Show CARS STOPPED I AT RUSH HOUR HOURI I Theatre Crowds Are Inconvenienced Inconvenienced by Complete Sus Suspension Suspension Suspension pension of Traffic An n accident acc In the machinery machiner at the Jordan Bridge power station occurring at 1105 last night caused a com corn complete complete suspension of street car traffic on all city lines for tor one hour and minutes and blocked six lines for three hours These six lines Included Waterloo Pair Fair Grounds Gro Warm Springs Murray Poplar Grove and Sixth avenue and it was not until 2 this morning that the Waterloo and Sixth avenue cars began be began began gan to move followed by the other lines The accident and shutdown occurred at atone atone atone one of the most inopportune times of ot the night and caused several thousand thea then theatergoers theatergoers evening visitors and late pleas serious Inconvenience Inconvenient The Tho street intersections after 11 ii were blocked with constantly increasing throngs of impatient which only began to thin out as the weariness and the time uncertainty pf pt the wait walt caused the tired ones to face faca fac the long trudge homewards with the time hope that the car ear would overtake them The suburbanites fared the worse and many of them had to tramp the long distances to the outly outlying outlying ing sections reaching their homes even before the cars had started from the city The exact nature of the accident could not be learned this morning except that It had happened at the Jordan station This Is la the receiving station for the power brought from the various plants at Telluride Ogden canyon and Little Cottonwood From the Jordan Bridge station the high power Is transformed and distributed to tho the central station where wherein in turn it is distributed to the street car carand carand carand and lighting system The damage done dono was such that It was necessary to ope operate operate operate rate the emergency steam plant at the central station and it was due to this de delay dela delay lay la that it required so 50 long to get the entire car system into full Cull operation |