Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-03
TWO KILLED:
22 INJURED
IN ACCIDENT
CARS COLLIDE IN A DENSE
FOG
PASSENGERS BURIED BENEATH
DEBRIS
Scenes at Hospital Are Heartrending
When Relatives Call to Seek
information of Suffering
Men

TIE O6fNO
CHARLES PATROSsO, 81, s119 south
Grand avenue. Died at emergency hospital
five minutes after arriving there.
THOMAS j. SMITH, 1916 Cordoya street.
Legs crushed, one amputated
THE INJURED
j. NJ Willard, 1913 Carr street. Nose and
hand cut
It. G. ArleIton, 1903 Constance street. Head
cut.
w. II. johnson, 1903 Allison street. Head
and arms cut
NJ. c. Wilson, ss1& East Fourth street
Scalp wound.
G. G. Patton, 1910 Valencia street Motor
man of westbound car; legs crushed, right
leg amputated; recovery doubtful.
c. G. Granger, 3g0s Maple avenue. Face
cut and ankle crushed.
H. H. John, 1877 East Fourth street. Badly
bruised and cut.
G. u. Reed, 1913 South Hill street. Ieeth
knocked out.
Harry Gould, 25is West Twenty-firs
street. Hip bruised, finger crushed.
s. A Hall. motorman on esstbound car
sherman; ankle crushed.
W. w. Anderson, 1905 East Seventh street.
Forehead and nose badly cut
Thomas CartheIson, $40 Gladys avenue
Nose nearly severed, chin cut.
C. scott, 5a5 wall street. Head bruised
left foot crushed.
q. :. Duiledge, Sawtelie. Conductor east
bound car; slightly injured.
ID. w. Clarkson. sawteile. Conductor west
bound car, cut and bruised
G. +. Foster, S15 West Eighth street Cut
Vhr fvsuO nlase.
THOMAS Griffith, 1908 West Seventeenth
street. Leg broken.
IL. Il. MilIigan. sawtelle. Right ankle
dislocated.
i. Wilmington, 1918 stanford street. bruis-
ed about head; internal injuries.
Up. o'Neii, 9ee West Thirty-four street
Ankle crushed.
w. G. Hughes. sawtelle. Badly bruised.
a. yigliotti, 5a5 Commercial street, Lac
eration about head; nose broken.
AS the result of a head-o collision
on the Los Angeles-Pacific railway az
Rosemary and Sixteenth streets early
Yesterday morning two men are dead
one probably fatally injured ana tWsh'
ty-one more or less seriously injured,
with an impact that could be hearo
for more than q mile westpounu car
in charge of Conductor ID. w. CiarNs :,
son and Motorman C.. G. Patton. ana
loaded with passengers, men employed
in The oil fields at Sherman, running
at a high speed crashed into an east
hound car in charge of Conductor Dull
edge and Motorman S. y. Han.
The forward ends of the cars crunl,
p1eJ I'M and broken glass and splintered
wood flew in all directions. Many were
cut bv the glass and some were Daoly
hrIiisad by the flying wood.
MOtoiman C.. G.. Patton was cauSnt
in the iammed platforms and his legs
crushed So badly was his right leg
injured that 1t was necessary TO am
his recovery.
Charles Patrosso was struck on the
head and his skull fractured. He was
picked up unconscious and died almost
Immediately after being taken TO the
emergency hospital. He was occupy
ing front seat when the accident oc-
Cured.
Thomas j. Smith was fatally in
i,lred. His left leg was almost torn
off at the hip He died at 9:l5 O'Clock
last night at the emergency hospital
Dense Fog Blamed
Had it not been for the dense fog
the eccident would not have happened
So dense was the vapor 1t was almost
impossible TO see more than hundred
feet ahead.
There is a double track from Vine
yard. The stretch between that place
and Rosemary is connected by single
track the double track between the
two points not being yet completed.
The accident occurred on this single
track between the power house where
the cutoff branches to go to Playa del
Rey and Sherman junction.
Car No. 233, in charge of Motorman
II.,l1 1x-ae coming east from
Sherman to the power house to go
to Playa del Rey and Redondo. None
but the crew were aboard. Nearing
the power house it had to run over the
single track over which the westbound
cars have the right of way
The crew evidently did not hear the
approach of westbound car No. 24S, or
else thought they could make the
double track before it arrived. Before
the men had a chance to jump the two
cars met with a terrific crash and the
air was filled with debris.
The westbound car was filled with
laborers going to their work in the
Sherman oil field. They We're hurled
from their seats and scarcely one of
them escaped injury Some received
cuts about the face and hands from
the broken glass; Others were crushed
between the seats. Many were badly
bruised by being thrown violently to
shambles because of the blood spat-
tered everywhere.
Motorman Hall was struck on the
head by heavy piece of timber which
was torn from the forward end of the
car when the crash came. He fell un-
conscious. the blood pouring from a
deep cash in his forehead.
Cars Badly Damaged
The car most damaged was the west
bound. which is a narrow gauge. The
bumper was hurled back into the car;
the seats torn loose and piled up in
the front part of the car; the controller
demolished and every vestige of it's
former appearance obliterated; the
glass in the windows were shattered; I;
the left front half of the car was torn
to pieces and the framework twisted
in splinters.
The other car was of the standard
gauge type and was heavier built. The
front part was demolished and num-
ber of seats torn from their fastenings;
The flooring was ripped up and most
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