The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-01
eager to get a look Mt those who we're
or the cars.
Miss Steit1brecher's Account.

,nuthbound one. After striking together,
4 tars No. 14i rcboundcd, but remained on
The track. Car No. 145. with the front
and the first seat smashed, remained on
L Tho main track.
Miss E.Inora Steinbrccher, whose moths
er. Mrs. j. j. Stcnbrecher wife OF a
nrominent Broad Street clothier, was IN
iiirel said last night when seen pS a
Iimcs Dispatch reporter: II was sitting
on The second seat on the car going 10
Il seven P.nes. Mother and my sister,
Marie. were OH Tie front seat Marie
Z was ,lea r the end and mother was directly
behind the motorn,an. L saw the car
coming from Seven pines and thought 1t
would 20 Into the switch. The mo or
imam seemed to be tn ming the brake
around and could not stop, and theh
& saw our motorman throw up ms hanos.
g i,hc car we we're on was moving very
Slowly at the time of the crash was
Thrown TO the floor and didn't know
anything for at least Il IN mute Inen
81 / saw mother pinned between the switch
box and the front seat Next to her was
the Inotorman. The passengers were aw.
: fully excited, and was, too They hau
A to get some logs before they could prize
The box away, so that mother could
.E3be cotter out. Her leg just below the
kneo was bruised badly. Dr. Collins
treated her. and she was brought TO the
car sheds, and DR.. Mclean and DR.. Up
snur'F eSiliiilllcua HCl Nouiid. II we 'iiSAA
! came home"
Miss Marie Steinbrecher. who was seat
e cd by the side of her mother on the front
seat, gave about the same account OF the
collision. She believed that the chain on
: the brake had broken. and that the
,notorman on car 1il could not stop In
time to open the switch. tt5
Il was not hurt, because was on the
end ana the switch box didn't hit me.
but Il was thrown down, and struck
ngninst the front OF the car. The crash
was something terrible, and dldn' {
x know anything until / heard mother cry
out, tried to pull her out but could
not, and only made the pain worse. My
q dress was covered With blood from the
wound Of tho lnotorman."
Promptly Cared for.
a Dr.. IL Stuart Mclean said after the
q collision: '.'rlcre was no unnecessary de-
lay IN getting the injured TO the hos
II pitfalls, and to other places where they
could he treated DR.. Upshur assisted
NE at the car barns, and every one re-
ceivcd the very best OF attention. The
rumor that spread through the city very
; much exa ggerated the accident Motor
man Doyle was taken to the Virginia
Hospital, and his small toe was ampu-
,tated His wounds We're treated at once.
3 The other passengers received the very
utmost consideration
When tho chr bearing the wounded
reached ,rwenty-ninth and p Streets about
I s O'clock there was crowd there, tho
K like OF which has not conSregnted{ at tho
barns for months The ambulance, with
DR.. Pitt in charge was on the ground
and several Of those injured were treated
by the ambulance physician The First
Police District sent officers to the scene
and these worked in conjunction with the
f,,1., t,,tt L,,nr Fr,rt
order and keeping the curious crowd
back from the offices into which those
who were hurt were taken.
Scene of Collision.
The scene OF the collision is on a long
switch, open at both ends, and known as
Peaco's siding, situated just beyond FAIR
Oaks When representatives of The
Times-Dispatch left the scene the
wounded had been removed and the I'M
injured messengers had been taken to
their destinations on other cars. The
track was open and traffic moving in
both directions.
TX Both the injured cars were standing on
the track. No 14J bound from Richmond
to Seven Pines. and No. 14l a newer and
more substantial car bound from Seven
Pines TO Richmond. "A force of mechanics
were working under ana upon the dam
aged cars repairing them sufficiently to
bring them back to the shops. Neither
car left the track, and when sketched
by the artist they were both standing
practically in the positions they occu-
pied a few moments after the crash The
upright posts over the front platform of
No. gl41, the newer car, were bent back
ward and inward from the impact with
the front of the other car, and the front
IL seat was somewhat damaged. Other than
This No., i'll appeared to have suffered
little.
No. las, bound from this city to Seven
Pines was by far the worst damaged
The entire front was crushed in, and
The glass partition between the mortor-
mans platform and the interior of the
i open car was mashed backward into the
front of the interior of the car The
extreme front portion of the car, directly
behind which Motorman Doyle was stand
ing, was crushed backward against the
seat on the front platform, and 1t was
here that the more seriously hurt were
injured. They were caught between the
collapsed front Of the car and the seat
on the platform In front OF tic body Of
K the car. and were held there until re-
leased by rescuers, who promptly set to
work 1t was here that Mrs. and Miss
Steinbrecher were injured and one or two
of The others.
Received Great Damage.
Evidently car 40 had stopped Or was
moving slowly for It received the greater
part Of the impact OF car 14l. which was
moving mich more rapidly. The front
platform and the controller and brake
were smashed and rendered useless It
was upon this car that the wrecking
force were working, the lights from
car al, the practically unnjured car.
enabling them to work readily.
Not one OF the five or SIX persons
hooking IN would youchSafe any Informal
ton, II they possessed any, and II was
not until inquiry was made at the Of
fices Of the company and OF the persons
f injured in the wreck that the story OF
the collision could be secured. Exag-
gerated reports of the collision, in which
two were said to have been killed and
twenty odd Injured proved groundless
and persons on the road which runs
alongside Of The ra lroad knew nothing OF
the accident county road overseer
who had just passed the spot, did no,
know that an accident had occurred