



Car-Step Accident, tU 



Impetuosity of youth and extraordinary 

 crowding of the street cars were prob- 







ably the. causes of the unhappy accident 

 yesterday in which one high school boy- 







was killed and three injured by being 

 knocked from- the steps of a street car 

 by a vehicle standing near the curb. 







There has perhaps been no other time 

 in the history of the city .when street 

 cars have been so crowded as during 

 this storm. The failure of the cars of 

 one system to run multiplied the burden 

 on the cars of the other system. One 

 system after partial recovery from its 

 breakdown operated cars under a reduced 

 schedule with the result that there was 

 dangerous overcrowding. In the matter 

 of the sidedoor cars crowds clung to the 

 entrance's so that conductors had much 

 trouble in closing the doors, and there 















was delay in getting the cars under way. 

 In the case of the older type of cars 







they have been so overcrowded at times 

 that men and women have been jammed 

 on the back platforms and have clung 







to the handrails with a small foothold 

 on the steps. The law is against riding 

 on the car steps, but the conductors in 

 numerous instances have been unable to 

 enforce it. 











The accident of yesterday is one which 

 might happen on any day during the 

 rush hours of morning and evening. Peo- 







ticular car and they take too great risks 







on the steps. Many killings have re- 

 sulted from riding on the steps and the 

 running boards of street cars. 















































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