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NEBRASKA GRAIN ELEVATOR EXPLODESWorkers begin repairs on an Omaha, Nebraska bushel grain elevator that exploded killing one man and injuring many more. 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
TRAIN WRECK TRAGEDIESRailroad accidents bring tragedy. In the mining town of Powellton, West Virginia twisted wreckage and sad-faced children mark a tragedy that claimed the lives of 16 miners when their locomotive exploded. Elsewhere in Hamilton, Ontario two express trains collide and catch fire.1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
DOUGLAS AIRLINER TO BREAK AIR RECORDNoted pilot Captain Eddie Rickenbacker teams up with Eastern Air Lines to use their new Douglas airliner to break the West-East Transcontinental flight record. Co-pilot POV of the Captain flying the giant plane. 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
OIL DRILLERS STRIKE IT RICHTwo previously unemployed oil drillers show off their rig after they discover oil in the backyard of the county poor farm where they lived in Marietta, Ohio. 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
FDR AT WARM SPRINGS, GA FARMPresident Roosevelt inspects the cattle and tractors on his Warm Springs, Georgia farm during a brief holiday. 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
BRUNO HAUPTMANN ARRESTEDA trail of ransom money leads police to the New Jersey farm house of Bruno Hauptmann in the kidnapping and death of Charles Lindbergh's infant son. 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
WRECKED FREIGHTER SHIPThe Coast Guard comes to the rescue of a wrecked Michigan steam freighter just off shore.1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
INDIA'S 8.4 EARTHQUAKE OF 1934An 8.4 earthquake devastates India and Nepal killing thousands. Aerial flyover mile after mile of destroyed buildings in the state of Bihar highlight the massive destruction. January 15, 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
MIDWEST DROUGHT KILLS CROPS & CATTLEA drought brings on dust bowl days in the mid-West where a lack of rain and water kills crops and cattle. 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP
ITALIAN VILLAGE DEVESTATED BY FIREA tiny Italian village is left a smoking ruin after a fire destroys homes and leaves more than 800 people homeless. 1934 - BLACK/WHITESource: Video: BetaSP