Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-11
|ELECTRICS COLLIDE.
Four Killed and 26 Injured
at Providence.
Oakland Beach Car Telescopes Anoth-
er Car on Sharp Curve.
Several Expected to Oie-Conductor Should
Have Waited at Turnout.

fui accident resulting in the loss of
four lives and the injuring of &c persons
occurred on the Oakland Beach electric
| road, shortly before II O'Clock this
| morning. Two cars met in a head on
| collision on a sharp curve. The car
coming towards the city telescoped the
down-trip car. crashing it's way
| through to the fifth seat. The motor
man was killed.
The dead-Arthur Liscomb; George
w. Baker. Is months old: Lewis c.
Sanborn, 952 Manton avenue. Provi-
dence; Ed d. Burroughs. motorman.
Injured-Lieut. Gov. c. Q. Campbell,
| tucket: Mrs. Kingsley, Pawtucket;
| VIM. Malliet, No. l Prince street. H. A.
Palmer, No So Weybosset street: II. r.
| Palmer 29S Point street; S. B. Bragg
81 Carpenter street; Mary Lourtillot,
$50 Lockwood street; VIM. J. Fogerdy;
| Mrs. Fogerdy and son, No Redwing
street; Owen J. Hurley, Mansfield; d.
Babcock, 1874 Chaplin avenue; George
| Baker, los Livingston avenue: Mrs.
Baker; Florence Baker; Thomas Jack
son: Mrs. Jackson. Is Gala street: e.
j. Fleming, Mrs. Fleming and two chill
dren. &c Susan street: unknown woman
30 years DID, J. E. Brown. AIS Friend
ship street; F. f. Manchester. Oakland
| Beach; Henry Hanlon, motorman;
| Claude r. Harris. conductor.
The catastrophe is the worst on rec
| ord for this section 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 eff
| forts of Motorman Burroughs, now
dead. endeavoring to make switch on
! the line. which is a single rail. He had
been given his signal to go ahead and
! followed orders with the above result.
| The accident took place on the Sub
urban Line of electrics which runs be-
| tween this city and Oakland Beach, a
summer resort some II miles out. For
merly steam cars were the means of
| conveyance but these were replaced,
| this spring, by the electric cars which.
with one or two exceptions followed
| the same route of the steam cars and
used the same single rail system.
The car, a boxed vestibule affair. left
the city terminus and before it had
| reached the outskirts of the city, was
packed. According to schedule, Con-
| ductor Manchester should have waited
| a few minutes at the turnout at War
wick to allow the up-bound Oakland
Beach car to pass. He rang the signal
to go ahead and Motorman Edward ID.
Burroughs put on his power and the
car was soon speeding at u lively rate
of speed.
| Just beyond the station is curve,
md
then comes a sharp curve in a deep cut
where the hill was cut drought TO
make way for the rails. 1t is impos-
sible for motorman to see beyond the
| curve as on the left is high bank,
hiding the rails beyond from view.
The regular car left Oakland Beach
on it's trip to the city aond Motorman
| Harry Hanlon was making his regular
time to the turnout at the Warwick
| station He was unconscious of the
| fact that the down-bound car was
shedding on its errand of death and
destruction. Suddenly there flashed be
| fore his vision a car sweeping toward
him. The curve seemed to lend addi-
| tional speed to the cars. Quick as
flash HanIon shut off his power and
applied his air brakes which instantly
stopped the car.
| The down bound car came on in spite
of the efforts of the motorman to check
| its speed. There was crash and the
car telescoped. The Oakland Beach
car tore it's way through the other car.
crushing all before it like an egg shell.
On up to the fifth seat went the bunt-
| er of the up-bound car. carrying death
| and injury in its wake. Motorman
Burroughs was instantly killed.
The scenes that followed were heart
rending Under the wreckage were IN
anamate bodies, while the groans and
shrieks of the injured filled the air.
Those who were not injured were fran
| tic in their efforts to locate their com
panions. Calls were sent out Tor as
sistance and a corps OF doctors were
soon at the scene. Willing hands help
cd extricate the injured, which were
convened to the Warwick station. a
cOuple of cars were rugged with cots
and with doctors and assistants were
dispatched from the city to the wreck.
The wounded were placed on the cars
and conveyed to the Elmwood station,
| inst on the outskirts of the city, where
ambulances from the hospital were in
waiting.
Lewis C. Sanborn. who was injured
internally. died on his way to the city.
woman who was afterwards iden-
tilted as Mrs. Fred Andrews, and a
daughter of Sanborn. was conveyed to
| tho hospital in a precarOus condition.
Her Injuries consisted of a left arm
and right foot crushed. Her spine was
also injured. She was. at last reports,
da,irious and is not expected to live.
The 15-months- old child of Mr.. and
Nrs George w. Baker was killed.
Mr. Baker is probably fatally injured,
| while his wife escaped with slight in
| juries.
Liscomb
Ar,onp the passengers was Lieut..
| Gov Charles d. Kimball. He was hurt