The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
TELESCOPED.
Suburban Cars Meet In Head 0n
Collision.
Four Persons Killed and TWEEN.
ty-six Injured.

CURED on the Oakland Beach electric
road yesterday Two cars met in a
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.
GEO. W. BAKER, 10 months old.
LEWIS c. SANBORN. Providence.
ED d. BURROUGHS. motorman.
THE INJURED.
Lieutenant Governor c. D. Kimball,
Providence.
c. N. Kingsley, Pawtucket
Mrs. Kingsley, Pawtucket.
William Malliet, No. 1 Prince street.
H. A. Palmer, 50 Weybossel street
H. T. Palmer, Twenty ninth and Point
streets.
A. B. Bragg, 81 Carpenter street.
Mary TourtiIlOt, $50 Lockwood street
William J. Bogerdy, Mansfield.
owen J. Hurley, Mansfield.
Mrs. Bogerdy and son, No. 1 Redwing
street.
D. B. Alcock, 134 Chaplin avenue.
George Baker. los Livingston street.
Mrs. Baker
Florence Baker.
Thomas Jackson, Calais street.
Mrs. Thos. Jackson, Is Callas street.
E. J. Fleming, Mrs. Fleming and two
children, 20 Susan street.
Unknown woman, 80 years old.
J. Il. Brown, AIS Friendship street.
r h. Manchester, Oakland Beach.
/ Henry Hanlon, car motorman.
Claude E. Harris, conductor
1t Is impossible for motorman to see
! beyond the curve, as on the left is A
| nigh bank hiding the rails from view
me regular car left Oakland Beach on
It's trip to the city, and Motorman Har-
! ~ Hanlon was making his regular time
/ TO the turnout at the Warwick station.
Suddenly there flashed before his vision
a car sweeping toward him. The curve
! seemed to lend additional speed to the
/ cars. Quick as a flash Hanlon shut off
! MS power and applied his air brakes.
| which stopped the car instantly The
/ down bound car came on in spite of the
/ efforts of the mOtorman to check it's
| speed. There was a crash and the oare
/ telescoped. The Oakland Beach car tore
/ It's way through the other car. crushineg
all before it like an eggshell. On to the
1 fifth seat went the bunter Of the IN
| bound car, carrying death and injury in
| It's wake MOtorman Burroughs was in
stantly killed
Additions to the death list are hourly
expected, as several of the injured arc
at the hospital in a precarious condi-
ton The accident occurred throlleb the
eHorts of Motorman Burroughs to maxi
a switch on the line which is a sinoIe
track He had been given his signal r.
go ahead, and followed ORDERS with the
above results.
The accident took place on the s1,b,,r-
pan Inc between this city and Oakland
pedch' summer resort some twelve
miles distant.
Ordinarily the cars RIM on 41i,.t,
minute schedule, but on SUNDAYS tn,
travel IS extremely heavy, and fifteeI
minute time was in vogue The ca
which left this city at II 80 was not on,
OF the regular cars on the road. helms
stnaller ana OF Vestibule build. The ca
lett the city terminus and before If hal
reached the outskirts of the citv W.
packed, passengers even standing in r.,
alsles- When the car reached Warvvicl
station IS stopped to allow passenger
10 allght. According to the schedule
Conductor F. A. Manchester sbo11l
nave waited few minutes at the turl
out to allow the up-bound OaixIan,
beach car to pass. He rang the sipna
. to go ahead and MOtorrnan Fydu,a,sd r
burroughs put on his power and tn
car was soon speeding at a lively raft
: / Just beyond the station is a curve the,
straight stretch of road, and then
l | sharp curve in a deep cut
The scenes that followed were heart
rending. Under the wreckage were in
animate bodies, while gToans an
{ shriels of the injured filed the ait
} Those who We're not injured were fran
, tic IN their efforts to locate their com
panlOnS. Calls We're sent ont for az
sistance, and a corps of doctors U7er
soon at the scene. Willing hand
helped to extricate the injured. VIII
We're conveyed to the Warwick station
Two cars were eQuipped with COTS an
= with doctors and assistants were dis
patched from this city to the wreck
The women were placed on the car
G and conveyed to the E,lmWOod statio1
g where two ambulances from the hos
d pital We're in waiting. Lewis c. Sar
n born who was injured internally. die
= on his way to the city. A woman VIII
was afterwards identified as Mrs. Ere
= Andrews, a daughter of Mr. Sanbor1
- was conveyed to the hospital in a DR.,
n car1Ous condition Her injuries cor
l. sisted of a left arm and right 70,
# crushed. Her spine was also iniure
: She was at last reports deliriol1s an
n is not expected to live.
II The 15-months-old child of Mr.. ar
e Mrs. George W. Baker was killed. Fl
- Parents escaped with slight injuries.
: The fourth victim was Arthur
Liscomb Among the passengers w;
Lieutenant Governor Charles d Kin
bali He was hurt internally and I,
ceiVed a conclusion of the brain
was unable to be moved from the Wa
= wick station, and it is thought that h
injuries viii prove fatal.
"a Mary Tourtillot is also fatally il
= jured. her back being broken.
- While the list of the injured is no
~ numbered at twenty-six, there are nj
Inerous persons whose injuries cam
n yet be determined. The fact that Il
= regular car stands higher on its true
IT than the car wrecked added to the ser
BUSINESS of the collision, for instead
70 the bumpers meeting. the bumper
10 the regular car slid over and crash
into the body of the car. The dow
bound car was not equipped with e
brakes and hand brakes were n
equal to the emergency. and in fact hi
it been supplied with them it is a que
L ton whether or not the car could ha
been stopped in time.
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