Destructive Fernie Fire Hits British Columbia
Reports from Aug 4 describe a massive forest fire near Fernie B C causing fatalities and unprecedented damage. Estimates place losses near 9 to 10 million dollars with 200 to 400 dead, while communities like Cranbrook and Michel face evacuation and mass relief efforts from Spokane Winnipeg and Vancouver. Emergency aid pours in and Fernie is described as wiped off the map with full town casualties and extensive lumber losses.
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Michel
Hosmer
Vancouver
B. C
Fernie
Nelson
Hestor Sampson
Cranbrook Herald
Spokane
Wash
Cran
Cranbrook
Northwest
Crows Nest
Canadian Pacific Railway
Prites Wood and Lumber Company
Fernie Tgn
Coal Company
Tes Wood Company
Singer torn by bulldog in Coney Island home incident
Miss Emile Gardner prima donna of the Aborn Opera last year lies in a Coney Island hospital in critical condition after a bulldog owned by her housekeeper attacked her in the cottage pantry. The dog, in good health, is under observation for rabies as neighbors aided her and moved her to treatment.
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Emily Gardier
New York
Emile Gardner
Aborn Opera
Coney Island
Miss Gardner
Singer
Indiana County Street Railway Company item
Indiana County Street Railway Co. 25 abbreviated note appears with a reference to a monetary amount or measure, likely an old transcript fragment. No further context or names are provided within the readable text.
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Indiana County Street Railway CO
Woman dies after jumping from hospital roof garden
Mrs Samuel Gans of Moundsville West Virginia leaped from a Mont Carmel hospital roof garden eight stories to her death. She had been at the hospital four weeks suffering melancholia and was led to the roof by a nurse.
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Columbus, O
Samuel Gans
Moundsville
W. Va
Mont Carmel Hospital
Headless horseman haunts Oak Lane roads at midnight
Sleepy Hollow legend meets Philadelphia suburb in Oak Lane where residents report a giant pure white horse with no head galloping along White Road near the city line. Two witnesses, George Rice and William Kinerman, fled as the phantom thundered past at midnight, leaving a chilling impression of the eerie rider.
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Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
Oak Lane
Philadelphia
Ichabod Crane
White Road
Baptist Hill
George Rice
Rice
William Kineman
Kineman
Toot
Cole
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