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1913


1913:


1913 / Spring Valley, N.Y., Devil / See May 7, 1928. [D; 601. See: (1928 May 7).]


1913 / About this time James Brandon, occultist, lived in Nashville? / See Dec 21, 1930. [D; 602. See: (1930 Dec 21).]


1913 / H.H. / Kingston, England / See 1909. [D; 603. See: 1909, (D: 262).]


1913 / Mrs. John Bennett, Gloversville, N.Y. / See May 23, 1914. [D; 604. See: (1914 May 23).]


1913 / Disap / Bierce. [D; 605. (Ref.???)]


1913 / Jupiter in Sagittarius. [MB-I; 255. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1913.)]


1913 / Few sunspots / Nature 95/75. [MB-I; 256. (Nature, 95-75.)]


1913 / Airship / Alleged airships over Ladysmith in 1901, time of siege. [MB-I; 257. (Ref.???)]


1913 Jan, Feb / Eng / Canada. [MB-I; 258. (Refs.???)]


1913 Jan / Airships / See seeming projectile, March 12. [MB-I; 259. See: (March 12).]


1913 Jan/ Balloon / Winnipeg / July 8 or 1st, 1896. [MB-I; 260. See: (1896 July 1 or 8)???]


1913 Jan / Balloon / Cape Hatteras / June 17, 1881. [MB-I; 261. See: (1881 June 17).]


1913 Jan. / The McDarment (Texas) obj / June 14, 1921. [MB-I; 262. See: (1921 June 14).]


1913 Jan / Airshops / See Dec 26, 1923. [MB-I; 263. See: (1923 Dec 26).]


1913 Jan. / Airships / March, 1909 (+) / May 22, 1910 / Aug 17, 1910. [MB-I; 264. See: (1909 March); (1910 May 22); and, (1910 Aug 17).]


1913 Jan / Airships / See Oct. 14, 1912. [MB-I; 265. See: (1912 Oct 14).]


1913 Jan / Airships / See March 23, 1909. [MB-I; 266. See: (1909 March 23).]


1913 / Airship fired on / Aug 6, 1913. [MB-I; 267. See: (1913 Aug 6).]


1913 Jan / Light / sky / See Oct 10, 1913. [MB-I; 268. See: (1913 Oct 10).]


1913 Jan / Airship / Aug 17, 1910. [MB-I; 269. See: (1910 Aug 17).]


1913 Jan. / Airship. / Ap. 11, 1907. [MB-I; 270. See: (1907 Ap. 11).]


1913 Jan / Lights / Lights of some kind when Titanic sank, Ap., 1912. [MB-I; 271. See: (1912 Ap.).]


1913 Jan / See Roy Asso pubs. / tampering with planes. [MB-I; 272. (Royal Aero???)]


1913 Jan / “Eruption in Eimmart of the moon / Nature 92-595. [MB-I; 273. "Change in Lunar Crater Eimmart." Nature, 92 (January 22, 1914): 595.]


1913 Jan / Light in Eimmart / See Sept. 22, 1915. [MB-I; 274. See: 1915 Sept 22, (X; 484).]


[The following six notes were clipped together by Fort. MB-I: 275-280.]


1913 Jan / Minnesota airship / Nov. 3, 1899. [MB-I; 275. See: 1899 Nov. 3, (C; 433).]


1913 Jan / Airships / Aug 17, 1910 / and Sept. [MB-I; 276. See: (1910 Aug 17), and, (Sept.).]


1913 Jan / Airships / Minn. / Dec 5, 1897. [MB-I; 277. See: 1897 Dec 5, (C; 367).]


1913 Jan / Eskimo story of vessel / May 11, 1912. [MB-I; 278. See: (1912 May 11).]


1913 Jan. / Airship / Ohio / May 22, 1910. [MB-I; 279. See: (1910 May 22).]


1913 Jan / Eskimo stories of airships / See Jan 4, 1910. [MB-I; 280. See: (1910 Jan 4).]


1913 Jan / From Jan 1a discussion in D. Mail by cors, of myst lights like those reported by Earl of Erne. Precedes the light reported at Dover. [D; 606. (London Daily Mail, ca. January, 1913.)]


[1913 Jan 1 /] 1912 Jan 1 / q. / Union, S.C. / Index to Dates. [MB-I; 71. “Earthquakes.” Index to Dates of Current Events, July 1913. (Check newspapers of this date for ref.)]


1913 Jan 1 / N and S Car / Georgia and Va. / q / paper on / Bull Seis Soc 1913/6. [MB-I; 281. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 1913-6.)]


1913 Jan 1 / San Fran. girl's case / See Aug 13. [D; 607. See: (1913 Aug 13).]


1913 Jan. 2 / D. Express, 1-5 / Stories of a B. Museum mummies influence. / [LT], 26-13-e / 25-14-d. [D; 608. (London Daily Express, January 2, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.) (London Times, January 26, 1913, p. 13 c. 5.) (London Times, January 25, 1913, p. 14 c. 4.)]


1913 Jan 3 / Red snowin the Voralberg District, Switzerland / D. Express 7-1-3. [MB-282. (London Daily Express, January 7, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 Jan. 3 / night / Hurricane / New York. [MB-I; 283. (Ref.???)]


[The following eleven notes were clipped together by Fort. MB-I: 284-294.]


1913 Jan 4 / early morning / 5 a.m. / Light travelling at great speed, at Dover, by John Hobbs, a Dover corporation employee. / D. Express 6-7-? / Reported by Police Constable Pierce. / Great speed in half a gale. [MB-I: 284.1, 284.2. (London Daily Express, January 6, 1913, p. 7.)]


1913 Jan. 4 / Myst of the Dover airship is that it crossed the coast and disappeared inland. / Lloyd's W. News 5-1-3. [IX; 2109. (Lloyd's Weekly News, January 5, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 Jan 5 / Weekly Dispatch, 11-3 / “Three 'corpses' that came to life while being prepared for burial,” one in Ireland, one in France, one in Belgium.[D; 609. (London Weekly Dispatch, January 5, 1913, p. 11 c. 3.)]


1913 Jan 5 / With Celeste / Weekly Dispatch, Feb. 9 / Certainly strange disap aboard the steamer Van Noort, which upon arrival at Singapore, the Capt reported “the suicide or, rather the mysterious disappearance of three sisters from his vessel, evening of Jan 5th, 1913. A letter signed by the 3 sisters, bequeathing their baggage to the Captain, In their cabin, bottle of chloroform, nearly empty. [D: 610.1, 610.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, February 9, 1913.)]


1913 Jan 5 and 12 / See Jan 1. [D; 611. See: (Jan 1).]


1913 Jan 10 / D. Mail of / Invasion of ants of a foreign species at Gloucester. [MB-I; 295. (London Daily Mail, January 10, 1913.)]


1913 Jan 10-17 / Ab 8 cases of attacks on girls. Bound with wire, etc. / D. Express 17-5-4—at Beccles. / See Dec. [D; 612. See: 1912 Dec 5, (D; 595); 1912 Dec 9, (D: 596); and, 1912 Dec 16, (D; 599).]


1913 Jan 11 / 7:30 p.m. / Met by Prof L.G. Leon which apparently emerged from Capella and finished very near Betelgeuse. / Pop Astro 21-178 / Observatory of City of Mexico. [MB-I; 296. Léon, Luis G. “A Beautiful Shooting Star.” Popular Astronomy, 21 (no. 3; March 1913): 178.]


1913 Jan 12 / ab. 6 p.m. / Metite / Banswal (Dehra Dun), India / R—Ap 18, '38. [MB-I; 297. Refer to: (Ap 18, 1838).


1913 Jan 13 / Aeroplane crossing the Thames near Purfleet, seen to falter and then drop into the river, drowning the 2 men in it. / D. Express 14-1-2. [MB-I; 298. (London Daily Express, January 14, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 Jan 13 / Sound of motor in the sky reported at Great Yarmouth / D. Express 22-5-5. [MB-I; 299. (London Daily Express, January 22, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 Jan 13 / Hot windstorm / Tasmania / Sci. Am. 108-337. [MB-I; 300. (Scientific American, n.s., 108-337.)]


1913 Jan 13 / A warm breeze and clouds of dust at Hobart Town. / Daily Post (H.T.), Jan 14. [MB-I; 301. (Hobart Daily Post, January 14, 1913.)]


1913 Jan 13 / Cyclone in orchard district of Southern Tasmania. Pears, apples, plums, apricots stripped from the trees. Infurious gusts the trees went. / D. Post, Jan. 15. [MB-I; 302. Hobart Daily Post, January 15, 1913.)]


1913—Jan 13 / “The heat scorched the fruit that remained on the trees.” / D.P. 16-4-8. [MB-I; 303. (Hobart Daily Post, January 16, 1913, p. 4 c. 8.)]


1913 Jan 13 / In Tasmania Mail, described as a “fiery wind”, and “fiery blasts”, but no details of fierceness. In another account said that in the Derwent Valley the wind was of almost cyclonic force and the heat like blasts from a furnace. [MB-I; 304. (Tasmania Mail, January 13, 1913.)]


1913 Jan. 13 / (Mars) / Slight bulge. Tharsis appeared covered with yellow matter. / Mems BAA 20/121. [MB-I; 305. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 121.]


1913 Jan 14 / Mr. H.A. Pertwee, of the engineering firm of Pertwee and Black, Great Yarmouth, ab. midnight heard an aeroplane or airship crossing the town. / D. Express 22-5-5. [MB-I; 285. (London Daily Express, January 22, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 / ab Jan 15 / Began the Williamsburg slasher—see June 16. [D; 613. See: (1913 June 16).]


1913 Jan 16 / [LT], 6-e / Feb 26-6-d / Comet. [MB-I; 306. (London Times, January 16, 1913, p. 6 c. 5.) (London Times, February 26, 1913, p. 6 c. 4.)]


1913 Jan 19 / 7:30 p.m. / Airship bearing a light near Wolverhampton / Lloyds W. News 26-4-2. [MB-I; 307. (Lloyds Weekly News, January 26, 1913, p. 4 c. 2.)]


1913 Jan 20 / Violent eruption of Colima, ab. 50 miles n.e. of Manzanillo, Mexxico. / D. Express 22-1-6. [MB-I; 308. (London Daily Express, January 22, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Jan. 20 / 10-ton meteorite fell near Etna, Pa. Reported. / Index to Dates. [MB-I; 309. (Index to Dates.)]


1913 Jan 21 / D. Express, 1-6 / In Cemetary of Beziers, a woman saw a statue of the Virgin covered with moss. She started to remove it. Statue spoke to her—much excitement. [D; 614. (London Daily Express, January 21, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Jan 25 / 4 a.m. / Severe shock / Constantinople / D. News 27-1-2. [MB-I; 310. (London Daily News, January 27, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 Jan 25 / bet 7 and 8:30 p.m. / Light travelling over Liverpool / reported by 5 persons / D. Express 28-5-7. [MB-I; 286. (London Daily Express, January 28, 1913, p. 5 c. 7.)]


1913 Jan 25 / 4 a.m. / Severe q. / Turkey. / D. Mail 27-7-2. [MB-I; 311. (London Daily Mail, January 27, 1913, p. 7 c. 2.)]


1913 Jan 27 / night / Obj like a huge ball carrying a light over Manchester. / D. Express 31-5-2 / No sound heard. [MB-I; 287. (London Daily Express, January 31, 1913, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1913 Jan 31 / Derry Journal / Hair / At Luton, a young man, Horace George Pearson, pleaded guilty of cutting holes in women's coats. Upon him, found scissors and a quantity of hair of different colors. [D; 615. (Derry Journal, January 31, 1913.)]


1913 Jan 31-Feb 1 / night / At Lemberg an object believed to be a Russian aeroplane was fired at. / D. Express, Feb 3-7-2. [MB-I; 288. (London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7 c. 2.)]


1913 Feb 1 / 8:45 p.m. / At Croydon, reported by Mr. Trubshaive, of Fairfield-road, E. Croydon, something from which issued rays of light crossed rapidly from s.e. to n.w. / D. Express 3-7-2. [MB-I; 289. (London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7 c. 2.)]


1913 Feb. 2 / L.T. 6-8-d / Body found, London, decapitated. Early in morning. Was of Miss Maud Frances Davies, aged 37, who had been travelling around the world, On railroad tracks of the Underground Railway, near the Kensington High-street station. Had arrived in London afternoon of Feb. 1. “A police sergeant said that there was no sign of a struggle, and appearance indicated that Miss avies had placed her head upon the track.” “Dr Townsend said that over the heart he found a number of small punctured wounds, over a dozen of which had penetrated the muscles, and one had entered the ventricle cavities of the heart. These punctures had been caused in life, with a sharp instrument, such as a hat pin. They were not enough to cause death, but had been made a few hours previously.” [D: 616.1 to 616.4. ("Woman Decapitated on the Metropolitan Railway." London Times, February 6, 1913, p.8 c.4.)]


1913 Feb 3-4 / 6 fires of unknown origin in a house at Elliott's-row, Lambeth. In all floors. Each floor occupied by dif. lodgers. / D. Express 5-5-3. [D; 617. (London Daily Express, February 5, 1913, p. 5 c. 3.)]


1913 Feb 6 / 8:21 p.m. / Providence, R.I. / fireball / U.S. W B Rept (N. Eng Sec), Feb. [MB-I; 312. (U.S. Weather Bureau Report, New England Section, February 1913.)]


1913 Feb 9 / S / Procession / Lights / Canada / 156. [IX; 2110. (Ref.??? Chant's Meteor Train???)]


1913 Feb 9 / Meteors / Nature, Ap. 27, 1913, p. 181. [IX; 2111. (Nature, April 27, 1913, p. 181.)]


1913 Feb 9 / Train of meteors / See Oct 16, 1927. [IX; 2112. See: (19127 Oct 16).]


[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. IX: 2113-2115.]


1913 Feb 9 / In the Bermuda Colonist, Feb 17, William R. Winter describes as he saw them—at 9 p.m. a procession 90 degrees in length, but he thinks the head of the procession was of two parts of a broken meteor, each the size of the moon, and that the other objects were flakes cast off. They travelled from n.w. to s-s-east. [IX: 2113.1, 2113.2. (Bermuda Colonist, February 17, 1913.)]


1913 Feb 14 / Bermuda Colonist of / Great meteorite fallen few days before at Etna, Pa., near Pittsburgh. [IX; 2114. (Bermuda Colonist, February 14, 1913.)]


1913 Feb 9 / Bermuda Colonist, Feb 12—"An interesting spectacle was witnessed in heavens on Sunday night (9th) about 10 p.m. A large cluster of stars was seen travelling from north to south-east, many brighter than the others." [IX; 2115. (Bermuda Colonist, February 12, 1913.)]


1913 Feb 9 / Flames / confess / Weekly Dispatch, 1-3. / 17-year-old girl from island of Skye in the Domestic Training School, at Rutherglen, near Glasgow—named Mary Bain—ac to her confession, 7 times set fire to places in the school, in January, “with the idea of making herself unpopular so that she would be sent home”. But not confess till a fire seen in her room where she was and she was accused. [D: 618.1, 618.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, February 9, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 Feb 9 / Weekly Dispatch, 6-4 / 2 a.m., in Underground Railway, near Kensington Station, found the body of Maud Frances Davies, aged 37, well known for socialistic writings and philanthropic work. Body decapitated. Also strangely wounded. Five punctures, such as a hat pin might make, over the heart, one of them through the heart. No hat pin in hat, and no hat pin found. [D: 619.1, 619.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, February 9, 1913, p. 6 c. 4.)]


1913 Feb 9 / See Milne case, Oct. 15, 1912. [D; 620. See: 1912 / ab Oct 15, (D; 582).]


1913 Feb 10 / Flight of meteors / See Dec 21, 1876. [IX; 2116. See: (1876 Dec 21).]


1913 Feb 10 / String of meteors / See Aug 1, 1874. [IX; 2117. See: (1874 Aug 1).]


1913 Feb. 10 / Coyle River / Patagonia / 6 a.m. / almost deafening explosive sound—Nature 91-136. [IX; 2118. (Nature, 91-136.)]


1913 Feb 10 / Mets—see Aug 11, 1867. [IX; 2119. See: (1867 Aug 11).]


1913 Feb 11 / 2 shocks / Millinocket, Maine / Index to dates. [IX; 2120. (Index to dates???)]


1913 Feb 14 / Neither rice nor typhoon in N. China Herald. [IX; 2121.]


1913 Feb 14 / night / Rain of rice at Shanghai. Explained in D. Express, March 31-7-3, that in a typhoon some miles away the roof of a granary been swept away, and the rice carried. [IX; 2122. (London Daily Express, March 31, 1913, p. 7 c. 3.)]


1913 Feb. 16 / Lloyd's W. News, 13-1. / Animal, believed be a mongoose, killed at Brooklands Farm, Bolney, Sussex. [D; 621. (Lloyd's Weekly News, February 16, 1913, p. 13 c. 1.)]


1913 Feb 18 / D. Mail, 8-4 / The Phantom bandits of France arrested. [D; 622. (London Daily Mail, February 18, 1913, p. 8 c. 4.)]


1913 Feb 18 / Ph. Bandits / See Oct 4, 1910. [D; 623. See: 1910 Oct 4, (D: 428).]


1913 Feb / Daily Mail, Feb. 27 / Myst lights / Feb 21—Selby, Scarborough, Bridlington / 22—9:30 p.m., Corbridge-on-Tyne / 24—Ipswich, Portsmouth, and Withernsea, Yorkshire / 25th—“night”—Hull, Grimsby, Leeds. / 8 p.m.—Portshead, Somerset. / 9:20—Dover. / 9:30—Castle Downington, Derbyshire. / 26th—evening—Bristol. [MB-I: 313.1, 313.2. (London Daily Mail, February 27, 1913.)]


1913 Feb. 21 / Airship seen in Longford and Exhall, Ireland. / Lloyd's W News 23-1-5. [IX; 2123. (Lloyd's Weekly News, February 23, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 Feb. 21 / light in sky / 9:25 at Selby by C.H. March, a solicitor. / D. Express 24-7-4 / Bright light seen ¾ hour by Mr. J. Creasor at Riccall ab 8 p.m. [MB-I; 290. (London Daily Express, February 24, 1913, p. 7 c. 4.)]


1913 Feb. 22 / night / Bright light moving in sky north of Scarborough, reported by James Boyce, a member of the Scarborough Town Council. / D. Express 25-1-2. [MB-I; 291. (London Daily Express, February 25, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 Feb. 22 / D. Express, 5-5 / Woman and a porter and luggages disappear in a fog, at Bristol. [D; 624. (London Daily Express, February 22, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 Feb 22-24 / 40 hours, shocks and sounds like cannonading at Westport, New Zealand. / D. Express 25-1-4. [IX; 2124. (London Daily Express, February 25, 1913, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1913 Feb. 22 / q at Vieux (Calvados), France. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1913-189. [IX; 2125. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1913-189.)]


1913 Feb. 24 / [LT], 6-b / Sunspot in high North Latitude. [IX; 2126. (London Times, February 24, 1913, p. 6 c. 2.)]


1913 Feb. 24 / Light / Soon after 8 p.m. at Gosport / D. Express 26-1-7. [MB-I; 292. (London Daily Express, February 26, 1913, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1913 Feb. 24 / Reported by Mr. Edgar Moore, of Henniker-road, Ipswich / D,. Express 26-1-7. [MB-I; 293. (London Daily Express, February 26, 1913, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1913 Feb. 24 / D. News, 5-2 / Porter-woman mystery of Bristol. Said that the police had heard from the woman, who had reached her home safely, but that the porter remained unaccounted for. [D; 625. (London Daily News, February 24, 1913, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1913 Feb 25, about / "Airships reported from West Flanders. / Westminster Gaz., Feb 25. [IX; 2127. (Westminster Gazette, February 25, 1913.)]


1913 Feb. 25 / Ab. dusk at Plymouth “a great shadowy shape” circling above the town / D. Express 27-1-2. [MB-I; 294. (London Daily Express, February 27, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


[1913 Feb. 26. Wrong date. See: 1912 Feb 24, (IX; 2128).]


1913 Feb. 26 / NY Times, 1-6 / 27-4-4 / Big explosion in Spain. [IX; 2129. (New York Times, February 26, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.) (New York Times, February 27, 1913, p. 4 c. 4.)]


1913 Feb 26 / Village of Tenan, Egypt, destroyed by fire. 476 houses burned down. / Egyptian Gazette, March 1. [D; 626. (Egyptian Gazette, March 1, 1913.)]


1913 Feb. 28 / D. Mail, March 1-3-5 / An unknown balloon at Compton, near Guildford. It came so close to earth that it dragged through trees. Nothing known of it, but it came from direction of Aldershot. There were 4 men in the car. [MB-I; 314. (London Daily Mail, March 1, 1913, p. 3 c. 5.)]


1913 Feb. 28 / I find nothing in Guildford and Godalming Free Press. [MB-I; 315.]


1913 / ab. March 2 / War balloon escapes at Aldershot. / D News 3-3-3. [MB-I; 316. (London Daily News, March 3, 1913, p. 3 c. 3.]


1913 March / Balloon at Guildford was a war balloon. [X; 1. (Ref.???)]


1913 March / Period of Suffragist outrages, fires, etc. When they destroyed, the left “literature”. Can't think this of these remote villages. [D; 627. (Ref.???)]


1913 March 1-15 / Have D. News. [D; 628. London Daily News.]


1913 March 2 / Village of El Kobbi, near Cairo, Egypt / ab 6 p.m. / 60 wooden houses and 6 stone houses burned down. / Eg. Gazette 5-4-4. [D; 629. (Egyptian Gazette, March 5, 1913, p. 4 c. 4.)]


1913 March 3 / Village outside Cairo, Egypt, in the afternoon destroyed by fire. / D. News 3-1-6. [D; 630, (London Daily News, March 3, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 March 3 / Village of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire (ab 30 houses) destroyed by fire—first seen upon roof of a cottage. / Westminster Gazette, March 4 / no trace found inside the cottage / See Aug 10, / near St. Ives. [D; 631. (Westminster Gazette, March 4, 1913.) See: 1913 Aug 10, (X; 147).]


1913 March 3 / All burned down but the double line of chimney stacks—all in dense smoke, but sparks from these chimneys. [D; 632. (Refs.???)]


1913 March 3 / Daily News 5-7-1 / It said that the amazing fire was the talk of the countryside—that down all roads crowds were swarming to see the mass of cinders that had once been a village of 28 houses. [D; 633. (London Daily News, March 5, 1913, p. 7 c. 1.)]


1913 March 3 / Swavesy / ab. noon / Cambridge Daily News. [D; 634. (Cambridge Daily News, ca. March 1913.)]


1913 March 4 / “Another disastrous fire in Cairo, Egypt. / D. News 6-1-6. [D; 635. (London Daily News, March 6, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 March 4 / House, junction of St Ives and Huntingdon roads, burns down. Said fire first seen in a beam leading to the chimney—Beam been there. Said that for many years house been a noted landmark. / Cambridge Daily News, March 4. [D; 636. (Cambridge Daily News, March 4, 1913.)]


1913 March 5 / Building in Rattleson blazed up—unknown cause. 3rd outbreak in 3 months. / Bury and Norwich Post, March 14. [D; 637. (Bury and Norwich Post, March 14, 1913.)]


1913 March 5 / At Soham, ab. noon. Thatched roof catches fire. / Cambridge Daily News, 5th / Supposed from chimney. Point is that these thatched roofs and chimneys existed generations and no fires. [D; 638. (Cambridge Daily News, March 5, 1913.)]


1913 March 7 / Santiago, Chile / strong shock / South American Journal, Ap. 5 / N.M. [X; 2. (South American Journal, April 5, 1913.)]


1913 March 7 / Another village partly burned down—fire in Cambridgeshire. Wicken, on the fringe of the Cambridge fens. / D. News, 8-2-7 / “The fire started in the roof of a cottage. / Thatched roofs. [D; 639. (London Daily News, March 8, 1913, p. 2 c. 7.)]


1913 March 7 / Wicken is near Soham. Roof of cottages been occupied 46 years by the people in it. Never fire from chimney before. / 10:15 a.m. / Cambridge Daily News, 9th. [D; 640. (Cambridge Daily News, March 9, 1913.)]


1913 March 7 / Dynamite ship at Baltimore blows up—reported in Del., Penn., N.J., as an earthquake. [D; 641. “50 Killed, 60 Hurt When Dynamite Blows Up Steamer.” New York Tribune, March 8, 1913, p. 1 c. 7 & p. 2 c. 1-4.]


1913 March 7 / 10:30 a.m./ Explosion of 300 tons of dynamite at Baltimore. / Trib 8-2-3, etc. / Felt nearly 100 miles from Balt. Extraordinary. Said felt a tremor at Bridgeton, N.J., at 10:50. [D; 642. “50 Killed, 60 Hurt When Dynamite Blows Up Steamer.” New York Tribune, March 8, 1913, p. 1 c. 7 & p. 2 c. 1-4. “Explosion Felt For Miles.” New York Tribune, March 8, 1913, p. 2 c. 3.]


1913 March 10 / ab 11 a.m. / Explosion of Nobel Explosive Co's works at Stevenson, Ayrshire. People in Ayr, 16 miles away, in a panic. / D. Mail, 17th. [X; 3. (London Daily Mail, March 17, 1913.)]


1913 March 10 / At a fireclay co's works, at Falkirk, a fatal explosion. / D. Mail 11-7-4. [X; 4. (London Daily Mail, March 11, 1913, p. 7 c. 4.)]


1913 March 10 / At Huntingston, near Swavesey, 200 sheep killed “by dogs”. / D News 11-7-6. [D; 643. (London Daily News, March 11, 1913, p. 7 c. 6.)]


1913 Mar. 11 / NY Times, 5-2 / Town in Scotland wrecked by explosion. [D; 644. (New York Times, March 11, 1913, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1913 March 12 / D. News—18-1-6 / Off Sotta, Corsica, a naval squadron carrying out gun practice. Sometime after this stopped, an explosion in the town and a house was destroyed. Said that could not have been a stray shell from a ship; that before the explosion a train of fire had been seen in the air, and it was thought the house been struck by a meteorite. [X: 5.1, 5.2. (London Daily News, March 18, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 March 13 / [LT], 5-d / Moon and the Pleiades. [X; 6. (London Times, March 13, 1913, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1913 March 14 / q. eastern Mindanao / registered all over world / Nature 93-569 / See Ap. 18. [X; 7. "Notes." Nature, 93 (July 30, 1914): 564-569, at 569. See: 1913 Ap. 18, (X; 82).]


1913 March 14 / 5 p.m. / At Menado, seismic wave and 3 shocks. At Amoerang, a great part of the coast broken off. / Straits Times, Ap. 2-9-5. [X; 8. (Straits Times, April 2, 1913, p. 9 c. 5.)]


1913 March 14 / Great q, Sangir Island, near Celebes. 107 killed. / D. Mail, Ap 1-5-7. [X; 9. (London Daily Mail, April 1, 1913, p. 5 c. 7.)]


1913 March 14 / Severe q in the Celebes. / N. Zealand Times, Ap. 2. [X; 10. (New Zealand Times, April 2, 1913.)]


1913 March 16 / At Nuneaton, Warwickshire, a woman murdered. After that a man pounced several times upon women, and stabbed one in June. / Weekly Dispatch, June 29-5-5. [D; 645. (London Weekly Dispatch, June 29, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 March 18-19 / Wagon Wheel Gap, Colorado / dust and snow / MWR, April, 1913. [X; 11. (Monthly Weather Review, April 1913.)]


1913 March 18-25 / Rainless in the United Provinces (India) except in the hills. / Homeward Mail, Ap. 19. [X; 12. (Homeward Mail, April 19, 1913.)]


1913 March 19 / Venus greatest brilliancy. [X; 13. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1913.)]


1913 March / Similar clbursts wide area Aug, 1906, with Chile q. [X; 14. (Ref.???)]


1913 March 22 / (L) / Weather forecast, L.T., March 22, "Atmospheric conditions favorable for small cyclonic disturbances. / L.T., 24th / Afternoon in Southern England, a th. storm followed by a gale. Shortly before midnight 22-23, 200 yards of the pier at Worthing swept away—seawall at Hastings broken down. In London, severest in 8 years. "In the height of the gale a fine old tree in Parliament street was discovered to be on fire, and after burning for some time was entirely destroyed." Great fire at Tunbridge Wells "during the height of the gale". Nothing said of origin—first seen in the top of a building. [X: 15.1, 15.2, 15.3. (London Times, March 22, 1913.) (London Times, March 24, 1913.)]


1913 March 22 / Violent th. storms in Victoria— trees stripped of their fruits. / Melb Age 24-8-7 / On 25th, rain heavy. Rain throughout Victoria. / 26-8-8 / On 26th, raining generally in Australia. In Queensland, very heavy rains. / Ap 1-8-7. [X; 16. (Melbourne Age, March 24, 1913, p. 8 c. 7.) (Melbourne Age, March 26, 1913, p. 8 c. 8.) (Melbourne Age, April 1, 1913, p. 8 c. 7.)]


[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. X: 17-19.]


1913 March 23 / Elec. storm / In the three western tiers of Kansas counties, an unusual electrical storm. / No rain. / Prairie fire. Air filled with dust. "In Thomas County, it was reported that all green vegetation was killed, and in Sheridan Co., the wheat turned brown after the storm." / M.W.Rev., March, p. 416. [X: 17.1, 17.2. (Monthly Weather Review, March 1913, p. 416.)]


1913 March 23 / The elec phe of Kansas / See Australia, Jan 22, 1902. [X; 18. See: 1902 Jan 22, (VIII: 981, 984, 985, & 991).]


1913 March 23 / Kansas phe / The worst prairie fire in Kansas in many years sweeping over Gray, Scott, Ford, Finney, Hodgeman Counties, Kansas. / San Fran. Chronicle 25-1-4 / One fire started in Finney Co and went eastward. Another began north of Ingalls, in Gray County. [X: 19.1, 19.2. (San Francisco Chronicle, March 25, 1913, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1913 March 23, etc. / Phe and snowfall / See May 8, 1902. [X; 20. See: (1902 May 8).]


1913 March 23 / Say that it is our strong point not to attack the Weather Bureau, and we know we should resist giving any digs at it—but that if all this water was in terrestrial clouds, certainly the Bureau efficient enough to know that. [X; 21.]


1913 March 23 / Cyclone in Ill, Ind, Kan, Oklahoma, Neb, Dakota. Great damage—Governor of Kansas asked to call out militia to prevent looting. / Herald. / Herald, 25—"Triple Tornado Blasts Kill 236 in the West. At Omaha, "blocks and blocks of shapeless heaps of wreckage".—Trolley car with 15 persons in it, picked from the tracks and rolled along a street. In issue of Herald, 25, some mention of heavy rains in Ohio. One turns Herald to read more of tornados—"5,000 Reported Drowned in Ohio and Indiana; Floods Drive 250,000 from Homes. In confusion one reads of life savers sending breeches buoys to people in trees—bodies swirling past windows of hotels in Dayton, Ohio—that the last message that came from Dayton, Ohio, told to total darkness, roar of flood, cries of persons imprisoned in houses. p. 5—"Dayton caught napping", which means no forecasting—and back to the cyclone—reproductions of 3 photos of wreckage by the cyclone in Tennessee. / And more confusion. That at Hornell, N.Y., the worst flood in a decade follows 30 hours of rain. Herald, 27th / 3,262 known drowned—death-ridden Dayton, bulletins reporting new tragedies at the rate of one a minute.—But now floods in Pennsylvania. "Heavy cloudburst near Patterson, N.J." Floods in the Adirondacks and in central New York to Troy and Albany. And still the terrific tornado does not drown—photographed wreckage in Omaha—thousands engaged in burying their dead, and others still searching.ᾗ28th—that the list of dead in Columbus, Ohio, would probably equal a thousand.—Still the tornado, now known as the Omaha Tornado—photos of cellars and foundations where there had been homes—factories closed—trains stopped—powerhouses shut off by floods in New York in the Hudson, Mohawk and Genesee Valleys. / 29th—Waters in Dayton subsiding. Streets of Albany and Troy under water—floods in Rochester—photo—somebody rowing a boat in a street of Albany. / 30—First exaggerrations past—total deaths in Ohio and Indiana, 467. 30th / Connecticut river rising so rapidly that residents of Middletown, Conn., were (?)flying for their lives. / Photos of wreckage in Omaha. / 31st, flood situations improving.—My own wonderment where it all came from—scarcely mention of raining. Rather than start all over—try Tribune starting afresh. [X: 22.1 to 22.13. (Herald, March 25, 1913.) (Herald, March 27, 1913.) (Herald, March 28, 29, 30, 31, 1913.) (New York Tribune, 1913???)]


1913 March 23 / (N Or) / New Orleans Picayune, 27th / That upon the 25th—the worst snowstorm of the winter "over the entire plains country of Texas, eastern New Mexico, and western Oklahoma. / Issue 28th / Rain and flood in Alabama. [X: 23.1, 23.2. (New Orleans Picayune, March 27, 1913.) (New Orleans, March 28, 1913.)]


[1913 March 23] / Chicago / In Chicago Tribune,March 23, not a word of warning; but there is something about the Weather Bureau—that charges had been made as to its worthless news and that attempts had been made by the preceding Congress to secure investigations, but had not succeeded. / Something of a bantering nature against the Chief (Mr Willis L. Moore) that for Mr. McKinley's inauguation in 1901 he had predicted an "ideal day"—but cold and stormy. "For Mr Taft's inauguration he had forecast fine weather—there was a blizzard. / Chic Trib, 26th / Rain—Fell in such volumes bet. Chicago and Dayton that it washed out the Pennsylvania railroad track in 3 places. / Ay Forsyth, Missouri—a wide inundation. / 25th, Chic Daily Tribune of / Rain falling in streets throughout Wisconsin—worst in many years—schools closed in one place, and a dozen streets in Fond du Lac flooded. [X: 24.1 to 24.5. (Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1913.) (Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1913.) (Chicago Tribune, March 26, 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / In Omaha, seemed to be a thing with a track 2 to 4 blocks wide. [X; 25. (Ref.???)]


1913 March 23, etc. / Nothing in Egyptian Gazette. [X; 26.]


1913 March 23, etc. / Nothing in Japan Times. [X; 27.]


1913 March 23, etc. / Egyptian Gazette (Alexandria, Egypt) / Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) / Nothing. All looks like special relation with Australia with S. Af. thrown in. [X; 28.]


1913 March 23, etc. / Straits Times (Singapore) / Nothing. [X; 29.]


1913 March 23 / (Fr) / Jour des Debats of—gale—rains falling France, west and north of Europe. Succeeding issues tell of rains in France—nothing extraordinary. [X; 30.]


1913 March 23 / Det—Lump of ice with a dead child in it frozen in a treetop. [X; 31.]


1913 March 23 / Plan / Herald and Trib. stories together. / Then Chicago—widen the field. Canada, France, etc. [X; 32.]


1913 March 23 / Flames bursting from the houses along the path of the tornado, Omaha. [X; 33. (Ref.???)]


1913 March 23 / The fires that broke out everywhere in its trail. In Chicago at 2 a.m., every available fire apparatus in the north and west sides of the city had been called out. / Said that in Omaha the fires were due to lightning and crossed wires. There were 50 alarm calls to the firemen of Omaha. / Montreal Daily Star—24th. [X: 34.1, 34.2. (Montreal Daily Star, March 24, 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / Plan / Do U.S., Canada. Suspect wider. Say instinctively turn to Australia, then clear to N. Zealand, etc. [X; 35.]


1913 March / Nothing in The Planters and Commercial Gazette of Port Louis, Mauritius. [X; 36.]


1913 March / Nothing in The Colonial Guardian (Belize). [X; 37.]


1913 March / Nothing local in Vancouver World. [X; 38.]


1913 March 23 / For several days a hurricane in the south of England. [X; 39.]


1913 March 23 / 3:32 a.m. / Domfront (Orne) / q and "coups de tounerre / Bull Soc Astro de F., 1913-236 / For France. See B. Aires package. / Look up in La Nat. [X; 40. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1913-236.)]


1913 March / At the same time in other parts of New Zealand, great destructive bush fires. [X; 41. (Ref.???)]


1913 March 23 / England / 22 and 23 / "Severe gale and thunderstorms; great damage in the South Coast towns; Worthing pier was partly destroyed. / An. Reg. [X; 42. (Annual Register, 1913???)]


1913 March 23, etc. / Nothing in Standard (Bueno Ayres). [X; 43.]


1913 March 23 / (M) / Age (Melbourne) of 24th-8-7—violent th. storm at Daylesford, Victoria. Trees in orchards stripped of their fruit—torrents—verandah of a house carried away in rush of waters down a street—heavy thunderstrorms in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland—virutally everywhere in Australia. / Of the 26th, reports very heavy rains, or, as is common in the Australian papers, "magnificent", "finest for years". More than a column of reports upon heavy rains throughout Australia. Age, 27th / Still "general rains—almost everywhere "heavy". On the 27th, Age of 28th, "squalls of extraordinary fury. A rain-blizzard at Kilmore. One of the worst gales in many years. Snow reported from several places. / 29th—still "heavy rains—now—"Floods in New Zealand" highest " for a great many years". "Still raining bloodily" big floods in different parts of N.Z. / Age, 31—Exciting experience in New Zealand—heaviest floods in 30 years. "Rain still falling heavily and 6 inches were recorded in 12 hours." Torrents running down streets and people moving to higher ground. [X: 44.1 to 44.6. (Age, Melbourne, March 24, 1913, p. 8 c. 7.) (Age, Melbourne, March 26, 1913.) (Age, Melbourne, March 27, 1913.) (Age, Melbourne, March 29, 1913.) (Age, Melbourne, March 31, 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / (Calc) / Nothing in Calcutta Evening News of—but in a letter from Darjeeling a cor tells of snow on the 6th such as had never been seen there before in "reliable living memory" and of unseasonable cold and clouds that "seem to be paving the way for something". / 25th—"weather in India—the weather has been practically dry everywhere. Forecast—no large change." / Issue 31st—heavy rains in Bengal—nothing corresponding to our desired degrees. [X; 45.1, 45.2, 45.3. (Calcutta Evening News, March 23, 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / SA / 30th / Grocott's Penny Mail, March 31 (Grahamstown) / A mist in a wind—a few vivid flashes of lightning and rain. Thunder sounding like distant artillery. The lightning illuminated little, so great was the density of the rain. The downpour lasted 40 minutes and equalled one tenth of the total rainfall, in depth, in S. Africa for one year. Damage—a bridge washed away—washouts on the railroad. A severe thunderstorm on 24th reported in Cape Times of 26th—nothing corresponding to the other phe. / In Cape Times, the Australian rains are reported, but seems been nothing at the Cape—and it does seem that there is something of unknown affinity between Australia and the Northern Hemisphere. / Issue of Ap. 1st, heavy rain in the country"—on the 29th—at Graham's Town, torrents—in 40 minutes, 3 inches were recorded. Rivers flooded at Murraysburg. Dispatch from Prieska, of the 31st—that heavy rains had been falling almost daily, At Colesberg, on 29th, more than 3 inches in 3 hours. Mains in the town burst. "The flood in the sluit is unprecendented in the memory of the oldest inhabitant." Cape Times of April 2—a swollen river, and three persons drowned while trying to cross it. [X: 46.1 to 46.6. (Grocott's Penny Mail, March 31, 1913.) (Cape Times, March 26, 1913.) (Cape Times, April 1, 1913.) (Cape Times, April 2, 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / March issue of the M.W.R., the only item in the subject of warnings relates to a small flood, earlier in the month in Florida. It is said that residents saved property worth as $50,000 by heeding the Bureau's warnings. / Of course, my position is that considering only terrestrial atmospheric conditions the Bureau could not have warned of the floods in Ohio, N.Y., Va, Ill, Ind, etc. [X: 47.1, 47.2. (Monthly Weather Reviewm March 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / (San) / San Francisco Chronicle of the 24th—"California Gets Good Drenching." Rained most of the day. Issue of 26th, that upon the 23rd—the heaviest snow and windstorm ever known in the Sierra Nevadas, in northern California. / Of March 31—that rain had ceased falling in Washington and Oregon, but snow was still falling and forest rangers had reported it 15 to 20 feet deep. [X: 48.1, 48.2. (San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 1913.) (San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1913.)

(San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 1913.)]


1913 March / Unseasonable snows seem be a feature. [X; 49.]


1913 March 23 / In Brisbane Courier, 24th, column of reports upon heavy rains in Queensland—flooding of one district reported. / 26th—a list of delayed mails because of uncrossable creeks and flooded roads. [X; 50. (Brisbane Courier, March 24, 1913.) (Brisbane Courier, March 26, 1913.)]


1913 March 23, etc. / In China, a drought—no rain. For instance, in N. China Herald, Ap 12, said to be that rain fell at Tientsin, Ap. 4, the first since Oct. 31. [X; 51. (North China Herald, April 12, 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / See Floods, Jan., 1909, and back to Dec. [X; 52. See: (1909 Jan to 1912 Dec).]


1913 [March] / BO / Floods in Paraguay—Government vessels sent up the Paraguay River to assist the inhabitants. / Review of the River Plate, Ap. 4 / "Very heavy rains are reported throughout the Republic"—great damage". / The Review is a weekly, so news affects back date. [X: 53.1, 53.2. (Review of the River Plate, April 4, 1913.)]


1913 [March] / Toronto Globe, March 28—one of the worst blizzards in many years all over Ontario, Quebecm and farther east. Toronto cut off from the world, except by one thread of wire to Ottawa, and that went down at 10 p.m., 27th. [X; 54. (Toronto Globe, March 28, 1913.)]


1913 [March] / Streets of Gore, torrents bearing metal safes, telegraph poles, houses, cattle, dry goods, etc. from stores. Newspapers could not publish, because their linotype machines were under water. / Waters subsiding. Carcasses of sheep, sheaves, bags of corn clinging to fences. Terrible cries of the cattle swept down the Mataura river. [X: 55.1, 55.2. (Ref.???)]


1913 March 23 / (W1) / (27th) / Evening Post, (Wellington, N.Z.) of 29th / North Auckland swept by bush fires and a hurricane in the neighborhood of Wellington. Windows blown in—flying timbers―fences in the air―flying rain in horizontal sheets. Great floods―at Gore, torrents running down the streets―the heavy rain began falling on the 27th―washouts―rivers rising―"no signs of rain abating"―hundreds of dead sheep floating in the Winton district. / Ev Post, March 31 / Several columns upon greatest disaster in the history of the Colony―panic―darkness―thousands of sheep bumping down the swollen rivers―historic flood of 1878 not to be compared―all this from a sudden burst of water from the sky.―Subsequent issues―houses carried away, some of them found miles away. 600 sheep from one farm swept away. / Suddenness of it all―no mention in Post of 28th. [X: 56.1 to 56.4. (Willington Evening Post, March 29, 1913.)(Wellington Evening Post, March 31, 1913.)]


1913 March 23 / Worse floods / See China, Oct, 1887. [X; 57. See: 1887 Oct or autumn, (VI; 1172).]


1913 March 23 / Nebraska / Fires and winds / Feb 14, 1903. [X; 58. See: 1903 Feb. 14, (VIII: 1694 & 1695).]


1913 March 23 / Nebraska / whirl and cosmic / See―Ap 1―1892. [X; 59. See: 1892 Ap. 1, (VII; 441).]


1913 March 24 / Fall of dust at Nanking. / North China Herald, March 29, p. 955. [X; 60. (North China Herald, March 29, 1913, p. 955.)]


1913 March 25 / Snow falling in the Andes 2 months earlier than usual. / B. Ayres Standard 28-11-2. [X; 61. (Buenos Ayres Standard, March 28, 1913, p. 11 c. 2.)]


1913 March 25 / Dispatch of―That near Valencia, Spain, trains stopped by a fall of hailstones 3 feet deep. / B. Ayres Standard 26-12-3. [X; 62. (Buens Ayres Standard, March 26, 1913, p. 12 c. 3.)]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. X: 63-64.]


1913 March 25 / (C) / Montreal Daily Star of―residents of Sault au Recollet paddling in their streets in canoes. / 26th―still raining at Montreal. "Streets Running to Harbor Front Are Under Water." Montreal Star of 27th / "Havoc" at Montreal. "Pitiless rain." "Fire alarm system demoralized. Rain freezing on trees and their loaded branches snapping everywhere in the city―"menacing rain―St Lawrence still rising, Ottawa rising, Bach River rising. / Of 28th / City Isolated From the World." That the rain had started on the 25th. Isolated trees loading with ice, falling and breaking wires―other cities in darkness at night―and the crashing of overhead telegraph wires and trees, "falling singly or together in a gust of wind. [X: 63.1 to 63.4. (Montreal Daily Star, March 25, 1913.) (Montreal Daily Star, March 27, 1913.)(Montreal Daily Star, March 28, 1913.)]


1913 March 25 / Montreal Daily Star of / That the water in the harbor had risen 9 inches in 24 hours. [X; 64. (Montreal Daily Star, March 25, 1913.)]


1913 March 25 / Heavy rain at Launcetown, Tasmania. / Hobart Mercury 27-4-7 / The 28th tells of snow in the mountains, extraordinary at this time of year; heavy rains and hail, but no deluges. / In Ap. 2-4-7, says rainfall for March was 191 points, or 26 points above average for 70 years. No deluge. [X: 65.1, 65.2. (Hobart Mercury, March 27, 1913.) (Hobart Mercury, March 28, 1913.) (Hobart Mercury, April 2, 1913, p. 4 c. 7.)]


1913 March / Heavy rains in Fiji, beginning on 17th, but no deluge. / Fiji Times 29-2-6. [X; 66. (Fiji Times, March 29, 1913, p. 2 c. 6.)]


1913 March / See great cl. brst, June 4, 1921. [X; 67. See: (1921 June 4).]


1913 March 27 / BO / Snow falling heavily in the Cordilleras, Chile. / South American Journal, Ap. 19. [X; 68. (South American Journal, April 19, 1913.)]


1913 March 27 / Bodies—heart failure / At Stoke Newinton—inquests upon 3 men, found dead in their beds. All of heart affections. / Lloyds W. News, March 2-17-5. [D; 646. (Lloyds Weekly News, March 2[?]-17-5.)]


1913 March 28 / Manitoba Free Press / 10 trains bound for Winnipeg had been stalled in the snow from 36 to 40 hours. [X; 69. (Manitoba Free Press, March 28, 1913???)]


1913 March 28 / 4:40 p.m. / Knoxville, Tenn. / Detonation and tremors. Thought some powder factory had exploded, but none heard of. / Daily Picayune (N. Orleans) 29-2-5. [X; 70. (New Orleans Daily Picayune, March 29, 1913, p. 2 c. 5.)]


[1913 March] / Trib, 28th / Cities in Mass in darkness―powerhouses flooded. Housatonic river running wold. / Trib 28-11-4 said that the Weather Bureau was publishing storm warnings. / Dayton det / islands of fire at night / March 28, Trib / Pouring rains, and every stream in western New York raging out of its banks. / NY (?) Trib / 29th / Delaware, at Trenton, NJ, 14 feet above normal. / 30―Floods in West Va. Water up to second story windows in Parkersburg. / March 31 / Floods in Vermont or news of. / Add in. / Papers, March 25. Give Indiana before Ohio? / All the rivers of Indiana turning into floods, "coming with astonishing suddenness, catching the farmers throughout the state unprepared. / 26th / State of Indiana a sea. / Rivers that rose with "appalling swiftness. Cyclone dets. A boxcar rolled a quarter of a mile. Splits open and men drop out. Several crawl away. [X: 71.1 to 71.5. (New York Tribune, March 28, 1913, p. 11 c. 4.) (New York Tribune, March 29, 1913.)  (New York Tribune, March 31, 1913.)]


1913 March 28, Ap. 17 / q's and sounds / Tennessee / Bull Seis Soc A 3/191, 86 / See May 2. [X; 72. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3-86, 191.) See: (May 2).]


1913 March / Clburst / Grahams Town / See Germany's greatest, Ap. 14, 1902. [X; 73. See: 1902 Ap. 14, (VIII; 1031).]


1913 March 31 / BO / River Uruguay rising rapidly, causing fear that uruguayan and Argentine towns on the bank would be flooded. / South American Journal, Ap. 26. [X; 74. (South American Journal, April 26, 1913.)]


1913 [March 31st] / Montreal, 31st March, rising a foot an hour. Reached 39 feet about low level. [X; 75. (Ref.???)]


1913 March 31 / Severe q. recorded at Laibach. Began 5:34 a.m., Greenwich Time. / D Mail, Ap. 1-5-7. [X; 76. (London Daily Mail, April 1, 1913, p.  5 c. 7.)]


1913 April / Martin, who disappeared in London. The cotton firm of which he was president failed, soon afterward—at Memphis, Tenn. [D; 647. (Ref.???)]


1913 Ap. 1 / Dispatch of, to B. Ayres Standard of Ap 2-12-3―Floods in France, in Charente, Dordogne, and Gironde. [X; 77. (Buenos Ayres Standard, April 2, 1913, p. 12 c. 3.)]


1913 Ap. 3 / A balloon, covered with a "snow-like substance", fell at Reading. / D. Express 4-1-3 / Came from Aldeshott. / 5-7-5. [X; 78. (London Daily Express, April 4, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 Ap. 3 / Disap in London of Joseph Martin, an American. [D; 648. (Ref.???)]


1913 Ap. 4 / At Tienstin, first rain since Oct. 31. / N. China Herald, Ap. 12. [X; 79. (North China Herald, April 12, 1913.)]


1913 Ap. 7 / Glasgow Herald, 8-h / Myst of Gibb / See May 10. [D; 649. (Glasgow Herald, April 7, 1913, p. 8 c. 8.) See: (May 10).]


1913 Ap. 8 / (D-256) / Shadow on cloud / Fort Worth, Texas. ** [X; 80. The note copies information from pages 255 and 256 of The Book of the Damned. Martin, Howard H. "Cloud-shadow Projection." Monthly Weather Review, 41 (no. 4; April 1913): 599.]


1913 Ap. 11 / Northern Whig of / Region around Ballycastle. A bear prowling—supposed to have escaped from a troupe of foreign showmen who had been camping there. It had been fired at, but without effect. / Northern Whig (Belfast) / At Athy, a lioness escaped. Mauled a pony and spread alarm but was driven back to her cage. / From a circus. [D: 650.1, 650.2. (Belfast Northern Whig, April 11, 1913.)]


1913 Ap. 12 / D. Express 23-5-4 / Latest N.Y. lunatic—the slipper-snatcher of New York. Followed girls up stairs from subways and snatched slippers. [D; 651. (London Daily Express, April 23, 1913, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1913 Ap. 15 / Destructive hurricane / Fiji / Hobart Town Mercury, Ap 24. [X; 81. (Hobart Town Mercury, April 24, 1913.)]


1913 Ap. 18 / q / eastern Mindanao / registered all over world. / Nature 93-569 / See March 14. [X; 82. "Notes." Nature, 93 (July 30, 1914): 564-569, at 569. See: 1913 March 14, (X; 7).]


1913 Ap. 23 / 9:08 p.m. / Cambridge / magnificent meteor from B. Leonis to near Eta Draconis / Nature 91-215. [X; 83. Rolston, William Edward. "A Brilliant Meteor on April 23." Nature, 91 (May 1, 1913): 215.]


1913 Ap. 23 / Aphasia / Trib, 1913, Ap. 23-1-5 / Another case, issue of several days before. [D; 652. “Finds Missing Self.” New York Tribune, April 23, 1913, p. 1 c. 5. A coffee broker in New York City awoke in a rooming house with no memory of his life during the month that he had disappeared, (since March 22), when on his way to work; thus, this was amnesia, (not aphasia). “May Try Hypnotism to Restore Girl's Mind.” New York Tribune, February 18, 1913, p. 3 c. 5. “Aphasia Case a Mystery.” New York Tribune, April 21, 1913, p. 3 c. 3.]


1913 Ap. 24 / Inf conjunction Venus-sun / g. brilliancy / March 19 / May 30. [X; 84. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1913.)]


1913 April 25, etc. / Hecla in eruption. / D. Mail 28-7-3. [X; 85. (London Daily Mail, April 28, 1913, p. 7 c. 3.)]


1913 Ap. 25 / [source unidentified], 5-4 / Eddie Guerin troubles. [D; 653. (“Eddie Guerin in Trouble.” New York Tribune, April 25, 1913, p. 3 c. 4.) “Eddie Guerin Arrested on Charges By Two Girls.” New York Tribune, April 25, 1913, p. 3 c. 6-7.]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. D: 654-655.]


1913 Ap. 25 / The Murphy phe began ab middle of March. / Northern Whig (Ap 25) (Belfast) / “The strange occurrences consist of a scraping, scratching sound, in the vicinity of the bed occupied by the two younger children, the bedclothes at times being shaken and pulled about in a mysterious manner. The noises are heard both in daylight and at night when the children are in bed, being reported with the greatest violence while the little ones are awake.” [D: 654.1, 654.2. Belfast Northern Whig, April 25, 1913.)]


1913 Ap 26 / Polt / W. Dispatch?, 7-3 / In home of a widow named Murphy and her young children at Coonen, near Fivemiletown, Fermanagh, Ireland. Phe only in the presence of the children. Scratching sounds following them from room to room. Bedlcothes snatched off. One of them, a girl, crying at night that something was clutching her. [D: 655.1, 655.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, April 26, 1913, p. 7 c. 3.) (The Cooneen ghost continued to haunt the family after it emigrated to Canada.)]


1913 Ap. 26 / 11:30 p.m. / and 27th, 3 a.m. / 2 shocks at Newport, Mon. / D. Express, Ap. 28-5-4. [X; 86. (London Daily Express, April 28, 1913, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1913 Ap. 26 / ab. 2 p.m. / q registered at Perth, W. Australia. Calculated ab 3,000 miles away. / Hobart Town Mercury, Ap. 30. [X; 87. (Hobart Town Mercury, April 30, 1913.)]


1913 Ap. 28 / Alarming floods from River Usk, near Newport / D. Express 29-5-4. [X; 88. (London Daily Express, April 29, 1913, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1913 Ap. 28 / 7:40 p.m. / Shock from Montreal to Ottawa. / D. Express 30-1-5. [X; 89. (london Daily Express, April 30, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 Ap. 28 / +1 / 7:30 p.m. / q and loud rumbling sound / upper N.Y. / Canada / high wind and storm on the St. Lawrence / Trib 29-1-6 / at Watertown, N.Y. [X; 90. “Earthquake in Upper N.Y.” New York Tribune, April 29, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.]


1913 Ap. 28 / 7:30 p.m. / q / Ottawa and Montreal / at Watertown, N.Y. / in a storm / NY Times 29-1-2 / q. and storm. [X; 91. (New York Times, April 29, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 / May '12 to July '16 / Saturn in Taurus. [X; 92. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1913.)]


1913 May / Disaps of barristers / France and London. [D; 656. (Refs.???)]


1913 May 2 / Madisonville, Tenn / rumbling sound and slight q / Bull-Amer 3/140 / See March 28. / 1 a.m. [X; 93. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3-140.) See: (March 28).]


1913 May 2 / At Woking, an unidentified biplane seen—thought related to an attempt by Mrs. Parkhurst to escape from England. / D. Express 3-1-2. [X; 94. (London Daily Express, May 3, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 May 2 / at Little Saxham / afternoon / Black rain. Afterward, "huge worms" crawling around. After ordinary rain, May 4, they were seen again. / Bury and Norwich Post, May 16. [X; 95. (Bury and Norwich Post, May 16, 1913; not at BNA.)]


1913 May 2 / Bury Free Press / Nothing. [X; 96. "Little Saxham." Bury Free Press, May 17, 1913, p. 8 c. 2.]


1913 May 2 / b. rain / 2 p.m. till 3:15 / Bury St Edmonds and adjoining villages. Rain "black and dirty", "sooty". / After the storm, great number of worms crawling about. / Symons—48-70. [X; 97. (Symons' Meteorological Magazine, 48-70.)]


1913 May 7 / Dust / Violent storm. Sky turned reddish. Fall of dust in rain. Island of Crete. / D. Mail 8-5-5. [X; 98. (London Daily Mail, May 8, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 May 7 / (Ch) / At Leeds, through telescope, strange object, dense and black, crescent-shaped. / Eng Mec 98/312. [X; 99. (English Mechanic, 98-312.)]


1913 May 9, ab. / New comet / D. Mail 10-3-6. [X; 100. (London Daily Mail, May 10, 1913, p. 3 c. 6.)]


1913 May 10 / D. Mail, 5-1 / Disap / A Brigg. [D; 657. (London Daily Mail, May 10, 1913, p. 5 c. 1.)]


1913 May 11 / NY Times, (II)-1-2 / Uniontown, Pa. / Explosion. [X; 101. (New York Times, May 11, 1913, s. II p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 May 12 / NY Times, 1-7 / 24-3-4 / June 29 (II)-1-5 / 30-1-7 / Vesuvius. [X; 102. (New York Times, May 12, 1913, p. 1 c. 7.) (New York Times, May 24, 1913, p. 3 c. 4.) (New York Times, June 29, 1913, s. II p. 1 c. 5.) (New York Times, June 30, 1913, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1913 May 16 / In a series from May 1 / 3 q's / Frascati, Italy / Bull-Amer 3-139. [X; 103. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3-139.)]


1913 May 16 / Disap at Nice, France / D. Mail. [D; 658. (London Daily Mail, May 16, 1913.)]


1913 May 23 / Vesuvius in eruption. / D. Mail 24-5-5. [X; 104. (London Daily Mail, May 24, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 May 28 / Large hail killed poultry in Cambridgeshire. / D. Express 29-1-4. [X; 105. (London Daily Express, May 29, 1913, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1913 May 28 / Sudden tidal wave in morning at Isle of Man, Tidal vagaries all day. / D. Express 29-1-4. [X; 106. (London Daily Express, May 29, 1913, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1913 / ab June 1 / Arthur Mann, a provincial magistrate, found in a London street, in a cataleptic traance. He died, of cold and exposure, ac to verdict of Coroner's Jury / See L.T. / N.Y. Sun, June 6-3-4. [D; 659. (“Mann Again Reported Dead.” New York Sun, June 6, 1913, p. 3 c. 3.) (See: London Times, ca. June, 1913.) ]


1913 June 3 / Cl. brst, town of Eligonde, in Pyrenees. 10 houses carried away. 4 persons drowned. / Sunderland D. Echo, June 3. [X; 107. (Sunderland Daily Echo, June 3, 1913.)]


1913 June 5 / D. Mail, 7-6 / Trance / man named Mann / at Bakewell. [D; 660. (London Daily Mail, June 5, 1913, p. 7 c. 6.)]


1913 June 7 / night / Series of unexplained fires at Bradford. / Sunderland Daily Echo, June 9, p. 3. [D; 661. (Sunderland Daily Echo, June 9, 1913, p. 3.)]


1913 June 9 / 9:30 a.m. / Humboldt, Tenn. / slight q and rumbling sound / Bull-Amer 3-140. [X; 108. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3-140.)]


1913 June 9 / 1:30 a.m. / q. / "severe" / Quebec / NY Times 9-1-7 (sic). [X; 109. (New York Times, June 9, 1913, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1913 June 10 / Unknown object, seemingly close to earth, if not on. Cordoba. Photos of the time—photographed at the Lowell Observatory. / Sc Am 119/225. [X; 110. (Scientific American, n.s., 119-225.)]


1913 June 10 / Shock / Central Portugal / Standard 11-8-6. [X; 111. (London Standard, June 11, 1913, p. 8 c. 6.)]


1913 June 10-30 / D. Mail / Have. [X; 112.]


1913 June 11 / Trib 11-1-3 / Explosion, outskirts of Paterson, 12:50 a.m. / Reserves in the police stations rushed out, but could not be located. [X; 113. “Explosion Near Paterson.” New York Tribune, June 11, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.]


1913 June 11 / Glasgow Herald, 8-h / Sky Pirate. [X; 114. (Glasgow Herald, June 11, 1913, p. 8 c. 8.)]


1913 June 13 / Bombay—Floods—collapsed house—many lives lost—at Palitana and Kathiawar. / Daily News 14-1-3 / N.M. [X; 115. (London Daily News, June 14, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 June 14 / Violent tremors registered by seismograph, at St Maur, near Paris. "The disturbance is located in the Balkans." / N.Y. Sun 15-1-6 / Was in Buglaria. / 16-1-6. [X; 116. (New York Sun, June 15, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.) (New York Sun, June 16, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 June 14 / Repeats / 8:04 p.m. / 10 p.m. / 1st, over sea east of England. 2nd, over sea west of England. Very large fireballs. / Nature 91-427. [X; 117. (Nature, 91-427.)]


1913 June 14 / 9:35 a.m. / Violent q / Bulgaria / D. Mail 16-5-3 / 17-5-5. [X; 118. (London Daily Mail, June 16, 1913, p. 5 c. 3.) (London Daily Mail, June 17, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 June 14  Repeats / 8:04 p.m. / Large fireball, the east of England. / Another at 10 p.m. in s. west. / Denning, in D. Mail, June 21. [X; 119. (London Daily Mail, June 21, 1913.)]


[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 662-663.]


1913 June 14 / Daily Mail of, 3-6 / That at Sunderland, for 3 weeks a snake about four feet long had been living upon a roof, at 28 Gilbridge avenue. One suggestion that it was a python, and had come from a nearby fruit store; supposed been shipped with tropical fruit. Also said that a snake charmer had lived nearby. [D: 662.1, 662.2. (London Daily Mail, June 14, 1913, p. 3 c. 6.)]


1913 June 6 / BO / Sunderland Daily Echo of / “Snake on roof—householders terrorized—remarkable story from Gill Bridge Avenue—that at times, for a week, a snake ab 4 feet long had been seen upon the roof of a house in G. B. Ave. How got there a mystery—seen nowhere else—could be no delusion, was so often seen. / 7th—had been seen several times the day before. Children of neighborhood in great excitement, climbing up on roofs of neighboring houses. Great nuisance—swarms of children sitting on and falling off walls and fences. / 10th—snake not seen since. / 12th—not seen again. Said that descriptions agreed that it was of a brown mottled color, ab 4 feet long, and with a flat head, and was probably a python. Said that in the play, “Kismet,” sometime before, there had been pythons. No more. Myst disap as well as ap. [D: 663.1 to 663.4. (Sunderland Daily Echo, June 6, 7, 10, 12, 1913.)]


1913 June 15 / 3:30 p.m. / 22 balloons left Paris. One with 2 occupants came down near Lincoln, England, evening of 16th. / Sunderland Daily Echo of 17th. [X; 120. (Sunderland Daily Echo, June 17, 1913.)]


1913 June 15 / Standard, 18th / Cor writes that saw at Ramsgate at 8:05 p.m., in daylight, saw "what appeared to be an immense meteor, passing rapidly from s. to north-east, leaving for some moments a trail of vapor. [X; 121. (London Standard, June 18, 1913.)]


1913 June 15 / by Dr Maw / Jour. BAA 24/59 / Ring plain South when part beyond the terminator—a small bright reddish spot, at first very conspicuous but then becoming diffuse. Watched it 40 minutes—it was small area on a plateau. [X; 122. Goodacre, Walter. "Obscurations of the Lunar Surface." Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 24 (1913-1914): 59-60.]


1913 June 15 / At Whitstable, Kent, a large pelican with a ring around its neck captured. / D Mail 16-3-7. [D; 664. (London Daily Mail, June 16, 1913, p. 3 c. 7.)]


1913 June 16 / Slashed of men / N.Y. Sun, 4-5 / 2 more victims of the Williamsburg slasher—on 15th—making 40 in all, in ab 5 months. Slasher described as a young man, 10 or 20. 2 men slashed on heads. One a carpenter and one a gas fitter. [D; 665. (New York Sun, June 16, 1913, p. 4 c. 5.)]


1913 June 17 / Explosive fell into Thames. / LT, June 18-15-a. [X; 123. (London Times, June 18, 1913, p. 15 c. 1.)]


1913 June 17 / Most violent eruption of Asama-yama, Japan. 20th, 26th, other explosions. / Nature 91-614. [X; 124. (Nature, 91-614.)]


1913 June 18 / Los Angeles girl case / See Aug 13. [D; 666. See: (Aug 13).]


1913 June 19 / 2 different madmen in Paris / June 20—madman amok in Bremen / Daily News 21-1-5. [D; 667. (London Daily News, June 21, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 June 20 / Glasgow Herald, 6-e / Glasgow in Darkness. [X; 125. (Glasgow Herald, June 20, 1913, p. 6 c. 5.)]


1913 June 21 / Curious cloud / France / Cosmos 69/6. [X; 126. (Cosmos, s. 4 v. 69 p. 6.)]


1913 June 21 / Lloyds W. News 22-1-2 / Shocks in Bulgaria continuing. Several towns had been greatly damaged. [X; 127. (Lloyd's Weekly News, June 22, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 June 24 / D Mail, 3-7 / Many hundreds of dead sea birds washed ashore on the coast of Argyllshire. Thought they were killed by concussion from gunfire from warships near island of Colonsay. [X; 128. (London Daily Mail, June 24, 1913, p. 3 c. 7.)]


1913 June 25 / NY Times, 3-7 / 26-6-2 / 27-8-4 / 29-11-1-7 / Explosion / Buffalo. [D; 668. (New York Times, June 25, 1913, p. 3 c. 7.) (New York Times, June 26, 1913, p. 6 c. 2.) (New York Times,June 27, 1913, p. 8 c. 4.) (New York Times, June 29, 1913, p. 11???)]


1913 June 28 / 4 a.m. / Cambellpore, N.W. Provinces—a dust storm and a heavy fall of rain. A meteor with a defeaning report. / Jour Astro Soc India, July, 1913. [X; 129. (Journal of the Astronomical Society of India, July 1913.)]


1913 June 28 / 10 a.m. / Severe shock, Sicily and Calabria. / At same time, Vesuvius violent. / D. Express 30-7-5. [X; 130. (London Daily Express, June 30, 1913, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1913 June 28 / Flames from Vesuvius first seen 1906. / Bull-Amer 3/141. [X; 131. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3-141.)]


1913 June 28 / Vesuvius ad shocks in S. Italy. / D. Mail 30-7-6. [X; 132. (London Daily Mail, June 30, 1913, p. 7 c. 6.)]


1913 June 28 / N.Y. Sun, 1-2. / “A prisoner, charged with murder, said to have tried to commit suicide. It was his story that 2 masked men had entered his cell and slashed him. / Cripple Creek, Col. / He was James L. Bacon, a former member of the State Legislature. [D; 669. (New York Sun, June 28, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 (?) / summer / Max Mayer pearls. / Lloyds W. News, March 1-10-3, 1914—3 of the 4 pearls “mysteriously recovered”. Not said how but supposed by negotiations with the thieves. [D; 670. (Lloyds Weekly News, March 1, 1914, p. 10 c. 3.)]


1913 July, early / Trance / Frank Crawford fell asleep and not awaken till Aug. 5. / San Francisco Chronnicle 6-1-2. [D; 671.(San Francisco Chronicle, August 6, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 July 5 / Woking myst shot / Man in field killed. / Sunderland Daily Echo of 7th. [D; 672. (Sunderland Daily Echo, July 7, 1913.)]


1913 July 8 / Louisville, Ky / Meteor falls into river. / Index to dates of current events. [X; 133. (Index to dates of current events.)]


1913 July / Mars, Saturn, and Venus in Taurus. [X; 134. (Confirm. Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1913.)]


1913 July 9 / Hair / D. Chronicle 10-1-3 / In Paris, a wealthy engineer named Leramgourg, arrested on charge of theft, by 2 women. The police commissioner noticed that hair of both was cut short, in a peculiar manner. When questioned, they said that L. had hypnotized them and had cut off their hair. At L's residence, the police found locks of hair of 94 women. His shaving brushes were made of women's hair. [D: 673.1, 673.2. (London Daily Chronicle, July 10, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 July 10 / early morn. / D. Chron. 11-5-2 / Young woman, Miss Dorris Pierce, aged 21, of 6 South-brook road, Lee, found by a policeman wandering, in her nightdress, ¼ mile from her home. Taken to the Lewisham Infirmary. Unable to give any account of herself. Several hours later identified—not by self but because of inquiries as to her disap. [D: 674.1, 674.2. (London Daily Chronicle, July 11, 1913, p. 5 c. 2.)]


1913 July 12 / NY Times, 4-3 / Aug 2-4-2 / Hurricane / Italy. [X; 135. (New York Times, July 12, 1913, p. 4 c. 3.) (New York Times, August 2, 1913, p. 4 c. 2.)]


1913 July 13 / at Rome and in the Pyrenees / Afterglow / Nature 94-372. [X; 136. (Nature, 94-372.)]


1913 July 14 / NY Times, 1-3 / Sandstorm / L.I. [X; 137. (New York Times, July 14, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 July 16 / Smoke and ashes first reported in Behring Sea. Continued at least a month. / San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 27-18-3. [X; 138. (San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 1913, p. 18 c. 3.)]


1913 July 18 / D. Chron. 22-1-6 / Minnie Freund, of Clacton road, Walthamstow, aged 17, disappeared from home, and was found on 21st, wandering, almost unconscious condition, on edge of the wood near Warlingham, Surrey. [D; 675. (London Daily Chronicle, July 22, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 July 20 / 1 p.m. / Shock, south Germany. People terrified. / D. Mail—21-7-4. [X; 139. (London Daily Mail, July 21, 1913, p. 7 c. 4.)]


[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. D: 676-678.]


1913 July 21 / D. Chronicle, 1-5 / A student, walking in Bois de Boulogne, found a pearl necklace identical with the one that had been stolen from M. Max Mayer. Somewhere else, I have seen a similar story. / Said probably a joke. 22-1-4—worth ab. a shilling. / See 23-7-3; Aug 4-1-5. [D: 676.1, 676.2. (London Daily Chronicle, July 21, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 July / The real jewels found in a London street. / Weekly Dispatch, Sept 21. [D; 677. (London Weekly Dispatch, September 21, 1913.)]


1913 July / Man arrested for pearl theft, ab. Sept 10. [D; 678. (Ref.???)]


1913 July 21 / NY Times, 4-5 / 22-4-7 / q. / Germany. [X; 140. (New York Times, July 21, 1913, p. 4 c. 7.)]


1913 July 25 / NY Times, 2-2 / q / West Indies. [X; 141. (New York Times, July 25, 1913, p. 2 c. 2.)]


1913 Aug 3 / Knoxville, Tenn / 11:45 a.m. / q / Bull Seis Soc A 3-203. [X; 142. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3-203.)]


1913 July 27 / Escapes / Weekly Dispatch, 3-2 / 3 cases in the week. / Near Doncaster, man knocked down by a train—fell in the four-foot way and 19 trains ran above him without further injury to him, / However, he died of injuries in first accident. / At Handsworth, near Birmingham, 2 men at railway station fighting; they fell on track and train passed over them without injury to them. / Man at Bristol fell on track. Train passed over without hurting him. [D; 679.1, 679.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, July 27, 1913, p. 3 c. 2.)]


1913 / ab July 30 / Sensational jewel robberies / U.S. [D; 680. (Ref.???)]


1913 (Aug 2) / Myst wounding of foals. / Halwell, Cornwall / D. Mail of Aug. 2. [D; 681. (London Daily Mail, August 2, 1913.)]


1913 Aug. 3 / Polt Assault / Weekly Dispatch, 5-4 / Consternation in Brittany. In the village of Borgue-Herranborn, home of a family of farmers named Croguennee. Father, mother, 2 sons, 2 daughters. Appalling sounds in house. Farmer died of a malignant disease. One of the sons, Francois, was assailed “in broad daylight by someone whom he did not see” and was left an invalid for life. Thought the spirit of an aunt who had died, not told why. One of the daughters went insane. [D: 682.1, 682.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, August 3, 1913, p. 5 c. 4.)]


1913 Aug 6 / q. / Peru. [X; 143. (Ref.???)]


1913 Aug 8 / [LT], 7-c / q. Recorded / 9-7-b / q Peru / Same time? [X; 144. (London Times, August 8, 1913, p. 7 c. 3.)]


1913 Aug 9 / NY Times, 3-2 / q / Peru. [X; 145. (New York Times, August 9, 1913, p. 3 c. 2.)]


1913 Aug. 9 / D. Chronicle of, 1-3 / At Ponmieux, near Avignon, France, girl named Julie Julien believed a devil possessed her. Convinced her family. They, in beating it out of her, killed her. [D; 683. (London Daily Chronicle, August 9, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


1913 Aug 9 / Glasgow Herald, 5-e / Flying Haystacks at Milngavie. [D; 684. (Glasgow Herald, August 9, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 Aug 10 / q / Lake Placid / drop in temperature of 16 degrees / Trib 11-1-2 / 12:15 a.m. / N.Y. Times 11-1-5. [X; 146. “Quake At Lake Placid.” New York Tribune, August 11, 1913, p. 1 c. 2. (New York Times, August 11, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 Aug 10 / Spanish village of Alcocer burned by aerolite; 4 hurt, 1 dead. / (Reported) / Index to Dates / See March 3, etc., along to Aug. [X; 147. (Index to Dates???) See: 1913 March 3, D: 630-634), and, (etc.???).


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. X:148-149.]


1913 Aug 13 / Manna / D. Mail of—that some time before, people at Kermanshah, Persia, saw seeds scattered around town, which they thought—were manna of Biblical times, The Roy Botanical Soc was communicated with, and attrib to wind. "They were white in substance and of the consistency of Indian corn." / (So seeds unknown to inhabitants.) [X: 148.1, 148.2. (London Daily Mail, August 13, 1913.) "Manna of Israelites." New Zealand Herald, October 31, 1913, p. 4 c. 6.]


1913 Aug? / I find nothing in Botanical Journal published by Roy Bot Soc. ab. manna. [X: 149.]


1913 Aug 13 / Attacks / D. Chronicle, 1-6 / Case of Martha Wallace, pretty girl, aged 20, of Los Angeles. On Jan 1, 1913, her  home was burned. Her 2 brothers suffocated and she badly burned. This was the fourth fire in 3 weeks. On 5th, she was found unconscious in a dark street, and upon recovering told that she had been attacked by 2 men. On 12th, she was found unconscious in cemetary near the graves of her brothers, her face and body showing marks of a brutal beating. 3 weeks later, police received telephone message from her home saying she was being murdered; found the house in disorder and her missing. Month later, found unconscious in the back yard of her home. She told that 4 men had kidnapped her. June 18, girl not having been seen in several days, neighbors entered her home and found her bound to a sewing machine. An attempt had been made to set fire to the house. In each case the girl's injuries were serious, and the police and doctors did not believe they were self-inflicted. But because she could give only vague descriptions of assailants, supposed her hysterical. [D: 685.1 to 685.6. (London Daily Chronicle, August 13, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


[1913 Aug 13] / 1913 Aug 15 / BO / D. Chronicle, 3-2 / Account in D. Chronicle of, of a sight witnessed by several persons, on the Strathblane road, near Glasgow. "A rick of hay weighing some hundredweights rose in the air in front of them." It went up and burst, the hay blown in all directions. But no wind had been felt by the observers. [X: 150.1, 150.2. (London Daily Chronicle, August 15, 1913, p. 3 c. 2.) "A Natural Phenomeon." Scotsman, August 8, 1913, p. 8 c. 1. "A Phenomenon." Milngavie and Bearsden Herald, August 8, 1913, p. 4 c. 5. "A remarkable phenomenon was witnessed as Mugdock Reservoir, Milngavie, on Wednesday afternoon. While a party, consisting of Mr. John Stirling, Barrachan, Mr. Young, Mr. Duncan M'Laren, Mr. and Mrs. M'Nicol, and some others were out walking on the Strathblane Road, close to the Glasgow Corporation reservoirs, they witnessed the remarkable sight of a rick containing several hundredweights of hay rising rising to a considerable height in the air from the foot of the hill leading to Mugdock village. There were two ricks standing close together, and, as the day was bright and warm, without any wind to speak of, there was nothing to account for this, which was nothing else but a natural phenomenon. When it had reached a certain altitude the hay was blown in all directions. The observers were naturally struck with wonder at such a strange sight."]


1913 Aug 23 / D. Chronicle, 1-5 / For ab. 30 years, been a polt at Ashfordsby Rectory, Leicestershire, chiefly notable for pulling bedclothes from people. Finally the Rev. F.A. Gage-Hall had put on a cassock and surplice and tried to exorcise it. [D; 686. (London Daily Chronicle, August 23, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.) "Haunted Rectors." London Globe, August 23, 1913, p. 7 c. 2. The "old rectory" is located in Asfordsby, (not Ashfordsby).]


1913 Aug 24 / Messina devstated by a cloudburst. / D. Chronicle 25-1-6. [X; 151. (London Daily Chronicle, August 25, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Aug (27) / (Th stone) / Tiverton, R.I. / Great meteor fell in Seaconnett River with detonation that was heard 20 miles around. Fell in th. storm. / Trib 29-1-2. [X; 152. “Meteor Heard 20 Miles.” New York Tribune, August 29, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.]


1913 Aug. 27 / [magazine clipping] / [The "Great Tiverton Meteor" / The Wide World Magazine, Vol. xxxiii.—7., pp. 97-98]. [X; 153. ("The Great Tiverton Meteor." Wide World Magazine, 33 (1914): 97-98; @ NYPL.) ("THE GREAT "TIVERTON METEOR." During the height of a severe thunderstorm, which swept over Tiverton, Rhode Island, on the evening of August 27th, 1913, a terrible crash sounded over the town. Windows were broken, pictures and china thrown down, and a great commotion caused. The news soon spread abroad that the people who lived near Stone Bridge, which spans the water between Tiverton and Newport, had seen a great ball of dull red fire shoot across the sky in the direction of the river, not very far from the bridge. One gentleman of excellent reputation declared that he saw it plainly, and that the shock was so great that he was thrown to the ground and stunned. This evidence was readily accepted, and the fame of Tiver....""This evidence was readily accepted, and the fame of Tiverton's meteor spread rapidly. Great regret was expressed that there was no hope of rescuing it from Its grave In 10 feet of water. Shortly, however, three fishermen who lived nearby showed great interest in the possibility of bringing It to the surface. They ascertained the location Whera h f1rab.11 waJI inDMuil to have gene down and soon after Went Atlt V.rv .ai-lv An mahiIA. In quest of It We may imagine the Joy mna surprise or the Tiverton people When : the three men returned In t f ternOOH With tht, r A.rlr rr,... the lost meteor. How they got it in to 'the net, now It nearly drarged them Into tha watr anA Vinn fv,v cracked it by dropping it on the deck. p" am interesting story that the trio had to go oyer it again ana eUTAlfL, JL A1 mm. fVt-AMss anAn itnas d to view the visitant from the sklea vre were received by the 1'Jcky men from jnany quarters, which they re-ptated with pride. Soon thov began !2L?hl?. 10 Jnt PP. nJ the writer dulv nfr.rii un iim. "tone; certainly looked like a. visitor vnuw worms, it was emootn and, shiny, heavy as lead. mu brittle and seamed, showing crystal forma-J? VLf Mm8' 1 throng came with its dimes; the Associate i Press sent representatives, and ' newsp per men tnenii in iiIih i..... . -;.--- - m nwi.w.ri S -Til on the scene,' ,.e.Wi Fineuy the happy owners-removed the meteroite to Fall Rjver, where, w ft store It a rain Pw a t.fn-. i. mt M th" were pre- r.iiniuM to tue Brockton far, f?r ot "ot BP, and grave the fcfclf.mUAA' anlM . m.. ' ak -wTl Botcn. f He was familiar' with the f"! "round about the-npot where f,uim was iouno, ana giso familiar wUh meteor i , He was obliged ; to report that this WonlaritAna .Aiki.. - " W -- V IfUlfHQI more nor less than a Potful of flag frcn. att old copper mine near v. the fishermen finding then " of the right size and weight, had used thene slag " Tiverton was not ready w gv Vp Vet."hOWevaVWha'ahMiiM w J the terrible explosion and the hall of nre seen ny so manyr About the -Plosion there was certainly no doubt; broken wrinitAWa a mm. .h-. Imegination. The " inhabitants stood firml by the meteor, until Ion! contrsetor went. to get some dynamite and the rascals a party of ; , mischievous boys who stole It and ex- piouea it on an island in tn river were aOon AtmnvjrA , TVia Mn(r.in refused to prosecute the !oy much . . W jt l . . . . - ...... a. . ... . ho feles the Indignity viUi..."]


1913 Aug 28 / night before / th stone? / In electric storm, met fell into Seaconnett River, near Tiverton, R.I. violent explosion. / N.Y.T. 29-1-2. [X; 154. ("Meteor Falls in River." New York Times, August 29, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 Aug 30 / (Fr) / NY Times, 4-3 / Cloudburst / Biarritz. [X; 155. (New York Times, August 30, 1913, p. 4 c. 3.)]


1913 Aug 30 / q and wind / NY Times, 4-3 / Tremors and hurricane / Messina / 9-22-4-8. [X; 156. (New York Times, August 30, 1913, p. 4 c. 3.)]


1913 Sept, to April 1914 / Mars in Gemini. / McKready, A Beginner's Star Book. [X; 157. McKready, Kelvin. A Beginner's Star-Book. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1912, 86.]


1913 Sept 5 / [LT], 6-d / 6-6-e / 9-5-f / 30-3-f / Comets. [X; 158. (London Times, September 1913: 5-6-d / 6-6-e / 9-5-f / 30-3-f.)]


[1913 Sept 6. Wrong date. See: 1913 Sept 26, (X; 159).]


1913 Sept / Shower of white butterflies at Bernay, Switzerland. / D. Express, Ap. 2, 1914 / N.M. [X; 160. (London Daily Express, April 2, 1914.)]


1913 Sept 6 / Comet by Neuimk in Russia. Looked like asteroid but had nebula tail. / N.Y. Times 19-20-2. [X; 161. (New York Times, September 19, 1913, p. 20 c. 2.)]


1913 Sept 13 / 11 a.m. / Cl. burst / Goldfield, Nevada / NY Times 14-1-[note cut off]. [X; 162. (New York Times, September 14, 1913, p. 1 c.  .)]


[1912 Sept 13, (X; 163), moved to 1912.]


1913 Sept 13 / Islands disap / 2 Tongas / Reported by Captain of the steamship Sonoma, from Sydney, Australia, who reached San Francisco on 12th, that the Hope and Falcon islands, of the Tonga group, had disappeared, carrying away several hundred natives. These islands appeared volcanically in 1885. / D. Mail 13-5-5. [X: 164.1, 164.2. (London Daily Mail, September 13, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.) "Pacific Islands Disappear." London Globe, September 14, 1913, p. 3 c. 3. The Fonuafo'ou volcano, (also named Falcon Island).]


1913 Sept 16 / NY Times, 4-2 / Explosion / Germany. [D; 687. (New York Times, September 16, 1913, p. 4 c. 2.)]


1913 Sept 17 / NY Times, V-3-1 / Ghosts. [D; 688. (New York Times, September 17, 1913, s. 5 p. 3 c. 1.)]


1913 Sept 18 / nucleus / nearly all / New comet in Pisces / like an asteroid / NY Times 19-20-2. [X; 165. (New York Times, September 19, 1913, p. 20 c. 2.)]


1913 / Sept. 20 / Lloyds W. News 21-4-1—at Earl's Court, an airship, 30 feet long, vanished during the night. How it got away was a mystery. All day no news of it. [D; 689. (Lloyds Weekly News, September 21, 1913, p. 4 c. 1.)]


[1913 Sept 26 /] 1913 Sept 6 / Comet near north boundary of Aquarius. / Moved toward Equuleus, then Delphinus. Said been Westphal's (1852 IV). If so, was 148 days earlier than predicted. / M. Notices, 1914-327. [X; 159. "Notes on some Points connected with the Recent Progress of Astronomy." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 74 (February 9, 1914): 323-371, at 327. Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois. "Comet Notes." Observatory, 36 (1913): 442-444, at 442. Levy, Sophia Hazel. "Note on Comet d 1913 (Delavan-Westphal)." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 25 (no. 151; December 1913): 293-294. The prediction of its return was made by Mikhail Anatol’evich Vil'ev (Viljev); its rediscovery was made by accident; and, the comet has disappeared, (failing to reappear, in 1976, as predicted). Comet 20D/1913 S1.]


1913 Sept 28 / W. Dispatch, 1-5 / Lady Molesworth, of Trewarthenick, near Truro, stung in throat by a wasp and died in 20 minutes. Said that about the same time been three other deaths. [D; 690. (London Weekly Dispatch,, September 28, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 Sept 28 / (Thought assault) / Weekly Dispatch, 10-1. / At Prestatyn, N. Wales, Miss Jane Roberts Humprhies, aged 53, of Plas Ucha Farm, found dead in her bedroom, with marks on her throat that apparently indicated been strangled. Servant girl accused, but acquitted at inquest, and she said to have died of heart failure, having made the marks herself in struggling to breathe. / Five marks like finger marks. Extraordinary that preceding this Miss H had had trouble with the servant girl. Girl had refused to work, saying that she had been ill all night. A disturbance, and policeman sent for—girl had run from the house, refusing to return. Policeman had reconciled them. Medical testimony that girl could not have done it. Marks only superficial. Heart failure. / W. Dispatch, Oct 5-13-4 / Girl, Alice Hughes, arrested, charged with manslaughter, taken to Liverpool for trial. Doctors agreed that not been strangled to death, but that her throat been gripped, and in resulting excitement Miss H. had died of heart failure. [D: 691.1 to 691.5. (London Weekly Dispatch, September 28, 1913, p. 10 c. 1.)]


1913 Sept. 30 / Fires / Lancaster Observer, Oct 31 / Mary Gallagher, aged 22, domestic servant, at the Lancaster Assizes. Charged with arson. That, at the home of her employers, Mr. and Mrs Leadbetter, 2 children, aged 4 and 2½ years, 27 N. Albert Street, Fleetwood—dining room rug found on fire—at midnight, a music stool and a table cloth in drawing room on fire. Next morning, a front room on fire. Bed that Mrs. L. had left on fire and some drawers on fire. Girl accused. Finally admitted that she had set the places on fire with lighted tapers. She said her mind upset because of jealousy of her young man. Found guilty of arson—6 months hard labour. [D: 692.1, 692.2, 692.3. (Lancaster Observer, October 31, 1913.)]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. X: 166-167.]


1913 (Sept 30) / BO / Clbrsts / D. Mail, Oct 1, 1913, tells of a "Cloudburst" Sept 30th; and on Oct 1, one of the heaviest rainfalls in history of N.Y. City (Oct. 2). As Constantinople, a rush of water in which estimated 260 lives lost—and the same day, deluges in Spain. [X: 166.1, 166.2. (London Daily Mail, October 1, 1913.) (Refs.???)]


1913 Oct. 1 / Shocks that rocked houses at Panama, 11:20 p.m. / D. Mail 3-7-7. [X; 167. (London Daily Mail, October 3, 1913, p. 7 c. 7.)]


1913 Oct. 1 / Lloyd's W. News 5-10-5 / q at Panama, following storms in France, Spain, Turkey. Torrents in France. [X; 168. (Lloyd's Weekly News, October 5, 1913, p. 10 c. 5.)]


1913 Oct / Unknown plane floating on sea near Eng. / L.T., 1913, Oct 15/14/d / Jewel's? [X; 169. (London Times, October 15, 1913, p. 14 c. 4.)]


1913 Oct 2 / [LT], 10-f / 8-5-e / 17-6-c / 25-6-b / 29-13-b / Comets. [X; 170. (London Times, October 1913: 2-10-f / 8-5-e / 17-6-c / 25-6-b / 29-13-b.)]


1913 Oct 4 / evening / Severe shake / S. Italy / D. Chron 6-1-6. [X; 171. (London Daily Chronicle, October 6, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Oct 4 / 7:30 p.m. / Shock and panic in Naples. / D. Mail 6-9-6. [X; 172. (London Daily Mail, October 6, 1913, p. 9 c. 6.)]


1913 Oct 5, ab. / A third q at Panama. / D. Chronicle 6-1-6. [X; 173. (London Daily Chronicle, October 6, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Oct 6 / D. Mail 7-5-5 / For the 3rd autumn in succession, waterspouts seen in Portland Bay. Between noon and 1 p.m., 5 were seen. "A gale arose accompanied by heavy rain. [X; 174. (London Daily Mail, October 7, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 Oct. 6 / Inquest on body of Mr. H.E. Stenner, who had fallen over the Clifton rocks. Told that at the time of the accident, his wife, entertaining visitors, became agitated, declaring she had heard screams. / Lloyd's W. News—12-8-4. [D; 693. (Lloyds Weekly News, October 12, 1913, p. 8 c. 4.)]


1913 Oct 7 / NY Times, 5-6 / q / Alaska. [X; 175. (New York Times, October 7, 1913, p. 5 c. 6.)]


1913 Oct 7 / volc and storm / NY Times, 1-5 / 9-1-4 / 16-1-7 / 17-10-3 / Great storm / Alaska. [X; 176. (New York Times. October 1913:  7-1-5 / 9-1-4 / 16-1-7 / 17-10-3.)]


1913 Oct. 7 / 10:35 p.m. / Brilliant meteor / west of England / Nature 92-206. [X; 177. "Brilliant Meteor of October 7." Nature, 92 (October 16, 1913): 206.]


1913 Oct. 10 / Panama Canal virtually completed. / D. Mail, 11th. [X; 178. (London Daily Mail,October 11, 1913.)]


1913 Oct 10 / Vessel (Volturno) / (Atlantic) / burns at sea / Trib 12-1-6, etc. / another burning vessel, Sept. 30 / 12-3-4. [D; 694. “Volutrno Burned At Sea....” New York Tribune, October 12, 1913, p. 1 c. 2-7 & p. 2. “Steamer Burns Ten Days.” New York Tribune, October 12, 1913, p. 3 c. 4.]


1913 Oct 13 / Jewell case / See Tribune. [X; 179. “Fear Jewell, Aviator, Was Swept Out To Sea.” New York Tribune, October 14, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.]


1913 Oct. 13 / Disap aviator Albert Jewell. Body said his washed up, Edgemere, L.I., ab. Jan 4. [D; 695. “Believed Body Is Albert Jewell's.” New York Tribune, January 4, 1914, p. 1 c. 6.]


1913 Oct. 13 / Severe q. / Messina / Lloyd's W. News 19-18-2. [X; 180. (Lloyd's Wekly News, October 19, 1913, p. 18 c. 2.)]


1913 Oct 14 / Great colliery explosion / Wales / Trib 16-1-5. [X; 181. “Colliery Dead, 417.” New York Tribune, October 16, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.]


1913 Oct 15-31 / D. Express / Have. [X; 182.]


1913 Oct 16 / Severe q registered in Sydney—calculated to be in New Hebrides. / Lloyds W. News 19-18-2. [X; 183. (Lloyd's Weekly News, October 19, 1913, p. 18 c. 2.)]


1913 Oct 16 / Worst storm remembered, at Malta. In 7 hours, 11 inches of rain fell. / Lloyd's W. News 19-18-3. [X; 184. (Lloyd's Weekly News, October 19, 1913, p. 18 c. 3.)]


1913 Oct 16 / "Cloudburst" at Malta. 11.57 inches fell. / Nature 96-572. [X; 185. “Notes.” Nature, 96 (January 20, 1916): 570-575, at 574.]


1913 Oct 16 / 8:15 p.m. / Stirling, Ill / q / Bull Soc Seis A 3-204. [X; 186. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 3-204.)]


1913 Oct. 16 / Prof Le Coultre observes bluish-white spots on Mars, possibly signals to this earth. / Index To Dates. [X; 187. (Index to Dates, ???)]


1913 Oct 16 / Slow, ascend. met—20 seconds. / Observatory 36/475. [X; 188. (Observatory, 36-475.)]


1913 Oct 17 / 11 inches of rain in 7 hours at Malta—more than half total fall for a year. / D. Express, 18th. [X; 189. (London Daily Express, October 18, 1913.)]


1913 Oct 17 / D. Express, 1-6 / That M. le Coultre, the Genevan astronomer, had reported having in a period of 17 days seen a series of lights on mars, like lights of powerful electric arc lamps. [X; 190. (London Daily Express, October 17, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Oct 17 / morning / Berlin (?) / Germany / Zeppelin burns 1,000 feet in air. / Trib 18-1-3 / Cause a mystery. / 18-4-3. [D; 696. “Zeppelin Airship Explodes; 28 Die.” New York Tribune, October 18, 1913, p. 1 c. 3 & p. 4 c. 4-5. “Explosion Amidships Unprecedented Mishap.” New York Tribune, October 18, 1913, p. 4 c. 3.]


1913 Oct 20 / D. Mail, 7-7 / Ghst in an engine house / Strasbane. [D; 697. (London Daily Mail, October 20, 1913, p. 7 c. 7.)]


1913 Oct 21 / 5 p.m. / Explosion / Staten Island / Trib 22-1-3. [X; 191. “Darkness, Death After Explosion.” New York Tribune, October 22, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.]


1913 Oct (22) / Near Galveston, Texas, bolt of lightning strikes marching soldiers. / Trib 23-1-3. [D; 698. “Bolt Kills 3 Troopers.” New York Tribune, October 23, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.]


1913 Oct 22 / afternoon / Mine explosion / Dawson, New Mexico / Trib 23-1-2. [D; 699. “280 Men Entombed in New Mexico Mine.” New York Tribune, October 23, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.]


1913 Oct 25 / Shock / San Francisco / D. Express 27-1-5. [X; 192. (London Daily Express, October 27, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 Oct 25 / London Daily Mail, 3-2—Mary Gallagher, twenty-three, a domestic servant in home of William Leadbetter, Fleetwood, pleaded guilty, at Lancaster Assizes, to charge of setting house on fire. In one night, 4 fires, one early in evening and one after she was reprimanded for staying out late. She pleaded that had been jilted and made irresponsible. [D: 700.1, 700.2. (London Daily Mail, October 25, 1913, p. 3 c. 2.)]


1913 Oct 26 / Following the red rain at Gibraltar, yellow rain fell, and not local, but reported by arriving vessels. / Dublin Daily Express, 28th. [X; 193. "Red Rain at Gibraltar." Dublin Daily Express, October 28, 1913, p. 4 c. 6.]


1913 Oct. 26 / See 28. / Gibraltar / Fall of red mud followed by a yellow rain from "lurid coppery masses of clouds". / D. Mail 28-9-2. [X; 194. (London Daily Mail, October 28, 1913, p. 9 c. 2.)]


1913 Oct 26 / New island reported 16 miles e. n-e of Sable Island, off s.w. coast of Nova Scotia. / D. Mail. 27-10-2. [X; 195. (London Daily Mail, October 27, 1913, p. 10 c. 2.)]


1913 Oct 27-28 / Ten inches of rain, San Salvador. 54 drowned. / D. Express 30-1-7. [X; 196. (London Daily Express, October 30, 1913, p. 1 c. 7.)]


1913 Oct. 27 / Tornado told of—not hail—in Western Mail of Cardiff. [X; 197. “Floods at Pontypridd.” Cardiff Western Mail, October 28, 1913, p. 6 c. 1. “Havoc of the Storm. Cardiff Western Mail, October 29, 1913, p. 5 c. 8 & p. 6 c. 1-2. “Lightning and Hail,” Cardiff Western Mail, October 30, 1913, p. 6 c. 3-4. Hail was reported at Solva.]


1913 Oct. 27 / Darkness, storm in S. Wales and hail size of tennis balls. / D. Mail 28-7-4. [X; 198. (London Daily Mail, October 28, 1913, p. 7 c. 4.)]


1913 Oct. 28 / See 26. / Sand fell with rain in a violent storm at Hayward's Heath. / N.M. / D. Mail 29-5-5. [X; 199. (London Daily Mail, October 29, 1913, p. 5 c. 5.)]


1913 Oct 30 / Afterglow / China / Nature 94-372. [X; 200. (Nature, 94-372.)]


1913 Nov. 1 / D. Mail / To. [X; 201.]


1913 Nov / Trib missing. / I tried Herald. [X; 202.]


1913 Nov 2 / night / Metite dropped at Malden, Mass, near Boston. / NY Times 3-1-2. [X; 203. (New York Times, November 3, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 Nov. 6 / 10 small towns destroyed by q in Peru. / D. Chronicle 13-1-4. [X; 204. (London Daily Chronicle, November 13, 1913, p. 1 c. 4.)]


1913 Nov. 7 / 10 small towns in Peru, province of Aymaraes, destroyed by a q. / Daily Express 13-1-6. [X; 205. (London Daily Express, November 13, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Nov. 10 / Autun / Meteorite fell. Said to have set a house on fire. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1914-23. [X; 206. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1914-23.)]


1913 Nov 12 / NY Times, 1-2 / 13-4-4 / Dec 5-3-5 / 30-4-3 / q / Peru. [X; 207. (New York Times, November 1913: 12-1-2 / 13-4-4 / Dec 5-3-5 / 30-4-3.)]


1913 Nov. 16 / 19 h, 55 m / Ile d' Oléron / det met / Bull Soc Astro de F 1914-22. [X; 208. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1914-22.)]


1913 Nov. 17 / D. Express, 1-6—12-year girl, of village of Bussus-Bus-Suel, near Abbeville, France, if asked questions, answers would appear, on arms, legs, or shoulders. Also definitely outlined pictures. A ladder, a dog, a horse. [D; 701. (London Daily Express, November 17, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Nov. 19 / 17 h—45 m / Great bolide / Tarn-et-Garonne, etc. / Bull Soc Astro de F—1914-21. [X; 209. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1914-21.)]


1913 Nov 19 / night / Violently detonating meteors at Toulouse. / D. Express 21-1-2. [X; 210. (London Daily Express, November 21, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 Nov. 21, 22 / A nova. Then = ab 7th mag. Soon waned. Not found until by Miss Mackie, at Harvard, in 1919. / Pop Astro, Nov, 1919 / It jumped from 10 to 7 on 22nd. Was 10 on 21st. Of course in Milky Way. Exact position not given. [X; 211.1, 211.2. "A New Star in Sagitta." Popular Astronomy, 27 (no. 9; November 1919): 633-634. The exact position was given as: R.A. 20h 03m 04s, Dec. +17° 24'.3 (1900)."]


[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. X: 212-213.]


1913 Nov. 22 / 7th mag nova in Sagittarius discovered. / Still visible in 1919 by Miss Mackie in a study of Harvard plates in 1919 'in Sagitta". / Nature 104-119 / Within limits of the Milky Way. [X: 212.1, 212.2. (Nature, 104-119.)]


1913 Nov 22 / In 1919, a nova discovered and traced on photo plates. Ab. 26 deg from Nova Aquilae at its maximum, Nov. 22, 1913. Discovered by Miss Mackie. / Nature 104-119. [X; 213. (Nature, 104-119.)]


1913 Nov. 24 / 8:47 p.m. / Remarkable meteor in northern sky of Oxford. / Nature 92-372, 402. [X: 214. Rambaut, Arthur Alcock. "A Remarkable Meteor on November 24." Nature, 92 (November 27, 1913): 372.  "A Remarkable Meteor on November 24." Nature, 92 (December 4, 1913): 402.]


1913 Nov 27 / (Ch) / Cor writes that in London, ab. 7:20 p.m., saw a bright red point in Cygnus. It was stationary. Then it floated along at a fair speed, twinkling like a star, to Aquila, where it disappeared. / E Mec 98/426. [X; 215. (English Mechanic, 98-426.)]


1913 Nov. 29 / Afterglow / France, Italy, Belgium, England / Nature 94-372. [X; 216. (Nature, 94-372.)]


1913 Dec / Needle / See Sept 28. [D; 702. See: (1913 Sept 28).]


1913 Dec / Dths “incised wounds” / Dec., 1873-Feb, 18[note cut off / 3 cases. [D; 703. See: 1873 Dec 21, (A; 871); 1874 Feb 1, (A; 874); and, (third case, possibly 1874 Jan 6, A; 873).]


1913 Dec. / Little wounds / 1867 / Dec. 4. [D; 704. See: 1867 Dec 4, (A; 513).]


1913 Dec / Little wounds / March 11, 1924. [D; 705. See: (1924 March 11).]


[The following sixteen notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 706-721.]


1913 Dec / Poisoned needle / See Jan 5 and Jan 6, 1874. / Feb. 5. [D; 706. See: 1874 Jan 6, (A; 873), and 1874 Feb 1, (A; 874).]


1913 Dec / Punctures / See boy case, Feb 3 or 4, 1920. [D; 707. See: (1920 Feb 3or 4).]


1913 Dec / Myst assault / Jan 31, 1920. [D; 708. See: (1920 Jan 31).]


1913 Dec / Punctures / See Feb 4, 1920. [D; 709. See: (1920 Feb 4).]


1913 Dec / Perforation-wounds / See Feb 9, 1913. [D; 710. See: 1913 Feb 9, (D; 619).]


1913 Dec / Death / fly sting / Nov 11, 1857. [D; 711. See: 1857 [Nov 11] (A; 389).]


1913 Dec / Little wounds / March 11, 1924. [D; 712. See: (1924 March 11).]


1913 Dec / Queer wounds / little / Dec 4, 1867. [D; 713. See: 1867 Dec 4, (A; 513).]


1913 Dec / Small wounds / See Feb 16, 1926/ [note cut off]ted—. [D; 714. See: (1926 Feb 16).]


1913 Dec / See March 11, 1924. [D; 715. See: (1924 March 11).]


1913 Dec / Dth. / woman covered with little wounds / Dec 4, 1867. [D; 716. See: 1867 Dec 4, (A; 513).]


1913 Dec. / Hypo wound by ghst snake / July 28, 1888. [D; 717. See: 1888 July 28, (B; 931).]


[1913 Dec] / Assaults / Little wounds / See Kissing bug. [D; 718. See: (Kissing bug).]


[1913 Dec] / LT Index / Oct, 1912 / Miss Milne killed / small perforated wounds. [D; 719. (London Times Index.) See: 1912 Oct 15, (D; 581), and, 1912 / ab Oct 15, (D; 582).]


[1913 Dec] / Wounds like Dec, 1913 / March 11, 1924. [D; 720. See: (1924 March 11).]


[1913 Dec] / Small wounds / Case of the “strangled “ boy, Feb 5, 1920. [D; 721. See: (1920 Feb 5).]


1913 Dec 1 / Express / To. [X; 217.]


1913 Dec 1 / Herald, 5-7 / Bi-chloride of mercury by mistake. [D; 722. (New York Herald, December 1, 1913, p. 5 c. 7.)]


1913 Dec 2 / early morning / A 30-foot wave came down Nolan's Creek, Texas. It passed through town of Belton, where it took 50 houses—There had been a downpour at Belton for 4 hours. [X; 218. (Ref.???)]


1913 Dec. 2 / Violent shocks / Messina / D. Chronicle 3-7-5. [X; 219. (London Daily Chronicle, December 3, 1913, p. 7 c. 5.)]


1913 Dec 2 / D. Chronicle, 1-2 / 2 girls in a village near Dorchester said be under spell of a witch. / Not much more. [D; 723. (London Daily Chronicle, December 2, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


[The following four notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 724-727.]


1913 Dec 4 / Graff case / in Herald, 6th / Story is that she had felt a pain like a wasp's sting and fell—overpowered., staggered away and fainted. Not she but the theatre management caused young man's arrest. / Own idea the darning needle had stuck her. [D; 724. (New York Herald, December 6, 1913.)]


1913 (Dec. 4) / (N1) / Trib of Dec. 6-1-3 / That Mrs Wesley Monteith Graff—who will not object, inasmuch as her picture published in Trib—as sat in a box of Lyric Theatre, evening of the 4th, she felt something scratching her hand. She accused a young man, who was arrested. The police thought that a hypodermic needle might have been used. They searched and “later” found a common darning needle. Thinking that it might [been] tipped with poison, they sent it to a chemist for analysis. Other instances had been reported. It was the theory of the police that a gang was taking this method for getting women in its power. Several physicians were interviewed and all agreed that the method could not succeed. The pain of the injection would give perhap 15 minutes warning before the drug could render a victim helpless. Some indefinite instances then reported. Trib 9-14-3—said that examination of the Lyric Theatre needle failed to show any sign of poison. [D: 725.1 to 725.5. “Bail of $20,000 in Needle Case,” New York Tribune, December 6, 1913, p. 1 c. 4 & p. 3 c. 2-3. “Needle Wasn't Poisoned.” New York Tribune, December 9, 1913, p. 14 c. 3.]


1913 Dec 16 / Girl aged 16, returning from work—on cor of Second Ave and E 17th St, felt a slight pain, in chest. Went to Bellevue Hospital. The attending surgeon said it was a no bullet wound. Sound of revolver had been heard. Not said bullet found. [D; 726. (Ref.???)]


1913 Dec 6 / B. Eagle, 1-7—Said that within 2 weeks the Committee of Fourteen had had a dozen stories like Mrs De Graff's called to its attention. The Committee had investigated, but had been unable to learn anything definite in any case; no case of a woman drugged and taken away. [D; 727. "Many Stories Told of Girls Drugged, As Was Mrs. Graff." Brooklyn Eagle, December 6, 1913, p. 1 c. 7.]


1913 Dec 5 / B. Eagle, 1-6 / Hundreds of persons driven from their homes by flood around Hearne, Texas. [X; 220. "Flood Victims Climb Trees." Brooklyn Eagle, December 5, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.]


1913 Dec 6 / Volc / Mt Benbow, in the New Hebrides / Nature 94-372. [X; 221. (Nature, 94-372.)]


1913 Dec 6 / See Jan 1. / Volc in Ambrym islands especially active. / D. Chronicle 16-1-6. [X; 222. (London Daily Chronicle, December 16, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.) See: (Jan 1).]


1913 Dec 6, and etc., / South Sea Island of Ambrin—6 new craters this day. Villages overwhelmed. Rivers transformed into streams of lava. / D. Express 16-1-6 / A new island was formed—29-1-5. [X; 223. (London Daily Express, December 16, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.) (London Daily Express, December 29, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.)]


1913 Dec 7 / 2:30 a.m. / Northern Italy / sharp shocks / D. Chronicle 8-1-6. [X; 224. (London Daily Chronicle, December 8, 1913, p. 1 c. 6.)]


1913 Dec 7 / Woman tries to commit suicide with bichloride of mercury. / Trib 9-14-5. [D; 728. “May Outlive Mercury.” New York Tribune, December 9, 1913, p. 14 c. 5. (Only “mercury” mentioned, nothing about “bichloride of mercury.”)]


1913 Dec 10 / At the Santa Clara (Cal.) University, a sunspot seen—the largest in 2 years—not far from the Central Meridian of the sun. / Trib 11-1-3. [X; 225. “Finds Huge Spot on Sun.” New York Tribune, December 11, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.]


1913 Dec 10 / No special sunspots in Dec, noted till 30th. / M. Notices 1914-330. [X; 226. "Notes on some Points connected with the Recent Progress of Astronomy." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 74 (February 9, 1914): 323-371, at 330.]


1913 Dec. 10 / Nothing of a sunspot findable in Nature of the period. [X; 227.]


1913 Dec. 11 / Destructive tornado / Sierra Leone, Africa / B. Eagle 11-2-1. [X; 228. "250 Africans Drowned." Brooklyn Eagle, December 11, 1913, p. 2 c. 1.]


1913 Dec 11 / Trib, 1-5 / Mercury poisoning. [D; 729. “Mercury Kills Seldon Hicks.” New York Tribune, December 11, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.]


1913 Dec 11 / D. Chron 12-5-4/5 / In Thames, near Reading, body of unknown woman. / near Liverpool, in Leeds and Liverpool Canal / Identified next day. [D; 730. (London Daily Chronicle, December 12, 1913, p. 5 c. 4-5.)]


1913 Dec 16 / NY Times, 1-7 / 18-3-6 / 22-2-6 / 23-3-7 / Volc / Ambrim Island. [X; 229. (New York Times, December 1913: 16-1-7 / 18-3-6 / 22-2-6 / 23-3-7.)]


1913 Dec 16 / D. Express / Death of Mme Laure Ranaud, in Paris—the woman who said she had lived twice. [D; 731. (London Daily Express, December 16, 1913.)]


1913 Dec 17 / A fox run over by a trolley car in South Norwalk, Conn., a short distance from the center of the city. / Trib 19-1-2. [D; 732. “Lure of City Kills Fox.” New York Tribune, December 19, 1913, p. 1 c. 5.]


1913 Dec 17 / NY Times, 1-2 / Ghost / Passaic, N.J. [D; 733. (New York Times, December 17, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.)]


1913 Dec 21 / Bichloride of mercury by mistake. / Trib 22-1-6 / 15-1-3. [D; 734. “Took Bichloride by Mistake.” New York Tribune, December 22, 1913, p. 1 c. 6. (New York Tribune, December 15, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.)]


[The following nineteen notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 735-753.]


1913 Dec 26 / Girl finds hypodermic needle in sleeve of fur coat. / Trib 27-1-2. [D; 735. "Finds Hypodermic Needle." New York Tribune, December 27, 1913, p. 1 c. 2.]


1913 Dec 24 / 3 shocks in N.Y. One a myst. / Trib 25-4-3. [D; 736. “Death Shots Mar Peace Day Eve.” New York Tribune, December 25, 1913, p. 4 c. 3.]


1913 Dec 21, ab. / In Milwaukee, man sues railroad—was bitten by what he thought a bedbug. [D; 737. (Ref.???)]


1913 Dec 20 / Chic. Trib. of, 3-5 / Girl in Chicago faints. Brought to police station. Said had felt a tingling sensation in hand. No abrasion of the skin found. Said she had been reading of the scare in N.Y. [D; 738. (Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1913, p. 3 c. 5.)]


1913 Dec 18 / Trib 19-1-3 / 20-5-2 / 22-9-3 / near Ossinging / Miss Mary Ludwig left a train at Croton Point and started to walk to Harmon. Noticed a man was following and quickened her pace. He seized her. She escaped. He shot her twice. Girl in the Ossinging Hospital, in a serious condition. [D: 739.1, 739.2. “Shoots Girl, Then Flees.” New York Tribune, December 19, 1913, p. 1 c. 3. (New York Tribune, December 20, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.) (New York Tribune, December 22, 1913, p. 9 c. 3.)]


1913 Dec 15 / Trib 17-7-6 / Daughter of a delicatessen dealer (aged 13) tells story. Tied up in a vacant lot by 2 masked men. Police suspicious but pieces of rope and footprints there. [D; 740. “Sticks To Attack Story.” New York Tribune, December 17, 1913, p. 7 c. 6.]


1913 Dec 14 / Girl in a subway train said she felt a painful sensation. She screamed and grabbed a young man standing beside her. He was arrested. Said that the police were skeptical. Said that she inquired for reporters, and asked whether her picture would be published. There was a red mark and a slight swelling upon her right arm just above the wrist and this young man, too, was held. / (Trib 15-1-3). [D: 741.1, 741.2. “Needle Scare Gets Man In Jail.” New York Tribune, December 15, 1913, p. 1 c. 3.]


1913 Dec 26 / NY Times, 3-3 / Gibbstown, Pa / Explosion. [X; 230. (New York Times, December 26, 1913, p. 3 c. 3.) (Gibbstown, New Jersey???)]


1913 Dec 26 / NY Times, 3-3 / Big explosion / Italy. [X; 231. (New York Times, December 26, 1913, p. 3 c. 3.)]


1913 Dec 26 / Girl in Binghampton myst shot? Revolver found in room. / Trib 28-2-2. [D; 745. “Mystery in Girl's Death.” New York Tribune, December 28, 1913, p. 2 c. 2. ]


1913 Dec 26 / (Trib), 1-2+4 / 3 cases of children accidentally shot. [D; 746. “Father's Gun Slays Child.” New York Tribune, December 26, 1913, p. 1 c. 2. “Boy Shot Dead By Pastor's Son,” and, “Shoots His Playmate.” New York Tribune, December 26, 1913, p. 1 c. 4.]


1913 Dec / A couple, after 15th, I think, found dead. Punctures said been hypo needle. Said they were poisoned. [D; 747. (Ref.???)]


1913 Dec / Hypo needle—a bite—for instance, see July 11, 1899 (K bug) of Notre Dame. [D; 748. See: 1899 July 11, (C; 422).]


1913 Dec / Hypod. / See Jan., 1874. [D; 749. See: (1874 Jan.).]


1913 Dec 29 / needle / 5:30 p.m. / Miss Marian Brindle, on Ninth Ave elevated train. Supposed to have occurred there—came home in a stupor. Then her relatives saw a mark on her arm just above the elbow—two punctures. (Note here that in Herald report of Graff case said wound looked as if made by a double-pointed needle. Police skeptical. Dr Lewis Schneider testified as to girl's semi-conscious condition. [D: 744.1, 744.2. (Ref.???)]


1913 Dec 29 / The punctures not crescent-shaped but 38 of them in a crescent shape. / News of the World. [D; 750. (New of the World, December 29, 1913.)]


1913 Dec. 29 / Death said from heart failure from shock. [D; 751. (Ref.???)]


1913 Dec. 29 / South London Press, Jan 2-12-1 / The woman's face was bruised, but there were no signs of a violent struggle, and nothing of a struggle was heard by the neighbors, but noise of slight disorder. Neverhteless reports that at inquest testified bedding scattered over floor and ictures smashed but Detective Sergeant James Pulle stated that no indications of a struggle; the “pictures” were prints torn from walls. “The punctures on the thigh appeared to have been made by a sharply-pointed instrument, one having two teeth, 1-8-inches apart.” “The Coroner: Have you ever had a similar case, yourself? Dr Spilsbury: No; not exactly like this.” / 16-9-4—Williams, the man who lived with her sometimes, charged with having caused her death—That he had bruised her in former quarrels, that she was seldom sober. / Williams, who had left her severall days before, when he learned that the police were looking for him, went to the police station where he was held. He was able to show that at the time of the murder he was in another part of London. [D: 752.1 to 752.6. (South London Press, January 2, 1914, p. 12 c. 1.) (South London Press, January 16, 1914, p. 9 c. 4.)]


1913 Dec 29 / Wounds / Woman known as “Scotch Dolly” found dead in her room, 18 Etham Street, S.E., London. A man charged with causing her death, but was released. Upon one of her legs were 38 crescent-shaped punctures. (Daily Mail, Jan 20, 1914). They could not be explained. They looked as if a soldier's spur could have made them. Someone had a theory that the woman, doing penance, had inflicted them upon herself. / P. (1) of this is about the release of the man. / Daily Mail, Jan 2-5-4—said that there were numerous injuries on thebody and the woman had died of heart-failure. Said that the punctures were in pairs and 3s and that some were crescent-shaped. A physician said that were as if made by an instrument with 2 teeth, about an eighth of an inch apart. / (Like N.Y. wounds). [D: 753.1 to 753.4. (London Daily Mail, January 2, 1914, p. 5 c. 4.) (London Daily Mail, January 20, 1914.) (News of the World. South London Press, January 2, 1914, p.12 c.1. South London Press, January 16, 1914, p.9 c.4. London Daily Mail, January 20, 1914. London Daily Mail, January 2, 1914, p.5 c.4. ]


1913 Dec 31 / 3 remarkable robberies in London. / D. Express, Jan 1-5-5. [D; 754. (London Daily Express, January 1, 1914, p. 5 c. 5.)]

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