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Rammed by another ship during a fog, June 15, 1943, the Humphrey, loaded with 22,000 tons of iron ore, had gone down in the swift, treacherous current of the Straits of Mackinac, connecting Lakes Michigan and Huron. Lying in 80 feet of water, with her pilothouse only 15 feet below the surface, she was a menace to navigation in the heavily traveled, four-mile-wide channel. Marine experts said nothing could be done; the depth and current made her salvage impossible. Even the Normandie* they pointed out, had flopped over in only 40 feet, and well away from...
Engineer Frank Blair died from burns-he had landed safely after his leap, only to be scalded by the bursting boiler. Twenty-eight other men, 26 of them soldiers, also died, and 40 were taken to hospitals. As next morning's sunlight cleared the fog, thousands of people gathered near the tracks, and a man with a tinkling bell on his automobile sold hundreds of Popsicles. Major W. J. Wegg, who had commanded the Air Forces group on the train, went to the Terre Haute House and wearily ordered a bottle of Budweiser. As he lifted it he said...
...GREAT FOG-H. F. Heard-Vanguard...
Most of the eight short stories in The Great Fog are as weird as this one. Bearded, erudite Author Henry Fitzgerald Heard is a masterly exponent of the Doylian detective story and the Wellsian, pseudoscientific fantasy. Writing under the name of Gerald Heard, he is also a distinguished British mystic (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity...
...Great Fog displays Author Heard in both guises. As H.F. he makes the flesh creep; as Gerald in disguise he makes the conscience crawl. A few of the stories are straight mysteries and scientific thrillers, in which the principal elements are a woman's ear, a Siamese cat, a crayfish, a fog which covers the whole world. The other stories are trial balloons inflated by Gerald. They involve an eerie Gothic cathedral, with a mystic message for those who know how to find it ; an English spinster who is saved from suicide by tooth ache and theosophy; a couple...