The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-09

the car The truck is 80 feet 4 inches
from the front Of the tongue 10 the rear
Of the longest ladder.
Patrick a. Garner. the assistant hOstIer.
Who lives at $50 Tventy-ffth Street testi-
fed that he was standing on the turnta-
Die Of the truck TO the left of the driver
| when the accident occurred. He did not
see the car until they were already pull
ing into Connecticut Avenue. He heard the
| foreman order the driver 70 pull In his
horses soon after passing Nineteenth
Street going east. There we're wagons
backed up to the south curb OF y Street.
between Connecticut Avenue and Eight
eenth Street. and they obstructed the
view.
Garner heard the foreman order Williams
10 pun his horses into the avenue, and he
reached out, grabbed the left rein and help
ed the driver pull his horses around The
truck bell was ringing all the time from
the moment they left quarters 1t would
have been impossible TO go 10 the raar Of
the car.
Scraped by the Car.
The car pushed the truck about four
feet along the track. The double-tree
was first struck by the car, and both We
hicies continuing tc move, the side of
the truck Was scraped by the car.
After the first contact The horses kept
gong, and scraped the men of the run
ming gear, was his reply 10 a question
from Attorney Hoover.
Ihomas Boucher, private in the COM
paDy, whose home is e. Hoy's Hotel.
Eighth and D Streets northwest
suostantlated the statements Of the pre-
ceding witnesses. but said that he did
not see the car until moment before
the collision. He knew something extra
ordinary was happening. when ne felt the
apparatus turning into Connecticut Ave
nue., but he had no oppoy tunity to think
further before he was thrown to the
ground He was bruised, but was not
otherwise burt
After the collision he grabbed the
horses TO keep them from running away
and lnJuring Driver Williams. who was
between them.
Dr. William TyndaI. the Secretary Of
the Board Of District Commissioners. who
lives on California Az aue. was next
sworn He saw the truck coming down N
Street few moments later and following
this he saw the collision
He saw one Of the men thrown under
the car, but ne had no recollection of see
ing the car before this. When he ran I'D
the motorman was standing beside his
car and said he had so quickly reversed
his current that it had blown cut the fuse.
DIT. Tindau gave the position OF the
truck as nearer the middle of N Street
than the fremen had done He did not
see any obstruction 10 the passage Of the
truck and could not have seen any. as his
entire attention WAS occupied with the in
jured men.
The Fire Truck Blamed.
H. c Grimes. who lives at 3I39 II
Street. testified that he saw the accident.
He was standing at the northeast corner
OF Connecticut Avenue and p; Street. when
he heard the truck bell ringing He saw
the car coming, and judged from their
speed that the two vehicles would meet.
he slgnaied to the uotorElau. and the
car slowed down He saw the driver Of
the truck try 10 turn into Connecticut
Avenue. but later the driver. evidently
thinking that the danger was over. tried
10 turn 10 the right Egain, IN order TO
continue on down N Street. He believes
tAat the car was practically at stand
sun, and that the truck struck the ear.
Inc motoIman remained a his car and
dld not JUMP, as had be- slLled The
motorman, he said. renlarke5 that ne tried
TO avoid the accident. bar could not The
ear, he thought was going at about six
miles an hour when he first saw ii The
brakes were lightly applied and the car
mad nearly reached the south building line
OF NJ Street before the not0rman appeared
to see the truck. Then he applied his
brakes with force. He did not believe thar
the motorman heard the truck bell
Nj Duyau from the District Attorneys
once questioned him and brought cut the
fact that he had been visited on the even
ing of the accident By the attorneys for
the railroad and that be had made
statement to them which was taken down
in shorthand
Francis Marrow, coIored. 1902 Eighteenth
Street northwest, was next called He
heard the bell on the truck and SO some
one wave his hands 10 stop the car. which
was coming up Connecticut Avenue at a
good speed Il was moving so rapidly that
he does not believe it was possible to stop
the big, cumbersome car. If It had Deen
one Of the small cars he does not beIieve
there would have been any difficulty In
stopping IL. He did not see the car slow
up at all before the accident
John S. George, letter carrier. of 1919
New Hampshire Avenue, gave similar tes-
timony.
At o'clock the inquest was stin in
progress.