The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-30
A HEAD END COLLISION
Passenger Train Crashes Into q
Street Car.
HURLED INTO THE BAY
One Man Killed and Eighteen People
We're Injured A Wonder That
No One Was Drowned-Track
Was Slippery.

| works between a Grant street electric
car containing as near as can be learn
ed 25 passengers and the local Olympia
Northern Pacific passenger train. One
man was killed and IS injured, two
quite seriously. Following is the list:
| Dead:
EMANUEL BROAD, aged 35, laborer,
| Of South Seattle.
| Injured:
E. E. Hope, Georgetown, left arm
| crushed.
| Frank Hofiditz, South Seattle; leg
| broken.
Duncan Brown, 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
sprained, side injured, head and face
cut.
Braemer, Georgetown; bruised
about body.
H. F. Henry. South Seattle; bruised
about body.
Mrs. ]. Peters. South Seattle; bruised
about body.
George Lindoff, South Seattle, head
cut.
W. Summer, South Seattle; slightly
bruised.
Carl Fickeisen, Georgetown, head cut.
Jake Newman, Georgetown; cut and
bruised.
Daniel Van Dewater, South Seattle,
laborer; cut on head
E. w. Prouty; slightly bruised
Frank Sharpe; two ribs broken.
Martin Mid5JpStpa6 GaorpetnIyp.
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 on
at the intersection of the two tracks.
The passengers of the electric car We're
nearly all thrown into the bay, where
the water was nearly Is feet deep. 1t
| is a wonder that no one was drowned
during the panic that followed the col
lision. So far as known, everyone Is
| accounted for.
When Motorman Sharpe of the cleo
trio car saw the train approaching he
applied the brake with all his power,
but the track was slippery and his car
crashed into the locomotive. The pas
sengers made frantic efforts to get off
| succeeded in jumping off the PLATFORM
but an instant later the engine of the
train crashed into the street car and
about all of the people We're thrown
into the water below, including the man
who was fatally injured. Although he
succeeded in getting off the car, he did
not succeed in getting out of the way
and when the engine hit the car he was
struck by it and knocked into the water.
| Without a moments hesitation, al
though terribly injured internally he
promptly seized pile and held it. See
ing that another passenger on the train
was about to sink, the injured man
caught him with his free hand and held
him until a rope could be let down and
both of them were 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 every one was
quickly taken out. Some We're found
| clinging to piles, some We're struggling
| and swimming about. and others were
| crawling up the piles and timbers.
Everything was in the drest confu-
sion. The wrecked electric car lay on
its side almost at right angles with the
| rails, while the passenger train was
some so feet distant from where the
electric car lay. The locomotive head
light was broken and the cowcatcher
badly damaged, while the whole front
end was covered with broken glass and
debris from the electric car.
| Harry E. 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 re-
| members was a crash and he felt him.
self going through the window of the
car into the bay. He was able to swim,
oft I'M fN tt,n t-fs
reached a pile and crawled upon the
trestle.
Lndoff was not so fortunate. He
became inextricably mixed up in the
confused mass of humanity trying to
get out of the rear door. He was seat
ed in the middle of the car.
"It seemed to me-" said he, that the
car simply opened 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 towards him,
and almost on top Of him. For fear of
being cut in two he loosened his grasp
and plunged into the bay. He reached
trestle and thence climbed upon
crossplate and hung on. Presently
boy came along in boat and he
climbed in and was rowed to where he
could get on terra firma.
Both Lindoff and Bull. after getting
out of the water remember nothing
much until they came to themselves
properly in the residence of Mrs. Hun
ter, who lives about 100 yards down
the car track from the scene of the ac-
cident They were wandering aimless-
ly about the trestle when Mrs. Hunter
found them and took them to her home
and dressed their wounds
Gus Brown was standing on the rear
platform. After the crash he found
himself standing on his head inside the
car. He next found himself struggling
in the water.
When Motorman Sharpe jumped from
the car he landed against fence, and
| is reported to have broken two ribs.
No official statement of the collision
has been made. The railroad had the
right of way. The motorman claims
that he endeavored to make the GUS