The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-04
Wabash Shuttle Train Crashes
 Into Electric Gar
NOT 4 PASSENGER ESCAPED
Shuttle Train Was Running at Rapid Rate and Electric Car Seemed to Have Stopped Across
 the Track

St. Louis, September 3.-Seven persons were killed and nineteen were injured, two probably fatally, today by the collision of a Wabash worlds fair shuttle train with a suburban electric car at the Sarah street crossing. There were twenty-five passen- gers in the car and none escaped injury. The dead:
 John w. Wilson. Kirkwood. St. Louis. George J. Majors, St. Louis.
 Harry B. Culp, St. Louis
 Andrew Mckinley, St. Louis
 Two unidentified women.
 M. B. Bristol, St. Louis.
 Fatally hurt:
 M. P. Bristol, St. Louis, internally in- jured.
 H..B. Culp, St Louis. skull fractured Seriously injured:
 Raymond Reister, boy, St. Louis, right leg lacerated
 Mrs. L. R. Wilson. St. Louis. body bruised.
 Miss Mary Buddesicls, St. Louis. right leg broken.
 c. E. Schumacher. St. Louis, cut and bruised
 E. J. Coleman, St. Louis, leg broken.
 A. B. Wilson, St. LOUIS.
 L. R. Wilson.
 Albert Jennings.
 John Gillespie, Kirkwood, St. Louis.
 Running at Rapid Rate.
 The shuttle train was returning to the Union station from the worlds fair grounds at twenty mills an hour, it is said. The street car which was on it's way to the suburbs with a load of people return ing home, stopped directly in front of the locomotive and was cut in two. The trucks of the car were knocked 100 feet away while part of it's roof were carried 200 feet further by the train. Bodies of the dead and injured with wreekage of the dismantled earshafe acatteged along the track for one hundred yards.
 A. w. Burbank. engineer of the shuttle train, who planes the motorman or the electric car for the accident said;
 T was within 100 yards of the suburban crossing when 1 saw the suburban car start across the track. 1t looked to ma as if it had ample time to get across"
 The watchman and the fagman at the crossing and some of the passengers con- firm the statement that the car stop ped, started across the track and then stopped on the track.
 No Explanation Given.
 No satisfactory explanation mas Detn given why the car stopped in the middle of the track after 1t started across.
 Fred Utz. the gateman at the crossing said
 My orders have been not to use the gates, although there are gates here. When the car approached l saw it and rang the crossing bell. The car stopped, the conductor went to the front ana then I saw the car start again and stop in the middle of the track. It seemed to be dead''
 Theodore Cook. the motorman, whose shoulder was fractured, is held pris- oner at the city hospital, and the con- ductor of the suburban car, Patrick Shee- han, has been arrested. Conductor Shee- han said of the accident: "The motorman stopped the car at tnd crossing and l went ahead to see If tha way was clear. I saw the train ap- preaching but the fagman said: Coma on; hurry up; you can get across, and as we had often got across when tram was a good deal nearer than that ono was. I gave the signal for the motorman l to come ahead. He started ahead and walked back toward the rear of the car 1 to swing upon the rear platform as the | car passed me- The car did not stop | at the crossing. It was going across slowly when it was struck