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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1906
Page
1
Surviving miners describe twenty days entombment at Courrieres with tainted horse meat and bark as their only sustenance. Leader Henri Nemy and thirteen others were rescued but exhausted and blinded, while a larger toll of missing and dead haunts the scene as engineers discuss fires and salvage delays.
A party of rescued men recounts their experiences after an explosion that left a chamber burning and covered in darkness. They describe cold, limited food, and a long wait as authorities work to extract more survivors. Nemy, the rescuer in charge, kept watch. sixteen days passed since the blast. Doctors report stormarine poisoning from decomposed horse meat. Eight more survivors are found, with rescue operations ongoing under strict safety precautions.
The American intercollegiate football rules committee met at the Murray Hill hotel to finalize reforms. A central board of officials was appointed, with Rab bit as chairman and Camp, Wine, Dennis, and Savage on it, to oversee game officiating. Changes include kickouts after safeties and touchbacks, clarified snapper back rules, freedom for the snapper, and altered penalties for interference and tackling below the knees, plus removal of ten yard penalties every ten yards.
Special to The Washington Post reports Georgia Welles, star of The Clansman, died at General Memorial Hospital from complications after an appendicitis operation. She had performed at the Harlem Opera House and with the Murray Hill Stock Company, later appearing in The Mans Man at the Liberty Theater.
A partial Dundeeport Com. report from Fairfield Counts Superior Court mentions Ariucae M. Young seen at county jail related to a breach of promise case. Young, son of a prominent family, was taken into custody a week ago after failing to appear. Details are unclear due to damaged text and incomplete facts.
Anthracite and bituminous coal talks unfold as miners seek wage scale, with Indiana Illinois and Ohio employers offering arbitration. Union leaders claim progress after Mitchell disputes and Baer telegrams. stocks fall as producers pledge limited sales to curb shortages.
Durango March 30 Den ver and Rio Grande Railroad officials cannot remove the avalanches blocking the track between Durango and Elevation and have ordered a force to tunnel through larger slides. Tunnels expected to last until late summer as record snowfalls hit the hills around the line. Senator Clark's San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake line sustains about 1 million in Nevada desert washouts with total repairs around 25 000 for restore and through traffic resumption to Los Angeles Salt Lake and the East within ten days to two weeks.
Special to The Washington Post reports widow May Kay of New Orleans killed herself after learning via telephone that Mrs. Blanche Turner Dennis had died. The two women, close friends, had lived together in the Hotel Alabama, with coroner Shrady narrating the death. The case links Melancholia to a tangled estate, while trains suspended due to a coal strike affect Pere Marquette service north of Grand Rapids.
Fannie Dementi fled a second floor room at 311 Eighth Street Northwest after seven to eight weeks of confinement with her two year old child. Detectives pursued Frank Dementi, a Washington bricklayer, arresting him after a chase on Eighth Street. The woman escaped with her baby to police but the baby inhaled gas during the incident. Dementi was captured near a Wallace rooming house. The couple’s marriage claims and legality are unclear. Dementi faces charges in Police Court.
Count De La Vaulx of France arrives in New York to perform his first balloon ascent in the United States tomorrow at West Point. He brings the Centarre balloon and two smaller craft, with Marie Lever and Lieut Salm assisting. Weather will decide if the ascent occurs around 1 pm.
Special to The Washington Mes New York March 34 Judge Leventritt the Supreme Court today after hearing the testimony of the two husbands of Core Belle Adanm known on the stage as Cora Belle granted a divorce to Edway Adams the most recent husband annulling their marriage from December 10 1998 Adams an auto maker said he had another Irishand living George Baker to whom she was married at Mount Washington Md on December 6 1389 from whom she had never been divorced Mrs Adams has been separated from Adams for two years and has been playing with the Honermoon Company Baker testified there were two children of the marriage living with him in Baltimore He said neither he nor his wife had obtained a divorce or annulment Their client heard of her husband’s death from a newspaper article and she believed it so she married Adams.
Twenty three people were injured when an eastbound New York Chicago and St. Louis train derailed at South Whitley Indiana. The smoking car and two sleeping cars left the track after rails spread. Passengers, many women and children, were trampled while escaping. A medical train carried doctors to Fort Wayne and victims were taken to St Joseph Hospital.
Coroner jury in Stockton declares Albert N. McVicar died from morphine and chloral poisoning with suffocation in a closed trunk. Emma Ledox, under arrest, is implicated as the killer. evidence notes morphine and cyanide purchases but no cyanide found. jury finds she acted alone. Storehouse ad follows.
Isaac Winder, murderer of Tollgate Keeper F T Rinehart, faced a 2000 strong mob as jail yard fences were smashed. He battled five officers during the scramble to the trap, was dragged onto the platform, and hanged as the crowd watched silent amid chaotic scenes.
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