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Title: The street railway review Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association Subjects: Street-railroads Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: illustrating this recently was experienced bythe West Penn Railways Co., of which J. W. Brown is super-intendent of transportation. At nine oclock on the morning of September 9th, three dis-tinct explosions were felt throughout Fayette, Westmoreland andGreene counties. A moment later the general office of the West PennRailways Co. at Conncllsville was notified by the division super-intendent at Uniontown that the Rand powder mills at Fairchancehad exploded. The superintendent reported that the windows inhis office, seven miles from the scene of the explosion, wereblown in, and that circuit-breakers would not stay in at the sub-station, indicating that the lines were down. A rapid drive withhorse and buggj to Fairchance brought into view the scene ofthe disaster as shown in the illustration. Track, poles, trolley,2200-volt alternating, telephone and signal wires were all hope- Fakirs, Malingerers and Ambulance Chasers. BY JAMES K. PRATT, CLAIM AGENT, UNITED RAILWAYS & EI.EtTRir CO.

Text Appearing After Image: TRACK WRECKED BY POWDER MILL EXPLOSION. Icssly tangled; the right of way was strewn with debris of everynature, while here and there pieces of clothing and shoes withremnants of human flesh still clinging to them bore mute evi-dence of the awful loss of life; 18 persons having been instantlykilled and many wounded. The trolley wire was cut loose as soon as possible and irian hour and fifty-five minutes from time of the explosion elec-tric cars were running to the scene of the catastrophe. Car aftercar was filled in a twinkling by those who had friends and rela-tives near the scene of the explosion. Cars were stopped a quar-ter of a mile from the scene, as 600 kegs of powder and a carload of dynamite were still in the fire zone. Superintendents, dis-patchers, engineers, line and track foremen with their gangs weresoon on the ground and 100 men were put to work rebuildingthe line. On the following day, Sunday, the registers on theFairchance line showed a total of over 25,000 fares, the

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