Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handy explanation for inexplicable disaster is sabotage. It was charged but never proved in the Morro Castle, Havana and Mohawk shipwrecks.† Three years ago it caused a Congressional inquiry into the U. S. S. Akron's construction. Last week the cry was raised twice more...
...Dismissing the sabotage theory, the U. S. Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection last week blamed the Morro Castle disaster on negligence, the Mohawk sinking on broken steering gear and consequent misunderstanding of bridge signals...
Meanwhile at Gloversville, at Utica and at other communities of New York's Mohawk Valley, topers swigged the best liquor they could afford. Louis Bondsman & wife eventually went to their Gloversville bed. Cramps woke Bondsman up. He could not rouse his wife to help him for she was dead. He got out of bed and into the cold street where a policeman found him shuffling along, weeping: ""I'll be dead. I'll be dead'. I'll be dead. . . ." He died in an ambulance...
When Death ceased fingering the Mohawk-Valley last week seven women, 25 men, all drinkers of rubbing alcohol and radiator anti-freeze compound, were done...
With Captain Wood dead, it began to look as if the secret of the Mohawk disaster would remain buried with him in twelve fathoms off Seagirt...