The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-19
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three zen 20 hold !. vine re car Ess os.az
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was i1te15e9 - isS il run slowly down tze ala
bg gradually paying o1t TIE rOpe. TIE three
EzE- Who held IL le- Tie roze ous LIKE s-z tie
heavy Or started down the g-s1s, b1f ,54 !s-
vas too EEch for -hs hands OF The zeH- One Of
them LEI g AID the Others followed suiE- TaS ca
rG1 down tie Hi a. Considerable sized. fo-tuu-
ecsly checked b. having u pull the rope three
times around TIE telegraph poe !. dssae1
across second street ard ssrEek sEs dummy
with erzsA- clizb.1g partly over Il, EZ1As1iEg
the dashboard, end seats All psosI supporting
tie root i ez-rlsd !; through sas switch. oaiy
stopping whea TIE grip p.eFsn.ed rs further
progress-
TIE Consolidated stree. Railway Company
came 20 the rescue ROW b. sanding . ca down
JAMS froaa second street, - pull the disabled
cars back o. tie track Even than IL was two
hours more before TIE car a1d wrecked dummy
oJylld be pal-si OUT q the way ant ta1ea 70 tas
T0geT-EC4sss icing attached 20 & dummy VITA
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No passengers hzppezet % Dc OF TIE car vheA
il began - dash doEn tAe Eli from Third
street. ard ra0torrnEu AID eo1t1c:or jumped OF
= tine 70 escape injury.
While tra.1c q the James stree. Lines wsx
Suspended. passengers were cz--ied free OF
charge Oh TIE othsr lines - YezIer avenue OF
Madison street, 30 TIA: they could tzke TIE cable
cars on those streets 20 go down to1a wlt1ou.
Eny additions a. expense
About half al hour before tais .cct1ent hap
p@led, smother ca, No. Il, JUMPED TIE track On
Fourteenth stree. aide where tie dirt under
heath sEs t:zek aai been washed GU. The car
vas replaced on tAe track and l=f. o. tie south
side 0: TIE sIlte- I: Tow ruus OILY from thst
pom. 70 the south end o. -.ls line, passengers
being required 70 RslE across the side
TIE condition OF the side IS gradually crow
Ing worse. - more earth : washed down 4 spite
81 the precautions taEe3 70 drain OF tie water
A gully has KEEN washed Il re side OF The I'll
Esis ~ hen The street graded and tie drain
age q g-zre2.9d from deepening il by being
carried o1E n wooden s.olt over the edge OF
the hlll- Inc dirt mas either slid or been
washed down. leaving little support tor the
tracks, which s-s n some placss uneven and
twisted, ~2i!e the Sidewalk and isaes axe
twisted and broken