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...hours behind schedule, the train chuffed out. Soon the second engine developed mechanical trouble. Water in the boiler ran low. The engineer suggested that there was a water pump at Malines, 13 miles away. He knew, but the Germans did not, that the Malines pump was out of order...
...between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there; the true story of Josh Billings, the famed humorist, who died in Monterey and whose insides, removed by a local undertaker, got carelessly scattered around town...
...crash woke Albert Kellett and his wife Ruth. Kellett threw back the covers sleepily and looked out the window. Lights were glowing strangely in the fog over the railroad right of way; soon he began to hear men screaming in the dark fields. Then the boiler of one of the locomotives blew up. Kellett telephoned for help and ran out into the night. Some of the airmen were crying for morphine; others stumbled aimlessly through the blood-spattered wreckage...
Engineer Frank Blair died from burns-he had landed safely after his leap, only to be scalded by the bursting boiler. Twenty-eight other men, 26 of them soldiers, also died, and 40 were taken to hospitals. As next morning's sunlight cleared the fog, thousands of people gathered near the tracks, and a man with a tinkling bell on his automobile sold hundreds of Popsicles. Major W. J. Wegg, who had commanded the Air Forces group on the train, went to the Terre Haute House and wearily ordered a bottle of Budweiser. As he lifted it he said...
Proud of his operating skill, energetic, 52-year-old Joe Frazer did not take that lying down. At the suggestion of the Navy, he organized a company to take over Warren City Tank & Boiler Co. Last February he changed its name to Warren City Manufacturing Co., became its president, soon doubled its output of landing barges and other war goods...