Sneed Hearn Wrote:
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> It's practically standing still now. They've
> dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship; and
> (uh) they've been taken ahold of down on the field
> by a number of men. It's starting to rain again;
> it's—the rain had (uh) slacked up a little bit.
> The back motors of the ship are just holding it
> (uh) just enough to keep it from— It's burst into
> flames! It burst into flames, and it's falling,
> it's crashing! Watch it! Watch it! Get out of the
> way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie; get
> this, Charlie! It's fire—and it's crashing! It's
> crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way,
> please! It's burning and bursting into flames; and
> the—and it's falling on the mooring-mast. And all
> the folks agree that this is terrible; this is the
> one of the worst catastrophes in the world. its
> flames... Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet
> into the sky and it—it's a terrific crash, ladies
> and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's in flames now;
> and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite
> to the mooring-mast. Oh, the humanity! and all the
> passengers screaming around here. I told you; it—I
> can't even talk to people Their friends are out
> there! Ah! It's—it—it's a—ah! I—I can't talk,
> ladies and gentlemen. Honest: it's just laying
> there, mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody
> can hardly breathe and talk and the screaming.
> Lady, I—I—I'm sorry. Honest: I—I can hardly
> breathe. I—I'm going to step inside, where I
> cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah;—I
> can't. Listen, folks; I—I'm gonna have to stop for
> a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the
> worst thing I've ever witnessed.