The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-27
Over Eighty Lives Crushed Out
Beneath a Tangled Mass
of Wreckage.
AN ELECTRIC CAR GOES DOWN
WITH ITS PASSENGERS.
Appalling Disaster That Mars a Cele.
bration in Honor of England's
Queen.

VICTORIA, B. c., May 26.-The gayety
and jubilee with which loyal Victorians
were to have celebrated the anniversary
OF their Queens birth to-day were turned
to sadness and mourning by an appalling
accident, in which scores of lives went
out.
As the thousands of jewellers were trav-
cling for Macaulay Point shortly after
l o'clock to witness the sham fight and
naval review near the Esquimalt station,
the bridge over Point EIlIce Bay gave way,
precipitating into the waters 100 feet be-
meath a heavily loaded electric car and
several private vehicles.
Down upon this struggling human mass
came the giant timbers of the bridge,
crushing out dozens of lives. A strong
tide swept out to sea the bodies of many
who escaped death in the awful plunge,
and of the 200 persons who were hurled
into the water scarcely half survive.
The list of dead numbers upward Of
eighty, and the bodies of sixty-two un-
fortunates have been recovered Many of
those borne away By the tide will never
be found, and rhe actual loss of life Will
probably never be known.
E. B. CARMICHAEL, commission agent.
J. B. GORDON, Bradstreet's agent.
Mrs ADAMS. widow of f. Adams, who
was drowned in the Yelos accident last
year.
J. EDMoNDs Victoria.
Miss NATHAN, Spring Ridge.
J. BossI, storekeeper, Victoria.
ARTHuR FULLERTON. son OF W. T. Full
lerton, Spring Ridge.
Mrs. HEATHERBELL, wife of William
Heatherbell, Victoria.
J. WILSON, a son of Superintendent vii.
son.
w. VAN BoKKELE, Port Townsend.
MISS ANNIE KEAsT, daughter Of Arthur
Keast, Deputy Registrar OF the Supreme
Court, Victoria.
CAPTAIN LEvERIDGE, Spring Ridge.
MRS G. 1. Posi-, Victoria.
MASTER PosT, son of the last named.
ARCHIE BIeeAR, aged years, son of
George w. Biggar.
Miss B1eeAR, aged years, daughter of
George w. Biegar.
FRANK OREsTA, bootblack, Victoria.
Miss MINNIE ROBERTSON, daughter of W.
a. Robertson.
Mrs. E. B. CARMICHAEL.
FRED ADAMS, son of the late Contractor
Adams.
=. HOLMES bookkeeper of the Sayward
Milling Company.
Miss SOPHIE SMITH, Victoria.
MISS BURT, Anacorses
JAMES LAURIE, Victoria.
WILLIAM PEARSON, Victoria.
MISS TURNER, Victoria.
The two MISSES BowNRss, Victoria.
MISS F. JACKSON, Victoria.
GUrssEPPI Rowe, son of Sergeant Major
Mulcahey.
MISS EMMA OLSEN, Victoria.
MISS GRACE ELFoRD, Victoria.
- JAMES, Victoria.
JAMES THOMAS PATTERSON, Victoria.
GABRIEL MARRATTA, Victoria.
Mrs. Tour, Seattle.
MRS. WooDHoUsE, Seattle.
= JACKSON a cattleman, Victoria.
Miss FLORA JACKSON, Victoria.
H TALBOT, the motorman, Victoria.
GEORGE FARR, the conductor, Victoria.
MRS HoUsAE, Victoria.
JAMES HENRY TYAcK, Victoria.
Miss IDA GooDAcRE, Victoria.
number OF unidentified bodies have
also been recovered, and more are being
brought to the surface hourly. Among
the injured are:
CANON PADDoN. Victoria, bruised and suf-
located by water.
Ex-ALDERMAE w. A. ROBERTSON, Vic
toria, head badly cut.
G. W. BIeeAR, Victoria, badly cut about
the head.
MRS. BIeeAR, Victoria. badly bruised and
strang,ed by water.
DR.. LANG, Victoria badly bruised.
The sham-fght and naval review were
to take place at Macaulay Point, near
Esquimalt, this afternoon, and crowds
were making their way there by every
route. All the tramcars were packed with
visitors. AT 80 o'clock large and
heavily laden car left Government street,
having upward of 1oc people on board.
When the middle span of the traffic
bridge, about $50 feet in length, was
reached it collapsed, throwing the car and
a number of carriages and foot-passengers
into the water. 100 feet beneath.
'The car vas completely submerged. and