Wabash Limited Trains Plunge After Washout Near Peru
A Wabash line limited passenger train plunged into a washout nine miles west of Peru after leaving the city late at night. Thirteen killed and forty-five injured, many Italian emigrants, with two severe casualties among the injured. Rescue crews, doctors, and farmers aided victims as the wreckage blocked the track and workers cleared the scene.
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Indianapolis Journal
Peru
Ind
Wabash Railway Hospital
Wabash Railroad
J. B. Wood
Logansport
P. Horn
John Derwinnis
Pittston
E. J. Calkins
Toledo
Butler
John Adams
Detroit
St. Louis
Bot
Adams
John Williamson
Wabash wreck rescues amid collapsed car collapses and heroics
Injured emigrants from Italy were freed as wrecking derricks opened the mass buried in broken timbers. Rescuers hurried to move victims to Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and awaiting hospitals. Walter Laidlaw survived a near fall during the crash while Robert S. Robertson Jr helped rescue the wounded and described the wreck caused by washed gravel ballast. R. S. Bradshaw reported as wounded later: he said he was not hurt.
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Colorado
Chasm
Indianapolis Journal
Wabash
Walter Laidlaw
Laidlaw
Fort Wayne
Ind
Robert S. Robertson, Jr
Colonel Robertson
R. S. Bradshaw
Associated Press
Wreck injures twenty six on electric car near Monroeville
A Toledo Fremont Norwalk electric car left Norwalk at 530 last night and wrecked near Monroeville when a wheel flange broke. Twenty six aboard, seven seriously hurt including Nicholas Thomas, Mrs Douglass, Bates, J Vickery, Grant, A H Smith, Theodore Cuillo. A thousand feet of trolley wire torn. traffic delayed until noon.
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Norwalk
Toledo
Fremont
Monroeville
Nicholas Thomas
Asget
Douglass
Ane
Bates
J. Vickery
C. P Grant
Bellevue
A. H. Smith
Theodore Cuillo
Storm at Pittsburg Strikes Homestead Town With Floods
A Pittsburg storm delivered continuous lightning and thunder for about thirty minutes. Rain fell heavily with a 24 degree temperature drop in an hour, flooding Homestead and causing multiple injuries and structural damage. One woman was killed by lightning and others were burned or shocked. Bridges washed out, street travel halted, and a large picnic party faced panic at South Avenue Park.
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Pittsburg
Homestead
Alice Lester
New Castle
Grace Jackson
Richard Rucker
John Saulton
Clay
Monongahela
Hazelwood
South Avenue Park
Suburban Traction Company
St. Joseph's Parochial School
Mount Oliver
Phillips
Ninteenth
Mary Streets
Ewo
Harvard Medical School receives over one million gift for three buildings
President Eliot announces John Pierpont Morgan has given more than one million dollars to fund three of the five planned Harvard Medical School buildings in Boston, aimed at advancing applied biological research. The trust covers site land options while construction proceeds, with Morgan's central buildings and two pavilion wings to be erected as a memorial to Junius Spencer Morgan.
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Mass
Eliot
Harvard
John Pierpont Morgan
Harvard Medical School
Boston
Applied Biological Research
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Henry
Frank Higginson
University
Henry P. Bowditch
J. Collins Warren
Collins
Morgan
Junius Spencer Morgan
Massachusetts
Yale Alumni Dinner Nets Bicentennial Fund Pledge
At the Yale alumni dinner in New Haven two million dollars was fixed as the bicentennial fund total with new subscriptions pledged by Frederick Vanderbilt and James J Hill of New York and Matthew Borden of Fall River.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Frederick Vanderbilt
James J. Hill
New York
Matthew Borden
Fall River
Seven Workmen Burned In Cupola Room Blast
In Chicago on June 2 a dynamite shell heated in a cupola room exploded, pouring molten metal across the area of the soft foundry department at American Car and Foundry Company. Seven workers suffered severe burns, three fatally, including foreman Thomas Kusak. Others listed include Frank Baker Michael Smentak Charles Brown Frac Diedo William Burke and Joan Setik with varying burns and injuries.
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Chicago
Soft Foundry
American Car and Foundry Company
Thomas Cusack
Frank Baker
Michael Smentak
Charles Brown
Frac Diedo
William Burke
Joan Setik
Indicted for malfeasance in Chicago case
The grand jury indicted former Deputy Coroner John C. Weckler for malfeasance in office for conducting a false inquest on the body of Miss Marie Defenbach. The Defenbach case ties to an insurance conspiracy. Dr. A. M. Unger and F. Wayland Brown were recently sentenced to the penitentiary. Weckler has not been located.
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Chicago
John C. Weckler
Marie Defenbach
Hanna pledges 50000 for Kenyon dormitory in honor
Senator Hanna and Governor Nash spoke at Kenyon College commencement in Gambier Ohio. Hanna announced a $50000 gift for a new dormitory named Politicians' Barracks after Kenyon honored him with the doctor of laws degree last year. President Price said $10000 was raised for endowment this year.
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Hanna
Nash
Kenyon College
Price
Weesleyan University Commencement Exercises Held
In Middletown on June 2, the annual commencement exercises of Wesleyyan University were held. Sixty seven members received graduate diplomas, marking a significant milestone for the class and the institution.
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Middletown
Conn
Weesleyan University
Graduate Eiacats
BSR PL
Pace
Second Big Flood Deluges West Virginia Coal Fields
Weather across Bluefield Roanoke and Cumberland reports another destructive cloudburst in the West Virginia coal region. Pocahontas railroad yard reported three feet of floodwater washing away property while earlier flood damage and failed repairs complicate recovery. No confirmed deaths yet though prior flood losses may be surpassed.
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W. Va
Pocahontas
Roanoke
West Virginia
Cumberland
New Creek
Keyser
Clash With the Police In Rochester Riot Injures Eleven Officers
In Rochester New York 1500 striking laborers clashed with police injuring eleven officers and twenty rioters. The mob attacked laborers trenches dug by Rochester Gas and Electric Company workers near Mill and Commercial streets. Police fired warning shots to disperse the crowd sending them toward City Hall Park where they were detained awaiting the mayor. A separate scene at Thacker West Virginia saw shots fired by strikers at nonunion miners as deputies prepare to backstop the field tomorrow.
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N. Y
Rochester Gas and Electric Company
Stein
City Hall Park
Thacker
W. Va
United States
Flood Death Toll Likely Tops One Hundred in West Virginia
MAY EXCEED ONE HUNDRED, WILLIAMSON, W. Va., June 26. Reports from Vivian to Eckman detail a devastating cloudburst flood that swept miners’ districts, washing away coke ovens, telegraph lines, and homes. Rescue efforts saved some, but many bodies remain unidentified along Dry fork and Keystone, with extensive ruin from Ennis to Davy and large losses for coal operators and mill workers.
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Associated Press
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Norfolk & Western
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Hatfield
Brooke
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Hatfield Tunnel
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C.F. Clifford
Tcher
Ieee
Morrison Jury Deliberates in Eldorado Murder Case
After two days of argument in Eldorado Kansas Jessie Morrison stands trial for murder in the case of Mrs Olin Castle. By 2 pm eleven jurors favor conviction with one for acquittal. A hung verdict is anticipated if the split persists as Judge Aikman warns the jury.
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Olin Castle
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Flood toll and damage across West Virginia and Keystone
In the flood region around Eckman Keystone and Tug river areas the count of dead and missing rises. Officials report eight bridges washed away on Elk Horn and long delays for trains east of Welsh. Authorities mobilize five construction trains and a temporary telegraph line. Estimates of fatalities range up to twenty with hundreds of homes destroyed and theft, looting, and unrest noted in the devastated district.
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Welsh
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Tug
Tug River
Lusitania Wreck Off Newfoundland After Panicked Landing
The Lusitania, a passenger steamer from Liverpool bound for Montreal, ran aground off Cape Ballard in fog. Passengers, mostly emigrant Russians and Polish Jews, fought crew with knives while attempting to board boats. most were landed safely on cliffs and later ferried to fishermen houses. The Glencoe later brought passengers and crew ashore, with Captain McNay and officers remaining at the wreck. The ship measures 379 feet 9 inches, built by Laird Bros in 1871.
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Laird Bros
Movements of Steamers From Various Ports
Shipping news lists arrivals and departures for June across New York Queenstown Southampton Cherbourg Antwerp Rotterdam Liverpool and related lines. Vessels include Ken sin gton Barbarossa Oceanic Noordland St Louis Teutonic Vaderland Lahn St Paul Koenigin Louise New England Graf Waldersee Switzer land Maas dam Corinthian and more with origins New York Antwerp Bremen Philadelphia Boston Montreal and Liverpool noted.
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Boston
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Graf Waldersee
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Maasdam
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Montreal
Man Killed by Freight Train at Portland Yard
A. E. Ferry was fatally struck by a Grand Rapids and Indiana freight train while crossing the Big Four yards at Portland. Retrieved body split in two with horrific mangling. Ferry, a war veteran, had lost sight in one eye, was deaf, nearly speechless, and without use of his right side. He received a $2 monthly government pension. He failed to notice the approaching train. rescue was impossible.
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Ind
Grand Rapids & Indiana
Train Kills 42-Year-Old Pedestrian Near Brazil Ind
Dudley Yoram, 42, was struck and killed by a morning E and L passenger train near Brazil Indiana while walking on the tracks. He was unable to hear the approaching train and the impact crushed his skull.
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Indianapolis Journal
Brazil
Ind
Dudley Yoram
Scaffold Collapse at Indiana Shaft Injures Five Men
In Brazil Indiana on a new Apple shaft scaffold collapsed while workers Sylvester Hadley William Whittington Walter Hadley Frank Sutton and Newton Hadley were on the roof they fell thirty two feet and timbers dropped on them. Sylvester Hadley and Whittington sustained internal injuries and are not expected to recover. The others were hurt but not considered in danger according to physicians.
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Brazil
Ind
Sylvester Hadley
William Whittington
Walter Hadley
Frank Sutton
Newton Hadley
Zeller, McClelland & Co
Tington
Promer
Two Women Prostrated by Lightning at Winona Park Cottage
A severe thunderstorm struck the Garfield Springs cottage at Winona Park in Warsaw Indiana. Mrs Gaylord and her daughter Mrs Sutherland, occupants of the cottage, were prostrated by the shock with Mrs Sutherland partly recovering. The cottage owner is Prof Garrett of Hanover College. Also Fort Wayne saw Raymond F McKinley, twenty-two, a lineman, electrocuted on traction lines after a live wire contact. His father William is a motorman with the company.
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Indianapolis Journal
Warsaw
Ind
Winong
Garfield Springs
Winona
Garrett
Hanover Coleeke
Fort Wayne
Raymond FE. McKinley
Christian Gee
William
Tank Struck and Burned. Oil Tank Fire Drives Residents From Homes
Lightning struck a Standard Oil Company tank near Preble Indiana last night, causing an explosion that spread burning oil across the surrounding countryside. Several people were severely burned and displaced as authorities reported the tank largely intact aside from the blaze. In Kokomo, Erastus Welsh, a prominent farmer two miles east of town, died suddenly today at age sixty.
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Ind
Standard Oll Company
Preble
Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Erastus Welsh
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