Deadly landslide wrecks West Lynchburg train near Rensens
A C and G railroad passenger train struck a massive hillside landslide about three miles west of Lynchburg near Rensens station. Initial counts estimate 25 to 26 dead with three confirmed fatalities. Conductor Whittaker, Engineer Fisher, and Fireman perished, while many passengers helped push cars before the slide buried the engine and car. The disaster trapped and claimed several lives as the hillside collapsed into the river.
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Lynchburg
Bhat
Avreck
Lynchourg
Rensens
Laver Aman
Whittake
Young Whittaker
Richmond
Philatelists celebrate stamp art and office archives
A Brussels post office corridor hosts a grand philately fiesta featuring a grandfather and grandchildren viewing a stamp album. The piece notes the US has 72,000 post offices, discusses philatelic term origins, and compares stamp sizes from Mecklenburg Schwerin to Bolivar issues.
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Brussels
United States
Great Britain
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Bolivar
Church and Clergy Notes and Oddities Abroad
A patchwork of church, clergy, and social items: Methodist conference debates tobacco membership. Rev Sandford of Shiloh Me. clocks 218 in 1 hr 27 min. Rome and Milan host grand churches. Stockholm and Swedish cities contract with Salvation Army to aid the poor and tramps. Vienna records the most exact man on record who kept meticulous ledgers for 27 years and drank 28,786 beers, smoked 648,713 cigarettes, and spent $12,600 on purchases.
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Methodist Conference
Mr. Sandford
Shiloh
Engian
Lund
Chapin
Italy
Petur's
Rome
Duomo
Milan
Vienna
Heaviest Automobile Claims 14 Ton Weight by Australia
A wealthy Australian owns a vehicle weighing 14 tons and measuring seven by, powered by a 75 horsepower gasoline motor. It can reach eight miles per hour and is used to haul freight to a gold mine 572 miles inland, illustrating extreme vehicle construction and purpose.
Baker City's Gold Mine Water System Puts Town in Profit
Baker City, Washington, owns a profitable gold placer mine via its Auburn ditch water system. The Nelson placer mines eight to ten miles away yield annual cleanups, potentially funding sewerage, electric lights, pavement, and a mineral palace showcasing eastern Oregon resources. The city treasuries may benefit as debt drops under a cash-based government.
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Baker City
Wash
Ell Creek
Mountai
Arburn
Auburn Ditch
Nelson Placer
United States
Ciy
Bakes City
Baker Cites
Oregon
Nelson Placers
Good Country for Women in a Mining Centre Tale
In a Western Australia mining center about 180 miles from Coolgardie a carpenter dies and his widow receives proposals from the doctor, undertaker, clergyman, apothecary, cemetery custodian, and about twenty mine managers and miners. She declines all and returns to Melbourne.
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Coolgardie
Western Australia
Melbourne
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