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929-1
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- 1935-01-20 (Creation)
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On Sunday afternoon January 20, 1935, a fire truck and a street car collided at the intersection of No. 34th & Stevens St. injuring four, three fireman and the motorman. The collision badly wrecked the fire engine, doing $13,000 worth of damage to the uninsured fire equipment. For this photograph, a large crowd clustered around the wrecked fire engine that was lodged between two trees. A fresh layer of snow covered all. The fire engine, with Guss Weekman at the wheel, had sped off from fire station #14 at North 41st & Gove Streets; heading south on Stevens to respond to a fire in a private residence at 4211 North 24th. The fire started when occupants tried to thaw out frozen water pipes. At the intersection, the engine crashed into the front of the large double end street car #201 as it moved over the brow of the hill. (For a 1937 picture of this fire engine after it was rebuilt, see D858 #2.) (T. Times 1/21/1935, pg. 1)
Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1930-1940; Snow; Fire engines & equipment--Tacoma--1930-1940;