The record-union., 1899-05-30

Washington Iron Works at
Seattle.
SEATTLE CWash.), May 29.-A local
passenger train of the Northern Pa
cifc and Grant street electric car
collided near Washington Iron Works
to-day, precipitating about twenty Live
passengers into the bay. One passen-
ger, E. Broad, died on the way to the
hospital Another passenger named
Hoffeditz was seriously, if not fatally,
injured. Some of the other passengers
were seriously hurt.
The water where the people were
thrown into the bay was about fifteen
feet deep, and it was a miracle that
some of them were not drowned. So
far as known every passenger is ac-
counted for.
Harry Sharp, the motorman, saved
his life by jumping. He struck against
a fence, and it is reported that two
ribs were broken.
The accident occurred at a crossing.
1t is not clearly understood how the
accident occurred, as the stories con-
fict The railroad company has the
right of way at the crossing, but it
seems that the gates We're not down.
The motorman saw the train coming
but it was too late to stop The track
was very slippery. The passengers saw
the train coming, but expected the car
to stop every moment.
Broad, the man who died from his
injuries, was struck by the locomotive
He was thrown into the bay, and,
though terribly injured, grabbed a pile,
and seeing another passenger about to
sink, he grabbed him with his free
hand and held him until both could be
drawn out
LATER PARTICULARS OF THE
ACCIDENT.
SEATTLE, May pa collision oc-
CURED this morning near the Washing
ton Iron Works between a Grant street
car containing, as near as can be
learned, twenty-five persons, and the
local Olympia Northern Pacific passen-
ger train. One man was killed and sew
eral people injured, two quite severely.
Following is the list:
Dead-Emanuel Broad, aged 30, la
borer of South Seattle
Injured-E +. Hope Georgetown,
badly bruised about back and arms,
cut over one eye; George Brown, South
Park, slightly injured; H. E. Bull,
Georgetown, nose broken, head cut; S.
McLeon, South Seattle, wrist broken.
side injured, head and face cut; -
Braemer, Georgetown, bruised about
body; H. F. Henry, South Seattle.
bruised about the body; George Lindoff,
South Seattle, head cut; w. Summer,
South Seattle, slightly bruised; Carl
Fickesen, Georgetown. cut and bruised;
Dan Vandewater, South cattle, Ia
borer cut on head: E. w. Prouty,
slightly bruised; Frank Sharpe, two
ribs broken; Martin Middlestead,
Georgetown. body bruised; Mrs. Ella
E. Morgan, South Seattle, badly bruised
on body
Broad died while being taken to the
hospital
The electric car was coming into the
city and the train was just starting out
for Olympia They met nearly head OH
at the intersection of the two tracks
The passengers of the electric car were
all thrown into the bay where the water
was nearly fifteen feet deep 1t is a
wonder that no one was drowned during
the panic that followed the collision.
So far as known everyone is accounted
for
When Motorman Sharpe of the cleo
applied the brakes with all his power,
but the track was slippery and his car
crashed into the locomotive The pas
sengers made frantic efforts to get out
of the car. The motorman and con-
ductor succeeded in jumping off the
platform, but an instant later the en-
gine of the train crashed into the street
car, and about all the peple We're
thrown into the water below, including
the man who was fatally injured. AL
though he succeeded in getting off the
car he could not succeed in getting out
of it's way, and when the engine hit the
car he was struck by it and knocked
into the water. Without a moments
hesitation, although terribly injured in
ternally, he promptly grabbed a pile
and held on. When another passenger
on the car was about to sink, the in
jured man grabbed him with his free
arm and held him up until rope could
be let down and both of them hauled
up.
AS quickly as possible the train was
stopped and the train crew, assisted
by employees of the Washington Iron
Works, made heroic efforts to get the
frightened passengers out of the water
With ropes and boards everyone was
quickly taken out. Some were cling
ing to piles some were struggling and
swimming about, and others We're
crawling up the piles and timbers.
Everything was in the direst con-
fusion. The wrecked electric car lay
On its side almost at right angles With
the rails, while the passenger train was
some fifty feet distant from where the
electric car lay. The locomotive head
light was broken and the cowcatcher
badly deranged, while the front end
was covered with broken glass and de-
bris from the electric car
Harry f. Bull and George Lindoff
tell the following as their experience:
Bull was sitting in the front end of
the car on the right-hand side. All he
remembers was crash, and then he
felt himself going through the window
of the car into the bay He was able
to swim, and after coming to the sur
face reached a pile and crawled upon
the trestle.
sLindoff was not so fortunate. He
became inextlicably mixed up in the
confused mass of humanity trying to
get out of the rear door He was seated
in the middle of the car. 1T seemed
to me- said he, that the car simply
opened up and let me down."
Lindoff says he caught the trestle as
he went down and held on. His next
recollection is that the wheels of the
locomotive We're coming toward him
and almost on top of him. For fear of
being cut in two he 1oosened his grasp