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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
2
An 1890s style promote of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claims to cure stomach and digestion diseases and restore flesh and strength. It cites a Tennessean patient Jesse Childress who reportedly improved from ninety-five to one hundred ninety-five pounds after seven bottles. Pellets recommended as laxative when needed.
May 20 report from Coal Creek Tennessee says 160 to 300 men were inside the Fraterville mines when an explosion trapped them. Rescue efforts stalled by fallen slate, smoke, and heat. only five bodies recovered and a survivor expected to die. Separate dispatch from Paris notes Mont Pelee volcano still spewing ash and urging aid for affected residents including 1,000 women and children.
Hazleton Pa May 20 The second week of total coal mining suspension passes without disturbance. Garrisons of miners absent from breakers, only engineers firemen and pump runners remain to keep mines safe. Locals hold meetings to bolster morale as leaders urge workers forward.
A violent hurricane struck Scinde in British India on May 20 washing away forty miles of railroad and destroying bridges embankments and houses. Fifty miles of telegraph wires were ruined and many lives were lost.
New official estimate tallies 28000 buried in St Pierre rubble with 6000 rescued and 3000 drowned. Relief fleets include American ships Cincinnati Sterling Potomac Longfellow French cruiser Suchet and British Madiana. Consuls Thomas Prentis and James Japp identified and headed for shipment.
Secretary Hay received a cable from Consul McAllister at Barbadoes stating sixteen hundred deaths and four thousand destitute. Urgent aid is needed for six months. A later dispatch from Commander McLean reports volcanic ash and dust clouds like thick fog on decks. The Potomac reached St. Lucia on Saturday.
The White House released that upon receiving Consul Ayme's dispatch the president ordered war and navy secretaries to assess conditions in Martinique and St Vincent and to publish reports when ready. donations and subscriptions will be temporarily suspended until further information is available.
In Sioux Falls on May 20 the state circuit court awarded Mrs. Mary Garrigan $2,000 in damages in the second of her suits against Dell Rapids saloonkeepers. The verdict against John Thompson follows a prior $1,800 award against Kennedy. Garrigan's husband, who drank heavily, died by his own hand after a drunken bout. she had forbidden liquor sales to him under a section of the liquor license law.
News records the death of Bishop West at Palo Alto at age 61 after a career with the Methodist Church spanning global missions. He began his ministry at 16 and served as historian of the era until 1898, when he traveled to Washington.
A. Colcorn submits as a candidate for county commissioner in Beadle County South Dakota Third District, pledging to contest the Republican primaries. Miller is also noted in the filing.
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