Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worst train wreck in U.S. history: 115 killed near Nashville, Tenn. in 1918. Worst train wreck of all time: more than 500 French soldiers, going home for Christmas leave, killed when an overloaded troop train plunged into an Alpine pass at St. Michel...
When the crack New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited cracked up one night a fortnight ago in upper New York State, available reporters were as scarce as hen's teeth. How the United Press got the story of the wreck, in which 28 died in live steam, made a yarn for pressroom spinning. Seldom had improvised telephone coverage, which newspapers and news associations constantly use, turned out so successfully...
About 7 p.m. Hudson Randall was in Milligan's drug store on Dansville's Main Street, talking about the wreck over a malted, when the phone rang. Druggist E. T. Milligan answered. The man on the other end of the line was Pete Ellis, night rewrite man for the United Press in New York...
...Night Editor Miles Vaughan was in a pickle. He had to have the story of the wreck, which was at Wayland, seven miles from Dansville. But his nearest staff correspondent was in Rochester, 45 miles away, and could not be immediately reached. Was there anyone who was reasonably intelligent in the store at the moment? Was there anyone there who wanted a job? Who, When, Where, What. Druggist Milligan summoned Hudson Randall to the phone. Rewriteman Ellis gave his instructions-try to find out what caused the wreck; try to learn exactly how many people were killed, and how many...
Although the Danes ended their resistance to the Nasis soon after their country was invaded, Danish skies glow nightly with fires and explosions wreck rail lines and shipping centers. This is the epic Hasselriis will relate in his Tuesday talk...