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Show STREET CAR RUNS OFF mVER BRIDGE POTTSV1LLE, Pa, Dec. 25. A trol--Ipv car carrying 35 persons, mostly nsldentH of Schuylkill Haven, jumped jump-ed Blnck bridge, between this city and Schuylkill Haven tonight, dropping drop-ping 20 feet Into the Schuylkill river. . All the injured wero brought to the Pottsvllle hospital. The railway officials admit that not ono of the passengers escaped injury, in-jury, but it cannot be learned at this time how many, if any, are fatally injured. At the hospital it was said none of the passengers had succumbed to Injuries, but that several wore in a precarious condition. , The only thing that prevented serious se-rious loss of life was the fact that the river at the point where the car took the plunge Is not more than six feet dee). The accident is supposed to hae been caused by a broken rail. |