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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
5
E J Bates reports a severe Panhandle fire that burned 15 to 30 miles wide and 90 to 100 miles long. Livestock losses include at least 300 cattle, 14 steers suffocated, with fires destroying barns, hay, implements, and small homes while only large ranches saved their buildings. Bates saved his own ranch during a visit from his Puerto-area ranch.
Lewiston Maine December 7 Four men were killed and three injured in a head on crash of two freight locomotives on the Maine Central rail near Annabessacook The engineers and a fireman died in the wreck. The line was blocked while investigators and rescue workers attended the scene.
A rush of water enters the Hondo reservoir through a spillway reducing risk of overflow in Roswell. Property transfers around Lake Arthur and Roswell are noted, with several parcels changing hands for hundreds of dollars. Later updates report injuries to railroad crew in the same region.
A telegram from Austin, Texas threatens Governor Hagerman with exposure of the Territorial Republican administration if President Roosevelt does not back him. Names cited include H. C Pas Bursum and Major W H Llewellyn. Serapio Archuta remains missing amid storm dangers to a sheep herd.
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