The news, as printed onSaturday, September 25, 1926
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As printed: FIND THREE BODIES IN MINE DISASTER; 43 STILL TRAPPED
ContextA cage plunged to the bottom of a 2,600-foot shaft at the Oliver Iron Mining Company's Pabst mine at Ironwood, in Michigan's iron country, when rock and earth gave way on Friday. Three bodies were cut free today with acetylene torches, and rescuers say there is no danger from water or gas for the 43 men cut off on the eighth level.
ContextThe West Indian hurricane that struck south Florida late on Friday, September 17, is now followed by a harder second week: Governor Martin has ordered every civilian out of Moorehaven and the flooded Lake Okeechobee country for fear of disease, and the known dead stand at 364 with property loss put near $200,000,000. In Miami, two Marines and two Negroes were wounded in a shooting during the conscription of labor to clear wreckage, and troops, police and deputies were sent into the district.
As printed: New Champion Gets Great Welcome on His Arrival Home
ContextGene Tunney took the heavyweight title from Jack Dempsey in ten rounds at Philadelphia on Thursday night. He reached Pennsylvania Station at noon today to a crowd that tore his clothes and swarmed his car before he could get away to the City Hall reception.
As printed: ADMITS SHOOTING HIM TO SAVE FRIEND'S LIFE
ContextRoss Marvin, a Cornell professor, went north with Peary's 1909 expedition toward the Pole and was reported drowned on the return march. The New York publisher George Palmer Putnam, back from Greenland aboard the schooner Morrissey, reports that the Eskimo Kudlooktoo, converted to Christianity, has confessed to shooting Marvin to save a companion he says Marvin had cast out on the ice.
ContextA Nebraska county judge who has for years sentenced liquor-law violators to bread and water decided to try the diet himself for five days. He finished today ten pounds lighter and unrepentant.
Searchers at Ironwood hope to reach the 43 men on the eighth level, and Cincinnati meets the Cardinals in St. Louis tomorrow in the last game of the National League year.