Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still impossible to count all dead and injured this week. But as broken bodies were pried from the ruins and missing persons checked, the best figures set the toll at 50,000 dead, 60,000 injured, more than 700,000 homeless. It was the highest casualty list in any South American disaster...
...rammed the Jupiter and disabled her. The Loyalist destroyer then floundered toward the shore and grounded 100 yards from Catalan Bay. The Vanoc and Basque moved between the Jose Luis Diez and her Rebel attackers, played searchlights on the scene and began rescues in boats. The Loyalists' battle toll was eight dead, eleven wounded. The dead were buried at sea from a British destroyer. A strong British guard was placed aboard the Jose Luis Diez after her Spanish crew was taken off and interned in military detention barracks in Gibraltar. Next day British tugs refloated the Loyalist destroyer...
...holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled all 14 coaches down the slope. Toll: according to press reports, 40 dead, 51 injured; according to the Mexican Railway, four or five dead, 30 injured...
...head the company siren was already wailing. Before long hundreds of miners' wives and children, thankful for the prospect of a Christmas pay check an hour before, stood frozen-faced at the mine entrance. Toll: 21 dead, 32 critically injured, not one of the 250 unhurt. It was the worst mine disaster in Nova Scotia since 1918. In Sydney Mines some shop-keepers took down the Christmas decorations from their windows...
STOWE: 3 inches new powder over 4 inches base in Smugglers Notch. 15 inches near Summit, skiing good on Toll Road...