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...Merrymakers gathered in thousands to watch as the flames roared through five huge stacks of lumber and spread to a few nearby buildings. It was a spectacular New Year's show. But within an hour, cheered on by their wives and children behind the police cordons, the firemen (volunteers, like all Chilean bomberos) seemed to be getting the blaze under control, and the watching crowds began to drift away again. Then the superintendent of an adjoining government warehouse rushed up to shout a warning: there were 1,214 Ibs. of dynamite stored in the building. Before he had even...
There was a roar, said Fire Captain Heriberto Surrey later, "as if a ten-ton aerial bomb had burst." A great jet of flame plumed skyward, cremating two firemen directing hoses atop their telescopic ladders. Dozens of bodies were hurled through the air in all directions. Steel beams and chunks of concrete hurtled through the ranked rings of firemen, police and spectators. Three blocks away, a woman watching at an open window was beheaded by a piece of flying glass. Then oxygen tanks stored in the warehouse began exploding; gasoline and oil drums caught fire and burst, raining like napalm...
...night and next day rescue parties groped in the smoking, reeking rubble to uncover the living and identify the dead. By week's end, 51 dead had been identified, including 26 firemen and a news photographer. Probably no complete list of the dead could ever be compiled. Weeping relatives ransacked the hospitals, where many victims lay unconscious, so mutilated and thickly bandaged as to be unrecognizable...
Cambridge police and firemen may win three extra days of vacation with pay by catching adult false-alarm pullers in the city...
...said he was awakened at 9:20 a.m. by a floormate yelling "Smoke." He found a corner of his living room in flames. Before firemen could douse the blaze, fire had gutted the floor and smoke damaged the walls and most of the occupants' clothing. A roommate, William B. Warren '56, slept through the whole disturbance...