The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-20
CHILDREN CRUSHED AND
MANNED ON A CROSSING
Many Little Ones Killed by Delaware, Lacka.
wanna & Western Express Train
Trolley Car Loaded With High School Pupils Got Beyond Control
of the Motorman.

NEWARK, n. J.. Feb. ia fast ex-
~ press on the Lackawanna rail-
road cut through a trolley car
crowded with school children at the
! Clifton avenue crossing today. Eight
OF the children We're killed and a score
or more of others injured. The motor
| man, who stuck to his post, viii die,
| and the engineer of the express was
SO badly hurt that there is little hope
/ Of his recovery.
/ Both the express and the trolley were
} on steep grades, going a right angles.
4 The express was signaled and the
/ crossing was lowered while the troll
! ley car was yet halfway down the hill.
( The motorman shut off the power and
] applied the brakes. but almost immedi-
ately the car began TO slip along the
! icy rails. 1t gained tremendous mo-
mentum, and al the bottom of the hill
/ crashed through the gates, directly in
1 the track OF the Oncoming train. The
/ locomotive plowed its way through the
! trolley, throwing the children in every
| direction.
The Dead.
The dead. all of this city except one,
are:
| Viola III. Il years of age.
/ Maude Baker. Is years.
| Ernest P. Mueller, 10 years.
Mabel Karschner. II years, Tiffin, o.
Alma LOehnberg, Is years.
| Rosebud Kahn.
! Ella Werpupp, 10 years.
Evan L. Eastwood, jr., 16 years.
The injured.
Peter Brady, motorman of trolley car,
| skull crushed; will die
| Oscar Backliff, engineer of train, head
| crushed; probably fatally injured
Jennie MeClelland, Is, skull frac-
tured. other injuries; probably fatally.
| Florence Doll, ankle broken and bad
| ly hurt about head and shoulders.
Mabel Smith, head injured.
Frederick Alsop, injured about head
and body.
George Smith. colored. leg fractured.
Carl Racquet, cut about face and
| bruised about body.
Maud Van Valen. II years, bruised
J about head and arms.
! Walter Baurmann, II years old, ribs
| broken.
! Susan De Camp, arm fractured
Edith Fox, Pauline Rich, Marian
Lyttle. Margaret Cemmerford, Frances
| NeviuS, Helen McCord, Allen Coursen,
! Nina Bull Lillian Geraghty, Marion
Price, Frederick LondsIey, Arthur Lu-
land, Emily knight and Jacob Wallack.
Car Was Crowded.
! The accident happened within three
| blocks of the High school building. and
| in the car at the time were nearly 100
/ pupils. AS many as thirty others had
managed to throw themselves from the
car before the crash came. The trolley
was one of the specials which every
/ day bring the children to school It
/ had more than its ordinary load today,
owing TO cold weather.
| 1t contained every child that could
| squeeze inside, and others stood on the
| rear platform. Besides. the car had
/ been so crowded that many who were
waiting for it before the hill was
reached could not get on. although
some climbed on the front platform
/ with the motorman- A score or more
/ children were compelled to walk, and
| they followed the car afoOt. They say
/ that when the car was still less than
| halfway down the hill the railroad
gates began to drop Peter Brady, the
i motorman, promptly shut off the power
and applied the brakes. The speed Of
| the car was checked, but it continued
| to move slowly down the incline.
No Thought of Danger.
There was no thought of danger.