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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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before the plunge. The few eye witnesses of the catastrophe all testify asto the density of the fog, and the inability of an ordinaryperson to see more than a car length ahead on the bridge.The motorman claims that his speed was not beyond theregular pace, and that he used the brake in time, but thatthe wheels skidded, also reversing the current whenwithin one span of the draw. He saved himself by jump-ing at the last moment. A diver was sent down to thecar soon after the accident, and by 11 oclock a derrickand pile driver were in position, and located the car lyingon its side in a badly smashed condition. The car contained eighteen or twenty people when itwent on to the bridge, and it is little less than miraculousthat so many escaped death. Of those going over into theriver, two men who were swimming for their lives werestruck and killed b\- the passing steamer. Superintendent A. McNaughton, of the WestSide Street Railway, Milwaukee, is recovering from asevere attack of bronchitis.
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THE PORTLAND DISASTER. A PORTLAND STREET CAR PLUNGES INTOAN OPEN DRAW. THE second sensational accident for this yearoccurred in Portland, Oregon, November i, onthe East Side Railway, of that city. At 6:45 onthe morning named, the Milwaukie & Portland electriccar Inez, which runs between the city and the suburbof Milwaukie, plunged off of the Madison street bridge,at the east end of the draw, which is at the middle, andwas hurled into the Willamette river. The morning wasdensely foggy, and a sharp frost the preceding night hadcovered the rails and trolley line with a thin coating ofice. The draw span had been swung open to allow asteamer to pass, and the gates were closed at both endsof the bridge, and the red signal lights hoisted. Thesteamer was within a few feet of the draw when the carcrashed through the frail gates, and ran headlong throughthe open draw into thirty-five feel of water. Si.v men and one boy lost their lives in the disaster, and And now a call has been made for a

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