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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1892
Page
3
Reports from across North Carolina note spring crops thriving with fine wheat and corn prospects, turpentine prices easing, and new factories and mills planned in Statesville and Mount Airy. Drownings, political shifts, court actions, and local incidents abound as communities prepare for harvests, rail improvements, and centennial celebrations.
Reports from Troy Portand Portland and beyond tell of extreme heat with temperatures reaching 98 and 96 degrees. A sunstroke killed Michael Quartoska in Reapine Pa while a boiler blast at Larimore N C killed Dick White and injured several. A major fire on Baltimore waterfront caused nearly a million dollars in damage as boatmen battled flames after an explosion aboard a burning steamer.
A British steamer Petrolia was torn apart by an explosion near Blaye on the Gironde. Twenty-four miles from the city, the burning oil ignited other vessels, causing widespread devastation and black smoke as rescuers watched the blaze.
In Kansas City Kansas at the Gladstone hotel J A McCormick found D C Jones in his wife's room both undressed McCormick opened fire Jones fired back leaving three wounds while McCormick took two shots and died Mrs McCormick escaped and was arrested Both men known cattlemen wealthy McCormick lived near Willow Springs Kansas Jones from Kingfisher Oklahoma Jones had boasted of intimacy with Mrs McCormick triggering the fatal confrontation.
Mipplespporo Kentucky reports a wreck on the Knoxville and Cumberland Gap line at 2 15 PM when freight engine No 10 with sixteen loaded box cars plunged from a trestle 250 feet high. Engineer Frank Sargent fireman Henry Staten and conductor Duckworth were killed. Four fatally wounded and six others hurt. The north bound passenger train with 100 ness was delayed and saved by being late. A special from the scene recovered the dead and wounded.
Washington reports intense heat across a broad area with New York city thermometers hitting 96 degrees. Chicago stays cool at 67 while New England towns face slightly higher heat. Sunstrokes rise with five cases in one day including Richard Connors, a 30 year old tackman on Central New England Railroad, who is dying.
Five people were killed and eight injured in an early morning crash at Bishopsgate station on the Great Eastern Railroad. A signals misunderstanding between two worker trains caused the collision as hundreds of female workers rode in the carriages. Victims were taken to the morgue and hospitals as physicians rushed to treat the injured.
A tornado swept through northeastern Knox County Illinois near Galva on June 14 damaging the CB&Q roundhouse the Barnett elevator and other facilities. A house collapsed killing August Olson and injuring eleven others as debris filled streets and a wide three to four mile track ruined homes and stores.
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