In Manhattan, New York City, the Hotel Darlington, an apartment building under construction, collapsed, killing 20 people. Most of the dead were construction workers; also killed was Mrs. Ella Lacey Storrs, who was eating lunch in the dining room of the Hotel Patterson, a neighboring building.[16][17][18][19][20][21] One construction worker, Edwin Lask, would be rescued shortly after 2:00a.m. on March 4 after being trapped under debris for over 30 hours, but would die shortly afterwards on the way to the hospital.[19]
A major flood caused by the breaking of ice gorges began on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. It would continue through March 15, causing damage estimated at between $2,000,000 and $8,000,000. Several bridges were destroyed or seriously damaged.[28] The village of Collins, Pennsylvania, was destroyed. On the afternoon of March 8, after a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge was washed away, most of the village of Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania, was destroyed. The flood caused no fatalities.[29]
Near Irondale, Ohio, two Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad trains were attempting to cross a bridge over Yellow Creek close together when the bridge collapsed. Of the ten railroad employees on the two trains, six drowned and the other four were injured. Rain on March 3 had weakened the bridge.[46][47]
Beginning at noon at Novilly, France, Pini, an Italian fencing master, and Baron Athos di San Malatos fought a duel with swords which lasted for two hours and fifty minutes. The duel ended due to a blister on the palm of Malatos' right hand. Pini and Malatos were reconciled after the duel.[60]
In Berlin, Germany, former German Army officer and newspaper publisher Karl Bezeke killed himself and his entire family. Bezeke, who had lost his fortune, held a birthday dinner for his 19-year-old daughter, then poisoned his wife, his daughter, his 16- and 12-year-old sons and himself with potassium cyanide.[74]
In Springfield, Ohio, Patrolman Charles B. Collis, whom Richard Dickerson had shot the previous day, died of his injuries at noon. Late that evening a lynch mob of 1,750 men seized Dickerson from jail, shot him to death and then hung him from a telegraph pole, allowing the crowd to shoot at his body with revolvers for about 30 minutes.[61][62][65] According to the Newark Advocate, "Throughout it all perfect good order was maintained and every one seemed in the best of humor, joking with his nearest neighbor while reloading his revolver."[61]
In Springfield, Ohio, the day after Richard Dickerson was lynched, large numbers of sightseers visited the site of his death.[85] That evening, a mob of between 1000 and 1500 men attacked the "Levee", a district of saloons operated primarily by African Americans, burning down seven buildings valued at $11,600. There were no fatalities because the police had warned occupants to leave earlier in the day.[64][86]
An engagement outside the harbor of Port Arthur resulted in the sinking of two torpedo boats, one Russian and one Japanese.[58]
In Lenox, Massachusetts, high school junior Emily Hazel Crosby and four of her friends were injured in a sledding accident. Crosby died that night at the House of Mercy in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The accident may have inspired the climax of the 1911 novella Ethan Frome by Lenox resident Edith Wharton.[106]
In Carbondale, Illinois, 25 men attempted unsuccessfully to remove Thomas Vaughan, an African American man accused of assaulting a schoolteacher, from jail in order to lynch him. The sheriff arrested four members of the mob, who were released on bail. Deputy Jack Woodward was accidentally wounded with his own gun during the attack. Josh Walker, one of the men arrested, was quoted as saying that "the intention was to get the negro out without bloodshed."[107]
The cable layer (and former passenger liner) RMS Scotia was wrecked without loss of life on Gallallan Bank off Guam.[118]
In Burlington, Iowa, 52-year-old dairyman and milkman John Pierson disappeared. His body would be found in the Mississippi River on August 20, having been robbed and murdered. The case would never be solved.[119]
At about 11 p.m., a mob seized James Cummings, an African American man, from the Mojave, California, jail. The mob reportedly intended to tar and feather Cummings, but while kneeling with his hands raised he was shot in the head and killed. Testimony at the March 13 inquest would reveal that Cummings had been jailed due to an accusation of assault by a boy who then disappeared. There was absolutely no evidence that Cummings was guilty of any crime.[120][121]
In Ling, East Austria, German rioters interrupted a performance by Czech violinistJan Kubelík, throwing objects at him and forcing the concert to end. Further demonstrations necessitating police action took place outside Kubelík's hotel.[153]
At least three people, two of whom were teenagers, were killed and eight injured in an explosion of toy pistol caps at the Chicago Toy Novelty Company manufacturing plant in Chicago, Illinois.[155][156]
A tornado caused severe damage and killed one person in the village of Neyland, Texas.[179]
In Chicago, Illinois, General Frederick Dent Grant, attending the St. Patrick's Day banquet of the Irish Fellowship Club as the main guest, reportedly shocked society members by declining to respond to a toast to U.S. PresidentTheodore Roosevelt, saying, "I do not know the President of the United States."[180][181]
Two bombs exploded at Odessa University, and nine unexploded bombs were discovered. Two students were subsequently arrested.[196]
In Liège, Belgium, a bomb exploded outside the residence of the Commissioner of Police, killing a Belgian Army artillery officer who was examining it and seriously injuring six other people. An anarchist was believed to be responsible.[197]
1904 artist's rendering of the collision of Berwick Castle with A1
The New Orleans French Opera Company disbanded while on tour in New York City. The company's members had refused to perform the previous night because their salaries were overdue.[200]
General Frederick Dent Grant criticized the newspaper coverage of his remarks at the previous day's Irish Fellowship Club banquet, claiming that he had said he "did not know anything about the Presidency" and that "Presidency and President are distinct terms".[181]
In Cleveland, Mississippi, a masked lynch mob seized Fayette Sawyer and Burke Parris, African Americans charged with the murder of an African American porter, from jail and hanged them from a railroad bridge.[202]
In Buffalo, New York, U.S. Army Major Theodore A. Bingham was supervising the hoisting of a harbor launch when a falling derrick broke both of his legs.[211] One of Bingham's legs would be amputated on May 20.[212]
Architect Alfred Gutbur, the last Russian World's Fair official remaining in St. Louis, departed for Saint Petersburg.[213]
A major flood began on the Grand River in Michigan, believed to be the largest in the river's recorded history. It would continue through April 8, causing extensive damage.[223][224]
Mexican bullfighter "Cuckoo" was fatally gored by a dying bull in the arena at Juarez.[225]
Admiral Tōgō's fleet bombarded Port Arthur intermittently from midnight until 11 a.m.[58][236][237]
In Samung, north of Gensan (now Wonsan), Korea, Japanese forces suppressed a Korean uprising, killing five Koreans and wounding 25.[58][238]
On a houseboat on the White River in St. Charles, Arkansas, Jim Searcy, a white man, and two African American brothers, Henry and Walker Griffin, argued over a game of chance. One of the Griffin brothers struck Searcy. Upon arresting Griffin for assault, a police officer told him that he would be hanged. Griffin struck the officer and fled with his service weapon. The hunt for Griffin would result in the series of events known as the St. Charles Lynching of 1904.[239][240]
In Liège, Belgium, a presumed anarchist bomb on the windowsill of Police Commissioner Binet's residence was discovered before it could do any damage.[259]
Stanford UniversityathleteNorman E. Dole set an unofficial world record of 12feet 0.75inches (3.6767m) in the pole vault. The record could not be officially accepted because it was not set in open competition.[261]
James H. Jones, 73, American lawyer and politician, Confederate States Army officer, member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas[265]
In St. Charles, Arkansas, white men on horseback rode through the countryside accosting African Americans in response to the incident between Jim Searcy and the Griffin brothers on March 21.[239] A posse led by Deputy Sheriff P. A. Douglass shot and killed three African American men — Will Baldwin, Randall Flood and Will Madison — after they refused to provide information about the Griffins' location.[240][272][273] Between 60 and 70 African Americans, including men, women and children, were imprisoned in a St. Charles warehouse surrounded by white mobs who threatened to burn the warehouse down with the prisoners inside. A white witness later stated that the mob "wanted to exterminate the negro race."[239][240]
In St. Charles, Arkansas, five African American men were removed from the group of prisoners in the warehouse and arrested on charges of defiance toward the white officers. The five men — Abe Bailey, Mack Baldwin, Garrett Flood and Charlie and Jim Smith — were subsequently lined up and shot to death by about 50 white men.[239][240][279][280] The same morning, several white men shot and killed African American Aaron Hinton, who had fired into a posse.[240]
The opera Armida, the final work of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, received its world premiere at the National Theatre in Prague. Dvořák, dissatisfied with the production, left the performance early due to kidney pain.[1][286]
A serious flood began on the Mohawk River in New York; it would continue through March 31.[287]
In St. Charles, Arkansas, African American Perry Carter was found dead in the woods.[240][273][288]
In St. Charles, Arkansas, African American Kellis Johnson[240][273][288] and the brothers Henry and Walker Griffin, who had quarreled with Jim Searcy on March 21, were murdered. This concluded the massacre with a total death toll of 13, all African American men.[239][240][295][296]
Commander Hirose's Great Achievement by Hirose Yoshikuni
Japanese forces failed to block the channel at Port Arthur by sinking merchant steamships when Russian forces disabled four vessels before they could reach the entrance to the harbor.[58][311][312]
In New Haven, Connecticut, nearly 20 people were injured, eight of them seriously, in a human crush caused by a false shout of fire during a morning service at St. Michael's Italian Church.[316]
In Quincy, Illinois, a fire at the Hotel Newcomb caused the deaths of two guests, one of whom jumped from a third-story window.[317]
In Beaumont, Texas, Frederick Hoppert, a white lumber millwatchman, was shot and killed, reportedly as part of an ongoing labor and racial conflict that had already included the lynching of John Maynard, an African American man, in Montgomery, Texas, for the robbery and murder of Martin Surovak, a white lumberman.[318]
In Chongju, Korea, a land engagement resulted in three Russian deaths, five Japanese deaths and a retreat by Russian troops.[58][324][325][326]
Thomas Daly, a brother of comedian Dan Daly, who had died on March 26, died in Revere, Massachusetts. Thomas' death was the fifth in nine weeks in the Daly acting family.[327]
As part of the ongoing racial conflict in East Texas, African Americans Bob Childress and George Odum reportedly shot and killed white lumberman Tobe McKinney at Hooks station. Childress was wounded in a retaliatory attack and arrested, but Odum escaped. That night in Silsbee, Texas, Henry Bullock, a white man, was reportedly shot and killed, and two other white men seriously wounded, in an ambush by a group of African Americans.[318]
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