Great Wave of Flame Sweeps Towns in Fernie Area
Thousands homeless as a massive fire stretches fifty miles eastward. Fernie town left in ashes with Michel and Hosmer doomed. Slaves stir trouble in stricken villages while authorities rush to scenes on a special train with guns and leg irons.
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Eli Lumber Company
Cedar Valley Mins
Canada’s Elk River Valley Fire Reaches Fatal Scale
Manitoba dispatch reports a vast Canadian blaze sweeping 50 miles by 10, devastating Fernie Coal Creek Michel and Hosmer with 800 to 900 dead and over 6,000 homeless. Property losses near 10 million dollars hit the Canadian Pacific Railway hardest as towns rush aid by train and carload to Cranbrook Nelson Vancouver and beyond.
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Coal Creek
Michel
Hosmer
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Canada
Nelson
Cranbrook
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Winnipeg
Regina
Vancouver
Toronto
Hamilton
Seattle
Manitoba
Elk River Valley
Koottenal
Crows
Crows Nest Pass
Laporte Mystery Deepens Over Farm Grave Death
A badly decomposed body of a well dressed man about 40 was found in a shallow grave on Dr Bowell's farm near Rolling Prairie in Laporte County. Coroner Mack says the man was shot through the head and identification by features will be difficult. Clothing appears almost new and was bought in Grand Rapids with a Minneapolis farm paper found in pockets. Officers seek to determine if murder occurred and the man's identity.
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Via
Bowell
Laporte County
Mack
Grand Rapids
Fatal auto crash near Burlingame claims five lives
A car carrying a woman driver Mrs McCormick, her daughter Clara, and Ira OBrien Jr and others plunged down a steep embankment near Crystal Lake. Mrs McCormick and Mrs OBrien plus the 2 year old son died later at Red Cross Hospital. Mrs OBrien and her 2 year old died three hours after the crash. Other occupants injured included Mrs McCormicks infant son. The McCormick and OBrien families are prominent San Francisco society. Three others injured in a separate south of the city crash.
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McCormick
Princy Pawiatowski
Burlingame
Waa
Sagi Maieo
Leite Theig
Crystal Lake
Ibel
President Approved Dismissal Findings In West Point Cadets
Six cadets who were dismissed visited Oyster Bay after the ruling and sought a meeting with the President who declined and advised appeals to the War Department. Secretary Wright says the President forwarded written approval to the department, but final action was delayed after a personal meeting with the President to discuss the matter.
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Deci- Sion
Wright Agsin Anzerts
Roonevelt
Heosewer
Oyster Bay
War Department
Wright
Department
West Point
Wright Baid
Bagamoré- Hut
Academy
Wright Wan
Weni
Wrist
Oyster, Bay
Hiatter Ver. Oy
Conflicting White House Statements on Cadet Dismissals
A chaotic sequence of claims in July shows the President and Secretary of the Navy weighing cadet dismissals at the Naval Academy. Secretary Loeb and Secretary Wright issued statements then discussed in person with the President, but no final decision was reached.
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Loeb
Losb
Wright
Oyster
Bay
Million Lost in Flames Eighty Fire Engiles Chicago
Fire in Chicago destroyed the Burlington warehouse and a gas of that area. It spread through a block and forced streams of water to pour on four squares away. The blaze, starting around 1, lington warehouse, sent 260 workers fleeing. Unconfirmed reports stated three men trapped by flames. Fire engines and crews battled the wreck as speculation swirled about casualties.
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Chicago
Burlington
Lington
Sion
Oyster Bay Night Clash Between Sailors and Negroes
The Navy reports a maritime incident near Oyster Bay with at least 40 shots exchanged between sailors and local African Americans. No major injuries. Charles Campbell of Portsmouth was seriously hurt by shot fragments. investigations pending amid tensions around the lighted lighthouse and Roosevelt era ships.
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United ‘States
Sxfors
Berkley
South
St. Helena
Siegroes
Fred Ubon
Egrees
Larney - Darden
É ‘Cherry
Raleigh Hanley
George. Spene
Nagial
O Miner
Ardal
Charles "Campbell
Portsmouth
Bride Short Two Feet Marriage Licenses From Hospital
Special to The Washington Rom. A railroad accident story centers on Pearl Rappell of Portland Ind and her fiancé Rapp. They applied for a marriage license and registered as Pearl Rappell age 23. After her injuries from the crash hospital stay, they wed in Covington tonight by a magistrate.
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Rapp
Portland
Ini
Pearl Rappell
Ind
Covington
Parsons Hurt by Auto in Stockbridge Nevada?
Mrs Henry Ivison Parsons of New York was struck while seated in a carriage in front of the Red Lion Inn Stockbridge Massachusetts tonight by an automobile driven by Charles Cas of Lee Cumberland Maryland August third: Samuel Tickles colored refused license to wed Ligsie Franks white Waynesville Pennsylvania but the couple wed anyway in a clerk’s office in Washington County Pennsylvania the bride claimed negro blood but officials doubted her tale.
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Stockbridge
Mass
Red Lion Inn
Henry Ivison
New York
Charles Cas of
Lee
Washington
Cumberland
Nearly a Thousand Die In Flames Five Killed in Auto Accident
An issue index lists major items including a massive fire death toll nearly reaching a thousand, a fatal auto crash with five deaths, hazing case conflict, a missing girl not returning, and various notes on sailors racing, light outages, and political mentions across sections 1 through 9.
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Fort
Baldwin
Brent
Treasury
Paris
Pope Talis
Witchcock
Taft
Bryan
Harriman
T-Society
Beneball
Washington
Missing Julia Le Gros Leaves Washington Home
Miss Julia Le Gros, 15, of 2141 Pennsylvania Ave NW, failed to arrive home after last Friday, despite reports she reached York Harbor Maine. Police and family, including sister Miss Alice Le Gros, search ongoing as Mortimer linked letters and recent sightings raise concern she may have traveled with him. A composite description notes height about 5 feet 4 inches, dark hair, gray eyes, and a distinctive protruding front tooth.
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Union Station
Julia le Gros
Eugene le Gros
le Grea’ Homs
Pennsylvania Avenue
Julia
Mibu
Alice le Grow
York Harbor
Stanley
Mortimer
Tom
Alice"Lé Gres
York Harber
New York
New England
Fourteenth Street
Pettibone Dies After Surgery in Denver Cancer Shocks Miners Leader
George A. Pettibone long active in the Western Federation of Miners died in Denver after surgery for a cancerous growth around the kidneys. He had been acquitted with Moyer and Haywood in the Idaho Gov. Steunenberg murder case, and his death follows a period of illness.
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Washington Post
Denver
Colc
George A. Pettibone
Western Federation of Miners
Moyer and
Haywood
Stuenénbers
Idaho
Fort Washington Encampment Drills Mock War Signals
Fort Washington Md August encampment trains District guardsmen and Fort Hunt militiamen in mock siege. Bombs rockets and blank ammunition used to teach signals and tactics. Night attacks and trench digging practiced with coordinated signals and boat deception tactics.
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Toma Star
Fort Washington
Fort Hunt
Virginia
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