. Electric railway gazette . DERAILING SWITCH ON CENTRAL VIADUCT. He had proceeded a short distance when the bridge-tender noticed his approach and called out to him to stophis car. Evidently he failed to understand the warning atfirst. He was but a few feet from the draw when heapplied the brake and he did not have time to reverse themotors before the car crashed through the gates and thentoppled over into the river. At the last second the motor-man and one or two of the passengers jumped from theplatforms and were saved. In its descent the carstruck the ledge of the stone pier, -12 feet belo
. Electric railway gazette . DERAILING SWITCH ON CENTRAL VIADUCT. He had proceeded a short distance when the bridge-tender noticed his approach and called out to him to stophis car. Evidently he failed to understand the warning atfirst. He was but a few feet from the draw when heapplied the brake and he did not have time to reverse themotors before the car crashed through the gates and thentoppled over into the river. At the last second the motor-man and one or two of the passengers jumped from theplatforms and were saved. In its descent the carstruck the ledge of the stone pier, -12 feet below W1 ife*~^^
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