Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14

shut off the speed, but by that time the
car was going at a fearful rate. Man
after man, clinging, to the steps and
descent and suffered only slight bruises.
The car dashed into the gooseneck bend
with the wheels grinding against the
rails and to the sharp curve at the bot
tom Of the incline. The next second the
mass of iron and steel swept clear of
the track and on straight toward the
edge of the sixty-foot arroyo
Car Strikes Pole
Within thirty feet of the brink Of the
precipice the car struck telegraph
pole and turned over.
To the everlasting credit of the class
of motormen who daily risk their lives
for the protection Of their passengers,
Bowders stuck like hero to his post,
fighting with the emergency brake to
the last in the hope OF preventing the
accident, and finally going down in the
crush and chaos of the wreck.
AS the car tore loose from the track
and went down In mass of wrecka ge
the half stunned men and women tum-
bled from the wreck. Many of them
had been thrown through the windows
of the car at the moment 1t was over
turned; Others were lifted from the
twisted and battered wreckage, for the
car looked like mass of battered iron
and kindling wood, and were stretched
out on the ground awaiting medical as
sistance.
AS for the motorman, shocked and in
jured as he was, he sat down on the
curbstone and crcied as though his
heart would break for the wreck and
disaster which he had so bravely tried
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sona danger.
Falls Under Car
At the moment Of the disaster Bar
rett, one of the passengers, was stand
ing on the bottom step and attempted
to leap to safety, but he was thrown
directly under the. car and his body
fearfuliy mangled. The car had to be
lacked up before his body could be re-
leased.
Freitag was hurled under the wreck
and his legs were crushed so that am
putation was necessary.
Police ambulances and private am
balances hurried the injured away as
quickly as possible.
Miss Beatrice #. Phillips, 1887 Bridge
street, was thrown through one of the
windows of the car as the collision
came She sustained internal injuries,
laoerations and shock which may re-
suit fatally.
Just year ago the young woman's
mother was thrown from a Brooklyn
avenue car at the same spot and in
Jured to such an extent that she has
been unable to leave her bed since
then.
'lhe wreck was one of the most ter
rible / have ever seen." said William
Kennedy, the young womans uncle,
who was standing within twenty feet
of where the accident occurred.
Veteran Sheds Tears
II am civil war veteran and have
seen a few horrible sights but don't
know OF any that affected me more
than that. for man as am cried at
the scenes going on there and there
was not a man or woman present who
was able to keep from crying at the
sight.
"The car must have been going at a
forty mile-an-hour clip when 1t came
down the hill and was standing at the
corner. usually take that car. but
yesterday morning I walked while my
niece, who generally walks, decided
to take the car.
"As the car left the track and dashed
Into the telegraph pole right on the
was lost and that the car had gone into
the ditch.
II ran as fast as 1 could and man
aged to reach my niece. She was
stunned. but got her away from the
wreck and took her home. As for the
others, they lay about on the ground,
many of them frightfully cut and
bleeding. The mass beneath the car
which had once been a man was awful
to look upon. hope l may never see
such another sight,