Los Cerrillos rustler., 1890-10-03
THRILLING SCENE

A Chicago street Car Gees rhreaEh Draw
-r-..saEsr- LEAP Ja.t IN fiuss 90 save
Themselees
CmcAeo. sept IS Jump for your
lives, We're going into the river!
The driver u Lincoln avenue car No
Ills. of the North Chicago Street Rail-
way Company threw op. ths door OF
his car At i2sss yesterday morning and
with a face as white As snow shouted
these appalling words 20 bis passengers
"A dozen or more In number
The passengers made a Wild rush Tor
the doors just a. the last man sprang
from the step the car aud horses went
over the brink and plunged into the
river
The Clark street bridge had been
turned 10 allow the passage Of the barge
+ Howard just as the car came In sight on
I the viaduct north Of the bridge. The
grade from the viaduct 10 the bridge Is
steep
As the car reached the edge OF the
viaduct the driver applied the brake.
II refused 10 work and the car began to
slide down the grade. When W thin
hfteen feet of the bank the driver threw
himself bodily against the brake Tho
chain snapped but the car would not be
stopped Then he threw open the door
and yelled TO his passengers
As the car tottered on the bank Il was
seen that still one man remained inside.
He had been asleep and awoke as the
vehicle rocked on the verge. A cry OF
horror went up from the people who
had gathered around and his escape
from death appeared almost impossible.
As the car began 10 slide into the stream
he made desperate leap and gained
the rear platform just In time TO jump
TO the street as the car toppled over.
lie was George McAdee lie was much
excited. but managed to say: Il was
asleep in the car when felt strange
motion and awolSe suddenly to find my
self sliding toward the end OF the car.
can't tell how / ever managed to es-
cape dreadful death. ] just jumped
and found myself in big crowd with
out hardly knowing how got there"
! When the car and the horses were
preclpitated into the river the horses
, we're carried to the bottom with the car
but came upa minute later discngaget
from the harness and from each other
One swan up stream toward Lasall'
street and the other east A tug in pass
, ing attempted to rescue one OF the ant
mails, but IL took fright at the boat and
swan away After wtmming desper
ately for some time both tired and wen
to the bottom.
j. j. McCann. a swtchman, and Dan
, iel Riley, seeing the accident from
!. across the river, jumped into boat an'
, rowed over to where the car went down
, McCann divested himself of his oloth
+. ing and plunged into the chill.
a water The abutment threw
shadow over the submerged car and N
n person was visible. McCann dive
, through the car feeling carefully 70
4 any passengers that might have bee
g caught inside. lie found no one an
A returned again to the boat
1t was rumored during the eXcitemer
q that two passengers, John Hartsoug
A and Dan. a newsboy, had been drowned
Il but this proved untrue.
4 An exciting episode of the aecider
!. was the summoning of brigade OF fiji
n engines and hook and ladder truck
n The fire fighters did every thing the
= could TO save the horses but bein
70 without proper appliances, they wei
!. forced to reluctantly abandon the tasl
~ The car had turned end over end as
. went over the approach and stands q
a end in the river.