Cloudburst on Lightning Creek Traps Five in Idaho Canyon
An 1906 Lightning Creek cloudburst near a Cabinet mountains trout stream sent a party scrambling for shelter as a torrent ripped down the canyon. A rock cliff refuge saved two but left the camp stripped and scattered. companions above the branch escaped and later reunited at the railroad station. The tale blends survival amid a fierce flood with a vivid account of the storm’s fury.
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Lightning Creek
Idaho
Cabinet Mountains
Turks Urged to Continue War at Adrianople Fortress
Turkish officers and troops are counseled by officers and diplomats to resist surrender as hostile Balkan forces press, while ambassadors urge terms. Turbulent shifts follow the deaths of key German envoys, with Britain’s neutrality tested and a Balkan peace conference resuming after an adjournment.
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Adrianople
Constantinople
Asia Minor
London
Balkan States
St. James’ Palace
Daneff
Alfred von Kiderlen- Waechter
Marschall von Bieberstein
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Kiderlen-Waechter
Balkan
House of Commons
Edward Grey
Great Britain
Russia
Miner Loses Life After Failing Drinking Wager
In Bluefields West Virginia George Harris a white laborer bet four men he could outdrink them at a saloon near the railway station. Harris drank forty seven Tom and Jerries then a pint of whiskey and six bottles of beer before collapsing dead. Bert Stanlick arranged the stake and Harris died within moments.
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Bluefields
W. Va
Dee
George Harris
Mate- Wan
Kay Four Wen
Bert Stanlick
Harris
Stanbck
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America
W. H. Woolley & Co
Long Branch
Broadway
California
Thompson
Norway
Brazils
Richardson & Robbins
June
Juan
Chicago Tribune
Sata
Waras of
Limerick
M. Paul Villars
Few Lebats
M. Villars
London Mail
Washington Herald
Washington
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