Express wreck kills twelve and injures many in Bridgeport
A fast express derailed at Fair Held avenue near Bridgeport after the engineer tried to catch up time, sending a nine car train over a twenty five foot embankment. Twelve people are dead and over fifty injured, including Coast Artillery Sergeant Gwendolyn Rogers and his family. debris and collapsed Pullmans hampered rescue efforts as firemen cut through wreckage to free passengers.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Seurboston
Fair- Held avenue
A.M. Curtis
W. A. Ryan
Gwendolyn I. Rogers
Burr road
Ieapers
Fairfield avenue
G. S Rogers
United States coast artillery
Virginia
Maine
Hoke Smith Election Hinted as Georgia Senator Pick
Mrs was fatally hurt and Ita little boy severely injured in a crash near Fairfield avenue. Firemen policemen and doctors worked as ambulances rushed victims to hospitals. A year old babe survived clinging to its mother Miss Beatrice Clephane and Mrs W S Clephane escaped with minor injuries. Members of the St Louis National League baseball team aboard the last Pullman escaped unharmed as the car toppled from the track and players aided responders in the wreck.
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Castro Plotting Revolutions Across Nations
San Juan reports indicate Zelaya of Venezuela seeks to spark a Nicaragua revolt with a former ally now ruling a South American republic aiding an invasion plan. The North Carolina battleship ferried U S representatives to Venezuela’s centennial. Davila, Castro ally, landed near Curacao after earlier Tachira incursions. Also: a man killed his wife and was later arrested amid lynching rumors in Newark and Terre Haute.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Zelaya
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Castro
Europe
Verezuela
WU. S
Wilemstad
Curacao
North Carolina
La Guayra
Aruba Island
Dutch Antilles
Venczuela
Jose Antonio Davila
Buen Ayre island
Davila
Cipriano Castro
Tachira
Terre Haute
Ind
Walter Derry
Walter Diehl
Carl Etherington
Newark
New Ruler Of Elks Elected In Dramatic 1915 Conclave
Atlantic City July 12 1915 Colonel Doehn Po Sullivan former district attorney of New Orleans was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks on the first ballot with a record 1602 votes. He defeated Charles A Rasbury Arthur C Moreland and Willard E Thekour. Sullivan vowed to govern for the welfare of the order as Portland Oregon hosts the 1915 convention with San Francisco as next meeting site.
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Atlantic City
doehn Po Sullivan
New Orleans
Benevolent and Protective Order of iiks
Sullivan
Order of Elks
Sullvan
Charles A. Rasbury
Dallas
United States
Culberson
Arthur C. Moreland
New York lodge
Willard E. The kour
Buffalo
Pennsylvania
grand lodge
Pho rolt
Elk house of commons
board of trade
Ferks lodge
Portland
Ore
Phoenix
San Francisco
Freak electric storm hits Christiana and Georgetown
A freak storm over Christiana Delaware stunned all 400 residents as a lightning bolt struck the James Christopher home injuring Mrs Christopher and Mrs Alice Crooks of Philadelphia. One man was killed and eight injured at a building site near Here as a bolt struck Harry Steel and caused injuries and damage to the house and nearby property.
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Delaware
Georgetown
Wilmington
Del
Christiana
James Christopher
Bob
Harry Steel
Floyd Hurley
Steel
Horace Shockley
Hoke Smith's Toga Assured and Georgia Ballots
Georgia lawmakers in separate ballots in the house and senate settled the governor's race by electing Hoke Smith to succeed Terrell as U S senator, with over the required 115 votes in joint session. Wire pool suspects plead not guilty in New York federal court, each posting $1000 bail. Gates family health worsens in Paris as Charles arrives. James Whitcomb Riley donates land worth 75000 dollars for Indianapolis library and school administration building site.
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Georgia
House
Senate
Atlanta
Hoke Smith
United States
Joseph M Terrell
New York
Archbald
Frank N Keyes
Everett Morse
Charles A Morse
James Ti Mason
Indianapolis
Ind
James Whitcomb Riley
Two Men Held for Murder After Woman Stabbed in Hallway
Philadelphia report states police hold two men including the husband Thomas Canfield and suspect William McCullough in the fatal stabbing of Mrs. Elizabeth Canfield at 938 May Street. The family, four in the hall, heard a knife attack as the murderer fled, a torch lit from a newspaper guiding the retreat.
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Philadelphia
Elizabeth Canfield
May street
Thomas Canfield
William McCullough
Mary Mower
Keene Relapses During London Stay
James R. Keene suffered a relapse and was confined to his hotel room in London. He has lost considerable weight and says he endured a bad six months. He was improving recently but caught a cold and rheumatism while the main trouble remains his stomach.
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London
James R. Keens
Mr. Keene
Ile
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