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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The Mozart Park line was originally operated by Wheeling City Railway Company but was taken over by Mozart Street Railway, a Wheeling Traction subsidiary, after <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">the company went out of business November 30, 1925.</span></span> Two of City Railways' other south Wheeling lines had been abandoned April 27, 1923. West Penn in 1927 rebuilt two of the 1903 St. Louis single truckers, 310 and 311, and sent them to Wheeling to operate on this line. Clearly, they were short of equipment.</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, November 23, 2021, 08:03:11 PM EST, Daria Phoebe Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways <pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">HOUSE STOPS RUNAWAY TROLLEY<br></div><div dir="ltr">Wheeling Register, Friday, October 29, 1926<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">DRIFTED LEAVES BELIEVED CAUSE OF CRASH<br></div><div dir="ltr">Prevented Functioning of Mozart Car Brakes, Theory Advanced; Motorman Dead,<br></div><div dir="ltr">12 Injured in Wild Dash<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Exact cause of the fatal accident on the Mozart Park traction line in<br></div><div dir="ltr">which one man was killed and 12 injured may never be known.<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Frank E. Eberlein, 68, motorman of the runaway car, who died at his<br></div><div dir="ltr">post, is probably the only man who could have accounted for the wild flight<br></div><div dir="ltr">of his car down the steep Mozart grade which ended when it left the rails<br></div><div dir="ltr">at a curve at 6:25 yesterday morning and crashed into the store of Leo<br></div><div dir="ltr">Pack, plowing halfway through the two-story frame building. And Eberlein's<br></div><div dir="ltr">story will never be told.<br></div><div dir="ltr"> The most likely theory, according to A. C. Spurr, general<br></div><div dir="ltr">superintendent of the Wheeling Traction company, is that drifted leaves may<br></div><div dir="ltr">have temporarily prevented the brakes from holding, permitting the car to<br></div><div dir="ltr">gain momentum which could not be checked. The fact that the car had already<br></div><div dir="ltr">made one trip and had been stopped part way down the hill for a passenger<br></div><div dir="ltr">would support this theory, Mr. Spurr says.<br></div><div dir="ltr">Scene In Car Described<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Motorman Eberlein made heroic efforts to avert the disaster. Applying<br></div><div dir="ltr">both brakes in a futile attempt to check the speed of his car he turned to<br></div><div dir="ltr">his passengers with a despairing look. "She's gone, boys! I can't hold it,"<br></div><div dir="ltr">he cried.<br></div><div dir="ltr"> The car rocked wildly as it rushed ahead, gathering speed. It is said<br></div><div dir="ltr">there was no panic among the passengers. Cooler heads advised against<br></div><div dir="ltr">rushing for the doors.<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Sensing the impending disaster, some of the men threw themselves flat<br></div><div dir="ltr">on the floor with their feet to the front of the car. Others followed their<br></div><div dir="ltr">example.<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Through it all, Motorman Eberlein grimly held to his position. One<br></div><div dir="ltr">hand raised above his crushed and mangled body still grasped a brake handle<br></div><div dir="ltr">when his body was removed from the wrecked car two hours after the crash.<br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">--<br></div><div dir="ltr">Daria Phoebe Brashear<br></div><div dir="ltr">AuriStor, Inc.<br></div><div dir="ltr">dariaphoebe.com<br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20211123/56bbe4e9/attachment.htm" target="_blank">http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20211123/56bbe4e9/attachment.htm</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">Name: 72566458-276C-42DD-B5CF-CC52BF560D9F.png<br></div><div dir="ltr">Type: image/png<br></div><div dir="ltr">Size: 332771 bytes<br></div><div dir="ltr">Desc: not available<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20211123/56bbe4e9/attachment.png" target="_blank">http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20211123/56bbe4e9/attachment.png</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org" href="mailto:Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways" target="_blank">https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways</a><br></div></div>
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