Train Crash Near Livingston Leaves Dozens Dead and Hurt
A Chicago Burlington and Quincy passenger train collided head on with a freight train near Youma point in a heavy snowstorm. The smoking car telescoped the express car, trapping and killing many aboard. Bireman Ora Babcock and brakeman Milo Halloway are reported dead among numerous injured and missing. Names of the dead and injured include Colonel Ronsen, John Paulus, Robert Anderson, and others from Utah, Montana, Denver, Seattle, and beyond. The crash occurred when the freight flagman failed to signal in time. snow hindered visibility and rescue work was hampered by wreckage and bodies intermixed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bireman Ora Babcock
Milo Halloway
Bitakeman
Colonel Ronsen
Utah
John Paulus
Billings
Mont
Robert Anderson
Hardy
Jarenz A. Stewart
Dean
A. C. Crombie
Ministin
Sichemram
R. B. Vickers
Wesebery
Sam Slomowita
Anton Bowris
Helena
John Burke
Boston
Susan Csrdea
Flathead
Twenty Die in Collision on Berlin Elevated Train
Berlin's elevated railroad wreck on the Triangle crossing left 20 dead and 9 others fatally injured, with 19 seriously hurt. A misplaced signal triggered the crash as a crowded car was hurled 40 feet into the street, many fatalities from contact with electrified rails. Richard Wendt, an architect, among the dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Richard Wendt
Haskell resigns as Democratic campaign treasurer
Governor Charles N. Haskell resigns as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee after a Chicago meeting with Guthrie, Oklahoma, officials and discussions at Democratic headquarters. He says he does not want to embarrass the party and notes no admission of charges against him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Campaign Committee
Chicago
Charles N. Haskell
Democratic National
Guthrie
Okla
Haskell
Democratic Party
William J. Hearst
Roosevelt
Epidemic Cholera Toll Rises in Eurasia Region
Reports indicate 15,683 cholera cases and 7,102 deaths in Eurasia since the epidemic began. In St. Petersburg alone there have been 4,981 cases and Los 1,475 deaths reported. The data reflects the official admission of the disease’s presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Eurasia
Resuming Work at Harrisburg Oil Works in Pennsylvania
The puddle mill of the Chesapeake Oil Works in Harrisburg Pennsylvania, idle since May, will be put into operation with 200 men on its rolls. Other Harrisburg industries are increasing their forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburry
Harrisburg
Cheasapeake
Expelled from the New York Stock Exchange
A. C. Brown and Lewis Ginter Young, stock exchange members of the suspended firm A. C. Brown & Co, were expelled from the New York Stock Exchange as announced by President Thomas Fulton. In Kentucky a Negro section of Murphy Hollow was visited by white mobs at night, with several inhabitants severely lashed and ordered to leave town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stock Exchange
New York
A. C. Brown
Lewis Ginter Young
A. C. Brown & Co
New York Stock Exchange
Thomas
Fulton, Ky
Roosevelt replies to Bryan over Oklahoma oil bribery claims
President Roosevelt defends against W J Bryan charges linking Governor Maskell to Standard Oil and Haskell to Prairie Oil Gas. He cites Hitchcock era rights allowing a pipeline, saying Roosevelt’s attack misrepresents his position and Oklahoma actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
W. J. Bryan
W. R. Hearst
Yashkell
Democratic Campaign Committee
Ohio
Oklahoma
Bryan
Maskell
Haskell
Great Corporation
Oklahoma Company
Prairie Oland Gas Company
Sccreery of
Hitchcock
Prairie Company
LT Cound
Int
Cholera Panic Reaches St Petersburg Elite Precincts
In St Petersburg cholera cases rise and spread into aristocratic areas including the winter palace and Tauride palace. Diplomats and society figures flee abroad while quarantine limits movement. Vaccination tests are reported among university students as cemeteries overfill with unburied corpses, highlighting a city in crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Winter Palace
Nicholas Nicholasvitch
Tauride
Alexander Oldenburg
St. Petersburg University
Preobrashenskoe
Field Artillery Platoon Ordered to Louisville Tourney
Washington reports General Grant has directed Colonel Hatcheld at Mort Myer Virginia to dispatch a platoon of field artillery to Louisville Kentucky for a military tournament starting October 1. After the event the unit will return to Fort Myer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Grant
Department of the East
Hatcheld
Mort Myer
Louisville
Fort Myer
Locomotive Order Keeps Dunkirk Plant Busy for Holidays
An order for nine engines was placed with the Brooks Mant of the American Locomotive Company for delivery in November. The plant will run through the holidays with other work in sight. Manager Maccgarvey declined to name the railroad placing the orders for reasons at present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
N. Y
Brooks Mant
American Locomotive Company
Deliery
Maccgarvey
Lock Up the Water in Mineral Ridge
Mineral Ridge Ohio with 1000 residents placed paddocks on public and private wells to deter thefts. The village near a creek secures emergency water but wells are drying up risking loss of fire protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Mineral Ridge
Girl Freed From Peonage by Brooklyn Court
Justice Stapleton of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn freed a 19 year old Pavanese girl held in peonage at the home of William H. Stone, president of the Porto Rican Coffee Company. Stone argued Dutch government duties required her return to her homeland, but habeas corpus proceedings secured her release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stapleton
Supreme Court of
Brooklyn
William H. Stone
Stone
Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang to be Replaced by Chung Men Yew
Chang Men Yew, formerly Manila’s Chinese Consul General, named to succeed Wu Ting Fang as Chinese Minister at Washington. Tang Shao Yi travels with thanks from the Emperor for Boxer indemnity remission. The mission aims to secure American capital in Northern China and includes visits to Shanghai and Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Wu Tang-fang
Washington
Chang Men Yew
Manila
America
Opium Commission
Tang Shao Yi
Wu Ting Fang
Tang
United States
China
Great Britain
France
Germany
Russia
Siberia
Mukden
Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
Mr. Chung
Harvard University
Carnegie Extends Hero Fund To Britain With 1.25 Million
Andrew Carnegie plans a British hero fund after success in America, funding 1.25 million dollars to benefit heroes and heroines who risk or lose their lives aiding others. Trustees of the Carnegie Dunfermline fund to administer, bonds at five percent issued, beneficiaries to include widows and children of heroes, doctors and nurses in epidemics, and railroad workers noted for bravery. King Edward has approved the venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
America
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Carnegie Dunfermline Fund
Dunfermline
Camegie
North American
My. Carneste
British Isles
Mr. Carnegie
Edward
Captain Wasner Denounces Tug Captains after Star of Bengal Wreck
Fort Wrangel Alaska telegram reports Captain Wasner of the Star of Bengal says the tug Kyak and Hattie Gage captains showed cowardice by cutting loose from him after the vessel wrecked off Coronation Island. Wasner states he was unconscious for an hour after rescue and 110 lives were lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skipner
Star of Bengal
Seatttle
Fort Wrangel
Alaska
Wasner
Dark Star of Bengal
Coronation Island
Kyak
Hattie Gage
Gompers accuses Taft and Van Cleave in bribery probe
Samuel Gompers testified in the contempt proceedings against himself and Federation leaders, charging Taft supplied antiinjunction support and Van Cleave used detectives to shadow him and offer a bribe. Van Cleave denied any employment of detectives or bribe attempts and rejected Gompers’s accusations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Samuel Gompers
Taft
W. J. van Cleave
National Assoteation of Manufacturers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Federation
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
He Bucks Store and Range Company
St. Louis
Gomp
Gompers
New York
Broughton Brandenburg
Riot in Statehouse disrupts Indiana House session
Nearly 100 temperance workers surged into the Indianapolis House of Representatives after adjournment. Horace Murphey of Muncie attacked opponents of the local option bill with harsh language, sparking pandemonium as Representative Coble accused him of lying. Rev Everson intervened, police dispersed the crowd after workers refused to leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
House of Representatives
Horace Murphey
Muncie
Coble
Dubois County
Murphey
Mr. Cole
Dubois
Mr. Everson
Cobra
Nine Lives Lost in Bertha Shipwreck Off North Carolina
The British schooner E M Bertha is believed to have perished with nine on board after sinking off the North Carolina coast. The wreckage had been reported earlier by the Cherokee master on arrival at New Three. The Bertha reportedly left Providence R I on September 18 with antique furniture cargo from Savannah Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Als
North Carolina
Cherekee
New York
Bertha
Providence
R. L
Savannah
Millions Burned Up in Forest Fires in Michigan and Minnesota
Raymond Wy. Pullman of the forest service, in Minnesota, estimates logs burned at 5 to 10 million dollars with fires still burning. He notes a five hour rainfall and that 36 more hours of dry weather are needed to halt the blazes. Professor Filbert Roth of the University of Michigan forestry department puts total damage at 40 million dollars and says over one million acres of timber land are devastated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Minnesota
Washington
Raymond Wy. Pullman
The
Forest Service
Detroit
Mich
Filbert Roth
Forestry Department
University of Michigan
Bulls Run Amok as Five Die in Lisbon Crowd
In Lisbon a herd of twenty two bulls escaped during a bullfight. The charge left five dead and around twenty injured as troops opened fire, killing the remaining animals and ending the chaos. The incident disrupted the arena crowd and prompted a swift security response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Molin
Fire destroys Chelsea wooden buildings north of tracks
Chelsea Massachusetts nearly an acre of wooden structures on the north side of the Boston and Maine tracks, spared in the April 12 blaze, were wiped out by another disastrous fire causing about 300000 dollars in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelsea
Mass
Boston & Maine
Star of Bengal wreck off Coronation island sinks with 110 lost
The Alaska Packers' bark Star of Bengal, 1004 tons, 282 feet long, sailing from Fort Wrangel to San Francisco with 45000 salmon, wrecked near Coronation island west of the Prince of Wales group. 110 men drowned, including nine white. 27 crew and passengers saved. Many aboard were cannery Chinese and Japanese workers taken at Fort Wrangel. Tow by two tugs failed as weather forced abandonment. the vessel struck rocks and could not be aided by Burnside or allied ships. The disaster occurred April 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Alaska
United States Stear Corps
Star of Bengal
Coronation Island
Prince of Wales Archipelago
Alaska Packers’ Association
Fort Wrangel
San Francisco
Goro Nation
Alaska Packers' Association
United States
Burnside
Fort Wrangie
Biggest steel plate order triggers Carnegie mills restart
The Pittsburg Steamship Company ordered 80,000 tons of steel plates from Carnegie Steel, the largest single order received. The plates will be used for ore vessels at Lorain docks, Ohio. Mills begin double shifts to complete the order in two weeks, reopening previously idle plate and structural mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Steel Company
Pittsburg Steamship Company
General
Cleveland
Lorain
Carnegie Steel Mills
Whole Village Frozen by Siberian Esquimaux Deaths
A party of Indians found a frozen Siberian Esquimaux village on the coast last June after long hunger. The inhabitants reportedly starved eating walrus hides from houses and clothing, leaving bodies congealed. Rev. Edward O. Campbell reports from St. Lawrence Island near Nome in a letter to Rev. Walica Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Siberian
Edward O. Campbell
Presbyterian
St. Lawrence Island
Nome
Alaska
Walica Lee
Christmas Gift Separation Agreement In Court
Charles G. Baldwin facing desertion charges offered a separation agreement as a defense. Signed by Mrs Baldwin who testified the so called gift was a $25 inducement. Judge Bell ruled the agreement non operative and ordered Baldwin to support his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallidaysburg
Charles G. Baldwin
Baldwin
Bell
Rain Quenches Forest Fires in Midwest Dispatch
Milwaukee dispatch reports heavy rains have quenched forest fires in Upper Michigan and Northern Wisconsin after days of burning. Current danger is removed for the present period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Upper
Michigan
Wisconsin
Lehigh Company Breaker To Hire Local Workers At Nesquehoning
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company breaker in Panther Creek Valley will start operations and employ about 800 workers. Immigrant arrivals to New York City show about one third fail to travel beyond the port for a home, a finding noted in the period’s port statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nesquehoning
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Panther Creek Valley
Port of
New York
Forest Fire Loss Put At Million A Day
Dr. W. J. McGee of the geological survey reports after a Adirondacks visit that conservative estimates place forest fire damage in the region at one million dollars daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. J. McGee
The
Geological Survey
Adirondacks
Bootblack Reports Robbery From Strangers in Springfield
Springfield bootblack Rob Bootblack reported to police that two strangers robbed him of 3325 dollars. The incident involved an old firm name and street locale, with Nichol son named as George Nichol, a bootblack, as a referenced figure in the unfolding police report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rob Bootblack
Springfield
Mass
George Nicholson
Explosion kills crew on French cruiser La Touche Treville
An explosion during gunnery drill on the cruiser La Touche Treville wrecked the after turret killing 13 crewmen and injuring many others at Toulon. The 7.6 inch gun incident mirrors a prior accident aboard Couronne crew losses. an official inquiry is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toulon
France
Voutonne
Les Latins d’Hyeres
Courenne
Iron Movements Drive Demand for Raw Materials and Shipments
The Stohn Trade Review highlights rising demand with 20 000 tons of gas pipe for a Cincinnati to West Virginia line and 66 000 tons of sheet bars for export. Oliver Iron Mining seeks proposals for a Mesaba range concentrator plant valued at 1 500 000 dollars. St Paul railroad to build 5 000 steel underframe cars. Tron ore is being shipped by the Steel Corporation lake fleet at about 00 000 tons weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Stohn Trade Review
Cincinnati
West Virginia
Oliver Iron Mining Company
Mesaba Range
St. Paul
Steel Corporation Lake
Locomotive Goes Wrong Near Carthage
A St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train derailed one and a half miles west of Carthage Missouri near Spring River. The engine and baggage car plunged into the river. the train’s other cars overturned. Engineer Lew Blood and fireman Harry Gerrouse were killed. Thirty six passengers were injured, one likely to die, as the engine failed on a sharp curve and turned over twice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
St. Louis
San Francisco
Spring River
Lew Blood
Harry Gerrouse
Freman
Bank Examiners Scored by Comptroller in East Territory
Washington reports Comptroller Lawrence Murray strongly criticized bank examiners for failing to uncover embezzlements defalcations and dishonesty and for poor estimates of bank securities. He urged reforms before a conference of examiners representing the area east of Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Curreney
Australia to Form Flotilla Of Destroyers And Submarines
The British Admiralty approves the Australian Commonwealth plan to form a nucleus navy with six torpedo cat destroyers nine submarines and two dispatch boats forming a flotilla in Melbourne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Navy Meat Contract Sets Peace-Time Record
The United States Navy Department ordered 1,275,000 pounds of canned meals from Schwarzschild & Surzberger Company. It is the largest peace-time meat contract for the government, requiring slaughter of 28,000 cattle and 6,000 hogs to produce about 45 carloads of meat ready for delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
United States Navy Department
Schwarzschild & Surzberger Company
Telegraphic Briefs and Notable Court Bids
Adam Rinehart of Lima recaptured his 1 year old daughter Martha A. Rinehart in St. Louis after she was hidden as a boy. The Utah Democratic State convention nominated Jesse Knight for governor by reclamation. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. is reportedly engaged to Carrie Louise Munn of Washington. Nate Goodwin filed for divorce from Bessie Hull Goodwin of Hackensack. August Eberhard pleaded guilty to murder and received 30 years in state prison. A Russell Peabody, defense participant in Thaw case, died suddenly in Babylon, New York, of pneumonia.
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Adam Rinehart
Lima
Martha A. Rinehart
St. Louis
Utah
Jesse Knight
Proyi
Theodore Roosevelt
Carrie Louise Munn
Washington
Harvard
Stanford White
Babylon
Imeumonia
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Interior
Chung Men Yew
Hag
Emperor
Boxer
Labor
Aasértar
Bert
Statehouse
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Homestead Mills
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