[78-L] fwd: 1906 film of a cable car ride

[DanKj]

 I have lists from 1900 through 1906, showing all the recorded deaths in Buffalo for preceding years.  The cause-of-death 
leaders were dropping dead of heart disease, run over by a train (all crossings were at grade, then), falling from a 
streetcar while it was moving (hopping on or off), falling from a train while trying to hitch a ride, catching fire from a 
coal stove at home, and most hideously: children scalded to death by cauldrons of boiling laundry water .

 Some of the descriptions are funny - a woman who died while a salesman was "extolling the benefits of life insurance"  and 
the man who died "suddenly of alcoholism while seated at McKinny's saloon".  I wasn't aware that alcoholism was a 
sudden-onset type of death!  Drowing while riding a bicycle was another feat.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Lichtman" <jeff at swazoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] fwd: 1906 film of a cable car ride


>
>>Fascinating to watch, not just because of its proximity to the
>>devastating earthquake 4 days later, but look at all the traffic
>>violations! Jaywalkers, vehicles cutting in and out, near
>>collisions, no signaling.
>>
>>Cary Ginell
>
> There were probably few traffic laws at the time. It is interesting
> how many risks people took. Yes, the cars went more slowly in those
> days, but their brakes were pretty bad.
>
>
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