Stricken Survivors Amid Debris On Galveston Beach
Galveston on September 14 reports rescue efforts after a devastating disaster left hundreds of orphans and debris along the Leach front. Advertisements called for volunteers to form squads and recover bodies, as teams labored without food or water in harsh conditions. The aim is a thorough search and the recovery of victims believed buried in the wreckage.
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Boye
Texas City
Galveston Bay
Texas
Bay Front
Tratters
Chamber of Concuerce
Opes
Sanders
Santa Fe
Arkansas
St. Louis
Southern Pacifc
Deg and Pony Show Promises Marvelous Animal Demonstration
The Deg and Pony Show will exhibit on Monday September 24. It bills itself as the finest animal intelligence demonstration in the country and promises a highly pleasing exhibition in Frederick, following prior shows.
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Frederick
Seach
Double Ended Locomotive For McCloud River Railroad
A Baldwin works built double ended locomotive is described for the Mc Cloud River Railroad from Upton to McCloud California. It resembles two engines joined and is designed for steep grades with a capacity of 125 tons on seven percent grade. The engine weighs 16140 pounds and operates with one engineer and one fireman.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
McCloud River
Upton
McCloud
California
Real estate listings and health notes in local column
John N. Clary real estate agent lists three farms for sale near Hood's Mills Liberty Pike and Yellow Springs with details on acreage and outbuildings. The column also reports Miss Rose Fearhake improving from illness and Dr William Johnson recovering from a neck carbuncle and resuming office visits.
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Isi
Wear Hood's Mills
Liberty Pike
Baithnora
Ellow Springs
Madi
Tness
Peilroad
Relief Work Surges After Galveston Flood Aid Tops 1.3 Million
Governor Sayers conferences with relief committees in Austin outline military control of Galveston and sanitary operations. State-wide subscriptions tabled to reach about 1.306 million. Galveston relief expands to cover all wards with rations and necessities. fresh beef and milk scarce but bread and ham, potatoes, rice flow to victims. A man named Frank McSir from Brownwood, Texas, reportedly killed himself in Tuscaloosa after claiming loss of daughter and three grandchildren in the flood, with a bank letter from Lig Cotewood, Texas found among effects.
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Austin
Tex
Savers
Galveston
Seurrr
Sayers
Beret Galvesion
Suiciacr
Tuscaloosa, Fla
Frank McSi
Brownwood
Jackson
Miss
Py Siong
First National Bank
Lig Cote Wood
Mine Strike Threat Ties Scranton Area Coal Output
A strike order set to take effect soon halts coal production across Lackawanna region. In Scranton and surrounding mines, 1640 of 35,000 miners were idle, with nine of 21 collieries closed yesterday and nine of 23 tied to the Delaware district also shut. Operators hoped Lackawanna miners would stay neutral, but union tensions run high as divisions emerge within local and neighboring unions.
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Oprimtura
Scranton
Delaware
Lackawanns
Western
Lackawanna
Mine Workers
Lackawanna Company
Lackawanna Union
Coal Mines Face Strain as Output Surges and Threats Loom
In New York, executives warn against a miners strike prolonging for months, noting August output about 14 percent above average and projected September losses near 3,000 tons. Operators say continued demand could push some companies to bankruptcy if wage demands raise costs 5,100 dollars yearly per wagon increment.
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Heimstern
New York
RM O'ypnach
Defewgre and
Ttudas Railroad
de- Matis
miners face shutdown as washeries vows to stay open
President John Mitchell and officials warn all collieries to close by tonight while washeries are to be kept running by operators. Miners’ officers demand shutdown. potential violence looms near the washeries. In Diamond Shaft, a clash between driver factions ends with a mass quitting after stones fly and a brief exchange of fire.
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John Mitchell
Lackawana and Western Company
Ditcher
Ming
Diamond Shaft
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Wyoming Valley Enthusiasm as Miners Strike Spreads
Wilkesbarre Sept 15 Operators report coal output as usual but expect declines today. Exeter mine suspends after payroll. United Mine Workers hold rallies across the valley. Officials say miners in the Wyoming district may go out almost en masse. The district has 142 420 anthracite miners with average monthly wages near $99 per man. A Wis paper rep reports Cumberland district strikers faced destitution and a treasury shortfall, with President Mitchell pressured to act.
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Wilkesharre
Wyoming Valley
Exeter
Lehigh Valley Company
Exeter Borough
United Mine Workers
Wyoming
Merder
Cumberland
Mitchell
Anthrerite
Miners’ Union
Kruger Is Virtually a Prisoner in Portuguese Territory
London reports Kruger is confined in the district governor’s residence under British consul protest on Portuguese soil. Access denied by French consul and Kruger’s officials. Acting President Schalk Burger could not meet Kruger as hostilities loom and Boers vow to fight. Imperial government may declare peace and outlaw resisters.
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Trenand Tranavar
Cortuguesne
London
Laurente Muarques
Daily Telegraph
Kruger
Herr Pott
Netherlands
Pott
Lourenzo Marques
Transvaal
Schalk-Burger
Cape Tower
Standard
South Africa
Maher Outclasses Jefford in Two Rounds at Peon Art Club
In Philadelphia Peter Maher decisively outboxed Jim Jefford of California, delivering a first round knockdown and three rapid knockdowns in the second before the referee stopped the bout. The six round match ended with Maher dominating throughout.
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Maher
Jefford
Philadelphia
Peter Maher
Jim Jefford
California
Peon Art Club
Dr Talmage Under the Midnight Sun
The Christian Herald recounts a voyage from Trondhjem to the North Cape, detailing the sublime Arctic spectacle of the midnight sun. The narrator describes luminous skies, mosaic seas, and sacred awe, then chronicles a grueling ascent to the North Cape rock, praising endurance and the unmatched grandeur of polar light.
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Christian Herald
Ateamer
Trondhjem
Norway
North Cape
North End
World
Land of
Midnight Sea
Arctic
Isis
Jane
Isles of the Rest
Patare
Delaware Republicans unite to form cross faction ticket
The Regulars and Union Republicans of Delaware ended their feud with a joint ticket announced at the Hotel Richardson. Col. Henry A. Dupont and former Senator Anthony Higging led the Regulars, while J Edward Addicka’s faction was represented by Allee, Dr. Caleb R. Layton, and Walter H. Hayes. The endorsed slate includes John Hunn for governor and Louis Heisler Ball for Congress, among others, with the plan to meet the state central committee next Tuesday.
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Det
Delaware
Regulars
Union
Addicks
Richardson
Henry A. Dupont
Anthony Higging
Reguire
J. Edward Addicka
Cairman
Allee
Caleb R. Layton
Suseax
Walter H. Hayes
Wilmington
Philip Q. Cheachman
Henry E. Bilany
E. B. Shorter
Newark
George M. Jones
Robert G. Houston
Georgetown
State Central Committee
John Hunn
Wyoming
Philip L. Cannon
Bridgeville
Louis Heisler Ball
Faulkland
Walter O. Hoffeckar
Smyrna
Martin B. Burris
Regnar
Middletown
Purnell B. Normin
Lewes
George W. Marshall
Herbert H. Ward
Corbett Denies Fights Were Fakes Aboard Campania
James J. Corbett on the Cunard Campania rejects claims that his bouts with Sharkey and McCoy were faked. He travels with Marguerite Corneille as Mr and Mrs Martin, seeking a quiet departure and denying any publicity for the actress. Corbett says his trip is a pleasure venture and contends the $176,000 figure is Lars’s private business.
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McCoys
Queenstown
Cunard Line
Campania
New York
James J. Corbett
Pugilist
Sharkey and McCoy
Corbett
Marguerite Corneille
Martin
George
Tidine
Considine
Mile
Corneille
Considime
Martis
Camnpania
Lars
Wrecks and casualties rise after Newfoundland gale
Reports from Newfoundland describe widespread destruction after Thursday's gale. Six vessels wrecked near St Pierre and six in Placentia Bay, four lost in Renews Harbor, two in the Straits of Belle Isle, and four near Cape Bonavista. Fourteen lives known lost, with higher toll feared as telegraph lines fail.
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St. John’s
N. F
St. Pierre
Placentia Bay
Renews Harbor
Straits of Belle Isle
Cape Bonce Vista
Poisia
Dewm
Tife
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