Sept. 11, birthdays for Ludacris, Harry Connick Jr., Moby
Brooklyn Today
Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 254th day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1905, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Car Plunges Off L, Killing 11 Persons.” The article focused on a trolley accident that killed 11 people and injured more than 40.
“A switchman’s mistake and a motorman’s carelessness sent a crowded car of a Manhattan elevated train hurtling off the structure into the street at 7 o’clock this morning, smashing the coach into splinters and piling the passengers into a tangled mass of crushed and mangled bodies,” the Eagle reported.