Definitely a tough area! I lived just a half-block away for six years and vividly remember a 1950s car losing its brakes on 24th, bouncing off a power pole by the Lincoln Elementary playground and crashing into a tree just down from Fourth Street, badly injuring two and killing the driver. This occurred in the late 1960s. Another bad one was a dump tuck losing its brakes and crashing into a city bus at Third Street, killing the bus driver, sometime in the 1970s. And a last one, a semi lost its brakes and miraculously went the whole way down without hitting anything, ending up past Michigan Street in the area by the Scott-Graff plant, I think it was called, where the current Duluth Transit Authority building is located.