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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1911
Page
2
A dam burst unleashing a wall of water in a narrow valley near Austin. Homes and a hillside baseball game were swept away as villagers fled upward. Mothers and children awaiting returning husbands and fathers also perished as the flood crushed the town.
C J Buckley recounts fleeing on horseback after a wall of water from the Sinnemahoning Valley buried Austin. He describes streets turned to heaps of debris, fires igniting from the wreckage, townspeople in shock, clergy aiding victims, and widespread destruction leaving him penniless but grateful to be alive.
Paris report Sept 30 cites a rumor that the entire Turkish fleet except one cruiser has been destroyed with no confirmation. A Salonika dispatch claims Italian warships blockading a Turkish squadron at Mitylene.
An advertised remedy claims fast relief for piles with a home treatment package mailed in plain wrapper. The offer suggests instant relief and a permanent solution delivered to customers.
A list of historic flood events with dates and casualty figures. Includes Johnstown inundation with 2228 identified dead and probable loss 8500, Galveston tidal wave 6000 lives lost, and multiple European floods from 1421 to 1900.
Dr. Blanche A. Denig urges Stenographers Mutual members to abandon rats puffs wire frames and hobble skirts to achieve bodily perfection. She outlines medical standards including 115 pound weight 5 feet 5 inches height arm span equal to height 29 inch waist 34 inch bust 42 inch upper arm 30 inch hip 30 inch ankle 8 inch wrist depth of chest one fifth height.
An arrangement committee seeks to bring J B Dodge national superintendent of good roads to San Antonio on November 10 for a lecture on highway improvement illustrated with stereopticon views. The talk, based on his Denver address, covers soil treatment and campaign methods with visual road-bed examples. About 20 000 invitations will go to automobile owners and groups across Texas for Good Roads day and the monster motor car parade.
Robert Tendick aged 438 formerly of San Antonio died in San Francisco September 17 after a lingering illness and will be brought back for interment. Anna F E Groos wife of banker Frederick Groos died at 9 o clock Saturday at 318 East Commerce street. Funeral for Groos at 4 PM from the residence with interment in City Cemetery No 1.
Refugees seek shelter at the American consulate as flags fly at consulates and churches under protection. Italians may land with Ottoman forces withdrawing inland, while towns offer harbor aid to Italians. Rumors of a holy war and three month occupation circulate among Arab crowds.
San Antonio prepares for the October 21 opening of the U S postal savings bank as inquiries surge. Postmaster Stevens notes broad public support with workers trading savings for safer postal money orders and deposits.
An anecdote from Horace Greeley’s era describes a compositor outraged by his own handwriting error. Greeley allegedly ordered dismissal for inefficiency, but the foreman misread the note as praise and kept the worker on. The tale, cited by the London Chronicle, highlights legibility issues in the newsroom.
Kittyhawk North Carolina reports Wilbur and Orville Wright announce a new airship design called the soaring wing motion. They say it imitates birds with minimal wing movement and could fly long durations with little power, potentially breaking endurance records. Trials are planned early next week, with secrecy maintained.
Women workers in Milwaukee now run elevators, holding city inspector licenses and certification to perform ordinary repairs on the machinery.
Dispatches describe a meeting of 38 revolutionary leaders at Chihuahua including Pascual Orozco and Ambrosio Figueroa who repudiated Madero and backed Reyes. Reyes aims to ship arms via Cuban seaports with operaciones run from New York and Havana, signaling a renewed uprising with Crespo, Creel, and scientistos figures moving toward action in New York and San Antonio.
Twenty eight men were killed and more than seventy five wounded in the capture of the walled city of San Bartolo Chiapas by fifty Maderista soldiers and 1500 volunteers led by the bishop of Chiapas Chamulas Indians defended with seven machine guns and modern arms. The invaders dynamited walls while General Zapata reportedly moves toward San Cristobal to join the Indians. Provisional President de la Barra calls for order as Diaz era fears grow and Zapata may face court martial if he surrenders.
Rurales under General Blanco engage a 25 man Magonista band near Casas Grandes. One Magonista is killed and four rurales wounded. Insurgents are former rebels led by Captain Cano who deserted earlier this week. More troops will reach Juarez Sunday to bolster rurales amid expected fresh fighting. Americans advised to leave Colonia Dublan as anti American feeling rises and foreigners face danger. Bishop Orson Brown has sold 60000 acres of Colonia Morales lands near Douglas to Tom Coggins, with 2800 cattle, and plans to sell 50000 more to another Texan, Corcoran, in San Antonio next week.
The article notes Bishop Brown acquiring ten sections of land in Texas between Apbilne and Sweetwater for colonists moving from Mexico to form a Texas colony. It mentions Sonora’s Pi cachi mountain ranch sold under the Mexican lands and cites hopes for a major Mormon settlement there, dampened by revolution and ensuing disorder that caused heavy suffering to the colonists.
Wimmer, 65, who has 34 years with Sunset Lines in San Antonio, refuses to strike. He cites fair treatment and pension prospects, noting his long leadership as marine shops foreman. He moved from Harrisburg to Sunset shops in October 1877 after four years there as a machinist.
More than three thousand shop employees of the Illinois Central in and around Chicago walk out at 10 AM in a peaceful parade like strike. They seek recognition of a new shop crafts federation and future wage and working condition gains. Press tallies list strikers across many cities on the Illinois Central, Union Pacific, and related lines totaling about 17 640.
A skeleton was found under a bridge with a heavy rock placed over it to deter water. Officials suspect foul play and plan an inquest led by Justice Fis tomorrow after the skull and bones were recovered for examination.
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