Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As they converged on it, the choking breath of disaster caught them. Heat, smoke and blinding eddies of thick coal dust were 'blowing out of two long tunnels named Old Main North and New Main North. The walls and ceilings seemed to press in, and the miners clung to...
Bodies in the Gym. Rescuers brought only bad news to the surface: New Orient No. 2 was the worst U.S. mine disaster since the explosion at Centralia No. 5, which killed in miners in March 1947.* At week's end, 62 blanket-covered bodies had been carried out of...
*The worst in U.S. history: the 1907 Monongah, W. Va. disaster. Dead: 361.
Frank Noro 1GB was one of the 56 killed when a Florida-bound non-scheduled plane crashed Sunday afternoon near Elizabeth, N. J. in the third worst disaster in the history of American commercial aviation.
Part of the Memorial Hall floor was curtained off into a canteen which contained one incoming table and two outgoing tables. That is where we went from temperature and pulse-taking. The canteen was decorated all over with red and white and amply staffed with grey ladies who urged coffee...