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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1906
Page
1
Italian immigrant steamer wrecked on a reef near Palos. Captain dies by his own hand after efforts to save passengers. Crew and reporters describe chaotic scenes as life boats were launched and rescue attempts continued.
Offshore disaster near Cape Palos leaves 325 or more dead and many rescued. The Italian steamer Sirio, carrying about 890 aboard from Genoa to Barcelona and beyond, wrecked on Bajos Hormigas reefs. Captain and Archbishop perished. boats and trawlers aided survivors, while many Italians and Spaniards remained missing.
In Lynchburg Virginia Mr Case an employee of Glamorgan Works quarrelled with his wife on Monroe Street shot her in the head and escaped on a Norfolk and Western freight train He fell from the train at Halseys fracturing his skull and both are at City Hospital in Lynchburg Also two brothers William and George Newcomb ages twenty seven and nineteen drowned while swimming at Bear Creek near Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania after one brother cramps and the other tried to help
An Akron area accident reports nine injuries when a northbound accommodation train was side swiped by a southbound express while entering a siding at Silver Lake. One coach was overturned and another toppled. passengers were trapped briefly before rescue. Investigators blame the southbound engineer for disregarding orders.
A head on collision on an interurban line near Worcester injured several and killed a woman, following a mistaken order between conductors. Cars met on a single rail six miles from Worcester, with Mrs Campello Presto of Boston among the seriously hurt and Annie Royce badly burned.
Special to The Washington Post from Philadelphia reports a three year old patient, Margaret Krumburg, drowned in a bathtub due to nurse negligence. The coroner ordered an investigation after the nurse left the tub unattended for twenty minutes while the ward was in confusion.
American Ambassador Thompson reports from Mexico that consuls and agents nationwide find no ground for alarm for Americans or foreigners. Rail centers show tranquillity though labor agitation at railway hubs continues. railway leaders deny any anti American movement and have advised officials. Funds awaiting investment offer 2 percent interest.
The American Dreyfus tale unfolds in Senate document No. 510 printing Rathbone’s five year push to clear his name after arrest and conviction in Cuban postal frauds. He alleges unfair trial by Cuban military authority led by Gen. Wood, with Congress and Ohio urging a full inquiry by a Senate committee.
In Brench Brook Park Newark two brothers William Jacana twenty three and Abraham Jacobs seventeen drowned after a rowboat capsized when photographer William Wuehols asked them to pose for a picture They could not swim and a rescuer Nichols was nearly pulled under before the bodies were recovered an hour later
In Chadwick Missouri today merchant Charles Freeman and 18 year old Robert Keene killed each other with revolvers after a prior accusation Freeman had made against Keene regarding his daughter. Freeman was shot in the forehead and left breast. Keene fired three times in the heart. Spectators found both dead.
In East Vineland on August 8 Alexander Cordella, fifty, a farmer, killed neighbor Nicholas Berti, thirty, at a birthday gathering. Cordella, an uninvited guest, shot Berti after a dispute as friends pursued him. he was captured after a manhunt led by deputies and locals. Cordella, awaiting jail, asked for a knife or revolver and stated he did not want to be hanged.
Special to The Washington Fest reports Carl Cook from Oyster Bay tried to reach Sagamore Hill and sing for President Roosevelt. Secret Service detained him as he was taken to Mineola jail for five days on vagrancy charges. No weapons found. authorities believe his urge stemmed from a potent stimulant.
Special to The Washington line Allentown Pa Aug Two trolley cars collided two miles south of Allentown killing John Esser motorman of the Philadelphia car and injuring more than forty passengers with about seventy to eighty in each car. The text also lists a Baltimore & Ohio line ocean city Maryland and Rehoboth Beach round trip fares and schedules with a Washington departure daily at 1 pm and connections with boats from Baltimore.
Reports from Odessa and St. Petersburg describe growing unrest with Cossacks guarding officials while workers discuss a general strike. The Terroki council contemplates blowing bridges and roadbeds to halt transport. rail unions hesitate amid harsh penalties. Local dispatches note shootings, arson, and martial mood across cities, with failed telegraph links and cautious leadership among organizers.
A Baltic landowners congress backed the sale of crown and church lands and the gradual expropriation of estates above a set maximum. No peasant family over fifty acres could obtain land under the system, while nobles opposed the expropriation to date. The report notes broader revolutionary upheaval with proclamations of violence and state turmoil.
Kansas City reports Justice David J. Brewer predicting Roosevelt will back Secretary Taft as his successor. He contrasts Roosevelt and Taft, praising both for honesty and intent while noting Taft would create less friction as president. Bryan receives cordial remarks.
Pittsburg Aug 5 George W Wilson 4 nineteen and Miss Helen Vante aged eighteen eloped and are believed headed to the Isthmus of Panama where Wilson has secured a post. George Wilson Jr brother of the groom reports patrols are mobilized as the father pursues the couple and police will warn the youths.
Curtis J. Hillyer seventy eight retired Washington lawyer died at 3 AM in a Pullman berth aboard the Federal Express from Boston bound for Jersey City Heart disease deemed the cause He traveled with his son Edgar and daughter in law for a health trip to Nova Scotia Hillyer formerly mined in Nevada and California served as clerk of the California Supreme Court and later practiced law in Washington for thirty years He retired fifteen years ago He leaves a wife and three sons in Raleigh Norfolk and Washington
In Svangeline Louisiana on August fifth a quarrel over five cents led to a late night altercation in which H Greggs recently from Pennsylvania was stabbed eight times with a carving knife and fatally wounded by W H Crouch of the town. Greggs is alleged to have been the aggressor.
George Colton Burch sixteen of Bl. D Street Southeast drowned in the Potomac at Colonial Beach while a party from Bathers on the steamer St Johns watched. He and two companions were diving from a row boat when he vanished beneath water not over his head. Two hours of searching failed to bring him to surface before the body was recovered. His sister, also in the crowd, swooned in the surf and was revived after removal to the beach. The tragedy cast a damp gloom over a planned weekend for the Burch family and the Washington party, including J. B. Burch, assistant superintendent of Prudential Life Insurance.
Special to The Washington reports Atlantic City mayoral order requires beach front cafes and concert gardens to close at 2 A.M. through the summer to stop disturbances. Officials say complaints by beachfront hotelmen prompted the move as patrons’ sleep was being disrupted.
In Atlantic Highlands New Jersey on August 5 Mrs Spencer Mortiz found gold pieces in a chicken she was dressing three small bits of metal inside the bird one resembled an old tooth The buyer E P Magee had not paid by Troy weight. A stray travel line mentions Harpers Ferry Charlestown Winchester and a Baltimore and Ohio schedule.
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