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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1901
Page
1
In the Pocahontas coal field along the Elkhorn River Valley West Virginia floods wipe out Keystone and cause extensive damage. Estimates of deaths range from two hundred to five hundred with property losses around two million dollars, likely higher as numbers firm up.
Great flood in Pocahontas coal region devastates Keystone and surrounding areas. Many dead and missing, hundreds homeless as waters swept mines, houses, and tracks. Rescue crews rush to the scene. telegraph service expected to resume soon.
Bluefield West Virginia June 23 A devastating flood has swept the Pocahontas coal region. Keystone with about two thousand people is washed away while rail lines and bridges along the Norfolk and Western are destroyed. Estimates of dead are around two hundred with property losses near two million dollars as crews race to reach the stricken area.
A revived plan by the Pennsylvania Railroad to build a belt line around Manhattan includes a tunnel from Long Island City to Greeley Square and new bridges linking Astoria Ward's Island and Randall's Island. The scheme envisions freight and passenger traffic looping south, east, and north with an anticipated cost near 20 million dollars and major foundations at Greenville and Bay Ridge. Brooklyn would gain access to mainland markets, with further connections to the New York Central system and potential expansion of manufacturing hubs.
For two months Dr. William Clifford Macdonald, a Harvard Medical School graduate, has been missing in this city after leaving Lynn, Massachusetts in April. Searches by locals, doctors, and Harvard connections have yielded no leads. a描述 describes him as six feet tall, about two hundred pounds with a dark brown mustache.
West Hoboken Chief John McAuly was seriously injured during a fall while descending the Palisades in pursuit of a screaming woman. Detective Vetter found him unconscious with multiple injuries after hearing a groan in bushes. He was carried home where his wife fainted. four ribs were broken and a lung possibly pierced. The accident occurred at the Palisades foot near Fourteenth Street around 8:30 p.m. yesterday. Berlin, June 2 63. The Gutenberg Museum at Mayence opened today.
In The Bronx and Harlem, Mormon missionaries face strong backlash as converts Mrs. Blair and Miss Lizzie Dickinson spark alarm within Christian Endeavor chapters. Pastor Claude Severance of Port Morris Congregational condemns unorthodox preaching while noting limited public meetings and firm church boundaries.
Adelbert Hay, son of former Secretary of State John Hay, dies in New Haven after falling from a hotel window. The 25-year-old Yale graduate and former U S consul at Pretoria recently resigned to join President McKinley’s administration as assistant secretary, a post to begin July 1. No foul play suspected. likely accident as he slept near a window.
Adelbert Stone Hay son of the Secretary of State and former Pretoria consul fell from a third story window at a New Haven hotel, dying instantly. Officials in Washington sent condolences as Secretary Hay traveled to the scene and his family prepared to arrive. The incident prompted widespread mourning and official sympathy from the President and Cabinet.
Washington June 25. Intimate friends explain the accident by noting Mr Hay often stood at his bedroom window at night smoking. He suffered vertigo at times, a habit that helps his acquaintances understand the manner of his death.
Adelbert Stone Hay, former United States Consul-General to Pretoria and son of Secretary of State John Hay, plunged from a third-story window of the New Haven House at 2:30 am. He landed on the second-story balcony and then on the sidewalk, his skull crushed at the back of the head. A workman witnessed the instant death.
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