The Montgomery Advertiser
- JUDGE REYNOLDS HELD BLAMELESS BY SUPREME COURT
- JESS HAINES HURLS CARDINALS TO LEAD OVER YANKEE CREW
- SIX BODIES OF MINE VICTIMS REMOVED BY RESCUE WORKERS
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of October 6, 1926 had a state court story, a sports story and a disaster story. The Alabama Supreme Court unanimously overruled a motion by Chilton County citizens, backed by affidavits, asking it to order the attorney general to begin impeachment proceedings against Judge Lewis H. Reynolds. The paper said the ruling completely cleared him. An Associated Press report from St. Louis described Jesse Haines shutting out the Yankees on five hits and hitting a home run himself. His 4-0 win before a record crowd at Sportsman's Park put the Cardinals ahead two games to one in the World Series. From Rockwood, Tennessee, the AP reported that rescuers had recovered six bodies after an explosion in the Roane Iron Company's coal mine, where at least 28 men were thought to have died and hope for survivors was fading.
Translation
JUDGE REYNOLDS HELD BLAMELESS BY SUPREME COURT
Ruling Announced After Conference of Justices on Tuesday Morning
Motion for issuance by the Supreme Court of an order directing the attorney general to bring impeachment proceedings against Judge Lewis H. Reynolds of Chilton county, was overruled in decision rendered by the Supreme Court, Tuesday afternoon.
The ruling was announced following conference of the Justices of the Supreme Court for further consideration of the motion, which conference convened Tuesday morning. The decision was unanimous, all justices concurring in the order overruling the motion. The action completely exonerates Judge Reynolds.
The motion was filed several months ago through counsel, by a number of Chilton county citizens, who at the same time submitted affidavits. The affidavits alleged that Judge Reynolds
JESS HAINES HURLS CARDINALS TO LEAD OVER YANKEE CREW
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Associated P [?] [?] s Editor
ST. LOUIS, [?]. - (AP) - The rugged figure of Jes [?] Joseph Haines was cast in heroic mould today to celebrate the homecoming of the Cardinals with a dramatic victory over the Yankees in the greatest diamond spectacle St. Louis has ever witnessed.
Standing out in rugged relief against a background of dramatic conflict and before the feverish cheers of a record-breaking crowd, Haines not only blanked the American league champions with five scattered hits, but hammered out a home run that capped the climax of the Cardinals' decisive batting attack in the fourth inning.
A vast and colorful throng of close to 38,000 spectators, the largest and most enthusiastic crowd that ever jammed Sportsman's park, saw Haines subdue the Yankees with a 4-0 triumph in the third game of the intersectional battle.
It was a stirring victory, the climax of a 24-hour outburst of unprecedented home-town spirit, and put the Cardinals in the lead, two games to one, in the struggle for premier
SIX BODIES OF MINE VICTIMS REMOVED BY RESCUE WORKERS
Slow Progress Made in Search For Twenty-Eight Miners Entombed by Explosion Monday; Hope is Fading
ROCKWOOD, TENN., Oct. 5. - (AP) - The slow but vigilant work of searching for the dead in the Roane Iron company's coal mine here, scene of an explosion yesterday in w [?] ch at least 28 men are thought to have lost their lives, continued tonight with
Context
What caused the Rockwood explosion, and how many died
The AP dispatch printed in the Advertiser counted at least 28 men thought dead one day after the blast. The U.S. Bureau of Mines report, excerpted in the US Deadly Events database, later put the toll at 27. All 23 men in the Rogers section were killed by violence, flame or both, and four others died from afterdamp in nearby entries. The Bureau traced the disaster to ventilation. A booster fan that supplied air to the section had been under repair on Sunday. On Monday, methane drifted slowly toward the return airway, where it met the miners' open lights, and coal dust in the section caught fire. The Bureau recommended closed lights, better ventilation and inspection, and rock dusting. On the day of the explosion, the Rockwood Times had already said it was believed to have been a gas blast that ignited coal dust in the entry. The federal findings broadly agreed with that early explanation.
Why the Rockwood figures kept changing, and who came to help
The figure of 28 in the Advertiser was one of several counts that changed during the first days. On the day of the explosion, the Rockwood Times wrote that first reports had placed 67 men in the explosion area, until mine executives checked the list and brought it down to 32. The same paper noted that the force of the blast was said to exceed that of the explosion that had killed 12 men in the Roane Iron mines in July 1925, so the town had been through a similar disaster only fifteen months earlier. Help came from outside the town. The Times reported that the United States Bureau of Mines' rescue car No. 10 reached Rockwood on the evening of the explosion. The Bureau of Mines later reported that recovery work was slow because the affected area could not be ventilated, so bodies came out only a few at a time, as this page's headline about six bodies shows.
How Haines's shutout fit into St. Louis's first World Series
The AP's language about a homecoming and unprecedented home-town spirit had a clear cause. According to SABR's Games Project, the Cardinals had spent most of their history in the lower half of the National League until they won an unexpected pennant in 1926, and Game 3 was the first World Series game ever played in St. Louis. Haines's home run came in the fourth inning, when he hit the first pitch over the right-field wall for two runs and a 3-0 lead. That matches the paper's account of a homer that capped the decisive rally. The attendance figures vary. The Advertiser said close to 38,000, and SABR notes that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch estimated about 38,500, while Baseball-Reference and the New York Times gave the paid attendance as 37,708. The game itself is not in doubt, but the size of the crowd depends on which count is used.
How the series the Advertiser was following ended
The 2-1 lead reported on this page did not last. The Yankees won Games 4 and 5, but the Cardinals took the series four games to three, and it ended on October 10. It was the first professional sports championship ever won by a St. Louis team. The final game also had an ending unique in World Series history. With the Yankees one run behind and down to their last out in the ninth, Babe Ruth was thrown out trying to steal second base, and it remains the only Series to end on a runner caught stealing. Haines's shutout was therefore an early step in a series the Cardinals won only in the last inning of the final game.
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JUDGE REYNOLDS HELD BLAMELESS BY SUPREME COURT
Ruling Announced After Conference of Justices on Tuesday Morning Motion for issuance by the Supreme Court of an order directing the attorney general to bring impeachment proceedings against Judge Lewis H. Reynolds of Chilton county, was overruled in decision rendered by the Supreme Court, Tuesday afternoon. The ruling was announced following conference of the Justices of the Supreme Court for further consideration of the motion, which conference convened Tuesday morning. The decision was unanimous, all justices concurring in the order overruling the motion. The action completely exonerates Judge Reynolds. The motion was filed several months ago through counsel, by a number of Chilton county citizens, who at the same time submitted affidavits. The affidavits alleged that Judge Reynolds
JESS HAINES HURLS CARDINALS TO LEAD OVER YANKEE CREW
Cards Break Yank [?] [?] in Fourth to Snat [?] [?] ph; Jupe Pluve [?] ve BY ALA [?] [?] LD Associated P [?] [?] s Editor ST. LOUIS, [?]. - (AP) - The rugged figure of Jes [?] Joseph Haines was cast in heroic mould today to celebrate the homecoming of the Cardinals with a dramatic victory over the Yankees in the greatest diamond spectacle St. Louis has ever witnessed. Standing out in rugged relief against a background of dramatic conflict and before the feverish cheers of a recordbreaking crowd, Haines not only blanked the American league champions with five scattered hits, but hammered out a home run that capped the climax of the Cardinals ' decisive batting attack in the fourth inning. A vast and colorful throng of close to 38, 000 spectators, the largest and most enthusiastic crowd that ever jammed Sportsman's park, saw Haines subdue the Yankees with a 4-0 triumph in the third game of the intersectional battle. It was a stirring victory, the climax of a 24-hour outburst of unprecedented home-town spirit, and put the Cardinals in the lead, two games to one, in the struggle for premier
SIX BODIES OF MINE VICTIMS REMOVED BY RESCUE WORKERS
SIX BODIES OF MINE VICTIMS REMOVED BY RESCUE WORKERS Slow Progress Made in Search For Twenty-Eight Miners Entombed by Explosion Monday; Hope is Fading ROCKWOOD, TENN., Oct. 5. - (AP) - The slow but vigilant work of searching for the dead in the Roane Iron company's coal mine here, scene of an explosion yesterday in w [?] ch at least 28 men are thought to have lost their lives, continued tonight with
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