Boy Injured by Point Defiance Streetcar
A young child is struck while playing near the tracks in Tacoma's North End.
George Ellsperman, aged 8 years, was struck by a northbound Point Defiance streetcar this afternoon on Twenty-Sixth Street near Puget Sound Avenue. The boy's injuries consisted of some bad cuts on the head and body bruises. Dr. Love was called to attend him. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Ellsperman of 3906 North Twenty-Sixth Street.
“The boy's injuries consisted of some bad cuts on the head and body bruises.”
Streetcars were once the primary transit artery of Tacoma, but their presence made streets dangerous for children at play. Today, that corridor in the North End is a quiet residential neighborhood, but the history of streetcar accidents remains a reminder of the city's rapid, sometimes perilous, industrial growth.
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