The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
ELECTRIC CAR
 CUT IN TWO Stopped on Track of
 Shuttle Train. SIX PERSONS ARE KILLED Nineteen Others Injured, Two Perhaps Fatally. Trucks of the Car Knocked 100 Fed Away, and Part of Roof is Car.
 ried 200 Feet sy Leeo-
 motive.
SIX PERSONS ARE KILLED

St. Louis. Sept. 3.---Six persons were | killed and nineteen were injured, two probably fatally. today by the colli- sion of Wabash Worlds Fair shuttle train with a suburban electric car at the Sarah street crossing. There were l twenty-five passengers in the car and l none escaped injury.
 | The dead:-John W. Wilson, Kirk | wood, St. Louis: George W. MaJorss. St. Louis: Mrs. Charles Merekley. Ottawa. Ill.,; Unidentified boy: two unidentified women.
 l Fatally hurt:-M B. Bristol, St. Louis. internal injuries; H. B. Culn St. Louis. skull fractued. | Seriously hurt:-Raymond Reister. boy, St. Louis. right leg larcerated; Mrs. L. R. Wilson. St. Louis. body bruised: Miss Mary Buddensick. St. Louis. right leg broken; z. F. Schumacher. St. Louis. cut and bruised; E. !. Coleman, St. Louis. leg broken: A. B. Wilson. St. Louis; L. R. Wilson. Albert Jennigs, John Gillespie. Kirkwood. St. Louis. Car Cut in Two. The shuttle train was returning to the union station from the Worlds Fair grounds at twenty miles an hour. 1t Is said. TlA street car which was on it's way to the suburbs with a load of people returning home, stopped di- rectly 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 was carried 200 feet fur- ther by the train Bodies of the dead and injured with wreckage of the dis- mantled car were scattered along the track for 100 yads
 A. w, Burbank, engineer of the shut tie train who planes the motorman of the electric car for the accident. said:
 'I was within 100 yards of the SUI burban crossing when I saw the su- burban car start across the track. It looked to me as if 1t had ample, time to get across"
 The watchman and the fagman at the crossing and some of the passengers confirm the statement that the car stop ped started across the track and then stopped on the track.
 Explanations Not Made.
 No satisfactory explanation has be.,n given why the car stopped in the mid dle of the track after 1t started across
 Fred Utz. the gateman at the cross ing, said:
 My orders have been not to use the gates, although there are gates here. When the car approached I saw 1t and rang the crossing bell. The car stop ped, the conductor went to the front and 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 a pris- oner at the city hospital. and the con ductor of the suburban car, Patrick Sheehan, has been arrested. Conductor Sheehan said of the accident:
 The motorman stopped the car at the crossing and went ahead to see If the way was clear. I saw the train approaching. but the iagmap said, Come on, hurry up; you can get across. and as we had often got across when a train was good deal nearer than that one was, gave the signal for the mo- norman to come ahead. He started ahead and I walked back toward the rear of the car to swing upon the rear platform as the car passed me- The car did not stop at the crossing. ri was going across slowly when it was struck"