Thomas L. Graves
Graves
Virginia
Indiana
Geraldine Sembower
Mattie Dick
Ada F. Chew
Ethel Maloney
Nellie Cary
Maude Camp
O. V. Franks
Tipton
E. A. Stockwell
John H. Rohiman
Fort Wayne
C. F. LaFlore
Peconga
William Smith
William Lawrence
Grant County Historical Society
Sledge strike narrowly misses man at Pennsylvania boiler shop
O H Baer a helper in a Pennsylvania boiler shop was struck by a sledge that glanced and landed below his left ear. He was knocked down but doctors reported only a severe bruise with no broken bones and he is expected to recover.
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O. H. Baer
Pennsylvania
Foot Cut by Glass at Pennsylvania Erecting Shop
H. S. Thibaut from the Pennsylvania erecting shop suffered a serious foot wound when he stepped on glass and a sharp piece penetrated the flesh. The injury occurred Saturday and he was treated by the company surgeon.
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H. S. Thibaut
Pennsylvania
Thibaut
Foreman M S Willson Severely Injured At Electric Works
A test room foreman at the Electric Works, M S Willson, sustained serious injuries Saturday morning when alighting a train and attempting to reach the works. Doctors report two vertebrae fractured in the spinal column and he now must use canes to walk, though the surgeon expects a recovery.
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M. S. Willson
Electric Works
Mr. Willson
Patterson-Fletcher Co Advertises Leather Goods and Menswear
Bluffton manufacturer John M. Buck dies. Patterson-Fletcher Co sells a genuine leather suitcase with leather corners and linen lining for Hon. O. L. Ballou. They offer a kaika trouser for $1.00 and Manhattan silk shirts at $3.50. Allen McCormick named justice of the peace at Altona.
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Patterson-Fletcher Co
Allen McCormick
Altona
Manhattan
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