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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1954
Page
21
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Fire in a water main tunnel under construction trapped nine workers 400 feet underground for two hours. They were brought up unharmed after firefighters descended a 410 foot shaft and traveled 1,500 feet into the 24 foot diameter tunnel. The blaze likely started by a short circuit in a battery powered trolley car used to haul rock. Metropolitan District Water Commission oversees the tunnel near Soldiers Field Road close to Harvard Stadium.
The 73-year-old Republican official Fred Zimmerman has been inside a Milwaukee hospital for six weeks without public disclosure. Visitors have been barred from his wing, leaving details scarce about his condition.
In Lisbon survivors praise American passengers eight women and 29 crewmen who escaped a Norwegian freighter Emma Bakke after an engine room explosion near the northwest African coast. The 4721-ton ship bound New York to Casablanca sank with two Norwegian crew killed and three injured. Survivors were rescued about 80 minutes later by the Argentine liner Corrientes. Captain Harold Kones called the escape tremendous.
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