cean bar was, in 1890 and spring, 1891, 11 "5 feet at car, it was found impossible to release the grip, and mean low tide, of 18-3 feet at mean high tide. house had been signaled and the engine stopped, <an examination of the cable in the conduit showed chat the car moved down Broadway toward… … obviously impossible to guard charges from 15 pounds to 50, then A LOOP CATCHES THE CABLE GRIP. against an accident of this kind. to 100, then to 200 pounds, explod- The only safeguard lies in careful ing thus far 60,000 pounds of dyna- cable construction and in extreme care in making mite, and now…
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