The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28
A CAR UPSET.
Twenty-Five Persons
Injured.
THREE MAY NOT LIVE.
An Electric Car Jumps
the Track.
IT CRASHES INTO A POLE.
The Motornan Could Not Govern
the Speed on a Curve.
MANY HURT BY BROKEN GLASS.
A Serious Accident on the San Fran
cisco and san Mateo Road.
The Sufferers.
IT CRASHES INTO A POLE.
The Motorman Could Not Govern
the Speed on Curve.
MANY HURT BY BROKEN GLASS.

pened on the lines governed by the san
Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railroad
Company the worst known took place last
evening.
1t was about a quarter to O'Clock, just
as the sun showed signs of Withdrawing
mis- genial presence, that crowd of per-
sons, holiday-makers AMI others, were
journeying toward the city from the direc-
ton of Holy Cross Cemetery. Ihe steep
grades on the line which finds connection
at Thirtieth street and San Jose avenue
have been before now considered as re-
curing extra caution in negotiating. but
on this occasion there seems TO have been
no willful carelessuess displayed.
The catastrophe was brough about in
this wise: Car 10, on a down ward trip
toward the city stopped at Randall street
TO allow q number of passengers TO allght,
most of whom had travelled the whole way
from South San Francisco. Leaving Ran
dali street the car proceeded slowly down
the steep hill.
Suddenly the motolman, A. T. Ring
wood, felt the momentum rapidly increas-
ing. He investigated, and soon saw that
the brakes were powerless TO hold. With
great presence of mind RingwOod signaled
brake. but although he answered at once
and the brake was set down hard. its
power proved insufficient to check the
speed of the car.
At this the motor was at once reversed,
and by degrees the speed was checked.
But the dangerous curve at the corner of
Chenery and Tbirtieth streets was unhap-
PLY too near. The car ran on to the curve
Jerk, causing the shifting from one side TO
the other of an INN ense load of passen-
gers, and in a second the once smoothly
gliding car lay on its side, motionless ana
inert, with every pane of glass in its COM
position smashed into atoms.
Among the passengers there was scene
of indescribable confusion. Not one es-
capped without more or less injury, and OF
the injured ones some there be whose in
juries may unhappily prove fatal.
Frank Simpson, superintendent OF the
road, was on the spot in a moment, and as
quick as possible every succor was given
to the injured. Those who were able to
stand the journey were taken in one of the
company's cars a short distance down the
line to st. Luke's Hospital, where their
wants were attended to. Others were re-
moved in hacks to the City and County
Hospital. while some who were slightly
bruised or shaken were able to proceed
unaided 10 their homes, save those who
sought the tender mercies Of the Receiving
Hospital.
Seven Of the injured people were at
once taken to the City and County Hos
pital. only few blocks away, where they
received immediate attention. Their
names and injuries were as follows:
Victor Baglietto. laborer, aged 10, of
s041a Filbert street, confusion of left
ankle.
Giobatti Baglietto, laborer. aged "a. of
S04b Filbert street. confusion of scalp,
right forearm and over right illIum.
Louis Fazio. laborer, aged %, of 52G
Filbert street, confusion over right
scapula.
David Vallerino, laborer. aged IS, SO41k
Fibert street. fracture of ribs on left side
and hemorrbage from lungs.
Guastayi Tazero, laborer. aged 49. 52s
Filbert street, fracture of left clavicle and
con fusion over left eve.
Dennis O'Day, laborer, aged 62, zoe
Clementina street. severe confusion over
the small of the back.
r. GOllrick, butcher. lived in Baden,
deep incsed wound in back of head,
fracture of lower jaw. confusion over left
eye and deep cut back of left knee.
OF the injured persons who were taken
to the City and County Hospital, Vallerino
is the only one whose wounds may prove
serious. Ii the hemorrhage from the lung
Is caused by rib having punctured the
lung the injury may prove fatal. The
surgeons could not say last night whether
this was the case or not.
Victor and Giobatti Baglietto and Louis
Fazio left the hospital for their bones al
soon as their injuries, which were trifling
had been attended TO. The remaining -four
we're cared for IN the wards of the hospital
None of them could give any clear &C
count Of the accident, but all agreed tina
the first intimation of danger was wheI
they felt themselves being pitched ovel
each other in the car and everything wa!
at once in ineXtricable confusion.
I'VE were coming home from work on
on the line of the road" said Dennis
O'Day at the hospital last night, with
never a thought of anything but to &c
home from orr weeks work as quickly a,
possible, and we were almost to the trans
fer, just coming down the hill to Thirty
first street, when crash! and it seemed a
If the car was rolling all the way dowi
the hill.
And then there was yelling and scream
ing. and we pulled ourselves out or wer
helped out by others as quickly as possible
and were soon brought to the hospital
But can't tell you how it happened, for i
came so suddenly that nobody had an,
time to think of anything except to say,
himself"
The physician Of the electric road, DIR
j. w. Jones, called at the City and COUNTY
Hospital laIe last night to see how tn
patients were progressing. and reported
that there was no one injured In the acct
dent whose wounds he thought would prov,
fatal.
At ST. Luke's Hospital nine of the in
jured were brought in for treatment, bu
four of them Immediately went away
their injuries not being sufficient to detail
them.
The first intimaticn the physicians hal
of the accident was about o'clock, an
shortly alter HE injured were brough