Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-03
ENGINE
ANDCAR
COLLIDE
Nine Passengers Are
Hurt at Central
and Second
Locomotive Backs Down
on Theater Crowd,
Wrecks Coach,
Victims Blame Vernon Motorman, Who
Increased Speed as He Neared
Crossing as Cars Were Being
shunted
THE INJURED

o List of the injured in the coIIis-
o ion between Southern Pacific
o switch engine 1929 and Vernon cnr
8 number 331. {
20 James Nicholson, empIOye of the
@ Hollywood hotel, Hollywood, back
@ severely wrenched, perhaps broken,
@ cOncussion Of the brain. Mny die.
@ Mrs. It. Harris, 04O East Thirty
O eighth street, lip cut, five teeth {
O knocked out, slight cOncussion of
@ the brain.
o James TraynOr, Bisbee. Ariz,
@ left knee and leg bruised severely,
9 body bruised.
@ Mrs. Amelia Nadeau, 1911 East
o Forty-sixth street, left knee cap
@ torn out of place.
10 w. II. Hampton, mOtOrman of the
9 Vernon car, 1915 East Fifty-frst
@ street, face terribly cut, will prob &
@ ably lose right eve, nose crushed.
o Mrs. G. A. Graves, 94O East
o Thirty-eighth street, cheek laid &
@ open.
70 j. e. Winer, 1851 East Adams
o street, slightly cut by flying glass.
10 Miss Leta Winer, 1851 East
@ Adams, cut by glass.
@ Mrs. ID. b. Rowland, 1851 East
% Adams, face slightly cut by glass. ::
% Ralph Flet, 1912 Enst Forty
9 sixth street, hand crushed.
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Nine persshaewerc injured in a col
Iision between southbound Vernon cal
S31 and Southern Pacific switch engine
1922 between Second and Third streets
on Central avenue last night at 1925
o'clock. The front end of the street
car was crushed and the tender Of
the engine was forced from the track
by the shock of collision.
The car was crowded with people
returning from the theater and it is
considered most remarkable by the
street car officials and police that SO
few were injured. witnesses to the
accident almost unanimously stated
last night that the fault was that of
the motorman of the street car.
Ralph Filet, of 972 East Forty-sixth
street, was riding on the front plat
form of the Vernon car and according
to his statement just before the crash
occurred, the motorman turned to him
and said, I'VE have the right of way
here" and then Increased. the speed
of his car.
Engineer Defiant
Engineer j. c. Randle, of the switch
engine when asked about the accident
said ITO - with the newspapers.
I'll tell you nothih'."
T. J. Walch, fireman. said that the
engine was Just moving when it was
struck by the car. He said:
1--WE had been shunting string of
box cars from the Southern Pacific
yards on the Central avenue switch
and We're going slowly west across
Central avenue.
"The engineer saw the car coming
but thought that the motorman would
stop his car. Instead of doing so he
increased his speed as he neared the
end of the tender and then the ac-
cident occurred"
The crew of the street car was
of the following men: w.
T. Hampton, motorman, and J. A,
Harknessj conductor. Upon the switch
engine were the following: j. j. Payne.
engine foreman; ], P. Randle, engineer,
and T. j. Walch, fireman.
No one on the engine was hurt.
Five Go to Hospital
The five most seriously injured pas
sengers and the motorman of the car
were removed to the general and
hospital at Fifth street and
Towne avenue
The rest of the injured went to their
homes.
The switch engine was not damaged
with the exception of a smashed foot
board and hand rail.
The tender was knocked from the
track.
The conductor of the street car de-
clined to make any statement in re-
gard to the accident and the partic-
ulars were learned from witnesses on
the car which was struck.
With the exception of James Nichol-
son, of the Hollywood hotel, 1t Is not
believed that any of the victims are
fatally injured.