Word: loggers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...blast had occurred 24 hours later, it could have wiped out a crew of some 200 Weyerhaeuser Co. loggers who were to begin felling trees at 7:30 a.m. Monday. Many of the loggers lived with their families near the north fork of the Toutle River. Logger George Fickett was at home when the mountain erupted. Said he: "I heard the goldangest noise, like someone upending a bunch of barrels down the road. There was a roar, like a jet plane approaching, and a lot of snapping and popping. Those were the trees. We got out fast...
...year 2000. Two weeks ago the mountain was shaken by a sharp earthquake, followed by a series of tremors. Then came another jolt. Suddenly last Thursday, the silence on the snow-covered slopes was shattered by an explosion that was heard 40 miles away. Said Barry Blair, a logger cutting timber twelve miles from the peak: "There were two little booms and then one great big one. It got real smoky and we discovered we were covered with...
Medically, things are looking up for people on the Hill, a rough, largely unchanged slab of the California Sierras, dotted with gold-panners' shanties and crisscrossed by streams of flashing gold and speckled trout. Fortnight ago, for example, when Logger Bill Lingenfelter was pinned by a "widowmaker"-a tree falling in the wrong direction-his crew mates rushed him to Dr. John Rose. The "Doc" swiftly took 30 stitches in Lingenfelter's right leg and put splints...