Horror at the Fair Seventeen Firemen Cremated
Seventeen firemen died at the World's Fair in a blaze at the cold storage building near the south grounds. Flames, ammonia pipes, and a collapsing tower trapped rescuers on a two hundred foot high ledge as spectators watched in horror. Firefighters, troops, and ambulance crews battled the inferno amid a panicked crowd of twenty thousand.
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Murphy
Truedy
World's Fair Department
Ston Island Avenue
Firc New
Herecules Lee Compiny
Wrecking crewFinds living scarecrows in Pennsylvania corn field
Wrecking gang on the Erie Railway near Nobody's Block by Cochecton New York hear a strange shrill sound from Wayne County Pennsylvania cornfield. They discover the noise comes from a German farmer's twelve children used as living scarecrows to drive off crows by relays banging tin pans at dawn. The farmer's clever method prevents crow damage, now in its second year, with crows kept away through continuous daylight racket.
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Delaware
Erie Railway
Nobody's Block
Cochecton
N. Y
Delaware River
Wayne County
Erie
Montana
Augusta
Vancouver City
John
Societe d'Ophthalmolgie
M. Gillet de Grandmont
BarreesxaAkk
Pete
Oil City
Penn
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Bernardston
Maas
Arnold Scott
Scot
Tom Roy
Waco
Tex
Tom
Hir
Mancy Jonpan
Greene
R. 1
Curious Beast Sighted Near Weston Oregon Exhibition
A three foot long beast with a brown chigny coat and long tail was killed near Weston in Arantula County, Oregon. Reportedly resembling a fox tailed bear from local tradition, it was exhibited at Pendleton recently, sparking interest among residents and naturalists.
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Weston
Arantula County
Oregon
Pendleton
New York
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Ith Street
Mmiusoud
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Murpey
Neso
J. T
Boyd
Gainesville
W. 5. Gholsom
Paducah
Peddiera
California
Zeke
Society Islands
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