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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1953
Page
2
A Saturday afternoon blaze forced many families from an apartment building at 23rd and Perry. Firemen cited damage near $1,900. One occupant, Mrs. Miriam Blaski aged 29, suffered smoke inhalation and was treated by rescue squad.
A 12-year-old Meadville girl is in City Hospital in serious but improving condition after being struck by a car while riding a bicycle. Her father and mother, Victor and Mary Rice, describe the crash as contributing to possible concussion and injuries to her leg and hip. Police identified the driver as W. O. Winslow and the incident occurred near City Hospital.
The 1954 Titusville Community Chest opens with a canvass of homes and businesses. Chest President Robert C. Newell urges generous support as nine participating agencies rely on local donations.
A Union City native, TH 1 James A. Hellyer, teletype operator aboard the stricken ship Leyte, escaped injury in the Boston disaster last Friday and telephoned his parents to report he was unharmed. He had been transferred to Leyte in August. Mendville Thomas M. Martin, 36, of Conneaut Lake, died Saturday night at home after a heart condition and asthma. Firefighters responded to the residence, and rescue equipment including an Emerson inhalator and an oxygen mask were used.
A blast ruptured a 30 inch natural gas transmission line near Uniontown Pennsylvania. An 18 foot crater formed and a five mile area of corn fields burned. No injuries were reported and crews shut valves. cause under investigation. On the same day a U S Navy plane crash landed in the North Atlantic off Iceland with nine crew members missing.
A passenger train derailed near Baltimore with nine people hospitalized and 47 others bruised or minorly injured after a steel casting fell from a freight train and struck the New York to Washington Arlington service. Normal service resumed later today.
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