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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1964
Page
3
A Baltimore & Ohio passenger train bound for Chicago derailed near Wellsboro Indiana injuring at least 50 people with reports suggesting as many as 80 injured. The 13 car eastbound train left the tracks eight miles from Wellsboro causing multiple casualties and an emergency response.
A passenger train bound from Chicago collided with a derailed freight train about ten miles west of Minneapolis injuring at least 32. The Great Northern Railway Western Star carried 65 passengers and multiple cars derailed, with many victims treated at Methodist Hospital and North Memorial. Officials reported gas fumes from the air conditioning system as fire crews managed the scene.
In Sicily Mt Etna resumes eruptions with loud blasts from its central crater an earthquake rattled Tagusa fifty miles south. Ash and stones fell on Zafterana Milo and Fornazzo as Etna produced renewed activity after last month’s mushroom cloud.
Temperature and precipitation data for a 24 hour period ending at 4 a.m. yesterday as compiled by the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco.
The report notes the peak temperature in the United States, excluding Hawaii and Alaska, reached 100 degrees at Alice, Texas, while the record low was noted at Redmond.
Sen. Barry Goldwater addressed the Georgia Republican convention praising the party and criticizing the Democrats on civil rights. He urged substantial southern support could help a Republican presidential victory and accused Johnson’s administration of using secret information for political ends. He left for Bakersfield after speaking, brushing off a TV microphone and a hat attempt at the airport.
Communist backed rebel youths armed with bows and arrows killed three Congo Army patrol members in an ambush in Kivu Province, as reported by UPI.
President Johnson released a progress report on the federal economy drive urging agency heads to trim spending and file fewer reports. He cited 850000 fewer reports this year and a halt to 41 advisory documents while noting 14 000 fewer civilian employees than last year.
Lady Nancy Astor born 1879 in Virginia died aged 81 in England. She became the first woman seated in Parliament and was famed for wit and the Cliveden Set. Memorials planned in London and Plymouth with burial at Cliveden Chapel.
Moscow reports say efforts to avert floods in Samarkand stalled as a rockslide and massive debris dam backed by rain and earthquake damage threaten the Zeravshan River. An army of workers labors to blast the dirt wall and dig a diversion canal to relieve pressure.
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