Miner Hicks Escaped After Sixteen Days Entombed
Bakersfield, Cal. miner Hicks recounts terror and endurance after 15 days entombed in a tunnel beneath Edison Electric works. He recalls rats, dim candle light, and a miraculous air current before rescue by Dr Stindfield, John Gents, and Superintendent Cone. Hicks smiles through tears when reunited with his rescuers and employer.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Dee
Cee
Ae B. Hicks
Edison Electric Company
Hicks
Frank Miller
Dr. Stindfield
John Gents
Cone
Earthquake waves indicate distant Pacific quake detected
Berkeley California December 24 The seismograph at the University of California observatory recorded earthquake waves yesterday and nine hours thirty five minutes thirty five seconds on the Pacific coast. The waves show a severe earthquake occurred at a distinct point with an average period of fifteen seconds.
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Berkeley
Cal
Observatory
University of California
Pacific Coast
Nine Break Jail Inmate Escape During Church Hours
Cincinnati reports nine Hamilton County Jail inmates fled at 10 30 am during church hours by unlocking a passage and splicing two ladders with bed clothing then dropping 20 feet from a one story structure to the yard surveillance by a boy who alerted staff. Recaptured include Frank Kammf and George Curtis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
Hamilton County
Clarendon Henri
New York
Cincinnati Art Museum
Hugh Gastright
George Curtis
George Sherrod
Willis Saunders
Edward Ness
Frank Kammf
Joseph Thatcher
J. Sutton
Rock Island Man Injured In Nevada Rail Crash
Sacramento dispatch reports a head on crash on the Southern Pacific at Harney Nevada injuring twenty four people when a special west bound passenger train plowed into a standing special freight on the main line. Local man from Rock Island was among the injured.
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Rock Island
Sacramento
Cal
Southern Pacific
Harney
Nev
The First Christmas Message track waiting for orders
A Saturday evening incident left no serious injuries. All aboard were able to continue the journey except one passenger. Injured travelers include Mrs Kay Cenestes Des Moines Iowa Mrs L A Ge Des Moines Iowa Mrs A F Cook Kankakee Illinois W H Hutchins Rock Island Illinois Bert Higgins Lima Illinois.
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Kay
Cenestes
Ill
L. A. Ge
Strathcona Steamer Fire Endangers 380 Passengers
In Halifax on December 24 the steamer Strathcona caught fire after leaving port. Enveloped in flames and with 389 panic stricken passengers on deck, the ship raced toward shore in darkness. Engineers and firemen stayed at their posts to fight the blaze until land was reached, and most passengers were landed before the vessel burned to the waterline. The ship, two years old and valued at $44,000, carried apples and other cargo along the east coast.
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Halifax
Strathcona
Reid
Port Dufferin
Two Skaters Drowned in Ice Break Through Tragedy
In Escanaba Michigan Oscar Westman 24 of Negaunee and John Blashe 21 of Keewanee plunged through ice while skating and drowned. Blashe's body was recovered. Also reported Oakland system of Southern Pacific not affected by strike ultimatum affecting east lines. Chicago service: Funeral held for Bishop Charles McCabe at Evanston First Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Escanaba
Mich
Oscar Westman
Negaunee
John Blashe
Kewanee
Blashe
Oakland
Cal
Pacific
Southern Pacific Company
el Paso
Ogden
Portland
Atlantic
Southern Pacific
Bishop McCabe
Chicago
Charles McCabe
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Evanston
Lord Kitchener Reported To Wed Mrs Samuel Sloane Chauncey
New York December 24 announcement says Lord Kitchener plans marriage to Mrs. Samuel Sloane Chauncey of New York. The widow Alice Carr, born in Indiana and once poor, rose in society after marrying Chauncey. Chauncey’s Brooklyn family connected Grace Carr to Lord Newborough, then Grace became a lord’s wife. The engagement, long rumored, is tied to Kitchener’s renewed presence in society after years as a fighting leader.
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Lord Kitchener
Samuel Sloane
Chauncey
New York
Samuel Sloane-Chauncey
London
Alice Carr
Louisville
Carrs
Indiana
Hhe
Alice
Grace
Carr
St. Augustine
Fla
Samuel Sloane Chauncey
Brooklyn
Miss Carr
Texas Slashes Pullman Rates in Texas
The Texas railroad commission issued an order declaring Pullman cars common carriers and under constant supervision. It cuts Pullman rates by 20 percent and requires the Pullman company to consult the commission on car numbers, file operating books, and report operations as railroads do.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas
Pullman Company
Pope to reject religious laws and end public priest service
Paris dispatch reports from high church sources that the pope will reject the new religious law and at a suitable moment forbid Paris priests to continue in churches, with organized private worship to follow. In Rome the sacred college greeted the pope. discussion centered on France, the pope saying no further concessions and that persecution may ease with time.
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Paris
Associated Press
Rome
Sacred College
France
Bomb Factory Unearthed and Lettish Bandits Shot
Lukow Poland reports Colonel Broucheff, commander of the 81st Infantry, killed by an unknown man on a local estate. In Riga a large store of bomb explosives including pyroxylin was found at a factory employing many revolutionists. Seven Lettish bandits were tried by drumhead court martial and shot near Mitau.
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Lukow
Poland
Broucheff
81St Infantry
Riga
Russia
TM Acta
Mitau
Publishers raise rate across Illinois country papers
Illinois country papers uniformly raise yearly subscriptions from one dollar to 1.25 or 1.50 as paper costs and production expenses soar. Peary's Arctic steamer Roosevelt arrives off City Island near New York after a December 24 report.
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Bloomington
Illinois
Peary
New York
Roosevelt
City Island
Nine Dead in Soo Line Wreck at Enderlin North Dakota
Nine killed, forty one injured in a collision where an eastbound Soo passenger train struck a switch engine in Enderlin North Dakota. Rescue efforts by locals and railroad workers saved many as cars burned. Coroner's jury convened to probe the crash.
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SOO” Line
Dakota
Enderdlin
N. D
O. Anderson
Starbuck
Minn
Charles Backus
Bergen
J. Beresford
Medicine Hat
W. J. Danielson
Sheldon
H. Rosenbaum
St! Paul
Ile
Thelittle Hospital
Enderlin
Soo Road
Soo
Awful Discovery at Midwife's Paris Establishment
A midwife in the Vivianne quarter of Paris has been arrested for systematic murder of newborns. Police found no reported infant deaths from the establishment before uncovering that the midwife and a servant cut up and burned bodies in a dining room stove. Evidence at the midwife's residence indicates 120 children were murdered.
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Paris
Vivianne
Phone is used for conversion in Illinois revival meetings
Bloomington Illinois December 24 evangelists Hicks and Galloway use a two foot megaphone connected to a telephone transmitter to broadcast sermons to farmers with home telephones. In Napanee the device reaches 150 farming families miles away. nine conversions reported at Stronghurst with similar hopes at Neponset and other towns.
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Bloomington
Illinois
Napanee
Hicks and Galloway
Stronghurst
Neponset
Stone Upholds Roosevelts Course
Kansas City December 24 Senator William Stone supports President Roosevelts action in discharging the negro soldiers at Brownsville. He says he has not studied the legal issue but backs the sentiment and the step taken by Roosevelt and Taft.
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Missouri
Kansas City
Wilam Stone
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Taft
Supreme Court Rules in Rock Island Cases
Springfield dispatch reports the supreme court affirmed East Moline vs Pope with dissent by Justice Wilkin and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co vs Steckman affirmed. The court struck down a law punishing men for crimes against children. A Marietta plant of Georgia Manufacturing and Public Service Co including the Marietta paper mill burns. losses reach a quarter of a million.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
Rock Island County
Village of
East Moline
Pope
Wilkin
Chicago, Rock Island& Pacific Railway Company
Georgia
Atlanta
Marietta
Georgia Manufacturing and Public Service Company
Marietta Paper Mill
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Higks
California
H. Hutchinson
Ions Bey Ind
Strathcony
Applies
Var
State Railroad Commission
Col. Broucheff
Bomb Factory Unearthed
Lettish
Drum Head
Neponset, Ill
Stone
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