Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Smith, Mrs. Smith and daughter Emily Warner stepped off the train at South Station at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Policemen, three lines deep, and ropes failed to hold the burden of the mass. Wanting to touch, to say something to the Smith family, the People charged, milled, shoved, yelled. Scarcely heard were the screams of two girls whose bodies were bent back sharply over the ropes. Mrs. Smith became separated from her husband. He refused to take another step until she was restored to his side. An officer found her; she was white with fright. Finally...
Rumanian railways are mostly single-track. As the Orient approached the tiny station of Recea so did a local express train. Head on they crashed, directly in front of the station. One reeling locomotive toppled to right, the other to left. Thirty passengers and both engineers were instantly killed. Among the wounded was the Wahl Eversharp Pencil Co.'s foreign sales manager, Mr. Alexander Herschler of Rochester...
...wretched Recea switchman, who should have sidetracked the local-express to let the Orient pass, promptly took to the woods. So did the rest of the Recea station crew, after locking up their station. Seemingly they thought that when the hand of the Rumanian Justice fell it would be merciless, perhaps indiscriminate...
...party of Rumanian cadets had been on the local-express. They burst in the station door. One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help. Within half an hour a wrecking train had steamed up. Meanwhile cadets worked mightily to extract wounded passengers from crumpled wooden cars, some of which had begun to burn...
...accomplished without cracking it. When the slab was ready for shipment it weighed over 7000 pounds, and it took six men from 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5.30 the following morning to load it on a truck and haul it 25 miles to the nearest railroad station at Harrison, Nebraska...