![]() “I could hardly get up without the assistance of my son. “As the cart started its plunge, I was thrown to the floor of my compartment,” Bender wrote in a letter to Disney. Disney paid her $640 to cover medical bills. In June 1994, Catherine Bender, 69, of Boynton Beach fell onto the floor of the boat during the final descent, bruising her ribs. In October 1999, a man tore a ligament in his knee after falling off a boat as he attempted to prevent his 11-year-old daughter from climbing over a seat to sit with her mother. They were treated at a hospital and released. In September, a woman helping a disabled man get out of the ride fell off the back of a boat and landed in shallow water. It’s impossible to quantify the safety record at Splash Mountain because large theme parks such as the Magic Kingdom aren’t regulated under state law and don’t have to report such accidents to the public.īut there have been several other incidents involving the ride, according to court and police records and interviews with family members: ![]() Passengers hold on to a rail that’s about chest high, but they aren’t restrained. The $91 million ride, originally marketed as the world’s longest log-flume ride drop, takes passengers in hollowed-out “logs” through backwoods swamps and bayous, culminating in a 52-foot fall at a 45-degree angle. “But I’m sure he didn’t get out because he was sick.” “He didn’t make a good judgment,” she said. She said he visited Disney World often and was an annual-pass holder. “We don’t have any explanation,” said Pollock’s sister, Sue Shook of Spokane, Wash. The ride was temporarily closed, and no mechanical malfunction was found.įriends and family say they don’t know what prompted him to step out of the ride. He was struck by another of the logs and died of “blunt-force trauma to the chest,” according to the Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner’s Office. But he fell in the water as the ride started up again, authorities said. Mackay.Pollock tried to use the log-shaped boats to cross to the other side, possibly to an exit. In June 1908 a school of mines was presented to the University of Nevada, as a memorial to him, by his widow and his son, Clarence H. He gave generously, especially to the charities of the Roman Catholic Church, and endowed the Roman Catholic orphan asylum in Virginia City, Nevada. ![]() Mackay died on the 10th of July 1902 in London. In connexion with the Commercial Cable Company he formed the Postal Telegraph Company. ![]() In 1884, with James Gordon Bennett, Mackay formed the Commercial Cable Company - largely to fight Jay Gould and the Western Union Telegraph Company - laid two transatlantic cables, and forced the toll-rate for transatlantic messages down to twenty-five cents a word. deep, in the Comstock lode (yielding in March of that year as much as $632 per ton, and in 1877 nearly $19,000,000 altogether) and this firm established the Bank of Nevada in San Francisco. O'Brien the firm which in 1873 discovered the great Bonanza vein, more than 1200 ft. In 1852 he went to Virginia City, Nevada, and there, after losing all he had made in California, he formed with James G. In 1851 he went to California and worked in placer gold-mines in Sierra county. His parents brought him in 1840 to New York City, where he worked in a ship-yard. JOHN WILLIAM MACKAY (1831-1902), American capitalist, was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 28th of November 1831. ![]()
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