Newsreel describing three disasters of 1958: a disaster on a bridge in Newark, New Jersey, a mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and a fire at a school in Chicago [Our Lady of the Angels school]. Newark, New Jersey: Begins with a shot of a commuter train in the water. Shots of a dead body in the water, commuter train wreckage being pulled out of the water. Springhill, Nova Scotia: Shots of men being pulled on stretchers to an ambulance. Hopeful and distressed onlookers. Chicago: Firemen pulling a child down a ladder from a burning building. Shots of victims’ family members crying.