Lightning Fatalities at Coney Island Strike Five Dead
A violent thunderstorm at Coney Island Sunday afternoon killed five people and left nine seriously injured as a bolt struck the Seaside bath house crowd under a covered area. Ambulances ferried victims to hospitals while panic spread through Gravesend Beach where one more person died and three more collapsed.
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New York
Young & Woneernorn
Parkway Baths
Coney Island
Gravesend Beach
Perpsons
Preacher Guilty of Murder Ends Feud Killing Two Children
In Valdosta Georgia Rev J G Rawlins found guilty of accessory to the murder of two Carter children. His sons Milton and Jesse and Alfred Moore also convicted earlier. Feud between ministers led to planned strike on the Carter family with gunfire as the children fled.
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Valdosta
J. G. Rawlins
Rov
W. L. Carter
Rawline
Milton
Jesse
Alfred Moore
Rawlins
Moore
Carter
Methodist
Leonard Rawhine
Russian Press Warlike as Peace Talks Loom
The St Petersboro report notes a rising warlike tone in the Russian press ahead of the peace conference. Authorities are urged to resist humiliating demands even if it means prolonging the war. The Russ comments that peace on Sato terms would be only an armistice.
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St. Petersboro
Sato
Russ
California special wreck at Lemont kills man and injures many
On Sunday night a brakeman's ax on a smoking car ignited the California special wreck on the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe line at Lemont. One man died outright, four were fatally injured and numerous passengers were injured. The dead man’s identity remained uncertain, possibly John Grugerie, an Italian laborer from Sunnyside Utah.
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Chicago
California
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Lemont
John Grugerie
Sunnyside
Utah
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