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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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street open car in this city. Aninventor who had been placing a safety device atthe ends of the Harrison street bridge, to prevent teams the accident,, and her friends being summoned receivedher last wishes. The surgeons then withdrew the splin-ter when death resulted in a few minutes from hemor-rhage. Mellon the inventor is now in jail. A REMARKABLE ENGINEERING FEAT. FEW passengers on the Brooklyn elevated, travel-ing up and down Myrtle avenue, were awarethat the track and structure beneath them wasbeing lowered. But such was the case. Between Navy street and theVanderbilt avenue station was a heavy and expensivegrade which seemed to defy remedy. Engineer-in-chiefNichols however began cogitating on the subject and atlast resolved to lower the grade for 900 feet. This stretchincluded the grades which was 106 feet to the mile. Itwas begun June 2 and finished in six week, withoutstopping a single train. The plan of operation was this.The structure was first wedged with heavy wooden pil-
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THE LAND-SLIDE IN CINCINNATI. from falling into the river when the bridge was open,carelessly left a lever out of position, used as a partof his device. This wooden lever, several feet inlength, fell at the instant when the car was passing, andthe outer end dropped in such a way as to pass entirelythrough the body of one of the female passengers, andpenetrated the back of several seats. It was found im-possible to remove the patient except by sawing the leveras close to the body as possible. She was then hurried tothehospital in a police ambulance. Concioiisness beingrestored the patient was informed of the fatal nature of lars 15 inches (square and as each one was riveted inplace the iron columns along side of it were removed andfour or five inches of it cut off. It was then replacedand the road bed lowered to it by means of hydraulicjacks. Flagmen above kept their eyes on approaching trainsand only when a train was a miute and a half or so dis-tant would the hydraulic jacks lower th

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