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‘I was literally picked up and carried’
By Ethel A. Nevius
The Daily News
Published July 27, 2003
In 1943, I was working as a messenger for Western Union Telegraph at 301 21st St.
It seems as though the storm was passing us by and I was sent out with a fistful of telegrams for businesses in the downtown area.
As I came to the corner where the Moody Bank and American National Insurance Co. was, the wind became so strong I was literally picked up and carried into the street.
I was pushed into a parked car and several unknown gentlemen made a daisy chain and reached and took me into the bank.
I was terrified but never lost a telegram.
Finally, I found my way upstairs and located my sister, Helen, who worked at ANICO. Later, I ran across employees who had to buck through the Western Union wall, cross the alley, into the Medical Arts building where the Traffic Department of Western Union was located. They were afraid I’d been lost in the storm.
Ethel A. Nevius La Marque
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