The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-18

Nt<% ti@4-rF SayS tire car was Soing
SLOW. ana ne heard sonrc one cry. stop
ne car, Step the carr lie also saws
i there vas woman ou the ear. and that
S-te jumped and landed safely, hut crf.a
oAt Ihaf her daughter was in the car.
Sohh aoTsie related his experience as fol-
.o"s cn nearing the draw on the via
1"S1 4 hotlced the conductor leave the car
ana pun a chain. which supposed oper-
2tea a safety device in the track Tho
conductor wave5 his hand and TIE ear
moved slowly forward. 7 hrsf heari a
CRY, stop Stop" Then e little man
standing near the car yeitei -Iumpr I
IeH the rear Part Il the car hazsn tu rise
up' and t.indly jumped over the plss-
IoFm fdllioE, not knowing how or v 1ere
would land I picked myself an about
six feet from The edge OF the omen draw.
ana picked my hat from among others
lying about. There were three other
men On the platform beside myself one
wore glasses, ana another, tho Que who
yelled jump. had on a macintosh liz
came through my mind that the car was
going down. saw the sate moving the
moment / Jumped. I was leaning against
the door, bat turned my head. when Some
one on the vi&duct cried stop" I knew
no one IN the car at the time. There was
an awful crash when the car struck"
The number Of victims was Increased to
hfteen today hy the discovery OF TWO more
bodies IN the river. All of the dead are
identified but four persons who were sup
posed 10 have been on the Inflated car as
X made the awful plunge are sim missing,
and there seems Sc be M doubt that their
bodies VIII be taken from The bottom OF
the river when the heavy iron trucks Of
the wrecked motor are raised. one of the
bodies found today was that OF Gert.e
Hoffman. aged'4 who was going home from
store where her father was employed
with her mother and brother. The ch.ld's
body vas found living against the bank
OF the river some distance below the scene
Of the accident and was Identified soon
after being taken out. The other body
found today was that OF I.9u.s HuletZ. a
maI carrier, aged 2S who lived with his
WIFE at IS Bevier street His head was
split omen from the top down 20 the chin,
ana there is no doubt he was dead before
the car settled into the water. one OF the
identified bodies was that Of Miss Mary
Mitcnen, a German domestic employed a A
house on Bell avenue. She was = years
old Another body identified was that of
Mrs- Martha Palmer, a dressmaker Of It's
Wentworth avenue. Augusta Sarinskis
body was picked out OF the unidentified At
the morgue by her employer. She was a
German girl aged r. and The daughter Of
German police officer She had been IN
this country only a few months. The list
Of dead and missing follows
killed-James Mclaughlin. baseball play
Klenherg, merchant tailor. S. Mary street;
Edward Hoffman. conductor. III East End
avenue: Mrs. John A. Saucrheimer. 20
Professor street Miss Bessie Davis school
teacher IN the SacNett school, i07 Noyes
street; Harry W. Foster clerk for he Root
& Mcbride Company. 81 Mentor avenue:
Mrs. Minnie c, Brown. 10 Thursman street:
Curt Lepsena, Jennings street; Mrs. A. $.
Hoffman, 30 years old, io5S Pearl street;
Harvey Hoffman, : years old. l05s Pearl
street; Mrs. NJ. Palmer, les Wentworth
avenue; Marie Mitchen, domestic, Bell ave
nue.; Augusta Sariusk. 2G Central ave
nue.: Gerte Hoffman. years old, 1858
Pearl street; Louis +. Huletz. mail carrier,
IS Bevier street
Missing Miss II. S. sauerhe,mer. 15l
Merchant avenue. - Looney. years
Old 37iz Clinton street: b. G Page. resi-
dence unknown, Matt Callahan. Hamilton
street
August Rogers. the motorman. Is stll
detained at the central station. though
he is held only a witness before the cor
oner- He talked about the accident todays
saying:
1T was my second trip. just after icav-
ing the market house / looked into the
car. and from what can remember there
were about twenty or twenty-five paSsen-
gers. They Vere mostly women and chil-
dren | think. When my motor reached
the switch az the approach TO the draw
In the viadurt, shut of tie current and
applied the brakes The car came 10 =
full stop and the conductor ran ahead and
threw the switch. lie motioned me ahead
with a wave Of his arm. | put my lever
at the first notch, and as ! passed the con-
ductor. who always stands al the switch
lever until the car passes. WAS running al
the rate OF possibly four miles an hour
j looked back as I always DO. and saw him
ge. on the rear platform. Looking ahead.
| thought l saw the gates at the draw
closed over the track, but as my lights
were burning and ] had current. the
thought occurred TO me that my eyes must
have been a. fault 7 was Just IN the act
Of giving, and possibly gave. the lever "A
slight push forward when ] was startled
by the gates just in front OF me. and /
heard some one cry Jump ] don't know
whether I reversed the current or not, for
7 realized the danger and leaped from the
vestibule As | leapcd ! thought / would
plunge headiong down into the river. but
as the car struck the gate I fen on it and
caught the iron frame and saved myself.
The car went down with an awful crash.
but / never heard a murmur or any hing
that resembled a scream"
Here Rogers buried hts face in his hands
and cried My God. It's an awful thing"
His wife. who stood by his side. consoled
him by saying. Certainly. IL was no fault
of yours. NO" he replied, "huI think
Of it. Oh. my God. Just think Of lt." Rog-
ers then buried his head deeper IN his hands
and began 10 sob and moan When he mad
recovered himself. he continued:
when I was freed from the iron gate
! scarcely knew what 70 Do. 7 was aazei
/ finally concluded 10 run back t1 tht MAJ
ket house and tell tho police. I d.d thia
and then ran hack - the scene 10 tha ae-i.
dent. ] hurried down the emh8ukmeut ard
began 10 pull bodies out of tfe water. I
worked there fully an hour maybe an
hour ana half then ! grew sex and went