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Every telephone, telegraph and electric light wire in the town was down. S. M. Craige, a former Marine, operator of the Managua radio transmitter, ran out to his station nearly four miles in the country. The station was still standing. He burst in, panting, and sent the first word of Managua's ruin to the outer world. Soon came vivid reports to the U. S. Press. Besides the regular correspondents, several able newshawks happened to be in Managua last week. Dapper Charles J. V. Murphy, a former New York World man, was there preparing a book on the Marines...
Emergency meetings of the Red Cross were held in Washington. Ernest J. Swift, who had charge of Red Cross relief work in the Santo Domingo hurricane last fall (TIME, Sept. 15, 22), took the first train to Miami, flew in a Pan American plane to Managua, took charge of all emergency feeding stations...
...raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than 500 operations, mostly without anaesthetics...
Tension. Meanwhile, Managua burned and horror began piling on horror. Wrote Correspondent Murphy...
...Strangest of all is the quiet that has come. When first I arrived in Managua I believed it to be the noisiest place in the world. . . . One might imagine that workers screamed at the top of their voices, that every automobile blew at least two blasts to every block. . . . But now there is everywhere a quiet as of a tomb. The natives, in the appalling realization of what has happened within two short days, have suddenly been stricken dumb...