The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-12-17
NEWS OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.
One life was lost. many nrsmen
were overcome by smoke. 800 hotel
guests were driven, half clad. into the
Icy streets and property valued at.. zap.
proximately 100000 was, destroyed
by a fire at Kalamazoo. Mich. which
was extinguished only after an all
night struggle by the combined fire
lighting forces Of Kalamazoo. Battle
Creek and Grand Rapids.
The terrible storm which passed
over Lake Erie recently reaped a
deadly harvest and laid waste more
than $1,Oo0.o0O worth Of vessel prop.
erty. Late reports show that fifty
nine lives we're lost. that twenty sail
ors were rescued. that four boats were
destroyed and that one Is aground and
heavily damaged. !.
Johanna, the fourteen-year-old
daughter Of Knutt Tuftlund. wal found
dead e a straw stack In the field
Of Nels Hagen near Tolna. N. D. She
was visiting at the home Of Nels Ha.
gen and started for home at night.
which was a mile away, and lost her
self in the blizzard.
The big plant of the Racine (Wis.)
Manufacturing company, manufactur-
ers Of automobile tops and piano
stools. together with the DANA Broth
erhood hall, the Mitchell.Lewis wagon
works and several residences. was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss iesti.
mated at $650.000.
The state fisheries boat Commodore
Perry arrived at Erie. Pa. with the
frozen bodies of nine of the crew OF
the Bessemer and Marquette ferry No.
2. which is believed to have foundered
on Lake Erie. The bodies we're found
in a yawl picked up fifteen miles off
shore.
The big freighter w. C. Richardson
Of Cleveland, bound from Duluth to
Buffalo with a cargo of f1axseed. foun.
dered when she was within half a mile
of the harbor entrance at Buffalo. Five
of the crew persisted. The remainder.
numbering fourteen. were rescued.
Two men lost their lives and the
fate of thirteen others Is unknown as
a result of the burning Of the steamer
Clarion near Point Pelee in Lake Erie.
Six members of the crew were taken
from the Clarion by the steamer Z. C.
Hanna and landed at Cleveland.
Six men employed by the Great
Lakes Dredging company at Port Ar
thur, Ont. were drowned in the har-
Dor there. They were on a dredge. be-
ing towed into the harbor when 1t
suddenly sprung a leak and sank.
A collision between the steamers
Berwind Of Duluth and Steinbrepner,
Of Cleveland off Round island, Mud
lake, st. Marys river. resulted In the
sinking. of the St~einbrenner. The
crew escaped.
At Wayne, Kan. Mrs. Frank Hicks
and four children. two girls and two
boys. aged from three to ten years.
were burned to death. An oil stove
exploded, setting fire to the house.
Damage amounting to 100000 raj
done by a cyclone which visited the
business section of Terre Haute. Ind.
A score Of persons were injured and
many buildings were unroOfed.
Thirty five passengers on q street
. were injured. none fatally and few
seriously. when the car a struck by
q Pennsylvania passenger train at an
Indianapolis crossing.
Entrapped in a lake Of flowing tar
three men were held fast at the Nc.
Clintock & Irvine company's roofing
plant at Pittsburg and burned to
DEATH
Two immigrants we're killed and
three men and one woman we're In
jured in an accident to a Chicago and
Northwestern passenger train at Chi
cago.
One man is dead and 100 narrowly
escaped death in a coal mine near Ma
rion. ILL.,, when the miners ran into. o.
gas pocket, which caused an explosion.
The village Of Utica. o., q town of
900 people, was practically wiped ont
by fire and one man. Edward Daum OF
Lancaster, o., vas burned to death.
Three men died Of s%uffocation and
twenty-one others were rescued uncon.
scious during, a fire at the Shoemaker
mine near YOUNGSTOWN, Pa.
Five deaths resulted from the inau.s
guration of the skating season in Penn
sylvania and New Jersey. sss
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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Beginning Jan. 1. 1910, through Pull:
man sleepers. will be run from Seattle
to Panama, which will be the longest
stretch Of track in the world and the
longest schedule ever maintained by
any railroad company. The journey
will exceed 5000 miles and will occupy
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