The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-11
One Car Loaded with Passengers Tele-
scoped ny Another and Many
People ManEled.
FOUR DEAD, OTHERS DYING
TwENTY-sIx PEOPLE SEVERELY
HURT AND SOME SLIGHTLY.
Lieutenant Governor c. ID. kimball
Among the Injured Who VIII
Probably Not Recover.

full accident, resulting in the loss OF four
lives and the injuring OF twenty-six per-
sons. occurred on the Oakland Beach cleo
trio road at noon to-day. Two cars met
in head-on collision on a sharp curve. The
car coming toward the city telescoped the
down trip car. crashing its way through to
the fifth seat.
The Dead
ARTHUR LISCOMB.
GEORGE w. BAKER. fifteen months
LEWIS c. sANBoRN, Providence.
ED d. b. BURROUGHS. motorman.
The Injured
c. d. KIMBALL. lieutenant governor.
Providence.
MRS. KINGSLEY. Pawtucket.
WILLIAM MALLIET. No. l Prince
street.
H. A. PALMER. 81 weybosset street.
II. T. PALMER, 2ss Point street.
S. B. BRAGG, 81 Carpenter street.
MARY ToURTILLoT. $50 Lockwood
street.
WILLIAM ]. BoGERDY.
OWEN j. HURLEY, Mansfield.
MRS. BoGERDY and SON. No. ] Red
d. B. ALLcocK. 1874 Chaplin avenue.
GEORGE BAKER. los Livingston street.
MRS. BAKER
FLORENCE BAKER
THOMAS JACKSON and MRS. JACK
SON. Is Gala street.
z. j. FLEMING.
MRS. FLEMING, and TWO CHILDREN,
UNKNOWN WOMAN. thirty-two years
old.
]. E. BROWN. 4ss Friendship street.
+: z. MANCHESTER, Oakland Beach.
HENRY HANLON. car motorman.
CLAUDE e. HARRIS. conductor.
Additions to the death list are hourly ex-
pected. as several of the injured are at thu
hacnfta1 IN O nraoo riouo >opdif;ap
The accident occurred through the efforts
of Motorman Burroughs TO make a switch
on the line, which is a single track He
had been given his signal to go ahead. and
followed orders. with the above results.
The accident took place on the suburban
line between this city and Oakland beach.
a summer resort some twelve miles dis
tant Ordinarily the cars run on thirty
minute schedule. but on Sundays the travel
Is extremely heavy. and to-day fifteen-min-
ute time was in vogue The car which left
this city at III 80 was not one of the regular
cars on the road. being smaller and of
Thule build.
The car left the city terminus and before
IL had reached the outskirts of the city
was packed, passengers even standing in
the aisles. When the car reached Warwick
station IL stopped TO allow passengers TO
alight.
According to schedule, Conductor F. A.
Manchester should have waited a few
minutes at the turn out, to allow the up
bound Oakland beach car TO pass. He rang
the signal to go ahead, and Motorman Ed
ward d. Burroughs put on his power and
the car was soon speeding at a lively rate.
Just beyond the station is a curve, then a
straight stretch Of road, and then a sharp
curve In deep cut. Ii is impossible for
motorman to see beyond the curve. as on
the left is high bank, hiding the rails
from view.
The regular car left Oakland beach on its
N he Cff ~ nd TIop
making his regular time TO the turnout at
the Warwick station. Suddenly there
flashed before his vision car sweeping
toward him. The curve seemed to lend ad-
ditional speed TO the cars. Quick as a fash
Hanlon shut of his power and applied his
air brakes which stopped the car instantly
The down-bound car came on I'm spite OF
the efforts OF the motorman 10 check it's
speed. There was a crash and the cars
telescoped. The Oakland beach car tore its
way through the other car. crushing all
seat went the bunter OF the up-bound car.
carrying death and injury in its wake
Motorman Burroughs was instantly killed.
The scenes that followed were heart
mate bodies. while groans and shrieks OF
the injured filled the air. Those who were
not injured were frantic in their efforts to
locate their companions. Calls were sent
out Tor assistance and corps OF doctors
were soon at the scene. Willing hands
helped TO extricate the injured. who were
conveyed to the Warwick station Two cars
were equipped with cots and with doctors
and assistants were dispatched from this
city TO the wreck, the wounded were placed
on the cars and conveyed to the Elpswood
station, where two ambulances from the
hospital were In waiting
Lewis c. Sanborn. who was injured in
ternally, died on his way to ths city
woman who was afterwards identified as
Mrs Fred Andrews, a daughter OF Mr.
SanbOrn, was conveyed 10 the hospital in
precarious condition. Her injuries con-
sisted of a left arm and right foot crushed
last reports delirious, and Is not expected
to live. The hfteen-months-old child of
Mr.. and Mrs George w. Baker was killed.
Mr.. Baker is probably fatally injured. while
his wife and daughter escaped with slight
injuries. The fourth victim was Arthur @.
Liscomb. Among the passengers was Lieut..
Gov. Charles ID. Kimball. He was hurt in
ternally, and received a conclusion of the
brain. He was unable TO be moved from
the Warwick station, and II is thought
that his injuries will prove fatal Mary
Tourtillot is also fatally injured, her back
being broken.
While the list of the injured is now num-
bered at twenty-six. there are numerous
persons whose injuries cannot yet be de-
termined. At the hospital. where eight OF
that IL is expected that two will not sur
vive the night.
The fact that the regular car stands
higher on its trucks than the car wrecked.
added TO the seriousness of the collision.
for instead OF the hunters meeting. the
bunter of the regular car slid over and
crashed into the body Of the car. The
downbound car was not equipped with
air brakes, and hand brakes were not
equal TO the emergency. and in fact had
IL been supplied with them IL Is ques-
ton whether or not the car could have
In