| Ort |
Zeit |
Firma |
Ereignis |
| Albany (N.Y.) |
1896 |
F. & T. Townsend Foundry |
Die "Townsend & Jackson" wird in "Townsend Foundry Company" umbenannt |
| Arlington (N.J.) |
1896 |
Standard Railroad Signal Co. |
Gründung |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1896 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die Gebläsemaschinen "A, B und C" werden in unabhängige Verbundmaschinen mit Kondensation umgebaut. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1896/1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "A, B, C" wird umgebaut. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1896 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Einstellung des Seilzugbetriebs |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1896 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Beu einer eingeschossigen Maschinenwerkstatt in der Seabring Street an der Nordseite 75 feet östlich der Richards Street, 30 x 51 ft., Kosten: $1,600. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Der erste mit Wechselstrom betriebene Oberleitungsbus wird in Buffalo eingesetzt. |
| Conshohocken (USA) |
1896 |
J. Ellwood Lee Co. |
Bau des Kessel- und Maschinenhauses mit Laboratorium, Glaswerkstatt, Lager, Packerei und Pflasterherstellung |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1896 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Der erste mit Wechselstrom betriebene Oberleitungsbus wird in Buffalo eingesetzt. |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1896 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Lieferung des elektrischen Teils für zwei von Baldwin gebaute elektrische Lokomotiven für Bergwerkszwecke |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
01.01.1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Samuel M. Vauclain, Alba B. Johnson und George Burnham Jr. werden Teilhaber der "Baldwin Locomotive Works" |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut kombinierte Abt'sche Zahnrad- und Reibungslokomotiven für die "Penoles Mining Company" in Mexiko mit Verbundzylindern d= 9,5 + 15", h= 22". Das Reibungstriebwerk mit drei gekuppelten Achsen ist über einen senkrechten Balancier mit dem Zylinder verbunden. Die Zahnräder sind auf den Lauf-/Treibachsen, die bei Zahnradbetrieb nur als Laufachsen dienen und bei Reibungsbetrieb durch Klauenkupplungen verbunden werden. Diese Anordnung wurde von S. M. Vauclain und J. Y. McConnell patentiert. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut zwei elektrische Lokomotiven für Bergwerkszwecke in Zusammenarbeit mit der "Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.", die den elektrischen Teil liefert |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Im Jahr 1896 wird 15.000 Lokomotive hergestellt. |
| Greenwich Point (Philadelphia) |
1896 |
Grove & Brother's Linseed Oil Works |
Bau des Ölkuchenlagers im Westen |
| Hudson (New York) |
1896 |
Hudson Iron Co. |
Aufgabe der Hochöfen und Bau eines neuen mit 75' Höhe und 16' Durchmesser |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1896 |
Oscar Schmidt |
Oscar Schmidt beginnt mit der Produktion von Musikinstrumenten in einer kleinen, zweistöckigen Reparaturwerkstatt der der "North Hudson Street Railway Company" in der Palisade Avenue in der Hudson City Section |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1896 |
Truslow & Fulle |
Gründung durch L. Truslow und Chas. A. Fulle |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1896 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Einstellung des Seilzugbetriebs |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1896 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Beu einer eingeschossigen Maschinenwerkstatt in der Seabring Street an der Nordseite 75 feet östlich der Richards Street, 30 x 51 ft., Kosten: $1,600. |
| New York City |
1896 |
Babcock & Wilcox Co. |
Verleihung einer goldenen Medaille in Kiel, einer Höchsten Auszeichnung in Budapest und Diplome in Cardiff und auf der Ausstellung in Como |
| New York City |
1896 |
Beach, Alfred Ely |
Tod von Alfred Ely Beach in New York City an einer Lungenentzündung |
| New York City |
1896 |
De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Co. |
Lizenznahme für den Bau von Körting-Motoren |
| New York City |
1896 |
Krajewski-Pesant Corporation |
T. F. Krajewski zieht sich aus dem Unternehmen zurück |
| New York City |
1896 |
New York Central Railroad |
Sprague arbeitet bei der "New York Central Railroad" bei der Elektrifizierung der Bahnhofsanlagen, insbesondere des Grand Central Terminal in New York City (bis 1900) |
| New York City |
1896 |
Sprague, Frank Julian |
Sprague arbeitet bei der "New York Central Railroad" bei der Elektrifizierung der Bahnhofsanlagen, insbesondere des Grand Central Terminal in New York City (bis 1900) |
| New York City |
1896-1897 |
The Bates Machine Company, Dr. |
Die restlichen Anteile werden durch die "Edison Phonograph Works" übernommen |
| New York City |
1896 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Die "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine No. 6 kommt heraus |
| New York City |
1896 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Die "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine No. 7 (mit breitem Wagen) kommt heraus |
| New York City |
1896 |
The Elliott & Hatch Book Typewriter Co. |
Die Buchschreibmaschine wird gebaut. Konstrukteur ist Crawford Elliott, ein Magistratsbeamter aus Chicago, dem speziell die Führung der Sitzungsprotokollbücher obliegt. Er interessiert Walter Platt Hatch in New York für die Sache, auf dessen Namen ein Teil der Schutzschriften lautet. |
| New York City |
1896 |
Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict |
Das Remington-Modell 8 erscheint |
| Ogdensburg (New York) |
1896 |
Saint Lawrence State Hospital |
Bau der Curtis Hall |
| Ogdensburg (New York) |
1896 |
Saint Lawrence State Hospital |
Bau von Dynamoraum und Feuerwache |
| Painted Post (USA) |
1896 |
Weston Engine Company |
Das Werk brennt bei einem verheerenden Feuer bis auf die Grundmauern ab. Durch das Feuer bedingte finanzielle Verluste verursachen die Schließung der Weston Bank. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.01.1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Samuel M. Vauclain, Alba B. Johnson und George Burnham Jr. werden Teilhaber der "Baldwin Locomotive Works" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut kombinierte Abt'sche Zahnrad- und Reibungslokomotiven für die "Penoles Mining Company" in Mexiko mit Verbundzylindern d= 9,5 + 15", h= 22". Das Reibungstriebwerk mit drei gekuppelten Achsen ist über einen senkrechten Balancier mit dem Zylinder verbunden. Die Zahnräder sind auf den Lauf-/Treibachsen, die bei Zahnradbetrieb nur als Laufachsen dienen und bei Reibungsbetrieb durch Klauenkupplungen verbunden werden. Diese Anordnung wurde von S. M. Vauclain und J. Y. McConnell patentiert. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut zwei elektrische Lokomotiven für Bergwerkszwecke in Zusammenarbeit mit der "Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.", die den elektrischen Teil liefert |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Im Jahr 1896 wird 15.000 Lokomotive hergestellt. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.01.1896 |
Burnham, George |
Burnham wird Teilhaber der "Baldwin Locomotive Works" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
Grove & Brother's Linseed Oil Works |
Bau des Ölkuchenlagers im Westen |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.01.1896 |
Johnson, Alba Boardman |
Alba B. Johnson wird Teilhaber der "Baldwin Locomotive Works" als Mitglied der Firma "Burnham, Williams & Co." |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. |
Durch eine Reorganisation werden die "Philadelphia & Reading Railroad" und die "Coal & Iron Company" Eigentum der "Reading Company", einer Holdinggesellschaft. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company |
Durch eine Reorganisation werden die "Philadelphia & Reading Railroad" und die "Coal & Iron Company" Eigentum der "Reading Company", einer Holdinggesellschaft. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
The James Dunlap Carpet Co. |
Bau des Bürogebäudes mit Farbwerkstatt (nordwestlich an der North 55th Street) |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
The James Dunlap Carpet Co. |
Bau des Lagergebäudes mit Spulerei und Zettelei an der Hunter Avenue |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.01.1896 |
Vauclain, Samuel Matthew |
Samuel M. Vauclain, Alba B. Johnson und George Burnham Jr. werden Teilhaber der "Baldwin Locomotive Works" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1896 |
Vauclain, Samuel Matthew |
Baldwin baut kombinierte Abt'sche Zahnrad- und Reibungslokomotiven für die "Penoles Mining Company" in Mexiko mit Verbundzylindern d= 9,5 + 15", h= 22". Das Reibungstriebwerk mit drei gekuppelten Achsen ist über einen senkrechten Balancier mit dem Zylinder verbunden. Die Zahnräder sind auf den Lauf-/Treibachsen, die bei Zahnradbetrieb nur als Laufachsen dienen und bei Reibungsbetrieb durch Klauenkupplungen verbunden werden. Diese Anordnung wurde von S. M. Vauclain und J. Y. McConnell patentiert. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Chas. E. Dinkey wird Assistent des Mechnik-Meisters im Hochofenbereich |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Die Einzylinder-Gebläsemaschinen der Hochofen "A, B und C" werden gegen Hochdruck-Verbundmaschinen mit Kondensation ausgetauscht. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896/97 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Ersatz der alten Röhrenkessel der Hochofenanlage A - C gegen Cahall-Wasserrohrkessel |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896/1900 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Pumpstation und Kokssortieranlage der "Monongahela City Water Co.", Monongahela City |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die Gebläsemaschinen "A, B und C" werden in unabhängige Verbundmaschinen mit Kondensation umgebaut. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896/1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "A, B, C" wird umgebaut. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896 |
H. J. Heinz & Company |
Das Produkt "57 Varieties" kommt auf den Markt, das eine Mischung aus über 60 Produkten ist und zum Synonym des Unternehmens wird. Es hat weltweiten Erfolg. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Der erste mit Wechselstrom betriebene Oberleitungsbus wird in Buffalo eingesetzt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1896 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Lieferung des elektrischen Teils für zwei von Baldwin gebaute elektrische Lokomotiven für Bergwerkszwecke |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1896 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein lernt seine spätere Frau Mileva Maric kennen. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1896 |
Princeton University |
Das College erhält den Namen "Princeton University". |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1896 |
Reading Iron Company |
Bau des Oley Street Walzwerks |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1896 |
Reading Iron Company |
Das Ninth Street Walzwerk (vorher Schienenwalzwerk der P. & R. Railroad) wird angegliedert |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
1896 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Beu einer eingeschossigen Maschinenwerkstatt in der Seabring Street an der Nordseite 75 feet östlich der Richards Street, 30 x 51 ft., Kosten: $1,600. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Gundlach Optical Co. |
Bald nach Übernahe der Milburn Corona Co. vereinigt sie sich mit der Manhattan Optical |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Gundlach Optical Co. |
Ursprünglich gegründet durch Ernst Gundlach für die Produktion von Optik, erwirbt sie 1896 die Milburn Corona Co. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Junius Judson & Son |
Der Name Triphammer Forge wird auf die "Judson Power Company" übertragen. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Junius Judson & Son |
Junius Judson verkauft kurz von seinem Tod die "Judson Pin Works" an eine Firma in Boston |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Junius Judson & Son |
Tod von Junius Judson. Sein Sohn John Lee Judson setzt die Steam Governor Company und die Power Company fort. |
| Sharon (Mercer, Pa.) |
1896 |
Buhl Steel Company |
Gründung durch Frank H. Buhl (1848 - 1918) |
| Titusville (Pa.) |
01.01.1896 |
The Titusville Iron Works Co. |
Gründung durch John Fertig, John C. McKinney, John J. Carter und andere prominente Öl-Industrielle aus Titusville zur Herstellung von Acme-Dampfmaschinen und -Kesseln sowie Olin-Gasmaschinen. |
| Utica (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Utica Steam Engine and Boiler Works |
Das Unternehmen geht von Joel Omens auf Tom McKough und Mr. Will McCann über und wird eingetragen. |
| Utica (N.Y.) |
1896 |
Utica Steam Engine and Boiler Works |
Eingetragen |
| Waynesboro (Pa.) |
1896 |
Frick Company Inc. |
Frick Co. baut die größe Kältemaschine der Welt für "Armour Co.". Sie beansprucht einen ganzen Zug mit 15 Waggons, um sie zu ihrem Einsatzort Kansas City zu bringen. Die Maschine hat Ammoniakzylinder von 27"x48" und wird durch eine Tandem-Verbund-Corliss-Maschine angetrieben. Dieser Kompressor ist 35 Jahr lang bei Tag und Nacht im Einsatz. |
| York (Penns) |
1896 |
York Manufacturing Company |
Eröffnung einer neuen Fabrik an der West York Avenue (später in Roosevelt Avenue umbenannt) |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
18.01.1896 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Gründung und Eintragung |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
18.01.1896 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Gründung und Eintragung |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
28.01.1896 |
Einstein, Albert |
Austritt Einsteins aus der württembergischen Staatsbürgerschaft |
| Blairsville (Pennsylvania) |
29.01.1896 |
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Samuel Huey, until a year ago a resident of Blairsville, was struck by a trolley car at Turtle Creek, last Saturday afternoon and received fatal injuries. He was 60 years old and a veteran of the late war. His wife died during their residence in Blairsville, bu he is survived by nine children, one of whom, William, lives with his family in Balirsville. The remains were brought to Blairsville on Tuesday and funeral services were held in the U. P. church. The remains were afterwards interred in the Blairsville cemetery.
Mr. Huey formerly lived in Jacksonville. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
Anfang Febr. 1896 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der bankrotten "Long Island Traction Company" und Erwerbung der "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" und den Pächter der "Brooklyn City Rail Road" |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
Febr. 1896 |
Richardson & Boynton Co. |
"Richardson & Boynton" zieht aus Platzmangel und wegen günstigerer Steuern nach Dover, N.J. |
| Dover (N.J.) |
Febr. 1896 |
Richardson & Boynton Co. |
"Richardson & Boynton" zieht aus Platzmangel und wegen günstigerer Steuern nach Dover, N.J. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
Anfang Febr. 1896 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der bankrotten "Long Island Traction Company" und Erwerbung der "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" und den Pächter der "Brooklyn City Rail Road" |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
Febr. 1896 |
Richardson & Boynton Co. |
"Richardson & Boynton" zieht aus Platzmangel und wegen günstigerer Steuern nach Dover, N.J. |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
Febr. 1896 |
Richardson & Boynton Co. |
"Richardson & Boynton" zieht aus Platzmangel und wegen günstigerer Steuern nach Dover, N.J. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
09.02.1896 |
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A shifting engine on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ran into a Second avenue street car at Rarkin's Crossing, nine miles east of here. W. H. COOPER, the conductor of the electric car, was killed and JOHN RIDDLEY, the motorman, was fatally injured. There were eight passengers in the car, of whom three were women. All escaped injury except slight bruises. The accident was caused by the slippery rails. |
| New York City |
23.04.1896 |
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First motion picture projection screenings in New York City at Koster and Bials music hall; the projectionist (using what is now called the Edison Vitascope) is Edwin S Porter (see 1902 late). As well as five films made by the Edison company, the programme includes R W Pauls English production Rough Sea at Dover. The films are made into 40-foot loops for repeated showing. |
| New York City |
05.1896 |
General Electric Company |
Gründung der "British Thomson-Houston" als Zweigunternehmen |
| Sharon (Mercer, Pa.) |
01.05.1896 |
Sharon Furnace |
Übernahme des Betriebs durch "Runyon, Stubbs & Co." |
| New York City |
05.05.1896 |
George Fenwick & Co |
Tod von George Fenwick, Werftbesitzer in Hongkong, in New York im Alter von 45 Jahren an einem Herzleiden |
| New York City |
12.05.1896 |
De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Co. |
Tod von John C. De la Vergne |
| Ardmore (Pa.) |
19.05.1896 |
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Coroner Kurtz impaneled a jury this evening to view the remains of young Howard G. Williams, of Ardmore, who was killed by being struck by a train by this station shortly before 7 o'clock last evening. Engineer Thomas J. Myers stated that he was not fifty feet distance when he saw the young man running quickly for the train. He instantly applied the brakes and pulled the whistle, but the young man was on the tracks and had disappeared from his view. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death and completely freed the railroad company and its employees form any blame in the matter. |
| Stanton (New Jersey) |
19.05.1896 |
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John Cannon, 35 years old, passed seven hours of horrible agony last night. While riding on a Lehigh Valley coal train he fell off near Stanton, about 9 o'clock, injuring himself internally and breaking a leg. He fell within two feet of the rail between two main tracks and owing to his injuries was unable to move. Nearly thirty trains thundered past within a foot of his head.
The injured man was finally discovered by the engineer on an east-bound freight train at 4 o'clock this morning. He was taken to St. Francis' Hospital, Easton, where he lies in serious condition. |
| Morris Heights (New York) |
06.1896 |
Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company |
Zusammenschluß der "Charles L. Seabury Co." in Nyack mit der "Gas Engine & Power Co." in Morris Heights als "Charles L. Seabury Co. and Gas Engine & Power Co., Consolidated" (nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg als "Consolidated Shipbuilding") |
| New York City |
06.1896 |
Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company |
Zusammenschluß der "Charles L. Seabury Co." in Nyack mit der "Gas Engine & Power Co." in Morris Heights als "Charles L. Seabury Co. and Gas Engine & Power Co., Consolidated" (nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg als "Consolidated Shipbuilding") |
| New York City |
Juni 1896 |
Pratt Institute |
Die beiden Kessel werden ersetzt, und im Juni kommt ein dritter von Babcock & Wilcox hinzu. |
| Hazleton (Pennsylvania) |
21.06.1896 |
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The Lehigh Valley passenger train, in charge of Engineer MICHAEL LONZER and Conductor GEORGE REESE, was precipitated into the depths of a coal mine near this place. LONZER was wedged between the baggage car and the ground and was crushed to death. The fireman, FREDERICK MEYERS, will probably die.
Several passengers were injured, but all were able to walk to this city. Since the wreck the earth has dropped completely into the mines, which are operated by Linderman & Skeer, and steam from the underground cavity is issuing from the hole. Trains were run by way of Beaver Meadow.
Traffic will be blocked for several days, both main tracks being affected. For several years past the road between here and Stockton has been the scene of many cave-ins, and to guard against accidents three watchmen were placed at different points to notify trains of any possible danger. |
| New York City |
Juli 1896 |
Pratt Institute |
Es werden zwei weitere Kessel aufgestellt. |
| New York City |
14.07.1896 |
Vanderbilt, Cornelius |
Gehirnschlag. - Die Ärzte retten ihm das Leben, er ist teilweise gelähmt. Nach seiner weitgehenden Genesung verbringt er rd. ein Jahr mit Frau und die jüngeren Kindern in der Schweiz und in Südfrankreich. Er kehrt weitgehend geheilt in seine Heimat zurück, kann aber seine berufliche Tätigkeit nicht wieder aufnehmen. |
| Atlantic City (N.J.) |
21.07.1896 |
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As a result of the collision last evening between the Reading railroad express from Philadelphia and the Bridgeton excursion train 47 people are dead and 44 are lying in the hospital here more or less seriously hurt. Of the injured in the hospital several are expected to die. Besides those seriously enough hurt to be in the hospital, a score or more of people were bruised and shaken up. The fearful shock of the collision is illustrated by the fact that of the 47 dead, 42 were killed outright. Of the dead, 42 have been identified and the bodies of three women, one man and a boy, are awaiting claimants.
The responsibility for the accident is hard to place at this time, but the burden of it seems to rest upon the dead engineer of the Reading train, EDWARD FARR, tho [sic] an official investigation may clear his name. It was reported last night that when MRS. FARR heard of her husbandâ??s death she fell dead. This was not true. She fell in a swoon and tonight is lying in a serious condition from the shock. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
26.07.1896 |
Duquesne Tube Works Company |
Das Werk schließt nach finanziellen Problemen und wird nie mehr wieder in Betrieb genommen. |
| Shamokin (Pennsylvania) |
04.08.1896 |
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Two men were killed and another fatally injured in a disastrous freight wreck on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad six miles west of Shamokin this morning. To add to the horror of the disaster, the wreckage took fire from the dismantled locomotive and the explosion of a car load of powder, which was in the wreck, compelled the rescuers to keep at a safe distance.
The body of Engineer MICHAEL SMOCK was pinned in the wreck and was cremated within full view of the workmen. It could not be removed, as it was caught beneath the engine and fiercely burning debris. The victims are:
MICHAEL SMOCK, engineer, aged 35 years, of Tamaqua, killed in wreck and body cremated.
ALEXANDER SMITH, conductor, aged 45 years, of Tamaqua, crushed about the body; leaves a wife and several children.
JACOB DREISBACH, fireman, aged 33 years, married, of Tamaqua, badly scalded by escaping steam and burned about body; will die.
The wrecked train is known as No. 55, fast freight. It was running about forty miles an hour when it ran into a freight car door that had fallen across the track from a passing train. The engine jumped the track and twelve cars were piled within a space of fifty feet. A car of powder standing on Weldy's siding exploded soon after the wreck.
A fire engine and three hose carriages were sent from Shamokin to the scene of the accident and played on the flames.
Both the north and south bound tracks are blocked. The Reading express trains are being sent over the Northern Central railway. |
| Valencia (Penns.) |
24.08.1896 |
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The through express train from Chicago on the Pittsburg & Western railway, which was due in Pittsburgh at 11:35 p. m. was wrecked at Valencia, a small station twenty miles west of here, at 11:30 o'clock today, and more that a score of passengers were injured, four of whom may die.
Just before the passenger train reached that place, there was a collision of freight trains which threw a number of freight cars on to the main track, and the express train, coming along at the rate of thirty miles a hour, plunged into the wrecked freight cars.
Nearly every car of the express was wrecked, and the escape of the passengers from instant death is remarkable. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Spätjahr 1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut sechs Lokomotiven für die Baltimore and Ohio Railroad für Schnellzüge. Sie haben die Achsfolge 2'C, d= 21", h= 26", Treibräder: D= 78" (= 1981 mm), Gewicht: 145.000 pound, 113.000 pounds Reibungsgewicht. Sie übernehmen für 15 den Schnellzugdienst zwischen Philadelphia, Baltimore und Washington. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Spätjahr 1896 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut sechs Lokomotiven für die Baltimore and Ohio Railroad für Schnellzüge. Sie haben die Achsfolge 2'C, d= 21", h= 26", Treibräder: D= 78" (= 1981 mm), Gewicht: 145.000 pound, 113.000 pounds Reibungsgewicht. Sie übernehmen für 15 den Schnellzugdienst zwischen Philadelphia, Baltimore und Washington. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Spätjahr 1896 |
Vauclain, Samuel Matthew |
Baldwin baut sechs Lokomotiven für die Baltimore and Ohio Railroad für Schnellzüge. Sie haben die Achsfolge 2'C, d= 21", h= 26", Treibräder: D= 78" (= 1981 mm), Gewicht: 145.000 pound, 113.000 pounds Reibungsgewicht. Sie übernehmen für 15 den Schnellzugdienst zwischen Philadelphia, Baltimore und Washington. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
29.10.1896 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein übersiedelt nach Zürich und schreibt sich an der Schweizerischen Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule in Zürich ein. Er beginnt ein lehrerstudium für die Fächer Mathematik und Physik. Einstein mißfallen die dortigen Unterrichtsmethoden. Oft versäumt er den Unterricht und nutzt die Zeit, um eigenständig Physik zu studieren oder seine Geige zu spielen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
22.11.1896 |
Ferris, George Washington |
Tod von George Washington Gale Ferris in Pittsburgh an Typhus |
| New Brunswick (New Jersey) |
25.11.1896 |
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Two men were killed and two others severely injured in a double train wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near New Brunswick, N. J., to-day. The casualties involve the Washington express of this city, which at the moment was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and the marvel is that it did not result in the death and maiming of scores of passengers. This train and a freight were running on parallel tracks when the breaking of a truck on one of the freight cars threw it from its course and directly in the way of the express. The locomotive of the latter struck the freight cars and wrecked eight of them. The locomotive was overturned and plunged down an embankment twelve feet high, falling upon and killing Engineer JOSEPH MAGAN and Fireman H. W. CHICHESTER. The mail car and the combination car were also carried over the embankment and the first of the three sleepers stopped at the very brink of the incline. Mail Clerk LAMBERT, of Washington, was unconscious when taken from the wreck. He had several ribs broken and was otherwise severely hurt, but is expected to recover. ROBERT TABABON, of this city, a passenger, was passing from one car to another when the crash came and hurled to the ground. He was badly hurt but not fatally injured. A number of people on the day coach sustained bruises and scratches. None of the people on the freight train were hurt at all. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Bau einer Weiss'schen Zentralkondensation im Krafthaus. Seit dieser Zeit wird dieser Typ der Gegenstromkondensation bei den Gebläsemaschinen und allen Bereichen, wo Dampf verwendet wird, eingesetzt. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die Gebläsemaschinen "D und E" werden in senkrechte Verbundmaschinen mit übereinander liegenden Zylindern ("steeple engines") umgebaut. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1897/1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "D und E" wird umgebaut. |
| Brillhart (York) |
1897 |
Brillhart Pumping Station |
Wegen der Wasserverschmutzung am Cocorus Creek Aufgabe der dortigen Wassergewinnung und Bau einer neuen Rohwasserpumpstation bei Brillhart. - Sie wird mehrfach erweitert. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1897 |
Pan-American Exposition |
Gründung der "Pan-American Exposition Company" |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1897 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Um den steigenden Bedarf an Stahlguß zu decken, wird eine Stahlgießerei mit zwei 15-t-Offen-Herd-Öfen errichtet. - Diese werden später umgebaut und haben um 1920 eine Kapazität von 20 tons. |
| Cold Spring (N.Y.) |
1897 |
West Point Foundry - Paulding, Kemble & Co. |
Verkauf an die Brüder Cornell und später unter der Firma "Cornell Foundry" |
| Corry (Pa.) |
1897 |
Climax Manufacturing Co. |
Bau der ersten Climax-Lokomotive mit drei Triebgestellen. |
| Dover (N.J.) |
1897 |
Paul Guenther Company |
Guenther gründet in Dover (New Jersey) die "Paul Guenther Company", in der Seidestrumpfwaren hergestellt werden. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Anfang 1897 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Es werden ungewöhnlich interessante Baldwin-Lokomotiven nach Japan an die "Nippon Railway" geliefert. Sie sind für die Verbrennung von sehr minderwertiger Kohle ausgelegt und haben eine große Rostfläche und eine große Feuerbüchse. Sie werden als "Atlantic" und "Consolidation"-Typen ausgeliefert. Sie erweisen sich als sehr erfolgreich. |
| Geneva (New York) |
1897 |
J. R. Vance Iron Works |
James R. Vance gründet seine eigene Firma, die "Vance Boiler Works". |
| Geneva (New York) |
1897 |
Vance, James R. |
James R. Vance gründet seine eigene Firma, die "Vance Boiler Works". |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1897 |
Arthur L. Perkins Company |
Die "Dimock & Fink Company" erwirbt das fünfstöckige Fabrikgebäude der bankrotten "William Loft & Co." an der 283 und 285 Warren Street |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1897 |
Mutual Chemical Company of America |
Beginn der Herstellung von Pottasche- und Soda-Bichromat |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1897 |
Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company |
John J. Voorhees verläßt die "New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Company" und gründet seine eigene Gesellschaft. |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1897 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Beginn der Fundamentierungsarbeiten für das Kraftwerk in der 96th Street |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1897 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 28 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1897 |
Ninety-Sixth Street Station |
Beginn der Fundamentierungsarbeiten |
| New York City |
1897 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Beginn der Fundamentierungsarbeiten für das Kraftwerk in der 96th Street |
| New York City |
1897 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 28 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1897 |
Ninety-Sixth Street Station |
Beginn der Fundamentierungsarbeiten |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Anfang 1897 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Es werden ungewöhnlich interessante Baldwin-Lokomotiven nach Japan an die "Nippon Railway" geliefert. Sie sind für die Verbrennung von sehr minderwertiger Kohle ausgelegt und haben eine große Rostfläche und eine große Feuerbüchse. Sie werden als "Atlantic" und "Consolidation"-Typen ausgeliefert. Sie erweisen sich als sehr erfolgreich. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1897 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Die Turbinen 1 und 3 werden außer Betrieb genommen. Die anderen fünf pumpen entweder in das Fairmont-Speicherbecken oder das Corinthian-Speicherbecken. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1897 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Große Reparatur- und Umbauarbeiten an den Behältern in Fairmount |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Bau eines neuen Elektrizitätswerks mit einem 800-kW-Generator, einem mit 400 kW (aus der Gießerei umgesetzt), zwei 75-kW-Lichtmaschinen und einer 150-kW-Lichtmaschine. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Die Einzylinder-Gebläsemaschinen der Hochöfen "D und E" werden gegen Hochdruck-Verbundmaschinen mit Kondensation ausgetauscht. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Inbetriebnahme der ersten Weiss'schen Zentralkondensation (Gegenstromprinzip) am Kraftwerk. Solche Kondensatoren werden später in allen Dampfanlagen des Hochofen- und Walzwerks verwendet. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Vereinigung der Laboratorien der Hochofenanlage und des Stahlwerks. C. B. Murray wird Chefchemiker |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897/98 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Ersatz der alten Röhrenkessel der Hochofenanlage D - E gegen Cahall-Wasserrohrkessel |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Girardot und Cambao Inclines, Kolumbien, Südamerika |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Bau einer Weiss'schen Zentralkondensation im Krafthaus. Seit dieser Zeit wird dieser Typ der Gegenstromkondensation bei den Gebläsemaschinen und allen Bereichen, wo Dampf verwendet wird, eingesetzt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die Gebläsemaschinen "D und E" werden in senkrechte Verbundmaschinen mit übereinander liegenden Zylindern ("steeple engines") umgebaut. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1897/1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "D und E" wird umgebaut. |
| Plainfield (New Jersey) |
1897 |
Kinsman, Frank Eugene |
Gründung der Firma "Kinsman & Knudson" durch Frank Eugene Kinsman |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1897 |
Monroe Camera Co. |
Incorporated |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1897 |
Rochester Camera & Supply Co. |
Umfirmierung aus "Rochester Camera Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1897 |
Rochester Camera Co. |
Namenswechsel in "Rochester Camera & Supply Co." |
| Spring Garden (Philadelphia) |
1897 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Die Turbinen 1 und 3 werden außer Betrieb genommen. Die anderen fünf pumpen entweder in das Fairmont-Speicherbecken oder das Corinthian-Speicherbecken. |
| Spring Garden (Philadelphia) |
1897 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Große Reparatur- und Umbauarbeiten an den Behältern in Fairmount |
| York (Penns) |
1897 |
Brillhart Pumping Station |
Wegen der Wasserverschmutzung am Cocorus Creek Aufgabe der dortigen Wassergewinnung und Bau einer neuen Rohwasserpumpstation bei Brillhart. - Sie wird mehrfach erweitert. |
| Painted Post (USA) |
03.1897 |
Weston Engine Company |
Das Werk wird wieder aufgebaut |
| Rome (N.Y.) |
05.03.1897 |
R. M. Bingham & Co. |
Ein Großbrand zerstört den Bingham-Block. Der Schaden beträgt ca. $100.000 |
| New York City |
02.04.1897 |
Worthen, William Ezra |
William Ezra Worthen stirbt in New York an den Folgen eines Schlaganfalls, den er sich im Dezember 1896 zugezogen hatte |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
06.04.1897 |
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The wooden span of the north end approach to the Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge collapsed about 6 o'clock this morning, while a freight train was crossing, and the engine and thirteen cars were precipitated to McClure Avenue fifty feet below.
Fireman WILLIAM HAGGERTY was killed instantly, and Engineer WILLIAM GRAHAM so badly injured that he cannot recover. The engine was completely wrecked, and the cars, which were loaded with coal and iron, were entirely demolished. The loss will be very heavy.
The Ohio Connecting Bridge crosses the Ohio River at Wood's Run, and connects the Pan Handle and Fort Wayne Roads of the Pennsylvania Company. |
| New York City |
01.05.1897 |
L. G. Tillotson & Co. |
Die Nachfolgefirma von Tillotson, "E. S. Greeley & Co."ist insolvent und wird versteigert |
| New York City |
31.05.1897 |
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Bahnübergangsunfall an der Merrick Road (Brooklyn) mit fünf Toten und zahlreichen Verletzten. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
Juni 1897 |
Auto-Pneumatic Railway Signal Co. |
Umwandlung in "Pneumatic Railway Signal Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
Juni 1897 |
Pneumatic Railway Signal Co. |
Entstanden durch Umwandlung aus "Auto-Pneumatic Railway Signal Co." |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Sommer 1897 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Die Reading Railway führt einen Schnellzug auf der Atlantic City Division ein. Auf einer Entfernung von 55,5 miles wird eine Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit von 64 miles (= 102,4 km/h) mit Zügen von fünf oder sechs Wagen erreicht. Die "Atlantic"-Lokomotiven (2'B1') haben Vauclain-Verbundtriebwerke (d= 13 + 22", h= 26", D= 84" = 2134 mm), Führerhaus über der Treibachse. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Sommer 1897 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Die Reading Railway führt einen Schnellzug auf der Atlantic City Division ein. Auf einer Entfernung von 55,5 miles wird eine Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit von 64 miles (= 102,4 km/h) mit Zügen von fünf oder sechs Wagen erreicht. Die "Atlantic"-Lokomotiven (2'B1') haben Vauclain-Verbundtriebwerke (d= 13 + 22", h= 26", D= 84" = 2134 mm), Führerhaus über der Treibachse. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Sommer 1897 |
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company |
Die Reading Railway führt einen Schnellzug auf der Atlantic City Division ein. Auf einer Entfernung von 55,5 miles wird eine Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit von 64 miles (= 102,4 km/h) mit Zügen von fünf oder sechs Wagen erreicht. Die von Baldwing gebauten "Atlantic"-Lokomotiven (2'B1') haben Vauclain-Verbundtriebwerke (d= 13 + 22", h= 26", D= 84" = 2134 mm), Führerhaus über der Treibachse. |
| New York City |
01.07.1897 |
Whyte, Frederick Methvan |
Beginn der Tätigkeit als Maschineningenieur bei der Chicago and North Western Railway (bis 10. August 1899) |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
08.07.1897 |
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Four people were fatally injured and eighteen or twenty others were more or less injured in a street car wreck on the Forbes street line of the Consolidated Traction company. The wreck occurred on the Soho hill at the time when the immense crowds which attended the fireworks display was returning home. An Atwood street car had gone about half way down the hill when it jumped the track. Closely following it came an open summer car with a trailer behind, closely packed with people. Before the second train could be stopped, it crashed into the derailed car. Hardly had the first collision happened before a third car, heavily laden, came down the hill at full speed, and forced its way into the wreck ahead. It was the second crash that did most of the damage and the scene was indescribable. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
14.07.1897 |
Pioneer Iron Works |
Präsident Alexander Bass stirbt in seinem Wohnhaus |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
14.07.1897 |
Pioneer Iron Works |
Präsident Alexander Bass stirbt in seinem Wohnhaus |
| South Brooklyn (Brooklyn) |
14.07.1897 |
Pioneer Iron Works |
Präsident Alexander Bass stirbt in seinem Wohnhaus |
| Long Island (N.Y.) |
29.07.1897 |
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An accident in which three passengers received serious injury and many more had narrow escapes occurred this morning on the Long Island Railroad. Train No. 72, which left Port Jefferson at 6:25 o'clock in charge of Conductor Ruthill Dayton, with Engineer Voe Jackson at the throttle of engine No. 50 and Robert Miller as his fireman, was derailed between East Northport and King's Park at a washout caused by the storm. |
| New York |
29.07.1897 |
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An accident in which three passengers received serious injury and many more had narrow escapes occurred this morning on the Long Island Railroad. Train No. 72, which left Port Jefferson at 6:25 o'clock in charge of Conductor Ruthill Dayton, with Engineer Voe Jackson at the throttle of engine No. 50 and Robert Miller as his fireman, was derailed between East Northport and King's Park at a washout caused by the storm. |
| Lockport (New York) |
31.07.1897 |
Holly Manufacturing Co. |
Charles Worthington aus New Jersey wird Abtretungsempfänger einer Hypothek von $100,000 von der "Mutual Life Insurance Co." |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
Aug. 1897 |
Richardson & Boynton Co. |
Die "Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Company" erwirbt das Anwesen in Brooklyn |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
Aug. 1897 |
Richardson & Boynton Co. |
Die "Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Company" erwirbt das Anwesen in Brooklyn |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
Aug. 1897 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "F" erhält einen automatischen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. Es ist der erste in den USA. Seitdem müssen sich keine Arbeiter mehr auf der Gichtbühne aufhalten. |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
Aug. 1897 |
Richardson & Boynton Co. |
Die "Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Company" erwirbt das Anwesen in Brooklyn |
| New York City |
30.08.1897 |
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Policeman FARRELL of the Twenty-second Police Precinct, Brooklyn, working under great difficulties, saved the lives of many passengers of a Bright Beach Railroad train last night. He did this at the risk of his own life and the lives of the two boy prisoners, whom he had caught in an attempt to wreck the train.
Several times recently large stones have been found on the Brighton Beach track near Eastern Parkway, and the police of the Twenty-second Precinct were watching. Capt. LEVY yesterday detailed Policeman Farrell on the case, and the policeman, in citizen's clothes, arrived at the spot at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. For some time he
lurked around the place without seeing anything suspicious, but at last five tough-looking boys, ranging from thirteen to sixteen years of age, cautiously approached the bridge at the Eastern Parkway. The policeman hastily concealed himself and waited.
When the boys reached the track they stopped and looked around in every direction to make sure that they were unobserved. Apparently the result of their scrutiny was satisfactory, for they at once set to work. They first opened the switch near the bridge, and then got three stones, which the wedged in at the open frog of the switch. This done, they got two larger stones, weighing thirty pounds, and put one on each of the rails. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
Sept. 1897 |
Duquesne Tube Works Company |
E. N. Ohl wird zum Konkursverwalter der Gesellschaft ernannt. |
| Blodgett Mills (USA) |
02.09.1897 |
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Train No. 4, the south-bound vestibule train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, was wrecked at Blodgett's Mills at 10:15 o'clock this morning. The train consisted of an express car, a combination baggage and smoking car, a day coach, ad a Pullman, a parlor car. The train, which does not stop at Blodgett's Mills, was passing at the rate of forty-five miles an hour on a straight track. When about 500 feet north of the station the rear truck of the day coach in some unexplained manner became detached and left the rails. This truck knocked all of the trucks from under the parlor car, which, after being dragged a few rods, was turned on its side in a four-foot ditch. The rest of the train was dragged 450 feet further, and thrown against the icehouse of the milk station, after which it struck the passenger station, knocking it from its foundation. When the engineer finally succeeded in stopping the train, it was found that Mrs. J. H. McQuillen of Overbrook, Penn., a suburb of Philadelphia, had been killed and a number of others injured. Messengers were sent to Cortland for physicians, who went to the scene of the wreck by special train. The injured are Mrs. H. S. Carter, John Carter, her son, and Mrs. E. F. Downing, of New York; the Rev. J. J. Higgins of Binghamton, A. D. Wallace and Miss Maude Graham of Cortland, Mrs. H. A. Connell of Scranton, Penn., daughters of Mrs. Connell; Miss J. J. Rogers of Wilkesbarre, Penn., Miss M. Spellman of Oswego, A. H. Schwarz, Superintendent of the Syracuse and Binghamton Division of the Lackawanna Railroad; Violet Heiman and Leman Nell of Philadelphia, and H. R. Hemerle porter of the Pullman car. None of those injured will die. |
| Scranton (Penns.) |
20.09.1897 |
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Charles Newcomb of Conkling, O., was beheaded at the Lackawanna station this morning. He was in charge of a car of poultry en route from New York city. Newcomb had gone into the restaurant for his breakfast, the train started and in trying to board a car he fell beneath the wheels and was instantly killed. |
| Scranton (Penns.) |
20.09.1897 |
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Five persons were instantly killed by an explosion of a locomotive in that place.
At the time of the explosion four persons were on the engine -- ROBERT STARETT, the engineer, ELIAS SCHWARTZ, of Pittson, formerly of Moscow, where he kept hotel, and where he was then bound; WILLIAM H. ALLEN, a carpenter of Hyde Park, who was going out to â??number 6,â? and PATRICK WELSH, a trackman, who lives near Moscow, and had come to Scranton after a doctor to see his sick wife. The fireman, JOHN BROWN, was standing near the engine when the explosion took place. It had been brought out of the engine-house during the morning, and had been used about the yard for some time, and was about starting out with a coal train when the explosion took place. The engine was the Virginia, one of Winan's coal burners, known as a "Camel Back". With one exception the parties were instantly killed, and he gasped unconsciously but for a few minutes. The verdict of the jury was, the parties came to their deaths from the explosion of the locomotive Virginia, at the Scranton depot, by the recklessness of the engineer wedging down the safety valve, thereby preventing an escape of steam at any pressure; under such circumstances an explosion was inevitable. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
26.10.1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das neue Stellwerk der Union Railroad geht in Betrieb, und der erste Güterzug von North Bessemer kommt an. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
26.10.1897 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Inbetriebnahme des Stellwerks der Union Railroad, und der erste Zug von North Bessemer trifft ein. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
26.10.1897 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das neue Stellwerk der Union Railroad geht in Betrieb, und der erste Güterzug von North Bessemer kommt an. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
Nov. 1897 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der "Sea Beach Railway". Sie wird an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" verpachtet. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
Nov. 1897 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der "Sea View Railroad" (Coney Island Elevated). Sie wird an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" verpachtet. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
Nov. 1897 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der "Sea Beach Railway". Sie wird an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" verpachtet. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
Nov. 1897 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der "Sea View Railroad" (Coney Island Elevated). Sie wird an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" verpachtet. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.11.1897 |
Theodore C. Knauff Company |
Tod von Henry Knauff in Philadelphia |
| New York City |
10.12.1897 |
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A slight collision between two elevated trains in Eighth Avenue, between One Hundred and Thirty-first and One Hundred and Thirty-second Streets, occurred early yesterday morning on the north-bound track. A train, carrying a few passengers, and of which William Donaldson of 263 West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street, was engineer, was going along slowly. Ahead of this train was another, which was waiting for the station at One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street to be cleared. Donaldson did not see this stalled train on account of the fog and ran into it, but the impact was slight.
John Sclarsky, a carpenter, sat in one of the cross seats, and the slight shock sent him forward, his forehead striking the arm of the seat in front and inflicting a slight scalp wound. He got out of the car, climbed down on the structure, and walked to the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street platform. An ambulance from the Manhattan Hospital was summoned, and Sclarsky's wound was dressed. |
| New York City |
10.12.1897 |
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Three men were seriously injured and many other persons badly shaken up in a rear-end collision of two elevated railroad trains at the One Hundred and Second Street station of the Second Avenue road. The injured are Timothy Sullivan, a passenger, of 302 East One Hundred and Second Street; William H. Masterson, fireman of the rear train, 335 East Sixty-ninth Street, and Joseph O'Brien, a passenger, of 447 East One Hundred and Sixteenth Street.
It was shortly before 7 o'clock in the morning, while the fog was so dense that it was impossible to distinguish an object a few feet away, that a train filled with passengers pulled up at the One Hundred and Second Street Station. Immediately behind it was another train, carrying a large crowd, in charge of Engineer William L. Dunn. So thick was the mist between the two trains that neither the passengers on the rear car of the forward train, not the engineer and fireman of the rear train could see how close they were together until within three feet of each other. Masterson, the fireman, than realized that a collision was inevitable, and jumped from his cab, sustaining several severe scalp wounds.
Engineer Dunn immediately reversed his lever, but it was too late, and barely a second later his engine crashed into the rear car of the forward train, telescoping it fully five feet. The rear platform was smashed and the wood and iron work crushed into bits. Instantly a panic ensued. |
| Greenville (Pennsylvania) |
25.12.1897 |
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James and Samuel Lyttle were killed on the Erie railroad today, near Atlantic. The brothers were struck by a passenger train while driving to a relative's house to spend Xmas. |
| Apollo (USA) |
1898 |
Apollo Iron and Steel Company |
Die Gesellschaft erwirbt 500 acres Grundstück jenseits des Flusses unterhalb von Apollo und baut ein neues Werk und eine neue Stadt unter dem Namen Vandergrift, benannt nach dem größten Anteilsinhaber der "Apollo Iron & Steel Company". Der Name wird in "Vandergrift Steel Sheet & Tin Plate Company" geändert. |
| Auburn (N.Y.) |
1898 |
A. W. Stephens & Son |
Die Firma zieht endgültig von Auburn nach Marinette um |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Aufstellung einer Endlos-Masselgießmaschine |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Vorwalzwerk wird umgebaut (bleibt ein 40"-Walzwerk) |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die Gießerei Nr. 2 beginnt die Herstellung von Eisenwalzen. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1898 |
Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company |
Auftrag zum Bau von 500 Selbstentladewagen für die "Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway". Obwohl diese Wagen Bodenklappen für die Selbstentladung haben, sind sie für die Verwendung von Wagen-Stirnkippernzur direkten Vor-Kopf-Entladung in kohlegefeuerte Schiffe vorgesehen. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1898 |
Schöllkopf, Jakob Friedrich |
J. F. Schöllkopf stiftet für seine Heimatstadt die Schöllkopf-Kapelle beim Friedhof. |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1898 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Wegen des Bedarfs an Schmiedestücken für Lokomotiven wird ein Schmiedewerk erstellt. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1898 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 16.000sten Lokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1898 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Verwendung der ersten gegossenen Lokomotivrahmen. Sie werden erstmals für die "Consolidation"-Lokomotiven für die "Atchison, Topeka und Santa Fe Railway Company" gebaut |
| Erie (Pa.) |
1898 |
Nagle Engine and Boiler Works |
Bisher wurden 12.000 Dampfmaschinen und 15.000 Dampfkessel (zumeist für die Verwendung auf Ölfeldern) gebaut |
| Freeport (New York) |
1898 |
Milburn Pumping Station |
Durch die Eingemeindung von Brooklyn zu New York wird der Stadteil vom Croton Aqueduct-Wassersystem versorgt, und die Bedeutung sinkt. |
| Hoboken (N.J.) |
1898 |
W. D. Forbes & Company |
W. D. Forbes wird Mitglied der "Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers" |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1898 |
M. T. Connolly Contracting Company |
Bildung der "M. T. Connolly Contracting Company" |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1898 |
Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company |
Bezug einer neuen Fabrik (drei dreistöckige Gebäude) in der Erie and Eleventh Streets |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1898 |
Woodhouse & Co. |
Eintragung unter der Firma "Woodhouse & Co." |
| Kittanning (Penns.) |
1898 |
The Daugherty Typewriter Company |
Nach Ausscheiden von Daugherty: Umfirmierung in "Pittsburg Typeweriter Co." |
| Lockport (New York) |
Ende 1890er |
Holly Manufacturing Co. |
Das Unternehmen weitet sich nach Buffalo NY an der High Street aus |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1898 |
Kingsbridge Power Station |
Baubeginn. Das Werk ersetzt ein älteres Kraftwerk an der Kingsbridge Road an der selben Stelle, das nie in Betieb ging, da die Eisenbahn nicht gebaut wurde. Das neue Werk muß auf feinem Sand mit 15.000 Eichenpfählen (Länge: 40 ft. = 12,20 m, Abstand 28 in. = 0,71 m) mit einer 8 ft. (2,44 m) dicken Bodenplatte gegründet werden. |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1898 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 62 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1898 |
De Dion, Bouton & Cie. |
William Kissam Vanderbilt (II) kauft ein De Dion-Bouton-Motordreirad. - Auch künftig kauft er schnelle Automobile, und er fährt oft mit hoher Geschwindigkeit durch Long Island |
| New York City |
1898 |
Kingsbridge Power Station |
Baubeginn. Das Werk ersetzt ein älteres Kraftwerk an der Kingsbridge Road an der selben Stelle, das nie in Betieb ging, da die Eisenbahn nicht gebaut wurde. Das neue Werk muß auf feinem Sand mit 15.000 Eichenpfählen (Länge: 40 ft. = 12,20 m, Abstand 28 in. = 0,71 m) mit einer 8 ft. (2,44 m) dicken Bodenplatte gegründet werden. |
| New York City |
1898 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 62 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1898 |
Milburn Pumping Station |
Durch die Eingemeindung von Brooklyn zu New York wird der Stadteil vom Croton Aqueduct-Wassersystem versorgt, und die Bedeutung sinkt. |
| New York City |
1898 |
Nabisco Company |
William Moore and Adolphus Green vereinigen sich und bilden die "National Biscuit Company". Adolphus Green wird der Präsident der Gesellschaft. |
| New York City |
1898 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Verlegung der Schreibmaschinenfabrikation von New York nach Bayonne, N.J. |
| New York City |
1898 |
Vanderbilt, William Kissam |
William Kissam Vanderbilt (II) kauft ein De Dion-Bouton-Motordreirad. - Auch künftig kauft er schnelle Automobile, und er fährt oft mit hoher Geschwindigkeit durch Long Island |
| New York City |
1898 |
Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict |
Das Remington-Modell 7 kommt auf den Markt. Neuheit: der Gorin-Tabulator |
| Painted Post (USA) |
1898 |
Weston Engine Company |
Nach dem Tod von A. Weston wird die Firma geschlossen |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1898 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 16.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1898 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Verwendung der ersten gegossenen Lokomotivrahmen. Sie werden erstmals für die "Consolidation"-Lokomotiven für die "Atchison, Topeka und Santa Fe Railway Company" gebaut |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1898 |
Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Passenger Railroad Co. Power House |
Verpachtung an die "Philadelphia Electric Company" |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Brashear, John Alfred |
Brashear wird Direktor des "Allegheny Observatory" in Pittsburgh. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Umbau des Blockwalzwerks. Es bleibt ein 40-inch-Werk |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Pumpstation der "Chaleroi Water Company" |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau von Kohleförderanlagen für die "Crescent Steel Co.", Pittsburgh |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau von Werkstatt und Verwaltung für die "Epping-Carpenter Co." in Lawrenceville |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Aufstellung einer Endlos-Masselgießmaschine |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Vorwalzwerk wird umgebaut (bleibt ein 40"-Walzwerk) |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die Gießerei Nr. 2 beginnt die Herstellung von Eisenwalzen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Pittsburg Writing Machine Company |
Nach Ausscheiden von Daugherty: Umfirmierung aus "Daugherty Typewriter Co., Kittanning" |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1898 |
Westinghouse Machine Company |
Die erste Westinghouse-Parsons-Turbine kann auf den Markt gebracht werden |
| Poughkeepsie (USA) |
1898 |
Hudson River State Hospital |
Fertigstellung der Anlage |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1898 |
Mutschler, Robertson & Co. |
Umfirmierung in "Ray Camera Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1898 |
Ray Camera Co. |
Umfirmierung aus "Mutschler, Robertson & Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1898 |
Ray Camera Co. |
Umzug in ein neues Gebäude |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
Febr. 1898 |
Brunswick Laundry |
Gründung durch den 18jährigen Henry Siemenski und seinen 20jährigen Bruder William Siemenski |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
09.03.1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "B" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung - den ersten weltweit. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
09.03.1898 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "B" erhält einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung, der erste in der Welt |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
09.03.1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "B" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung - den ersten weltweit. |
| New York City |
04.04.1898 |
Worthen, William Ezra |
W. E. Worthen wird Ehrenmitglied der "American Society of Civil Engineers" |
| Albany (N.Y.) |
28.05.1898 |
---- |
Two electric cars while running in opposite directions at a rate of 40 miles an hour ran into each other Sunday afternoon near Albany. Five persons were almost instantly killed and over 40 were seriously injured. The point where the cars met on the single track was at a sharp curve, and so fast were both running and so sudden was the collision that the motormen never had time to put on the brakes before south bound car No. 22 had gone almost clean through north bound car No. 19, with human flesh for a buffer, and hung on the edge of a high bluff with its load of shrieking maimed humanity. One motorman was pinioned up against the smashed from of the south bound car, with both legs severed and killed instantly, while the other lived but a few minutes. |
| New York City |
01.06.1898 |
Emery, Charles Edward |
Tod von Charles Edward Emery in seinem Haus in Brooklyn an einem Leiden, das er sich einige Jahre vorher zugezogen hatte |
| Alexandria Bay (USA) |
22.06.1898 |
---- |
Gesunken in Alexandria Bay, N.Y. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
07.07.1898 |
---- |
Information was received to-night [09.07.1898] that the young man who was killed on July 7 at the Fifteenth-street crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Philadelphia, was CHRISTIAN PAGEL, of No. 479 Springfield avenue, this city. A few weeks ago he went to a recruiting station here and offered his services in the army. After a physical examination he was rejected.
He was greatly disappointed and ran away from home with the purpose, it is believed, of trying to pass a a recruit elsewhere. The news of his death has thrown his two sisters into a state of nervous collapse.
The young man to whom reference is made in the above dispatch is probably the one who was killed a the Forty-ninth street crossing on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad on the evening of July 7. A pay envelope of a Newark firm found in the dead man's pocket was sent on by Coroner Ashbridge for purposes of identification. The body is still at the Morgue. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
08.07.1898 |
---- |
Falling asleep on an end seat of an open trolley car, Paul G. Reilly, 45 years old, of 2110 South Fifteenth street, yesterday afternoon fell off at Front street and Montgomery avenue, and now lies at St. Mary's Hospital, with his scalp almost torn from his head, his skull crushed and shoulders badly bruised. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
08.07.1898 |
---- |
Five year old Maggie Wetzel, of 2031 Abigall street, had both of her feet badly crushed yesterday morning by being run over by a wagon at Abigail and Amber streets. She was taken to the Episcopal Hospital. James Thompson, of 2100 East York street, driver of the wagon, was arrested and held in bail for a further hearing. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
08.07.1898 |
---- |
William W. Matthews, aged 18 [oder 19] years of 1121 East Fourteenth street, Wilmington, was run down and fatally injured by a train yesterday morning on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad at Fiftieth street. He was about to board the train for home when he met with the accident. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
12.07.1898 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Der Standort für ein neues Reservoir neben dem alten Reservoir im Norden wird gewählt. Dieser neue Behälter hat eine dreieckige Form mit einer Kapazität von 85.000.000 Gallonen. - Dieser Plan wird nicht realisiert. Stattdessen wird ein paar Jahre später, ein 73.000.000-Gallonen-Absetzbecken in Verbindung mit der neuen Filteranlage Belmont auf der Ostseite der Belmont Avenue an der City Line Avenue gebaut. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
12.07.1898 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Genehmigung eines Auftrags für einen zusätzlichen Wasserbehälter, eine Pumpmaschine, ein Maschinen- und Kesselhaus und Kessel durch eine Anleihe von $500.000, einschließlich der Hauptleitung zur Versorgung der Stadtteile westlich des Schuylkill Rivers. |
| Leesport (USA) |
16.07.1898 |
---- |
Lloyd Allen, aged 3 years, was on a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Leesport when a train came along. The boy was struck and thrown off the bridge into the Schuylkill Canal. The fall was thirty feet. He would have drowned in five feet of water but for the timely rescue by some men. Beyond a few bruises the child was not hurt. |
| Duquesne (Pittsburgh) |
01.08.1898 |
Carnegie Steel Co., Duquesne Works |
Der Konkursverwalter der "Duquesne Tube Works Company" verkauft deren Grundstück an Carnegie, der dort ein Walzwerk für Handelseisen errichtet. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.08.1898 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Der Konkursverwalter der "Duquesne Tube Works Company" verkauft deren Grundstück an Carnegie, der dort ein Walzwerk für Handelseisen errichtet. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.08.1898 |
Carnegie Steel Co., Duquesne Works |
Der Konkursverwalter der "Duquesne Tube Works Company" verkauft deren Grundstück an Carnegie, der dort ein Walzwerk für Handelseisen errichtet. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.08.1898 |
Duquesne Tube Works Company |
Konkursverwalter Ohl verkauft das Grundstück an die "Carnegie Steel Company" und das Inventar an die "National Tube Company" und andere. |
| Ingells Crossing (USA) |
01.09.1898 |
---- |
Train No. 5 on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroard[sic], known as the "Chicago Limited." was wrecked at Ingell's Crossing, four miles south of this village, at 5 o'clock this morning. The wreck was doubtless due to the dastardly work of tramps, who threw open the switch at which the train was wrecked as well as two switches to the north of the wreck.
It was an hour and a quarter late and running nearly sixty miles an hour when it struck the switch and was thrown over to the side track. The rapid speed made it impossible to make a sharp turn, and the train left the track when it struck the safety rail. The engine was thrown twenty feet and blown to pieces. The tender was inverted. The trucks of the baggage car were torn off and the head coach telescoped the baggage car. A vestibule chair car and the sleeper Farragut were derailed. Neither was badly damaged.
Engineer Dowd and Fireman Hall both jumped and were found under the wreckage of the tender by passengers from the sleeper. Both were alive at the time, but Dowd died in a few minutes and Hall succumbed to his injuries at 8 o'clock. The body of Brakeman Osborne was torn in two. |
| Camden (N.J.) |
03. oder 23.10.1898 |
River Iron Works, John H. Dialogue & Son |
Tod von J. H. Dialogue sen. |
| Kaighn's Point (Camden) |
03. oder 23.10.1898 |
River Iron Works, John H. Dialogue & Son |
Tod von J. H. Dialogue sen. |
| Oswego (N.Y.) |
ca. 29.10.1898 |
Tonkin Boiler and Engine Works Co. |
Brand in der Fabrik. Ein Wächter kommt ums Leben. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
Nov. 1898 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der "Nassau Electric Railroad" (Pächter der "Atlantic Avenue Railroad", "Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad", "Coney Island and Gravesend Railway" und der "South Brooklyn Railway") |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
Nov. 1898 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Übernahme der "Nassau Electric Railroad" (Pächter der "Atlantic Avenue Railroad", "Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad", "Coney Island and Gravesend Railway" und der "South Brooklyn Railway") |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
04.12.1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "I" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
04.12.1898 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "I" erhält als zweiter einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
04.12.1898 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "I" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
16.12.1898 |
Wootten, John E. |
Tod von J. E. Wootten vmtl. in Reading. Er wird auf dem Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading begraben |
| New York City |
Ende 1898 |
General Electric Company |
Die "Richland Mazda Lamp Works" sind der größte Arbeitgeber von Shelby |
| Erie (Pa.) |
27.12.1898 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| Painted Post (USA) |
28.12.1898 |
Rand Drill Co. |
Die Meldung von der Erwerbung der "Weston Engine Co." durch die "Rand Drill Co." erscheint. - Die neue Industrie stellt mit 125 Beschäftigten in einer Fabrik mit 3.375 Quadratfuß Kompressoren her. Der erste (für die Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska) wird am 24.11.1899 geliefert. |
| Painted Post (USA) |
28.12.1898 |
Weston Engine Company |
Die Meldung von der Erwerbung durch die "Rand Drill Co." erscheint. |
| Albany (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company |
Die "Osgood Dredge Company" in Albany, New York, geht ein. Das Unternehmen war von William Carmichael, dem Neffen von William Otis (Erfinder des Dampfbaggers) gegründet worden. - Um 1910 gehen Maschinen und Rechte auf die "Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company" über, die 1912 auch den Namen "Osgood" übernimmt. |
| Albany (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Osgood Dredge Company |
Das Unternehmen geht ein. - Es war von William Carmichael, dem Neffen von William Otis (Erfinder des Dampfbaggers) gegründet worden. - Um 1910 gehen Maschinen und Rechte auf die "Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company" über, die 1912 auch den Namen "Osgood" übernimmt. |
| Aldene (USA) |
1899 |
Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. |
Gründung der "Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America" ("American Marconi") mit Werk in Aldene (New Jersey) |
| Arlington (N.J.) |
1899 |
Standard Railroad Signal Co. |
Umzug der "Standard Railroad Signal Co." von Arlington nach Troy |
| Berwick (Penn.) |
1899 |
Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Co. |
Zusammenschluß mit zwölf weiteren Unternehmen der Waggonindustrie zu "American Car and Foundry Co." |
| Bethlehem (Penns) |
1899 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Umwandlung in "Bethlehem Steel Company" |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die "Keystone Bridge Company" errichtet ein Konverterhaus für vier 15-Tonnen-Konverter mit 165 x 78,5 Fuß Größe. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Vergrößerung der Gießerei Nr. 1 |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1899 |
Henry R. Worthington Hydraulic Pump Works |
Zusammenschluß von "Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co." mit "Henry R. Worthington" |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company |
Zusammenschluß mit zwölf weiteren Unternehmen der Waggonindustrie zu "American Car and Foundry Co." |
| Camden (N.J.) |
1899 |
New York Shipbuilding Co. |
Gründung durch Henry G. Morse unter der Firma "New York Ship" mit der finanziellen Unterstützung von Andrew Mellon und Henry Frick. - Morse baute 25 Jahre eiserne Brücken und und Tunnels für verschiedene Gesellschaften undwar zwei Jahre Präsident der Werft "Harlan & Hollingsworth" in Wilmington. Ursprünglich sollte die Werft n Staten Island errichtet werden, jedoch Morse entschiedet sich für einen Platz in Camden, NJ, der bessere Land- und Schienenverbindungen und den Zugang zu einer großen Zahl erfahrener Werftarbeiter bietet. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 17.000sten Lokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Große Zunahme im Auslandsgeschäft von Baldwin, besonders mit England und Frankreich. Es werden Kaufabschlüsse über 30 Lokomotiven mit der "Midland Railway", 20 für die "Great Northern Railway" und 20 für die "Great Central Railway". 10 Loks gehen an die französische Staatsbahn und weitere 10 an die "Bone Guelma Railway" in der französischen Kolonie Algerien. |
| Grove City (USA) |
1899 |
Bessemer Gas Engine Company |
Gründung |
| Harrisburg (Penns.) |
1899 |
Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Co. |
William T. Hildrup, ein Mann mit anscheinend grenzenlosem Optimismus, erreicht es, mit seinen Partnern David E. Tracy und J. Hervey Patton genug Geld zusammenzubringen, mit das, was von der Waggonfabrik und der Gießerei übrig blieb, neu als "Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company" zu gründen. Die Herstellung von Eisenbahnwagen wird aufgegeben; die neue Firma konzentriert sich auf Metallfabrikation und ist recht erfolgreich. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1899 |
Burt & Mitchell Company |
Gründung (Eintragung) |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1899 |
George Stratford Oakum Company |
Tod von Robert J. Stratford. Sein Nachfolger wird Herbert Ridley Stratford, der zu dieser Zeit sein Examen an der Lehigh University abgelegt hatte. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1899 |
Magnus Metal Company |
Gründung unter Übernahme der "Brady Metal Company", deren Größe verdoppelt wird. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
um 1899 |
Mead Johnson & Company |
Gründung in einem dreistöckigen Gebäude in der 81 Steuben Street |
| Lockport (New York) |
1899 |
Holly Manufacturing Co. |
Die Gesellschaft wird Teil von Worthington |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1899 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 44 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| Milton (Pennsylvania) |
1899 |
Murray, Dougal & Co., Milton Car Works |
Zusammenschluß mit zwölf weiteren Unternehmen der Waggonindustrie zu "American Car and Foundry Co." |
| New Arlington (New Jersey) |
1899 |
John Schuyler |
Das Eigentum an der Grube wird durch die Familie McKenzie aus Rutherford erworben. |
| New Jersey |
1899 |
American Car and Foundry Co. |
Bildung durch Zusammenschluß von 13 Unternehmen der Waggonindustrie in Buffalo (N.Y., 2x), Huntington (W.V.), Berwick (Penn), Detroit (Mich.), Minerva (Oh.), St. Louis (Missouri), Milton (Pa.), Jeffersonville (Ind.), St. Charles (Missouri), Terre Haute (Ind.), Depew (N.Y.) und Chicago (Ill.) |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1899 |
Henry R. Worthington Hydraulic Pump Works |
Zusammenschluß von "Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co." mit "Henry R. Worthington" |
| New York City |
1899 |
74th Street Power Plant |
Beginn der Erbauarbeiten |
| New York City |
1899 |
American Typewriter Co. |
Experimentelle Fertigung der "American"-Schreibmaschine |
| New York City |
1899 |
Coolidge, William |
William Coolidge promoviert mit "summa cum laude" an der Universität Leipzig. Vorher studierte er am Massachusetts Insitute of Technology Elektrotechnik. |
| New York City |
1899 |
International Steam Pump Company |
C. C. Worthington verkauft seine Anteile an der "Worthington Pump" an sechs seiner führenden Pumpen-Gesellschaften din den USA, die unter der Firma "International Steam pump Company" eingetragen werden. |
| New York City |
1899 |
International Steam Pump Company |
Die "International Steam Pump Co." erwirbt die "Worthington Pump Works" |
| New York City |
1899 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 44 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1899 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Die "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine No. 9 (mit breitem Wagen) kommt heraus |
| New York City |
1899 |
Vanderbilt, William Kissam |
Heirat mit Virginia Graham Fair (1875–1935), einer reichen Erbin, deren Vater James Graham Fair, der sein Glück mit dem Silberbergbau (Comstock Lode, Nevada) gemacht hatte. - Sie haben zwei Kinder, und die Eheleute leben zehn Jahre zusammen, lassen sich aber erst 1927 scheiden. |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
01.1899 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Die neue Dampfmaschine und ein Generator werden aufgestellt |
| Ogdensburg (New York) |
1899 |
Saint Lawrence State Hospital |
Bau des Letchworth Complex |
| Perth Amboy (USA) |
1899 |
Schantz & Eckert Machine Works |
Tod von Andrew Schantz. Eckert wird Alleininhaber |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 17.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Große Zunahme im Auslandsgeschäft von Baldwin, besonders mit England und Frankreich. Es werden Kaufabschlüsse über 30 Lokomotiven mit der "Midland Railway", 20 für die "Great Northern Railway" und 20 für die "Great Central Railway". 10 Loks gehen an die französische Staatsbahn und weitere 10 an die "Bone Guelma Railway" in der französischen Kolonie Algerien. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1899 |
Charles Hillman Ship & Engine Building Co. |
Die verzögerte Fertigstellung von Schiffen führt zum Bankrott. Die Fabrik wird dann von "William Cramp & Sons" übernommen |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1899/1900 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Das Gebäude von 1870 wird durch ein Pumpenhaus im viktorianischen Stil mit einem getrennten Pumpenhaus ersetzt. Es pumpt Flußwasser zum Belmont Filtration Plant an den Belmont und City Line Avenues (diese anfangs mit Langsam-Sandfiltern, seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mit Schnellfiltern). |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.01.1899 |
Sellers, George Escol |
Tod von George Escol Sellers in seinem Haus in Chattanooga (Tennessee) |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1899 |
Spreckels' Sugar Refinery |
Claus Spreckels eröffnet eine größere Rübenzuckerfabrik näher bei den Feldern; die Siedlung erhält den Namen Sperckels, Kalifornien. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1899 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Bau des Konverterhauses für vier 15-Tonnen-Konverter durch die "Keystone Bridge Company". Das Gebäude hat die Abmessungen 165 x 78 1/2 feet und ist 31 feet hoch. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1899 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Chas. E. Dinkey Mechnik-Meister im Hochofenbereich |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1899 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der "Beaver Roll Works", Beaver |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die "Keystone Bridge Company" errichtet ein Konverterhaus für vier 15-Tonnen-Konverter mit 165 x 78,5 Fuß Größe. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Vergrößerung der Gießerei Nr. 1 |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1899 |
J. H. Sternbergh, Reading Rolling Mill and Forge |
Die "American Iron & Steel Company" wird Eigentümer |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1899-1902 |
Reading Iron Company |
Das Ninth Street Walzwerk wird 1899 und 1902 umgebaut |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
1899 |
Henry R. Worthington Hydraulic Pump Works |
Zusammenschluß von "Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co." mit "Henry R. Worthington" |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Monroe Camera Co. |
Wird mit mehreren anderen Firmen verschmolzen zu "Rochester Optical and Camera Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Ray Camera Co. |
Wird Teil der neuen "Rochester Optical & Camera Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Rochester Camera & Supply Co. |
Umfirmierung in "Rochester Optical & Camera Co." (Zusammenschluß von Monroe Camera, Ray Camera, und Western Camera Mfg.) |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Rochester Optical & Camera Co. |
Umfirmierung durch Zusammenschluß von Monroe Camera, Ray Camera, und Western Camera Mfg. und der zwei Rochester-Gesellschaften |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Rochester Optical Co. |
Zusammenschluß von mehreren Firmen zu "Rochester Optical & Camera Co." |
| Sharon (Mercer, Pa.) |
1899 |
Buhl Steel Company |
Das Unternehmen geht in der "National Steel Co." auf |
| Skaneateles (USA) |
1899 |
Bowdish & Co. |
Die Fabrik brennt ab und wird nicht mehr wieder aufgebaut. |
| South Bethlehem (Bethlehem) |
1899 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Umwandlung in "Bethlehem Steel Company" |
| Troy (N.Y.) |
1899 |
Standard Railroad Signal Co. |
Umzug der "Standard Railroad Signal Co." von Arlington nach Troy |
| Plainfield (New Jersey) |
10.01.1899 |
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As far as can be ascertained, the victims of the collision Monday afternoon between a local train and an excursion train from the Pennsylvania coal regions on the Lehigh Valley railroad now number 16. Three died during the night. They were two unidentified men and a woman. One of the men is thought to be a man named JOSEPHS from Shamokin, Pa.
The railroad officers have been active since the collision in trying to fix the responsibility for it. A story was told at the wreck that a mix up in orders, happening in this wise, caused it: The third section of regular train 20, running as an excursion from Shamokin to this city, was delayed by making a change at Mauch Chunk on account of a hot journal. The train was 35 minutes late the last time it was reported before reaching Bound Brook. An early morning freight wreck at Bound Brook had blocked the whole road for a time, but wreckers succeeded in clearing the west bound track not long afterward. |
| South Plainfield (USA) |
10.01.1899 |
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As far as can be ascertained, the victims of the collision Monday afternoon between a local train and an excursion train from the Pennsylvania coal regions on the Lehigh Valley railroad now number 16. Three died during the night. They were two unidentified men and a woman. One of the men is thought to be a man named JOSEPHS from Shamokin, Pa.
The railroad officers have been active since the collision in trying to fix the responsibility for it. A story was told at the wreck that a mix up in orders, happening in this wise, caused it: The third section of regular train 20, running as an excursion from Shamokin to this city, was delayed by making a change at Mauch Chunk on account of a hot journal. The train was 35 minutes late the last time it was reported before reaching Bound Brook. An early morning freight wreck at Bound Brook had blocked the whole road for a time, but wreckers succeeded in clearing the west bound track not long afterward.
Traffic was resumed over the track, but as a precaution a general order was telegraphed to South Plainfield to hold all west bound trains at that point for special orders. Short line train 71, running from South Plainfield to Bound Brook, had been waiting at South Plainfield for 25 minutes in obedience to the general order, but since the third section of No. 20 was so late it was thought possible to send the Short line through to Bound Brook, according to the story told.
Was Running Fast.
But the third section of No. 20 was making such good time that it would have been necessary to hold it at Bound Brook for the Short line to get in, and as No. 20 was the more important train another order countermanding the first order was sent to hold the Short line, assurance having been received that the Short line had not left and that the second order would be in time. |
| Dunellen (USA) |
11.01.1899 |
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The list of deaths resulting from the head-on collision of two passenger trains on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near West Dunellen, Monday afternoon, was increased by two yesterday. J. Josephs and A. Aligier, a tailor, both of Mount Carmel, Penn., died at the Muhlenberg Hospital, at Plainfield, N. J. It was given as the opinion of the physicians at the hospital where the more seriously injured were taken that the list is likely to grow. Of the seventeen dead only two remain wholly unidentified, a man and a woman, lying at an undertaking establishment at Bound Brook.
Who was to blame for the accident has not yet been settled, or if it is known to the railroad officials it has not been made public. All that is acknowledged by officials of the road is that somebody blundered in allowing two trains to get on the single track going in opposite directions at practically the same moment. No investigation is being made, they say, and none will be made until the dead and wounded are cared for. The lips of the engineers of the wrecked trains, the telegraph operators, and switchmen who might be expected to explain the cause of the catastrophe were practically sealed yesterday. The information they gave out amounted to nothing, and they directed their questioners to officials of the company higher in authority. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
20.01.1899 |
Theodore Smith & Sons Co. |
Eintragung mit einem Kapital von $100.000 |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
März 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Erwerbung der "Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad" (Brighton Beach Line) |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
März 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Erwerbung der "Brooklyn Elevated Railroad" |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
März 1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Für die "Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad" werden für den schnellen Postverkehr westlich von Chicago zwei "Atlantic"-Lokomotiven mit Vauclain-Verbundtriebwerk gebaut. Daten: d= 13,5" + 23", h= 26", D= 84,25" = 2140 mm |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
März 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Erwerbung der "Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad" (Brighton Beach Line) |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
März 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Erwerbung der "Brooklyn Elevated Railroad" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
März 1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Für die "Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad" werden für den schnellen Postverkehr westlich von Chicago zwei "Atlantic"-Lokomotiven mit Vauclain-Verbundtriebwerk gebaut. Daten: d= 13,5" + 23", h= 26", D= 84,25" = 2140 mm |
| Lockport (New York) |
07.03.1899 |
Holly Manufacturing Co. |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 649.686 an D. A. Decrow auf eine senkrechte Pumpmaschine mit oben liegenden Dampfzylindern, insbesondere in Hinblick auf die Anordnung der Ventile. |
| New York City |
07.03.1899 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Patent-Ausgabe für ie "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
28.03.1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "A" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
28.03.1899 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "A" erhält als dritter einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
28.03.1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "A" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
April 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verpachtung der "Brooklyn Elevated Railroad" an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
April 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verpachtung der "Nassau Electric Railroad" an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
April 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verpachtung der "Brooklyn Elevated Railroad" an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
April 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verpachtung der "Nassau Electric Railroad" an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
04.04.1899 |
The Snow Steam Pump Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfpumpe) |
| Manhattan (New York) |
07.04.1899 |
New York Steam Company |
Wallace C. Andrews kommt bei einem Hausbrand ums Leben. Sein Nachfolger als Präsdient wird G. C. St. John |
| New York City |
07.04.1899 |
New York Steam Company |
Wallace C. Andrews kommt bei einem Hausbrand ums Leben. Sein Nachfolger als Präsdient wird G. C. St. John |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
30.04.1899 |
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Two persons were killed and over fifty, of whom a number are likely to die, were injured in a railroad wreck at Rosenbaur's Corners this afternoon. An excursion train, crowded with passengers, on the Rochester and Lake Ontario Railroad, better known as the Bay Railroad, left the track as it was going round a curve at full speed, and two cars were completely wrecked.
The train, which was crowded with excursionists bound for different points along the shores of Lake Ontario in the Irondoquoit Bay District, left the Bay Station in this city at 2:41 o'clock, about fifteen minutes late. Every seat in the coaches was filled and a large number of people were standing on the platforms. The train was made up of an engine, one closed coach , and two open coaches. There is a grade about 100 yards from the corner of North Avenue and Ridge Road, and when this was reached the speed of the train increased perceptibly. Those standing on the platforms clutched the railing and standards, and the passengers in the open cars clung to their hats and caps. |
| Tamaqua (USA) |
16.05.1899 |
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One man was killed, another, it is believed, was fatally and several others were seriously injured by a passenger engine on the Little Schuylkill branch of the Philadelphia and Reading railway jumping the track and colliding with a coal train.
The dead man is SAMUEL GRIER of Newberry, engineer of the passenger train. LOT KERSHUER, his fireman, was so badly hurt that there is small hope for his recovery. The fireman of the coal train and several passengers received severe injuries.
The accident occurred at Longacre's curve, about three miles below Tamaqua. The passenger train was running between Shamokin and Philadelphia. While rounding a sharp curve the passenger engine left the track and ran into the engine of the coal train, going in an opposite direction on the next track. Both engines were badly shattered, and traffic was delayed for several hours. The dead and injured were taken to Tamaqua in a special train. An investigation as to the cause of the accident disclosed the fact that a spike was on the passenger train, but whether it came there by accident or design is not known. |
| Exeter (Pennsylvania) |
19.05.1899 |
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The express train from Williamsport, known as the "Cannon Ball", left this city at 8:45 p.m. Exeter is only a flag station, where the express does not stop, but WINDERMUTH, the engine driver, observed a signal and he stopped the train. Then he was ordered back to the station to await orders. A moment later, as he was backing his train, it was crushed into from the rear by a special train crowded with excursionists from Harrisburg, where they had attended the unveiling of the Hartranft statue. The crash of the two trains was an awful one. The engine of the second ploughed through one day car and half way through a Pullman sleeper on the forward train, and the concussion was so great that the two first cars of the second section were ground into matchwood. Fully twenty-nine persons were killed and at least fifty were more or less seriously hurt. |
| Singac (USA) |
29.05.1899 |
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One woman was killed outright, another fatally injured and a baby so badly hurt that its chances of life are small in a grad crossing accident at Singac, about eight miles from this city, last night. The dead woman is Miss Juliette Rafferty, 30 years of age, of Paterson, and the injured Mrs. Moses Fitzgerald and her infant. They were out driving with Moses Fitzgerald, husband of the injured woman, and William Rafferty, brother of the dead woman. There was a sharp bend in the road just at the crossing, and the people in the carriage did not notice the approaching train until too late. The carriage was ground into kindling wood. The men escaped with slight injuries. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
06.1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Bau einer 24"-Dampfleitung zwischen Walzwerk und Hochofenbetrieb. Die meisten kohlegefeuerten Kessel werden durch solche mit Gasfeuerung ersetzt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
Juni 1899 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Walz- und Hochofenwerk werden durch eine 24-inch-Dampfleitung miteinander verbunden. Die meisten kohlegefeuerten Kessel werden entfernt und Gasgefeuerte in Betrieb genommen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
06.1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Bau einer 24"-Dampfleitung zwischen Walzwerk und Hochofenbetrieb. Die meisten kohlegefeuerten Kessel werden durch solche mit Gasfeuerung ersetzt. |
| Stewartsville (N.J.) |
07.06.1899 |
Edison Portland Cement Company |
Eintragung der Gesellschaft in New Jersey |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
18.06.1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verpachtung der "Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad" (Culver Line) an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
18.06.1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verpachtung der "Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad" (Culver Line) an die "Brooklyn Heights Railroad" |
| Erie (Pa.) |
11.07.1899 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Grafton Greenough wird in die Betriebsabteilung als Assistent des Betriebsleiters versetzt |
| Manhattan (New York) |
08.1899 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Die erste Maschine im Kraftwerk in der 96th Street geht in Betrieb |
| Manhattan (New York) |
Aug. 1899 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Die Linie in den 28th and 20th Streets wird für einen Versuch mit Druckluftbetrieb ausgewählt. Hierzu wird eine Kompressorenstation mit einem vierstufigen, direkt getriebenen Kompressor (1000 PS, p= 2.400 psi = 168 at) gebaut. |
| Manhattan (New York) |
08.1899 |
Ninety-Sixth Street Station |
Die erste Maschine geht in Betrieb |
| New York City |
08.1899 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Die erste Maschine im Kraftwerk in der 96th Street geht in Betrieb |
| New York City |
Aug. 1899 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Die Linie in den 28th and 20th Streets wird für einen Versuch mit Druckluftbetrieb ausgewählt. Hierzu wird eine Kompressorenstation mit einem vierstufigen, direkt getriebenen Kompressor (1000 PS, p= 2.400 psi = 168 at) gebaut. |
| New York City |
08.1899 |
Ninety-Sixth Street Station |
Die erste Maschine geht in Betrieb |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Grafton Greenough wird in die Betriebsabteilung als Assistent des Betriebsleiters versetzt |
| Angelica (N.Y.) |
02.08.1899 |
Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad |
Gründung durch Zusammenschluß von fünf kleinen Bahngesellschaften in New York und Pensylvania |
| New York City |
15.08.1899 |
Whyte, Frederick Methvan |
Beginn der Tätigkeit bei der New York Central and Hudson River Railroad als Maschineningenieur (bis 1. November 1904) |
| New York City |
22.08.1899 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Patent-Ausgabe für ie "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine |
| Gloucester (N.J.) |
08.09.1899 |
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A bad grade crossing accident at Gloucester City this evening resulted in one death, the severe injury of fifteen persons, and the slight injury of fifteen others, all trolley passengers.
The accident occurred at the Essex and Salem Streets Gloucester City. The trolley car was loaded with passengers at the time. It was bound from Washington Park at Gloucester.
The persons on board had been spending the day at the park, and started to return to their homes in Philadelphia and other points in Pennsylvania and this State by way of the Camden, Gloucester and Woodbury Road.
At the point where the accident occurred the trolley road's tracks cross those of the Reading Railroad at grade. The loaded trolley car ran upon the rails of the steam road directly in front of an engine which was rapidly leaving the station, which is nearly a square away.
Those on the car saw their peril before the engine was on top of the car, and many jumped and escaped, or at worst received only slight injuries.
Before all could leave the imperiled car the engine was upon it. The trolley car was wrecked and overturned. Those who, owing to the crowded condition of the car, could not leave it at the first hint of peril suffered the most.
The car was hit almost in the middle and demolished. The slightly injured were mostly those who jumped before the car was hit by the engine. They were quickly cared for, and some were brought to this city and more taken through direct to their homes in Philadelphia.
It is not known how the accident occurred. The crossing is suppodsed to be carefully guarded, but the car was allowed to go on the tracks directly in front of the engine. The signal to go ahead was given to the motorman, he claims.
When this signal was given, if it was, the engine must have been in full view from the crossing.
The wreck caused great excitement here and at Gloucester. |
| Erie (Pa.) |
12.09.1899 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| New York City |
12.09.1899 |
Vanderbilt, Cornelius |
Tod von Cornelius Vanderbilt in New York infolge einer erneuten Gehirnblutung in seinem Haus in Manhattan |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
15.09.1899 |
Schöllkopf, Jakob Friedrich |
J. F. Schöllkopf stirbt in Buffalo |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
19.09.1899 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Auftrag für eine 5-Millionen-Gallonen-Pumpmaschine für die high service pumping station. - Sie geht 1900 in Betrieb. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Herbst 1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Lieferung von zwei "Consolidation"-Güterzuglokomotiven mit Vauclain-Triebwerk als Muster an die Bayerische Staatsbahn |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Herbst 1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Lieferung von zwei "Consolidation"-Güterzuglokomotiven mit Vauclain-Triebwerk als Muster an die Bayerische Staatsbahn |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
26.09.1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "G" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
26.09.1899 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "G" erhält als vierter einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
26.09.1899 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "G" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
Nov. 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Erwerbung der "Kings County Elevated Railroad" (Fulton Street Line) |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
Nov. 1899 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Erwerbung der "Kings County Elevated Railroad" (Fulton Street Line) |
| New York City |
Nov. 1899 |
Reichel, Walter Emil Berthold |
Walter Reichel wird mit seinem Kollegen Emmerich Frischmuth nach New York geschickt wird, um dort das elektrische Eisenbahnwesen zu studieren |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
21.12.1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Tod des Teilhabers der Baldwin-Lokomotivwerke, Edward H. Williams, in Santa Barbara |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
21.12.1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Tod des Teilhabers der Baldwin-Lokomotivwerke, Edward H. Williams, in Santa Barbara |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
21.12.1899 |
Williams, Edward H. |
Tod des Teilhabers der Baldwin-Lokomotivwerke, Edward H. Williams, in Santa Barbara |
| Treichlers (USA) |
21.12.1899 |
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Passenger train No. 18 on the Jersey Central railroad, east-bound, ran into the rear end of extra coal train No. 426, opposite Laurys, between Siegfried and Treichlers. Engineer FRED F. YEOMANS, Fireman WILLIAM H. SMITH and Baggage Master THOMAS HERTH of the passenger train and Flagman GEORGE HAHN of the coal train were buried under the wreck and killed. The bodies have not yet been recovered. The wreck caught fire, and engine No. 574, smoker and baggage car of the passenger train were burned. The day coach escaped the flames. |
| Apollo (USA) |
1900 |
Apollo Iron and Steel Company |
Übernahme durch die "United States Steel Corporation" |
| Bethlehem (Penns) |
1900 |
The Lehigh Zinc Co. |
Die Dampfpumpmaschine "President" wird als Schrott nach Philadelphia für $10.000 verkauft |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1900 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Abschluß der Umstellung auf elektrischen Betrieb |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1900 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Beteiligung an der Weltausstellung in Paris |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Crosby Co. |
William H. Crosby gründet sein eigenes Unternehmen |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Pierce-Arrow |
George N. Pierce stellt nach einem Entwurf von Overman ein wenig erfolgreiches dampfgetriebenes Automobil her. |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1900 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Plan für die systematische Vergrößerung jeder Betriebsabteilung. Das Bett des Kishacoquillas Creek wird verändert, um einen nicht unterbrochenen Platz für weitere Gebäude zu schaffen |
| Camden (N.J.) |
1900 |
New York Shipbuilding Co. |
Eröffnung der Werft gemäß den fünf Prinzipien von Morse, die sie zu der modernsten und effizientesten Werft im Lande machen: 1. New York Ship benutzt das "template system", wobei Fabrikation und Montage separat betrieben werden. 2. Alle Teile werden vorfabriziert. 3. Überflur-Krane verbinden alle Teile der Werft. 4. Die Hellinge sind überdacht, um Verzögerungen durch schlechtes Wetter zu vermeiden. 5. Viele Arbeiten, die normalerweise während der Ausrüstung durchgeführt werden, werden vor dem Stapellauf vollendet. |
| Camden (N.J.) |
1900 |
River Iron Works, John H. Dialogue & Son |
Bau des Kanonenboots "Princeton" |
| Christiana (Penn.) |
1900-1915 |
Christiana Machine Company |
Das Unternehmen beginnt mit der Herstellung von Transmissionen für Fabriken in Philadelphia und New York |
| Danville (Pennsylvania) |
1900 |
State Hospital for Insane |
Bau eines Schwesternheims |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1900 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Eröffnung der "Westinghouse Technical Night School" |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1900 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Westinghouse baut das erste Dampfturbinen-Aggregat für die öffentliche Versorgung in den USA, für die "Hartford Electric Light Company" in Hartford (Connecticut) |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1900 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin stellt auf der Pariser Weltausstellung eine Güterzuglokomotive ("Mogul") für die Great Northern Railway in Engalnd aus, ferner eine "Atlantic"-Maschine für die Französische Staatsbahn. - Nach der Ausstellung gehen die Loks sofort bei den Bahngesellschaften in Betrieb. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1900 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 18.000sten Lokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Herbst 1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Aufgrund der guten Erfahrungen mit den "Consolidation"-Güterzuglokomotiven mit Vauclain-Triebwerk bestellt die Bayerische Staatsbahn zusätzlich zwei "Atlantic"-Schnellzuglokomotiven der selben Bauart |
| Elmira (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Elmira Bridge Company |
Übernahme durch die "American Bridge Company" |
| Elmira (N.Y.) |
1900 |
LaFrance Fire Engine Company |
Dieselben Finanzleute, denen die "American Fire Engine Company" gehört, bilden ein zweites Konglomerat von Feuerwehrgeräteherstellern (einschießlich "LaFrance Fire Engine Company" in Elmira, NY), und nenne diese neue Firma "International Fire Engine Company". |
| Hudson City (Jersey City) |
1900 |
John Mehl & Company |
Vergrößerung der Fabrik |
| im Staat New York |
1900 |
---- |
In New York sind 1900 677.219 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1900 |
Dairymen's Manufacturing Company |
Beginn in zwei kleinen, gemieteten Gebäuden Ecke Warren und Bay Streets |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1900 |
Eureka Fire Hose Co. |
Eingetragen unter den Gesetzen von New Jersey |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1900 |
John Mehl & Company |
Vergrößerung der Fabrik |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1900 |
Riegel Sack Company |
Gründung |
| Kaighn's Point (Camden) |
1900 |
River Iron Works, John H. Dialogue & Son |
Bau des Kanonenboots "Princeton" |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1900 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 4 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1900 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Letzter Schritt bei der Zusammenlegung ist es, den letzten verbleibenden Konkurrenten, die "Third Avenue Railroad Company" mit 71 Meilen Streckenkilometern in der Gemeinde Manhattan und 135 Meilen nördlich des Harlem River, zusammen mit ungebauten Konzessionen großen Umfangs und Werts, zu übernehmen. |
| Morningside (New York) |
1900 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
Die Columbia-University ehrt Röntgen mit der Bernard Medaille |
| New Jersey |
1900 |
---- |
In New Jersey sind 1900 283.393 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1900 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Abschluß der Umstellung auf elektrischen Betrieb |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1900 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Beteiligung an der Weltausstellung in Paris |
| New York City |
1900 |
Babcock & Wilcox Co. |
Verleihung des Grand Prix, der höchsten Auszeichnung, auf der Peltausstellung in Paris |
| New York City |
1900 |
Caligraph Patent Co. |
Zur Jahrhundertwende kommt die "New Century Caligraph"-Schreibmaschine auf den Markt |
| New York City |
1900 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
Die Columbia-University ehrt Röntgen mit der Bernard Medaille |
| New York City |
1900 |
Commercial Visible Typewriter Company |
Gründung, nachdem die von R. W. Uhlig konstruierte Scheibmaschine durch Siegel, Cooper & Co. verkauft worden war. |
| New York City |
1900 |
International Steam Pump Company |
Ende der Amtszeit von Charles Campbell Worthington als Präsident |
| New York City |
1900 |
Long Island Rail Road |
Die "Pennsylvania Railroad" kauft die "Long Island Rail Road" auf |
| New York City |
1900 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 4 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1900 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Letzter Schritt bei der Zusammenlegung ist es, den letzten verbleibenden Konkurrenten, die "Third Avenue Railroad Company" mit 71 Meilen Streckenkilometern in der Gemeinde Manhattan und 135 Meilen nördlich des Harlem River, zusammen mit ungebauten Konzessionen großen Umfangs und Werts, zu übernehmen. |
| New York City |
1900 |
Power Specialty Company |
Eintragung als Nachfolgerin der "American Water Works Supply Co." |
| New York City |
1900 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Die "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine No. 10 kommt heraus |
| New York City |
1900 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Die "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine No. 11 kommt heraus |
| New York City |
1900 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Die Singer-Nähmaschinenfabrik in Kilbowie (Schottland) wird in Clydebank umbenannt. |
| New York City |
1900 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Auszeichnung durch zwei Goldene Medaillen auf der Weltausstellung Paris |
| New York City |
1900 |
Vanderbilt, William Kissam |
William Kissam Vanderbilt (II) gewinnt als Segler den Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup zusammen mit seiner späteren Frau Virginia |
| Newark (New Jersey) |
1900 |
Krueger Brewing Company |
Die Kapazität der Brauerei erreicht 182.000 barrels pro Jahr (1 baarel = 118 l) |
| Pennsylvania |
1900 |
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In Pennsylvania sind 1900 1.611.815 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1900 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin stellt auf der Pariser Weltausstellung eine Güterzuglokomotive ("Mogul") für die Great Northern Railway in Engalnd aus, ferner eine "Atlantic"-Maschine für die Französische Staatsbahn. - Nach der Ausstellung gehen die Loks sofort bei den Bahngesellschaften in Betrieb. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1900 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 18.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Herbst 1899 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Aufgrund der guten Erfahrungen mit den "Consolidation"-Güterzuglokomotiven mit Vauclain-Triebwerk bestellt die Bayerische Staatsbahn zusätzlich zwei "Atlantic"-Schnellzuglokomotiven der selben Bauart |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1900 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Schuylkill Works |
Bau einer Versuchsstation für die Untersuchung der Wirkung von Langsam-Sandfiltern für das Wasser des Schuykill River. Die Ergebnisse sind von Bedeutung für die erste Einrichtung von Filteranlagen in Philadelphia in Roxborough. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1900 |
Carnegie Institute of Technology |
Das "Carnegie Institute of Technology" (späterer Name "Carnegie Mellon Universität" nach der Fusion mit dem Mellon Institute) wird von ihm mit gegründet mit einer $10 Millionen Spende. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1900 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Eröffnung der "Westinghouse Technical Night School" |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1900 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Westinghouse baut das erste Dampfturbinen-Aggregat für die öffentliche Versorgung in den USA, für die "Hartford Electric Light Company" in Hartford (Connecticut) |
| Plattsburgh (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Lozier, H. A. |
H. A. Lozier sen. zieht sich ins Privatleben zurück |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1900 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einsteins erfolglose Bewerbung um eine Assistentenstelle an der ETH Zürich. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1900 |
Einstein, Albert |
Veröffentlichung der ersten Arbeit "Folgerungen aus den Kapillaritätserscheinungen" in den "Annalen der Physik" |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
1900 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Beteiligung an der Weltausstellung in Paris |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Century Camera Co. |
Gründung durch fünf ehemalige Beschäftigte der Rochester Optical Co. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Eastman Kodak Comp. |
Die Brownie-Kamera ist ab 1900 für einen Dollar inclusive eingelegtem Film im Handel erhältlich. Ist das Material verschossen, kann der Kunde die Kamera ins Fotogeschäft zurückbringen. Dort wird der Film entwickelt, Abzüge erstellt und die Kamera mit frischem Film geladen. Später nimmt der Kunde seine schußbereite Kamera inclusive Abzüge wieder in Empfang. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Eastman, George |
Die Brownie-Kamera ist ab 1900 für einen Dollar inclusive eingelegtem Film im Handel erhältlich. Ist das Material verschossen, kann der Kunde die Kamera ins Fotogeschäft zurückbringen. Dort wird der Film entwickelt, Abzüge erstellt und die Kamera mit frischem Film geladen. Später nimmt der Kunde seine schußbereite Kamera inclusive Abzüge wieder in Empfang. |
| Sayre (Penns.) |
1900 |
Cayuta Wheel and Foundry Company |
Verlegung von der Spring Street (dort Erweiterung der Lehigh Valley Railroad) in die Bradford Street |
| Shenango (Penns) |
1900 |
Shenango Furnace Co. |
Gegründet durch William Penn Snyder. Er und sein Partner Henry w. Oliver sind die ersten, die reines Mesabi-Erz in einem Hochofen verarbeiten. Um die Jahrhundertwende hat Mr. Snyder seine Eisen-Holdings, erztragenden Frachter und Hochofen-Aktivitäten in der "Shenango Furnace Co.". Sie ist eine der größten zusammenhängenden Eisen-Gesellschaften der Zeit. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1900 |
Smith Premier Typewriter Co. |
Das Extra-Modell 5 "Smith Premier"-Schreibmaschine erscheint |
| Erie (Pa.) |
02.01.1900 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| Oxford (New Jersey) |
17.01.1900 |
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Three men were killed and six injured in a railroad accident in the Oxford tunnel on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad this morning. One of the injued men will probably die. The men, who were track workers, were run down by a locomotive which was bound south on the north-bound track. The dead are ANDREW KILPATRICK, LEWIS DAHLBERG, and a Hungarian known as JOHN SMITH.
A coal train, bound north, broke in two at the south end of the tunnel. Fearing the rear part migh[sic] run him down, Engineer WILCOX put on steam and hauled the forward part of the train to Washington, where he put the cars he had with him on a switch. Knowing that the rear section would block the track, he then ran back on the same track for the remainder of the cars.
The men at work in the tunnel heard the approaching locomotive, but thinking it on the south-bound track, as it was coming from the north, stepped on the north-bound track. They were standing on the track in a group, and did not realize their danger until the tender of the engine was upon them. They were knocked down and hurled in every direction.
KILPATRICK and DAHLBERG were thrown under the wheels and horribly mangled. SMITH was also badly cut up. He lived a short time after being taken out. FREDERICK BURNS was the most seriously hurt of those surviving, one of his legs having been cut off.
The engineer said he did not see the men at work when he passed through with the first part of his train, and did not see them on his return until his engine was close to them. Before he could give warning he was upon them. He came to a stop within a few lengths, but the damage had been done. |
| Hoboken (N.J.) |
29.01.1900 |
W. & A. Fletcher, North River Iron Works |
Ein Feuer zerstört die Buntgießerei und beschädigt leicht das Modelllager |
| New Arlington (New Jersey) |
03.02.1900 |
John Schuyler |
Die Arlington Copper Mining Company wird am 3. Februar durch Charles L. Dignowity aus Boston und William C. Eakins aus Chicago organisiert, mit William McKenzie aus Passaic als Präsident, Henry G. Bell aus Rutherford als Schatzmeister, Eakins als Sekretär und Dignowity als Generaldirektor - McKenzie trägt einen wesentlichen Teil an der Kapitalbildung bei, 2.5 million wie berichtet wird. Die Gesellschaft erwartet, daß ein neuer metallurgischer Prozocess, von Dr. N.S. Keith hinterlassen, die alte Grube wieder einmal produktiv machen kann. Sie installiert eine neue Raffinieranlage, um Kupfer durch elektrolytische Extraktion zu gewinnen. Aber dieser Prozeß erweist sich als wirtschaftlich nicht erfolgreich. Die Arlington Copper Aktien, die einen Nennwert von 10 hat, fallen auf die Häfte bis zum Ende des Jahres. |
| New York City |
21.02.1900 |
Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
Gründung der "Rapid Transit Construction Company" für den Bau des U-Bahnsystems, unter Leitung von John B. McDonald (1844 - 1911) - vergl. 1902 |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
März 1900 |
Pneumatic Railway Signal Co. |
Das Tochterunternehmen "International Pneumatic Railway Signal Co." wird eingetragen. |
| Newark (New Jersey) |
20.03.1900 |
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Ten passengers were severely injured last night in a rear end trolley car collision, but at a late hour no fatalities had resulted. The accident happened on Belleville avenue at a point where there is a slight down grade. Car. No. 708, in charge of Motorman WILLIAM McLANE, crashed into car No. 278, in charge of Motorman BERNARD McDERMOTT. Car No. 278 had stopped to take on passengers, and McLANE could not stop his car in time to prevent the collision. He shut off the power, applied the brakes and jumped, saving himself.
The police and doctors lists contained the following:
MRS. ROSE F. BIRD, 308 North Fifth street, Harrison; right arm broken, body and limbs bruised by being trampled upon.
GEORGE BUCHANAN, 146 Verona avenue; gash on back of skull separating scalp from skull.
MRS. ANNIE COELLIN, Belleville; head cut and bruised, body bruised; trampled upon and arms and legs bruised by boot heels.
MISS JENNIE DOLAN, 308 North Fifth street, Harrison; bruised on one side of face and all cut on the same side of body to her knees.
JAMES HOFFMAN, Belleville, motorman employed by the company, who was a passenger at the time, head cut.
ALEXANDER MEEKER, fireman attached to engine No. 13, legs bruised and both shins cut to bone.
MRS. EMMA KIRK, 173 Bank street; internal injuries.
JOHN SULLIVAN, 46 John street, Belleville; head badly cut and body bruised.
MRS. ROSE WEYMAS, 140 Summit street; head cut and body bruised by being trampled upon.
DANIEL WALHAUF, 2 Railroad place, Woodside, head cut and body bruised. |
| New York City |
24.03.1900 |
Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
Beginn der Bauarbeiten am City Hall Park. Der Vertrag umfaßt den Bau einer viergleisigen Untergrundbahn von City Hall zur 96th Street, eine Entfernung von 6,71 miles; eine Erweiterung an der Westseite der Stadt nach Kingsbridge, 3,85 miles dreigleisig und drei weitere Meilen in zweigleisiger Bauweise; und eine Erweiterung nach der östlichen Seite der Stadt zum Bronx Park von 2,89 Meilen dreigleisiger und 4,24 miles zweigleisiger Strecke - zusammen 20,69 Meilen von Untergrund- und Hochbahnen, entsprechend 63 Gleislänge. Von dieser Strecke sind 10,6 Meilen U-Bahn, gebaut mit Stahläulen, welche die Straße tragen, 4,5 Meilen in Betonbogenkonstruktion und 5,0 Meilen Hochbahn, diese nur an den äußeren Enden der Strecke, wo die Oberflächenform des Bodens eine Hochlage erforderlich macht, um große Steigungen zu vermeiden. Die Strecke ist in 19 Abschnitte aufgeteilt, deren Bau an verschiedene Baunnunternehmen vergeben wird. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
04.1900 |
Conrad Motor Carriage Co. |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von $25.000 |
| Dover (N.J.) |
03.04.1900 |
Morris County Machine and Iron Co. |
Tod des Gründers und Präsidenten George Richards (*1883 in Pottsville, Pa.) in New Orleans. Der war Direktor zahlreicher anderer Unternehmen und von 1869 bis 1885 Bürgermeister von Dover, N.J. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
07.04.1900 |
United Contractors Corporation |
Gründung (Eintragung unter den Gesetzen von New Jersey) |
| New York City |
14.04.1900 |
American Bridge Company |
Gründung der "American Bridge Co." nach den Gesetzen des Staats New Jersey mit Sitz in New York (City) (bis 1901) durch Zusammenschluß der 24 Brückenbau-Unternehmen: "American Bridge Works", Chicago; "Berlin Iron Bridge Company", Berlin (Ct.); "Buffalo Bridge and Iron Works", Buffalo (N.Y.); "Edge Moor Bridge Works", Wilmington (Del.); "Elmira Bridge Co.", Elmira (N.Y.); "Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Co.), Minneapolis (Minn.); "Groton Bridge and Manufacturing Co.", Groton (N.Y.); "Hilton Bridge Construction Co.", Albany (N.Y.); "Horseheads Bridge Co", Horseheads (N.Y.); "Keystone Bridge Works", Pittsburgh (Pa.; von der "Carnegie Steel Company); "Lafayette Bridge Co.", Lafayette (Ind.); "Lassig Bridge and Iron Works", Chicago (Ill.); "Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works", Milwaukee (Wisc.); "New Columbus Bridge Company", Columbus (Oh.); "Pencoyd Iron Works", Philadelphia (Pa.); "Pittsburgh Bridge Company", Pittsburgh (Pa.); "Post & McCord", New York; "Rochester Bridge and Iron Works", Rochester (N.Y.); "Schultz Bridge Iron Co", McKees Rocks (Pa.); "Shiffler Bridge Co", Pittsburgh (Pa.); "Trenton Iron Works", Trenton (N.J.); "Union Bridge Co.", New York (Fabrik in Athens, Pennsylvania); "Wrought Iron Bridge Co.", Canton (OH); "Youngstown Bridge Co.", Youngstown (OH). |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
14.04.1900 |
American Bridge Company |
Gründung der "American Bridge Co." nach den Gesetzen des Staats New Jersey mit Sitz in New York (City) (bis 1901) durch Zusammenschluß der 24 Brückenbau-Unternehmen: "American Bridge Works", Chicago; "Berlin Iron Bridge Company", Berlin (Ct.); "Buffalo Bridge and Iron Works", Buffalo (N.Y.); "Edge Moor Bridge Works", Wilmington (Del.); "Elmira Bridge Co.", Elmira (N.Y.); "Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Co.), Minneapolis (Minn.); "Groton Bridge and Manufacturing Co.", Groton (N.Y.); "Hilton Bridge Construction Co.", Albany (N.Y.); "Horseheads Bridge Co", Horseheads (N.Y.); "Keystone Bridge Works", Pittsburgh (Pa.; von der "Carnegie Steel Company); "Lafayette Bridge Co.", Lafayette (Ind.); "Lassig Bridge and Iron Works", Chicago (Ill.); "Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works", Milwaukee (Wisc.); "New Columbus Bridge Company", Columbus (Oh.); "Pencoyd Iron Works", Philadelphia (Pa.); "Pittsburgh Bridge Company", Pittsburgh (Pa.); "Post & McCord", New York; "Rochester Bridge and Iron Works", Rochester (N.Y.); "Schultz Bridge Iron Co", McKees Rocks (Pa.); "Shiffler Bridge Co", Pittsburgh (Pa.); "Trenton Iron Works", Trenton (N.J.); "Union Bridge Co.", New York (Fabrik in Athens, Pennsylvania); "Wrought Iron Bridge Co.", Canton (OH); "Youngstown Bridge Co.", Youngstown (OH). |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
Mai 1900 |
Taylor Signal Co. |
Umwandlung aus "Taylor-Sargent Signal Co." in Chillicothe (Ohio) |
| Orange (N.J.) |
05.05.1900 |
Edison Manufacturing Company |
Eintragung des Unternehmens in New Jersey |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
18.05.1900 |
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Through the negligence of a towerman who lay asleep at his post, a disastrous and fatal freight train wreck occurred here in a tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. An engineer and a fireman were killed, and fuve unknown tramps are supposed to be dead in the wreck. The property loss is estimated at $185,000. The man who was responsible for the accident, FRANK LAMTELL, surrendered himself to C.O.O. BENT, a superintendent in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He is now under arrest.
The known dead are GEORGE LAUB, engineer, and GEORGE BLACKMAN, fireman, both of this city.
Their bodies and those of the tramps are buried beneath the wrecked cars, and cannot be recovered until the fire which followed the collision is extinguished. About thirty firemen of the city fire department were either burned or ovecome by smoke while fighting the flames. None of them, however, was seriously injured.
The tunnel runs under Twenty-fifth street from Callowhill street to Fairmount Park, a distanct of 2,800 feet. It is semi-circular, and the tracks are up-grade from the Callowhill street entrance.
Every night a train known as the New York freight express leaves here for New York. The train was made up in two sections, the first section containing forty-three cars. WHen it reached the tunnel the engine was unable to pull it up the grade, and seventeen cars were detached and left standing about midway in the tunnel while the others were drawn through. |
| New York City |
21.05.1900 |
Schneider, Charles Conrad |
Charles Conrad Schneider wird zum Vizepräsidenten der "American Bridge Co." gewählt |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
21.05.1900 |
American Bridge Company |
Charles Conrad Schneider wird zum Vizepräsidenten der "American Bridge Co." gewählt |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
24.05.1900 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verschmelzung der "Kings County Elevated Railroad" mit der "Brooklyn Union Elevated" |
| Elmira (N.Y.) |
ab 24.05.1900 |
Elmira Bridge Company |
Der Kinzua-Viadukt (Höhe: 92 m, Länge: 625 m) in Pennsylvania wird vom 24. Mai bis 25. September von der "Elmira Bridge Co." durch eine stärkere Konstruktion mit einem Gewicht von 3050 t ersetzt. |
| Mount Jewett (USA) |
ab 24.05.1900 |
Elmira Bridge Company |
Der Kinzua-Viadukt (Höhe: 92 m, Länge: 625 m) in Pennsylvania wird vom 24. Mai bis 25. September von der "Elmira Bridge Co." durch eine stärkere Konstruktion mit einem Gewicht von 3050 t ersetzt. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
24.05.1900 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Verschmelzung der "Kings County Elevated Railroad" mit der "Brooklyn Union Elevated" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
15.06.1900 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Beginn der Abbrucharbeiten für den Bau einer neuen Maschinenhalle und Erweiterung des Kesselhauses |
| New York City |
17.06.1900 |
East River Steam Kindling Wood Factory |
Brand in der "East River Kindling Wood and Packing Box Company" von Fred Buse in der Sixty-first Street und First Avenue. [NY Times, 17.06.1900] |
| New York City |
29.06.1900 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Die "Underwood"-Schreibmaschine No. 5 wird auf den Markt gebracht |
| Hoboken (N.J.) |
30.06.1900 |
Norddeutscher Lloyd |
Großbrand im Hafen von Hoboken, bei dem vier Ozeandampfer des Norddeutschen Lloyd, mehrere Lagerhallen und die kompletten Anlegeplätze zwischen der zweiten und vierten Straße entweder beschädigt oder komplett zerstört werden. Zwischen 173 und 400 Menschen sterben. Aus ungeklärten Gründen gerät ein Stapel Baumwollballen auf dem Pier 3 in Brand. Das Feuer wird erstmals um 15.55 Uhr vom Wachmann William Northmaid gesichtet, der es umgehend der Feuerwehr von Hoboken meldet. Die Flammen gehen sofort auf in der Nähe stehende Fässer mit Öl, Terpentin und Whisky über. Die brennende "Saale" treibt mit brennend auf eine Sandbank am Hudson River, desgl. die brennende "Bremen", die "Main" verbrennt mit 150 Menschen an der Pier. Nur die "Kaiser Wilhelm der Große" wird gerettet. - Die Ursache (Selbstentzündung, Zigarettenglut oder Brandstiftung) kann nicht geklärt werden. Die beschädigten Schiffe werden gehoben und repariert. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
30.06.1900 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Abschluß von Verträgen für den Bau einer neuen Maschinenhalle und Einlaß und zur Ergänzung des alten Kesselhauses. Die Arbeit beginnt fast unmittelbar danach durch den Auftragnehmer. Eine Fachwerkkonstruktion im alten Maschinenhaus wird zur Unterbringung der bestehenden Maschinen Nr. 1, 2 und 3 errichtet. Die alte Maschinenhalle wird bis zu ihren Fundamenten abgebrochen, und die Fundamentierung wird auf der Südseite erweitert, um Platz für drei weitere Pumpen schaffen, und es wird ein neues Gebäude mit 166' 10" x 73'6" Grundfläche errichtet. Das Kesselhaus wird ebenfalls erweitert. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
07.1900 |
Einstein, Albert |
Sein Studium an der ETH Zürich schließt Einstein im Juli mit Hilfe der Aufzeichnungen eines Mitschülers ab. Seine Professoren schätzen seine Leistungen gering ein und empfehlen ihn nicht für eine Laufbahn an der Universität. Besonders bei Heinrich F. Weber ist er so unbeliebt, daß der Physiklehrer nach Abschluß des Studiums bei der Besetzung einer Assistentenstelle in der physikalischen Fakultät übergeht. |
| Ligonier (Pennsylvania) |
04.07.1900 |
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W. B. Duncan, formerly a resident of Blairsville, was seriously injured in a wreck on the Westmoreland and Somerset railroad last Thursday morning.
Mr. Duncan is an engineer and he had charge of a logging train, which was coming down the mountain, near Ligonier, when the brakes refused to work. The train plunged down the heavy grade at a terrific speed, crashing into a freight train at the foot of the hill. Both trains left the track and 10 cars were demolished. Duncan was thrown under the wheels and his left leg was badly mangled. He was also badly cut about the head and face. Later he was taken to the West Penn Hospital and the injured member was amputated. |
| Pittston (Pennsylvania) |
09.07.1900 |
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Zusammenstoß von zwei offenen Wagen der Duryea-Linie der "Scranton Railway Co." in Old Forge bei Pittston im Tiefpunkt einer Mulde, wo durch eine Kurve die Sicht behindert wurde. Von einem Wagen springen die Insassen ab, beim anderen bleibt der Fahrer auf seinem Platz und erleidet Veletzungen, an denen er einige Stunden später stirbt. Dort ferner 10 Verletzte |
| New York City |
11.07.1900 |
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Ein Wagen der "Staten Island Midland Railroad" entgleist bei hoher Geschwindigkeit und stößt gegen einen 1,8 m hohen Bretterzaun, fällt auf weichen Boden und überschlägt sich. von den 25 Fahrgästen brechen sich 2 die Glieder |
| New York City |
11.07.1900 |
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Eine offene Weiohe der "Kings County Elevated Railway" verursacht, daß ein besetzter Personenzug in ein mit leeren Fahrzeugen belegtes Nebengleis bei der Georgia Avenue und Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, fährt. Drei der leeren Wagen werden auf die Straße geworfen. Keine Personenschäden |
| New York City |
19.07.1900 |
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Auffahrunfall eines elektrischen und eines Dampfzuges in der Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn. Der elektrische Zug kam wegen einer durchgebrannten Sicherung zum Stehen. Der dampfbetriebene Expreßzug konnte wegen einer Kurve den liegenegebliebenen Zug nicht sehen. Der Triebwagenfahrer, der unter dem Zug zum Sicherungwechsel lag, wird getötet. Keine weiteren Schäden |
| Manhattan (New York) |
Aug. 1900 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Versuch mit Chlorid-Akkumulatorenbetrieb. Am Fuß der West 42nd Street wird für den Betrieb auf der 34th Street-Linie eine große Batteriestation für 50 Wagen angelegt. Der Betrieb läuft ohne ernsthafte Schwierigkeiten oder Unterbrechungen. Fehler sind häufig, Unannehmlichkeiten durch die ausgasenden Batterien und die Betriebskosten sind hoch. |
| New York City |
Aug. 1900 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Versuch mit Chlorid-Akkumulatorenbetrieb. Am Fuß der West 42nd Street wird für den Betrieb auf der 34th Street-Linie eine große Batteriestation für 50 Wagen angelegt. Der Betrieb läuft ohne ernsthafte Schwierigkeiten oder Unterbrechungen. Fehler sind häufig, Unannehmlichkeiten durch die ausgasenden Batterien und die Betriebskosten sind hoch. |
| Carnegie (Pennsylvania) |
02.08.1900 |
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At 6:40 o'clock this morning, just as the Steubens [illegible] accommodation on the Pan Handle Railroad, east bound, was passing the coal schute [sic] of the Boyd Coal company near Carnegie station, something at the tipple gave way.
About two tons of coal was hurled upon the passing train with terrific force. The rear coach filled with passengers, suffered most severely. The roof and side of the car were smashed into splinters and the passengers were buried beneath the deluge of coal and other debris. A passenger named Smith, a painter, resident of Holliday's Cove, was probably fatally injured, being terribly crushed and cut. He was removed to home home and will probably die from his injuries. Another painter, named Johnson, of Steubenville, was also badly hurt, but will probably recover. Frederick Crouch and Mike Flanagan were also cut and bruised, as were a number of passengers whose names were not ascertained. Some part of the machinery governing the gates of the coal chute gate was just as the train rushed by. |
| Orange (N.J.) |
12.08.1900 |
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A serious accident took place on Main Street this afternoon during the severe thunderstorm that broke about 2 o'clock. Trolley Car No. 319 of the North Jersey Street Railway Company had just passed Park Street, when there was a blinding flash, accompanied by an explosion, and the car was enveloped in flames. In the rush to excape five persons were injured.
Those seriously hurt are MARY LOMBARDO, aged six years, of 84 Union Street, Orange, who received severe scalp wounds, and was injured about the body, and MRS. KOHLER of Newark, who was cut about the head and injured internally.
Hardly anybody in the car escaped injury of some kind. The motor and controller box of the car were burned out, and the line was blocked for some time. |
| Long Lake (N.Y.) |
13.08.1900 |
Huntington, Collins Potter |
Tod von Collis Potter Huntington in Camp Pine Knot (Huntington Memorial Camp), Raquette Lake, New York. Er wird auf dem Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York in einem Mausoleum beigesetzt |
| Slatington (USA) |
14.08.1900 |
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Fifteen persons were killed instantly and ten others, several of whom will die, were seriously injured in a grade crossing accident three miles east of this city. A passenger train on the Lehigh and New England railroad crashed into an omnibus containing twenty-eight persons. All the dead and injured were in the omnibus and but three escaped unhurt.
The accident happened about 5 o'clock in the evening. The omnibus, driven by a man of the name of PETERS, was returning to Slatington from a funeral; the occupants had been attending a funeral at Cherrysville. The dead and injured were nearly all relatives of SOPHIA SCHOEFFER, at whose funeral they had been present.
Sharp Curve in the Road.
The train was a special and consisted of an engine and one car. At the point at which the collision took place there is a sharp curve in the road and the omnibus came along at a fast rate of speed, the occupants unconscious of any impending danger. As the bus swung around the curve the engine and car came in sight. It was too late to stop either the omnibus or the train, and as the driver whipped up the four horses to cross the track ahead of the train the engine crashed into the vehicle. |
| Dover (N.J.) |
16.08.1900 |
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A freight wreck occurred on the Lackawanna Railroad half a mile west of Dover at 1 o'clock this morning. A wildcat coal train of about fifty loaded gondolas ran into the middle of the freight near the Richardson & Boynton Stove Works.
Engineer Class of the coal train lost control of his train at Mount Arlington. When he tried to set his brakes they failed to work, and Class made his run to the scene of the wreck with his whistle constantly sounding an alarm, and his engine reversing. The crew of the train ahead heard the warning signal and managed to keep a safe lead until when nearing the drawbridge they found the danger signal set. Nothing remained for them to do but to stop or plunge through the draw, so the train stopped. All the members of the crew jumped. Engineer Class injured his shoulder badly.
The engine of the coal train was overturned, and twenty-one gondolas were piled upon three tracks, the caboose and three freight cars being also wrecked. The tracks were torn up for 300 feet, and completely blocked. Traffic was delayed for several hours, but trains were later sent around the wreck. |
| Jersey Shore (USA) |
09.09.1900 |
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While dashing along at a high rate of speed two freight engines on the Fall Brook district of the New York Central Railroad, crashed together at Torbett's, a small station a few miles from this place, at an early hour this morning, both locomotives were badly wrecked and a number of cars demolished.
The engine crews escaped by jumping. Fireman Belcher, however, was hurled against a barb wire fence nearly fifty feet distant receiving internal injuries which will likely result fatally. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
12.09.1900 |
The Snow Steam Pump Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfpumpe) |
| Edison (Ogdensburg) |
30.09.1900 |
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works |
Schließung |
| Ogdensburg (New Jersey) |
30.09.1900 |
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works |
Schließung |
| New York City |
02.10.1900 |
Allen, John F. |
Tod von John F. Allen vmtl. in New York |
| New York City |
11.10.1900 |
74th Street Power Plant |
Zwei Schornsteine sind in halber Höhe fertig. Von den beiden anderen stehen die Sockel. |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
26.10.1900 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Tod von Henry W. Merriam |
| Camden (N.J.) |
29.11.1900 |
New York Shipbuilding Co. |
Kiellegung des ersten Schiffs, des Tanker "MS Dollar" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
03.12.1900 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Fertigstellung der Erweiterung des Kesselhauses |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
05.12.1900 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Der "Kennedy-Morrison-Prozeß" im Schienenwalzwerk (Zwischenkühlung zur Härtung der Schienenoberfläche) wird eingeführt. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
05.12.1900 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "E" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
05.12.1900 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "E" erhält als fünfter einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
05.12.1900 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Der "Kennedy-Morrison-Prozeß" im Schienenwalzwerk (Zwischenkühlung zur Härtung der Schienenoberfläche) wird eingeführt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
05.12.1900 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "E" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| South Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) |
11.12.1900 |
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An accident to Lehigh Valley engine No. 356, which pulled the 8:40 New York express out of the Union Station this morning, resulted in the serious scalding of Engineer A. L. O'Brien and Fireman William Hoffert, both of Lehighton. While the train was going forty miles an hour an explosion of the boiler occurred. The cab of the engine was torn off and sent flying into the Lehigh River.
Though scalded by steam Engineer O'Brien stuck to his post until he had reversed the throttle and applied the air brakes. Then both he and the fireman jumped. Hoffert was scalded from head to foot. |
| Allegany (New York) |
12.12.1900 |
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Western New York and Pennsylvania passenger train No. 31, on the Olean and Oil City division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, leaving here at 8:01 A. M., ran into an open switch near Allegany, N. Y., about 11 o'clock this morning.
The dead are W. B. Patterson, fireman, crushed under the engine; Joseph Kidd, engineer, crushed about the head and injured internally, died three hours later. The train crew and passengers escaped injuries, but were severely shaken up.
The train was running about forty miles an hour when it struck the open switch and ran into a number of box cars placed on the siding. |
| Edgeworth (Pa.) |
14.12.1900 |
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The day express, No. 8, from Chicago, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, at 6:30 o'clock this morning collided with the Leetsdale accommodation, east-bound, at Edgeworth, Pa., near here. Both trains were wrecked and eleven persons were injured.
A mistake in the signals, it is said, caused the accident. The accommodation had stopped at Edgeworth and the passengers were throughing[sic] into the coaches when the heavy locomotive hauling the express came thundering up the track. The engineer applied the air, but was not able to stop the express in time to avert a collision, and the engine crashed into the accommodation train.
The express locomotive plunged into the smoking car and coaches of the accommodation, which were thrown from the track. The moment the wreck occurred a large crowd ran to the assistance of the injured and in a short time they were all extricated from their perilous positions and removed to the station and physicians summoned. |
| Grays Ferry (USA) |
14.12.1900 |
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Eighteen men and women were badly injured, two perhaps mortally, in a wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad just south of Gray's Ferry, caused by a freight car of one train jumping the track just as the Washington and New York fast express train was passing and badly damaging seven of the Pullman and passenger coaches.
The train struck the derailed freight cars with considerable force. Hardly two minutes elapsed after the wreck had occurred before ambulances and patrol wagons were dashing through the streets to the scene. The express which left Washington at 11 o'clock, carried a baggage car in the lead and four Pullmans and five passenger cars. The smoker was the first of the passenger coaches.
The train left Chester at 1:56 p. m., and was near the tunnel at Gray's Ferry, about a mile and a half from the city proper, and was running at a slightly reduced speed, when a freight train going south jumped the track, a wheel on the rear box car of the freight having broken. The box car diverted from the rails, ran slanting across the roadbed and struck the right hand side of the smoker of the passenger train which was just then abreast of the freight. |
| Greensburg (Pennsylvania) |
14.12.1900 |
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A disastrous freight wreck occurred this morning at the Scotdale branch junction, in which seventeen cars laden with coke were derailed, the cabin burned and several trainmen badly injured. The wreck was caused by the train breaking and running together.
The injured are: Conductor Charles Coughenough, of Scotdale, right let broken: Brakeman Gaffney, of Mt. Pleasant, extended scalp wound, arm crushed and bruised about body; Engineer William Rial, of Rufusdale, thought to be internally injured; Engineer John Mumaw, of Scotdale, badly bruised about body; Flagman Elmer Wilheim, of Mr. Pleasant, head hurt.
All the trainmen injured had completed their runs and were on their way home. |
| Pottsville (Penns.) |
14.12.1900 |
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Frederick Gounder, of Cumbola, met a shocking death on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Eagle Hill colliery this afternoon. While working about a shifting engine, which was obscured most of the tome by clouds of steam, he was run down and his body horribly mangled. One of his arms and both of his legs were cut off. He died in a very short time after the accident. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
16.12.1900 |
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Frightfully mangled, with almost every bone in his body broken, Truckman Thos. Gwynne, aged 43, a member of the new operating truck C, of the Second and Norris streets station, lies dying in the Episcopal Hospital as the result of a collision between the hook and ladder truck and a street car yesterday just outside of the truck house.
Another of the truck's crew, William Ramsey, aged 52, of 1846 East Cumberland street, is also injured, but will recover.
Michael Teaffie, whose position on the truck was just in advance of that Ramsey, was knocked off, but by singular good fortune escaped injury.
How the Crash Occurred
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire was sent in from Franklin and Diamond streets. Within two minutes after receiving the alarm Truck C was dashing out of the east side of the station.
As the big truck swung out into the street a southbound car sped across Second street.
The truck had too much headway to stop and the car crashed directly into it, smashing the woodwork and knocking off the clinging truckmen. Teaffie and Ramsey fell into the street, and, not being directly in front of the car, were not seriously hurt. Gwynne was far less fortunate. Knocked by the force of the collision from his position on the truck, he fell between car and truck. The car, still in motion, ground him and turned him as do the stones in the grist mill grind the wheat. |
| Lebanon (Pennsylvania) |
22.12.1900 |
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Two cars filled with Christmas shoppers collided this afternoon on the Lebanon Valley Street Railway, a short distance west of this city, with disastrous results. About twenty persons were injured, some of them seriously. The 18 months' old baby of Mrs. J. W. Walter, of Annville, was trampled on by the panic-stricken passengers and injured so badly that it is not expected to recover, while many of the other passengers were cut by flying glass and splinters.
The accident occurred at a steep grade, neither motorman seeing each other until the cars almost meet, when it was too late to prevent a collision. Over one hundred passengers were on the two cars, one being a regular, while the other was a special bringing Christmas shoppers to this city from Palmyra and Annville.
The accident caused great excitement here, relief cars and ambulances being sent to the scene of the collision, which conveyed the injured to their homes. The motormen saved their lives by jumping just as the cars met, otherwise they would doubtless have been killed. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
23.12.1900 |
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Patrick Doran, 32 years, of 3331 Mt. Vernon street, was run over by a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Thirty-second street, last night, both legs being crushed. Doran is employed in the West Philadelphia stock yards, and was returning to his home when the accident occurred. The injured man was removed to the Presbyterian Hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate both his legs. At a late hour last night he was reported to be in a critical condition. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
23.12.1900 |
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Traffic was delayed for over four hours yesterday afternoon by a collision which occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Twenty-first street. An incoming passenger train, hauled by engine No. 2., ran into a draft of empty passenger cars on the same track, derailing one of the cars and injuring the engineer and fireman of the former train.
Lemuel H. Zeider, the engineer, sustained a fracture of the left forearm and leg. He was taken to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital. The fireman, whose name could not be learned, was slightly injured.
The incoming train, which runs between Chicago and New York, was running on regular schedule when the accident occurred. The draft of empty cars was being shifted into Broad Street Station. Just how the accident occurred is not definitely known and a rigid investigation, it is understood, will be instituted to learn the facts. The wreck occurred at a time when the immense crowds were waiting at Broad Street Station. The passengers on many of the incoming trains were unable to reach this city. The Wilmington express was stopped at Gray's Ferry and the city in trolley cars. The same course was pursued with the suburban trains. The fact that the accident occurred on the elevated road, at Twenty-first street, only a short distance from Broad Street Station, prevented what might have resulted in a serious wreck. The train slackened up speed when approaching the depot and the shock when it came was not so terrific on this account.
A wrecking crew was immediately dispatched to the scene of the accident and the derailed car was hauled into Broad Street Station. It took over four hours to straighten out the schedules, after which the regular trains were started, but only run at irregular intervals. |
