Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
ONE KILLED.;
ONE DYING;
THIRD HURT
Automobile Collides
with Santa Fe
Limited
Prominent Minneapolis
Man Killed in
Accident
Accident Occurs at Lamanda Park,
Near Pasadena-Dead Man
Was a Guest at Hotel
Accident Occurs at Lamanda Park,
Near Pasadena-Dead Man
Was a Guest at Hotel
O Alexandria

one is Dead one is terribly injured
and may die and third is badly hurt
as the result of collision between the
Santa Fe overland and an automobile
at Lamanda Park, near Pasadena, last
night at $3.50 o'clock.
The dead man is Walter Foster, a
guest at the Hotel Alexandria and a
resident of Minneapolis, MINI. His
woman companion, Miss Genevieve
Hart of Los Angeles, is terribly hurt
and only regains consciousness at in
tervals, while Chauffeur Carl Void Of
Los Angeles is badly hurt about the
head and arms and one of the bones Of
his right forearm Is probably broken.
The great motor car in which the
three were riding was literally ground
to bits. 1t was with difficulty even
that the number of the machine could
be read, so minute were the pieces left
The car was No. 5339 Cal. and was a
renting machine.
Foster and Miss Hart rented the
machine in front of Christopher's store
yesterday afternoon for trip to Mon
rovia and return. The party left Mon
rovia shortly after o'clock on the re-
Lamanda Park. a small place about
four miles from Pasadena, just in time
to get in the path of the Limited
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| Daisy street crosses the Santa Fe
| tracks just east of the station at La
manda Park The crossing view OF
| trains approaching from the west is
obstructed by trees and houses so thai
| the unfortunate chauffeur did not SEE
the train until it was directly upor
him. One witness, Mrs. c. Burris. saw
the accident and her story is as fol-
| lows:
| when Wold saw the train he turned
almost directly toward the locomotive,
rate, perhaps about forty miles an
hour. When the auto was struck Wold
was thrown out Immediately and so
was the least hurt Of the three.
1.-THE big car seemed to run up on the
front of the locomotive and was carried
east along the track for about a hun
dred feet, getting up higher and higher
all the time. That's why the other two
were so badly hurt, for when they were
thrown out they had to fall quite a dis
tance. Mr.. Foster was thrown against
the wire running from a telegraph pole
and struck it on his head. He received
terrible cut on the right side of his
head and was unconscious.
Find Money In Pockets
Conductor George Orr of train No. 4,
w
the spot with passenger who knew
Mr.. Foster. Strangely this passenger
had cashed a check for Mr.. Foster for
$500 only a few hours before the acci-
dent and he asked Mr.. Orr to see If
all the money was there. There was
$3.50 In bills on Mr.. Foster.
''I ran to the telephone and called a
doctor from the sanitarium. He said
Mr. Foster could not live, but that the
woman would. I then telephoned for
the Adams, Turner & Stevens ambu-
lance and they came quickly and took
all three to the Pasadena hospital.
Wold could walk but was dazed. He
said he did not see the train and could
not hear it because of the noise the
auto made"
At the Pasadena hospital DR.. S. J..
Mattson was awaiting the arrival of
the ambulance and he took the injured
people to the emergency ward.
Foster died about midnight.
At the Alexandria 1t was learned that
Mr.. Foster had paid his bill there dur
ing the day and left. The only clew to
his woman companion that can be
learned until she regains consciousness
and tells her name is that she is sup
posed to have been staying at the Sax
onia hotel