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The Trolley of Death
The Trolley of Death
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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Nov 6, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
106 years ago this week, a terrible accident took place within sight of South Station. November 7, 1916 was election day in Boston, but it was an otherwise completely ordinary autumn afternoon for the passengers who packed themselves into streetcar number 393 of the Boston Elevated Railway for their evening commute through South Boston to South Station and Downtown Crossing. The everyday monotony of the trip home was shattered in an instant, when the streetcar crashed through the closed gates of the Summer Street bridge and plunged through the open drawbridge and into the dark and frigid water below. How many could be saved, and how many would have to perish for this evening to be remembered as Boston’s greatest moment of tragedy for a generation?
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/261/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Nov 6, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 1: Remember remember the fifth of November (Oct 30, 2016): How did early Boston “celebrate” on November 5th each year? By drinking, brawling, and burning effigies of the Pope, of course. That story, and all the important historic anniversaries for October 31 to November 6 in our debut episode. Show notes ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History