Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-06
Car Filled with People Drops
Into Chasm.
IS TAC0MA'S WORST ACCIDENT
All the Passengers Were Excursionists
Out for Plcasure-Horrible Scenes In
the Gulch and at the Hospital-Frenzy
of Relatlves-Sad Day for Many.

Tacoma, WASH, July G-Nearly 100
persons, passengers on car bound
for this city, were plunged down
gulch at Twenty-sixth and c streets.
Those who were standing on the plat
form dropped off, only to be bruised
and wounded by the heavy body of the
coach, while others inside were killed
and manned before they knew what
had happened. The car jumped the
rack, and was smashed to kindlinG
wood in the bottom of the chasm, over
100 feet below. The dead will number
nearly three score, for there are many
Of the injured who will never recover
and who are expected to die at any
moment, and there are at least sixty
passengers of the car now in the va
:ious hospitals and under the care OF
their own physicians.
List of Those Killed.
Of telephone company, lives at South
Tacoma; Annie Glass; Lettie Suffer,
South Tacoma; Dorley Dinger; Lois
Dinger, Lakeview; Edward Bray: Carl
Moser; Albert Moser; Richard Lee.
South Tacoma; Mrs. Grossman, Nc
Neils island; G. Bertoli, Hillhurst;
Otis Larson, Parkland; Ole Ranseen.
Lake Park; James Benston, Hisshurst;
| Charles Davis; William Williams,
South Tacoma; John Paulus, South
Tacoma; William Niesen, Lake Park;
Robert Steele, South Tacoma; -
Siedenberg, South Tacoma: Rev. Her.
bert Gregory, Lake Park; Griffith
Vandershelden, Reservation; A. L..
Healy, Lake Park; G. McMullen, Ia
| coma; John J. Slaughter Parkland; ;.
unknown man; w. H. Davis, Lake.
view; Joseph Mccain, Ballard;'
Roy Longerman, South Tacoma; Cor
don Newton, South Tacoma; Richard
Sanburn, South Tacoma; Willie Hard
jngs, 1O2 Tacoma avenue; George FL
,iott, 1917 South street; Mrs. K. j.
Slaughter, Falkland; J. D. Calhoun,
conductor, Tacoma; unidentified wom-
an. Besides these there are about
sixty-five injured.
| All Pleasure Seekers.
1t was one of the most appalling acct.
dents that has ever occurred in this
city and it came at time when it was
least expected. The train was filled
with happy people, residents OF the
nearby towns-Edison, Lakeview,
Falkland, Lake Park and other places
coming to Tacoma full of Joy and
patriotism to spend the Fourth of July
Their journey was nearly at an end
when death came in most frightfu
manner. Neither man, woman MOI
child was spared Crushed, manned
and mangled, the unfortunates were
dragged from beneath the wreck of thu
car and tender hands ministered t.
them until conveyances could be had
to carry them to hospitals and to thu
homes of their friends. The dead were
laid on the grass, but there were few
in the crowds of spectators and rescu'
ers who gathered at the scene at thai
time who knew who was dead and liv.
ing. Such a spectacle of battered and
mutilated humanity has scarcely evel
been seen.
Spectacle of Carnage Witnessed.
It was spectacle of carnage such a:
is scarcely ever observed in war, fol
car wheels and trucks and heavy tim
bers make more horrible wounds thar
bullet and shell. And the agoaizint
cries of the wounded and the dying a!
they lay on the sides of the gulch ant
on the bottom or were held down unde
heavy timbers that had once formed ,
part of the wrecked car could be heart
for blocks away. There was help a
hand q few moments after the acciden
occurred. Citizens, policemen, firemen
guardsmen, ex-volunteers and womel
and children aided.
When the dead had been sorte
from the living and the last ono ha
been rescued from the wreck, excite
men and women and children besiege
the morgues, searching for missin
friends. Some were successful i
their sad quest and others who wer
not successful turned away with evi
dence OF joy upon their faces.
| woman and Row Are Drowned.