The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-12
CABLE CARS. CRASH.H
ONE MAN FATALLY HURT AND
OTHERS BADLY INJURED.
Cars Set on Fire by the Stoves and
for a Time There Was "a Fearful
Pnnic--A Miracle That Many Lives
Were Not Lost.

Chicago, Dec. lin a collision be-
tween cable cars in the Washington
street tunnel this evening one man
was fatally hurt. fifteen more were
seriously injured and a score of others
more or less bruised. The cars were
set on fire by the stoves and for a time
there was fearful panic around the
scene. The seriously injured are:
John Smith: internally injured and
both legs. broken; will die.
George Newman; face badly cut.
William Joyce; right leg broken and
seriously bruised.
William Mcdonald; left side of face
crushed and head cut.
John Frers; legs twisted, bad bruises
about hips. nose broken.
James McGinty; seriously bruised
about face and shoulders.
Mrs. Thomas Beeman; seriously
bruised, head and face cut.
Mrs. George Reiss; head hurt and
temporarily deranged by the shock.
Mrs. William Parker; both ankles
broken and severe bruises.
John Donohue; head and face cut.
William Maloney; jaw broken.
j. B. Burtle; mead hurt and face
crushed.
A. Aikens; nose crushed and body
bruised
Mrs. Estella viamen; injured about
shoulders and hips.
Harry Goddard; face cut head cut
and legs hurt
I I. II. Moran, gripman; badly bruised
and injured Internally.
Nellie Schott; head cut and badly
bruised.
g; B. Barton; face fearfully lacerated
and teeth knocked out
Miss Olga Schroeder; fingers smashed
and head cut.
N. Peterson; left arm broken.
John Speth; face lacerated and nose
smashed fiat
IA; Nelson; knee cap torn off and
badly bruised.
IN addition to these there were a
iarge number of people who sustained
palnful injuries and smashed fingers
knocked out teeth, sprained ankles and
wrists. q iiu
,I Btoth the West Madison street and the
throm ssghe fba avenue cable lines run
accident occurred-6:30 o'clock-aIl the
West-Dound cars were damned to suffoca-
eion win people returning from business
train. consisting of a grip car and two
traiiers was two-thirds of the way down
the incline toward the bottom of the ttln-
mel, when q cable train on the Milwaukee
avenue line, also consisting of three cars.
entered the tunnel
Almost Immediately after starting down
the slope, Gripman Moran, of the Mil
wankee Avenue line, lost his hold on the
cable, and the car slipped forward down
the steep incline. Moran rang his alarm
bell, and he and the conductor set all the
brakes On the train, but were unable to
hold it, and just as the bottom of the
tunnel was reached, the runaway cars
struck the Madison street train with aw-
full force, smashing its rear car into
splinters and demolishing the Milwaukee
avenue car
Both cars were piled up in a heap, from
which such passengers as were capable
of moving, crawled out battered and
bleeding. Each of the two wrecked cars
held about seyenty-five passengers, and
that a number of them were not instant
ly killed was a wonder.
To add to the. horror of the accident.
one of the wrecked cars caught fire and
began to blaze furiously.
All the people injured on both cars had
feen removed before the fire became
dangerous, however.
a number of people were pinioned in the
wreck, and others were held fast between
the wreckage and the walls of the tun
mel. All of them we're quickly removed,
and the fire extinguished by an engine
company.
breaking of the grip of the Milwaukee
avenue car