John Carr, a contractor, carried out a mass shooting at a hotel in Nebraska City, Nebraska, killing one man and wounding eight others, including two police officers.[1][2]
In Red Oak, Iowa, 32-year-old Harry Heaton Salisbury was robbed and murdered by being administered knockout drops and pushed off a footbridge over Red Oak Creek. The murder was never solved.[42]
Edmund (or Edmond) Bell, an African American man, was lynched8 miles (13km) from Selma, Alabama, by a 300-person masked African American mob for the August 2 murder of Houston Cruggs (or Scruggs), who was also African American.[48][49]
A conflagration in the old quarter of Strasbourg (then in the German Empire) destroyed an orphan asylum and the Sainte-Madeleine Church and caused $1,500,000 in damage.[65][66] The church would be rebuilt in 1907, destroyed again in 1944 during World War II, and once again rebuilt in 1958.
Paraguayan President Juan Antonio Escurra declared a state of siege as a result of the Liberal rebellion.[15]
An earthquake with a magnitude estimated at 6.8 Ms and 7.0–7.2 Mw struck 10 kilometres (6.2mi) north of Cape Turnagain, New Zealand. The quake, the largest in New Zealand since 1888, caused one death and extensive damage.[71][72]
On the Paraguay River near Pilar, Paraguay, the rebel vessel Sojonia defeated the government vessel Villa Rica in battle. 28 government sailors were killed.[15]
Ten spectators at the annual regatta on the Potomac River at Georgetown drowned when the gasoline launch Recreation capsized. Four people were rescued.[109][110]
Reed and Cato chained to a tree stump prior to their deaths
In Statesboro, Georgia, a lynch mob invaded a courthouse where two African-American men, Paul Reed and Will Cato, had just been convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of five members of a white family. The lynchers chained Reed and Cato to a tree stump and burned them to death.[119][120]
During exercises off Newport, Rhode Island, the U.S. Navy submarine Porpoise suddenly plunged to the ocean floor at a depth of 120 feet (37m). The sub's 8-man crew worked desperately for 20 minutes to bring her back up. When their efforts seemed to have failed, the sub unexpectedly resurfaced.[169]
Died:George Leander, 21, American track cyclist, co-winner of the Six Days of New York in 1902 and American stayer champion in 1903, died in Paris of injuries sustained in a race crash.[128][171][172]
American boxer James J. Jeffries retained the world heavyweight championship by knocking out challenger Jack Munroe in the second round of a bout at Mechanic's Pavilion in San Francisco, California.[182][183]
Fire in Antwerp
A major fire began in Hoboken, Antwerp, which killed 7 workmen, destroyed 40 oil tanks containing 26,500,000 US gallons (100,000,000L; 22,100,000impgal) of petroleum and caused an estimated $1,250,000 in damage.[184]
Near Portal, Georgia, five men abducted Sebastian McBride, an African American man, from his house, brought him to the woods and whipped and shot him. Before dying from his injuries, McBride identified three of his assailants, all of them white men, to the sheriff.[200]
In a shootout on the main street of Silver City, New Mexico, Constable Perfecto Rodriguez was shot and killed and three other men, including City Marshal William Kilburn, were seriously wounded.[204][205] Kilburn died of his wounds the following day.[205]
In Laramie, Wyoming, a mob lynched Joseph Martin, an African American man who worked as a "trusty" in the county jail, for an alleged attack on a white girl.[207]
Died:Murad V, 63, former Ottoman Sultan, died of diabetes.[209][210]
Marathon winner Thomas Hicks resting after the race
The 1904 Olympic marathon, one of the strangest events in the history of the modern Olympic Games, took place in St. Louis, Missouri. The race was held in 90°F (32°C) temperatures, with only two water sources available, 6 miles (9.7km) and 12 miles (19km) along the 40-kilometre (25mi) course, due to Olympic organizer James Edward Sullivan's desire to conduct research on "purposeful dehydration". The first man to cross the finish line, American runner Frederick Lorz (who would win the Boston Marathon the following year), was disqualified due to having ridden most of the distance in a car after dropping out 9 miles (14km) into the race. The actual winner, English-born American runner Thomas Hicks, was administered strychnine and brandy during the race by his support team, who ultimately carried him across the finish line while he shuffled his feet in the air. Hicks' winning time of 3:28:53 remains the slowest in Olympic marathon history. Cuban runner Andarín Carvajal finished fourth despite taking a nap in the middle of the race after eating rotten apples. The ninth and twelfth place finishers, Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani, were the first South Africans to compete in the Olympics. American runner William Garcia collapsed on the course and nearly died from hemorrhaging due to inhaling dust kicked up by race officials' cars.[211][212][213]
Geza Mattachich, the former lover of Princess Louise of Belgium, rescued her from a hotel in Bad Elster, Germany, where she was undergoing a thermal cure as part of her 6-year internment due to alleged mental illness.[217]
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