Trains Collide in New York Central Tunnel
In a rear end collision inside a Park Avenue tunnel, two trains on different lines crashed early Wednesday morning in New York. Fifteen people were killed and about twice as many injured, with many seriously hurt as the White Plains local plowed into the rear car of the stalled South Norwalk local. Rescue efforts followed amid smoke and steam as police, firemen, and volunteers freed victims. investigations focus on signals, torpedo on the track, and the actions of engineer Wiseho and fireman Flynn.
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New York
New York Central
Park Avenue
Albert M. Perrin
Chicago
Union Bag & Paper Contenidence
New Ochelle
N. Y
New Rochelle
William Fisher
Forbes
New Hothelle
Wiliam Howard
Oscar Meyrowitz
New York Custom House
Yratua
Norwalk
New York, New Traven & Dartford
White Plains
Marlem
Englinh
Genr
Manhattan
Heroice Decus
Father Smith
Rev
de. Walkley
Fire Department
Lieut. Clarke
Kive
Miss
Birs
Howard
Lornefins Vanderbilt
Franklin
Ad. M. Wishker
Norway
Wisker
Christopher Flynn
Bivins
Jerome
State Railway Commission
New York Central & Hadson River Railroad
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Deadly entombment at Negaunee mine downgrades hope
Work at the Negaunee mine in Michigan shows ten to twelve men remain trapped as pumps fail and water fills the drift. General Manager I K Cole from United States Steel arrives to aid recovery plans while authorities warn it may take a week or more to recover all bodies. A list names nine victims: William Willisms John Selliven John Pearce John Pescoe Sacas Mattson Erick Lofty Jacob Banale William Hokenen Louis Mattson.
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Negaumee
Mich
Negaulive
Uhr
I. K. Cole
United States Steel Corporation
Capt. Piper
William Willisms
John Selliven
John Pearce
John Pescoe
Sacas Mattson
Erick Lofty
Jacob Banale
William Hokenen
Louis Mattson
Nxgeclies at Barsdsins' Brushes at Bredshaw's
Whe weekly News sergeat wud. Fragmentary text lists a scene at Bredshaw's with brushes and barsdsins, likely a local feature or column note. Names and details are unreadable but suggest a community tidbit in a small-town paper.
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Sergeat
Queer Travels of Plants From Ice and Volcanoes
A French scientist notes icebergs drift plants to distant lands as they ground on shores. Volcanic pumice from Krakatoa carried tiny animals and a coconut, proving plant and animal dispersal via erupted debris is possible.
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Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Iss
Krakatoa
Straits of
Sunda
Engine as a bootjack in bitter cold railway tale
A Delaware Erie division official recalls a coal train incident where brakeman Walt Douglas froze his feet after exposure. To free him the crew strapped boots between the engine slots and reversed the engine, narrowly saving his legs from serious injury.
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Contuetor
Frank Ora
Delaware
Erie Railroad
Walt Douglas
Watcock
Siili
Douglas
Coleman
Big Eight Inch Disappearing Gun Demonstrated in Armory
In Brooklyn at the Saigner Avenue armory Brig. Gen. Wallace V. Randolph oversaw a public test of an eight inch disappearing gun. A rubber shell was fired by compressed air at a center target, with varied results from hit to overshoot, drawing applause as the gun repeatedly disappeared. Also reports include a St. Louis arrest in a bank robbery case and a foreclose suit against the Pan-American Exposition company seeking $100,000 on a mortgage.
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Saigner Avenue
Brooklyn
Wallace V. Randolph
Washington
New York Exchange
Buffalo
N. Y
Pan-American Exposition Company
Senators Discuss Pension Laws and Nominations
Washington reports detail senator Gallinger outlining strict rules for private pension bills and set limits on widow pensions for generals while other officers face proportional reductions. Separate items note nominations sent to the Senate, plus talk of direct popular election for U.S. senators and turmoil in China involving the dowager empress and foreign guards. Marcellus Hartley, NY financier, dies at 74 during an American Safety company meeting.
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Senate
Washington
Jan
Secare
Gallinger
Committee On Pensions
Nowelnations
Lesle M. Ehaw
Lowa
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry ©. Payne
Wisconisin
John R.A. Crossland
Missouri
Liberia
Alphonso J. Lb Tasso
New York
Vurpan
Brexico
Conrad N. Jourdan
Congress
United States
Burrows
Committee On
Privileges and Elections
Peking
Imperial
Puo-ting-fu
Yong Fuh Siang
Marcellus Hart- Vey
American Safety Company
Hariley
Johnson
Hartley
Panamania Canal Offer Faces Senate Debates
Debates on the Nicaraguan canal bill show support for considering the Panama company offer of 40 million dollars for its franchises and property. Morris amendment gains favor, aiming to empower the president to seek concessions from Colombia if the canal commission approves the plan.
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Washington
House
Vpanama Company
Canal Commission
Colombia
O’oglock
Mos Shackleford
Parker
Hovering
Mass
Morris
Minn
Curzon
Power Shift in China Deepens as Dowager Empress Dominates
From Peking a January 9 dispatch reports the emperor of China remains under stronger influence of the dowager empress since the court's exile, with all evidence pointing to his increased subordination to her authority.
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Peking
China
SAILORS FIGHT AT NEW CHWANG STEADY TENSIONS RISE
A clash between American Vicksburg sailors and Russian troops at New Chwang near Peking strained US Russian and British relations. British sailors from Algerine aided by accident. a revolver incident wounded a Russian soldier. Minister Conger works to restore ties as Russians bar foreign telegraph use. Rubber Goods at Bradshaw's.
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Peking
New- Chwang
United States
Vicksburg
Washington
St. Petersburg
New Chwang
Vicksberg
Tad Feedow
Sole Dees
Risin Gainister
M. Parl Leesan
Conger
The
Vick Hore
Newe Chwang
E. B. Barry
Neve Chwang
Ile
Henry B. Miller
Bradshaw's
Farmers Hold Wheat as Farmers Refuse Sales in Kansas
Wichita reports 49 million bushels of wheat across 20 surrounding counties, leaving mills idle as farmers refuse to sell for six weeks or until crop prospects improve. Southern Kansas mills idle. offers at 77 cents fail to move grain. Carnegie elected trustee of New York Public Library to oversee a $5 million endowment. Interstate Commerce Commission subpoenas issued to railroad magnates for January 24 testimony on community of interests deals. Ursuline convent in Springfield sees Mrs. J King and daughter Katherine King take perpetual vows, mother joining to stay with her child. Monongahela division B&O near Shinustown experiences rear end collision injuring six, destroying two engines and cars.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
Springfield
Urauline Convent
J. King
Katherine King
Niles
Mich
Hickey
Fragmented Wordplay From Obscure Texts Surfaces
A garbled passage examines archaic terms and misheard phrases, noting that terse words once meant fractions of weight, a tomboy described as a wild girl, and furlong as a field length. The excerpt hints at educational or linguistic curiosities and includes miswritten lines about trees, places, and an odd phrase about a frog.
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Bradubaw
Sponge Fishers In Luck At Florida Coast
Sponge fisheries along Florida’s coast have reached peak profits with annual sales around 600000 dollars and prices up to 4 50 per pound. Sixty schooners form the trade as sponges reach deep water for harvest with expert divers and simple tools.
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Florida
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