Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock of the disaster extended not only throughout the U. S. but to Europe. The Lord Mayor of London telephoned to Mayor John Daniel Marshall of Cleveland to express sympathy. The editors of the London Sketch and Daily News telephoned to Managing Editor Thomas Aaron Robertson of the Cleveland News to get the details of the tragedy for their papers...
...Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four physicians who pledged them selves to give one-fourth of their incomes to its support. Most noted of the founders is Dr. George W. Crile, inventor of "nerve-block" anesthesia and improvements in blood transfusion technique, an expert in thyroid gland and respiratory system operations. At the time of the explosion he was performing an operation in the Clinic hospital in a nearby building. He was not told of the accident until the operation was completed. Still in his white gown and operating cap he rushed to the scene...
Died. Dr. Charles Edward Locke, Jr., 25, of Cleveland, brain specialist; son of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Charles Edward Locke of St. Paul, Minn.; in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe...
Died. Dr. John Phillips, 50, of Cleveland, co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe...
Died. Henry Marcus Lane, 74, of Cincinnati, famed construction engineer (Pike's Peak cog railroad); in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe...