17 Jun 1903
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1903
Page
1
Victims lie along the wrecked railway route as a line of relief workers removes bodies. Matlock and Dr Cole report the collapse of a bridge and wreckage strewn across miles. Community volunteers labor through heavy rain to recover the dead and aid the injured.
A young man tried to take a brooch from a dead sister’s corpse in a perilous incident that nearly caused a lynching in a flood wrecked town. Floodwaters swept houses away and backfilled streets. Doctors warn disease could surge if sanitation isn’t improved in coming days.
New York June 7 Frank Dean vice-president of the Seaboard National Bank killed himself in his cellar after bidding his family goodbye. Insanity is suspected though his accounts are said to be straight. Constantinople June 17 another revolt in Arabia due to heavy taxation. Oxman Pasha at Medina wounded and imprisoned. Mecca residents oppose the Joven Rite and have imprisoned the governor general and staff.
An elevator plummeted from the fifth floor of a West Houston Street building in New York this morning injuring five people, three seriously, after the cable parted.
In Maysville Kentucky on June 17 a large militia force surrounded the town square and barred the courthouse as three Black defendants were arraigned for the murder of John Farrow. Troops kept the crowd from protesting and escorted prisoners to jail amid suspended business and high tension. A Times correspondent in Algiers notes Charles Harris, famed London Times writer, has been captured by mountaineers.
Heppner reports a catastrophe after a violent storm with topography altered by floods. Toppled trees, boulders, and mud floods disrupted Willow creek drainage, wrecked streets, and left hundreds of bodies recovered or missing as residents struggle to salvage and mourn.
Twenty thousand homeless across Kansas City and suburbs struggle as water supply cuts bite and relief funds run dry. Mayor Gilertt notes only a fraction of needs met as Armordale and Argentine fight outages and contaminated water. volunteers exhausted, thousands in distress amid a strained regional aid effort.
The court upheld Lord Kylaechus's finding that Clyde Bank Shipbuilding must pay 86000 to the Spanish government for delaying four torpedo destroyers ordered for the Spanish American War. Spain argued the missing ships altered the course of the war and its outcomes.
Henry Green of Duluth is appointed civil service commissioner to succeed James Garfield, recently named head of the Bureau of Corporators, a new bureau in the department of commerce.
In Heppner a meeting is called tomorrow at 7 o clock at the council chamber for subscribers to the observance fund. The group will decide whether to fund the Fourth, or transfer surplus after expenses to the town of Heppner as a mark of respect to disaster victims.
A pollet train on the O, KR, & N route from Spokane to Heppiar crossed a defective bridge between Happ ier Junction and Douglas Station. The bridge collapsed, drowning four people and two others. The wreck blocked the line while relief workers aided at Heppier, and part of the train toppled into the water.
Cheyenne hosts a Grand Army of Colorado and Wyoming encampment with United States troops and veteran units from Fort Huachuca. Dignitaries attend as locals prepare a patriotic program in Keefe Hall for evening speeches and a public memorial tomorrow at Chebe Vosinees stations.
Adlapateh from Constantinople cites amb joc haw warning Milan of possible plots to murder the king and alter succession to the Sorvino throne. The message in Milan suggests conspirators seek to influence governance and remove the late king’s line.
Independence reports a political figure amid a personal crisis. The details are unclear, with fragmented phrases referencing Wallace, a past grand master, the grand lodge, and local officials. No verifiable names or dates are established in the readable text.
An American released by pirates is reported to have been removed by the quahant Callao and returned to Canton after days of captivity. The State Department was informed today of the rescuer-evacuated return, with details from Weehington dated June 17.
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