Coraddi: December, 1936
University of North Carolina
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 22, 2018)
Excerpt from Coraddi: December, 1936By five o'clock, Anne had persuaded me to stay in Pittsburgh and we went to the station to telephone to my home. I was picking up the receiver to call when a porter came over to me and said, Sorry, lady, but all outside telephone wires have been destroyed. Luckily, Western Union was still in operation, so we composed a telegram to Mother, telling her to expect me when she saw me. An hour later, I could not have gone home if I had wanted to - the entire railroad service was suspended.It was nearing dinner time and we began tomade homeless, and many had lost their lives. Churches and community buildings were crowded with cots and mattresses - people living herded together like animals.Was it any wonder that we were eager to get away from it all, eager to go to a place unaffected by the flood? At home, already arrangements were being made to care for the homeless chil dren. Clothes were being found or made, and temporary living quarters were offered by every one with' an empty room. The doctors were busy, administering typhoid antitoxin. To their work we can point with great pride, for not one case of typhoid was reported in the Pittsburgh district.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.