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Near the whistle-stop of Buies, N.C., a rail snapped. Couplings shook, cars teetered, the train jerked to a stop. The last three cars of the Atlantic Coast Line's Florida-bound Tamiami West Coast Champion were derailed, left hanging, tentatively, at a 45° angle over the northbound track...
Numbed Bodies. A full 35 minutes after the accident, passengers huddled atop the embankments heard an ominous sound. Up the northbound track, at a full 90 m.p.h., roared the Tamiami East Coast Champion, heading straight into the derailed cars. There was a sickening screech, a clattering crash; then stillness and, finally, the small cries of the hurt and dying...
...burned area included 154,000 acres of rich muck and peatlands which nature was centuries in laying down and which expensive drainage systems were installed to make arable. Down through the sawgrass and palmetto flats of the Everglades the flames had roared. On both sides of the famed Tamiami Trail across the peninsula, the fire still burned. About 3,000,000 more acres were threatened...
...motored, myself and two others, from St. Petersburg to Naples on the west coast, and then across to Miami and from there south to Lower Metacumbe. The section of the glades investigated was that opened by the new Tamiami Trail. The tree hummocks in this region are just like islands in an ocean, and rise in the midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during...