The Atlanta constitution., 1900-07-09

others inside were killed and MANNED be-
fore they knew what had happened. The
car jumped the track and was smashed to
kindling wood in the bottom of the chasm
over hundred feet below. The dead will
number nearly three score, for there are
many Of the injured who Will never re-
cover and who are expected to die at any
moment. and there are at least sixty of the
passengers of the car now In the various
hospitals and under the care OF their own
physicians.
Residents Of the nearby towns-Edison.
Lakeview. Parlxland. Lake Park and other
places-were coming to Tacoma to spend
the Fourth. Their Journey was nearly al
an end when they met death In a horrible
manner. Crushed, maimed and mangled,
the unfortunates were dragged from be-
meath the wreck of the car and laid on the
grass 1t was spectacle OF carnage such
as is scarcely ever observed even I'm war,
for carwhcels ana trucks and heavy tim
bers make more horrible wounds than bull
let and shell. The agonizing cries of the
wounded and the dying as they Law on
the sides OF the gulch and on the bottom
| or We're held down under heavy timbers
that had once formed part Of the wreck
cd car, could be heard for blocks away.
Citlzens. policemen. flremen, guardsmen
eN-VoIunteers and women and children
aided The sides of the gulch are steep;
IN fact. so steep that goat would hardly
venture TO descend them, but the cries of
the wounded made men forget this and
they plunged downward without regard
10 their own safety. Ropes were quickly
procured and the victims of the wreck
We're drawn carefully to the top of the
! guich. Every physician in the city was
called. The Fanny Paddock and ST 10
seph hospitals We're soon crowded with in
Jufed. lacks, express wagons and all
sorts OF conveyances wero pressed into
service. but the dead wagon was there
ana tiat was Ia use, too. 1t made Journey
after journey, and It was always fun.
Boys. girls. men and women were its
Irelght The morgues of the various un-
ueftaKins rooms were scarcely large
enough to hold all. When the dead han
been sorted from the living and the Inst
one had been rescued from the wreck
| excited men and women and children be-
sieged the morgues searching for missing
friends
a little girl of four and girl babe are
seem TO be deserted.
The car which plunged into the ravlne
ieit Eulson at about o'clock. Every
men or space on tho platforms was ta-
Ken. one report is that the motorman.
after starting down Apex Hill, turned on
MS current instead of shutting il off and
when the car had gained such momentum
as TO threaten to get away from him. he
turned off the current. but il was then too
late for the car was going at lightning
sIeed' and the incline is steep. Passen-
gers on the front platform who saw
the sharp curve on the bridge endeavored
10 jump, and several OF them reached the
ground In safety The dead are:
Louis Drake. Annie Glass, Lettie Sl,;tar
DCriey Dinger. Lois Dinger, LakevieW:
Reward Bray. Carl R1Cser Albert Moser
Richard Lee, Mrs. Grossman, @. Bertoli
Hlll Hurst: Otis Larson. Parkiand: Ole
Ranseen, James Benston, Hillhurst:
Charles Davies; William Williams, south
Tacoma; John Paulus. South Tacoma:
William Niesen, Lake Park, Robert
Steele, South Tacoma; -Seidenberg
South Tacoma; Rev. Herbert Gregory
Lake Park; Grif5th Vandershelden. Res
erVation; a J.. Liealy, Lake Park: q
Mc1lullen. Tacoma: John j. Shaueher
Farmland; unknown man: w. II. Davis
Lakeview: Joseph Mccain, Roy Longer.
man: South Tacoma: Gordon Newton
South Tacoma; Richard Shinburn. south
Tacoma; Willie Hardings. Mr.. Norge Ell
iiott, Mrs. ShaIgher, Parklan6: j. ID. Cal.
houn. conductor, Tacoma.
Besides these there were about sixty
i've moro or less seriously injured.