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The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 10

Publication:
The Evening Suni
Location:
Baltimore, Maryland
Issue Date:
Page:
10
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

FIRST SECTION-PAGE 10 A(aL 10 11US1 SECTION THE EVENING SUN. BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936 THE EVENING SUN'S Six Best PICTURES Of 1936 FOUR PERSONS DIED IN THIS EUTAW ST. BLAZE THE SPRING FLOOD AT HARPERS FERRY 1 i i MiUfiiW.r -if. ON JULY 11a terrific explosion, followed by lire, reduced the four-story building of the A. L.

Webb Company, dealers in industrial alcohol, at 514 South Eutaw street, to this smoldering mound. Miss Augusta Renner, an employe; Macon Berry, friend of the owner, and two Negro workmen were killed. WHEN THE BAY PUT ON ITS COAT OF ICE ON MARCH 19 a staff photographer of The Evening Sun stood on the bank of the raging Potomac at Harpers Ferry, W. and caught this picture of the swollen river in all its fury. The picture was selected by the Associated Press as one of the nation's ten best news photographs of the year.

THIS BAY CRASH UNSEATED THE GOVERNOR GASOLINE PLANT BLAST AND FIRE OX THE NKJHT OF Jl'LY 11 the buy steamer State or Virginia (above), Willi 163 aboard, including dov. Harry W. Nice and many oilier State and citv official, vm rammed dead amidships olT Seven-Foot Knnll bv tho Golden llatrest. The dovernor and scores of others were thrown to the deck, but none was hurt seriously. BY FEBRUARY 1 a severe wintepliad coated the Chesapeake and Palapsco with ten inches of ice.

On that day a dozen ocean-going ships were reported trapped. The vessels battling heavy ice off Fort Mc-Ilenry in this air view are, lcft to right: Harrison Smith, Exarch, Apache, Dora and Greyloch. SHIP FIRE THAT COST BALTIMORE FIREMAN HIS LIFE N4 'f -x-1 A A xi. iSR- ,4 liiiliilll i fi1 "A 1 K1 k- x- i V' t-x i (- i 6x ySviX )A At ON JANUARY 21 an explosion in a pumphouse beneath five gasoline tanks on the property of the Hercules Power Gasoline Company in the 4100 block of Philadelphia avenue, ignited the stored fuel. John Dougherty, a truckman, trapped in the pumphouse and perished in the flames.

ON THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 21 fire broke out in the nitrate cargo aboard the freighter Gisla at Canton. Of the 250 firemen who fought the blaze, George J. Reif, No. 5 Truck Company, was killed and seven others were hurt..

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Years Available:
1910-1992