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...Peoria, Ill., Fireman Joe Turner was on the second floor of the firehouse when he heard the alarm. He leaped for the pole, started sliding, ignited matches in his breast pocket, burned his chest, was prompted to let go. The drop broke both legs. It was a false alarm...
What happened then he never knew. With a mighty bang the whole locomotive exploded, tossing engineer and fireman 100 yards into a creek, catapulting the engine cab through the roof of a house. The entire boiler sailed up into the air and crashed down through the roof of the first coach. When the steam cleared, dead & dying lay sprawled in all directions. Com-pany officials said the boiler had seemed satisfactory when inspected last summer. Elkhorn-Piney Coal's score: dead, 16; injured...
...entirely with the touching theme of a house on fire: Walter Birge '35 intoned magnificently as the diva reaching new highs of operatic tonsil abuse. Donald Gleason '35 joined in most capably as Miss Birge's singing spouse and Larry Nichols '35 cut an imposing figure as the rescuing fireman. The main aria "I Smell Smoke" was enthusiastically received...
Died. Arthur R. Seyferlich, 64, Fire Commissioner of Chicago; of diabetic gangrene following a leg infection; in a Chicago hospital. Fortnight ago doctors told Seyferlich a leg amputation was necessary to save his life. Cried he: "A one-legged fireman is no fireman at all. I'll die before you cut my leg off." Fireman Seyferlich died with two legs...
...said New York City Fireman John Kempf who was a passenger. But then his watch might have stopped during the night. At 1 a. m., said another passenger; at 1:10 a. m., said a third who saw people stamping out a wastepaper fire in the writing room. At 2:55 a. m., said a smoke-room steward who found a blaze in a writing room locker...