Deadly Rio Grande Wreck Crashes 100 Across Colorado
A Missouri Pacific flyer plunged from a trestle into a flooded arroyo near Eden Colorado after a cloudburst. About 100 passengers were aboard as the train washed downstream. many bodies recovered, others missing, ghouls robbed the dead, with 40 bodies found by noon and multiple identifications listed.
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Pueblo
Colo
Aug
Colorado
Missouri Pacific Flyer
Denver & Rio Grande
Eden
Arroya
Fountain Creek
Arkansas River
Rio Grand Railway
Dry Creek
Hutte
Pareeigers
Denver
Colorado Spring
Mayfield
Hinman
Peareenger
Eoach
Perge
George West
Fountain
Arkansas Rivers
Public Board Seeks Higher Tide Land Assessments
The board of equalization plans to raise assessments on tide land property despite protests. It to meet publicly with major corporations including Seattle Electric and Puget Sound Electric, aiming to boost valuations by several thousand dollars and to tax franchises at true value. Personal property rolls from last year are used, with specific figures listed for Seattle Electric, Puget Sound Electric, Snoqualmie Falls Power, Independent and Sunset Telephone, Seattle Lighting.
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Board of Equalization Ts
Tide Land
Seattle Lighting Company
Seattle Electric Company
Puget Bound Electric Company
Snoqualmie Falls Power Company
Independent and
Sunset Telephone Companies
Board of Equalization
Puget Sound Electric Company
Independent Telephone Company
Sunset Telephone Company
Little boy mangled beneath street car
Clifford Green a year old son of C O Green of Green and Young grocers 2245 Franklin avenue was killed when the University car No 46 struck his wagon on Eastlake avenue Aloha street at 745 am The father jumped from the wagon and survived but the boy was crushed under the forward wheels and dragged along the track The accident occurred on a dangerous narrow stretch with a single track and poor signaling Others injured included Motorman J H Morgan and Conductor A R Wolf The incident renews calls for widening Eastlake avenue and adding a second car track to prevent future tragedies
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Clifford Green
C. O. Green
Green & Young
Franklind Avenue
J H. Morgan
A. R. Wolf
Eastlake Avenue
Aloha Street
Oli
Bonney- Watson
Morgan
Denny Fuhrman
Denny Fuhrman School
Carmen
Mercer Street
Green
T. D. Lomax
Seattle
Sixth Avenue
Redward
C. EB Cutford
Fastlake Avenue
Loy
East Prospect Streets
Seattle Electric Company
University Hoe
Manic Miner Fires Twice at Sheriff in Seattle Area
Norbert Barrett, a noted mining figure, attacked by drink rage, fired at Under Sheriff William Corcoran as police closed in. Barrett, later captured after a chaotic standoff at his Flrat avenue home, is jailed for insanity amid threats against his wife, with neighbors and officers involved in the confrontation.
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Norbert Barrett
William Corcoran
Barrett
Flrat Avenue
John Street
M. R. Hubbard
Newman and
Hubbard
King Alfonso Train Delayed by Dynamite Plots in Spain
On the royal train to open an exhibition in Vitoria, King Alfonso's journey was delayed after three dynamite cartridges were found aboard. A separate morning fire heavily damaged J. M. Weed's residence on Fourth Avenue North, but firefighters saved the home from total destruction.
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San Sebastian
Spain
Alfonso
Vitoria
J. M. Weed
Fourth Avenue North
Fremont
Seattle Electric verdict on trolley pole death
The jury finds the deceased died from being struck by a trolley pole while performing conductor duties for the Seattle Electric Company on Lake Union boulevard Seattle King County August 1 1904 at 4 o clock The verdict urges immediate removal of trolley poles to a safe distance.
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Seattle Electric Company
Lake Union Boulevard
Seattle
King County
Coroner Jury Probes Death of Conductor J B Mathinson
The coroner's jury investigated the death of conductor J B Mathinson knocked from a Green Lake car into Lake Union last Monday. The collision with a trolley pole as he moved from the back platform led to a fall and possible head injury. Witnesses Dr L M Hart and the motorman testified.
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J. B. Mathinson
Green Lake
Lake Union
Mathinson
L. M. Hart
Freeing of Katie Busch Sparks Legal Debate
The 19 year old of Black Diamond who buried her illegitimate child will not be prosecuted. Prosecutor Scott Sheriff Codihee Coroner Hoye and attorney Will Morris said she was mentally unfit at the time of the killing and she will be released and sent home Wednesday.
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Katie Busch
Black Diamond
Scott
Codihee
Hoye
Will H. Morris
Drownings in Fisher Canyon During Cloudburst
Trinidad Coal Company general manager William Haigh and Will iam Richardson drowned in Fisher canyon after a cloudburst on Saturday. Haigh's son was rescued. Wheat prices surged on weather and industry fears with September contracts at 997-8 to 1021-4. old September 623-4.
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Trinidad, Cole
Aug
William Haigh
Trinidad Coal Company
William Richardson
Fisher Canyon
Chicago
Armour
Canal Company Seeks City Streets Vacation for Waterway Plan
The Seattle Lake Washington Water Company asks the city council to vacate several blocks of streets in the south canal right of way. It cites extensive excavation work and promises to aid the city with new depot sites and other benefits in exchange for the land, while the council weighs rejection or delay amid other municipal concerns.
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Settle @ Lake Washington Waterws company
South Canal
Semple
Dream Canal
Union
Fourteenth Ave
Bandits Try Express Train Robbery Near Green River
Five men attempted to hold up the Atlantic express two miles west of Green River on the Union Pacific. A pumpman was shot as a warning and may die. Posses from Green River Rock Springs Rawlins and a Union Pacific ranger corps pursue the outlaws by special train toward the Sierra Madre. The gang is believed connected to prior Great Northern and Rio Grande robberies.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Atlantic Express
Assay
Green River
Union Pacific
Green AI Rock Springs
Rawlins
Rangiore
Sierra Madres
Rio Grande
Wa Chong's Opium Poke Ends In Courtroom Weight Fight
Wa Chong bid 9.75 per pound for 1,600 pounds of confiscated opium but bought short by about one eighth of a pound per can. Judge Hanford ruled Uncle Sam does not guarantee full weight, leaving the matter to U S Marshal Hopkins who declined to rescind the sale. Chong exits wiser, vowing to check gross versus net weight before future purchases.
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Wa Chong
Wa Chong Company
Stevens
Sams Hammer
Sen Francisco
Port Townsend
Portland
Uncle Sam
Lila
Hanford
United States
Marshal Hopkins
Wh Chong
China
Uncle Bam
Chong
Sare
Steamer St Paul Arrives With 106000 In Gold
The St Paul arrived from Nome this afternoon with 106000 in gold and 22500 worth of whalebone consigned to Lewis Anderson Ford. The whalebone came from the whaler Monterey. The ship carried about 80 passengers and has no news beyond the Oregon dispatch. It sails tonight for San Francisco.
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St. Paul
Nome
Lewis, Anderson
Ford
Monterey
Oregon
San Francisco
Body identified as engineer George Roa from Nome City
The body found in the bay this morning is identified as George Roa an engineer aboard the Nome City. He had been missing for more than a week.
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George Roa
Nome City
Ice Wagon Drivers Called to Aid Stockyard Strikers
An order from the strikers' board directs ice wagon drivers to refuse deliveries to all brandy markets of the packing firms and meat dealers. The move may spread nationwide. Stockyard activity remains quiet as more non union workers arrive and are employed.
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Chicago
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Frank H. Whitman
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Seward
Irene Wright
James H. Smith
Minnie Davis
Preblo
Elsie Roland
Lindeburg
Kan
Hadenbury
Salina
WF. Munn
John Moliver
Genevieve Moliver
Mary Moliver
Ida Leonard
Mary Walsh
Mary Price
LaSalle
Pullman
Lake Union Improvement Club
Maine
Corcoran
Alaska
King
Alfonso’s
Canal Company
Pig IN
Roa
Icemen
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