The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
FIRE FIGHTER
IS BADLY HURT
IN COLLISION
Speeding Car Crashes Into APP
paratuS at Second South
and Second West.
ROBBINS JARED FROM
SEAT AND RUN OVER
HORSES RUN AWAY, BUT NERVY
DRIVER GETS THEM UN-
DER CONTROL.

In responding to an alarm of fire from
Walker Bros department store last
night about $40 O'Clock, the hose wagon
of No > company collided with car S1S
of the depot line at Second South and
Second West streets. Lieutenant Harry
3. Robbins was knocked from the seat
of the hose wagon and received serious
injuries. He was picked up in an un-
conscious condition and taken to the
emergency hospital at police headquar-
tiers. where ne was attended by Dr. S. @.
Paul He was then removed TO St
Marks hospital
Sam d. Walker. driver of the hose
wagon, stated that when the wagon
left the engine house in Second West
street in response to the alarm of fire.
he drove southwark. ringing a gong to
warn drivers of vehicles ahead 10 clear
the way.
The Drivers Story.
when we reached the corner of Sec
Ond West and Second South stTeets{S
he asid Il saw the street car approach
ing. It was going west and was NOV
ing at the rate of forty miles an hour.
thought that the mot0rman would
slow up so as to let the hose wagon
pass, and did not pull in my horses.
street car was going to smash into us,
and swung my horses to the west. In
this way the horses were saved from
injury. The street car struck the hose
wagon near where ] was seated, with
Lieutenant Robbins at my side. Both
of us were knocked from the seat Rob
bins fell across the double tree and
1 dropped on top of him.
II managed to scramble back to the
h7rf Dol Heslr TO he
ground.
THE horses, frightened by the COLI
sion. ran away. By the time I had
reached the seat again, they had
dragged the hose wagon TO Third West
street, and before / could get them un-
der control they had almost reached
Fifth West street.
Walkers back was severely wrenched
in the accident.
Lieut.. Robbins Run Over.
When Lieutenant Robbins fell from
the double tree, he dropped in front Of
the wheels of the hose wagon and was
run over. His right hand was crushed
and a deep cash was cut in his head. 1t
is feared that his skull is fractured. 1t
is also thought that he received inter
nal injuries.
Lieutenant Robbins lives at 31S West
has four children. He is looked upon as
one of the best fire fighters in the de-
partment.
The street car was in charge of Con-
ductor J. Draper and MotOrman W. D.
Hardness. Firemen Hanson. Jensen,
Maury and Murray were on the hose
wagon al the time Of the accident.
The fire at Walkers store was not ser
iOUs. In some way, pile Of paper in a
retiring room on the second floor became
ignited and set fire to a window sill
The flames could be seen from the street
and an alarm was sent in. The blaze
was easily eXtmguished. The appear
ance of the fire fighters at the corner
of Third South and Main streets at
tracted a large crowd
Two Other Alarms.
Following the Walker fire, the fire de-
partment responded to two other
alarms.
At 9:45 an incandescent electric light
globe set fire TO some clothing in a room
on the second floor of the Cliff house.
The blaze was extinguished before any
serious damage was done.
At 10:11 o'clock a curtain IN a room on
the second floor of the American house.
Is Commercial street, was set afire by
a careless lOdger. who threw a lighted
Continued on Page 2.