The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-11
TROLLEY-CAR CATASTROPHE
Il TERRIBLE HEID-ON COLLISION
NEAR PROVIDENCE.
Four Persons Killed and Twenfy-six
Injured Among the Latter is lieut.
Gov. I6imball of Rhode Isiund-Thc
Cars Telcscoped ON Sharp Curve
Some Heart Rcnding Scenes.

Providence, June 1O.-A frightful ac-
ctdent, resulting in the loss of four lives
and the injuring of twenty-six persons
occurred on the Oakland Beach electric
road this noon. Two cars met in a
head-on collision on a sharp curve The
car coming towards the city telescoped
the down-trip car, crashing its way
through to the fifth seat. The killed
are:
Arthur Liscomb, George w. Baker,
fifteen months old Lewis c. Sanborn,
Providence Edward D. Burroughs, mo-
tornan
The injured: Lieutenant Governor o.
O. Kimball, Providence; C. N. Kings
ley, Pawtucket; Mrs Kingsley Paw
tucket; William Malliet, No Prince
street; H. A. Palmer, 62 Weybosset
street; H. T. Palmer. 298 Point street
S. b. Bragg, 81 Carpenter street; Mary
Tourtilot, 150 Lockwood street; Will
liam J, Bogerdy, Mrs. Bogerdy and son.
No. 1 Redwing street; Owen J. Hurley,
Mansfield; d. Balacock 1874 Chaplin ave-
nue.; George Baker 10S Livingston
avenue; Mrs. Baker, Florence Baker
Thomas Jackson and Mrs, Jackson, 18
Gala street; e. j. Fleming, Mrs. Flem-
ing and two children, rs Susan street;
Unknown woman, thirty-five years old;
j. E. Brown, AIS Friendship street; F.
Z. Manchester, Oakland Beach; Henry
Hanlon, car motorman; Claude e. Har-
ris, conductor.
The catastrophe is the worst on rec
ord hereabouts and additions to the
death list are hourly expected, as quite
a number Of the injured are at the
hospital in a precarious condition. The
accident occurred through the efforts
of Motorman Burroughs to make a
switch on the line, which is single
track. He had been given his signal to
go ahead and followed orders, with the
above results.
The accident took place on the subur-
ban line Of electrics which runs between
this city and Oakland Beach, sum-
mer resort some twelve miles out For
merly steam cars We're the means of
but these We're replaced
this spring by the electric cars, which,
with one or two exceptions, followed
he same route of the steam cars and
lSeQ LHe same Single track system.
the cars run on thirty min
lite schedule, but on Sundays the traf-
ic is extremely heavy and to-day ff-
.een- minute time was in vogue. The
ar which left this city at 1870 o'clock
vas not one of the regular cars on the
'oad, being smaller and of vestibule
,uild.
The car left the city terminus and be-
ore it had reached the outskirts of the !
ity was packed, passengers even |
in the aisles When the car /
cached Warwick station it stopped to |
-llow passengers to alight. According |
0 schedule, Conductor F. A. Manches- !
er should have waited a few minutes ,
t the turnout TO allow the up-bound /
oakland Beach car to pass. He rang
he signal to go ahead and Motorman |
Edward D. Burroughs put on his power ,
nd the car was soon speeding at q /
vely rate of speed. Just beyond the
tation is a curve, then straight
tretch of road and then comes a sharp
urve in a deep cut, where the hill was
ut through to make way for the rails
t is impossible for a motorman to see
eyond the curve, as on the left is
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