The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-26
TWENTY PERSONS
HURT IN COLLISION
Three Wrecks Occur on Salt
Lake Street Car System
Thursday.
MOT0RMAN AND CONDUCTOR
SUFFER SERIOUS INJURIES
Six Cars Put Out of Commission
and Many Passengers Es-
cape by Miracle.

Three street car collisions occurred
Thursday morning during the dense fog.
and in all about twenty passengers and
employees of the Utah Light & Railway
company were injured
Injured.
ALLEN, JOHN. conductor on Murray
car, shoulder dislocated.
BECK, a. L, conductor on Murray car
BROWN CHARLES. passenger on
Ashton avenue car, slight injuries.
CLAYTON, w. H.. passenger on Ash
ton avenue car. two ribs broken
CLARK, MISS, passenger on Waterloo
car. slightly injured.
GEER, w. H., passenger on Ashton
avenue car, slightly injured.
KIMBALL. IRWIN, passenger on Ash
ton avenue car head bruised
LARSON, MISS, passenger on Water
loo car slightly injured.
LURER, A b, motorman on waterloo
car. badly cut about head, face and
shoulders. serious.
Cars Telescope.
The first accident happened at $40. the
next at $50 and the third at $40. Cars
No SO and 81 ran into each other at
Ninth East between Tenth and Eleventh
South streets. This was at $40, and the
incoming car was nlled with school chill
drcn and employees of the various stores
time before. the incoming car coiiided
with a milk wagon. demolishing the
vehicle and slightly injuring the driver
Only One Seriously Injured.
w H Clayton was the only passenger
injured TO any extent in the nrst accl-
dent He was taken TO MS home and Dr.
Ewing called to attend him. AS the cars
came together with crash, the school
children were at once thrown INTO
panic and IL was some time before they
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injuries ascertained AS near as could be
learned at the time none were seriously
injured. and a number OF them Jumped
from the car and proceeded to their
homes afoot TWO young ladies, Miss
Clark and Miss Larson, were slightly
bruised by the collision.
Motorman Injured.
Motorman A B. Luber was seriously
injured in the second collision, which oc-
CURED at $50, at Tenth South and Fourth
East streets. He vas badly cut about the
head and shoulders, the tugular vein be-
other injuries. He was taken TO his
home, where Dr. Benedict was summoned
By the company to attend him, 1t Is not
thought his injuries Will prove fatal
Cars Nos. 90 and SIS figured in this col
lision both being so badly wrecked that
they were sent 10 the barns for repairs,
Roy Naylor and Dr, Benedict were at
once dispatched to the scene OF the coll
lision to assist the injured. n number Of
passengers who did not give their names,
are known to be more or less injured, al
though none of them are seriously hurt.
John Allen Injured.
In the third collision, which occurred a
few moments later, on tho Murray line,
at State and Fourteenth South streets
Conductor John Allen suffered a dislocat-
ed shoulder and number of bad cuts
and bruises DIR. Beer was called to at
tend him, and 10 look after any others
who required medical service as a result
OF the collision
Twenty Stitches Necessary.
Dr. Benedict was compelled to take
fully twenty stitches in the wounds Suf-
fered by Motorman Luber. The wounds
bled profuscly. and for time II was
feared he would bleed to death
Cars Demolished.
Four of the cars were all but demol-
iShed The front ends were stove in
many OF the windows broken and various
portions of the coaches wrecked A look
at the coaches which figured In the first
and last collision would lead one to be-
lieyc that the passengers who escaped
unlnJured were almost saved by a
miracle and that tho motorman In each
instance did not suffer instant death
seems nothing short of miraculous.
Other Incidents of Collisions.
Motorman Morris. who figured in the
Ashton avenue collision, reversed his car
when he saw that an accident was In
evitable. and took Il header from his car
Motorman Hill who was In charge of the
lever of the other car, did likewise with
the exception that he didn't wait to open
the gate, going over it at a bound, Both
motormen escaped serious injury. Con-
duCtor WaGstaff was thrown against the
car door and In the mixup which fol-
lowed he received q bad cut on his face
Irwin Kimball young man who was rid
ing In the southbound car. was Knocked
Gown and before he could arise the car
stove had toppled over on his back. w
II Clayton had two ribs broken.
Fog Causes Accidents.
1t is claimed by the company officials
and the employees who figured I'm the col
lision that all OF the accidents were
caused by the dense fog, although the re-
port that orders were misunderstood by
the crew OF the Murray car has been cir
culated and Will be fully investigated
At the time Of the collision it was i'm
possible to more than a few feot
ahead and some OF the conductors took
the procaution to walk ahead OF their
cars when approaching switch. This
prccaution evidently saved sim other ac-
cldents.