Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-11
NO CHANGE IN
CONDITION a OF
WRECK VICTIMS
80 zzs7 e1lloI-
Railway May officials Fail
msH Ito Report
.ibinanJ
ra0,n4S.la ,H-h--
Sc
Enasaxs9r .., ,to Keep News Of Wreck
from Friends and Relatives of
se@'Os Ynfortunates-ereen
.ssT4 Still Alive


No, change was reported yesterday in
the condit6on of any of those injured in
the Hc9Id9nt on the Los Angeles Rail
way conpany's line at Eagle Rock late
SuHfayi might, when two persons were
lkiifed and Nearly score injured.
ufs@leaaG Gireen, the young man whose
cbhslifion was said at first to be 50
seffbsis that it was thought death would
result at any moment, is still alive and
is4said-te-be resting easy. Miss Curl
M Olausson SOC West Washington
sheet. who received internal injuries, Is
stail at the emergency hospital, and
while it is not feared that she VIII die
TIE physicians admit that she is in
sHrious condition.
AccoTding to statements made by
Ak1torraaar John Harris, the man in
charge of the ill fated car Sunday, when
uflestioned by his superiors yesterday
the tracks were slippery from road oil
re1entIE-sprinlxled along the thorough
,fa3e. Harris claims it was impossible to
cShtrof the speed of the car on account
oSAthis condition, and that, despite the
fact that he applied the brake in ample
time to govern the car, it had no ERECT
OFT the e-wneeis.
SupeRintendent ]. j. Akin of the rail-
way company stated yesterday that
HHrris had violated the rules of the
ny in not slowing down on time.
i5Fz Curve Wide One
ssFffe---curve where the accident oc-
Cured is a wide one and evidently de-
ceived Harris" he said, while Claim
Agent Thomas Cole openly admitted
that the naotorman ran too fast.
dElse--treatment accorded 1nqu1rlng
frfErrissEand relatives was of the most
disa61Irfhous nature, and no assistance
wa xlEsn them by the officials of the
Id angeles Railway company Assls'
takt ssinirn Agent Summers, the man
who. .Mas. in possession of all the details
of the wreck, refused to give any state
IrryAtrss the accident, how it occurred,
or the names of the injured.
'If 1 were to give anything he said,
be on the carpet tomorrow" he said,
s'asfi16ss fact have nothing authentic
to rep0St.
AS fast as the injured were brought TO
Los Angeles they were hustled into the
Pacific Electric hospital on the first
f1oaH, df the Pacific Electric building,
and rs soon as their injuries We're
treated were hurried into carriages and
takerEGo their homes. An inspector of
the company always accompanied them
toEtheGl hack in order to prevent the
newspaper men from obtaining the
names of the injured, and when the re-
porters insisted on getting the names
they We're rudely showed aside.
While anxious mothers and fathers
stood by telephones and called up to
seek information of their dear ones who
were on the car, the officials of the COM
pany did all in their power to prevent
aBS FRews being given out, and those
whbASang up the dispatcher's office of
tiTs Aflway company were treated with
sd4fA seourtesy.
The coroner's inquest on the bodies
of Miss Gwendolin Burroughs and Fred
S. Vent, the two persons who were killed
imrthe wreck will be held at Pierce
Bros undertaking establishment at A
o'clock this afternoon