The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-09-15
OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
In Condensed Form.
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 off the struc-
ture, were hurled against the stone
embankment and dropped to the bed
of C%anandaigua 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 em%bankment 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 old 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
! five others are in a serious condition
and thirty more are suffering minor
hurts. All the fatalities resulted from
suffocation. The panic was inexcusa-
BILE. During a performance a moving
picture machine developed a 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 race at Elgin, ILL.,,
won by Len Zengel in a National. was
not accomplished without it's 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
an hour on the back stretch when his
right forward wheel threw a tire. The
machine turned a complete somersault
and Sam Jacobs, the machinist. was
killed instantly, his neck being broken.
Buck died later in a hospital.
The fashionably exclusive Hotel
Frontenac on Sound island. n 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.
OF ten men who were working at
the 1.4OO-foot level of the new AVE.
compartment shaft of the Giroux Con-
solidated mines near Fly, Nev.,, 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 1000, 900, so far as can
be ascertained, is the damage wrought
by the terrific storm which swept
Charleston. 8. c.. lsolating that city
| from the rest Of the world.
Fire broke out IN the nome Oh
George Wunderlich at Elmhurst. Wis.
In less than an hour the entire village,
including the mill and lumber yards
of Mr.. Wunderlich. vas In ruins. The
loss is estimated to be between $780,
900 and $4,000
w. A. Skinner and wife Of Dallas.
Tex, we're frozen to death near the
summit OF, Pixies peak, ,Theic bodies.
almost covered with snow, we're found
side by side by a boy walking down
the peak.
Three persons were killed. n ia.
tally injured and several others
slightly hurt as q result OF q ire and
explosion which damaged the Chan
cellor hotel at Parkersburg, w. Va.
A score Of persons were injured,
four seriously, when sections 81 to
10 of the road race grand stand col.
lapsed at Elgin, Tl.. throwing nearly
1900 people to the ground.
Five men were killed and ave In
jured when q bridge YER the UmpQua
river near Roseburg. Ore. collapsed
and fell into the river. sixty feet be-
low.