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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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e, to see ifthe crossing was clear. He couldnt see the crossing for the wreck wagonsand the phalanx of rushing shopmen from the City Rail-way shops at Twentieth street had got between him andthe track. CONFLICT BP:GINS. Wreck wagon No. i A drove to the rear of the carand one of the crew jumped off with the grappling hook. Hook on to her, shouted Mr. Bowen, becomingexcited. The n.an hooked. Pull her off the track, he shouted. The driver of Wreck wagon No. i A whipped up hishorses, while driver of Wagon 2 B was trying to getnear enough to put another hook on the rear platform.The car moved backwards, the driver standing at hispost and allowing his horses to back with the car. Theydid not move fast enough to suit Mr. Bowen, whostruck one of them on the flank. It took only a moment to get the car off the track,when the shopmen took their places and began to lifther. Thats right, pull her over, was Mr. Bowens nextorder, and over she went. Now take your axes and break it all to hell,shouted
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I. Eager for the tray. 2. Only waiting. 3. Lost a wheel. 4. Stop I 5. Drive on. 6. Hook on to her ! 7. Back she goes. S. Shattering running gear. 9. Pretty work with sledge. 10. Home at last. 202 (^1acd/l?^ailM^5^Vm/ Mr. Bowen, very much excited. Two hundred menfrom the shops did some fine work with sledge and bar,and lo minutes after it started on its journey of 400 feet,the car was unfit for service. CONFLICT IS OVER. Pres. McGann, of the Chicago General Street Rail-way Company stood on the sidewalk watching the riotand urging his men to make no resistance. Hundredsof residents of the neighborhood whom he had knownfor fifteen years and more, were urging him to let themsail into the wreckers. He had only to give the wordand there would have been the prettiest fight on record,with many enforced baths in the cold dirty water of theChicago river. Meantime, Police Officer Nolan had been trying toobtain reinforcements from headquarters. Mr. McGannnotified him that the street was obstructe

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