The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01

Speeding Car Crashes Into Ap=
paratus at Second South
and Second West.
ROBBINS JARED FROM
SEAT AND RUN OVER
HORSES RUN AWAY, BUT Merry
DRIVER GETS THEM UNI
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 coIlided with car SiS
OF the depot line at Second South ana
Second West streets Lieutenant Harry
3. Robbins was knocked from the seat
of the hose wagon ana received serious
injuries He was picked Up in an un-
conscious condition and taken to the
emergency hospital. at police headquar-
tiers. where he was attended by DR.. s. G.
Paul He was then removed 10 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 gong to
warn drivers Of vehicles ahead to clear
the way.
The Drivers Story.
when we reached the. corner OF Sec
ond West and Second South streets}ts
he asid. 4 saw the street car approach
ing. 1t was going west and was NOV
ing at the rate of forty miles an hour.
] thought that the motcrman would
slow up so as to let the hose wagon
pass, and did not pull in my horses.
Close to the car tracks. / saw that the
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
I dropped on top of him.
Il managed to scramble back to the
: II l. -.
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 IN
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 deep cash was cut in his head. 1t
is feared that his skull is fractured. It
is also thought that he received inter
nal injuries.
Lieutenant Robbins lives at s1S West
NORTH Iefnpie street. He IS married ana
has four children He is booked upon as
one Of the best FIRE fighters in the de-
partment
The street car was II. charge of Con-
ductor ]. Draper and Motorman ". D.
Hardness Firenen Hanson. Jensen.
Maury and Murray were on the hose
wagon at the time of the accident
The fire at Walkers store was not ser
ious. In some way, a pile of paper in a
retiring room On the second floor became
ignited and set fire to window sill.
The flames could be seen from the street
and an alarm was sent in. The blaze
was easily extinguished. The appear
ance OF the fire fighters at the corner
Of Third South and Main streets at
traeted a large crowd
Two other Alarms.
Following the Walker fire, the fire de-
partment responded to two other
alarms.
At Gas an incandescent electric light
globe set fire to some clothing in a room
on the second floor of the Gift house.
The blaze was extinguished before any
serious damage was done.
At 1911 o'clock a curtain in room on
the second floor of the American house,
Is Commercial street. was set afire by
careless ledger, who threw lighted
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