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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1870
Page
2
A chaotic OCR fragment covers multiple topics from April and May. It references Presbyterian church testing in Philadelphia, tax and treasury debates, Red Cloud's movement, Richmond calamities, a courthouse collapse, and various congressional bills and resolutions. It lists numerous names, places, and derailed events with no coherent single narrative.
Eyewitnesses recall a deadly panic in a building collapse as survivors recount screams and a heroic effort to rescue the trapped. Telegrams of sympathy arrive from across the country while debates in Congress turn to tariff measures and funding, with officials detailing a faulty girder and the fatal miscalculation.
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