Deadly wildfire devastates Minnesota and Ontario towns
Beaudette Spooner Pitt Roosevelt and Graceton are wiped by a massive fire sweeping the Minnesota Manitoba border area. Five thousand homeless, many families lost, with dozens dead and rescue trains ferrying survivors east as winds of seventy miles per hour drive the flames.
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Pitt
Beaudette
Spooner
Roosevelt
Graceton
Warroad
Minn
Rainy River
Ontario
Grafton
N Dak
John Tulley
Fullerton
Nebr
Katherine Jasper
Albert Berg
Davenport
Iowa
John Simmons
Red Oak
Maston Berg
John Rolin
Steve Hagen
George Weaver
Charles Baker
Patrick O'Mara
Arlington, Minn
Fort Wiliam
Five Towns Destroyed as Fire Rages Across Minnesota
Five towns are reported destroyed with seventy five dead and over five thousand left homeless. Refugees, grieving and panicked, roam the woods while women and children are moved by train from the fire zone. Fugitives seek shelter in clearings but are overwhelmed by advancing flames. Cyclic wind-driven flames strike communities, leaving little chance to escape. Neighbors refuse to aid others as fires surge. Patients from homes and hospitals are moved to safety. Governor orders troops to the scene and state relief work commences.
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A C. Cragson
Roosevelt
Swift
Williams
Cedar Spur
Canadian Northern Railway
Eery Station
Beaudetta
Spooner
North Central
International Bridge
Sixth Street
Pat Portage Lumber Company
Western Canada Flour Millis Company
Aga
Rainy River
Old Beaudette
Minnesota
Sheylin Mathieu Lumber Company
Alls
Rescuers Battle Poison Gas In Starkville Mine
Rescue teams struggled through black damp as 62 miners remained entombed in the Colorado Fuel and Iron mine at Starkville. Superintendent Wilson, back from illness, supervised efforts to install a portable fan to drive fumes out and rescue work, with up to eighty miners potentially trapped and teams repositioning to advance air toward the depths.
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Starkville
Colo
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Englevite
Engleville
Taft Aunt Delia Torrey reports misread threat scare
Millbury Massachusetts Oct 9 President Taft's aunt Delia C Torrey was shaken by news of a man who claimed to overhear Boston plot to kill the president and warned the threat might appear in print authorities say the misunderstanding left her unsettled Worcester police hunt for the stranger continued as rescue teams endure dangerous gas in a Starkville Engleville mine disaster with 54 men feared entombed and 28 Poles Russians Americans Mexicans and a Servian listed among the missing despite hopeful signs the coroner cautions the total remains uncertain.
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Millbury
Mass
Taft
Delia” C. Torrey
Miss Torrey
Boston
Helen Taft
Beverly
Worcester
Misa Delia C. Torrey
James Wilson
Starkville
Wilson
Shirt Chokes Man to Death in Hartford Drive
Special to Yne Washington from Hartford Conn October 8 Frank Johnson died when a stiff starched shirt collar and neckband strangled him as he dozed off while driving to a friend's house. The collar tightened cutting off blood flow and air, causing unconsciousness and death.
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Yne Washington
Hartford
Conn
Frank Johnson
Johnson
Taft Told Of Graft Plot Over Panama Canal Plans
A Beverly warning to the Taft administration describes a grafting conspiracy to control coal supplies for ships using the canal. The president will reportedly depart Washington early November, despite advisers urging delay. Officials warn the coal concession could let a monopoly influence canal traffic and lines amid rivalry between carriers.
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New York
Beverly
New York World
Panama Canal
Taft
Panama
Washington
Canal
Combine
Sion
Isthmian Canal Commission
Atlantic
Pacific
Explosion Theories Debated After Mine Blast In Colorado
Officials from Colorado Fuel and Iron Company reject gas pockets or combustible material as causes of the recent mine explosion. The incident prompts theories about blast dynamics and safety practices while investigators search for concrete findings to explain the tragedy.
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Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Freeman escapes Beaver jail by sawing through steel doors
Charles Hickman, jailed for wife murder in Beaver County, slipped from his cell by sawing six steel bars and three doors. He sealed a 2 foot gate, used a blanket rope to reach the yard, and vanished in dense fog. A prisoner heard a man whispering in the yard.
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Beaver
Charles Hickman
Beaver County
Hickman
Cholera Cases Rise On Moltke After Quarantine Detention
New York reports three cholera cases linked to the Hamburg-American liner Moltke detained at quarantine since Monday. Giovanni Falelgita, 46, from Naples, is critically ill at Swinburne Island, with Rudolph Sellitch another suspected case. Steerage passengers to be moved to Hoffman Island. cabin passengers released after inspection.
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New York
Moltke
A H Doty
Swinburne Island
Giovanni Faleigha
Naples
Rudolph Sellitch
St Halive
Falelgita
Germania
Dr Doty
Hoffman Island
Fabre
Sant’ Anna
Rome
Italy
Bari
Caserta
Wyman
Inez Moltke
Port of
Prisoners Destroy San Carlos Prison Near Maracaibo
The Merida reports a prison revolt at San Carlos near Maracaibo with the prison burned and several officials killed including the warden, a Gomez brother. All prisoners are said to be at large and a gunboat has been sent from La Guaira. Curacao Venezuelans fear a Castro Party driven movement. In Queenstown, Lusitania passengers include Oscar Straus and Booker T. Washington.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Merida
Maracaibo
San Carlos
Gomez
la Guaira
Venezuela
Castro Party
Clergy Exiled as Lisbon Rises in Revolt Amid Bombardment
Lisbon reports mass expulsion of priests and nuns as mobs loot monasteries and churches. Jesuit sites attacked, property seized, and royal family accused of cowardice while King Manuel and Queen Amelia flee toward Ericeira. Underground monks escape via hidden passages as streets remain tense and orderly.
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Jesuus
Lisbon
Manuel
Amelie
O Dia
Josef de Alpelm
Mafra
Virgin Mary
Ericeira
Erieefra
Amelia
Maria Pia
Panama graft charges and fire deaths reported
News brief notes graft charges tied to Panama affairs alongside reports of deadly fires and ongoing rescue efforts. Cholera cases in New York are cited with public health concerns.
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Panama
New York
Portugal
Roosevelt
Post
Halled
Lily
Chaloner Rapa Prince
Admiral Schley
News of Alexandria
Supreme Court
Russell
Cardinal Gibbons
Platt
Humane Conference
Antivaccine Crusade
Roosevelt Faces Tariff Tug Of War In Beveridge Campaign
Special to The Washington Post outlines how Theodore Roosevelt, after backing the Saratoga tariff plank, plans a political maneuver in Indiana to aid Senator Beveridge's reelection. Roosevelt argues the plank misrepresents his views, while insiders question how he can support Beveridge without undermining his own stance. The piece notes Western states shifted against the tariff and forecasts his Indiana stop as a test of expediency and political survivability.
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Beveridge
Washington Post
New York
Roosevelt
Indiana
New York State
Wisconsin
Iowa
Kansas
Ike Beveridge
Payne-Aldrichci
Nave
Saratoga
Committee On
Minnesota
Strosserdem
Ign
Senate
Indianapolis
Roosevelt Stands Pat On Tariff Tour Through South
Corinth Miss Oct 93 Col Theodore Roosevelt rode through cotton fields and crowds on a southern tour from Atlanta to Hot Springs. He spoke at many stops, declined to amplify tariff remarks, and maintained his earlier tariff stance. A special B&O train from Union Station carried travelers to Luray Va returning Oct 14 at 6 p m.
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Corinth
Miss
Theodore Roosevelt
South
Atlanta
Hot Springs
Ark
Col. Roosevelt
New York State
Luray
Baltimore and Ohio
Union Station
Washington
Speed Quest for Grahame White Looms Over Washington
The Washington Post offers a $10,000 prize to Claude Grahame White as he plans a long distance flight from Washington to Baltimore in a biplane. Plans include a speed train for spectators and a route measured by aero clubs, with aims to surpass a new 4 mile record and establish a lasting aviation showcase in the national capital. The aviator vows to stay aloft as long as a mile remains.
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Washington Post
Claude Grahank-White
Washington
Baltimore
Avignon
Post
Grahame-White
Graame White
DiMford Harmon
Benning
Grahame White
Grahames White
Aml
Ridlang
Berger
Aero Club of Washington
Aero Club of Baltimore
National Capital
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Washington Monument
Parke
Arena
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Hinckley
Minnesota- Manitoba
Propertone
Pellmell
Cartigans Hospital
Shevlin-Mathieu Lumber Company
Heaudette
Hatny River
Eaclase
Ont
Oscar Johnson
Pony
Laurel
Ohio
Colorado
Stark- Yilie
Shirt
Panama Canal Zone
Doty
Castro
Straus Saile
Queenstown
Oscar 8. Straus
Turkey
Booker T. Washington
Gibraltar
Naval
Marquis de Pombal
Jesoit
Rue de Quelhaes
Trinas
Senor Barrett
Bombarda
Admiral Hess
Hotel de Ville
Crescence
Southern Railway
Knoxville
Tenn
JT. R
Syracuse
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Dax
Cincinnati
Mipwe
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