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...other eleven men, Carpenter Oscar Osberg was picked out of the bay badly injured, the two who had been down in the net were evidently crushed when it fell. Their bodies, with seven others, were swept...
...were standing on a heavy wooden platform, slung below the rail-girders on steel beams. They were yanking away the boards from beneath the hardened concrete floor of the 4,200-ft. span. Two men were below them picking fallen boards out of the stout hempen safety net that stretched the whole length of the span...
...there was a jar as a corner bracket snapped and tilted the great platform. "It gave a funny shudder and lurched," said Lambert. In an instant another corner came loose. ''I felt everything slipping. There was nothing to hang to. So I hollered and jumped into the net. I hit the net just before the staging struck it. The net sagged slowly and then the ropes popped and the net gave way with a sound like thunder. It was like a slow motion picture...
...Going down I don't remember a thing except just before I hit the water with the net. Then I tried to jump. I think I succeeded because I wasn't fouled in the net. I went down in the water, not very deep I think, because I came right up again. I saw some timber and grabbed on. Near me I saw feet. I pulled the body up. It was Fred Dummatzen. I looked around. There, tangled in the net was Noel Flowers. I yelled asking could he cut himself out. He just looked...
Neither Captain Holdredge nor the storekeepers on his board of directors knew anything about insurance, but they "had one simple, brilliant idea. This was to pay 10% of the net profits to the charitable fund of the San Francisco Fire Department and to mark all buildings insured by the company with a metal "house plate." Since they had a financial interest in the company, firemen were expected to surpass themselves putting out fires in these buildings. Whether aided by this or not, the new company did so well in fiery San Francisco that two years later it decided...