Oil Tank Fire Wounds Sailors on North Dakota Action
A boiler room oil tank explosion on the battleship North Dakota injures crewmen including Lieut. Comdr. Murfin as a Board of Inquiry is named to investigate. All wounded are expected to recover while damage may delay sailing Saturday for division battle practice.
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North Dakota
Tampton Roads
Thimble Shoal
Virginia Capes
G. (. Greenaway
Seamat W. Recor
United States
Reclamation Service
Commander recounts North Dakota accident at sea
Admiral Schroeder filed a Navy report on the fatal North Dakota blast near Hampton Roads. Fire in No 3 fireroom, likely from oil fuel, left boiler damage unclear. Board of inquiry named to determine cause. Ship anchored off Khimble Shoal after the incident. Wounded crew were evacuated to the hospital ship Solace for treatment.
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Tis
Navy Department
North Dakota
Schroeder
Hampton Reeds
C. A. Core
Delaware
C. B. Price
Mlaware
A. M. Proctor
Connecticut
Khimble Shoal
Solace
Tragedy Aboard the North Dakota Near Old Point
Fire and fuel oil explosion aboard the North Dakota near Old Point September 8 killed six sailors and injured nine others. Among the dead are Joseph W. Schmidt, Robert Gilmore, and Joseph Strait. Admiral Schroeder said the three were killed outright. the injured are expected to recover. The ship returned to Hampton Roads at seven tonight after fighting the blaze in the engine room.
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Fort Monroe
North Dakota
Old Point
Lower Chesa Peaks
Comair
Orm G. Martin
Delaware
Joseph W. Schmidt
New York
Anna Schmidt
Decatur Street
Brooklyn
Robert Gilmore
Newport
R. J
Nellie Gilmore
Seyms Street
Hartford
Conn
Joseph Strait
Grand Rapids
Mich
Peter Strait
Bremen Street
Newark
N. J
Amelia A.” Letsche
Cook Street
Ansonia
Comge-Orin G. Murfin
E. W. Andrews
Mamie A. Cameron
Fifth Avenue
Carrie A. White
Wallach Place
Washington
T. G. McDonough
Park Avenue
Charles C. Roberts
Norfolk
Sebastian J. Wittner
Philadelphia
James A. Brady
Leo F. Piorek
Chicago
John G. Morrison
Boston
Fred P. Kinney
Mare Island
Cal
Admiral Schroeder
Fire on North Dakota Kills, Rescues Notable
Warrant Machinist EB Andrews and Chief Water Tender Joseph Minigan helped save three men overcome by gas fumes from a fire in North Dakota's engine room. Frank Flowers entered first to aid the injured. Captain Gleaves commended his crew. A board of inquiry will investigate the cause of the explosion which occurred while the Atlantic fleet passed Hampton Roads. The fire was under control by 11 40. The fleet commander joined the Yankton to inspect operations. The incident marked a somber moment for the ships on the North Dakota.
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W. Andrews
Joseph Minigan
Frank Flowers
Gleaves
Schroeder
North Dakota
Hampton Roads
New Hampshire
Cc. O. Core
Delaware
C. B. Price
Hot Slag Kills Three Near Steel Plant Tragedy on Tracks
Special to The Washington Post reports a deadly explosion of slag and molten metal near a steel plant. A car carrying Peter Lesterhouse, his wife, Miss Anna Baker, Mrs Blanche Hunt, and Mrs Lesterhouse’s sister collided with a train of caldrons. Three occupants died instantly, a fourth suffered serious burns, and the party’s escape attempt ended in fire and catastrophe.
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Washington Post
Chicago
South Anhicago
14Éth Street
Limoi Steel Company
Giiven
Peter Lesterhouse
Anna Baker
Lesterhouse
Blanche Wunt
Banter
Ad column prompt leads to workhouse cook search
In Washington the workhouse chief in Occoquan Virginia seeks a capable cook. Supt Whitaker met with Rudolph to discuss securing a qualified prison cook, then suggested trying the Post classified ads to find staff.
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Rudolph
Cook
Whitaker
Occoquan
Washington
Sioner Rudolph
Supt
Department of the Post
of the Post
Death by own action in Vienna hotel
Special to The Washington Post reports Richard Roots, a young man from Newark, New Jersey, who recently arrived in Vienna, paced a hotel ventibute for hours waiting for a messenger with a letter. At noon he fired a revolver, died in his room, and a note blamed Viennese heartbreak and American parents for his act.
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Washington Post
New York
Vienna
New York American
Richard Rools
Newark
N. J
Roots
America
Taft Sees Flights Denies Trip With Charley at Golf
President Taft enjoys golf at Myopia and watches aviation demonstrations at Beverly. Grahame White flies Mayor Fitzgerald and other aviators, including Lieut. Blakely and J. F. Lord, as Taft, Mrs Taft, and friends observe from the auto. The scene features a naval officer up in a Curtiss and a notable landing inside a tight circle.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Myopia
Squan‘tum
Burgess Point
Helen Taft
Catherine Terry
Bryn Mawr
John Hays Hammond
Charley Taft
Grahame White
Mayor Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Boston
Charlie
Grahame-White
Grahame- White
Charles J. Glidden
Glenn Jourfiss
Albany
New York
Mr. Taft
Maypr
Gen. Miles
President
Walter Brookins
Asbury Park
Brookins
Fitzgerald Eo
Wright
Ralph Johnstone
J. F. Lord
Thomas W. Lawson
Charles Willard
Lieut
C. A. Blakely
Glenn Curtiss
Tragedy at Connecticut asylum shocks Bridgeport scene
In Green's Farms sanitarium near Bridgeport Connecticut a 68 year old Russian wife of a wealthy baker murdered 24 year old French native Miss Lynn Feuchere by strangling her in a top floor room after attacking a nurse. The assailant Mrs Amelia Bloch was restrained and held at Lakeview Home Insane Asylum. The nurse victim suffered severe injuries and remains in critical condition. Police and coroner actions followed as the coroner ordered Mrs Bloch held for further investigation.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Amelia Bloch
Lynn Feuchere
West Twenty-ninth Street
Manhattan
D. W. McFarland
Green's Farms
Bloch
Lakeview Home Insane Asylum
Miss Feuchere
France
Leon Weuchere
Mrs Bloch
Minnie Warren
Mrs. Bloch
Mrs. Warren
Mrs. Blochan
Mis
Feuchere
Explosion on Battleship Kills Three Killed by Molten Slag
Conservationists Adopt Platform Taft Sees Air Flights Insane Woman Kills Girl Roosevelt Barn Lorimer Skin Grafted On Girl 2-Sues Physician for $10,000 Refuge for Mrs Coolk Held as a Murderess Capital in New Dress Typist Agitated at Crippen Trial Frederick Gebhard Dead No Threat to Panama Roosevelt May Yet Take Office Hearst's Invitation to T R Sugar Man Assails Roosevelt Roosevelt on Illinois Graft Cardinal Vannutelli Recovers New York Graft Inquiry 6-Editorial Comment Society 9-Sporting Events 10-Financial U-District Marksmen Near Top Farmers Approve Central Bank News of Alexandria Aiwimming Pools for Playground
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Taft
Roosevelt
Coolk
Dress
Crippen
Frederick Gebhard
Panama
Hearst
T. R
Illinois
Cardinal Vannutelli
New York
Q Society
U—District
News of Alexandria
Barrett Lorimer Banquet Row Shocks Illinois Politicians
Chicago report details Theodore Roosevelt barring Senator William Lorimer from a Hamilton Club banquet at the Congress Hotel. Roosevelt refused to sit at the same table with Lorimer, sending a telegram that Lorimer could not attend. Hamilton Club leaders faced surprise and public comment as the dinner proceeded without Lorimer and the club deferred further action.
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Hamilton Club
Chicago
Illinois
Theodore Roosevelt
William Lorimer
Congress Hotel
Lorimer
Col. Roosevelt
John H. Batten
Freeport
Cornel
Speaker Cannon
Mr. Batten
Senator Lorimer
Frustrates
Lormmer
Ilinois
Roosevelt
Col Roosevelt
George W. Dixon
William B. Austin
Arthur Brody
Marquis Eaton
John A. Gauger
Robert 8. Isles
Thomas D. Knight
Willam A. Leonard
Benjamin F. Methuen
Henry C. Morris
Edwin A. Munger
Emil C. Wetten
Judge Batten
Hainois
Art
Earle Seeks Reunited Marriage With Former Wife Emily
A Paris report quotes Ferdinand Pinney Earle as seeking to remarry his first wife Emily Fishpacker after their divorce. Old Mr. Fishbacker says Emily will not return to him, noting her earlier separation and subsequent divorce from Earle. The WWorld story mentions Julia Kuttner as Earle's second wife and hints at U S divorce validity issues, while travel notices detail a Southern Railway fare offer and schedule changes.
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Washington Post
Paris
Mr. Fishbacker
World
New York
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Emily Fishpacker
Fishbacker
Earle
Emily
Julia Kuttner
United States
Graft girl's skin after motorcycle burn
Miss Alice Woodson an 18 year old riding on a motorcycle with a friend suffered severe burns when clothing ignited from an electrical spark. Surgeons at Casualty Hospital performed what is described as a successful skin graft using skin from the inner right leg to cover a ten inch left leg burn. The operation was led by Dr. William P. Reeves with Dr. Charles Boeks assisting.
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Alice Woodson
Friend
Alice Woodsal
Casualty Hospital
William P. Reeves
Charles Boeks
Miss Woodson
Flicost
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourth Street
Draigs
Mises Woodson
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Muskegon
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