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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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rossing the Qxbridgeroad at Shepherds l.u-h. through which the lines of the LondonUnited Tramways run. was seen to fall in the road, where sheshortly expired. The new-papers published the rumor thai theyoung woman had been practically electrocuted l>> the breaking ofone of the guard wire- of the electric tramways. In the coronersinquest the fact was brought out that her death resulted purely fromhear! disease and that the breaking of the wire of the tramways hing I 1 with the ea-e. the break occurring some bundledyard- from the position occupied by the woman. The post-nmrlciuexamination disclosed that the young woman had suffered verymuch from heart disease and there was no sign of her having been-11 ink or burned by an electric wire.Mr. .Tame- Clifton Robinson, managing director and engineer oftestified thai a guard wire which had fallen andcrossed the trolley wire bad short circuited the system and this had blown OUt the fuse, so that the current wa- entirely cut off from this
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LP Cr<**rr L P Chiller PLAN OF MAIN STEAM PIPING cleaning purposes and also for operating tin oiling system, the ■anks havir. ited in the basement. Coal is brought to the rear wall of the power house on elevatedtrack- and is dumped in front ding i the boiler room. For carrying it to the furnace door-, specially constructed imping ban pro., ided, tl tent of narrow gag let into the boiler toon Each car has a capacity for 2,000 lb. of coal. ai in d 0 provided for removing ashes, Just before entering the boiler roomthe cars filled will 1 platform and recorded Thil coal handling tramway w I .0111 Holier PI Vork City, tl d bj III \lpboll< 1- I7S fl. H in. lugli and H ft in diameter at the top (he nda tion upon which it n te, the foui ■ abouttling of In foundation ha 1.. 1 n 1.10fully watched, but d that it h nnifon I in the gned and erected under the supervision of eel .oid all of iIh wires wen perfectly harmless. After bearing a large number of witnesses the jury returned the ver

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