Twelve Die in Norris Rock Island Wreck in Iowa
Twelve people were killed and twelve injured when an express train on the Rock Island Railroad jumped the track near Norris Iowa and collided with a freight train. The smoking car was demolished. Dr Charles J Keefe aided victims amid wreckage as rescuers arrived.
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Waterloo
Rock Island Railroad
Norris
P. B. Oliver
Will Goodman
John N. Watson
C. L. Landphere
Shell Rock
W. Ray
J. H. Douglas
Thomas Evenson
Mora
Minn
O. H. Martin
Weat Liberty
Edward Steppierre
Minnneapolis
Trocoin
Cedar Rapids
F. Kinch
Presbyterian Hospital
Norris Siding
Cedar Falls
Keefe
Herolam
Charles J. Keefe
Obbers dynamite a bank in Frankfort D
The James River bank was dynamited between two and four Friday morning. Robbers looted about $8,000 in cash and valuable papers. Seven charges were used. Guarded by guards at the front and rear. hotel guest Frank Fitzpatrick wounded but not in danger. Looters fled on a handcar from a Chicago Northwestern section house.
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Frankfort
James River
Rebbers
Frank Fitzpatrick
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Failure of Watson Co Looms Over Grain and Stocks
New York Sept 6 Watson Co a prominent member of the New York Stock and Produce exchanges and the Chicago board of trade failed announced Thursday. W Frank Newell named assignee. Offices in Duluth Minneapolis Fargo Winnipeg. The firm ran large grain brokerage and rail stock dealings especially Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Assignee’s counsel said accountants at work and a financial statement will be issued. Banks holding loans showed willingness to aid. Members listed Louis T Watson Henry P Watson Charles E Anderann Herschel V Jones. Louis T Watson sole resident in New York City. others in Minneapolis.
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New York
Watson & Co
New York Stock and Produce Exchanges
Chicago Board of Trade
Duluth
Minneapolis
Fargo
Winnipeg
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
W. Frank Newell
Broad Street
Herber B. Shoemaker
Louis T. Watson
Henry P. Watson
Charles E. Anderann
Herschel V. Jones
Hindus Driven Out of Bellingham in Race Riot
In Bellingham Washington on September 6 a mob of about 500 white men raided mills and lodging houses, beating six Hindu men and detaining 400 Sikhs. Police failed to stop the violence as Hindus were driven toward the city limits and toward Canada with 750 Indians fleeing along the Great Northern railway seeking British protection.
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Bellingham
Wash
British Columbia
India
Great Northern
Pickpockets Fight Conductor On Rock Island Train
Three armed crooks who robbed passengers at Lincoln attacked Conductor Henry Duval on the Rocky Mountain limited near Alvo station in Nebraska. After a knife threat he and the robbers fought, the men leaped from the moving train eight miles west of Alvo and escaped. Special agents seek the fugitives with descriptions issued to the public.
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Omaha
Neb
Rock Island
Lincoln
Henry Duval
Rocky Mountain Limited
Alvo Station
Duval
Alvo
Ten Dead In Hotel Fire At Shelton Washington
Ten people are known to have died in the Webb hotel fire at Shelton Washington early Thursday. One more person is dying and others may be found in the ruins. The blaze started about 1 40 am in the annex perhaps from a cigar dropped in the sample room. The hotel was three stories high with lodgers on the top floor and the exact number is unknown.
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Tacoma
Wash
Webb
Shelton
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Great Northern Hotel
Dray Line
Williaton
John Heffernan
St. Paul
Charles Roenecke
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Chicago
London
Leffingwell-Mikkelsen
Ernest de Koven Leffinwell
University of Chicago
Einar Mikkelsen
Norway
Duchess of Bedford
WATSON @ CO
Ras
Milwaukee
Sept. Jay
Order of the Eastern Star
Elia S. Washburn
Racine
St. Louis
Retary Meta
Lebanon
Huntress
League Island
Pensacola
Fla
Naval Militia of Missouri, Screw
St Lou
Boston
W. A. Garrison
Prop. Main and
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Fidelity and Casualty Company of
Williston Land Company
Union Block
Williston Tinshop
Telephone
Sassen Avenue
John N. Dithmer
H. C. DeLaney
Bertha Maloy
J. J. DeLaney
Ella Maloy
Citizens National Bank
Williston
North Dakota
H.C. DeLaney
John Bruegger
E. M. Atterberry
E. C. Carney
J. M. Warfield
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