30 Mar 1890
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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1890
Page
1
Reports detail a deadly blaze and collapse scene in Falls City. Victims’ names and ages arise from improvised morgue sites. several bodies recovered amid wreckage and chaos. Insurance, rescue, and relief efforts unfold as local leaders tally damage, fatalities, and displaced residents.
A bold highway robbery near Bluffton, Ohio, ends with Miller losing money after two masked men extort funds on a rural road. The narrative shifts to Kentucky where a devastating cyclone wipes Grand Rivers and damages towns, bridges, and rail lines, with multiple fatalities and widespread destruction reported.
A long dispatch from Washington describes a March storm at Howling Green with minimal property damage. It also reports election statute amendments, a Pendleton ballot manipulation suit, a Young Democrats club address in Boston, and updates on veterans survivors, a failed tugboat sinking, and plans for a new opera house with detailed theater specifications and capacity.
Storm breaches along the Mississippi cause multiple levee breaks near Huntington and Bue Jow Landing, flooding towns from Greenville to Memphis. Rail lines wash out on the Ouachita division. residents flee to high ground as water inundates vast tracts and disrupts travel from Tavland to Rolling Fork.
A Chicago divorce suit targets T Lester Peters, a top Chicago Board of Trade figure, by his wife Marion E Howard. She accuses him of lavish life, neglect, drunken behavior, and request for alimony and dress costs. The piece also notes Parkersburg leader Henry Lori’s death and other regional items.
March 29 report from Tennix details Prince Bismarck leaving Berlin for Privdrischeribe his country seat. He bade farewell to Royal Princes before departure. Thousands gathered along Wilhelmstrasse and at the railway station as a formal crowd formed a guard of honor. The event prompted tears and a crowded, emotional departure with soldiers and diplomats in attendance.
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