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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1893
Page
7
A church blaze during a service caused a panic as draperies brushed a lit candle. The fire spread rapidly and the congregation rushed to escape, trampling others. Eight women and five children died, with hundreds injured.
Report from the steamer City of the Straits sighted wreckage off Rogers City consistent with the barge John Shaw reported lost with all on board near Cheboygan. The captain notes the upper lake filled with floating ice, complicating search efforts.
The Pacific coast council of trades and labor federations representing about 40 members across the coast protests President Cleveland’s appointment of O W Edwards as public printer. Other items note Phelps delaying recall letters in Berlin and mills resuming at Bigelow and Thompson Lumber in Wasupura Wisconsin.
The Keystone Land and Cattle Co sold 8145 cattle to Humphrey and Stenger for government beef contracts at Pine Ridge agency. The sale marks a major movement in western cattle business as South Dakota banks face pressures from liabilities exceeding assets. A related note reports a large fire destroying sawmill operations at Soederhamn, with substantial losses. Governor Flower in Albany denies visitors as he reviews pardons for Carlyle W. Harris amid affidavits from the district attorney's office.
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