Word: inness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One foggy twilight last week, New York radio stations suddenly stopped broadcasting and the air was filled with SOS calls. While radio listeners wondered what the silence might portend, there was administered in the outer reaches of New York Harbor what might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when...
Only one occurrence threatened to mar the disciplined success of the rescue work which followed. A bevy of panicky Chinamen from the galleys of the Fort Victoria started to run amok with kitchen knives. An armed officer quelled them; the well-regulated filling of lifeboats with women and children, then...
From the ferryboat West Point, rammed in the Hudson River by a car barge, 700 passengers were taken safely.
Stiff-faced and stoical was a crowd clustered about the entrance of the Old Town Coal Company's mine at McAlester, Okla. last week. Out of the mine were carried 60 bodies. Three were unconscious, overcome by afterdamp (carbon monoxide) which had followed a muffled explosion below. The rest...
Hugh C. Rice, manager of the mine, admitted that his company carried no compensation insurance, would be able to give little financial aid to the dead miners' families. He expressed belief that the wrecked mine would be abandoned. It would be costly to restore, he said, and most miners...