Opera House Panic Traps 40 Dead in Canonsburg Fire
A moving picture exhibit at Canonsburg Pennsylvania triggered a deadly panic when a film exploded in an asbestos cabinet. About 1500 spectators flooded the narrow stairway causing a crush that left at least forty injured and dozens dead. The operator fought flames as crowds surged toward the exit. Authorities investigate with coroner and assistants assembling details.
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Canonsburg
tees tan
le hug
hia
John McCullough
Samuel Brown Charged as Cashier Aids Burglar in Book Burnings
City mourns as Jersey City reels after a fatal theater fire. Samuel Brown, a cashier, stands accused of hiring a burglar to burn the theater led to mass casualties. Firemen and police contained the scene as mourners gathered, awaiting word on missing loved ones while morgues filled.
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Jersey City
Booke
Pike Street
fotal theater
Hopper Bros
Fish block harbor as Portland sees vast catch
Fishermen report an enormous catch of porgies at Portland Maine with the harbor mouth filled by fish. The Borgle plant arrived to Portland and engaged in unprecedented business while schooners and bumboat peddlers also plied the grounds. Italian fishermen and others joined the rush, hauling thousands of fish as the run lasted multiple days.
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Portland
trampton
Parole of Slocum excursion captain shocks family
Aug 28 Paroled from Sing Sing Captain William H Van Schack who commanded the oxcursion steamer General Slocum during the disaster on June 15 1904 returned home to Slocum New York. The captain’s wife and family were surprised by the news as he had been a strong willed and overcomer in prison.
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Slocum
New York
Willam H. Van Schack
General Slocum
shell Gate
United States
Sing Sing
Taft Trip Plans Revealed and Fatal Candy Store Killing
Plans for Taft coast to coast presidential trip unfold with invitations, railroad coordination, and secret service arrangements as Beverly preparations draw in. In New York a 15 year old boy Sammy Maudelland is killed after being attacked by three youths with a club in a Market Street candy store. Herman Green’s family, bystanders, and police seek suspects.
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Reverk
Mass
Hoston
White House
torres
Heverly
iyst
Porster
secret service
lear
Lucien Wheeler
sevive
Beverly
Taft
voast
Sammy
sind
Market street
Herman Green
Mr. Green
Max
Julia Beckman
Monros ‘street
parsners
stallans
Beckman
Cherry street
Max Green
THigman Font
Market
Monroe Streets
Mr. Font
Gouverneur hospital
Young thief fined by selling papers for weeks
Arthur Spicer twelve years old was sentenced by Judge Callan to sell newspapers for fifteen weeks and pay one dollar per week after admitting he stole fifteen pigeons. The judge urged not to let the mother pay for the birds and warned the youth to earn the money himself. The case reflects a stern approach to juvenile theft in Washington.
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Lnd
Washington
Arthur Spicer
Callan
Arthur
Faulty Rail Causes Wreck in Manchester Disaster Toll
Twenty seven people die and seventy more hospital bound after Lehigh Valley train No 4 crashes on a trestle near Manchester New York. A ninety pound rail fractured into seventeen pieces on the bridge reveals manufacturing defects as the likely cause. Twenty two victims identified. investigations by public service commission and coroner underway.
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Rochester
Capandaizie
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