Miner tells of three days trapped underground
RICHWOOD West Virginia May 12 a coal miner survived 74 hours entombed in a collapsed tunnel of the Donegan Mine. William C Richmond 38 said he crawled amid falling slate and rock without food or water until rescue teams freed him. He and his family are from Rupert and his wife and seven children awaited him. In Baltimore police found two children murdered and their mother wounded a grim Mother's Day tragedy. Thomas Shanahan II age 28 was hospitalized under guard after a knife attack that left his son and daughter dead.
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Richwood
W.va
Wiliam C. Richmond
Donegan
Richmond
New Jersey
Shanahan
Matawan
N. J
Re Ge
Hewes
Baltimore
Eva Marie Shanahan
Thomas Shanahan II
Robert Hewes
Thomas II
Irene
Erdman Avenue
Als
Union Memorial Hospital
Rupert
Wes
William Walehild
Janstine
J. R. Glasscock
Sacred Heart Hospital
Thomas III
Glasscock
Princess Caroline
West Virginia
Freight train engine fire halts B and O westbound
A lead B and O diesel locomotive caught fire at Frederick Junction slowing two trains. The stalled engine blocked tracks at Rocks crossing, delaying an eastbound freight for 75 minutes, while passengers and crews reported no injuries. A separate incident involved an auto stalling at the same crossing with minor damage to the locomotive.
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Casteman
W. C. Hill
B&o
Frederick County
Ian
Frederick Junction
Independent Hose Fire Company of
Frederick
Hill
Point of Rocks
Brunswick
Points West
B.&c
of Rocks Railroad
Virginia
B.&o
World Trade Week
Baltimore
Gov_j
McKeldin
Maryland
Well of Rocks
Ani
Tel Aviv
Israel
U. N
L. R. Stull
C. Hill
Gaza
Strip
Israel Auto
Truck Driver Killed On Town Hill Mountain
Alva W. Gore, 45, of Rowland North Carolina died after his loaded tractor trailer went out of control on U S 40 Town Hill Mountain. The truck tore down guard rails uprooted trees and overturned. Gore died of a skull fracture and hemorrhage at Sacred Heart Hospital. Emergency crews extinguished a fire with carbon tetrachloride and carbon dioxide.
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Cumberland
North Carolina
U.S. 40
Town Hill Mountain
Sacred Heart‘ Hospital
Alva
W. Gore
Rowland
N.C
John F. Browning
Gore
Brown
Nine Die As Ferrari Crashes At Mille Miglia Race
In Mantua Italy nine people including Spanish racer Alfonso de Portago were killed when a Ferrari plowed into spectators at Castelgrimaldo during the Mille Miglia. Four victims were children. Many others injured as safety measures were tightened after years of fatalities. The crash occurred as de Portago, in third place, reportedly blew a tire at top speed.
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Mantua
Italy
Alfonso de Portago
de Portago
Castel’ Grimaldo
Brescia
Piero Taruffi
de Porjtago
Spain
de Portage
Anaconda Copper Co Executive Head Dies
New York May 12 Cornelius Francis Kelley 82 chair man of the executive committee of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co and a leader in the copper industry died today at Harkness Pavilion Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center A lawyer by training Kelley joined the company in 1900 and became president by 1918 serving until 1940 when he became board chairman He relinquished that post two years ago and led the executive committee He had heart problems after a year ago and died with three daughters surviving in November 1955 He lived at the Waldorf Astoria Towers and at Manhasset NY
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New York
Cornelius Francis’ Kelley
Anaconda Co
Harkness Pavilion
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Kelley
Old Anaconda Copper Mining Co
Arizona
Waldorf-Astoria Fi Towers
Manhasset
N.Y
Fragmentary note on emancipation and Civil War timeline
The readable text references Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Allegany County, and the 13th Amendment taking effect about three years after the proclamation. It mentions Union states and a truck accident 21 miles away, with garbled phrasing surrounding abolition and slavery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Gore
Ted
Lincoln
Allegany County
Rotary and Price Electric Game Called by Darkness
In Babe Ruth baseball play on Saturday the Rotary versus Price Electric game ended after four innings due to darkness. Rotary produced 22 runs across the first, third and fourth innings and will replay the game at a later date. Another league game from Kiwanis Grove was also cut short by darkness and must be played over.
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Babe Ruth
Rotary
Price Electric
Price Elec
Uric
Kiwanis Grove
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Miner
Lee Ee Settee
Julian JT. Forrest
Northeastern District Police
Donegan Coal and Coke Co
Town Hill
Anaconda Copper Co
Miller Bros. T. V. Sales and Services
T. V
East
Patrick St
Kehne Furniture ‘Co
South Market St
Monocacy Village
THE
Modernaire
Youngstown
Market St
Hamilton Homes, Inc
East Second ST
William S. Hood
Clinton
William S
Patrick Street
SGED
Vindobona
Braddock Seizhis
Hendrickson
Cannon's Kitchen
Rose
Hatham
Chatham
New
Henprickson
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