The herald., 1895-11-17

felt the car falling. Before be knew
what had happened he became uncon-
scio IS and remembered nothing more
until he came to at the hospital. Looney' {:
passengers. At midnight three more
bodies had been Identified. One of them
Is Bessie Davis. aged 81, OF kohoeS street.
Miss Davis was = school teacher. James
Mclaughlin, aged IS. OF n Trowbridge
avenue, had his neck broken, Harry W..
Foster, aged 81. OF No. II Mentor avenue,
q clerk, was drowned.
Battalion Chief Rebbeok OF the fire de-
partmsnt, was crossing the bridge at the
time OF he accident. He was on the op.
posits side OF the draw. He does not
know what caused the accident. When he
first saw the car he thought it was standing
on the east side of the draw. All Of sud
den 1t plunged over into the river. Chief
Rebbeck was the first to give the alarm
by telephonins to the police and fire de-
parsmcnts. Thousands OF people remained
at the scene until long after midnight
and hundreds OF anxious searchers have
moved In procession from one morgus to
another looking for friends or relatives
who arc supposed to bs missing. Tho
scenes about the morgue when the dead
were identified were touching in the x
treme.
One Of the Unidentified bodies is that
OF boy about 10. In the pocket was q
handkerchief with the name Curt
Lephne." Newspaper clippings in the
recently arrived with his mother from
Europe. and that he had stayed at the
Queens hotel in Halifax.
A woman named Sadie Logan, aged 20,
10 missing. She started from her home
on Muirson street at 7 O'Clock to go 70
the South Side, and ut midnight she had
not returned. 1t is believed that she was
In the wrecked car.
Dead SO far as identified:
Mrs. Minnie Brown, aged Is. residence
unknown.
- Hoffman, conductor.
Henry W. Meoklenb RS, IS years Of age,
OF 90 Mary street, tailor.
Curt Lephne, aged 10, residence un.
known.
Bessie Davis, aged 20.
James M'Laushlin, aged So, OF No. y
Trowbridge avenue, printer.
Harry W; Foster, aged 81, Of Mentor
avenue, o clerk.
Matthew Callahan. aged 81 years, Of
Hamilton street.
Mr.. Sauerheimer, aged 35, Professor
street. Mrs. Martha Sauerheimer, aged
10, OF No. l54 Merchant avenue.
Rogers, the mOtorman of the Car, was
arrested late tonight at his home, l4S &C.
dar avenue. and was held in $4,000 bail to
await the result of the coronsr's Inquest.
When taken into custody ne said:
The conductor went ahead and turnsd
the switch, sgiving me the signal to come
ahead. l supposed that everything was
all right and did not notice that the
draw was open. l uppose was deceived
by the fact that the electric lights ia the
Car did not 60 out when We passed the
cutoff. When discovered that the gates
to the draw were closed | jumped fro
my car. falling on the edge OF the bridge
and barely escaped rolling over. When
saw what had happened and realized the
extent ran across the bridge until
fOund q policeman and told him to get
help. Then went pown below the bridge
where they were at work on the wreck
and afterwards went home"
Rogers was closely questioned by the
detectives and chief of police, but ne in
sisted that the conductor had given him
the proper signal to 10 anead. ~
Mrs. W. A. Hoffman, 14l5 Pearl street.
Harvey. Holman. Is years old, son OF
Mrs. W. A. Hoffman.
viaduct, the blame for the ffightful calan
ity was laid at tho door OF Motorman
Rogers and Conductor Huffman. Nearly
all the blame however, was placed on
Rogers, who has boon in the em ploy of
the big consolidated street Iailway COM
pany for years. Charles Bremen, the
bridge captain, says:
II was on duty ut the time. It was
about 1920 whom boat coming up the
river whistled for the orb wbridge. then
gave the signals to Engineer Patterson
and the gate guards. l shut both gates
at the north approach myself, ran up
the red light on the pole ami hung the
lights, as is we'll known, signify danger
that the draw 10 open. Then l gave
the ensineor the signal to draw the
wedge and also gave the signal of one
bell, which was the order to swing the
bridge. The bridge had swung clear and
the boat had approached almost under
1t when | was dun hfounded to see
large combination street car with at last
twenty passengers inside slowly but
surely approaching, and only about forty
five feet away. l cried out with all my
misht: Stop! For God sake's stop the
carl
"The motorman was endeavoring to
stop the car, but 1t seemed thai bis
efforts were Of no avail. the car coming
gave way, and In second the car had
gone over the precipice. As the car
struck the gates the frightened motorman
jumped and fell on the bridge. AS soon
as the car went over l leaned over the
bridge and cried to the meu on the tug
notify this police and ambulances Of the
awful accident when they went up the
river. l saw the motorman about zen
minutes after the accident. but he disap-
peared shortly afterward. No blame can
b5 attached to those In charge of the
bridge. The accident is entirely the fault
of the crew Of the motor
On the rear platform of the car before
it maze the plunge were G. A. Ferguson
OF Parma, o., John Sorsie of 7343 Wood
land avenue. Haak Peterson of Dorn,
George Ross of SO Quincy, Bald of 81
Peton and Jack Halter of Swan, who
jumped. All who jumped were saved.
Haller says the car was going slow and
he heard some one cry: "Stop the car;
stop the car" He also says tnere was a
woman on thu car, and that she jun ped,
hut Immediately cried out That her
daughter was in the car.
John Sorgle said: Near the draw on
the viaduct noticed the conductor leave
the car and pull cham which l sup
POSED operated q safety device in the
track. The conductor waved his hand
and the car moved slowly forward. |
first heard CIV: Stop! Stop Then
little man standing near the car step
yelled JUMP l felt the rsar part of the
car begin to raise up. and blindly jumped
over the platform railing, not knowing
how or where l would land. l picked
myself up about six feet from the edge OF
the open draw and picked my hat from
others lying about. There we're four
other men on the platform besides my
self. One wore glasses and one who