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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1893
Page
7
A freight siding collision with the Toronto and Montreal express on the Wabash line at Kingsbury Indiana left eleven dead and many injured. A brakeman mis-timed the switch as the second section approached at high speed, causing a catastrophic wreck.
A catastrophic train crash causes mass casualties as the scene reveals mangled cars, fire, and a grim toll. Town volunteers, physicians, and neighboring communities rush to aid with blankets, food, medicine, and transport to Chicago hospitals. The late discovery mentions a recently commissioned mitrailleuse type cruiser vessel.
A Haitian warship Alexandre Petion sank in the Gulf of Mexico with ninety souls aboard. A sole survivor reports no warning and no contact with another vessel, leaving the cause of the disaster uncertain.
Pension Commissioner Lechren reported 966 012 pensioners on the bureau roll with a net yearly increase of 9044 and 156 740 167 dollars paid in the year. He noted 1895 appropriations at 162 631 570 dollars, the Civil War era ending the pension surge as new claims decline and pending cases fall from 788 061 in 1892 to 711 150 in 1893.
The coroner's verdict states that David Jackson and others died at Manteno on Sept. 15, 1803 while riding the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis Railway on the Nichols Central tracks. It accuses engineer Thomas Ames and flagman Orville Duncan of criminal carelessness, recommends Ames and Duncan answer for unlawful killing, and finds conductor W B Tyner and engineer William Sampell guilty of gross carelessness. It also says the Illinois Central Railroad Company bears gross negligence for failing to provide proper signals and telegraph stations between Homewood and Kankakee on the line.
Fire swept a five story tenement at 493 West Sith Street New York around two o'clock. Twenty families lived there and panic caused a death and several narrow escapes as the stairway mounted in flames blocking escape. Canon TioluanD of England notes mixed impressions of the World's Fair.
Sixty thousand Hawkeyes filled Jackson Park for a two day Iowa state celebration at the World’s Fair. Governor Bose led the parade with horsemen and carriages, greeted by the Iowa State Band and Agricultural Cadets. Cadets 308 strong under General J Rush Lincoln formed the main escort, followed by fifty mason figures from the same college in ceremonial dress.
The Iowa State celebration featured Lyons drill corps under Colonel C. L. Root marching to the Governor's gate and a grand review by General Lincoln. Cadet drills, a Stock Pavilion display, and a lake front illumination closed the day with a social reception, music by the Iowa State Band, and an evening program in Festival Hall. Thursday marked the state’s admission anniversary with formal exercises and performances in Festival Hall and a late reception at the Iowa Building.
The fragment notes an Indiana normal school dispute intensifying and Alabama quarantining against Georgia. It mentions revival of the Western baseball league and reopening of Colorado silver mines. The McGagno Savings Bank of Omaha plans to resume. A Philadelphia woman, Mrs Enizasrim Troms, died from choking on a fully batch.
Gov Boies speaks to Iowa Day at the World’s Fair praising the state’s grain and livestock leadership, dairy exports, coal and mineral wealth, and vast educational and public institutions. He highlights Iowa’s rapid growth in rail, industry, and population, celebrating its economic and cultural expansion.
A wide range of items from a state audit to deadly accidents and suspicious poisonings fill the page. Notes include a biennial auditor report with rising receipts, a runaway buggy wreck killing Mrs. Martyn and injuring others, a child saved from deadly poison, and a drowning of a Davenport elevator girl. Reports cover protests, robberies, poison scares in Swea City, and a variety of local misfortunes and curiosities across Iowa.
A Rockford business firm John Reid & Son faces grand jury indictments for assault with intent to murder and arson after a warehouse fire destroyed 36500 in stock. A former employee, I Transo, alleges two Reid brothers menaced him with revolvers to keep silent. The case stems from insurance disputes.
The Fayette County poor farm records Nancy Clark and Joe Simmons attempting elopement at midnight. They used a livery rig to reach Postville but could not marry due to lack of license. The sheriff captured them. Simmons was banished from the state and Nancy returned to the jail on bread and water.
Sherman Peterson, a patient at the Allen Institute in Vail treated for liquor habit, drank bichloride of gold thinking it whisky and died within hours. A coroner’s inquest led to charges of criminal negligence against H. S. Jackson and Arthur Clute, managers of the institute, but their release followed after Peterson’s parents refused prosecution.
A gasoline stove exploded at Cres ton while Mrs Maxwell and her daughter Stella attempted to fill its tank. The blast burned Mrs Maxwell severely and her daughter Stella, the residence of W. B. Maxwell, burned and collapsed. The house burned to the ground. the bodies were removed.
Cedar Rapids reports a string of fires causing substantial property losses. Mayor W P Daniels filed arson charges against Blake Rank and Michiel and Joseph Dostal, youths aged 8 to 20, alleging deliberate fires. Police say evidence is sufficient to prove guilt.
Mrs Gruenstein heard a noise in the cellar and found a quilt wrapped gasoline can set ablaze. The woman seized the burning quilt and removed it outside, averting an explosion at the German Reformed Church pastor's Monticello residence.
In Centerville at the fair grounds a horseman named SAM POINTS shot Char lie Groves a Mys tic gambler ending his life during a quarrel over a crap game. Points a notorious Missouri desperado already carries five bullet wounds and is jailed as angry mobs of black miners plan to lynch him.
Frank Sherclify, accused robber of Diamond Merchant Pollock, was convicted in Logan after a three hour jury deliberation amid divided public opinion and gambler interference from Denver and Omaha. A. Dargavel’s barn and his 16 year old daughter Mary perished in a house fire. The Wapello Canning Factory burned, destroying 20,000 tomato cans with a losses totaling 7 500 dollars and 33 000 dollars in insurance, jeopardizing value for local farmers.
A young man named Wood lost both arms when feeding a threshing machine at Goop and died from the injuries. His home is in eastern Iowa.
Charles Renny a cornice man fell from the Government Building roof in Cedar Rapids and died from internal injuries. He was fatally hurt in the accident.
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