The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-09
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Two ~; Ladies Are 81 Slightly Injured
II the Unfortunate
Wreck.
BOTH .|' CARS BAD }! !, DAMAGED
Runaway lakewood 4ls @ car ~ 81
Broad Street sS
$ss5 Hill
BOTH Oil Il CARS BADLY y 4 DAMAGED
Runaway,

Apparently providence took al hand iHE
preventing what might have been q seriS
Gus accident shortly d flor noon yestereS
day, and instead OF Smalmed and mangledi
bodies. only d few persons, as passcngcra]
and carmen on two " street Il cars, wer$$
slightly injured 4, as the result. N
About the hour mentioned, q freight
train was slowly crossing Broad strceEI
at Sixteenth. a y road Street ca Ii Wit lsA
a number OF passengers on board. Wassss
standing on the west side OF the rnilroaSs
tracks, awaiting the opening Of the pas Ii
sage way. Another car had started SLOW q
ly down the Broad Street hill. stoppil.&
at Twelfth Street, us the rules OF thlsa|
company require, NJ and had gone On In ti,asSs
usual way, slowing lups ut fifteenth StrestE
as also required by the company. md shn4s
started ontoward tho bottom or the 3hllgP
IT. no tracks were extremely slippery, DUO
to the rain and the murky H'ea ther Oh
the evening before, and ii; took aiotormarS
q. c. Cunning ham but a moment to- sede
that the tracks were too slippery An ofs
safety. Is He applied tho brakes. turned
loose the sand and did everything sposH
siblo & to stop the car and avoid acciIssaa
dent His efforts were useless. and Sthe@sii
car sped rapidly down tho HILL towards||
the car standing Il on he tracks 4 at tlltssI
bottom. The n1otorman stuck bravely Z "a
his post. and made every fort to lstopI
his car. Z NJ gsa
Jumped to Save I Themselves.
AT the bottom 8 the hill the carfnena
and the passengers saw the impending
danger. They Jumped, 5g ana t hus sayedfl
themselves. ID In the eastbolind ear, which
was an lakewood and Hollywood ear, n Il
1862, were two passengers, Mrs w IN \
Johnson, OF No. 1913 North Twenty-sixtiis
Street. and Miss Ethel Ellos. o + No. 5,4ss
North Twenty fourth. AS tho car reacheds
the bottom OF the hill, the two Spassen-S
gers jumped. Mrs. Johnson tainted. asl
she struck the ground She was Il alsos
slightly bruised, and was treated by sDr.s
MacLean, the street car company's physl-SS
clan, who did not think her injurless
amounted to a great deal, and was sertss
to hcr home, on Church Hill ISIS Enoss
was slightly bruised on the side Of hers
face. Niotorman Cunningham was slightly
cut on the face. but was able to con tinues
at work. Mrs. Joseph Phillips. DC No.
9OS North Twenty fourth Street. and Mrs,
II. W. Carter OF the same ddress, wero
Igslghtly injured, j the latter suffering a cut
OH her ear and "a scalp wound and tho
former slight wounds III $,5
a moment after the accident a larges
number OF persons gathered. NJ Tho po-l
Illice OF the First Fl District appeared ont
the scene qul ckl y Fl and did what was!
necessary to prevent any disorder that
might have arisen. 'olicelnan Keegan.
who was on the standing chr, and who
jumped when lie saw he runaway car,
was slightly cut on his hand by apiece
lof flying glass, The Others on the car
were Aessrs. ~. II. Wyatt r. t.! Butler,
Z. Il ~ Wall. II. u. strang, Elltcott Hill.
Thomas Mol owell. r q +. 4 Boy le, tl4 None
Of these passengers were hurt.The Broad
Street car 4 was Il In charge OF Conductor
Frost and Motolmlan Clark &. Sy
The company blnmcs no one for the
accident, looking upon It as an nayold-.
able incident Vi d 81 5