The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-25
CRASHED TO DEATH
THREE KILLED IN TROLLEY ACCI-
DENT NEAR NORFOLK.
MANY SERIOUSLY INJURED.
WITH FEARFUL FORCE, TWO CARS
RUSHED TOGETHER.

Ours Filled with sunday Excursion
lists and Few Escaped Injury-Both
MOtormen Met Fearful Deaths.
YandeII Crushed Between TeIe-
scoped Cars-CoIden's Head Almost
Torn From Body-LinwOod Fem
Carelessness Caused Accident-COr-
oner's Jury Investigates.
Norfolk, Aug. 24.-In a head-on coll
lision between two cars on the Bay
Shore Terminal line late this after
noon three people were killed and
many others badly injured.
The dead are: lin.
w. S. Yandell. motorman.
c. b. Golden, motorman.
Linwood Fentress, aged 10.
The seriously injured are: w. r.
Waller. r. ]. Davis, George Steven
son, Mrs. J. P. Stephenson, Joseph
White, conductor: M. V. Ahern, Ben
jamin Rowson, Miss Lillian Land John
Taylor, colored; Maria fortress, COL
ored; Miss Ruth Banks, Phoebe Fred
erick. colored Corliss Waller, nephew
of Maj. Waller, badly injured inter-
nally; Mrs. Victor Parks, skull frac-
tured, and Louis Parks. internal in
juries. expected to die.
Failed to Obey Orders.
The accident occurred 400 yards be-
yond Futas Siding. about three and a
half miles from Norfolk One car was
coming from Ocean View and the
other going to the View. The orders
were that the shore-bound car should
wait at the siding for the other. Mo
torman w. S. Yandell failed to obey
the orders and the crash came 400
yards beyond the siding.
Yandell endeavored to jump, but was
crushed between the telescoped cars
and died hanging by his right leg. Mo-
torman c. B. Golden of the other car
applied his air-brakes as soon as he
saw the danger, the collision occur ring
on a curve, and then tried 20 jump, as
did Linwood Fentress, the 10-year-old
son of r. B. Fentress, president of the
Norfolk Cold Storage and Ice Com
pany. who recently purchased extern
sive subway franchises in Baltino re.
Colden's Dreadful Death.
Both Golden and young Fentress
were caught under the platform of the
shore-b bound car, which piled up on the
other car, and were killed outright
Coldens head was almost torn from
his body and both legs were cut off.
The Fentress boy was crushed to
death.
Both cars were full of Sunday ex-
cursionists and few escaped uninjur-
ed. Help was telephoned for and ply
sicians and ambulances were hurried
to the scene. In the meantime large
number of the injured were taken to
the city in private conveyances. There
is no complete list of the injured.
r. p Waller, a brother of Mai l..
w. T. Waller, was on one of the cars
and sustained serious injuries. He was
taken to his home on Pembroke avenue.
M. V. Ahern of the Virginian- Pilot was
wedged between two seats and in
jured internally. Benjamin Rowson,
managing editor of the Humorist, also
sustained serious injuries.
Talking to Young Woman.
A coroners jury viewed the dead and
after taking some testimony adjourned
until Wednesday.
Persons who were near the front of
the shore bound car state that Motor
man Yandell was talking with a young
woman passenger, who was standing
in the crowd on the front platform,
when the crash came. After the crash
that woman was removed in an un-
conscious condition from beneath the
dead motornan's body.
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