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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1915
Page
1
Chicago Recoveries and Sinking News Bulletin
A dramatic coastal defense report shows Chicago recovering ten dead and about two hundred missing as a German submarine sinks another U S steamer. An inspector's blunder costs lives while an official view declares Eastland unseaworthy with up to twelve hundred possibly dead. Federal licensing errors prompt evidence to a grand jury as U S officers begin negligence probe and coroner delays inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U. S
Bureau
Lake Ras “Taffie
Chicago River
Hoyne
Cook County Grand Jury
United States Inspection Bureau
Moyne
Eastland
Dieberenn
Uwaasias
Lars Lo
Eastland Disaster Toll Rises as Divers Seek Remaining Bodies
Chicago July 26 Divers report about 200 bodies remain in the Eastland hull as coroner Hoffman's count rises to 810 recovered. Officials push investigations into overloading and possible regulatory failures while planning to raise the ship within ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eastland
Hoffman
Fastland
Western Electric Company
United States Steamboat, Inspection Service
Charles H. Wescott
Detroit
Mansfield
Nicholas
Wenty
Hoyne
United States District
Charles F. Clyne
Aastland
Eye Witesses
President Wilson Sends Condolences to Chicago Mayor
President Wilson expresses condolences to Chicago Mayor via telegram from Windsor, noting the universal sympathy of the nation after a great disaster that saddened many homes. The message is dated July 26 and conveyed by Alayer Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alayer Thompson
Wilson
Windsor
Woodrow Wilson
Teutons Take 131,250 Russia Two Weeks
Frankfurt dispatch reports Austro German forces have captured 191 250 Russian prisoners since July 44. They also seized 41 cannon 141 machine guns and vast military supplies as work begins immediately. Funeral processions mark Eastland disaster victims with hundreds of corteges in the streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Frankfurt
Germany
Vonlon
Frankfurter Zeitung
Vienna
Besic
Eastland
Western Electric Company
Cedar Rapids Man Shot to Death in Street Brawl
Center Point reports Wayne Hoagland of Cedar Rapids shot to death by Les Cochran after an early Sunday street brawl. Cochran, allegedly intoxicated, is held in the county jail at Marion awaiting further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Center Point
W Wayne Hoagland
Les Cochran
Q Cochran
Marion
Evening Courier reaches 87 towns in trading radius
The Waterloo Evening Courier serves 87 towns in its trading radius with over 6,000 regular subscribers. Seventy one towns receive the paper the same evening as publication, ensuring prompt daily reading for advertisers and readers. The outside community heavily depends on the Evening Courier and Reporter for daily content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Waterloo Evening Courier
Evening Courier
Germans Fast-Forward Threatens Warsaw in Polish Front
Berlin reports a new German move drives toward Warsaw as shells hit outer defenses twelve miles from the city. German northward push crosses the Narew. Ostrolenka fortress remains under Russian control while German advances threaten the capital from Piaseczno to the Bug river. Russian resistance holds Lublin-Chelm line as French gains in Vosges are noted amid broader war updates. Turkey Bulgaria rail deal sparks unease over regional neutrality and aid promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Warsaw
Poland
von Mackensee
Narew
Petrograd
Ostrolenka
Pultusk
Bug
Maceg
Piaseczno
Paris
Turkey
Bulgaria
Dedengatch
Sofia
Britain Holds Blockade Order Is Justified
Washington report says Great Britain's reply to the March 30 American note defending enforcement of the orders in council argues the measures are within international law though new principles may be involved. Britain favors awaiting judicial interpretation as proper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Great Lunguin
Deadlock in Bayonne oil plant strike reported
New York July 26 A deadlock appears to have formed in the strike at Standard Oil s Bayonne New Jersey plant where thousands idle from that and two other oil works Sheriff Kinkead and deputies guard the plant conditions improving despite the standstill The situation contrasts with Bridgeport Connecticut where Remington Arms machinists refuse to return and complicate resumption of subcontractors work at the Remington plant in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Standard Oil, Company
Bayonne
N. J
Altho
Standard Oi Company
Bridgeport
Conn
Remington Arms & Ammunilion Company
Germany Delays Reply to Lusitania Note Amid Berlin Uncertainty
Berlin indicates the German government will likely delay answering the latest American note on the Lusitania sinking. Officials doubt the U S will force Britain to change its sea restrictions, while hoping the United States may challenge Britain rather than Berlin. Temperatures for July 20 are listed, amid references to an international organizer seeking a Carpenters' union conference on recent developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
London
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Wilson
Leelanaw Sunk Off Scotland While Cargo Ties to Flax
The American steamer Leelanaw from Archangel to Belfast with flax cargo was torpedoed off Scotland. All crew saved and landed at Kirkwall in their own boats. The ship had carried cotton to Archangel via Gothenburg and was returning when sunk. Flax declared contraband by Germany. Grangewood also torpedoed off north sea with crew saved at Lerwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Archangel
Kirkwall
London
Belfast
Scotland
Russia
Gothenburg
Sweden
Dundee
Leelanaw
Hurdby Steamship Company of
Brunwell
Galveston
Leelagaw
D. GB. Delk
Harley Steamship Company
Léelanaw
Germany
Wiliam BP
Grangewood
Havre
France
North Sea
Lerwick
Leelanaw Torpedoing Shocks U.S. Officials
Washington July 26 The torpedoing of the American steamer Leelanaw shocks U S officials and deepens the strain between Germany and the United States as new aggravation in the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Leelanaw
Germany
United States
Big Strong Man Guards Bodies After Tragedy in Chicago
Otto Brandt, a strong man, guarded five silent corpses at the Second Regiment Armory while pleading to return a surviving child to his sister Mary Branch. The Braitch family mourns including nine year old Frederic, twelve year old Gertrude, Annie, Marie, and six month old Marie. Rose’s body is missing, and Mrs Braitch clings to hope as Brandt vows to tell her the truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Otto Brandt
Second Regiment
Brandt
Mary Branch
Congress Park
John Braitch
Frederic
Gertrude
de Annie
Marie
Rose
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clyne
Gross Narew
von Mackensen
Britain
Tovar
Broadlear
Havana
Wichita
Kan
Marcia ‘Murdock
Harvey Delano
U. S. New York
Victor Murdock
Washington
Wisdun
Huchanan Optical Crs
Carpenters’ Union
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