Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-27
aFCTRIC CARS
| IN COLLISION.
/. Ware Running at the Rate Of
ivy Forty Miles an Hour
,,,r KILLED OUTRIGHT
,.,,,ly and Many seriously '"-
fwo f'' .,.o ot Accident Was "A
saee for switch

..,, \. Y, May sG-Electrlc cars RS
Aoan y, ~ a switch while running IN
pans "a directions. at the rate Of forty ,,r.
opposite p sn,r cost five lives this after
piles 40 u'D terrific collision in which
r'on ~ nromlnent people were IN
rF io'p .,. fatally and others seri-
oasy ,,,, of the local postotlice filled
Ins 'Oy and wounded, hysterlcal , wo-
With de9o .Sbjldren looking for relatives
men and emu y mn administering
and ll, relief and amou taI,ng ' tbe
srl a,srGongh the city taxing o ,av
ms IiiVg ,o hospitals, were the carry
valn9 ,,nos Of the accident
KILLED,
,a,s smith. motor.mI.a,n1., =
4 flaan Nichols, motorman'
Nl.Gggellogg. Round Lake; a.
Nav n eoonsv suuyyesant Fails.
Ans, E Weboney mate on the Dean
E6hnond' ,,,,rn
Harry Troy; hurt internally
Gt'Ist sm n Albany; injured inter
ulIy ,,,,v rNurREp,
oo'sa + Barry Troy; cut on head
y,,r Barry, Troy; les broken c,,, and
Gsotge P. Blttner MoorVi'ie' cut anu
bruised Rlauyelt. Albany; badly
bruised. p.,, Albary; badly
Si cs,yie, petta Albany painfully
OI gsgard J. Rogers, Albany bruised
and cut. a., Alh,nv. bruised
and guy Rogers. Albany; ltg broken.
W Crotsley, Albany hurt inter-
rally ,N.o. sho,ilder dis
located ..oiaort vas nj n
. iuV obogt two miles out Of Green
poni an the line Of the Albany x
g ypo1 railway The point where the
l I'm met on the single track was az a
s .ssrn curve and so fast were both rum
rlng and so sudden was the collisloh
,bsi the motomen never had ilne 10
s s's' ON tho brakes before southbound
Gor had gone almost clean through the
ror,bhound car and hung on the edge
az n hiehbluN. with ls load OF shrek
me maimed humanity. one motorman
MAS pinioned up against the smashed
tron, of the southbOund car with both
isgs severed and was Killed Instantly
While tbe other one lived but a few
minutes. -,
women and children formed a strug-
cIing shrleking pyramid framed with
blood detached portions Of human
bodies and the wreckage OF cars. Some
q ne more slightly injured OF the men
utritated themselves and began TO
Dull people out OF the rear ends of the
Two cars Almost every one was taken
ont in this way and nearly all were
badly injured
These few women and children who
had escaped injury or death were
hysterIca and added their cries to the
shrlsss u the dying and mutilated.
Men with broken arms and bones, with
d'lcated joints and bloody heads and
faces, tried to assist others who were
more helpless.
Help had been summoned from East
Gfenbusch and vicinity and in a little
tine lhe bruised mass OF humanity,
With The mutilated dead, were loaded
On empty cars and taken to Albany,
There ambulances and physicians had
oap summoned and the postofiice
tuned into q morgue and hospital. As
iH as the physicians could Temperate
attend the wounded they were taken
nar homes or the hospitals.
WIZ both motormen killed. IL was
ny TO GET at the real cause Of the
alNnl, but Il Is pretty well deter
rid that II was caused by an at-
laill Of the southbound car to reach
= second switch instead Of waiting for
us noTihbound car at the first siding.
ne cars weigh fifteen tons each, and
ah me largest electric cars built, and
. tIlghIful was the crash that both
~ We're torn almost to splinters.
boh cars were filled with Sunday
saslIe-seekers returning from the
lss recreation grounds that the rail-
sy had Just opened. The southbound
.I .st Albany at 4.30 o'clock and the
INCIDENT occurred at o'clock.
. las cars on the line were running at
'aNen headway-that Is, as a car
NIN siding switch It was sup
4, 70 walt until another going in
y opposite direction passed. The mo-
Alah o. the southbound car reached
~ o me switches, but. seeing no
.AnoOund car decided TO take
-algs and go on TO the next siding.
.4s AZ a curve between them that
% Two cars met
among the passengers on the south.
.aul car was Deputy Superintendent
Wv, la. j. Rogers Of the state depart
,A1 OF public instruction. He was
-~9,pasnled by his wife and children
/. VI Whom were slightly Injured. with
y exception VI the daughter Speak.
~ ~ 'ne accident, Mr.. Rogers said
recollection Of what happened
.ue ears came together. is rather
'sa,' We were proceeding southwark
- very rapid rate OF speed our car
1a'.." wen hlled witty passengers. In
',,,. many women and children
v ,,,'Iissalely, my wife, my children and
49, y, We're seated in the rear OF the
.,.a NE a, car ] should say. accommo.
isared persons ''0 anu one
Nv, '.s accident occurred after we had
~, a switch beyond which WIS a
49,, 49, where the tracks skirts what APP
:, ~. !, 70 o. an embankment We aid
s,.3 w 10 lessen In speed as we
a w NE curve. There was absolute.
y" ~. warning. so far as my memory
5,ssSsu, before the crash came. As
!, O s,n.,ed around the curve the cars
49,, s.m terrific force. with the
.ieb VI q cannon ball. the car in
, s,, we We're seated fairly plowed
. I, IRE 'rngih Of the other car be-
nv. = y lost It's impetus.
~, ,ns crash Of the cars was succeeded
y MAJ W me most awful scenes / have
!, ;. ss''nessed, by the sbrieks and
N IL, y. men, women and children
-laS a. scattered about the tracks or
. 49, elnld the debris. Mrs. Rogers.
-lssS :, children. and myself were
sss ,ONard the front OF the car over
.,b - ana thrown into the aisle be-
-led 5 AZ mass Of debris, in which were
u NJ eV1rhs OF other passengers. I
,e5 ~ recollection OF how we man
a. AM zee ourselves from the wreck
n a.. Hl OF US but the boy. however.
oes 'o's 70 help ourselves. He sus-
's ~ broken leg and had TO be dug
ina W W. mass Of wreckaee."
's,s, tne pathetic incidents Of the