The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-08
Two Small Special Cars, Heavily
Laden, Are TeIescoped by Rear
End Collision.
WERE RUNNING AT TWENTY
MILES AN HOUR
Motorman Doty, of Double Truck Car,
Which Runs Down Doomed Train,
Is Expected to Die-Many Passen-
gers Are Taken to City Hospital, Sc.
verely Injured.

One probable fatality and twenty
| two persons injured is the result of a
street-car collision which occurred
| shortly after 10 o'clock last night on
West Seventh street, a short distance
east of Smelling avenue.
The accident was due to the imbe-
| cility of passenger on one of the
wrecked cars, who imagined he was
perpetrating a joke by jerking the
trolley from the wire.
Motorman May Die.
Following is the list of injured:
John f. Doty, motorman, 7S6 Atlanta
street, nose fractured and lacerated;
will probably die
Robert Bowlin, 399 Sturges, confused
wounds Of the face.
William Brown, 377 Smith avenue,
abrasion of left side.
Otto Benz, 81 Manitoba, right leg
fractured badly shaken up.
r. Q. Henniger, 371 Smith avenue,
abrasion of both knees, severe fore
head and left side.
Bernard Van Boeck, 2O1 Quincy
street, Green Bay, Wis, abrasion Of
right and left legs, bruised face.
T. j. Strackota, 2S5 Goodhue, lacer-
ated wounds of the face cheek cut
F. w. Orrenshaw, 967 Farquar, con-
fusion and abrasion over lower chest
and right knee.
Emma GottWald, 253 East Seventh
street, confused wound of forehead.
Peter Peel, motorman, injured about
face and head.
The crowd which figured in the
tragedy which was so thoughtlessly
precipitated was returning from the
Army and Navy picnic at Fort SHELL
ing.
A small open car hauling a trailer
and laden to the guards with human
beings was bowling along downward at
the rate of twenty miles an hour.
Close behing it one of the large doub-
le-truck cars, also filed to overf1owing
with homeward- bound picnickers, came
tearing along. 1t was less than half
minute behind the other train.
Cars Are Telescoped.
The cars were keeping even pace,
when suddenly the lights were extin-
guished in the train ahead and it be-
gan to slacken speed. The velocity
with which the heavy car was bear
ing down upon it rendered it impossi-
bic for Motorman Doty to check it's
speed in time to avert collision.
Passengers on the rear platform of
the leading train saw that a collision
was inevitable and their cries of hor-
ror and fear gave warning to those in
fIA fe, Ox,I do fv, icIa
that an accident was impending.
An instant later the large car
crashed into the rear of the trailer. The
two smaller cars were telescoped, the
rear end of the trailer being shattered.
Every window in the big double-tru
car was broken and it was forced from
the forward trucks.
The impact sent the trolley pole from
the wire and amid darkness, the rasp-
ing of torn iron framework, the splin-
tering of wood and the clatter of the
falling glass, the shrieks and means Of
the injured passengers arose.
Motorman Thrown to Tracks.
Motorman Peter Peel was thrown
over the front guard rail of the forward
car. He was thrown on his face and
was severely injured about the head.
Conductor p. H. Nelson in charge of
the train, escaped death by Jumping.
Motorman Doty was crushed between
the two cars and may die.
Conductor Sorenson, Of the vesti-
buled car, was thrown into the aisle
amid the shrieking passengers and was
severely cut by falling glass.
In spite of the fact that he was one
of the most severely injured in the
frenzied crowd of imprisoned passen-
gers, Sorenson groped his way tn Ugh
the struggling mass of humanity to the
rear platform, where he forced open
the gates and liberated the panic
stricken picnickers.
Blame Passenger.
The street-car employees blame one
of the passengers crowded on the rear
platform of leading motor for the ac-
cident. Loaded down with through pas
sengers, the train made up OF motor
and trailer was making up time on the
run back to the city.
Many times on these late runs troub-
lesome passengers jerk the trolley from
the feed wire to annoy the conductor,
busy collecting fares.
Conductor Nelson was going through
his train when suddenly the lights went
out The motorman, not knowing of
the car behind, thinking to save long
delay compelled by smashed trolley
pole, applied the brake, and before the
cries of the passengers could warn him
the big vestibuled car had smashed
into the trailer.
Doty Had No Chance.
Coming ahead at rapid speed, Motor
man Doty had no chance to avoid the