Appeal for Aid in St Louis Tornado Relief Effort
The St Louis Municipal Assembly appeals for outside aid to relief efforts after the tornado disaster. Donations go to the mayor or police commission or relief committee, with receipts and disbursements publicly recorded. Next meeting proposes a $100,000 city appropriation. East St Louis death toll revised to far lower than initial counts, with 147 dead in St Louis area and several missing or seriously injured.
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Tasue
Louis
Munitcipal Assembly of
St. Louis
City of
House of Delegates
East St. Louis
Mob Violently Breaks Into Webstar Building During Prisoners Trial
Armed men assault spectators and guards as a mob overruns the Webstar Building during the trial of Jeare Slayton. Slayton is seized from guards, hanged briefly by a rope, and a black man is dragged toward a tree where he is hanged and paraded. The scene ends with the jailer overpowered and a second black man forced to witness the aftermath.
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Cotuintia
Gat Ab
Elock Mardy
Mstainz
Nobel
Webstar
Jeare Slayton
Mra
Howard Drson
Thareday
Idék
Slayton
Bealind
Arma
Pratan
Priggner
Atty
Conri Houan
Taok
Miles
Mrs. Albright
Marines Land in Garinio Port Amid Foreign Property Seizures
AP correspondent reports May 2 landing of about 160 American and British marines at Carinio Garinio. Marines from the US cruiser Alert and the British cruiser Comna acted in harmony to occupy the port and safeguard foreign property at the customs house and railroad station through May 4.
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Managua
NigaTragua
Associated Press
Carinio
United States
Alert
Comna
Invention Goes Wrong on Charles River Park Track
Mechanical engineer H Hoper of Roxbury paced with RBostos, a bicycle rider, when Roper’s steam bicycle toppled them. Roper died soon after. The accident is noted amid other river and cyclone distress stories and a large Helen Gould donation.
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Rbostos. &. H. Hoper
Roxbury
Jom Brufler
Roper
Charles River Park
Ife
Raper
Ape
Reform of Argentine Finance Plans Post Debt Unification
The Diario reports that after Congress approves debt unification, Finance Minister J D Roe mero will develop a plan to convert the IPAper money.
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Barnes Agnes
The
Diario
Congress
J. d. Roemero
Trains Wrecked at Buckeye Park Pan Co Collision
About 20 000 spectators witnessed a collision on the Columbus Buckeye Park line. Two forty ton locomotives with coal cars collided at 40 miles an hour, tearing up both engines and scattering wreckage as crowds gathered and looted railside remnants.
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CoLuspus
Buckere Park
Columbus, Hocking Valley
Toledo
W. H. Fisher
L. Streeter
Timense
Car on Second Avenue line crashes. seventeen hurt in Prrrspurc
A Second Avenue traction car leaped the track near Six Mile Terry en route to Calhoun Park. The vehicle overturned into a twelve foot ditch. all seventeen aboard were bruised or cut, two seriously. Passengers describe a speed like a railroad train as the car toppled.
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Prrrspurc
Second Avenue Traction
Calhoun Park
Six Mile Terry
Factories reopenings and labor shifts prompt South Africa and Indiana notes
Reports detail heavy employment shifts as Indiana Manufacturers' Association controls directories and 4 000 allied workers face reassignments. Elsewhere six large New York steamers prepare to sail to South Africa with grain for English ports, amid colonial tension and fever outbreaks in Cuba.
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Pittsburg
Liana Mapuniclarers’ Association
Therm
Niising
Gantral
Indiana Manufacturers’ Association
Ony Ginsa
Dongial
Indisba
Ohin
NW York
Cape Colony
Sout Africa
Norwegian Bark Brodhera Wrecked Near St Tanl Island
About midnight on the 27th the Norwegian bark Brodhera of Avonmouth bound for Miramichi was wrecked a half mile from St Tanl Island in thick fog and heavy seas. Captain IT Wilson, First Mate H N Sweenson, Second Mate Theodore Person and seamen Harold Welson and Emil Solerstron were lost. Five men perished.
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Hattrax
Brodhera
Avonmouth
Miramichi
St. Tanl’s Island
IT. Wilson
H. N. Sweenson
Theodore Person
Harold Welson
Emil Solerstron
Farmer Kills Wife Then Falls to River in Indiana
George Mack, a farmer five miles south of Exmoon, killed his wife with a spade fork after living apart, then attempted suicide by slashing his throat and jumping into the river. He crawled out and was found unconscious on the bank. Another man, William Cavanaugh, 70, was struck with a spade during a quarrel with Albert La Fares, fracturing his skull.
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Marrsvipth
Kaa
George Mack
Here
Mack
Con Nilian
Exmoon
Wiliam Cavanaugh
Albert la Fares
laWer
Atarshall
General Paager
Marshall
Marsall
Amin
Honorary degrees to Bayard Morley Chamberlain sought
Oxford University proposes to confer honorary decrees on United States Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard John Morley and Joseph Chamberlain. VHoxna Kona reports an American vessel ashore at Montanha Island with locals beginning to plunder. In Rawlins Wyoming Charles Smith convicted of assault with intent to commit murder received a fourteen year hard labor sentence.
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Oxford University
United States
Thomas F. Bayard
John Morley
Joseph Chamberlain
Hari John [Aisley
Shepherd
Singapore
Montanha Island
Revere
Agasiit
Rawlins
Wyo
Charles Smith
Aln
McAnally
Governor Pradley Indicted for Property List Failure
Loxtiox Kentucky Governor W. O. Mrad ley is indicted by a grand jury for failing to file a description list of his property in Laurel County.
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Loxtiox
W. O. Mradley
Laurel County
Brick Pomeroy Dies at Home in Hroghlyn
New York reports Mark M. Pomeroy known as Brick Pomeroy died Saturday at his home in Hroghlyn from Brighwe disease. The obituary notes his nickname and residence, detailing the cause as reported.
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Brick” Pomeroy
New York
Mark M. Pomeroy
Brick’’ Pomreroy
Hroghlyn
Brighwe Distase
St Louis in ruins as major buildings destroyed
A disaster hits the heart of St. Louis as several huge structures suffer total destruction. Fire crews battle flames while authorities assess the damage and guide residents from affected blocks. No exact casualty figures are yet released but officials warn of continuing risk.
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Sons of Life
Johnstown
Loura
Death on the River: Cyclone Blasts St Louis City
A devastating cyclone struck St Louis with floods, fires, and tornadoes, sinking excursion steamers and blowing down buildings. Railways halted, substantial property damage reported, many areas cut off from communication as the disaster unfolded overnight.
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Tropolis
Sferumers
Alion Beard
Drake
St. Louis
East St
Lois
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
Lehigh Valley
Reading
Great Cyclone Ravages St Louis and Surrounding Areas
Turmoil from a massive cyclone strikes St Louis and suburbs causing extensive destruction. Reports cite collapsed rooftops, ruined buildings, fires, and hundreds killed or missing. Widespread darkness, downed telegraph lines, and displaced families fill the aftermath.
Great Eads Bridge Disaster on the Mississippi River
A catastrophic flood and windstorm struck St Louis and surrounding areas. Bridges including the Eads collapsed or damaged, numerous ships sank, and the city faced widespread death and destruction. Traffic halted as telegraph lines failed and rescue efforts began.
Four Chicago Men Charged in T J Marshalls Murder
Coroner jury accuses Frank Carpenter Charles Gurney Clarence White and John Larg of killing Thomas J Marshall a prosperous Chicago merchant. They are held for trial after a dramatic robbery at the Golden Tale on West Madigan Street ended with Marshall slain by two pistol shots.
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Chicago
T. J. Marshall
Frank Carpenter
Charles Gurney
Clarence White
John Larg
Thomas J. Marshall
Mmerchanta
Hine
West
Madigan Street
Mr. Marenais
Misa Mathie Garretton
Dodec
Recalls the Johnstown Flood Story Visited Pennsylvania Town
The article recalls the Johnstown flood catastrophe near Pittsburgh and notes St Louis suffered a near seventh anniversary of the terrible calamity.
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Johnstown
Pennsylvania
St Louisa
New Professor at Ann Arbor Arrives to Lead Women Students
Eliza M Mosher of Brooklyn arrives in Ann Arbor as associate dean and professor of hygiene in the literature and arts department. She will study women’s colleges in Europe, plans to relate closely with University of Michigan's female students, and leaves a lucrative Brooklyn practice for the post. Henry Stefke, 40, is found dead in Bloomington Indiana, likely from a runaway incident.
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Hendred Wourenian
Eliza AM. Sosherts
Eliza M. Mosher
Brooklyn
Ann Arbor
Hygiene
Europe
Oxford
Cambridge
Marlin
TY Ooze
Mosher
Mosh
Io Fill
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