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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1907
Page
10
A Boston and Maine line near Canaan New Hampshire and Quebec Express collided in a mountain area. At least 25 dead and 26 injured as medical aid was slow. many victims died before help could arrive. The wreck involved heavy freight, a telescoped coach, and evacuees from an excursion returning from a Canadian fair.
Details of the crash list the dead from Quebec New Hampshire and Vermont towns including Miss Annie St Pierre Mrs A E Warren and John Barrett among the deceased. Injured are named from Nashua Brookton Manchester and surrounding areas with several youths and women hospitalized. Rescue teams aided by doctors and workers worked through the night as track repairs continued.
In Paris on September 15 thousands of women and sympathizers protested for justice after the commutation of Soleillant’s sentence for the murder of a twelve year old girl. Demonstrators marched near Place de l Ambroise, clashed briefly with police, and demanded harsher action against crime while fearing rising violence and crime across the city.
An official report cites miscommunication of train orders as a key factor in a wreck near West Cannan. Train 4 and Train 16 delays, wrong orders read, and late arrivals led to a head on near 4 AM. The baggage car and coach telescoped by the passenger train, with French Canadian workers aboard mostly unhurt aside from shock.
Four people were seriously hurt when a suspension footbridge over the Blanchard River collapsed as crowds returned from a ball game. About a hundred commuters were submerged, many escaping drowning as a cable failed on the Sindlestegstaus pension footbridge, causing a section to give way.
A telegram from U S consul Dwight Furness reports an American, George Rose, shot by bandits in Guanajuato Mexico and his wife Mina Winifred McGrath of Salt Lake City wounded but likely to recover. Rose, a mining engineer, worked with the Mexican Mining and Transportation Company. The couple had a son of Benton Harbor Michigan. The incident involved robbers and follows Rose’s education at Michigan Agricultural College in 1996. The message notes Roses’ return to the United States and ongoing conditions.
An awkward scene unfolds at a Copenhagen dinner when a Danish horse dealer misreads royal trust and pulls a table cloth, causing the royal table to collapse and leaving the King, Queen, and guests visibly unsettled during the meal.
An educator muses on drought as a selective force saving a superior population, citing John Starr Jordan and a lecture on Australia and New Zealand. He describes desert conditions, sheep dying, and asserts droughts would favor the best stock. The piece reflects period views on race, eugenics, and leadership perceptions.
Mystery shrouds the Sept 11 accident near Bronx Park involving Mies Albertine Cassant, star of German Stock Jenpeny, at Irving Place Theater. Mies Camauut n a fence when a cart carrying Adolph Pavenstedt and others collided with an auto, sending them to a German Hospital with injuries. Police pursue details as the party en route to a road house.
Dantel, manager of the Mcrite Magnetic Control Company in Cunard Building, Wittin and Pagaleets, is killed early morning by a sign in Automobile Park. The muff knocked Mr Bacon down and passed over him, then sped through town at full speed. Mr Bacon, fifty four years old.
Commodore Al fred Brown, twice winner of the Battery to Coney Island long swim, set a new record by swimming Hell Gate from Fighty Fourth Street to College Point. He clocked 1 hour 40 minutes and finished at the Castel States volunteer life saving station. The previous Hell Gate record was about 2 hours.
A boat with two young women and two men capsized on the Allegheny River near Pittshire. Sarah Burns, seventeen, of Homestead, was drowned. The remaining three companions were saved by bathers in a nearby pool after the craft drifted toward a wreck during engine maintenance.
One hundred thousand spectators watched the start of an international balloon race organized by the Belgian Aeronautical Club. Thirty four balloons ascended to a record height as noon passed from sight. Competitors include eleven Belgians ten Frenchmen eight Germans two Englishmen one Brazilian one Swiss and Italian absence noted.
The Washington Free Press reports the Belmont tunnel test will move a car through the north tube of the East River Belmont tunnel tomorrow night. Preparations were complete but heavy beach traffic delayed the test from proceeding tonight. A pontoon-towed car transfer will occur at Fourth Street end in Gongeland City. Alfred J White, former Duluth mayor and ex Minnesota legislator, has been moved from Auburn State Prison to Dannemora State Hospital for Criminal Insane after a forgery conviction involving Fidelity Trust and Bank deposits.
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, warns the Republican party must pledge constructive legislation and tariff revision to win broad support. He says the Dingley schedule should be revisited for business interests, not as an attack on enterprise, stressing a definite platform ahead of the 1908 campaign.
Bishop Berry recounts that cocktails appeared at Vice President Fairbanks table when Roosevelt visited Indianapolis. Fairbanks reportedly did not order or know of the drinks, while the entertainer and server arranged them, and Fairbanks did not partake. The tale suggests a drink vow by Roosevelt influenced the scene.
Johnstown Sept 1 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ignored South Fork borough orders to stop selling tickets at the point amid blue law enforcement concerns. Electric lighting plants also faced disruption while local parlor, fountain, and restaurant closures affected daily life. Borough officials declined to act against violators, citing that church crusaders must enforce the law.
A tragic train wreck near Paris results in multiple fatalities while authorities investigate the incident. The casualty list includes a prominent figure known as Dr Butler who warned Republicans about rising tensions.
In a record Alpine accident season the Alps see seventy six fatalities and ninety casualties. Of the eighty killed thirty one were vacationers and thirty are guides. Three quarters of satellite fatalities resulted from falls or precipices. Avalanches new storms and mabtn ng caused the majority of incidents.
The former president Cleveland travels to New Hampshire to bring his children back for school. He reports feeling well though doctors restrict certain foods and monitor stomach issues. Mrs Cleveland stays in Princeton then returns with the children. students previously greeted him on the last class day.
A Confederate gathering in Glasgow discussed creating memorial birthplaces for Jefferson Davis in Topeka County Kansas and Lincoln at a Kentucky site. The proposal envisions a national shrine network modeled after the Lincoln Farm Association, with broad fundraising including northern contributions.
Fourteen men in a county jail row awaiting trial or execution say a ghost of a prisoner who killed his brother appeared each night. The specter disrupted sleep and led wardens to relocate the murderers row after inmates claimed nightly apparitions and loud murmuring.
Barry Winship heir to a Georgetown fortune died after a saddle horse bolt ed near Rock Creek Park Bowlder Bridge. He was 21, son of Henry C Winship, a Wallington Gas Light employee, and was a student at George Washington University. His mount bolted after he and two companions separated at a crossing, the horse returned to the path, and Winship suffered a fractured base skull. An automobile transported him to Garfield Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The coroner deemed the death an accident. no funeral arrangements announced.
Report from Chun-Chow prefecture indicates simultaneous uprisings in the Hongkong area and the Kwai Zuan District towns of Fanko and Mosze Maca. Insurgents display banners calling for the people to rise against officials.
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