Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-15
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Brief Summary Of the Most Important
Events Of the Day.

land Railroad near Rockville Center,
l.. T.. when a big touring automobile. In
which they were riding at a high
speed. was struck by a Patchogue
| train. The dead men were mutilated
beyond recognition and their identity
| is not as yet known. The third victim
| Of the accident Is supposed TO be j.
w. Jewell of Brooklyn. The automo-
bile with its occupants was apparent
iy racing with the train and was ahead
as it approached the crossing. The
Eagman al the crossing waved his flag
and the engineer of the train, which
was going at full speed, reversed the
engine and blew the whistle, but the
automobile shot on into the turn and
upon the track. The man believed TO
he Jewell was thrown into the air and
landed 60 feet from the rails, with
his skull crushed in, one leg broken and
| otherwise injured. The car. with its
two other occupants. crushed in the
wreckage, was carried 500 feet on the
cowcatcher. then dropped and drag
ged some distance underneath. The
rony trucks of the engine had to be
raised before the wrecked car and the
mangled bodies could be released.
Al and Ben Wade were electrOcuted,
shortly after midnight Wednesday, at
the Ohio penitentiary. Columbus, for
the murder OF Kate Sullivan in Toledo
in 1900.
In a collision between n passenger
train ana a freight train on the Chi
o Dot %
Glenwood, 13 miles from Chicago.
Wednesday, Is people were killed and
GS injured. The passenger train was
carrying picnic party who were
members Of the Doremus church, on
their annual outing. The party had
spent the day at MOmence and We're
returning home. Just half way be
tween Glenwood and Chicago Heights
there is q sharp curve, and as the
train rounded this curve on the south
bound track, Il freight train was back
ing from the southbound onto the
northbound. The freight being partly
on both tracks. no train could have
PASSED il in either direction. The bend
is SO sharp that the engineer of the
picnic train did not see the freight train
until he was close upon it, when il was
too late to do anything, and before he
could set his brakes the passenger
train, which was running at speed
Of 40 miles an hour, crashed into the
freight. The wreck was two miles
from station and some little delay
ensued before some Of the injured who
were held down by heavy timbers.
could be extricated. A relief train was
made up at Glenwood and the dead and
wounded We're taken to Chicago. 1
Advices received at the Northern
Pacific headquarters in Minneapolis
meats To cross the Pacific has been
successfully delivered on the Pacific
coast and loaded aboard the ship
Shawmut for transportation from Puget
Sound to Yokohama. The shipment
consists Of rush order for 1,OOO, 900
I.ounds of canned beef for the japanese
army. Ii was handled from Chicago
by the Northern Pacific in special
trains of 40 refrigerator cars each.
1t was learned. Wednesday. that
John w. Cowley OF Stoneliam, who was
Peoples Gas Co, of Stoneham. and
treasurer Of the W. S. Keen Leather
Co, until that concern went into the
hands of receiver q few DAYS ago.
has been arrested and held in bonds OF
$4,000, charged with the larceny of
Eonds valued at So. 900. James W.
Burnham. who owns most of the stock
of the Newmarket Light and Heat &
! over Co. of Newmarket ~ H.. claims
that Cawley agreed to dispose of the
bonds under a definite contract ana
that tawlcy disposed of them and kerr
the proceeds. Cawley claims that the
bonds were his own personal property
ana that ne was not acting as Burn
hams agent in the matter.
a body believed to be that of Henry
I:aNter Kingsley. the wealthy young
Nermonter, who has h6 en- missing since
last November. from the home of his
cousin. Hugh III. Baxter Fifth avenue
New York. was found by the New York
police. Wednesday night, in the Har-
lem river al 13.th street, and is badly |
decomposed.
According To the final report OF tile |
Inspectors i'm charge of the inyestica-
non by the police department present. |
Ell TO commissioner McAdoo. Wednes- |
day, the total dead in the destruction |
of the excursion steamer General SIo- |
cum, June Il. is given nj 95S. Only S97 |
~ the Iead were identified. CO were re-
ported missing. ami 81 unidentified, |
while $50 were injured and only 225 out |
"f the nearly 400 people on the steam
or escaped uniEjured. Assuming that |
the unidentified deld are among the
missing all but one person has been
accounted for.