The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-13
CAR CRASHED
into A TRAIN
Disastrous Crossing Accident
at Oakland After the
Baseball Game.
SCORE OF PEOPLE INJURED
TWO OF THEM WILL PROBABLY
DIE.
SCORE OF PEOPLE INJURED


astrous street car accident in Oakland
in years took place this afternoon when
Telegraph avenue car packed with
pleasure crowds from Berkeley and Idora
park. crashed into the Key route elec-
trio train, bound from Piedpont to the
Terry mole, at the Fortieth street cross
ing A score of persons were badly in
gufed, at least two of whom are so badly
hurt that death may result.
The injured We're nearly all riding in
the street car. Those on the Key route
train were but slightly hurt. On the
street car were most OF the members of
the San Francisco and Los Angeles ball
teams who had just finished a game at
the park.
Some of the Injured.
James St. Johns, Oakland, pinned I'M
der car. left arm broken, ribs broken,
ankle crushed.
L. Bloom. Oakland, ribs fractured. left
side, internal injuries.
F.. r, Dillon, Los Angeles baseball team,
deep cash over eye, Commissions on body.
George Hodson, baseball umpire, thrown
twenty feet through car window, scalp
wounds.
G. l.. Wheeler. San Francisco baseball
team. Commissions on body,
Albert Sauberg, Alameda, ribs broken.
Mrs. Margaret WEIGH, Oakland, ear torn
off, face gashed.
Edith Parker, Oakland, arm torn.
Mrs. Henry Dismal, Oakland, arm
broken.
T. G. Cheney, Point Richmond. nose
torn off.
William Pittman, motorman of wrecked
street car deep scalp wounds, leg crushed
and number of minor hurts.
Mrs. Frank Burton, severely cut about
head.
D. V. Olsen scalp wounds
Mrs. r. A. Rose, Alameda, left arm in
jured. 4.e
IInabIe n Sion Car
A defective airbrake on the street car
is said TO have been the cause of the ac-
cident. The flagman at the Key route
crossing sgnalled the street car to slow
up. but MotOTmaE Pittman was unable
TO stop. The front end of the electric car
struck the front car of the Key route
train near the forward trucks. The wheels
of the trucks of both cars fouled and the
street car was dragged at right angles
from the track its entire length before
Motorman BrOder of the Key route could
bring his train to a stop. Every pane OF
glass in the street car was shattered and
the passengers were hurled under the
seats and through the windows. The fly
ing glass cut the passengers. MotOrman
Pittman was pinned under the front of
his car and Passenger st. John was
hurled through the street car window un-
der the wheels of the Key route train.
where he lay for half an hour before
a detail of the Oakland fire department
arrived with lifting cranes.
Passengers in a Panic.
For hours after the accident the scene
was one of indescribable confusion.
The 200 passengers on the Key route
train were in a state of panic. Some
of the injured were carried into the sta
ton, to a grocery store and private houses
near by, while others lay on the side
walk screaming for help, waiting the ar
rival of doctors and ambulanceS to take
them to the hospitals.
The passengers on the street car real
lied the impending accident, but the car
was a long, closed affair, and only eight
on the small rear platform were able TO
jump.
Jury in this manner were City Council
man George Fitzgerald, City Clerk 1ol-
land and the conductor of the wrecked
car.
was badly wrecked. and traffic was de-
layed until late this evening.
Daughter Was Injured.
Miss Radford. a San Francisco society
girl. daughter of Captain James RadfOrd,
Was Standing i'm front of the Telegraph |
avenue car with her mother. Both were
hurled under the seat. The mother es-
capped serious, injury.
Although nearly all the members of the |
San Francisco and Los Angeles b4senaIl
teams were on the car Wheeler. Dillon |
and Umpire HodsOn were the only ones
hurt HOdson was hurled twenty feet |
through an open window and rolled over |
and over in the dirt. daZed and stunned |
hut no bones were broken. Dillon was |
cut sboYe the left eye by flying glass |
and badly confused about the body. |
Wheeler sustained minor injuries about |
the hands and arms. Surgeons at the re-
ceiving hospital hold out little nope Tor |
the recovery of st. John, who was pinned /
under the Key route car He is an Oak
land capitalist.