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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
1
Paris officials report eighty four bodies recovered with the death toll likely surpassing a hundred after a night crash on the Metropolitan Electric railway. Two trains burned in a tunnel at Menilmontant, passengers suffocated in smoke as rescuers fought to reach the scene.
A powerful electrical current in tunnel rails stunned or killed many as flames spread through a tunnel near Les Charonnes. Passengers fled to Les Charonnes and Menilmontant stations while a second train crashed into the scorching mass. Officials saw smoke and the few survivors describe bodies along the tracks. Twenty cars burned, heat issuing from the stations. Conductor badly hurt. station staff and Prefect Lepine heroically entered the tunnel before smoke forced them back.
Berlin officials review the Paris Metropolitan tunnel disaster for lessons as a precautionary check on the city’s new partly underground electric railway system.
In Le Claire Iowa a chandelier fell during Methodist church services causing kerosene lamps to ignite. Miss Nellie Knapp, seated beneath the chandelier, was burned severely as flames spread and she died several hours later from her injuries.
A northbound Missouri Kansas and Texas flyer was derailed and ditched two miles north of Schell City Vernon county at 1130 p m injuring three passengers seriously and eighteen others slightly with no fatalities. Spreading rails lifted rear engine and caused multiple cars to derail while the engine plowed about 150 yards tearing up the track.
Fifty prisoners at the Carthage county jail mutinied at midnight demanding better food. The fire department drowned the revolt with water as prisoners hurled bottles at responders and officials. One deputy was cut in the face before the inmates were subdued.
The pope collapsed from heart weakness aggravated by fatigue during morning mass at the Pauline chapel in Rome. He revived with help from Mgr Bres san and Dr Davenzia, and was taken to his apartments for complete rest with audiences postponed.
Confidential reports to the British foreign office say the Macedonia situation is not serious for now but precautions are being taken. Officials doubt Turkey plans to attack Bulgaria given powers' attitudes, and Balkan envoys say the Macedonian committee lacks funds to start a revolution, hoping unrest will trigger powers' interference.
Attorney General Knox arrived at Oyster Bay from New York and joined President Roosevelt for luncheon to discuss departmental matters. One focus is the Littauer-Lyon glove contract case and possible DOJ recovery of government funds. Bishop O Gorman of Sioux Falls, S D, called on the president later in the afternoon.
Constantinople dispatches describe uncertainty over the Bulgarian revolt in the Monastir vilayet. Some say the outbreak preceded its leaders’ plans, as authorities tightened preventive measures. Villagers flee to the mountains while Turkey weighs troop deployment amid financial limits and aims to use regulars only.
Toronto report states General Bryant of Madison Wisconsin died aboard the Grand Trunk railroad express from Montreal while returning from the seaboard. He was not well, and his death was unexpected. The body departed Toronto in the afternoon for Madison.
The Wabash fast freight derailed at Red Lick Illinois killing engineer Albert Huckstep of Chicago and seriously injuring fireman Harry McDonald and brakeman William Cupples both of Decatur.
Eldora Louisiana August 6 Glen Marks was killed when a target rifle accidentally discharged while he and playmates camped nearby A similar accidental shooting killed another boy with the same rifle about a year ago
Hugo and Tims of Duluth win a government contract to build a concrete breakwater at Sand Beach near Port Huron. The project is valued at one million dollars with a seven year completion timeframe.
Hunter Green was found dead by the river near Centerville as doctors name heart disease the probable cause. The shock of his son's death felled his father who died soon after while speaking of the tragedy. A year earlier another son had taken his own life.
Sioux City report says Mrs. W R Phillips wife of a Sioux Rapids pioneer woke in a storm to close a window and fell down the stairs. Family heard nothing until the next morning when her body was found at the foot of the stairway.
August Bartlett of Hoboken a carpenter and another man are missing and believed suffocated in a partially completed back refrigerator plant of Schwarnschild Sulzberger in Brooklyn. Several others sustained minor injuries in the incident reported from New York on August 6.
Vienna reports no information of fresh Balkan outbreaks and sees no real danger. Diplomats believe Austria and Russia must maintain their current posture to keep any serious outbreak unlikely.
A band of 300 insurgents appeared near the railway bridge over the Vardar two hours from Salonica. In the same area the large fodder depots at Shamali Ay dirli and Harmanli were burned, signaling escalating disruption.
The Washington Supreme Court sustains the state gambling law found constitutional. Spokane gambler Fritz Dietrich had pleaded guilty to running a gambling game and received a one year sentence, which the court ordered to be carried out in the penitentiary.
A clash near the village of Beni Fatt in Moroccan territory left three French and two Moorish soldiers dead with additional injuries. The fighting occurred after Moors pursuing insurgents crossed into French lines despite frontier protests.
Manila reports slow adoption of the San Francisco minted coins as the United States weighs the peso as standard value. Governor Taft pledges aid to push acceptance. In Mindanao Surigao raids, fifty gang members are sentenced to lengthy imprisonments.
Edward T Williams, secretary at the U.S. legation in Peking, filed a detailed report with Minister Conger on Shen Chien the reform journalist executed by order of the empress dowager on July 31. It states Shen was beaten for hours and strangled after plea to end his misery.
New Haven Conn August 8 Miss Sarah S Platt a young stock dealer has filed a bankruptcy petition said to be first by a woman in the state Her liabilities total about 10000 a mining stock slump cited as the cause of her trouble
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