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Heroics of Edward J. Yeend, Mobile, Alabama 1904

Heroics of Edward J. Yeend, Mobile, Alabama 1904

Posted: 11 Jun 2004 9:48AM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 24 Feb 2005 10:18AM GMT
From the Mobile, Alabama, USA newspaper June 11, 1904

Sat., June 11, 1904

"At 1:30 yesterday afternoon the main cylinder in the hydraulic elevator at Yeend & Potter's dry goods store on Dauphin street burst with a noise like an explosion and shot out a stream of water which flooded the back part of the east side of the ground floor, creating a stampede among clerks and customers, and damaging between four and five thousand dollars worth of goods. ... Mr. Edward J. Yeend faced the stream from the cylinder, which was being forced out under a 75-pound pressure, and working his way with difficulty to the lower part of the elevator shaft through a narrow opening, succeeded in reaching the main valve and turning off the water. ... Several clerks and three customers who were right in the path of the stream of water when the cylinder burst were wet to the skin and got into the worst part of the flood in trying to get away from it."

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