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Mill Spill: 1914

October 21, 1914. Bronx, New York. A Cross, Austin, & Ireland Lumber Co. truck accident on the trolley tracks at East 138th Street and Southern (now Bruckner) Boulevard. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

October 21, 1914. Bronx, New York. A Cross, Austin, & Ireland Lumber Co. truck accident on the trolley tracks at East 138th Street and Southern (now Bruckner) Boulevard. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

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That ludicrously out of balance and ill-secured load was inevitably going to cause mayhem.
Going by the posts of newspaper reports (by notcom) this company was a disaster area.
Curious how reports of those times included the full address of people mentioned in the article.

Aw crap!

You had ONE job!

Practice makes imperfect

This wasn't their first accident of the year (01/20/14)

or even their second (09/16/14)

Indeed, with primitive brakes and lumbering vehicles - in every meaning of that term - one would have to think mishaps were fairly common (and perhaps explains why the October incident doesn't seem to have received coverage).

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