The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-11
KILLED N CAR COLLISION.
...osc THE VICTIMS. RHODE ISL
.rus LIErTFNAST GOVERNOR.
f~e Coaches Crowded with Pa''en-
~eys Crash Together at Warwick,
n. l.. Resulting In Four Deaths
sid Many Injured, Some Fatally:

ppOyIDENCE. r. l., June i0.-By a
.,lltston which occurred In Warwick on
4. suburban line Of the Union railroad
~. moon. two cars striking end-on, four
..r.ous we're killed and about twenty
=. injured Of whom three are probably
tsslly hurt
rssu,enant Governor KimbaH is among
.so.e who are not expected to live
rrs dead: Arthur Liscomb. George w.
psksr. Is months old: Lewis Sanborn,
p-ovldence; F.. d. Burroughs, motorman.
The injured; Lieut. Gov. c. ID. kimball,
pvov;dence: G. n. Kingsley, Pawtucket;
Ms Kingsley. Pawtucket; William NAL
~. H. A. Palmer. II. T. Palmer. A. b.
przrr Mary Tourtillot, William J. Boz
y.ydy Owen J. Hurley, Mansfield: Mrs
poxsrdy and son. d. II. AIcock. George
Raker. Mrs. Baker, Florence Baker.
Tnosnas Jackson. Mrs. Jackson. f.. j.
fleming. Mrs. Fleming and two children;
untnown woman. 30 years old; j. f.
srown. r f. Manchester. Oakland Beach:
Henry Hanlon, car motorman: Claude T..
Harris, conductor.
Additions 10 the death list are hourly
,rpscted at the hospitals. The accident
occurred through the efforts Of Motorman
Burroughs 20 make a switch on the line,
Witch Is a single track. He had been
rsven the signal 10 go ahead and fol-
bwed orders with the above results.
The accident took place on the stibur-
An line between this city and Oakland
Bach, q summer resort twelve miles
a,sfant.
Ordinarily the cars run on thirty min
u.es schedule. but on Sundays the travel
b extremely heavy. and today fifteen
mnute time was In vogue. The car left
Inc city terminus and before II had
had NO IF hA rts
yseked. passengers even standing IN the
asles when the car reached Warwick
station II stopped TO allow passengers to
alirhi. According 10 schedule, Conductor
T. A. Manchester should have waited a
sex minutes at the turn 10 allow the up
hound Oakland beach car TO pass. He
nng the signal to go ahead and Motor
man Edward ID. Burroughs put on his
power and the car was soon speeding at
q lively rate Just beyond tho station Is
curve. then n straight stretch Of road.
and thbn a sharp curve In a deep cut. II
II impossible for n motorman to see be-
yond the curve. as on the left Is a high
bank. hiding the rails from view.
The regular car left Oakland beach on
liz trip 10 the turn at the Warwick sta
ton. Suddenly there flashed before his
vision a car sweeping toward him. The
curve seemed TO lend additional speed TO
the cars. Quick as a flash Hanlon shut
% hts power and applied his air brakes.
shieh stopped the car instantly. The
DOWN bound car came on In spite of the
sHorts OF the motorman 10 check its
speed
There WAS a crash a. the cars tele-
'cuped The Oakland beach car tore its
say through the other car. crushing all
'efore II like an eggsheli. on to the
Nth seat went the bunter of the up
'ound car. carrying death and injury in
u wake. Motorman Burroughs was In
family killed.
The scenes that followed were heart
endinE Under the wreckage were in
aimate bodies while groans and shrieks