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Paralyzing Power Failure in 90-Degree
Heat Plunges Gotham Into Confusion
NEW YORK, UP) — Lights flick
ering off in hospital operating
rooms. Elevator service knocked
out in huge apartment buildings.
Packed subways, with a sweating
human cargo, trapped in under
ground tunnels.
That was the picture as a sud
den power failure struck the heart
of Manhattan.
The power failure hit thous
ands of buildings in a 500-block
section of upper Manhattan, leav
ing a half million people without
elevators, air conditioning, traffic
lights, or any of the complex sys
tems that keep a great city func
tioning smoothly.
The power failure began in
midafternoon Monday.
The mercury was near 90 when
power went off and the humidity
was suffocating. Suddenly every
intersection became a traffic jam.
Then the recovery began. In hos
pitals, emergency lights came on.
Extra police poured into the area,
straightened out the traffic. Police
■ sent emergency generator trucks
: to Mount Sinai Hospital, where
I nine polio patients in iron lungs
depended on auxiliary power.
Subways, which have indepen
dent power but were stopped
when signal lights went out, be
gan"to crawl, as workers with red
lanterns signaled the way was
clear ahead.
Apartment dwellers began to
find out how it feels to climb
stairs.
Then darkness came, and New
Yorkers in the stricken area saw
the eerie spectacle of a city with
out lights.
In hospitals, they faced the
problem of getting expectant
mothers to delivery rooms with
| out elevators. At least one child
| was delivered in the beam of a
flashlight.
But New York night life went
on. Bartenders bought candles by
the dozen and complained because
the beer was warm.
Bank vaults wouldn’s close, and
extra guards were assigned. At a
j radio station disc jockeys had a
field day. The turntables were
I knocked out, so no records could
be played, and the listeners were
treated to one, long, continuous
line of chatter.
Meawhile 10,000 employes of
the Consolidated Edison Co.' la
bored to repair the damage to
power lines, apparently caused by
a record demand made by refrig
erating and other cooling devices.
Extra police were assigned to
Central Park, which stretches
through the middle of the dark
ened area. More patrolmen walked
the shadowed streets, lit only by
the headlights of passing cars.
In all, 3,000 extra police were
sent into the blacked-out section.
Hours later, as power began to
come back on, police reported only
one burglary and one assault case.
j Fact-Finder* Labor
Secretary To Make
Steel Strike Report
WASHINGTON, (fli — President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
Labor James P. Mitchell decided
yesterday to make public basic
facts behind the steel strike in
hopes of speeding negotiations
and a settlement.
The information gathered by
Mitchell as Eisenhower's personal
fact-finder, will *be made public
for Thursday newspapers.
Mitchell said they will cover
wages, prices, productivity, profits
and a few related matters.
The Secretary told a news con
ference the information covers a
major part but not all of the facts
he has been assembling from in
dustrial and government sources.
Mitchell said the report will be
a factual one with no recommen
dations for action.
He told questioners the pro
jected release of facts “is not in
tended as intervention. We hope as
a result of these background sta
tistics that the parties will bargain
a little harder and reach a
settlement.”
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