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...flood waters struck hot boilers, explosions and fires flared through the city. An exploding tank car in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad yards burned three business houses, two homes, a municipal garage. A nut & bolt plant, two steel plants, an oil works blazed away while firemen sloshed and fumbled. In a suburban house some 30 refugees were rocked, showered with bricks, singed when their shelter exploded and caught fire...
When fire flared in a private garage next door to his Evanston (Ill.) residence, Charles Gates Dawes stomped out into bitter cold, cheered the firemen...
...Ziegler, Ill., the town council decreed that of its twelve firemen, only the first four to arrive at a fire will be paid the usual...
...plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...
...with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled the man out of the cab, tied a rope around his waist, lowered him head first to an ambulance which rushed him to a hospital for possible recovery...