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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
1
Medical aid arrives after a wreck leaves injured trapped under debris. Groans and screams fill the scene as cars telescope on a sidetrack, turning the accident into a grim, chaotic minutes.
A Belgian rail disaster near Contich six miles southeast of Antwerp tops the day’s tragedy. An express train struck a pilgrims’ train after a misplaced switch at dawn, causing telescoped coaches and heavy casualties. By 4 pm 38 dead and 79 wounded were reported with many injured still trapped. Surgeons and nurses rushed to the scene as rescuers worked amid chaos. In Oakland, California, a second Southern Pacific Oregon Express section derailed by a broken rail at Pinole killed one and injured four.
Washington May 21 The special House committee probing the wood pulp and print paper industry did not conclude its investigation yesterday nor promise a report to Congress this session. Several manufacturers were examined and more from the west are expected. Testimony covered higher costs for materials and wages and arguments against removing the tariff on wood pulp and paper.
A man released on probation from the Knoxville state inebriate asylum, Adel, Iowa, shot himself while en route home in Des Moines. James H. Wilson was blamed for his relapse and his four shots, with the fourth entering through the eye and killing him, ending a troubled period after departure from the asylum.
Charles Dunn, a 50 year old farmer five miles south of Marshalltown, was arrested by Sheriff Hutson after his stepdaughter Miss Ethel Sandstrom aged 16 filed a complaint of family mistreatment. Dunn, an ex convict who served seventeen years for burglary and complicity in an incident involving William Scott, is jailed after parole.
The Atlantic battleship fleet moved off Cape Flattery and entered the Juan de Fuca Strait at 3 AM heading toward Puget Sound, Seattle report notes.
Iowa shows partly cloudy skies tonight with cooler air and showers in the east and central regions. Friday brings fair weather. Illinois observes showers and cooler conditions tonight and Friday with fair skies and cooler temperatures afterward. Sunrise is at 4 25 and sunset at 7 10 with the moon rise at 12 01 am.
Mayfield Kentucky May 21 An incendiary fire has destroyed about 100000 dollars of property and continues to burn. The western section faces total destruction while the city lacks water after the water plant was destroyed Sunday. A man died from the excitement.
The One Hundred and Twentieth General Assembly of the Presbyterian church opened in Kansas City with leaders and missionaries present. Rev. William Henry Roberts of Philadelphia retires as moderator after a farewell sermon urging church cooperation against secular evils. Rev. B. H. Fullerton of St. Louis and Rev. Mark A. Mathews of Seattle are the leading candidates for his successor.
Cleveland May 21. A near final meeting of the state arbitration board and Civic leaders opened at noon to settle the street car strike. A partial agreement is reported with minor points left. Violence subsided with no police injuries though dynamiting of a Lorain avenue car caused panic. cars ran on most lines with some irregularity.
Baltimore and Pittsburg dispatches report Rev. Dr. William F. Anderson and Rev. Dr. John L. Nielson elected bishops on the second ballot at the Methodist Episcopal general conference. Third and fourth ballots delayed further choices as several candidates are named. Pittsburgh note outlines a push to unite all Methodist bodies through joint committee talks, excluding Congregational merger.
William P. Corner of Ottawa Illinois surprised his wife and George P. White, the man she eloped with, in a Davenport restaurant yesterday. A stormy scene followed and both elopers were arrested.
Washington May 21 It is stated at the capital that congress will not adjourn before May 27 and may be prolonged to June list due to unsettled measures under conference and doubt over public buildings bills. Republican house members met to discuss the federal courts injunction power. conference failed to agree and adjourned until tonight.
John Austin Hamlin founder of the Grand Opera House and proprietor of the Grand Opera House died last night at the Virginia hotel in Chicago Illinois on May 21.
Platts son discloses letters his father wrote to Mae Wood before burning them, after Hummell surrendered them. The revelation centers on the correspondence and its destruction.
The Wood Platt case ended with dismissal this afternoon and Miss Wood jailed on perjury charges with 5000 dollars bail. Frank H Platt testified in the divorce suit brought by Mae Wood against Senator Thomas C Platt that the letters claimed as copies were not true. He said he burned the originals after review and that the blank form used for a supposed marriage certificate was not sold before February 1902.
Chicago May 21. The Burlington railroad issued orders to traffic superintendents to avoid delays in corn loading. The move appears aimed at speeding cash corn to the local market to break the corner held by James A. Patten.
Silas H. E. Dennis of Ottumwa Iowa was awarded a Carnegie hero fund medal for rescuing a young girl from an oncoming Burlington train. The ceremony followed the commission's quarterly decisions awarding 85 cases since the last meeting. Other honorees included Roland Daily Morse Y. Trevor Ella Johnston and William J. Riley with medals and cash.
Explosive damage wrecks a new Harlem branch bridge of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad at Paychester. A 50 pound charge twisted the spans and halted construction amid prior failed wrecking attempts on the Harlem River bridge. The Philadelphia firm employed faced ongoing labor trouble at the site.
After seventy days of talks, 35,000 miners and operators in the southwest reach a wage and working conditions agreement in Kansas City. The joint sub committee resolved the key issues ending the prolonged dispute.
A severe windstorm near Albia Iowa wrecked Grant School with roof and brick flues forced inward. James Taylor was killed when his corn crib collapsed. The storm hit at 8 45 causing no pupils to be harmed as classes were about to assemble. Other reports cite tornado fatalities in Greene Kansas and Lincoln Kansas and a Montana blizzard dumping two feet of snow.
Fire at the J. C. Wintermeyer box factory in Chicago today trapped eighteen workers. Reported casualties included several dead and more than fifty injured as flames spread to neighboring structures by 2 20 PM.
Washington May 21 The senate without division adopts Aldrich committee plan to form a nine by nine national monetary commission to study banking and currency laws and report to Congress at the earliest date If the house agrees this will cover all financial legislation this session The conference on the Aldrich Vreeland currency bill decided there is no prospect of a house senate agreement on an emergency measure and adjournment next Saturday is likely The senate and house disagreed on bills for national bank notes and emergency currency, prompting the decision to create a commission with no partisan differences.
Paris reports the pope has instructed the French episcopate to reject the church revolution law clause creating mutual aid societies for aged priests. The plan would have transferred $4,000,000 in pension funds and allowed pious foundations for masses, with funds then going to public charities if refused.
Jefferson City May 21 Delegates to the Missouri Democratic State Convention instructed all 36 national convention delegates to vote as a bloc for William Jennings Bryan. The 32 district delegates were chosen at 16 caucuses and their selections were unanimously approved by the convention.
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