Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-18
FOUR INJURED
AT SAME TIME
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN IN WIDELY
SCATTERED DISTRICTS
Two Are Struck by Street Cars and
Two by utomobiIes-Four Vic.
Tins Taken to Receiv-
ing Hospital

At practically the same hour last
night and in widely separated districts
of the city four accidents, two by street
cars and two by automobiles, occurred
each of which sent victim to the re-
ceiving hospital.
At 5:15 o'clock w. c. De LaTelle.
aged 65 years, who resides at 1911 East
Washington street, was struck by out
bound West Ninth street car No. POI
on Tenth street, near Magnolia avenue.
and badly hurt.
De LaTelle was riding in the opposita
direction to the car, which was running
at a high rate of speed. At the street
crossing his wheel struck a rock and
he was thrown over the handle bars
directly In front of the car. Such was
the speed of the car that there was no
time for the motorman to check 1t be-
fore reaching the PROSTATE man, al
though he made frantic efforts to do 80
Fortunately the fender on the car
picked the old man up and carried him
for nearly 200 feet, when the car was
stopped. De LaTelle was taken to the
receiving hospital, where 1t was found
he was suffering from severe bruises or
all parts OF his body and several lacera-
tions OF the scalp. 1t is also thought
that he is Slightly injured internally.
After he had been attended to by the
police surgeons he was removed to his
home.
AT $40 o'clock Ralph C. Pierson, a
clerk residing at Seventh and San
Pedro streets, made an attempt to
board an inbound University car at
Avenue Sixty and Monte Vista street.
The car was running at a high rate of
speed and carried the sign Take the
next car" Notwithstanding this warn
ing young Pierson grabbed the hand
rail on the forward end and was thrown
distance of fifteen feet.
Lip Torn Off
His upper lip was almost torn off.
his nose broken and lacerated and his
scalp lacerated lin several places. The
flesh was also torn from his left knee
and he was otherwise badly bruised and
shaken up. The car was stopped and
he was taken to the receiving hospital.
where Drs. Quint, Goodrich and Stearns
attended to him.
While the hospital ambulance was
answering these two calls two others
were sent in, one from Pico and Figue-
| roa streets, where A. Medina had been
run down by an automobile and in
jured. Medina was running across
Figueroa street when light runabout
motor car driven by e. A. Huene of
1916 West Twenty-flfth street turned
into the street from Pico The car was
running at about seven miles an hour
| only, but Medina dashed directly in
front of it and the impetus of his body
| lent force to the impact when the car
struck him. He grabbed the front Of
the car when it hit him and held on
until 1t was stopped, which was within
a few feet Mr.. Huene assisted the
man to the sidewalk and remained with
him until the ambulance came to re-
move him to the hospital. There it was
found that several ribs on the right side
had been fractured and he was also
badly bruised.
The other motor car accident occur
red at Twelfth and Main streets, where
L. Gonzales, also a laborer, was run
ming across the streets to catch
street car for his home at Sixteenth
and McGarry streets. He was knocked
down by the automobile and his left
leg was fractured below the knee and
| his lips split open.
The fracture was reduced at the hos
pital by Drs. Quint and Goodrich and
the man taken to the county hospital.