Cleveland
Cleveland, Painesville &
Eastern
#35, J. G. Brill Co. built,
c1905, rebuilt by the Company in 1915. The pictured accident occurred
on August 7, 1918, when the car struck a horse drawn van, knocking it into
a steel girder of the Grand River bridge in Fairport Harbor. The
bridge fell to the level of water and 10 of the 15 passengers were injured.
All escaped falling into the 20 foot deep water by scrambling over the
roadbed to safety.
Caption data from Cliff
Scholes
Bill Volkmer Collection
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