The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09

More or Less Severe Hurts--Sig-
nails Tempered with.
BY a head-on collision between two
open trolley cars on the Duryea line,
at Old Forge, yesterday morning,
eleven persons were more or less seri-
ously injured, one of them fatally.
FATALLY INJURED.
S. s. westbrook, motonnan, Brooklyn, Sus.
quehanna county, age %, unmarried; com.
pound fracture OF both bones Of the right
forearm, broken right leg, fractured left thigh
and internal injuries Died at o'clock last
night,
INJURED.
Mrs. John Lewis, ia South Main avenue; spine
injured.
Mrs. Daniel Morgan, corner Of Price street end
Van Buren, avenue; knee dislocated leg con-
fused, head cut and internally injured
Daniel Morgan, corner of Price street and Van
Buren avenue; knee cut and bruised.
Mrs. James Williams, 1889 Washburn street;
bruised and rendered unconscious from shock.
Mrs. John Brown, l02 Monroe avenue, Dunmoro
cut on right side Of head.
Mrs Patrick Judge, Old Forge; left leg badly
confused below the knee, and left wrist lac
Grated
Mrs James Cardwell, Grove street, Taylor; con.
fusion of the right leg.
Harry NJ. Watres, Pttsburg; sprained ankle
Patrick Grady, Forty Fort; slight cuts and
bruises.
william marlborough, Forty Fort; slight cuts
and bruises.
1t was evident from the first that
Motorman Westbrook could not live.
He was bruised, broken and lacerated
and had every symptom of being griev-
ously hurt internally. Ali the other
| injured, excepting Grady and Land
borough, were on his car, and the more
seriously injured, Mrs. Judge, Mrs
Lewis, Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Will
Jams, were sitting on the front seats
| The other car mounted theirs and
ploughed through the dashboard and
| two seats, pinning them in the wreck
| age. Those in the seats farther back
escaped with only a severe shaking vi
or slight contuslonG from being tossed
about or thrown from the seats to the
ground. There were siXty-two passen-
gers on the one car and five on the
| other.
STORY OF THE ACCIDENT.
The accident happened at $40 o'clock
| The place where it occurred is the hol'
| low dividing Rendham from Fallon'S
corners, at Midtown. On the top OF
the hill at Midtown is located the
| Stewart Memorial church. Across the
| hollow to the north on a high knoll
halfway up the opposite hill, is the
Nebo Welsh Congregational church
| Fifty feet south of the Nebo church Is
| Ia hpt Of no OF n
point the cars met. The knoll on which
the Nebo church is located causes 6
sharp bend in the road and the cal
tracks closely skirt its almost perpen
| dicular front. This sharp blind curve
coupled with the fact that someone
mischevous boys, 1t is supposed
tampered with the switch lights, causet
| the accident.
The cars We're No. 8 and No. 80, the
former in charge of Motorman West
brook and Conductor II. Mcmillan; tn,
crew of the other We're Motormar
Charles Newcombe and Conductor II
c. Hartman.
Car No. s, with sixty-two passenger!
aboard, was going towards Duryea
No. 80, bound Scrantonward, had fly,
passengers. From the point where tn,
collision occurred to where the curry,
at the Nebo church obstructs the view
of the hollow is sixty PAGES. West
brooks heavily-loaded car swuul
around this curve and found the othe
car whizzing along down the opposite
hill and only one hundred PAGES away
| What Motorman Newcombe did t,
avert a collision is not known. He re
| fused to make a statement. Spark
were emitting from the wheels of hi
car after the collision took place. HI
and his conductor and the five passen
gers jumped, and the car sped oi
empty.
MOTORMAN WAS HEROIC.
Motorman Westbrook's actions wer
nothing short of heroic. He was tn
first to see the oncoming car and hat
plenty of time to jump and save him
self, but, as he said to a Tribune re
porter as he was lying on stretche
awaiting the ambulance, II thought t
jump when 1 first saw what was goin,
to happen, and turned half around t
do so, but when l saw all those womel
on the car, l just stuck where 1 was
/ saw in a flash that couldn't proven
an accident, but was going to do al
l could while there was a move lef
in me-"
That his efforts did count for some
thing was attested by the fact that h
had the speed of his car so much slack
ened at the point of the collision tina
those who jumped, and they include
men, women and children escaped wit
few scratches. Had the speed of hi
car been as great as that of the on
with which it had collided there is n
question but that the other car woul
have ploughed through more seat
than it did and the results would hav
been correspondingly more disastrou,