Times Square Subway TragedyDetail and Suspect
This account describes the subway wreck in Times Square where nearly a score died and about 100 were injured. It notes the defective switch, the ninth car derailment, and a wall crushing the car while workers cutting wreckage testified. W G Baldwin, charged with murder, held after a preliminary hearing.
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New York
Gay
Times Square
Interborough Rapid Transit Company of
W. G. Baldwin
Flood kills 2 and swamps Rondout valley in New York
Two men are dead and up to seventeen more feared dead after a cloudburst floods the Rondout valley from Grahamsville to Rosendale. Bridges lost, towns marooned, and hundreds of campers rescued as volunteers aided by state police and fire crews race to reach survivors. Twenty five boys stranded on an island were saved after rope tow lines were thrown and they used trees for shelter.
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United Presa
Middletown
N. Y
Rondout
Grahamsville
Rosendale
Eureka
Montels
Lackawack
Napanoch
Abe Blatt
Charles Lavery
Paterson
Harrid Ross
J. B. Norton
Ellenville
Kingston
Wawarsing
United Press
Rondout Creek
Thomas Krisic
Krisic
Father Riley
Veteran reunions set for Spanish American War groups
Fifty regiments of the 8th Army Corps will reunite this week in relation to the Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment. Headquarters are in room 430 at the Claypool with a 6 p.m. dinner planned in the Florentine room. The body formed at the 1927 national convention in Detroit.
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8Th Army Corps
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Claypool
Florentine
Detroit
Mich
Preacher Held in Liquor Case
The Rev. William Ritchey, 39, of 829 College Ave, arrested on drunkenness and drunk driving after a crash at Liberty and North Sts. His car hit Fred Sawyer's parked vehicle at 318 Eastern Ave.市
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William Ritchey
College Ave
Liberty and
North Sts
Ritchey
Liberty St
Fred Sawyer
Eastern Ave
Forest Jones
Capitol Ave
Alonzo Walker
Sally Dedmon
Paris Ave
Earl Ross
Dawson St
Thomas Willard
Pine St
Omar Goldsboro
Apt. 1
N. East St
Gone but Not Forgotten Automobiles Reported Stolen
Police report multiple vehicles stolen from various addresses across Indiana Ohio and Illinois. Entries list owner names street addresses vehicle makes and partial license or serial numbers with crime locations including Indianapolis Danville Thorntown Franklin Pontiac Oakland and Dayton along with cross streets and routes.
Stolen Cars Recovered in Local Roundup
Vehicles reported stolen on Hunter and Prospect Sts were recovered. A Willys-Knight Ohio 290 771 was found at Washington St and Senate Ave B. R. Prather of Union Stockyards had a Chrysler sedan found at Market and Delaware Sts. W. A. Richmond of 1015 Lexington Ave Oakland had a touring car found at Thirty-Sixth St and College Ave. A Ford coupe with plate 629 301 was located at Central Ave and Thirty-Sixth St.
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W. H. Wiebke
New York St
Essex
Maryland
Meridian Sts
Donald Jameson
Central Ave
Country Club
Carl C. van Buskirk
Dayton
Ohio
S. Meridian St
Jettie Wood
McCordsville
Ind
Overland
Capitol Ave
Market St. Lawrence
Arnold
Thorntown
Senate Ave
Market St. Co
C. McDonald
E. Adams St
Franklin, Ind
Market St. W. A. Richmond
Lexington Ave
Oakland
Janitor Falls 18 Feet in Elevator Shaft at Baker Apartments
David Carter janitor of the Baker Apartments 310 N Alabama 6t suffered serious injuries after falling eighteen feet into an elevator shaft on Sunday morning He backed into the shaft opening on the first floor with a bundle of waste paper and was found unconscious at the base by Charles Richmond Eugene Burnette custodian of Avondale Apartments 549 N Senate Ave was burned about the face when a furnace exploded.
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David Carter
Baker Apartments
Alabama
City Hospital
Carter
Charles Richmond
E. Market St
Eugene Burnette
Avondale
Senate Ave
Aged Woman Mary Jane Kamps Dies at 72
Mrs Mary Jane Kamps 72 of 2109 East Tenth Street died Sunday afternoon from heart disease. She was found unconscious in her home bath room by her husband Frank G Kamps and died shortly after. Funeral services will be held at Hisey and Titus undertaking at 2 PM Tuesday with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. She was a life long resident and member of Christ Episcopal Church and Queen Esther Chapter O E S. Surviving: husband two sons Frank G Kamps Jr Indianapolis and Edward J Kamps Los Angeles a daughter Mrs Herbert G Knight sister Mrs Rudolph Bauer and brother Edward Marton all of this city.
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Hisey & Titus Undertaking Establishment
Mary Jane Kamps
E. Tenth St
Frank G. Kamps
Crown Hill Cemetery
Kamps
Treasury Budget Director Forecasts Postwar Deficit
United States Budget Director Lord predicts a postwar deficit for the current year ending June 30. He estimates federal expenditures at 3,801,780,92 dollars, about 94,279,346 more than receipts, due to expanded governmental bureau activities.
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United Press
Washington
Treasury
United States
Lord
Hay Fever and Asthma Remedy Ad Offer
D. J. Lane, druggist at 1413 Lane Building St Marys Kansas, advertises an asthma and hay fever remedy. He mails a $1.25 bottle on request with payment only after the user is satisfied with results, the recipient acting as judge. Send name and address and state which trouble.
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D. J. Lane
Lane Building
St. Mary’s Kan
Car Crash Injures Two Men Near State Road 52
Edward Denny and Charles Wiggins were hospitalized in critical condition after Denny's car sideswiped a telephone pole at State Road 52 and West Riverside Drive. Police investigated the crash.
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Edward Denny
Merkel Sr
Charles Wiggins
City Hospital
Denny
State Rd
W. Riverside Dr
Farm Woman Suspected of Nine Murders
Union Missouri August 27 Indicted for two murders confessing three and suspected of nine Mrs Bertha Gifford fifty farmer s wife held in Franklin County jail for trial November term She signed a confession that she put arsenic in the medicine of two boys and a man to ease their pain Investigations show eleven poison purchases between 1911 and 1927 The admitted deaths were Edward Brinley Elmer Schamel and Lloyd Schamel All died at her home in Catawissa known as the house of mystery Six more deaths at the Gifford home under investigation include Emilie Gifford James Gifford Sherman Pounds James Ogle Beulah Pounds and her first husband Graham who died at Morse Hill Jefferson County in 1913
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United Press Union
Bertha Gifford
Franklin County
Andrew McDonnell
Webster Groves
McDonnell
Gifford
Emilie Gifford
James Gifford
Sherman Pounds
James Ogle
Beaulah Pounds
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Frank Kamp
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Epese Elses
Harthy
International Society
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