Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary Jane Kuffner HirtSeries:DisasterPublish date:2021-06-14Pages:194
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PRISBN-13:9781540248138ISBN-10:1540248135UPC:9781540248138Book Category:Transportation, History, LawBook Subcategory:Public Transportation, United States, Personal InjuryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPDR4NNDM
Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster
On Christmas Eve 1917, an overcrowded, out-of-control streetcar exited the Mount Washington tunnel, crashing into pedestrians. Twenty-three were killed and more than eighty injured in the worst transit incident in Pittsburgh history. The crash scene on Carson Street was chaotic as physicians turned the railway offices into a makeshift hospital and bystanders frantically sought to remove the...
Series: Disaster
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PRISBN-13:9781540248138ISBN-10:1540248135UPC:9781540248138Book Category:Transportation, History, LawBook Subcategory:Public Transportation, United States, Personal InjuryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPDR4NNDM
Hirt, Mary Jane Kuffner: - Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt, Professor Emerita, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), taught graduate and undergraduate political science and public administration courses for twenty-eight years. She also has worked as a city manager and local government administrator. Dr. Hirt has a BA in government and public service from IUP and master's and doctoral degrees from the...
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