West Virginia Flood Drowns Hundreds in Elkhorn Basin
Reports from Bluefield Roanoke and Bluefield W Va describe a devastating flood in the Pocahontas coal fields. Keystone and surrounding towns are largely wiped out with hundreds missing or dead. Railroads tracks bridges and coke plants damaged. Losses run into millions and relief crews race to the stricken area.
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Washington
Bluefield
W. Va
Roanoke
Elkhorn
West Virginia
Johnstown
Orly
Norfolk & Western
Pocahontas
Elkhorn Creek
Ennis
Vivian Yard
Keystone
Vivian
Tug River
Gray
Dinsmore
Norfolk & Western Railroad
North Fork
Galveston
Kenova
Col Hay in Grief After Son’s Death in New Haven
Secretary of State Col Hay rushed to New Haven upon hearing of his son's tragic death. He collapsed on arrival but doctors declared the condition not serious, listing it as prostration likely to improve with rest.
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New Haven
Death of Adelbert Hay in New Haven Tragic Accident
Secretary Hay's eldest son Adelbert S. Hay dies after a window fall in the New Haven House hotel during Yale commencement week. The accident is treated as likely voluntary but officially listed as accidental death. Col. Hay arrives overwhelmed by grief. family and Yale classmates react with mourning and delayed funeral arrangements.
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New Haven
Conn
John Hay
Washington, D. C
Adelbert S. Hay
Whitney
R. L. McDuffy
New York
Charles Wade
Cleveland
Hay
Seth Mosely
Wall Street
Samuel D. Gilbert
Helen Hay
Mosely
New York City
Cambridge
Harvard
Col. Hay
Clarence Hay
Simsbury
Samuel Mather
Secretary Hay
College Town
Adelbert
New Haven House
Young Hay
Bartlett
Mix
Seth Moseley
Yale
Old College
Cular
Hyperion
Chapel Street
Julian Mason
Edward G. Mason
Chicago
del Hay
Sete Hay
New London
Surrender of Cailles Leads to All Insurgents Surrender
General Cailles surrendered at Santa Cruz with 6 men and 500 titles as oaths of allegiance to the United States were given. Colonel Caballes also surrendered after fleeing to the mountains. Cailles lacked control to bring in all insurgents. orderly surrender occurred. Sumner asked Cailles to depart Jagsangan for Santa Cruz at six tomorrow. Manila reports say insurgent prisoners on Luzon will be released and Malvar is expected to surrender.
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Santa Cruz
Laguna
Luzon Island
Cailles
United States
Caballes
Tragedy in Louisville Ends With Murder Suicide
In Louisville a double tragedy unfolds as H. S. Church shoots himself after a brutal killing of Emily Stuart. Police discover her mutilated body crammed in a closet in Church’s West Market Street residence and grocery. Stuart, age fifty, had a New York love letter and a Chicago unsigned note found. the case ties to Church’s grocery business and a fatal night of violence.
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Louisville
H. 8
Church
Emily Stuart
Twelfth
Market Streets
Finnegan, Webb and Hueglin
West Market Street
H. 8. Church
Meyer
New York
Chicago
Stuart
Frankfort
Tornado at Lincoln Illinois Wreaks Havoc in Logan County
Tornado swept across Logan County causing 109,990 dollars in damage to dwellings public buildings and business houses with crops destroyed. Four lives lost near Pittsburg. Westinghouse plant loss about 500,000. Other notes report smoke and water damage at Churchill & Co Rushville and severe storms near Terre Haute with barns blown down Vermillion and Parke counties and hail in Cayuga.
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Ashland
McDowell Coal Company
Roanoke Company
Louisville Company
Cosier Company
Houston Company
Tirney
Pitte«sburg
Westinghouse Company
Indianapolis Journal
Rushville
Ind
Churchill & Co
Surance
Terre Haute
Vermillion
Parke
Chileago
Linois
Cayuga
Severe storms scorch several Indiana towns with widespread damage
A deep regional storm lashed Covington Shelbyville Edinburgh Newport Crawfordsville and Richmond with two hours of lightning and rain. Trees uprooted houses struck by lightning power house damaged and darkness spread while cattle killed and crops dented. One teen Ruth Lindsay Ellis injured.
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Indianapolis Journal
Covington
Ind
City Electric Light Company
Ruth
Dan Lindsay Ellis
Shelbyville
Richard Evans
Girton
Edinburg, Inc
Ed Wheatly
Newport
Richmond
Train Hits Tree in Storm Near Bloomingdale, Indiana
During the storm last night an Indiana Decatur and Western passenger train struck a tree fallen across the track near Bloomingdale. The locomotive and two cars were slightly damaged, but there were no injuries reported.
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Indianapolis Journal
Bloomingdale
Ind
Indiana, Decatur & Western
Near
Four Deaths From Storm Reported In Allegheny County
Pittsburg June storm and flood caused at least four deaths and injuries to two. Victims include Charles Bittner a Spring Garden farmer drowned in Spring Garden run and Moseo Marcos an Italian laborer killed in a sewer at Center and Buelig avenues. James P. Dunn twelve, of Camp avenue, drowned in two feet of floodwater after a live wire caused his death.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Charles Bittner
Spring Garden Borough
Spring Garden Run
Moseo Marcos
Center
Buelig Avenues
James P. Dunn
Camp Avenue
Quesne
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Norfolk & Western Railway
Landgraf
Ord
Clinch Valley
Norton
Tazewell
Shakery
Higginbotham
Paris Vandyke
Raleigh Brush
Witten’s Mill
Particul
Williamson
Wted
Atladaechee
Burke
John Lewis
Martha Morgan
Samuel Poindexter
Bettie Brown
John Ballard
Annie Smith
Laura McCoy
Nellie Smith
Ivan Solinsky
Hairston
Algoma
Rolfe
Gilliam Company
Indian Ridge
Clinch Valley Division
Hock
Pocahontas Company
Virginia Line
Bluefields
North Fork Junction
Hnes
Stroyed
Col.hay
Cortelyou
A. S. Hay
Colonel Cabelles
Lightning
Crawfordsville
Else
Lincoln, Ill
Logan County
Ohio
Vigo
Vermillion and Parke
Postal Telegraph Company
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