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ContextA Chicago and North Western suburban train from Barrington rounded a curve last night and plowed into the rear of a holiday special out of Elroy, Wisconsin, that had stopped to let passengers off at a station four miles from the Loop. The wooden coaches, pressed into service for the Labor Day rush, telescoped; five of the dead have been identified and about a hundred are hurt, and the suburban engineer has been placed under arrest.
As printed: Ex-Attorney General Seems Nervous as Proceedings Open
ContextHarry M. Daugherty was Attorney General under President Harding and resigned in 1924 amid the scandals of that administration; with him in the dock is Thomas W. Miller, the former Alien Property Custodian. They are charged with conspiring to defraud the government over the return of $7,000,000 in American Metals Company assets to German and Swiss interests — the first time a former Cabinet officer has stood trial for his conduct in office.
ContextWisconsin, New Hampshire, Arizona and Nevada choose Senate nominees today, with American membership in the World Court at The Hague running through all four contests. In Wisconsin, Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, who voted for entering the court, faces Governor John J. Blaine of the La Follette progressives, who opposes it; in New Hampshire, former Governor Bass is challenging Senator George H. Moses and says his campaign headquarters were entered in the night and papers stolen.
ContextA film caught fire beside an unscreened projector Sunday night in an upstairs wooden hall at Drumcollogher, near Limerick, and blocked the only doorway, killing dozens of villagers. At the coroner's inquest today the owner, William Ford, admitted he kept neither buckets of water nor sand, and the operator, Patrick Downing, sobbed as he told how the flames spread and said he had not wanted to start the show at all.
ContextOne of the season's heaviest rainstorms struck the metropolitan district at the height of the Labor Day rush, flooding Brooklyn subways waist-deep, washing out pavements and crippling light and power. Two men were killed on the third rail after jumping from a subway train during a panic when a landslide buried two trains, and some 200,000 were marooned at Coney Island.
