The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-11
CAR JUMPED THE TRACK.
Took a Wild Plunge Down a
Ten-Foot Embankment.
WITH rwEHTY-sIx PASSENGERS.
A marrow and Lasky Escape Prom
peasb-The Cause of the Accident
Was the FafIure OF the Brakes
Terrible Momentum Hurts Every
body Int a Heap-The Conductor
the Only Person Seriously Hurt

body Int a Heap-The Conductor
TN. Only Person Seriously Hurt
A mos. remarkable street car aeciaent
took place yesterday afternoon az ne cor
nar u Howard avenue DoTfn ana Amy
street; reTaar IA bic for ths fact tnat t"rN-
ty-ssx passengers, q Ea0EorrnaH ard q eoti-
dnef0r we're not either killed outright or
NAMED fer life. remarkable aSaln be-
cause one az the heaviest street cars on
the Third Street and Suburban Railway
Ceupar.y's road plunged down n ten-foot
enhankmeut With It's load OF humanity
and SUI maintained its upright position
No matter from what point OF vie. the
accident j. looked al Il calls forth saper-
fstgvAs II haDueued IL the twlnkIinE OF
an ere: was over end a thing OF the past
IN almost as short a time. and before the
news had time % work Us way down town
every man or Womsn who had been IN x
MAS AZ home.
OF fhe swenty-eight people cu the car
the only one who was injured 20 any great
extent waa Conductor Peter Robinson.
and he escaped with one broken rio. I'd
Lawson. the motorman. who stuck 20 his
post from the time the brake refused 10
work Until the front end u the car buried
rs nose ia the soft earth. escaped with
1nIy . small cut on his lip from par
ticIe OF the liying glass that showered
about bis head when the passengers took
az iFupFomptu rush into the front end OK
the car.
Many Of the passengers were not even
thrown oaG ~ their seats, and Il took
only a short tine 20 clear the car. Tue
climax being over. some OF the women
broke d0an and commenced 20 cry. one
tainted and general confusion prevailed.
much ia contrast 10 what took place dur
ing the time the car was running down
the hltl preparatory 20 jumping the track
and piungiug over the enhancement. one
man named Robbie thought bis lex was
broker. bat lt subsequently turned out that
~ was able 10 take the steamer Flyer for
Tacoma. According 70 reports. hardly one
OF fhe twenty-sight people on the car es-
caped without some kind OF a brulse, but
che Official list % those injured shows only
seven We're disabled IN any way shape or
manner. and that there was not a leg or
an arm broken. one report had IL that
Mrs. Victor Denny had her lex broken.
This proved 70 be- untrue. She had her leg
bruised. and that was all Il was said
that -. Hegquisi had his kneecap broken.
Mr.. HegqHst emphatically denied this 10
a reporter ana SAID that the only injuries
he received were slight cut on his hand
and bruise on his leg
a Mrs. App. who lives in the Denny
Thurman addition vas well shaken up
IN the jam AZ the end % the car. but not
seriously injured Two other ladies' whose
names could not he learned received cuts
on the head BY being thrown to the front
end OF the car
The scene OF the accident can be readily
called 10 mind by remembering where The
old CliH house. az the south end OF Lake
Union Il located II Is just a friae to the
east Of the corner OF Howard avenue
north and Amy street Another help In
this direction 3 hy remembering that the
car left the track just where the old
horse car line ended. Howard avenue for
two or three blocks before the curve at
the corner OF Amy street Is reached Is
down hill Amy street runs up hill speak
ing on the suppositiun that one ls on an
outward bound car. n can been seen from
this that a car going down Howard ave
Bue turns on q sharp curve 20 Army
street. and then goes up hill The down
grade on Howard avenue IS pronounced
ant u ear acquires more than ordinary
speed the probability 81 that 10 viii leave
the rails and continue on down Howard
avenue. The result Of such a course is
that the embankment. only a short dis
lance back from Lake Union. VII he
reached and the Car must uecassa rlIv
plunge down 10. This embankment Is fair
~ prrripitous. bat not more than ten or
twelve feet 70 the base. The earth on
both the edge and at the base is soft af-
fordinE a good cushion for any heavy fan
tug body From lhe curve To the edge ~
the emhaakment u Is not more than eight
or ten feet
About TWO weeks aEo fat car got
away ~ the top Of the Howard avenue
hin and ran 3 merry race down 60 tho
curve. whore it jumped thc track knock
o. down a telegraph pole and went head
long over the embamkeDont 20 fhe green
sRaFd below. 80 is sem there. keenin-
company with the big ear that followed
its example
At 2i5 o'clock ear Nc 6 ona 81 the
heaviest ard longest orr the Third stree.
and suburban road left tire terminus et
TIE corner ~ fhird avenue ard Yeslfr len
Charge ~ Conductor Peter Robinsen ana
Nat7tWan 6d fHwsau These mon are
among Dc oldest aud most reliable of tba
employees of thc company. having been
WITH y since cars were Hfst ruu. ON thu
tHn oHf tweafy-StN gfaeyuvrr> were pick
ta up AmcaN iheW We're Peter X Pr
t.f ~ho 81 aeH knewn owing - mis- rsn-
Urrtion with gre public library. nr Pre-
vest. 30 th- Copeland Medical Institute
- hrHluist 81 Kingston w a. No
certify of SEA sixth avenue north. Mrs
N.1iar Denny Mrs. App md Nr ReNhf.
'Ho ia1F haa "a Hftle baby fu her arms
HHd before the STORY Is THROUGH q v{i
fe eseu thst she jS q rcnarksnf. Ht,le
Woman and thar trr h7by has tre r.r-s
al veteran wttr'rr
owing 81 the l.ffr-rprr in tNe v.4v fhs
sag& Sfe araH-ea or many ~ the .-er-
a may 20 sass t1ef NJ + haa ths rretsi7.