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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
2
The steamer Flying Eagle and a barge carrying 240 Sunday school pupils struck a bridge draw at Stannibal Missouri. The craft sank with at least three confirmed deaths and rumors of more missing. Teachers helped keep children calm and jump onto a barge below the pier to escape.
Baltimore authorities confirm John Wiles Booth died in Enid Oklahoma January 14 under the name David E. George. Citizens who knew him identified the body when exhumed in Washington and brought here. The actor reclines in the Booth lot with no marker over the grave.
Montreal reports describe widespread fires across the province with forests aflame in many directions. The villages of Astor and Forestdale are completely wiped out, Bulstrode destroyed, and the Grand Trunk line damaged by burned wires. Dozens of towns face destruction with limited firefighting means. The Lake St. John district sees several settlements burned and more at risk.
Reports from St. Francis Kansas describe a feud between Dewar cattle company workers and the Berry family over land. An ensuing clash left the Berry father and three sons dead, another son wounded, with unclear casualties on the cattlemen side.
An excursion train carrying Black passengers from Fair Bluff to Columbia derailed at a washout near Wedgefield about fifteen miles from Sumter South Carolina. Engineer George Wilson and his Black fireman were fatally injured Conductor Clemens was also killed.
An eastbound Wabash passenger train collided head on with a westbound freight near Gilmore Missouri. W I Serugham of Lexington Kentucky Mail Clerk Sylvester of St. Louis and Passenger Fireman Wm Pounzal were badly hurt but not fatally.
General Chaffee reports to Adjutant General Corbin that the officer sent to Gaineasville Ga says residents need only food at present. Army rations will meet the demand until further supplies arrive.
Philadelphia reports show five more textile firms have agreed to a fifty five hour week for workers, lifting the total to over sixty establishments adopting the shorter workweek since the movement began.
A Sydney Nova Scotia dispatch reports a lifeboat and buoy marked Tropic Stockholm were recovered at Port Stephens. The recovery suggests the vessel may be lost somewhere at sea and authorities are investigating the incident.
Pretoria dispatch reports Lieutenant Governor Sir Arthur Lawley has remitted the remainder of the sentences for most former burghers convicted of military offences during the late war.
Destructive floods across Kansas Nebraska and Iowa killed dozens and left fifty thousand homeless as Topeka and Des Moines faced fire and collapse. Residents clung to roofs while waters swept away homes, factories, and infrastructure. relief efforts mobilized with 2,000 sheltered indoors and thousands aided.
The deluge swamped five states with rivers out of control and vast property losses. Wires down and rail lines destroyed hinder reporting as authorities tally casualties and damages. Major impact centers include Kansas City areas in Kansas and Missouri, Armourdale Argentine Harlem and Sheffield with about 10 000 people evacuated.
Destructive tornadoes floods and winds sweep Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska and Iowa in a ten day May period. The worst damage centers on Armourdale and Argentine with hundreds killed and thousands displaced. Large areas flooded shut rail lines and packing plants leaving 8000 workers unemployed.
The Chicago fire department dispatched a special train with a fire engine and six men to Des Moines to aid Iowa flood victims. The action followed appeals from Iowa for relief and relief efforts to relieve distress among flood sufferers.
Floods from the Kaw and Missouri Rivers engulf Kansas City and suburbs with four foot higher waters than 1881. Fifty dead and millions in property loss reported as bodies drift past wreckage on Sunday.
North Topeka, the city’s First Ward on the Kaw river, faced a flood that swept the low ground and extended about five miles, affecting its 9 000 to 10 000 residents and key facilities. The area, once independent, lies under Topeka’s government with railroads mills and many institutions nearby.
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