Ferris Wheel Disaster

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Six persons were killed and twenty seven are known to have been injured many of them dangerously, when a Ferris wheel, seventy-five feet in diameter, was blown over in Clason Point Park late yesterday afternoon in the most disastrous storm in the history of New York City.

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