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...seven heavy-laden cars across the westbound tracks. Out of the night the Triangle raced at 70 miles an hour. Brief, bright showers of sparks gritted from desperately locked brakes. Then the Triangle hit the wreckage. Both its locomotives and three of its cars tumbled off the rails. A geyser of live steam shot up. Glass crashed, metal shrieked and groaned on metal. In the stillness which followed, the train's 270 passengers, 150 of them young, newly drafted soldiers, wailed and called; many were crushed between the crashing cars. Nineteen died, 50 were injured...
...Lake View Avenue geyser which bubbled to the surface early Sunday morning and kept late sabbath sleepers from their afternoon baths is still going strong, the water works reported last night. Crews have been working on the break since its discovery but are having a hard time plugging it up. Flooded cellars and furious pumping operations have given that section of Cambridge a bit of Mississippi River charm...
...proud carrier Saratoga, 800 yards away, remained in sight for about two seconds. The geyser of water almost touched her starboard side. Then spray blotted her from view. The geyser spurted up to 5,000 feet and there gave birth to the familiar mushroom-shaped cloud which rose 4,000 feet more...
...Franklin Roosevelt was looking for a U.S. ambassador of good will, he could have made no better selection. Indefatigable Eleanor Roosevelt attended receptions, teas, dinners, visited U.S. servicemen in hospitals and clubs, saw noted Pohutu Geyser at Rotorua, N.Z., autographed a wounded marine's leg bandage, got christened "Queen of the Great Democracy" by Maori chieftains, won friends and influenced people everywhere by her untiring kindness...
Most exciting moment occurred Monday evening when late diners and hangers-on at the mess hall were privileged to witness the geyser of water which burst forth from the starboard coffee urn.... A loud cheer went up in admiration of Miss Opal Bowers, of the Cowie Hall staff, who, heedless of losing that new curl, rushed into the torrential shower and closed the offending valve...