Gainesville Ga Cyclone Kills About One Hundred
Gainesville Georgia reports show about 100 dead and 150 wounded after a cyclone. The storm destroyed cotton mills, stores, hotels, and homes with extensive building collapse and mass rescues continuing through the day. A man named J C Moore floated from Topeka to Lawrence before rescue and asked officials to check his family.
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Gainesville
Gainesville Cotton Mills
New Holland
Logan's
Jones
Cininesville
Topeka
Vieilance Committee
J. C. Moore
Lawrence
Dead and Hurt From Cyclone Ravaging Gainesville
A cyclone struck Gainesville near the Southern railway station killing and injuring many. The Gainesville cotton mills, a nine story structure, lost upper floors with many workers trapped as a fire started in wreckage. About 500 workers were in the mill, most on the lower story escaped. Eighteen people died in five brick buildings on Main Street. Rescuers, volunteers, and local stores joined the effort as firefighters faced blocked streets. Names of the dead and injured include Mrs. Marshal Camp and child, Jack Murphy, Ulah Jackson, EK Lyle, Annie Hirrett, Claude Shedd, and others.
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Gainesville
Gaines
Piedmont
Richmond
Seveal
New Holland
Marshal Camp
Jack #Murphy
Murphy
Ulah Jackson
EK. Lyle
Annie Hirrett
Claude Shedd
W. I. Sloan
Alley
Ain Street
Four Known to Die as Kansas River Flood Reaches Peak
Topeka Kansas confirms 34 dead as Kansas River continues to fall slowly. Identified victims include Henry Jordan and Louise Seahaven among others. Food shortages and damaged groceries plague Topeka as North Topeka braces for extended disruption.
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Harity
Topeka
Kan
Kansas River
Henry Jordan
Ward
Garrett
Forest Kits
M.s. Forest
Utz
Louise Seahaven
Story
Afant
Jackson
Ead
John L. Adams
Ida Mentmery
Kansas City Flood Devastates Areas Leaving Thousands Homeless
Reports from Kansas City and surrounding districts describe widespread flooding with water, fire threats, and crippled rail service. Some 20,000 homeless in Kansas City Kansas. Kansas City Missouri likely about fifty deaths, with prisoners and families starving, awaiting rescue as 4,500 homeless in Armourdale and Argentine.
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Kansas City
Kan
Armourdale
Argentine
Des Moines and Rivers Recede as Floods Move South
Des Moines and Raccoon rivers fall. East Des Moines business district clears floods and relief agencies aid sufferers. Outside relief offers declined as city handles the crisis. train service resumes. Crest of Iowa flood moves southeast. Cedar River at Cedar Rapids highest on record but receding. Iowa rivers spread floodwaters toward Keokuk.
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Des Moines
Raccoon
Iowa
Investigation Targets Post Office Leases and Sandpoint Oversight
Washington reports another inquiry into postal office leases focusing on third class offices about 8500 premises with rent structures and possible favoritism or collusion. Inspectors will probe possible go-betweens in deals tied to Groff Bros and Machen while broader rental trends are assessed.
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Washington
George Weavers
Brooklyn
Eleen
Wireless Morse link between Chicago and Milwaukee hailed
Chicago and Milwaukee mark a historic wireless telegraphy link as Mayors Harrison and Rose exchange congratulatory messages. The Marconi system connected both cities for the first time in the United States with plans for a permanent commercial venture and potential lakefront stations and freight messages.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Marconi System
Harrison
Rose
Marconi
United States
H. J. Rownd
Oak Street
W. W. Tradfield
Mareconi
Tarrixon
Board of Trade
Fires Devastate Racine Manufacturing District
A Sunday blaze in Racine Wisconsin destroyed and damaged the southern manufacturing district. Losses include Racine Boat Manufacturing factory lumber valued at 115000 J I Case threshing machine shops 140000 Standard Oil tanks and sheds 25000 and several residences and small factories totaling about 25000. A gasoline tank near the boats exploded as flames spread. The tower of flame rose 300 feet but no injuries occurred due to the absence of workers on Sunday. Wind fanned embers and it took six hours to contain the fire.
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Racine
Wis
Racine Boat Manufacturing Company
J. 1
Case
Standard Old Company
Vast Mississippi and Egyptian levees flood Missouri and Iowa
Report from June 2 describes the Egyptian levee south of Keokuk breaking in twenty places and flooding Alexandria while Clark county bottoms 10 by 20 miles go under water. A government boat aids residents on rooftops. Missouri levees near Hunt drainage district may fail. forecasts warn floodwaters could cover 20 000 acres of prime wheat land.
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Keokuk
Alexandria
Clark County
Hunt Drainage
Illinois
St. Louis
Missouri
Mississippi River
Alton
United States Agricultural Department
Death of Silas Burr in Michigan Trial of Wordens
In Harrison Michigan Justice Young presides as Dr Vernon Worden and his wife stand trial for the murder of Silas Burr. Burr died after a trip with Worden near Crooked Lake with potassium noted in the post mortem. Worden, aged about 60, faced earlier allegations of a 900 payment and a complex marriage history. Edwards analysis corroborates the poison charge. Longfellow’s son Edwin Wadsworth Longfellow arrives in San Francisco after world travel aboard the steamship American Maru.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Vernon H. Worden
Silas Burr
Harrison
Vassar
Worden
Burr
BE. D. Reed
Ann Arbor
Deerfield Township
Isabella County
BOD
Longfellow
San Francisco
Edwin Wadsworth Longellow
New York
Wage deal reached for unskilled packing workers in Omaha
An agreement between packing house managers and the Amalgamated Association of Packing House Employes in South Omaha provides a raise of 17 percent to 19 cents an hour for about 21,200 unskilled workers with no division by labor class.
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Omaha, Neb
Packing House
Amalgamated Association of Packing House
South Omaha
Floods Subside in Lincoln As Refugees Return Home
Lincoln reports improved flood conditions with water five to six feet below the Saturday crest in western lowlands. Some drowned-out residents return home while railroads struggle to run trains on schedule outside the city. Beatrice shows slight gain, Crete and Tecumseh face rising rivers and stalled business. Lincoln plans to ship clothing and supplies to Topeka tonight.
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Neb
Beatrice
Crete
Tecumseh
Nemaha
Topeka
Electric Car Curets Down Hill Hits Cable Car Injuring Twenty
An electric car on the Fillmore street line of United Railroads veered out of control on a steep grade between James and Haight streets and collided with a Haight street cable car carrying passengers. Twenty were injured, one seriously identified as Mrs. D Hughes.
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San Francisco
Fillmore Street
United Railroads
James and
Haight Streets
Haight Street
D. Hughes
Woman Arrested in Hamburg for Supplying Babies
Berlin reports police in Hamburg arrested Elizabeth Weise. She is accused of supplying babies from her private institution to individuals who used them fraudulently.
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Berlin
The
Vorwaerts
Hamburg
Elizabeth Weise
Indicted for Holding Negroes in Slavery in Alabama
United States grand jury returns thirty six indictments against white residents of Coosa and Tallapoosa counties charging peonage and holding African Americans in servitude in Montgomery Alabama on June 1.
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Montgomery
Ala
United States Grand Jury
Coosa
Tallapoosa
National game records report several results
Chicago dispatch notes scores from major leagues with rain affecting some games. Pittsburgh 2 loss to New York 10, New York 2 at two sites. Washington 0 over Philadelphia 1. Detroit 7 over St. Louis 6. Chicago games rain disrupted. Association standings unclear with partial wording.
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Wpittsburg
New York
Pittsburg
Boston
Washington
Philadelphia
Detroit
St. Louis
St. Paul
Indianap- Ate
Lesinn
Drownings After Creek Flood Trap Union County Stockman
Sioux City June 2 Charles Lynch a stockman from Union County South Dakota was trapped by rising waters of Lewis creek near here and drowned after being held prisoner in the soft bed of the creek as floodwaters advanced inch by inch.
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Sioux City
Lewis Creek
Here
Charles Lynch
Union County
Stockman
War department aids flood victims in west
During a severe electrical storm in Nashville Tennessee James Jams a noted commercial traveler was struck and killed by lightning.
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War Department
Nashville, Tenn
James Jams
Elkes Dead After Motor Pace Accident at Cambridge
Harry D. Elkes of Glen Falls New York premier motor pace follower in the United States dies after a crash at the Cambridge track. Stinson and Gately are seriously injured as the wreck is struck by another motor. Washington reports May government receipts and disbursements showing a May surplus.
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Mase
Jonet
Harry D. Elkes
Gloan Falls
N. Y
United States
Wi Stinson
F. A. Gately
Charlee River Park
Tie
Elke Wheeel
Elke Treled
Stinson
Gately
Etrock Mies
Washington
St. Petersburg
Kischeneff
Weather forecast notes northeast winds by lake and rain
Forecast describes northeast winds near the lake and rain across regions. Mentions threatening conditions in eastern and southern portions with brisk to high northeast winds. References include Wisconsin and Iowa areas with rain and northeast wind outlook.
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Tilinela
Indionmeter
Lower
Mienigat
Porthons
Iowa
Chicago and Buffalo Stock Markets Slow to Mixed On Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Chicago reports 19 000 cattle and 33 000 hogs receipts with varied prices for steers stockers and feeders and calves. Buffalo market shows higher cattle demand with up to 10 1 2 cent rise for cows and stronger feeder prices and lambs, while Louis market lists grain futures, wheat corn oats rye with mixed gains and declines across contracts.
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Chicago
Chetee
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Mast Buffalo
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Endorsed for Digestive Ailments
A testimonial from Thomas A Swartts of Sub Station Co Columbus Ohio describes severe indigestion cramps and kidney and liver trouble. After six weeks and eight bottles he gained 27 pounds and regained health, praising the medicine as a near permanent cure. Free Common Sense Medical Adviser offered with a penny postage payment.
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Pierce
Mr. Thomas A Swartts
Sub Station Co
Columbus
Dr. Pierce
Textile workers call stoppage across Philadelphia mills
Idle crowds flood Philadelphia streets as textile workers refuse to work at 55 hour week demands. Leaders announce that 63 mills with 3 000 employees will shut until a shorter week and higher wages are granted, with Kensington ingrain carpet makers seeking unified pricing to ease competition.
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Astreets
Phiadelphia
Inerain
Tngrato Milla
Settle
Kensington
Burglar Fires. Man Dies After Chicago to St. Louis Race
Dr. Maurice D Brephe of Minnesota Street wakes to a burglar and fires, the intruder later dies from a bullet as a man later shot in another city dies en route to hospital. The case is followed by multiple regional items including Hicks shot leaving a fiancé home and a father in law fatally wounding a son in law.
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Maurice D. Brephe
Minnesota Street
Stephe
Henry Miller
Carlinville
William WT. Briel
Bunker Hill
Morgan Hudson
Hudson
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American School of Osteopathy
Kirksville, Mo
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