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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1903
Page
2
A violent cyclone strikes Mendota uprooting trees and wrecking buildings. Four people are reported dead as the storm moves through the central area, prompting warnings as rescuers search for survivors and assess damage.
A cyclone half to three quarters of a mile wide ravaged Henry county Friday afternoon starting at 3:30 PM. It demolished the Samuel Liken farm barn and partly unroofed the house with $5,000 in damage there. The path crossed four miles to W. W. Cole’s farm, injuring a tenant woman, then struck Ed Lewis’s farm where Mrs. Lewis and child escaped serious harm. Fourteen farmsteads were affected with total damage $12,000, and a wider storm later damaged towns between LaSalle and Mendota, killing four and injuring many. The storm cut a swath through Mendota’s center, leveled crops, and toppled Central Union Telephone lines. Advent College campus suffered major destruction as trees and telecom wires failed. town left in darkness with many wounded.
The Woodman head office will begin rerating the entire membership starting next month under the Indianapolis head camp plan. The process will require a temporary staff boost and may last two to three months with each member’s new rating taking effect January 1, 1904. Head Consul A. R. Talbot’s appointments earlier this year proceed without further procedure as his term begins today. Northcott has opened a law office in.
A Muscatine sale of the Muscatine North and South railroad set for August 19 faces legal bar from Rock Island. Burlington and Iowa Central negotiations are active to acquire the property and extend the line to Burlington, with bandholders expected to reorganize if either deal proceeds.
Central Illinois farmers report traction engines substituting for horses, capable of matching twelve horse power in plowing and other tasks. Engines run factories of steam during breakfast and operate until dusk with minimal breaks, increasing efficiency and reducing fodder and labor needs on large farms.
Denkmann presents to John Buford Post G A R of Rock Island a collection of battlefield relics from Vicksburg. The assortment includes Springfield rifle balls and canister, large shot and shells some foreign made. The largest shell weighs 150 pounds. Relics were gathered by the steamer Weyerhaeuser crew on the lower Mississippi and shipped north to Rock Island.
Albert Verma 21, a Deere & Co. helper, slipped from a streetcar near Sixteenth avenue and Fifteenth street while returning from Chautauqua grounds. His arm was crushed and ligaments damaged. doctors feared possible amputation. He was transported to City Hospital for treatment. residence listed at 1623 Thirteenth Street.
Robert R. Frey, branch and foreign trade manager for Deere and Co., resigns for a Springfield offer. His departure surprises Moline colleagues and friends, as he plans to return from Michigan to finalize relations before joining the new firm next week.
A Kansas cyclone in Henry County leaves damaged farms and wrecked buildings. The Hornbeck farm near Geneseo loses the northwest corner and a baby is rescued with injuries. Dozens of structures including Liken, Cole, Clepser, Reherd, and Nelson properties suffer major damage with livestock losses and overturned barns.
A fierce storm tore through the area collapsing a barn and outbuildings turning them upside down while tools lay in a tangled mass. Three dozen poles of the Western Union line blew down two and a half miles east of town near the railroad. Sargeant Melvin escaped from a beam as the storm passed.
An old sketch by H. C. Ford, Moline’s first artist, has been placed in the Manufacturers' hotel lobby by C. H. Deere. The crayon or charcoal work depicts a Yosemite scene and is believed to be one of Ford’s final gems. Ford lived in Moline before the war, later worked in Chicago, and died in Santa Barbara.
Henry O'Brien, William Walters, James O'Connor and Edward Malcolm remain in bail in county court Saturday on charges of inciting riot and assault. Walters faces an additional assault charge from Magistrate Olson as the case approaches trial. The incident stems from an attack Wednesday on Nelson, a Barnard & Leas foundry worker, witnessed by Charles Gundberg who was injured trying to separate the fighters. Nelson lies in hospital.
Sweden endures a vast lockout affecting most mechanical workshops and about thirty thousand workers with hundreds of thousands of dependents impacted. Employers demand a recognized minimum wage and abolition of piece work, vowing to close plants until men concede. The strike begun in southern Sweden spread to allied workshops as unions back the effort. no settlement reached and a nationwide business suspension looms.
Sterling's board seeks $5000 more from Andrew Carnegie to finish a building donated by him. The project costs exceed the $15,000 initial gift, with estimates suggesting furniture reductions could trim costs. A $4700 fund has been set aside for the building site, and a reply from Carnegie is awaited.
The article reports Dr. B L Kerns of this city named a member of the supreme board of physicians for the Modern Woodmen order. It lists new heads and appointees across several states including Illinois, Kansas, Maryland and Utah, noting promotions and continued editors. It highlights the expansion of medical jurisdiction and the roster of doctors taking posts.
Sir Knight Robert T. James of Acorn Lodge No 817 in Erie is described by the Fulton Journal as the oldest Knight of Pythias member in Illinois. Initiated in Spartacus Lodge No 10 in Trenton New Jersey in 1868, he moved to Rock Island in 1871, to Erie in 1881, where he runs a hardware and implement business.
A hush settles as a mourner places a white form beside the departed and keeps calm. The moment turns to sobs as nature seems to break and the crowd echoes the cry before the hush returns and she notes she will lay another egg tomorrow.
Miss Jeannette Golden of Rock Island died at home from lockjaw a wound inflicted by the discharge of a blank cartridge. She was 17, engaged to a man in Moline and had planned marriage soon, making the tragedy particularly sad for her family.
The bartenders of the city organized a caleba babel ay MG ine union No. 639, actions affected Thursday but the charter remains open sixty days for others to join the effort and ground.
The Roundhouse is rising with roofing underway and the third story nearing completion. Blacksmiths forge and rivet while Arvid Lundahl inspects a crew of forty steel workers. Excavation for a deep pit stalls on moist soil, water removal ongoing. Power house work, tunnel, septic line, and filter plant drive progress as grading continues and Winston Bros cut dirt output. Republic Iron and Steel resumes at Sylvan Island plant with 200 workers for large orders.
A resident Mrs Theodore Severin of 414 Highteenth Street testifies that Kinney Pills helped her husband after long lasting lumpage and aching pains across the chest. She notes relief from treatment and claims she obtained a box after learning of the pills from a dealer. She urges others to test the proof as a friend’s endorsement.
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