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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
3
Brick and Clay Record and The Clay Worker note the incident when a big engine ran out of control at Illinois Brick Co Yard No 35. Yard Superintendent Kasten planned a rapid rebuild. workers installed a new fly wheel and shafting, restoring operation by Monday amid heavy, unglamorous labor.
The 1918 vessel Vaterland, 950 feet long and 100 feet wide, tops prior ships like the Imperator. Built with an inner shell and bulkheads, it used over 1,500,000 rivets and features 90 ton rudder and 110 ton smokestack. Searchlights 90,000 cp and 84 lifeboats equip the ship for sea service.
Myron F. Wallace of Grand Rapids Michigan was fatally injured in Lowell while waiting for a passenger train to Chicago. A ten pound iron fragment from a truck rig on the Indianapolis Chicago flyer struck Wallace on the head as the train passed at high speed, crushing his skull. Wallace belonged to the Welsh Manufacturing Company of Grand Rapids and was visiting Lowell.
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