The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-24
TROLLEY CARS IN COLLISION
EIGHTEEN PERSONS INJURED
 NEAR WEsTBoRo, MASS.
Slippery Rails Accountable for the Ae- cident-cars Crashed Together With Terrific Force-Panic Among Passen- gers Follows the Crash--An Automo- bile Brings Doctors to the Scene.
Ie Brlngs Doctors to the scene.

worcester, Mass, Oct. 2S.-Trolley cars in rear end collision on the Vest boro and Marlboro street railway two and one-half miles west of Westboro in1urd eighteen people about 9:45 o'clock this morning. The injured are:
 Edward w. Paine, motorman of Worcester and Westboro car. right wrist and arm badly sprained and nervous from shock.
 John D, Mahoney, motorman on { Worcester Consolidated car, right leg and hip bruised and suffering from shock.
 Edward N. Malet, conducaor on Worcester Consolidated, shaken up and bruised.
 Charles W. Clifford, Westboro, right side bruised.
 Frank E. Cutler. Westboro, both ankles injured. { George ewksbury, Westboro, hands cut by flying glass.
 Mrs. George Parker face and hands cut by glass, bruised about the body and suffering from shock
 Arthur J. Aubrey, Woodville, left leg sprained.
 Frank A. stephani, Hopkinton, hands cut by glass.
 Charles Swanson, Hopkinaon, suf- fering from shock.
 Ernest Nash, Hudson, right foot damned.
 Edward Faucher, Westboro, right knee baadly sprained.
 Sidney Whiting, Hopkinton, left leg bruised and sprained. Mrs. Sidney Whiting, Hopkintor, hands cut and suffering from shock.
 William Bonbard, Westboro, head and hands cut by glass I Louis West, Hudson, right leg sprain- ed and bruised.
 John Thorassen, Hopkinton, right hip bruised.
 | Walter w. Aldrich. Marlboro. right hip and leg badly bruised and suffering ! from shock.
 \ Slippery rails are accountable for the accident A worcester Consolidated Street Railway ear used on the Worcester and Marlboro division was being sent to Worcester for repairs by the way of the Westboro and Marlboro tracks for the reason that the tracks were torn up in Northbro on the Worcester Consolidated tracks during state road construction.
 The car being sent to Worcester for repairs was in charge of Conductor Malet and operated by Motofman Ma .honey. It left Westboro several min \ utes ahead of the regular car on the sl Westboro and Marlboro line due to I leave Westboro at 9:35. It's progress was sure and safe until making the hill near the Fay place when the car kicked and before the motorman could I get control of it 1t, was running back ward down the hill
 At the foot of the hill at curve it \ was met by the regular car from Marl- boro to Worcester which was making good speed to climb the hill, The cars crashed together with ter rife force, denrolishing the vestibules on both cars and ripping every seat from its fastenings on the Westboro car which had twenty passengers aboard. There were no passengers on the other car. A panic among the I passengers followed the crash.
 Motorman Mahoney was caught ufl der the controller, which fell upon him, Motorman Paine jumped and was in I jured when he struch the road. Con- ductor Malet also jumped.
 An automobile came upon the scene of the accident shortly after 1t hap pened. Conductor Frank W. Peckham, in charge of the Marlboro and Vest boro car, boarded this touring car and \ was driven to Westboro where Doc tors Daniel P. Cilley, Thomas H. Ayers and Charles s. Knight were quickly hurried to the injured. Wrecking cars from Westboro and Worcester were or dered to the wreck, which was cleared ! away so that traffic was resumed at \ 1:sC