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...firemen were injured when three walls of the old structure, gave way under the weight of heavy printing machinery on the second floor, and $200,000 damage was done by the flames which swept through the building. It has not been determined what caused the blaze, which broke out shortly after the night shift of the plant left after printing the Yale News for last Friday...
Fire which, according to press reports, caused $200,000 damage to the plant of the Van Dyke Printing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, and injured ten firemen early yesterday will lead to delay and possible abandonment of the publication of the Harvard University Register, it was learned last night...
...useless to attempt to drive the fire trucks from Fort Smith to Subiaco. The distance is 50 miles and the roads bad. A five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...
...dark water and sank. There had been 31 souls on board. Eight (the captain said seven) had been saved by the Paris, 13 by the American Legion; Captain Ludwig Hassell, his wife, daughter and dog, by the Brooklyn. Six men had disappeared. They were all Norwegians: a donkeyman, two firemen, a deckhand, an able-bodied seaman, a trimmer. Newspaper presses roared. The rescued told their different stories. Cables flashed from New York to Paris. The Norwegian consul started an investigation. The captain of the Brooklyn denied that his men did not know how to lower the boats. In the high...
Dorman: "If one of these were ever placed on a street corner the poor firemen would never sleep...