The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-09-01
news OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
In Condensed Form.
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.
Twenty-seven persons lost their
lives and between fifty and sixty were
Injured, many of them seriously, in the
wreck of Lehigh Valley train No. 4 on
a trestle near Manchester, N. Y. Two
cars of the train plunged of the struc-
ture, were hurled against the stone
embankment and dropped to the bed
Of Canandaigua outlet, ~forty-five feet
below, when the fast running east
bound train was derailed and broken
in twain on the viaduct. Another car
rolled down the embankment beyond
the river. The remaining eleven cars
Of the train kept the roadbed. The
train carried many veterans return.
ing from the Grand Army .encamp.
ment at Rochester, N. Y, and several
Of the cid soldiers went to their death
in the wreck. A large proportion Of
those killed and injured were women.
A revised list of the dead shows a
total of twenty-six victims of the pan.
ic in the little Canonsburg (Pa.) opera
house on Saturday night. Twenty.
i've others are in a serious condition
and thirty are suffering minor
hurts. All the fatalities resulted from
suffocation. The panic was inexcusa-
BILE. During a performance a moving
picture machine developed q slight de-
feet. There was a slight clicking
sound heard in the operating room
over the rear of the auditorium; a
small boy shouted fire." a brawny
miner, a foreigner, fled in terror down
the aisle-and in few minutes scores
of people-most of them women and
little children-were piled in a with.
ing, screaming, fighting mass in the
stairway leading from the street.
The 305-mile road rae at Elgin, ILL.,,
won by Len Zengel in a National, was
not accomplished without its toll Of
death and injuries. Dave Buck, the
veteran Chicago automobile racer,
was within eleven laps of the finish
and going at the rate of %sixty-four miles
IN hour on the back stretch when his
right forward wheel threw a tire. The
machine turned a complete s0mersault
and Sam Jacobs, the m%achinist, was
killed instantly, his neck being broken.
Buck died later in a hospital.
The fashionably exclusive Hotel
Frontenac on Sound island, one of the
finest resorts on the st. Lawrence
river, is a mass of smoking ruins. One
hundred and ninety guests, most OF
them from New York, had narrow es-
capes, a majority of them losing most
of their possessions.
sn.Of ten men who were working at
the 1,4OO-foot level of the new FIVE
compartment shaft of the Giroux Con-
solidated mines near Ely, New. which
| caught fire, six are dead and four lie
| at the point of death after passing
| through the flames to reach the sur
face.
Seven persons known to be dead,
many injured and property damage
| of more than 81, 900, 900, so far as can
be ascertained, is the damage wrought
by the terrific storm which swept
| Charleston, S. c., ~lsolating that city
! from the rest of the world.
Fire broke ont in the home OF
| George Wunderlich at Elmhurst, Wis.
| In less than an hour the entire village,
| including the mill and lumber yards
of Mr.. W%underlich, was in ruins. The
| loss is estimated to be between $175,-
600 and 100000.
w. A. Skinner and wife of Dallas,
| Tex, were frozen to death near the
| summit of Pixies peak. Their bodies.
| almost covered with snow, were found
side by side by a boy walking down
the peak.
Three persons were killed, one ia.
tally injured and several others
slightly hurt as a result of a fire and
explosion which damaged the Chan
| cellor hotel at Parkersburg, W. Va.
A score of persons were injured,
four seriously, when sections "a. to
ITO of the road race grand stand col.
lapsed at Elgin, Ill.,. throwing nearly
1900 people to the ground.
Five men were killed and five in:
jured when a bridge owe the Umpqua
river near Roseburg, Ore, collapsed
and fell into the river, sixty feet be
low.