The Mena weekly star., 1908-04-09
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LOADED PASSENGER CAR LEAVES ELEVATED STRUCTURE
 IN CHICAGO.
EIGHT PERSONS SERIOUSLY INJURED
The Car Which Contained 50 People, All of Whom Were More or Less Hurt, Landed in Rear Yard of Prai- rie Avenue Residence-caused by Broken Casting.

Chicago, Apr. Slight persons were seriously injured, one probably fatally and nearly Score others were more or less seriously hurt Tuesday when the motor car of a south-bound train on the South Side Elevated railroad jumped the track few hundred feet north of the Indiana avenue station and crashed to the ground. The front of the car fell into the rear yard of a residence at 4235 Prairie avenue. but the end remained propped against the structure. The car was used as a smoker.
 The motorman of the car, George Stang, was cut and bruised about the head and body and his skull fractured He was also internally injured. He was taken to the Wesley hospital, where it was said he might die. Among those most seriously hurt was Joseph Darmody, Marion, O., internally in. lured, head cut and leg broken, may lie; E. o. Smith, conductor of motor car, skull fractured and may die i: Thomas M. Mosser, skull fractured, may die; Barney Homan, internal in juries; James O'Hare. internal inju- ries; E. c. Quinn, leg broken, internal injuries, condition serious.
 About 50 people were in the front car when the accident happened, and all of them were more or less injured The train was moving rapidly when the front trucks of the motor jumped the track. The car bumped along the rails for a short distance and then plunged of the elevated structure landing in the rear yard of Mrs. A. T. Hayne, at 4235 Prairie avenue. The second car crashed into the rear of the motor car and carried it along the tracks for several feet. The front trucks of the second car also left the track.
 The passengers of the front car were thrown in a heap to the floor and some of them were dashed against the windows. cutting themselves badly A panic followed in the four rear cars and number of men raised windows and Ieaped out onto the elevated structure, where they were in immi nent danger from the third rail. The attendants of the rear cars, however managed to get them back into the train before anybody was injured Ambulances and patrol wagons were hurried to the scene from nearly all the police stations on the South Side of the city. Lieutenant Cronin and ten officers from the Fiftieth street station were the first to arrive. They found the passengers of the motor car penned in, and struggling to make their escape. When additional helI arrived the imprisoned passengers were dragged through the shattered windows and carried into nearby resi- dences, while the more seriously in jured were hurried to various hos pitfalls.
 c. V. Weston, general manager of the company. said that the accident was caused by the motor casing of the front car dropping to the track. and raising the trucks above the structure These motor castings" said MT Weston, "are heavy, weighing several hundred pounds. The one on the front car dropped down and the rear trucks ran into it. Naturally it acted as a lever and raised the car from the tracks. The impetus of the moving train showed this car off the struc- ture. and it fell to the ground despite all that the motorman could do to check it."