The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-26
FEARFUL WRECK
ON ELECTRIC ROAD.
Three Persons Killed and Thirty
two Wounded.
NoT0RMAN'S MIND DIVERTED
Should Have Stopped on Switch
Which He Passed at Full Speed,
and the Cars Came Together
With Great Crash.
N0T0RMAN'S MIND DIVERTED
tspecia, Dispatch to The Times,

TWO more or less injured IN a COLLISION
yesterday on the Bay Shore Railway.
This is an electric railway OF abou!
SIX miles length. recently completed to
compete with the Ocean View road,
owned by the Williams syndicate, for the
seaside traffic.
The car. Of which w S. YandeIl was
the motorman, going from here. met the
car. Of which Charles B. Golden was the
motorman, coming from Ocean View. five
miles out the city beyond Frietas switch
on single track.
FRlGHTFUL COLLISION.
The collision resulted in frEhtful DIS
aster because the car from here was
going at high speed, and had gone
through the switch without slowing.
The car coming from Ocean View had
been slowed and the motorman was
blowing the whistle to attract the atten-
ton of the unheeding Iandell.
The place Is lonely, and as there Is
little communication with the city there
was much difficulty in rescuing the in
jured, removing the dead and In lind
ing transporta ION for the wounded to
the hospitals in the city But that was
done successfully, SO that no more cas-
ualties have occurred. and the wounded
are all recovering.
THE DEAD.
The dead are:
w. S. Yandell. motorman, born In
North Carolina.
Charles b. Golden, motorman.
Linwood Fentress. fourteen years old.
the son Of r B. Fenuess. president of
the Refrigerating Storage and Ice Com
pany.
A complete list of the injured at ST.
V1ncent's Hospital is as follows:
James D. White. a conductor, Of No. S
Outten Street, Huntersville; has a
bruised thigh: not serious
Robert r. Davis, 1888 Freemason Street;
has bruised leg: not serious.
Miss Ll-.dn Land, 46o Church Street;
bruised thigh; will leave hospital in two
days.
Miss Ruth Banks. 1872 West Brambleton
Avenue: has a scalp wound 7ot
and will be able to leave the hospital
soon.
George Stephenson. Jig Church Street
has a scalp wound and also a wound on
forehead. Several stitches required in
both wounds.
Mrs. Ella Stephenson. wife of above,
simple fracture of the lower extreme Of
left wrist and scalp wounds, one over
nose, one across temple and head.
Clara Frederick, colored, bruise Of arm
and thigh: left hospital.
Henry Taylor, colored, waiter at Prot
estant Hospital. scalp wounu: left hos
ptal this morning.
NJ. v. Ahern, 800 Bank Street, head cut
and left arm and back badly BRUISED.
Mr.. Ahern was sitting on the second seat
from the front of one of the cars, and
when he saw that a collision was inevi-
table he caught his little daughter in his
arms to shield her. She was uninjured.
SOME OF THE INJURED.
Among those who sustained serious
Injuries were Miss Lillian Land, of No.
f60 Church Street Her hip was frac-
tured and she was conveyed to ST. Vim
cents Hospital.
Miss Ruth Banks, of No. 1872 West
Brambleton Avenue, was seriously hurt.
She was injured in the knee and also in
the head.
Mr. Robert b. Davis sustained a frac-
lure Of the knee. The shoulder of Mrs.
George Stevenson was dislocated and her
wrist was fractured. Mr. Stevenson was
also severity hurt in the head. arms and
legs.
Conductor James White of No. % Out
ten Street sustained internal injuries,
which, it is feared. may prove serious.
Clara Frederick (colored). who was hurt
In the back and hip. lies at st. Vincent's
Hospital and colored man. whose name
did not transpire. was hurt. and was also
conveyed to ST. Vincent's. He was
brought to Norfolk on the car which
went out to relieve the injured and as
he was at the depot awaiting the arrival
of the ambulance, presented a pitiable
sight. Blood. which he vainly tried to
stop flowing from cut in his head. had
dyed his handkerchief with it's chastity
color. He waited long at the depot for an
ambulance. and all Of these in the city
being busy with other sufferers, he fin
ally was taken to the hospital in a car
riage.
Robert E. Gray. of No. SIS High Street.
hand sprained and foot and breast
mashed
Misses Nellie and Katie hamburger.
No. 427 Duke Street. severely bruised
and scratched by splinters.
Miss Lillian Land is apparently the
worst injured OF those carried to ST.
Nincent's. she having been bruised all
over. She was conscious during the af-
ternoon but became unconscious the
early part Of the night.
MANAGER GRONER.
Mr. J. A. c. Groner. secretary and gen.
eral manager of the Bay Shore Company,
who went to the scene of the wreck
when the news of the cata strophe first
reached him. returned to Norfolk last
uight at L o'clock He said that he could
not give any eXplanati ton of the cause of
the wrech. based upon any other hypoth-
csis than that Motorman Yandell had
completely lost his reason.
Mr.. iandell, he said, had been on this
run for considerable time, had always
been accustomed to stop on the siding
which he passed yesterday thus causing
the wreck. and had stopped on that sid
ING eighteen times yesterday prior to the
accident, TO there await the passing of
The Unbound train, which could not mass
him between that siding and Ocean View
since the switch in question is the only
one upon the portion of the line men
toned.
To the failure of human intelligence
alonc, SO far as he could see, the acct
dent was alone dre
R. b. FENTRESS' GRIEF.
*. Is. fentress could not realize the dis
asser and sudden death OF MS son wnen
hrst tod OF 1t. The story was retold be-
fore he could believe IT. .i,nen ms rr,er
was pittfnl His love for the thirteen
year-old boy was ardent and he. could
scarcely endure the loss The BODY was
brought to the city for interment las,
night.
rCorbin Walters injuries are not fatal
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