The San Francisco call., 1906-08-13

front platform, and was painfully cut
py Hylng glass from the shattered win
COWS. All the others who were on the
p,a.lorm, from which they were un-
aoie 10 escape when the collision oc-
CURED, owing to the fact that both
gates OF the platform were closed and
locked, were caught like rats In a trap
passengers inside the car were in
scarcely less peril. They had no
chance to escape by jumping.
AS the steel-shod buffer of the motor
car tore lts way through the side of the
Telegraph avenue car seats were torn
from the floor and passengers were
tossed about like ships. Directly op-
poslte the point at WHICH the motor car
| struck the street car were seated Mr.
ana Mrs. f. c. Thrall of 1852 Caroline
street, Alameda and their daughter
MISS margaret Thrall. AS the side of
the car gave way before the impact of
the heavy train Miss Thrall was hurled
through the air to the opposite side of
the car and striking one of the windows
leil into the street outside. Her mother
ana 1ather were also thrown from their
seats and We're pinioned in the car by
.he aislodged seats and splintered tim
| bers.
EVERY WINDOW SHATTERED.
Every window in the street car was
shattered and flying glass and splin-
ters caused havoc among the passen-
gers. Several of the latter were thrown
| through the windows of the car and
were painfully lacerated by the Jagged
edges of tne broken glass Among
] those who received injuries in this
manner were Captain. r. z. Dillon of
the Los Angeles baseball team and
Shortstop Wheeler of the San Fran
CISCO Baseball Club. Dillon sustained
deep cash over one eye and his hand
| was cut, and Wheeler received num-
| Der of deep wounds.
The most seriously injured of the
passengers on the Telegraph avenue car
was James st. John, who was 1t is
believed, on the front platform with the
motorman. st. John was thrown from
the car only to be caught beneath the
lront END OF the motor car as the body
OF the latter was torn from it's trucks
and dropped to the ground His leg
was caught under the step of the car
and pinned to the ground He lay
moaning with pain until the step was
chopped away to release him. Both
nones of his right leg were crushed
Just above the ankle and his left arm
| was fractured. He also sustained deep
decorations on his face and right knee
PASSENGERS RIBS BROKEN.
Others among the injured were d. "
oiecu Or oof = sycamore street, who
was cpt about the head by flying glass
ALBERT sauoerg OF 6sS Central avenue
Alameda, several of whose ribs on the
left side were broken when he was
hurled against one of the seats of the
car; MIS- b. Burton, whose scalp was
gashed by a piece of glass, and L.
Blum, Several of the latter's ribs were
6reken. Edna Radford, daughter of
Captain James Radford of San Fran
1 NJ al
spine.
None of the passengers on the Key
Route train were injured. though they
We're thrown from their seats and
shaken up when the train crashed into
the car. The train was in charge of
/ Motorman AL Broder and Conductor w.
Noone. The former, when he saw the
avenue car cross the track ahead of his
train, made every effort. according to
witnesses of the accident, to stop the
train in time to avoid a collision, but
tn. weight of the train was too much
for the combined force of the reversed
motors and the brakes.
FLAGMAN MAKES SIGNAL.
| The train had left the station at Pied
mont bound for the pier. and on ap-
| preaching Telegraph avenue had begun
to slow up for the stop. When the mo-
tor-car was within less than hundred
feet of the Telegraph avenue crossing
car No 266 of the Telegraph avenue
line shot across the path of the ap-
preaching train. although the crossing
| hagman was at his post, waving a
warning that the train was coming. AS
he saw the car and realized that it
| could never cross the track in time to
/ escape, Motorman Broder locked the
airbrakes of his train and attempted to
stop by throwing the full strength of
| his powerful motors into the reverse,
but the headway of the train was too
great. Broder did not attempt TO es-
| cape from the platform of his car but
stuck to his post and was still trying
| TO bring the train to stop when the
cars met. He was hurled forward by
| the shock of the collision and struck
the window in front of his controller.
| The glass was broken, but Broder was
not badly injured. The moment that
his train was brought to a halt he
| Joined in the work of rescuing the in
/ jured.
CARS HURLED FROM TRACK.
So great was the force of the col
lIson that the car was hurled clear of
the rails by the shock and the front end
| was carried around by the motor-car
/ of the train until both coaches, their
| bodies torn from the trucks and tilted
over, lay side by side across the tracks
of the southbound Telegraph-a
cars. The front end of the Telegraph
avenue car was reduced to a mass of
/ splintered wood and twisted iron and
/ the front of the motor-car was badly
| wrecked.
| Almost before the train had come to
a standstill and while the passengers
! of the Key Route train and those of
| the Telegraph-ayen car who had
escaped injury were working frantic
ally to extricate the injured from the
wreck A call for help was telephoned
! to the Folice and the Fire departments
and within a few moments ambulances
from the police station and from the
Fabiola and Providence hospitals and
the East Bay Sanatorium were on the
way to the scene of the accident. AT
the same time one of the hook and
| ladder trucks of the Fire Department
responded to the call for aid and the
| firemen Wondered all the assistance
| possible in removing the injured from
] the wreck.
AUTOS CARRY INJURED.
| When the message telling of the
wreck was received at the Central po
| lice station a number of police officers