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this city died this PM -- Evening I was at Opera House -- A pleasant entertainment entitled "The Little Tycoon" by well drilled members of the 4th Ward School -- mostly girls -- mostly songs & choruses -- About 20 on stage at a time -- Pretty fair house -- about 2/3 -- Afterward at Enterprise -- Bed 1 -- About 5 PM I visited Jack Craze, An old friend, keeping a saloon and lodging house on South C st, opposite the Savage office. He is very sick from Pleura-pneumonia and sent for me -- He is generally known among his brother "Cousin Jacks," as "Blackwater Jack" and a mighty good man.

Harry Nye's Accident -- Cooler

Thursday Aug 11

Cloudy, Breezy, cooler -- 72[degrees] -- Harry Nye was badly if not fatally hurt this morning about 8. He is a member of the Fire Department, Fire alarm at that time -- He was on one of the hose carts, with the driver, Emery Smith. In dashing out for the fire, down the steep grade south from the corporation house the cart got off over the steep embankment and hillside and turned over. Harry got beneath the cart and had his right thigh and knee badly broken and both wrists broken and dislocated. Also had his nose broken. His right leg was so badly smashed up that it had to be amputated about midway of the thigh. Smith and the horse got considerably bruised and cut up, but will get around again shortly. Evening about town -- Bed 12 --

PH Lannan -- JH Tillon Dies -- Ford's Big Funeral