While riding in a
hansom cab on his way to New York City's
White Star Line pier to join his wife, with whom he was about to sail to Europe,
bookmaker and horse owner Frank Thomas "Caesar" Young died of a gunshot wound. Former actress
Nan Patterson, who was in the cab with Young, was arrested on suspicion of his murder, although she claimed the pistol shot was self-inflicted.[28][29][30]
Also in New York City, police reserves used force to disperse a crowd of African Americans blocking
Central Park West outside the home of
Hannah Elias, whose house was surrounded by deputies waiting to serve her with legal papers related to manufacturer John R. Platt's charges of
blackmail against her.[31]
In
Fairmont, West Virginia, a gas explosion at a coal company killed four people and injured four others.[33]
In
Peoria, Illinois, an explosion and fire destroyed the Corning Distilling warehouse and spread to nearby stockyards, killing 14 people and 3200 cattle and causing at least $1,000,000 in damage.[8][34][35][36]
In
Hercules, California, an explosion and fire at the
California Powder Works killed five people. The following day, the Los Angeles Herald's report of the disaster would be headlined, "HERCULES POWDER MILLS DESTROYED Two Lives Lost and $30,000 in Property", but the text of the article would state, "...two white men and three Chinese were killed and several persons injured."[38]
A series of
bullfights was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in the Norris Amusement Company amphitheater north of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition grounds in
St. Louis,
Missouri. Authorities prevented the event from taking place due to complaints from supporters of
animal rights, but the event's organizers refused to give refunds to the 8,000 people who had bought tickets. This led to
a riot during which the crowd attacked the amusement company's office, brought the bulls into the amphitheater and conducted a bullfight themselves. The crowd then freed the seven bulls and eight horses present for the bullfight and set fire to the amphitheater, completely destroying it and forcing the bullfighters, who had been eating in rooms under the stands, to flee.[8][50][51][52]
In the early morning hours,
a bomb exploded at the Independence train depot in the area of
Cripple Creek, Colorado, killing 15 miners, most of them non-union members.[65][66][67] Later in the day, gunfire erupted during a mass meeting in
Victor, Colorado, killing two people and wounding several others.[68][69] Shortly afterwards, a gunfight between a militia company and miners inside the Union hall resulted in multiple injuries and arrests.[68][70][71]
Died:Moishe Finkel, c. 54,
Yiddish theatre performer, shot and seriously wounded his wife, actress Emma Thomashefsky Finkel, and then shot and killed himself.[82]
In the aftermath of the
St. Louis bullfight riot on June 5, Irish-born matador
Carleton Bass shot and killed Spanish matador Manuel Cervera Prieto at the Mozart Hotel in St. Louis as a result of a quarrel between them.[52][83][84] Bass claimed self-defense; the coroner's inquest would agree, and Bass would never stand trial for the shooting.[52]
French
road bicycle racerPaul Dangla crashed at a speed of nearly 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) while racing in
Magdeburg,
Province of Saxony, shortly after winning the "Goldenen Rad von Magdeburg" (Golden Wheel of Magdeburg). He would die of his injuries less than two weeks later.[107][108]
The steamer Canada of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company sank after colliding with the
collierCape Breton on the
St. Lawrence River. Five people aboard the Canada died.[109][110]
A severe hurricane which began on June 10 peaked over
Cuba with 14 inches (360 mm) of rain within five hours. The storm destroyed low-lying areas of
El Cobre, Cuba.[113][114] At least 87 people, and possibly as many as 250, were killed.[114][115][116]
In
Lexington, Kentucky, Police Judge John J. Riley sentenced 15-year-old African American Simon Scearce to a public whipping by his mother for striking a white boy. Scearce's mother gave him 20 lashes with a
buggy whip in front of a large crowd. According to the following day's Los Angeles Herald, "This is the first time such an incident has been witnessed in
Kentucky since the
Civil War."[117]
In New York City, Nan Patterson pled not guilty to
first-degree murder in the death of "Caesar" Young.[124] She would eventually go free after two trials resulted in
hung juries.[30]
The
Battle of Te-li-Ssu (also known as the Battle of Wafangou) ended in a Japanese victory.[138]
The first transmission of wireless telegraphy featuring music and speech took place in
Salzburg, with Otto Nußbaumer making the transmission.[139]
At 2 a.m., a white mob seized
Marie Thompson, an African American woman, from a jail in
Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, where she was being held for the killing of white farmer John Irvin the previous day. Thompson, who had claimed self-defense, grabbed a knife from a man in the crowd and cut herself down from the tree from which the mob was attempting to hang her. She was then shot and mortally wounded while attempting to escape.[140][141]
James Joyce walked to
Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he would later use this date (
Bloomsday) as the setting for his novel Ulysses.[148]
Due to a malfunction during an execution at the
Ohio penitentiary shortly after midnight, convicted murderer Michael Schiller revived three times in the
electric chair before dying.[149]
The
Arkansas state convention of the
Democratic Party adjourned, having adopted a platform which included the statement: "We condemn President Roosevelt, among other things, especially for his public and private conduct tending to stir up bitterness between the different sections of the country and to make the
negro believe that he is the social and other equal of the white man."[150]
In Chicago, a reserved section of seats collapsed at a
circus, seriously injuring at least 9 people. The show's treasurer disappeared with over $600 of the circus' money during the panic.[171]
Frederick Kent Loomis disappeared from the Kaiser Wilhelm II on the eve of its arrival in Plymouth, England. Loomis was last seen aboard ship about midnight.[125][126][127][129][130]
Two railroad workers were killed, and one severely injured, in a head-on collision about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of
Sapulpa, Indian Territory.[122]
In
Cleveland, Ohio, a fire at a saloon building killed two people and injured six.[180]
In
Kansas City, Missouri, an
ammonia explosion on the fourth floor of the Block Preserving factory caused the building to collapse, killing two people and injuring seven. The building had not been properly repaired after being damaged by a tornado in 1886.[181]
Czar
Nicholas II of Russia attended the burial of Nikolay Bobrikov at Sergievo, near
Saint Petersburg, unaccompanied by
Empress Alexandra. The Los Angeles Herald would report the following day, "A long expected event in the imperial family is understood to be imminent."[189]
Opening prayer at the Republican National Convention
In the
Province of Teruel in Spain, a passenger train derailed on a bridge over the
Jiloca during a storm. The train's coaches and the bridge caught on fire, and the engine and some of the coaches fell into the river. 30 people died, most of them
gendarmes.[202]
Delegates at the Republican National Convention nominated incumbent Theodore Roosevelt for President of the United States and
Charles W. Fairbanks for Vice President of the United States, nominating Fairbanks by
acclamation.[192][207] The final person to make a speech seconding Roosevelt's nomination was African American lawyer
Harry S. Cummings of
Baltimore,
Maryland.[192][208]U.S. Speaker of the HouseJoseph Gurney Cannon, serving as Chairman of the Convention, did not grasp Cummings' hand while introducing him, as he did with every other speaker.[192]
Paul Dangla, 22 or 26, French road bicycle racer, died from injuries sustained in a race crash[223][224](some sources give date of death as June 18, 1904).[225]
A London news agency carried a report that the body of Frederick Kent Loomis had been washed ashore near
Cherbourg,
France.[126][239] This would be reported to be false the following day.[239] Loomis' body would be discovered washed up at Thurleston Sands, Bigbury Bay,
Kingsbridge, on July 16.[129]
In
Scranton, South Carolina, Cairo Williams, an African American man, was taken off a train and
lynched for the February murder of Thurston McGee, a white man.[266]
^"President Joins the Veterans". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 250. 5 June 1904. Page 6, column 2. Retrieved 29 July 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Gas Explosion Kills Four". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 250. 5 June 1904. Page 1, column 2. Retrieved 29 July 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Princess Mary of Baden Dead". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 250. 5 June 1904. Page 4, column 3. Retrieved 29 July 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"DEATHS OF THE DAY George F. Phillips". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 251. 6 June 1904. Page 3, column 6. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"DEATHS OF THE DAY Viscount Powerscourt". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 251. 6 June 1904. Page 3, column 6. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^""Jimmie" McGarr Dies of Paresis". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 252. 7 June 1904. Page 8, column 2. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Twenty Killed by Explosion". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 253. 8 June 1904. Page 2, column 2. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Yuanbao, GAO (2003).
"Lin Huiyin". In Lee, Lily XiaoHong; Stefanowska, A. D.; Wiles, Sue (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century, 1912-2000. University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications. Vol. 2. Translated by Kerr, Katherine.
Armonk, New York and London,
England:
M. E. Sharpe. pp. 339–341.
ISBN0-7656-0798-0. Retrieved 28 July 2022 – via
Google Books.
^"Author and Essayist Dies". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 256. 11 June 1904. Page 5, column 6. Retrieved 2 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"JUDGE COMMANDS NEGRO SPANKED; MOTHER OBEYS". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 259. 14 June 1904. Page 1, column 6. Retrieved 2 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Harvard Athlete Is Barred". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 259. 14 June 1904. Page 9, column 2. Retrieved 3 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"LIGHTNING ENDS LIFE OF YOUNG ARMY OFFICER". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 259. 14 June 1904. Page 1, column 3. Retrieved 10 January 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Officers Stay at Posts During Disaster". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 2, columns 1-2. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Kleinfield, N. R. (2 September 2007).
"As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough?". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2022. Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning and sinking of the steamer 'General Slocum,' the deadliest New York disaster until Sept. 11, 2001.
^"FINNISH GOVERNOR KILLED IN SENATE". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 262. 17 June 1904. Page 1, columns 2-3; page 4, column 3. Retrieved 26 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Dario López, Rubén (December 2007). "Manuel Uribe Ángel".
Gobernantes de Antioquia [Leaders of Antioquia] (PDF) (in Spanish).
Medellín: Academia Antioqueña de Historia, Asociación de Exgobernadores y Exdiputados de Antioquia. pp. 389–391. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
^"STRUCK A ROCK". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 264. 19 June 1904. Page 6, column 6. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Rear Admiral J. N. [sic] Greer". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 263. 18 June 1904. Page 3, column 7. Retrieved 27 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Author and Playwright Dead". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 266. 21 June 1904. Page 1, column 4. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"INCIDENTS OF FIRST DAY OF THE CONVENTION". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 267. 22 June 1904. Page 1, column 7. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Republicans Meet to Nominate Roosevelt". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 267. 22 June 1904. Page 2, columns 2-5; page 4, columns 3-7. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Rutledge, Martha (1969).
"Copeland, Henry (1839–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
^"George A. Knight Stirs Convention". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 269. 24 June 1904. Page 1, columns 6-7. Retrieved 31 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"HAS DISCOVERED 100 NEW DOUBLE STARS". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 269. 24 June 1904. Page 5, column 6. Retrieved 31 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Griffin, James (1974).
"Moore, James (1834–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
^"Fearful Catastrophe At Bog Walk Drowning Men Fight For Life Sudden Rush of Water Causes Panic 33 Able-Bodied Men Drowned In Water-Pipe No Accurate Information as To Cause Of The Disaster". The Gleaner. 28 June 1904., cited in
"1904 Bog Walk disaster relived". The Gleaner. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^"Negro Murderer Lynched". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 276. 1 July 1904. Page 2, column 3. Retrieved 23 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Cyclist Walthour Recovering". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 33. 3 July 1904. Page 35, column 3. Retrieved 17 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
While riding in a
hansom cab on his way to New York City's
White Star Line pier to join his wife, with whom he was about to sail to Europe,
bookmaker and horse owner Frank Thomas "Caesar" Young died of a gunshot wound. Former actress
Nan Patterson, who was in the cab with Young, was arrested on suspicion of his murder, although she claimed the pistol shot was self-inflicted.[28][29][30]
Also in New York City, police reserves used force to disperse a crowd of African Americans blocking
Central Park West outside the home of
Hannah Elias, whose house was surrounded by deputies waiting to serve her with legal papers related to manufacturer John R. Platt's charges of
blackmail against her.[31]
In
Fairmont, West Virginia, a gas explosion at a coal company killed four people and injured four others.[33]
In
Peoria, Illinois, an explosion and fire destroyed the Corning Distilling warehouse and spread to nearby stockyards, killing 14 people and 3200 cattle and causing at least $1,000,000 in damage.[8][34][35][36]
In
Hercules, California, an explosion and fire at the
California Powder Works killed five people. The following day, the Los Angeles Herald's report of the disaster would be headlined, "HERCULES POWDER MILLS DESTROYED Two Lives Lost and $30,000 in Property", but the text of the article would state, "...two white men and three Chinese were killed and several persons injured."[38]
A series of
bullfights was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in the Norris Amusement Company amphitheater north of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition grounds in
St. Louis,
Missouri. Authorities prevented the event from taking place due to complaints from supporters of
animal rights, but the event's organizers refused to give refunds to the 8,000 people who had bought tickets. This led to
a riot during which the crowd attacked the amusement company's office, brought the bulls into the amphitheater and conducted a bullfight themselves. The crowd then freed the seven bulls and eight horses present for the bullfight and set fire to the amphitheater, completely destroying it and forcing the bullfighters, who had been eating in rooms under the stands, to flee.[8][50][51][52]
In the early morning hours,
a bomb exploded at the Independence train depot in the area of
Cripple Creek, Colorado, killing 15 miners, most of them non-union members.[65][66][67] Later in the day, gunfire erupted during a mass meeting in
Victor, Colorado, killing two people and wounding several others.[68][69] Shortly afterwards, a gunfight between a militia company and miners inside the Union hall resulted in multiple injuries and arrests.[68][70][71]
Died:Moishe Finkel, c. 54,
Yiddish theatre performer, shot and seriously wounded his wife, actress Emma Thomashefsky Finkel, and then shot and killed himself.[82]
In the aftermath of the
St. Louis bullfight riot on June 5, Irish-born matador
Carleton Bass shot and killed Spanish matador Manuel Cervera Prieto at the Mozart Hotel in St. Louis as a result of a quarrel between them.[52][83][84] Bass claimed self-defense; the coroner's inquest would agree, and Bass would never stand trial for the shooting.[52]
French
road bicycle racerPaul Dangla crashed at a speed of nearly 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) while racing in
Magdeburg,
Province of Saxony, shortly after winning the "Goldenen Rad von Magdeburg" (Golden Wheel of Magdeburg). He would die of his injuries less than two weeks later.[107][108]
The steamer Canada of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company sank after colliding with the
collierCape Breton on the
St. Lawrence River. Five people aboard the Canada died.[109][110]
A severe hurricane which began on June 10 peaked over
Cuba with 14 inches (360 mm) of rain within five hours. The storm destroyed low-lying areas of
El Cobre, Cuba.[113][114] At least 87 people, and possibly as many as 250, were killed.[114][115][116]
In
Lexington, Kentucky, Police Judge John J. Riley sentenced 15-year-old African American Simon Scearce to a public whipping by his mother for striking a white boy. Scearce's mother gave him 20 lashes with a
buggy whip in front of a large crowd. According to the following day's Los Angeles Herald, "This is the first time such an incident has been witnessed in
Kentucky since the
Civil War."[117]
In New York City, Nan Patterson pled not guilty to
first-degree murder in the death of "Caesar" Young.[124] She would eventually go free after two trials resulted in
hung juries.[30]
The
Battle of Te-li-Ssu (also known as the Battle of Wafangou) ended in a Japanese victory.[138]
The first transmission of wireless telegraphy featuring music and speech took place in
Salzburg, with Otto Nußbaumer making the transmission.[139]
At 2 a.m., a white mob seized
Marie Thompson, an African American woman, from a jail in
Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, where she was being held for the killing of white farmer John Irvin the previous day. Thompson, who had claimed self-defense, grabbed a knife from a man in the crowd and cut herself down from the tree from which the mob was attempting to hang her. She was then shot and mortally wounded while attempting to escape.[140][141]
James Joyce walked to
Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he would later use this date (
Bloomsday) as the setting for his novel Ulysses.[148]
Due to a malfunction during an execution at the
Ohio penitentiary shortly after midnight, convicted murderer Michael Schiller revived three times in the
electric chair before dying.[149]
The
Arkansas state convention of the
Democratic Party adjourned, having adopted a platform which included the statement: "We condemn President Roosevelt, among other things, especially for his public and private conduct tending to stir up bitterness between the different sections of the country and to make the
negro believe that he is the social and other equal of the white man."[150]
In Chicago, a reserved section of seats collapsed at a
circus, seriously injuring at least 9 people. The show's treasurer disappeared with over $600 of the circus' money during the panic.[171]
Frederick Kent Loomis disappeared from the Kaiser Wilhelm II on the eve of its arrival in Plymouth, England. Loomis was last seen aboard ship about midnight.[125][126][127][129][130]
Two railroad workers were killed, and one severely injured, in a head-on collision about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of
Sapulpa, Indian Territory.[122]
In
Cleveland, Ohio, a fire at a saloon building killed two people and injured six.[180]
In
Kansas City, Missouri, an
ammonia explosion on the fourth floor of the Block Preserving factory caused the building to collapse, killing two people and injuring seven. The building had not been properly repaired after being damaged by a tornado in 1886.[181]
Czar
Nicholas II of Russia attended the burial of Nikolay Bobrikov at Sergievo, near
Saint Petersburg, unaccompanied by
Empress Alexandra. The Los Angeles Herald would report the following day, "A long expected event in the imperial family is understood to be imminent."[189]
Opening prayer at the Republican National Convention
In the
Province of Teruel in Spain, a passenger train derailed on a bridge over the
Jiloca during a storm. The train's coaches and the bridge caught on fire, and the engine and some of the coaches fell into the river. 30 people died, most of them
gendarmes.[202]
Delegates at the Republican National Convention nominated incumbent Theodore Roosevelt for President of the United States and
Charles W. Fairbanks for Vice President of the United States, nominating Fairbanks by
acclamation.[192][207] The final person to make a speech seconding Roosevelt's nomination was African American lawyer
Harry S. Cummings of
Baltimore,
Maryland.[192][208]U.S. Speaker of the HouseJoseph Gurney Cannon, serving as Chairman of the Convention, did not grasp Cummings' hand while introducing him, as he did with every other speaker.[192]
Paul Dangla, 22 or 26, French road bicycle racer, died from injuries sustained in a race crash[223][224](some sources give date of death as June 18, 1904).[225]
A London news agency carried a report that the body of Frederick Kent Loomis had been washed ashore near
Cherbourg,
France.[126][239] This would be reported to be false the following day.[239] Loomis' body would be discovered washed up at Thurleston Sands, Bigbury Bay,
Kingsbridge, on July 16.[129]
In
Scranton, South Carolina, Cairo Williams, an African American man, was taken off a train and
lynched for the February murder of Thurston McGee, a white man.[266]
^"President Joins the Veterans". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 250. 5 June 1904. Page 6, column 2. Retrieved 29 July 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Gas Explosion Kills Four". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 250. 5 June 1904. Page 1, column 2. Retrieved 29 July 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Princess Mary of Baden Dead". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 250. 5 June 1904. Page 4, column 3. Retrieved 29 July 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"DEATHS OF THE DAY George F. Phillips". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 251. 6 June 1904. Page 3, column 6. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"DEATHS OF THE DAY Viscount Powerscourt". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 251. 6 June 1904. Page 3, column 6. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^""Jimmie" McGarr Dies of Paresis". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 252. 7 June 1904. Page 8, column 2. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Twenty Killed by Explosion". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 253. 8 June 1904. Page 2, column 2. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Yuanbao, GAO (2003).
"Lin Huiyin". In Lee, Lily XiaoHong; Stefanowska, A. D.; Wiles, Sue (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century, 1912-2000. University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications. Vol. 2. Translated by Kerr, Katherine.
Armonk, New York and London,
England:
M. E. Sharpe. pp. 339–341.
ISBN0-7656-0798-0. Retrieved 28 July 2022 – via
Google Books.
^"Author and Essayist Dies". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 256. 11 June 1904. Page 5, column 6. Retrieved 2 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"JUDGE COMMANDS NEGRO SPANKED; MOTHER OBEYS". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 259. 14 June 1904. Page 1, column 6. Retrieved 2 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Harvard Athlete Is Barred". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 259. 14 June 1904. Page 9, column 2. Retrieved 3 August 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"LIGHTNING ENDS LIFE OF YOUNG ARMY OFFICER". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 259. 14 June 1904. Page 1, column 3. Retrieved 10 January 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Officers Stay at Posts During Disaster". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 2, columns 1-2. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Kleinfield, N. R. (2 September 2007).
"As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough?". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2022. Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning and sinking of the steamer 'General Slocum,' the deadliest New York disaster until Sept. 11, 2001.
^"FINNISH GOVERNOR KILLED IN SENATE". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 262. 17 June 1904. Page 1, columns 2-3; page 4, column 3. Retrieved 26 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Dario López, Rubén (December 2007). "Manuel Uribe Ángel".
Gobernantes de Antioquia [Leaders of Antioquia] (PDF) (in Spanish).
Medellín: Academia Antioqueña de Historia, Asociación de Exgobernadores y Exdiputados de Antioquia. pp. 389–391. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
^"STRUCK A ROCK". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 264. 19 June 1904. Page 6, column 6. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Rear Admiral J. N. [sic] Greer". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 263. 18 June 1904. Page 3, column 7. Retrieved 27 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Author and Playwright Dead". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 266. 21 June 1904. Page 1, column 4. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"INCIDENTS OF FIRST DAY OF THE CONVENTION". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 267. 22 June 1904. Page 1, column 7. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"Republicans Meet to Nominate Roosevelt". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 267. 22 June 1904. Page 2, columns 2-5; page 4, columns 3-7. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Rutledge, Martha (1969).
"Copeland, Henry (1839–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
^"George A. Knight Stirs Convention". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 269. 24 June 1904. Page 1, columns 6-7. Retrieved 31 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"HAS DISCOVERED 100 NEW DOUBLE STARS". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 269. 24 June 1904. Page 5, column 6. Retrieved 31 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Griffin, James (1974).
"Moore, James (1834–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
^"Fearful Catastrophe At Bog Walk Drowning Men Fight For Life Sudden Rush of Water Causes Panic 33 Able-Bodied Men Drowned In Water-Pipe No Accurate Information as To Cause Of The Disaster". The Gleaner. 28 June 1904., cited in
"1904 Bog Walk disaster relived". The Gleaner. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^"Negro Murderer Lynched". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 276. 1 July 1904. Page 2, column 3. Retrieved 23 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^"Cyclist Walthour Recovering". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 33. 3 July 1904. Page 35, column 3. Retrieved 17 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.