Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-19
Women Scream as a
Collision Is Seen to
Be Inevitable
Heavy Coaches Crash
on East First
Street
Electric Swerves Across Tracks and In
an Instant Its Side Is Crushed
by lnward-Bound
Trolley
THE INJUREDt

l.. V. Curry, Hotel TOurnine, AT South
Hope street, back and side injured; pos
sibly internally.
II. *. Long, 4422 Towne avenue, side
injured.
Mrs. NJ. c. Golden, Highland Park
painful Injuries TO back.
Mrs. W. :. InGelhnrdt, 1925 Las Vegas
street, severe shock and slight bruises.
Mrs. WestfnlI. 742 81. Louis street,
arm hurt. painful bruises.
Miss Fern Hit, 1920 Mono street, left
arm injured.
Derailed by a loose paving stone,
eastbound car No. 276 of the Boyle
Heights line was hurled in front of a
wesbound Griffith avenue car yesterday
afternoon, and in the crash that fol-
lowed six passengers were more or less
seriously injured. The accident oc-
CURED at First and Hewitt streets.
The Boyle Heights car had crossed
the railroad tracks and was bowling
along at high rate of speed when it
struck a large paving stone which had
become loosened and lay on the track.
The front truck was thrown off the
track and turned by the impact with
the obstacle the front part of the car
was thrown across the opposite track,
almost thirty feet from where 1t first
struck. The rear truck remained on the
track.
From the opposite direction came a
westbound Griffith avenue car, also
running at high rate of speed. Hasti-
ly throwing on the brakes motorman
No. III of the Griffith car attempted to
stop his charge, but the speed with
which it was going and the close prox-
unity of the two cars made this impoS-
pnIl6 q 70 Of
feet the two cars came together with
a terrific crash that threw the passen-
gers from their seats and covered them
with showers of glass and flying splin-
ters.
Scene Of Great Confusion
The Griffith avenue car lost it's fen
der, the sheet iron front was badly
dented and several windows were
broken: but the East First street car
received the greatest damage and it
was In this that most of the victims
were seated. Thrown directly across the
track of the westbound car, the car
was struck squarely in the side, and
the exposed side was reduced to a mass
of splinters. The light iron and wood
work of the open front was torn and
twisted into a mass of junk.
With the noise and confusion of the
collision arose the screams of the terri
women. The East First street car par
ticularly was crowded with high school
pupils and women. OF these none but
those on the front seats was injured
Among the former was Miss Fern
Hit of 1920 Mono street, who was sit
ting with a school chum, Miss Ethel
Rouse of 919 Summit avenue, on the
front seat farthest from the accident.
When the car on which they were rid
ing was struck Miss Hit was knocked
out of the car and into the street. She
sustained slight bruises and her left
arm was injured. These girls were on
the East First street car,
Women Seriously Hurt
One of the most seriously injured is
L. V. Curry. who Is staying at the
= Hotel Touraine, 447 South Hope street.
Mr.. Curry was sitting on the exposed
side of the East First street car and
when the crash came was struck i'm the
back by heavy piece of debris. His
physician last night refused to say
how seriously the patient was injured,
but It was feared he had suffered in
ternal injuries Severe pains and
bruises in the side and back lent weight
to this opinion.
r. X. Long of 4422 Towne avenue. an
engineer on the Santa Fe, was the only
passenger on the Griffith avenue car
who was hurt. He sustained severe in
jurles In the side. Mr.. Long was taken
to his home i'm cab
Mrs. NJ. G. Golden of Highland Park
and her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Ingel-
hardt of 1926 Las Vegas street. were
both injured, how greatly it was diff
cult to say. Mrs. Golden, who was in
jured in the back. screamed when she
was struck, but perceving that her
daughter had been hurt she devoted
her attention to Mrs Ingelhardt, who
was In delicate condition prior to the
accident The younger woman suffered
greatly from the shock and fright, al
although she did not seem to be seri-
ously bruised or otherwise injured.
Mrs. Westfall of 742 st. Louis street.
also on the First street car, was
bruised and her arm was injured. DR..
M. Jacobson. 700 East First street, was
summoned to attend her. but is said to
have refused. II. w. Davis and r. j.
Wasserziehr declared that he refused
to dress her wounds and told them to
send her TO the receiving hospital, as
1t was not his place to do so The men
were indignant at his seeming lack of
humanity.
Dr. Jacobson, on the other hand de-
clared that while he did refuse to at
tend the woman, he had a good rea-
son. as his own wife was seriously III
and was awaiting him. The injured
woman was taken to her home In a
cab.
Amid the mass of debris that was
piled on the wrecked. car lay the 10
inch stone that had caused all the
trouble.