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ContextThe Denver and Rio Grande Western's crack Scenic Limited left the rails yesterday on a sharp curve nine miles below Granite, Colorado, its engine plunging into the Arkansas river and dragging five coaches after it. Officials at Salida put the dead at twenty-five today, four of them unidentified, with fifty-eight injured in the railroad hospital there.
As printed: FLAMING FILM BLOCKS DOORWAY OF ONLY ESCAPE
ContextA moving-picture show was being given in an upstairs hall of a wooden building at Dromcollogher, near Limerick, Ireland, last night when the film itself caught fire beside the unscreened projector and blocked the single doorway. Forty are reported dead, many of them young people trampled or burned at the head of the stairs.
As printed: CRISIS AT HAND AS LEAGUE HOLDS IMPORTANT MEET
ContextThe council voted last week to give Germany a permanent seat as soon as the assembly admits her, rejecting Spain's rival claim and leaving Madrid weighing whether to quit the League altogether. The assembly convened at Geneva at eleven this morning under Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes, the German delegation's seats still empty on the floor.
As printed: 3 WESTERN SOLONS FACE CRUCIAL TEST IN PRIMARY POLLS
ContextWisconsin Republicans vote tomorrow in a contest between Governor John J. Blaine, backed by the La Follette progressives, and Senator Irving L. Lenroot, with the World Court, prohibition and the 'Madison ring' all mixed into it. Nevada and Arizona vote the same day, along with Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona go to the polls with Massachusetts and New Hampshire, while the League assembly at Geneva takes up Germany's admission and Spain's threatened withdrawal.
