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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1892
Page
3
A miscellany of notes covers military drafts, fuel substitutes, sea otter prices, Russian labor, Colorado population growth, English books, stat articles and debt reductions. It also describes a Cape Verde island rock likeness of Washington, bird song observations, immigrant naturalization questions, southern iron impacts, and Wyoming snow storms with crop and life risks.
A massive oil and gas disaster near Oil Creek and the Allegheny River caused infernos and dense smoke. fires raged through Titusville and Oil City unleashing explosions, with hundreds dead or missing and property losses in the millions.
R G Dun reports mixed but generally improved trade across the nation. Collections rise. Chicago corn corner caused losses. wheat down slightly as large western receipts and hefty exports persist. Oats soft, pork and oil steady, cotton stocks high. Boston and Philadelphia see activity up in iron, hardware, and dry goods. Baltimore retail and export cattle rise. Pittsburgh iron and steel in demand despite low prices. Cleveland dry goods strong. Cincinnati tobacco and whiskey active. Chicago over its prior year with breadstuffs, meats, and cattle rising. weekly business failures total 207, up from 198 last week and 22 a year ago.
June 8 report links Spartansburg dam on Oil Creek to the Titusville flood catastrophe. The dam backed by netting to trap bass caused drift to accumulate, rupturing side walls and washing away bridges, mills, and a tannery. Dozens of dams along Oil Creek and adjacent creeks failed, with extensive property loss and at least two drowning victims reported.
Reported from Oil City and Titusville in 1932 recounts a massive disaster with 61 missing and 61 bodies recovered by Tuesday midnight, two new deaths, and a relief drive led by Governor Pattison. The catastrophe spans three days of fear, with 100 plus dead overall, incalculable property loss, and a growing relief fund. President Harrison expressed sympathy and sent $201. the relief effort mobilizes 200 workers and many volunteers to care for destitute victims.
In Titusville Pennsylvania a large Catholic burial at Calvary Cemetery marked by a single grave for a mother and eight children. The procession crossed a railway bridge by handcar then moved to the cemetery three miles away amid public anguish. The day saw 29 funerals and large donations. four more bodies were recovered, bringing the death toll to 63 with two unidentified remains.
A June proclamation from Governor Robert E. Pattison requests Pennsylvanians aid Titusville, Oil City, and surrounding oil region after a water and fire disaster. Citizens, societies, and agencies are urged to coordinate with Titusville and Oil City authorities for relief efforts amid widespread homelessness and destitution.
The National Game notes the Boston nine building a large lead in the twelve-city circuit while detailing player movements. Van Haeres of Baltimore lands league batsmen. Louisville wanes. Corxaint of Pittsburgh underperforms. Haxarcan joins Baltimore after Cincinnati release. Comparisons abound with Keefe of Philadelphia strong, Pfeffer missed by Chicago, and umpire trouble mainly in Cincinnati. The piece also mentions Sunday baseball debates in Toledo, Wann thriving in Brooklyn, and left handed pitchers no longer terrifying Brouthers. It closes with praise for all cities backing local teams and a Bryn Mawr Vassar baseball matchup among women. A charity game at Eastern Park netted over 3000 dollars for Hub Collins’s widow, Brooklyn beating St Louis six to one.
News briefs report Persia turmoil with Cupurna, Maine water famine, rising maple sugar counties in Ohio, and widespread bad harvests in Russian provinces. The Mississippi shifts near Memphis, frost and hail ruin crops in Spain, cotton acreage falls in South Carolina, and British coinage will feature the Queen’s head without a crown. A new burglary insurance company forms, Maple sugar makers must bond for next year by July 1, Connecticut coast wires braces, Texas crops show more corn and less cotton, Protestants clash with Catholic missionaries in Africa, and Saree’s madness leads to asylum in England.
Thousands attended the Gettysburg dedication of the high water mark tablet at the Copse of Trees. Col J B Batchelder outlined the fight’s first to third day, while speakers included Ex-Governor Beaver and Generals Schofield Slocum Webb Veasy. A bronze book monument, granite plinth, and cannons mark the memorial with regimental names on south and north sides.
A June 4 report from Washington outlines a bill to fund the agricultural report for fiscal year 1393. It includes that monthly crop reports on the 10th be limited to percentage totals with no commentary and be officially approved by the secretary of agriculture before publication. The measure also shifts supervision of admitting breeding animals from the treasury to the agriculture secretary, with free duty for animals deemed fit for breeding.
A collection of brief notes on notable figures including Eowry Boora with an estimated fortune of 300000 dollars. Descriptions cover royalty, scholars, officials, and military men with various positions, incomes, or fates. The items reference Spain, Harvard, the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's secretary, and General Pleasanton among others.
The Labor World notes expanding union membership in England with fifty thousand women in unions, while Durham miners’ strike ends with the men victorious. It reports rising activity in Gulf cotton mills, locomotive builders busy, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers granting six months leave with pay. A New York dry goods firm employs 1200 clerks described as sales persons.
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