Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
THREE WERE KILLED
Head on Collision Between
Cars on Lake Shore.
LIMITED WAS TELESCOPED
Both Were Running at a High Rate
Of Speed.
80 WERE on PASSENGER LISTS
Nearly Score injured and Several
ssriousay-Accident Was Due
to Misunderstanding.
LIMITED WAS TELEscoPED
% WERE on PASSENGER LISTS

vERATIILTON. Ohio. August Ain q
head-on collision between two passenger
cars on the Lake Shore electric road this
afternoon three people weye killed out
right. third was fatally injured, while
probably a score more were injured, sew
eral seriously. The west-bound Lake
Shore electric limited crashed into the
regular No. IL. east-bound. three miles
west Of here. and the limited was tele-
scoped more than half way through its
length by the west-bound car. Both
were running at high rate Of speed. and
the two cars met at curve. About eighty
persons comprised the passenger lists OF
the two cars. The collision is said to
have been caused by a misunderstanding
Of orders The injured were removed to
a hospital in Lorain.
Dead:
". D. Moody. Beach Park. Ohio. motor
man on limited
Fred Smiley. twenty-five, of Lima. Ohio.
The fatally injured:
James Yerrick. Great Western Oil Com
pany. Milan. Ohio. concussion Of the
brain.
Others injured.
- Wells, wiiloughby, Ohio; chest
crushed.
Andy Gerrgiund. Pittsburg; cut about
head
H. Haddid. Toledo, Ohio; head gashed
and finger crushed
Jack Ganner. Cleveland; right leg
crushed, head gashed.
E. T. Warren, aged eighty Eight, Lor-
ain. Ohio: head and leg crushed
e. A. McEisney. Cleveland. left leg
broken. back sprained and face cut.
Rev. F. M. Praub, Lima, Ohio. face Gu,
and otherwise injured
George Mills, Cleveland bruised
c. F. Mckin. nose and leg cut.
Miss c. st. Lete. Cleveland, bruised.
w. L. Lisley, Lima. face cut.
w. 8. Shepard, Lima, face and arm cut.
Mrs. c. G. Washburn, Lorain, bruised in
back
c. Stuls. Bellevue, face cut.
Mrs. M. Beckett. Cleveland. face cut.
81 Young. Beaver Dam, Pa, face cut and
unconscious.
Harold Gensel. Lima, hand, head and face
cut unconscious.
- Hall. Lakewood. Ohio, face crushed,
side injured.
Mrs. Jordan, Cleveland, face cut and legs
and back injured.
Mrs. Hovitch. Cleveland side of face
bruised and back sprained-
H. w. Remlinger. NoryPalk, Ohio. con-
ductor on limited, hand hurt.
Fred Rudd. Cleveland motorman on regu-
lar, hurt about head.
Isle Caldwell. Cleveland. conductor on
regular, hurt about head.
William Slocunl, South Vermillion, Ohio,
head cut
Homer H. Huges. Lima, right hand
crushed
Mrs. Tessie Guitars, Cleveland side hurt
and Frustrated.
Chester Rieddenour. fifteen. Lima. badly
bruised.
Mrs. w. D. Johnston, Cleveland. left leg
crushed
Mrs. Sarah Roem, Cleveland. hip injured.
Mrs. Laura Harris, Cleveland, badly
shaken and bruised.
George Hoffman, Shinrock, face cut and
left leg hurt
- Huttenbolxer. Berlin Heights, severe
ly injured.
Otto Mcbride. Lima, badly hurt.
Allen Shaw. Lima. left leg injured.
VERMILLION. Ohio. August flames
Yerrick died on the way from the scene of
the wreck to the hospital In Lorain, making
the list of dead so far three. The list of
injured thus far given out Is incomplete,
and 1t is now stated that the total number
Of injured may reach forty, and that from
ten to fifteen of these are seriously hurt.