The San Francisco call., 1899-05-30
TRAIN CRASHES
INTO STREET CAR
Disaster at a Seattle
Crossing.
ONE KILLED, MANY INJURED
PASSENGERS HURLED INTO THE
WATERS OF THE BAY.
But Single Life Is Lost in the
Scramble Of the Excited Men
and Women to Gain the
and.
PASSENGERS HURLED INTO THE
WATERS OF THE BAY.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch to The Call
SEATTLE. May ga collision occurred
this morning near the Washington Iror
Works between Grant street car con-
tanning about twenty-five persons and the
local Olympia Northern Pacific passenger
train. One man was killed and eight in
jured, two quite severely. The dead:
EMANUEL BROAD aged 81 years; la
borer of South Seattle
The injured:
Z. E. Hope of Georgetown. left arm
crushed
Frank Honidits OF South Seattle, leg
broken.
Duncan Brown OF Georgetown, badly
bruised about the back and arms, and
George Brown Of South Park, slightly
injured.
II. e. Bull Of Georgetown. nose broken
S. McLeon of South Seattle. wrist
sprained side injured and head and face
- Braemer of Georgetown, bruised
i. F; Henry of South Seattle, bruised
Mrs. ]. Peters of South Seattle. bruised
George Lindoff of South Seattle, head
W Sumner OF South Seattle, slightly
carl ,Frickesen of Georgetown. cut and
bruised.
Dan Vandewater of South Seattle, la
bOrer, cut on head.
E. W. Prouty, slightly bruised
Frank Sharpe. two ribs broken.
Martin Middlestead of Georgetown
Mrs. Ella f. Morgan of South Seattle,
badly bruised on body.
The electric car was coming into the
city and the train was just starting out
for Olympia. They met nearly head on
at the intersection OF the two tracks. The
passengers of the electric car We're 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 is
known every one is accounted for
When MOtOrman Sharpe of the electric
car saw the train approaching he applied
tne prakes axes Wlth an ms power put the
track was slippery and his car crashed
into the locomotive. The passengers made
frantic efforts 10 get out of the car. The
mOtOrman and conductor succeeded in
later the engine of the train crashed into
the street car and nearly all the passen-
gers were thrown into the water below.
Manuel Broad succeeded in getting of
the car but could not get out of its way
and when the engine hit the car he was
struck by il and knocked into the water
terribly injured internally, he grabbed q
pile and held on. When another passen-
ger 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 le
down and both of them hauled up. Broad
died on the way TO the hospital
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 every one was quickly takeI
out Some were clinging to piles, some
were struggling and swimming about anC
others were crawling up the piles anC
timberS. Everything was in the creates
confusion. The wrecked electric car lay
on its side almost at right angles witt
the rails, while the passenger train wa.
some fifty feet distant from where tbs
electric car lay. The locomotive headlight
was broken and The cowcatcher wa!
badly deranged, while the whole from
end was covered with broken glass anC
debris from the electric car
Harry Z. Bull says ne was sitting in tn
front end of the car on the right hanC
side. All he remembers was a crash anC
then he felt himself going through tn
window of the car into the bay. He wa
able to swim and after coming to tn,
surface reached pile and crawled upon
the trestle.
George Lindoff was not so fortunate
He became ineXtricably mixed up in tn,
confused mass of humanity trying to ge
out of the rear door. lie was seated in tn
middle of the car.
1T seemed to me-" said he that tn
car simply opened up and let me down
Lindoff says he caught the trestle as h
went down and held on. His next recol
lection is that the wheels Of the locomo
on top of him. For fear of being cut il
two he loosened his grasp and droppet
into the bay. He reached. a trestle an,
thence climbed upon a cross plate an,
hung on. Presently a, boy came along il
a boat and he climbed in and was rowei
TO where he could get on terra firma
Both Lindoff and Bull remember moth
ing that occurred after they got out o
the water. until they came to themselve
in the residence of Mrs. Hunter, VIII
lives about hundred yards from TIL
track near the scene of the accident
the trestle when Mrs. Hunter found then
and took them to her home and dresse
their wounds.
Gus Brown was standing on the rea
platform. After the crash he found him
self standing on his head inside the car
He next found himself struggling in tn
water.
When Motorman Sharpe jumped from
the car he landed against a fence and
reported TO have broken two ribs
No official statement of the collision ha
been made. The railroad had the righ
Of way. The motorman claims he en-
deavored TO make the customary stor
ure Of the sand apparatus TO work h
was unable to stop before reaching tn
crossing. He did not hear the railroa
men sound any alarm, ring the bell no
blow the whistle.
The railroad people insist that they ar
not in any way to blame. The enginee
claimed he had every reason to expec
the electric car to stop at safe distance
The railroad men claim the fact that tn
locomotive was brought to a stop With
less than a hundred feet of the crossin
Is evidence that the train could not hav
been moving at great speed.
The electric car was behind time an
was going al a pretty lively rate