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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1894
Page
4
The Big Four shop at Webash burned early Wednesday due to a natural gas leak. Coaches, a repair shop, and roundhouse were destroyed, many tools lost, and over 100 workers displaced as the blaze caused estimated damage near six figures. Fire followed a night of smoke and flames.
The article notes a Buffalo course race on November 1 between Robert J. and John R. Gentry, Searles completes a Chicago to New York bicycle trek in six days seven hours, Butler football schedules exhibitions in Kokomo and Danville, and Irvington meets Rose Polytechnic in Terre Haute. It also lists race winners from multiple cities, a saloon altercation causing a head wound, and stockyard prices in Indianapolis with modest market shifts.
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