Dawson City Fire destroys 111 buildings in Klondike city
May 22 Victoria reports a historic blaze in Dawson City. A north wind fed the fire that consumed 111 structures including the waterfront and business blocks. No fatalities, but losses exceed four million dollars with no insurance. Prominent firms burned include Bank of British North America and Canadian Bank of Commerce. Rebuilding hampered by scarce lumber and supplies as navigation opens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Dawson City
Klondike
L. ¥. Humes
Humes
Seattle
Reilly
Tokale
Thereland
Donohhue & Smith
Recf
Second Street
Asinens
Timmins Royal Cafe
Fairview Hotel
Bank of British North America
Canadian Bank of Commerce
McLellan and McFeely
Vancouver
Dawson
Parsons Produce Co's. of
Winnipeg
Royal Cafe
Donalee and Smith
Aurora Saloon
Belgea
Madden House
Victoria Hotel
McDonald Block
California Exchange
Telegraphic Briefs Missing Clarity From May Day Totals
Fragmentary telegraph briefs mention various topics from May Day events to court cases and naval news. References include Lord Saltetary, Balmar & Co of Mostreal, and Hendrie’s plate, with scattered notes on theater personnel and a shipwreck near Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memday
Lord Saltetary
Rintom JA. Balmar & Co
Mostreal
Hendtie
Henry Irving Iivas
Gueralo
Aed
Drerreareta Toes Varis
America
Court of Conant
Aaas
Dreyfus
New York
Regie
Hague Conference chairmanship offered to Sir Julian Pauncefote
The Hague conference news notes Sir Julian Pauncefote has accepted leadership of the arbitration section alongside U S delegates and minor powers, aiming for a permanent arbitration role. Other items report a brief peace session, the czar and queen’s telegram reply, and various local incidents including a bridge tragedy, a drowning, a railroad ex-treasurer’s death, a Warsaw fire disaster, and a Toronto lecture trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Teleraphs
the Hague
Jlian Pauncefote
United States
Hague
Baron de Stael
Wilhelmina
Grain Strike Paralyzes Great Lakes Shipping
Buffalo and Chicago reports say 3000 grain handlers struck in Buffalo and dockside tensions escalate as the Lake Carriers association and Seamen's union clash over contracts and unloading. Chicago shipping stalls, coal and ore transport delayed, boards urge immediate contract abrogation to restore normal Great Lakes transport. Cleveland notes strike harms steel and iron trades with ongoing port disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Ek Street
Restu Hons
Aston
Bishop Quigley
Presient McMahon
Grain Show Lets’ Union
Lake Carriers’ Association
Connor
International Seaman's Union
Chicago
J. R. Sinclair
Dunham Towing Company
Chicago Board of Trade Directors
Board of Directors
Board of Trade
City of Chicago
Connors
Great Lakes
Cleveland
Bafa
Quigley
McMahon
Grain Shoveller’s Union
State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
Butalo
the Lakes
Gibson C. Douglass
Western Transit Company
Western
Illinois
Burlington Purchases Nine Railroads In System Expansion
Chicago May 19 The Chicago Burlington and Quincy has bought outright nine railroads leased for years to form part of its system. Roads acquired include the Illinois Valley and Northern Galesburg and Rio Chicago and Iowa Peoria and Hannibal Ottawa Okawaga and Fox River Valley Illinois Grand Trunk American Central Quincy and Wabash Louis Rock Island and Chicago Prices not learned The mortgage on the system was placed after owning the lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Company
Burlington
Ilinois Valley
Galesburg
Rio
Towa
Peoria
Hannibal
Ottawa, Ok ‘Wego
Fox River Valley
Illinois Grand Trank
Quincy and Warn
Louis
Rock Island
The
Telegraphic Briefs from May 20 Transmit Mixed Global Notices
A garbled May 20 telegraphic brief presents scattered items including an Earl Matoesbury death by apoplexy, charity donations, railway control shifts in Chicago, and various military and political notes. The stream includes references to Indian leaders, U S volunteers, Armenian questions, coronation plans, and international court inquiries, all presented in fractured prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Matoesbury
Tee
Siuerian
Kroger
Deauce
Great Lakes
Jona Degen
New South Wales
Canada
Louisburs
Louisburs, Taautiesry
Scenes of Fires and Drownings Plague Beauce Region
Multiple deadly incidents in Beauce including three children burned to death in Hampton and four adults plus a child killed in St Theophile. Reports cite faulty housing, carpenter strikes, and widespread fatalities in under a month. Other items note ore finds near Deadwood, and cholera in Allahabad with a London report. Robert Smith, a local teamster, dies after a stair fall in St Thomas.
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Trecks
Montreal
Beau
Savard
Hampton
St. Theophile
Madame Clouthier
St. Frederic
St. George de Beauce
Mr. Beudoin
Scott
St. Thomas
Ont
Robert Smith
Victoria Block
De Beaufort Opens Hague Peace Conference Address
The Hague May 19 Delegates welcomed by M De Beaufort president of the council and foreign minister in the Dutch government in the hall Ten Bosch. He praised The Hague as host and the conference as a red letter day in the century. He urged peace’s blessings for humanity and cited the allegory above the doorway of Peace entering the temple of Janus. Washington May 18 President McKinley sent a cable to the Russian emperor offering congratulations on the Hague disarmament conference opening.
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The
Hague
Czar of Russi
Hi ‘Ten Bosch
M. de Beaufort
Netherlands
Washington
McKinley
Russia
Destitute Miners in Canadian Territory Spark Relief Effort
Ottawa reports 400 destitute and sick miners on the Mackenzie and Dease rivers, many Americans, aided by Hudsons Bay Company inspectors and the provincial agent. Interior officials pressed HBC to ship relief by Sukin river route while broader strikes impede Great Lakes shipping, risking long term Lake Erie commerce and grain shipments.
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Ottawa
Department of the Interior
Hudsons’ Bay Company
Glenora
Cassiar
Yakou
Eta
Edmonton
Hettren
Stotine
Golumbie
Hataas' Bay Company
Sukin
Dinorwic Miners Die in Ontario Shaft Explosion
Three miners Budd Irish Joe Laurin and Quirk were killed at Gold Rock near Dinorwic Ontario after a dynamite blast in a forty foot shaft within an Oxford Mining company claim. The accident likely followed a hung fire then a later explosion as men worked. Laurin a Rat Portage resident and French Canadian former Ottawa hotel proprietor left behind a wife and four daughters. He had spent years in Winnipeg and was Sabbath observance adherent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dinorwis
Ont
Budd Irish
Sudbury
Joe Laurin
Rat Portage
Quirk
Wabigoon
Gold Rock
Oxford Mining Company
Godrock
Jas
Maxwell
Joseph Laurim
Dinorwic
Ottawa
Winnipeg
Fragmented 1900s diary like dispatches record wars and disasters
A garbled collection of 19th or early 20th century notices reports fires deaths and violence. Mentions Victoria Germany Port Arthur and Paris among scattered names and places. Descriptions include explosions deaths collisions and political tensions with references to ambassadors and peace delegates.
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Dawson City Fire
Port Arthur
Port Arther
J. T
Cnts
BC Montreal
JA Bulmer & Co
Molson's Bank
Toute
St. John, A. P
Thomas Morris
Morris
Cambridge
Mass
James C. Harris
Uonin Pacific Railroad
Warsaw
Poronow
D. C. Fraser
Dent
Alaska
Alkai
Belleville
Prince Eaward County
Leslie
Chicago Board of Trade
Fredericton
N.B
Tal
Hid
McLean
James Humble
Alfred Glover
Glover
Halifax
Lotarg. C.B
Carpenters
Erie
Deadwood
South Dakota
Custer City
France
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Allahabad
Northwest Provinces
Korrechee
Sinde
President Skinley
Czar
de Beaufort
Toronto
Cooke
Caven
Hever
Ontario
Court of Appeal
Hedtora
Hawai
Wintes Institute
Wensesu
la Sepetember
Nate Frontenac
Wusver
Waa
Teank Frown
Nemenatie
Howe
Paris
Ole McMilban
Aid
CTR
Tue
Attie
Dun
Lauria
Calarne
Asso Frise
Llosa
Windsor
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