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Show FAILURE OF BRAKES GAUSESRUNAWAY CROWDED CARS COLLIDE ON CLEVELAND BRIDGE, CAUSING IT TO COLLAPSE. Shoppers Killed and Maimed When Two Street Cars are Precipitated Thirty Feet From Bridge to Railroad Track Below Cleveland, Ohio. Two persons were killed and more than thirty are in hospitals hos-pitals as the toll of a bridge tragedy here early Tuesday evening, when two street cars collided on the West Third street bridge, causing it to collapse col-lapse and precipitate the cars thirty feet to the Balimore & Ohio railroad tracks below. The accident occurred when a southbound Scranton road car carrying a crowd of women shoppers home at the rush hour 'broke away from the motorman on a hill approaching the bridge and tore down upon the north approach to the bridge just as a northbound north-bound car reached the same point. The runaway car jumped the track and struck the northbound car. The combined weight of the two cars and the shock of the collision was too much for the wooden bridge, which sagged and then gave way. Edna Waddington, a telephone operator op-erator employed by the Erie railroad, saw the accident from where she sat at her switchboard and ' turned in a call for assistance, doctors and the fire department. Hundreds within earshot of the scene heard the shrieks and cries of pain and terror as the cars carried their burden, for the most part women, to death or injury. The work of rescue began at once. Those who had not been seriously injured in-jured extricated themselves and then gave aid to those less fortunate. It was not long until thirty had been taken out and carried to hospitals. Some probably are fatally injured. |