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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1892
Page
3
San Francisco wires from China report a catastrophic flood on the Yellow River. About one million people face starvation as embankments fail and towns drown beneath as much as 15 feet of water. Over 50 thousand are dead or missing, with entire villages cut off from relief and food.
Advices from Cagliari recount a devastating Sardinia storm and flood on Thursday and Friday. Hundreds died and property loss ran into hundreds of thousands as the Mannu and other rivers overflowed. Rescue efforts began Friday with soldiers saving dozens. San Eoerste counted about one hundred deaths and the toll appears to reach several hundred.
Dun and Co's Weekly Review notes no cloud in the business sky with October activity surpassing prior years. Home trade, bank exchanges outside New York, and exports rise while imports dip against a volatile comparison. Money markets firm, gold may return from Europe, and iron demand grows with shipyard activity.
A Great Northern railroad accident kills six workers and fatally injures several others when false bridgework fails during track laying near Wenatchee river. Victims include conductor John Leonard and laborers John Johnson James Wright Daniel Walchux Nelson Brody Olsen. Serious injuries and names listed.
A battered report details drought effects on water supply and guards for locomotives amid unrest. It mentions a Schuylkill Valley interruption, gunfire at Wilkes-Barre with a wounded husband and a traumatized wife, and a Colombian celebration parade drawing thousands.
One day’s fatalities total thirteen with about sixty injured as the Shamokin Express collided with a siding train near Manaurk tunnel on the Philadelphia and Reading line. The wreck, blamed on an agent’s error at Pencord station, caused a blazing scene and heroic rescue efforts by the Sauayunk fire brigade. Names of the dead include Clayton Epler Pottsville and David Herr Harrisburg among others. many injured were pinned in debris as flames raged.
A broken switch on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois line derailed the Danville express at Forty-ninth and Wallace streets in Chicago Tuesday night. Mrs. Ann McDonald was killed, Jane Johnson died of shock, and 94 people were injured, with many more lightly hurt. The crash was caused by the faulty switch.
A Milwaukee and Northern branch wreck near Plymouth Wisconsin 60 miles north of Milwaukee leaves two dead and about six injured as a work train backing to a gravel pit collides with freight No 14. Investigators probe whether the flagman or signals failed. A second note mentions a massive 22 wheel cannon car being built at Altoona Pennsylvania for the World's Fair.
Twenty pound nets along the Jersey shore feed New York City with most of its fish each summer. Nets enter the sea carrying 5000 to 10000 pounds of fish daily. one net costs 3000 dollars and lasts a year. Poles rot, teredo mollusks eat wood, and poles are treated or renewed. Fisheries fear overfishing while Seabright and other towns supply bluefish and other catch. Fire department drills attract attention in Chicago as firefighters train on tall ladders to reach roofs safely.
A traveler recalls a scene where a buffalo and a lion were killed in a fierce strug gle. Three lions battled a wounded bull as he defended himself, then fell from an apparent rifle wound. The lions then fought among themselves over the imagined victory.
A New York Dispatch item recalls elephants adorning state processions for Indian royals. One sick beast wore lavish silk and gold cloths, prompting squeaks of delight, while a recovered elephant reclaimed rank, triggering a tense display. Also noted is a German method to extract wood fibers for yarns, enabling spinable textile material.
A patchwork of curiosities and experiments: hairping at 400 degrees, a patent lock operable by magnetized key, fifty pounds of oil per ton of orange peel, alcohol injections for cancer, a tiny parasite causing potato rot, and Switzerland's 2359 mechanical works. Includes remarks on a 110-ton gun ban, a San Francisco fish kill, an earthquake explanation, alcohol trace in cost analyses, a Paris zoo anaconda diet, and a giant tuning fork weighing 27 kg. A Bridgton and Saco River Railroad tale highlights a cow accident and a Chicago couple's amusement. Also notes premature aging in husbands of older wives and remarks on health, fortune, and longevity.
A Newfoundland named Dade, owned by Mr Raymond of Bradenburg Manufacturing, was shorn. After the procedure the dog slunk under the porch, hid his head, and would not come out until hunger forced him. The tale suggests dogs feel shame when undressed.
John H. Haylin of Walnut street theatre Cincinnati sues for damages and injunction against several labor unions alleging interference with business through threats and boycotts. A broken rail wrecks an East St. Louis and San Francisco train near Phillipsburg Missouri injuring many. Norwegian steamer Normand wrecked in typhoon off Piscadores Islands with two saved. Collision on Chicago and Northwestern near Palatine kills two and injures one. General Sixto Marques holds 500 Mexican infantry in Sierra Madre. repulsed with ten dead. English government refuses cattle imports. Cholera reaches Vienna outskirts via Pesth. Danube traffic to be stopped.
A catastrophic blast at a Los Angeles celebration killed seven people and injured many as a man named Wilson fired a 21 gun salute with makeshift iron pipe mortars. Victims named include Frank Ford and Louis Oden, while Wilson is held on criminal negligence charges. Separate dispatches report a sealed catch of 45 000 seals in Victoria BC with prices dropping to 11 dollars and a collision on the City of New York’s gangway with one life lost.
Five villages near Kotais in Transcaucasia are destroyed by an earthquake with 27 bodies recovered and many more feared buried in ruins. At Lacrosse Wisconsin a wagon crosses a track and is struck by a Burlington freight, killing Frederick Zimmerman and his son instantly. Lorenzo Strittmatter survives by leaping clear. A Camden New Jersey youth, Herbert Erben, has been sent to reform school for habitual highway robbery of schoolchildren. A contemporary notes mourning attire with white china silk and lace described as cool and becoming, and ginghams with whites or velvet ribbons as fashionable for the period.
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