The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-19

Providence, the inquest into the Moore =
Corners fatality was continued today by
Coroner Harmon l. Babcock.
This morning the witnesses were Jo-
seph j. McQuade, the conductor on the
Inflated car, Edward O'Connor one OF
the two men who organized the excur-
sion party, and Walter Henry, who sat
on the front seat OF the wrecked car.
Edward ]. O'Connor was the first wit
ness and testified substantially as fol-
lows: II am 10 years OF age and reside AL
Thornton and by occupation laDorer i
was one of the persons who got up troll
lev party from Thornton 10 Crescent
Park, the other man being Herbert
Brookes. We left Thornton at 7:l5 p. m.
June 2, with Conductor McQuade and Mo-
torman Leuchner in charge OF my car.
Edward Rafferty, was conductor OF the
other car McQuade's car left Thornton
first The car on which l was left Cres-
cent Park at 1906. and l know the time
because / asked what time the car ielt
the Park: the informer was member OF
the party. Brooks was the one who did the
talking I'm the engagement OF the car ana
asked for the men who were assigned
Il was on the first car on the way back
from the rark and the car stopped once
% far as, know before II reached Moore 5
corners took no notice. consequently
am not certain how many times IL
stopped The stop was made 10 take
some passengers on: IL stopped but
few minutes IL was not quite so long
a. II generally takes 10 take on and let
off passengers. | don't know that an or
dinary stop OF a car is less than 80 sec
onds for this purpose. i was on the run
ming board and was standing on the
right hand side; the other board was up.
] mean when the running board was up
that IL was switched up so that no one
could stand on II.
The guard rail was down on the left
hand side coming from the park. l was
on the running board about the fourth or
nth seat from the front: there were a
number on the running board, about
eight. but could not say how many: pas
eengers stood in front and some behind.
but could not say what persons were IN
front or behind me. / sold about so tick
cts and both OF us sold about 1855 The
price OF each ticket was 80 cents. but
could not say how many were received.
because there was no time 10 figure It out.
We only had one accounting that night
and we got SAC 10 pay for the two cars.
II collected the money for the tick
cts at the time OF the sale; the tick
cts were paid for In advanceA col
lected s2s and some change over;
could not tell how much money
Brooks had. with the help OF George
Toner I collected the tickets on my
car: did not have time TO count the
tickets as the accident occurred be-
fore had time 70 count the tickets.
my helper was killed I'm the accident
IL lost some OF the tickets ! col
lected In the accident, There was
about 90 people on each car and there
were 90 members in my car.
could not give the total number OF
persons on the car, but there was
somewhere about 30. Did not count
them, but there were 13 seats and hve
in each seat but there might pos
sibly have been more than five on
some seats Some were standing up
and some were on the running board.
] don't know at what line the acct
dent occurred
The car went at about average speed.
] could not place Moore's Corners. never
having seen the location In the day time.
The car did not slacken up as II ap-
preached the place wfere the accident
occurred. The night was foggy when
the accident took place; indeed quite
dark. / could not see the arc light at
the corner as we were approaching II.
Coroner Babcock displayed a plan Of
Moore's Corners TO the witness and
showed witness the location OF the cleo
tric light. Witness said he saw the light
when he got out from under the car but
not before.
Il was injured in the accident. but was
not taken into a house after the accident
occurred; remained at the scene OF the
accident about one hour.
II saw the motorman at Crescent Park
and spoke with him. but saw him take
no refreshments there, either solid or
liquid. So far as ! saw he attended strict
ly to business. The motorman said after
the accident that he did not think the
corner was so near
II saw the electric light after I got
out from under the car. which should
say was about eight minutes, and when
j irst saw the light It was not burning
brightly: ] did not notice whether u
burned steadily
AS the car tipped over fell between
the grab handles, the arms on the timbers
that support the roof OF the car, the
pitching of the car threw me some dis
tance
After the car tipped over It did not slide
along the ground"
Joseph McQuade was next sworn. and
said: II am 27 years OF age and reside at
194 Granset street Providence; occupa-
ton on the Rhode Island company's cars.
] was conductor on the car which turned
over June 3. We left Crescent Park al
n:1 a. m and fixed the time By my
watch. had 100 passengers an the car.
There were passengers other than those
connected with the trolley party and ac-
cording TO my estimate 10 The accident
occurred about 1925 a. m and reckon
this from the time Il took 10 run TO
Noore's Corners. also taking into account
time for stops. | think In coming from
the park these stops took from a half
minute 70 a minute and n half each.
II had been over this line before a num-
Der of times. hut never ran n car steadily
There. were making ordinary speed that
night and did not notice any change in