The herald., 1894-12-24
ONE WAS KILLED.
A Fatal Accident at a Rail
way Crossing Last
Night.
MOrORNEER AT FAULT.
A Terminal Train Crashed into
a Garvanza Electric
Car.
L. A. FYKE WAS KILLED.
rh~ Passenger Met His Dsath by Jump
Others Slightly Injured.

jured aud 25 passengers frightened and
badly shaken up. was the result Of .
railway accident at 9 O'Clock last even-
lug.
The accident occurred st the crossing
OF the Los Angeles Terminal railway
and the Los Angeles Consolidated Elect.
ric railway ON Pasadena avenue. just
across the Arroyo Seco.
Both trains were heavily loaded with
passengers and were coming into the
city. At the crossing there 10 . long
bend in the line Of the electric railway,
making itnecesssry to cross the Terminal
track.
no sraNALs.
1t has been the custom Of tho electric
car men to run their trains across the
track without tagging, and last evening
no variation was made BY the motor
neer. It was shortly before O'Clock.
when many people were returning from
Pasadena. Most OF the passengers were
from Gsrvanza. Every seat was taken
and the platform was crowded.
STOPPED ON THE CROSSING.
It is quite evident that the motornesr,
Frank p. Abbott, did not see the ap-
preaching Terminal train, which was
running at right angles to the electric
,ar. Some say that just before the
electric car reached the crossing Conduc.
,or Aivord eignalled the motorneer to
top, aud he checked up SO slowly that he
an the car directly on the track, and
topped. Then it Was that he realized
his position and managed to clear the
track by throwing open the motor.
Meanwhile the passenger train was
rushing toward the car. The passengers
became panic stricken. Those inside
who could see the headlights wild glare
shrieked aud jumped from their seats,
expecting in the next moment to be
crushed to meath. Women and children
became wild with excitement as the
rapidly approaching engine came closer
oar would never move.
The passengers ON the rear platform
we're better situated. They could see
tho relative positions of both their
avn end the approaching train. They
were ali ready to jump in cRae an aCci-
dsnt was unavoidable.
But the motorneer, realizing his ave-
ful position. was moving up. The Ter
minal train was within 30 feet OF the
electric car, when several OF the pas
sengers gave leap. A lady jumped out
upon the track and dragged herself off
just in time to save her life. Her ankle
was sprained.
z. A. FYKE KILLED.
Less fortunate was E. A. Fyke. He
had boarded the car At Garvanza
with Miss Percy, whom he WAS escorting
to the Arcade depot, preparatory to hcr
departure for San Francisco. They took
o seat in the car, but its condition soon
became 60 crowded that he gave it up for
the accom- notation of lady. who sat
down by his friend. He stood ON the
rear platform, on the opposite side from
which the Terminal train was approach
inx. ssv
Soon after the elderly lady jumped
to the ground, and alightsd in the middle
OF The Terminal track. Before he could
regain himself it wss all over. The loco.
motive struck the corner OF the car
and tore away part of the seat
aad end. A second later it struck
Fyke. He was knocked to the ground
Gnd showed along the track for 20 yards,
aod WIS finally thrown out to the right
b. the locomotive.
MASS OF BRoREN BONES.
Engineer Gross OF the Terminal stop.
ped his train Immediately. As he had
the emergency brakes applied. the train
did not run four csrlena this after strik-
ing the man.
The train backed up and the appar.
emily dying man was carefully laid in the
baggage car. He appeared as mass Of
broken bones and lacerated flesh. He
sustsiued compound fracture of both
the right and left legs; the left hand
Was cut off; compound fracture OF the
ls!t hip; the left ear torn in two, besides
several acalp wounds and cuts and
b.niaes.
He WAS READY FOR DEATH.
Fyke did not lose CONSEQUENCES, and
when transferred from the train to the
station at First street, preparatory to be-
Jag taken to the receiving hospital, he
talked freely Of the accident.
The dying man said that while the
Inn.orneer wRs somewhat careless. he
iimaeii was to blame in jumping in
u mt Of the engine. He said that he
W 'iueian Snu1 ~ Auo" Ao ""c
Nving, and that he had been prepared
ir death for months. His dying state.
nent was pathetic in the extreme.
IN THE RECEIVING HOSPITAL.
Mos feicy. owing to the crowded
condition OF the car and to the exoite-
ment, did not discover who the injured
j. saon was until the electric car was
'ly in town. She supposed that Mr..
/. no was safe and that be was still on
~ rear platform. Her grief was pits
it when she found that it was her
lend who ives injured.
he police ambulance conveyed the
tying man to the hospital where DR.. I.
H. Burnett, surgeon OF the Terminal
lailway. Polics Surgeon Bryant, and
Il ,iway Surgsons F. X. Ainsworth and
u. S. Gates attended him. But ID was