The Portland daily press., 1898-02-01
Results in a Fatal Electric Car Ae
cident in HaVerhill.
CARS CRASH TOGETHER RUNNING
AT HIGH SPEED.
One Motorman Terribly Injured and Will
Die Other Motorman and Several Pas
sengers Badly Hurt.

| Haverhill, Mass, January 31.-The
worst electric car accident that has ever
occurred on the local lines, happened
near, the foot of Pipestave. West New
bury, shortly after 8 O'Clock this morning,
and, as result, Motorman Hudson will
probably lose his life.
| The cars were Nos. and 6 of the Peo-
ple's line, vestibule electrics of high pow
er, and were bowling along at good speed
| to make up for lost time,an cars running
about half an hour late. There were but
few passengers in either car, four in the
down and five IN the up car, and the two
motormen are the worst sufferers of the
wreck.
The cars are locked in together, the for
ward ends of both smashed in. and the
wonder is that the results were not more
serious than they were.
| Conductor Mitchell, after waiting at
the turnout near Stewart s house for-sev'
eral minutes, gave his motorman order
| to go ahead, hoping to make the othei
switch on the farther side of Pipestay
hill in time. They were bowling along
at good speed when the car rounded the
bend in the road just above the house ol
| Calvin Brown and Motorman Hudson
sighted the up car of Motorman Hacket
and Conductor Cobb coming up the
| line. They, too, gained a great speed or
the per cent grade of the hill, and botf
mon saw that an accident was ineyi
table.
| Hackett had the better control of hi'
| car and was nearly at a standstill WheI
the collision came. Hudson could not
| stop his chr. The rail was bad one and
the speed already gained and the weight
| of the car made stop impossible, ano
! the two cars came together with terrible
| impact. The two front platforms tele.
scoped.
| Hudson's S right leg was crushed off be-
low the knee and he was terribly cut and
bruised about the head and body.
| When the wreokage was cleared away
| by the men from the neighborhood,
Hackett was found on his platform
pinned in by the wreckage, and though
cut about the head and face, safe from
serious injury, though if the force of the
collision had driven the cars three inches
further his life would have been crushed
out.
Conductor Andrew Mitchell Of the
down car was standing in the centre OF
| this car when the crash came and was
plunged forward and rendered almost
unconscious.
| Thomas Smith, Boston LIQUOR dealer,
who resides in West Newbury, was in the
up car and his head was cut quite badly
and his back sprained. Two boys, Henry
| Rogers and Waldo Bailey of West New
bury, also in this car, were thrown to the
floor, but not badly hurt. Miss Carrie
Hammond of Newburyport, was in tt Q
car, and was badly shaken up and had
one ankle broken.
On the down car Lewis II. Pingree OF
Georgetown was badly shaken up. Vm.
| Bradley Of Kent street, this city, hao !.
bad ,bruise on one leg and feels lame and
sore in other places. Miss Nellie Merrill
of West Newbury was shaken up and t
is thought she may be internally injure i.
M. D. Smart and Miss May Bailes We g
on this car, but were not so badly inju d
but that they could proceed to Newhur I,
port Conductor Cobb escaped witht Ut
injury.