Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster, The
Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster, The

Author: Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1467142719

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"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"--Back cover.

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Author: Pittsburgh (Pa.). Transit Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 228

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Proceedings
Proceedings

Author: Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

Publisher:

Published: 1931

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13:

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In the Watches of the Night
In the Watches of the Night

Author: Peter C. Baldwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0226036022

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Before skyscrapers and streetlights, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, new technologies began to light up the city. This text depicts the changing experiences of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors in the nocturnal city.