Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Lions Club of Flagler, Colo. (pop. 793) last week put on the first air show in the town's history. A thousand farmers, small-town businessmen, their wives and children turned out. It was great weather for flying...
...awful," said Charlie Keller, a Flagler farmer who was standing with his wife, his 14-year-old daughter Zenelda, and six-year-old twins Johnny and Josephine. "I saw this plane coming. I hollered. 'Mama, duck!' I dived between two cars. There was an awful roar, and then this loud crash. I got up. looked around. Mama wasn't there. I couldn't see the children either, A short time before the accident. Mama said to me. 'Somebody could get killed.' I remember I said, I guess somebody could get killed, Mama.' " Keller...
That night Flagler counted the gala day's toll: 20 dead, 50 injured. Every family in town could count a member killed or hurt. The toll might have been even worse. Just before the crash, a crowd of children ran from the fatal spot to get a better look at Fred Ruble's sail plane...
...Winter trippers enjoyed the cockfights and mule races in New Orleans, sunned in Galveston. Florida's coastal resorts were just opening up, thanks to Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Daytona Beach was the tourist center. Miami Beach and Palm Beach did not yet exist. Only adventuresome women dared to bathe, clad in knee-length, pantalooned dresses, corsets, and beach shoes...