The Street railway journal (1905) (14781504333)

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Title: The Street railway journal

Year: 1884 (1880s)

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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation

Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.

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d vice-president, American Railways Company, Philadelphia,Pa. Paper—Interurban Fare Collections, Irwin Fullerton, audi-tor, Detroit United Railway, Detroit, Mich. Paper—InterurbanTicket Accounting, J. H. Pardee, general manager, Rochester &Eastern Rapid Railway, Canandaigua, N. Y. Paper—Accountingwith Four Departments, H. M. Beardsley, secretary and treasurer,Elmira Water, Light & Railway Company, Ehnira, N. Y. SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 9:30 A. M. Unfinished business. Report of convention committee on reso-lutions. Report of convention committee on nominations. Electionand installation of officers. 4i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. 12. SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE NEW YORK ELEVATED Twelve persons were killed and forty-two injured, five ofthem mortally, a few minutes after 7 oclock Monday morning,Sept. 11, by the plunging of a car of a southbound Ninth Ave-nue train of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, of NewYork, from the elevated railroad structure, at the curve at

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THE SCEN E OF THE ACCIDENT Fifty-Third Street and Ninth Avenue, where the Sixth andNinth Avenue lines diverge. The train that was wreckedconsisted of six cars, all well filled w ith passengers. t It leftthe Fifty-Ninth Street station about 7 oclock. Speeding up,as all, Ninth Avenue trains do at this point, so as to gainmomentum for the grade to the next station, the train took theswitch at Fifty-Third Street, which it seems by mistake wasset for a Sixth Avenue train. The first car cleared the curve. with a crash. The rear platform remained suspended againstthe framework of the elevated road. The trucks of the thirdcar were hurled from the track through the bottom of the sec-ond car, adding to the havoc, and the bodies of the first andthird cars came together with a crash. The car which hadbeen thrown from the structure remained suspended at an angleof 45 degs., and the passengers in it were hurled to the forwardend, which rested on the sidewalk. The thirdcar of the train, hurled forwa

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