Severe storm damages Electra oil field and Harrold area
A severe north Texas south Oklahoma wind storm swept through Wilbarger County Texas into Oklahoma causing about 150000 dollars in property damage including Electra oil field derricks toppled and 65 central derricks demolished. No deaths reported. injuries minor amid funnel cloud sighting and widespread darkness.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Electra
Willbarger County
Oklahoma Line
Loveland
Devol
Tillman Country
Harrold
Davidson
Okla
Tarmers’ State Bank
Weather Forecast for San Antonio Tonight
For San Antonio and vicinity tonight fair and much colder with freezing temperatures around 28 to 32. Tomorrow looks for a warm day with clearing skies and higher temps.
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San Antonio
Weather snapshot across cities shows record low temps
Observations at 8 a m list city temperatures with winds from the north or east. Record lows in the last 24 hours are noted for each city including St Louis Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Kansas City New York Boston and Washington with varying snow and cold conditions.
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Chicago
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Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
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Boston
Howiday
Washington
Ning
Statement on AP News Wire Carried by Other Papers
A claim that the AP wire is used in full or part by any newspaper besides the San Antonio Light is unfounded and without basis. The statement asserts no verified distribution by other outlets.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Four Hart In Wreck On Southern Pacific
The Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio passenger train No. 10 derailed east of Seguin at Ilka injuring four passengers. Mil ton Hood and C. M. Roberts suffered shoulder and back injuries. a woman and a porter were bruised. Five cars left the track. Thornwell Fay’s private car derailed but occupants unharmed. Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics delayed. D A Trousdale, later linked to a March 13 killing, was aboard. Traffic cleared by noon after wrecking crew from San Antonio.
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Galveston
Harrisburg
San Antonio
Ilka
Seguin
Milton Hood
C. M. Roberts
Thornwell Fay
Connie Mack
Philadelphia Athletics
Beaumont
D. A. Trousdale
Express
Sanders
Airships Drop Bombs In Turkish Lines
Italian dirigible balloons bombed Turkish camps at Suani Benaden near Tripoli. Two airships conducted two reconnaissances and dropped bombs over Zanzour killing four non combatants and wounding ten, then fired on by Turkish infantry, later dropping thirty more bombs on a second pass.
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Associated Press
London
Suani Benaden
Zanzour
Tripoli
Packers' Conspiracy Trial Nearing End in Chicago
Chicago March 21 Closing addresses to the jury were made by defense counsel for the Morris group and Edward Tilden's attorneys in the packers conspiracy case. Lawyers expected to close for the defense. judgment appears likely to go to the jury tomorrow afternoon.
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Associated Press
Chicago
M. W. Borders
Morris Group
John Barton Payne
Edward Tilden
National Packing Company
Wool tariff bill to be reintroduced in House
Democratic members of the ways and means committee plan to reintroduce a wool tariff revision bill in the House. The measure, revised in conference and vetoed by President Taft, would impose a 20 percent duty on raw wool. Chairman Underwood submitted the bill as he entered the House.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Ways and Means Committee
Taft
Underwood
Insurance firms granted authority to operate in Texas
SPECIAL TO THE LIGHT. AUSTIN March 21 Certificates of authority to do business in Texas have been granted by the department of insurance and banking to the Gunners Mutual Underwriters Tyler Queen Insurance company of America New York Fraternal Brotherhood Los Angeles Cal and the American Druggist Fire Insurance company Cincinnati O. This makes a total of 175 insurance companies licensed this insurance year which began March 1.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Department of Insurance and Banking
Gunners’ Mutual Underwriters
Tyler
Queen Insurance Company of America
New York
Fraternal Brotherhood
Los Angeles
Cal
American Druggist Fire Insurance Company
Cincinnati
Indiana Democrats endorse Marshall for president nomination
Indiana party leaders announced a platform plank calling for the delegation to vote for Governor Marshall as the Democratic presidential nominee. The resolution was said to be adopted without opposition at the state convention in Indianapolis on March 21.
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Indiana
Marshall
Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Demonstration in Street Over Juarez Food Blockade
Juarez residents protest US customs action closing the Juarez port to food as famine threats loom. Americans face insults in the street while a saloon keeper named Petit sparks the flare up. Border tensions rise as munitions of war include food in official interpretation.
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EL Paso
Tex
United States
Juarez
Sharpe
Petit
Laredo Holds Shipment of Military Equipment for Madero
Customs collector Haynes wired Washington seeking clearance for articles allowed to enter Mexico under the president’s proclamation. Goods arriving at Laredo include clothing saddles canteens and other military equipment but no arms. First installment of a large New York ordered shipment for the Madero government.
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Laredo
Tex
Haynes
Treasury Department
Washington
Mexico
New York
Madero
Orozco Warns Americans Against Madero Contracts
Gen. Pascual Orozco issues two decrees from Chihuahua dated March 13 forbidding loans and contracts with the Madero government and declaring Madero an outlaw subject to execution on sight. The decrees promise confiscation of products and distribution to informers and orphans, with English translations to newspapers. Dr. Policarpo Rueda and Sr. Camacho carried the decrees to San Antonio after leaving Chihuahua.
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Pascual Orozco
Madero
President Madero
Chihuahua
Melchor Camacho
Emilio Vasquez Gomez
Orozco
Sr. Camacho
San Antonio
Policarpo Rueda
Chiapas
Sr. Camachong
United States
Rueda
Warning posted by Clansmen of Allen at Hillsville
Hillsville Virginia March 31 Sidna Allen and his gang remain at large. Report claims supporters rode near Hillsville and posted a menacing warning beside the governor's reward proclamation stating the hills are unsafe for strangers and vowing retaliation.
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Allen
Associated Press
Hillsville
Sidna
Allens
Dr Wiley Provokes Druggists in Regulation Hearing
Dr Harvey C Wiley speaking before the pure food board as a private citizen invoked the term dopers to describe drug manufacturers while urging strict control of opium morphine cocaine and habit forming drugs. A heated exchange followed with threats of blows before Wiley withdrew the word and shifted to calling them manufacturers of poison.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Harvey C. Wiley
Pure Food Board
Death Toll Rises In Southern Pacific Explosion
Investigators led by John Ensign, chief locomotive boiler inspector for the Interstate Commerce Commission, arrived to probe the Seguin yard blast that killed workers. Repairs resume as fatalities climb to at least twenty five with several more missing. funerals proceed for several identified victims.
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John Ensign
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Pacific
Seguin
Ensign
H. J. Anderson
Sunset Lines
Anderson
Mr. Ensign
Southern Pacific Yards
Nasir
Explosions Compare Katy and Southern Pacific Yards
A Monday boiler blast in Southern Pacific yards and the Smithville Katy engine explosion from February 9, 1911 show similar blasts. The Southern Pacific deaths exceed twenty five with around forty injuries, far higher than the Smithville toll of seven dead and six injured.
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Southern Pacific
Smithville
Forty mine survivors and dozens of dead in Oklahoma explosion
In McCurtain Oklahoma the Sans Bois Mine No. 2 disaster left 39 bodies recovered and 29 to 53 believed trapped. Fourteen miners escaped by air pump after tapping signals. Gas is suspected as the cause and a state inspection was planned but postponed.
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McCurtain
Okla
Associated Press
Sans Bois
Acad
Sansois Mountains
Arkansas Line
Boyle
McFarland Asks for New Trial in Dodds Coe Case
Pittsburg March 21 Counsel for Rev. Dr. W D McFarland the minister convicted in the death of his former secretary Elsie Dodds Coe filed a motion for a new trial It will be argued at the close of the present term of the criminal court McFarland is out on bail.
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MacFarland
Associated Press
Pittsburg
W. D. McFarland
Elsie Dodds Coe
Criminal Court
McFarland
Rivers Rise as Rivers Flood Pittsburgh Area
Continued rain and thawing across the Allegheny and Monongahela basins push the rivers up fast in Pittsburgh. The weather bureau predicts the Ohio river may reach a 30 foot stage by tomorrow.
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Pennsylvania
Associated Press
Pittsburg
Allegheny
Monongahela
Local Weather Bureau
Ohio River
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