Photograph of the aftermath of the Summer Street Bridge disaster, November 8, 1916.
On the evening of November 7, 1916, a streetcar plunged 20 feet off an open drawbridge into the Fort Point Channel, sinking some 30 feet below the surface. There were 47 fatalities and only a handful of survivors. George Burgess Magrath and Timothy Leary, as medical examiners, were called to the scene to help identify the bodies of the victims. The photograph shows the raising of the streetcar once divers had cleared bodies from the wreckage.