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This week the Public Service Commission began its investigation. Both motormen, who had been riding in their cubicles on the comparatively intact right sides of the two cars, had survived. Markin had only minor injuries. Kiefer, apparently thrown clear, was suffering from severe shock. A veteran engineman of 26 years service, 55-year-old Jacob Kiefer was arrested and charged with criminal negligence...
...second day, the Canadian fishing ship Cape Perry sighted two of the men signaling from the shore, and in a short time it had picked up ten. Late the same day, a detail from the Canadian destroyer Cayuga reached Trippodi, who was by now delirious, suffering from exhaustion, shock and frostbitten feet. In all, twelve were rescued...
...Fall from Manners. One night last week the polite pair received a rude shock. They had just broken into the tasty Bois de Boulogne villa of Lionel de Tinguy du Pouet, France's Under Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs, when they were confronted with Madame de Vasselot, the Under Secretary's aging but formidable mother-in-law. Suavely they asked her the way to the nearest safe and requested her to open it. The old lady refused pointblank...
...bomb wind hits a building with a sudden shattering shock. Then it passes over it, the compressed air of the wave squeezing it from behind. Unless the building's doors and windows have blown inward, it may collapse at once under the compressive force...
...blows for a second or so. Then comes a moment of stillness as in the eye of a hurricane. After that the wind reverses and blows back about half as fast, but a longer time, toward the center of explosion. If the building has been weakened by the first shock, it is likely to be totally destroyed by the reverse blast...