Fatal Switch Back rail accident kills two and injures many
News from Maryland announces a deadly rail accident at Switch Back on the Virginia Central line sixty miles away. A locomotive carrying seventeen workers and two women toppled after striking a timber, causing fatal burns to Alice Robinson and John McKenzie with several others badly burned or injured. Elk Garden doctors were summoned to provide aid.
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Virginia Central ‘Railway
Kerry
Alice Robinson
John McKenzie
Frostburg
Robert Robinson
Frank Craver
Lewis Laymar
John Rickey
Jennie Durst
Elk Garden
Wrecked Train Injures Thirteen on Grand Rapids Line
A dastardly wrecking plot caused a passenger train to derail near Conger on the Grand Rapids line. Thirteen passengers suffered injuries including head cuts, dislocations, and gashes. no fatalities reported.
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KaLamazen Mich
Grand Rapids
Conger
Nalamar
Chicago
Nuoon
Fragmented Telegrams Reflect Varied 19th Century News
A garbled collection of items mentions ex congressman William L Scott at his Frie Pennsylvania home, patent office activity, silver purchases, immigrant ships, religious and social notes, plus scattered references to royalty, Emperor William and the Prince of Wales. The text blends political, economic, and royal items with numerous incomplete phrases and OCR errors.
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William L. Scott
Frie
United States Patent Office
Chicago
Treasury Department
McShane
Wuelaner
Taras
Opening of the National Encampment in Detroit
The 1900 era scene shows 35 000 to 50 000 veterans in line for the opening of the national encampment and Woman's Relief Corps convention with Ex President Hayes marching near Governor Hovey and Gen Butterfield. The crowd gathers at Heecher's hall and the Church of Our Father for sessions and reunions as arches across Detroit celebrate Union veterans.
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Hayes
Detroit
Veazey
Pope
Vermont
Hovey
Indiana
Thayer
Nebraska
Gener
Proctor
al] Miles, ex-Governor Oglesby
Illinois
Winans
Michigan
National
Heecher’s Hall
Church of Our Father
Butterfield
Fth Army Corps
National Convention of Exprisoners of War
National Association of Naval Veterans
Fort Sumter
Lee
Pennsylvania Avenue
Gyeros Yarncump
Washington
Fairchild
Paul Vandervoort
A. P Hovey
Aes
United ‘States
Rutherford B. Hayes
Cleveland Post
Buckeye
National Department
Libby
A. D. Streight
Colonel Walker
Pingree
Wolverine State
Two Fathers And Sons Die In Coal Mine Fire
In Unnex7own Pennsylvania a deadly mine fire ends with the death of Slav, the father Nowak, and the two boys missing. Investigators find burns and torn clothing on the body of Nowak and a severed hand near the shaft. Coroner and jury pursue arrests as the fire floods the mine and a murder verdict is sought.
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Barney
Grace
W. J. Rainey
Cleveland
Moyer
Rainey
Holbert
Dangan
Newak
Pamp
Horrific alleged abuse of heiress by stepmother in Moort
Reports describe Amelia Sheshinskie, a 25 year old heiress, beaten nightly by her stepmother Mrs Rosy Sheshinskie and two brothers to secure a land fortune valued around 1650. Local search uncovered a chained, disoriented girl in a cellar with burns from a red hot poker. The stepmother was held on $3,000 bail as authorities seek further proof of poisoning attempts.
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Moort
Rosy Sheshinskie
Amelia
Races at Hawthorne and Garfield Park include fast times
Chicago horocs report at Hawthorne with Zantippa Mira Beau Connie Buck Ingham Charlie Ford and Bob Thomas winning in distances from half mile to two miles. Garfield Park cards list Neva C McGinty Sax Ernest Race Umatilla and Parliament Prorogued with times noted. Also news from London reports the queen prorogues Parliament with reassembly planned in October.
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Chicago
Hawthorne
Zantippa
Mirabeau
Connie Buck Ingham
Charlie Ford
Bob Thomas
Ardles
Garfield Park
Neva C
McGinty
Julius Sax
Ernest Race
Umatilla
Currency in Circulation and Per Capita Details
Treasury statements compare money in circulation across 1860 1880 1885 and recent figures. It notes totals near 1.52 billion in circulation with per capita about 24.10 dollars, and explains gold shipments abroad reducing both totals and per capita. A separate vignette recounts Charles B Jefferson saving two bathing women at Buttermilk Bay.
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Treasury Department
United States
Train Collision Kills Eleven in Port Eyres-Montezuma Route
A freight train split and a following passenger train collided between Port Eyres and Montezuma. Eleven killed and forty wounded, many Italians en route to Niagara Falls for work. casualties reported from the West Shore line incident.
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Moline
Synacus
Weat
Port Eyres
Montezuma
Niagara Falls
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