The Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster

Author : Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439672652
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book The Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster written by Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christmas Eve 1917, an overcrowded, out-of-control streetcar exited the Mount Washington tunnel, crashing into pedestrians. Twenty-three were killed and more than eighty injured in the worst transit incident in Pittsburgh history. The crash scene on Carson Street was chaotic as physicians turned the railway offices into a makeshift hospital and bystanders frantically sought to remove the injured and strewn bodies from the wreckage. Most of the victims, many women and children, were from the close-knit neighborhoods of Knoxville, Beltzhoover and Mount Oliver. In the aftermath, public outrage over the tragedy led to criminal prosecution, civil suits and the bankruptcy of the Pittsburgh Railways Company, which operated the service. Author Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt explores the tragic history of the Mount Washington transit tunnel disaster.

Author : Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781540248138
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster written by Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt and published by History Press. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christmas Eve 1917, an overcrowded, out-of-control streetcar exited the Mount Washington tunnel, crashing into pedestrians. Twenty-three were killed and more than eighty injured in the worst transit incident in Pittsburgh history. The crash scene on Carson Street was chaotic as physicians turned the railway offices into a makeshift hospital and bystanders frantically sought to remove the injured and strewn bodies from the wreckage. Most of the victims, many women and children, were from the close-knit neighborhoods of Knoxville, Beltzhoover and Mount Oliver. In the aftermath, public outrage over the tragedy led to criminal prosecution, civil suits and the bankruptcy of the Pittsburgh Railways Company, which operated the service. Author Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt explores the tragic history of the Mount Washington transit tunnel disaster.

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