Destruction in St Charles Minn After Cyclone
Oct 6 report lists eight dead and more than twenty injured from a cyclone that wrecked St Charles. Property losses reach about 350000 with most buildings damaged. only three remained unscathed.
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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1903
Page
7
Oct 6 report lists eight dead and more than twenty injured from a cyclone that wrecked St Charles. Property losses reach about 350000 with most buildings damaged. only three remained unscathed.
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Chicago reports the death of Martin Casey seventy three a volunteer firefighter. He died from concussion after an accident during the Veteran Firemen's parade on Michigan Avenue Tuesday, an event that injured several other firefighters during the celebration.
Northern Pacific guards Montana right of way stopping extortion. Section men, special patrols, and constant vigilance uncovered dynamite along the track near a Marysville bridge and a large stash with dynamite, caps, and fuse at Mullen tunnel.
New Orleans Oct 5 Tulane university opening cane rush turned deadly when the attack devolved into a desperate contest injuring several. Loeber Landau sixteen son of Bernard Landau dies from a crushed skull while another student is seriously hurt. The year marks a shift to a more aggressive freshman effort to teach the sophomores a lesson.
A Vienna dispatch quoted Czarnowitz reports a mob attacked Mohileff on reconciliation day. Jews armed for safety, fighting lasted all day with 300 Jews and 100 Christians killed amid strewn bodies in Mohileff streets. Population 50,000 with 25,000 Jews.
Mrs. Vet Borders aged forty and her daughters aged eighteen ten and six drowned after attempting to ford the Narrows on Longlake north of Brainerd Minnesota. The team was recovered but the four bodies remained missing as searchers worked to recover them. A second note cites a political statement about Russia and the Dardanelles and a calm view on reforms reducing war risk.
London reports 8000 Turks clash with five insurgent bands near Lucovo on the Serbian frontier. Desperate fighting leaves 300 Turkish dead and several officers. Lucovo reportedly in flames as Russo Austro diplomacy averts immediate war. A Constantinople dispatch says the sultan’s loan funds will go to war material.
Governor Peabody is named as defendant in two damage suits seeking $100000 each filed by Patrick H. Mullaney and Thomas H. Foster, union miners arrested by military officers and later released. Adjutant General Bell Brigadier General Chase and Major McClelland are also named as defendants in the actions.
San Juan Puerto Rico October 5 Former Mayor Pajardo of Mayaguez is acquitted of embezzlement charges. The verdict clears all involved in alleged frauds.
Reduced excursion rates apply from all points on the Chicago and North-Western line for Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Oct 7 to 11 for Brotherhood of St Andrew Detroit Oct 16 to 22 for Christian Church national conventions San Francisco and Los Angeles Oct 20 to 23 for American Bankers Convention Very low rates to Kansas City via the North-Western line Excur sion tickets sold Oct 16 to 21 with favorable return limits for American Royal Live Stock Exhibition Baby teething remedy Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup advertised at twenty five cents a bottle
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