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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
5
The recount recalls the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires from an Oakland office, detailing safe-guarding papers, recoveries, and near escapes. It describes postquake field relief, street camps, ruined landmarks, and the mix of hardship and neighborly aid observed along Van Ness Avenue, the Panhandle, and Mission Bay, with reflections on resilience and future rebuilding.
Gail W. Shipman recalls the devastating 1906 disaster, describing ruined streets and landmarks, soldiers enforcing order, looting and breadlines, and the human toll. She notes collapsed buildings, shattered art collections, and the city’s slow, painful path to recovery, ending with a personal plea to editor for refinement.
Washington report notes the senate, in committee of the whole, debated the railroad rate bill with focus on the eighth section and interstate commerce commission personnel. Senator Tillman questioned the president’s conduct, calling the bill weakened by the executive’s actions and asserting bad faith in the negotiations that led to a modified measure.
Washington May 18 The House defeated Tawney’s amendment to reduce ship repairs to ten percent of cost and affirmed faith in the Navy Department. Debate over the naval bill led to an extended session as plans for the Great Lakes naval training station progressed with a consulting architect and construction oversight limited to 4.4 percent of total plant cost. The session adjourned after reaching the navy expansion section.
Chief Burnett of Des Moines and Alderman of Marion visited Clinton to meet with local committees ahead of the state tournament opening June 19. They heard assurances that Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Lincoln, Rock Island, Moline and Town City will each be represented with multiple teams.
Des Moines reports the Presbyterian general assembly opening with five candidates for moderator led by A B Marshall T H Clelland J L Barclay J H Hendy and Hunter Corbett. The assembly focuses on church union federation plans and Henry Van Dyke's form book, with notable opposition anticipated.
A six story piano factory at 402 to 412 East Thirtieth Street and adjacent workshops of John H. Carl’s sash and door factory and Doll’s planing mills burned, causing about 250000 dollars in losses. Densely packed tenements behind the wall were emptied by police as panicked residents, many foreigners, fled and several people were injured in stampedes.
Dispatch from Crawford Nebraska reports four killed in the riots between white men and black soldiers from Fort Robinson. William Murphy, a white man, was shot at the jail by soldiers guarding Crawford. Murphy and others attempted to form a lynching party to seize the black soldier who killed Arthur Moss, the night watchman.
A severe windstorm two miles west of Erick Oklahoma on May 16 killed one person and injured several others. Six farm houses were demolished, including that of Mrs. I. B. Haskew who was killed. J. B. Haskew Mrs. A. F. Vines and five others were badly hurt. Three fairies were saved by sheltering in eye lone cellars.
Cheyenne May 16 Judge Riner sentenced H J Weare of Belle Fourche South Dakota to one day in jail and a 300 dollar fine plus costs for pleading guilty to fencing government lands. It is expected several similar cases will be heard in local courts this term.
A Kamloops dispatch reports that the bandits who held up a Canadian Pacific train last week near Vancouver have been captured. One man was wounded in a fight with mounted police who surrounded the robbers and compelled their surrender.
James H. Clark a night telegraph operator at Chamblee near Atlanta killed one man and seriously wounded three others while intoxicated. He was later shot and killed by a pursuing posse about half a mile from Chamblee, concluding the altercation.
Four hundred Scandinavian excursionists depart Minneapolis for Norway to attend the coronation of King Haakon. government forestry service reports 27.738 billion feet of lumber cut in 1905 in the United States. Brigadier General John Tiddall, retired, dies at 81 in Montclair New Jersey. Wells Lumber mill worker killed and two badly scalded by a bursting steam pipe in Menominee Michigan. Smith college instructor Mary B Bird resigns after gifts accepted from Rockefeller and Carnegie.
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