Wreck Rescues Marked By Heroism
James M. Straub of Fort Pitt Bridge Co and Vincent F. Smith of Ohio Electric Mfg Co aided each other after a B and O wreck near Dickerson. Smith, injured with a fractured rib, pried loose steel beams to free Straub as fire engulfed the Pullman, then lowered him to safety despite his own injuries.
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Dickerson
James M. Straub
Pittsburgh
Fort Pitt
Peederich City Hospital
Vince Smith
Hero Smith
Washington
Straub
Smith
Custer’s Last Stand Witness Remains Injured After Collision
Straub and Smith endured a catastrophic wreck as a locomotive was coupled to a smoking observation car to pull it away. Passengers, clad in pajamas, huddled on the top amid damp dawn air while medical aid began with a cigarette by a sailor and later ladders enabled ground rescue. Straub faces chest injuries and shock. both men expect to recover. Ernest Henning, 21, Cleveland Heights, witnessed the blaze and leaped from his coach as flames erupted.
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Straub
Smith
Amall
Edward P Thomas
Ohio
Ernest Henning
Cleveland Heights
Passenger train blaze sparks heroism and wreck toll
A passenger rushed to the blazing Pullman and, with aid from others, pulled two passengers free before smoke overpowered him. The two brothers Donald and Thomas Rogers, en route to a private school near Washington, were separated in the wreck. Thomas, seriously injured and moaning, called for Donald as railway workers searched for the missing brother. Also noted are municipal bond retirements in Hagerstown and a fact about Brazil’s wild rubber trees.
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Post Curran
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CIO
Thomas Rogers
Washington
Frances Burke Spielman
Rogers Brothers
Frederick
Schite
Donald
Donald Rogers
Two brothers in wreck as mother seeks missing son
Mrs. Francis Burke Spellman of Pittsburgh rushed to Frederick City Hospital after a Pullman train crash near Dickerson left her 17 year old son Donald Nelson Rogers dead and her 16 year old son Thomas Livingston Rogers critically injured. Donald, an Army Air Corps officer, was feared missing and possibly cremated in the wreckage.
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Joe James Custer
United Press
Solomon
South Pacific
Marion Webster
Framingham
Mass
Marguerie Ann Hagerty
Nashua
N. H
Jane S. Reider
Reading
Custer
Dickerson
Francis Burke Spellman
Pittsburgh
Frederick City
Donald Rogers
Army Air Corps
Ing
Philadelphia
Donald Nelson Rogers
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Store Save Discount
Thomas
Hagerstown
Water Department
Brazil
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MD. Gold
Dairy Deptoweal Farms
Wisconsin
Longhorn
Marker
U.S
Marker’s
Lang
PRG
Georgia
Sunkist
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