and Mimico Creek Railway. July 10 – The Toronto and Mimico Creek Railway is extended to Mimico Creek. July 29 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opens La Grande Station in Los Angeles. August events August 12 – The Llantrisant rail accident in Wales kills 13 people. September events September 7 – First part of Douglas & Laxey Coast Electric Tramway, a 3 ft (914 mm) gauge interurban (later the Manx Electric Railway), opens on the Isle of Man. September 18 – The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens between Ottawa and Arnprior. October events October 20 – Brayton Ives succeeds Thomas Fletcher Oakes as president of Northern Pacific Railway. November events November 6 – The Lake Street Elevated Railroad, Chicago's second rapid transit line, is opened for service between Madison & Wacker and California Avenue. The road originally used 35 0-4-4T Forney locomotives built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works and 125 trailer coaches built by Gilbert Car Company and Pullman Car Company. November 14 – The Central Railway of Peru opens the section of line from Chicla across the Andes watershed to Oroya, with a summit level at Galera of 4781 m (15,686 feet) above sea level. December events December 6 – The John Bull leaves the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, under its own power, headed toward Washington, DC, for its return to the Smithsonian Institution. December 18 – The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens an extension of the railway from Arnprior to Eganville, Ontario. December 22 – The John Bull arrives back in Washington, DC, after traveling under its own power from Chicago, Illinois. December 23 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway enters receivership three days after the railroad's chairman died. Unknown date events Eugene V. Debs organizes the first industrial union in the United States, the American Railway Union (ARU). Jacob S. Rogers, son of company founder Thomas Rogers, resigns from the presidency of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works; the company's former treasurer becomes president and reorganizes the company as Rogers Locomotive Company. Jewett Car Company is founded in Jewett, Ohio; it will become a major supplier of interurban cars and trolleys. Births November births November 5 – Raymond Loewy, industrial designer who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad designing the shape of equipment such as the GG1 (d. 1986). Deaths January deaths January 27 – Alfred Belpaire, inventor