Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-31
DIES AT
CROSSING
OF DEATH
NEGLI IGENCE BLAMED FOR EC-
CIDENT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS CAR BADLY
WRECKED IN COLLISION
Switch Train Crashes Into MotionIess
Vehicle and Crew Is Buried Be-
meath Debris-cIaimed No
Lights Were Shown
KILLED
r. H. CARTER, conductor
Brooklyn avenue car Ito.
INJURED
KILLED

X. II. CARTER, conductor
Brooklyn avenue car Ito.
INJURED
A. E. Beck, motorman, Brook
lyn avenue car ITO. Badly bruised
and abrased wounds of the head
and face.
H. c. Peters, 700 West First
street; bruised about the body,
slight lacerations of the hands
and face, slight concussion.
Mrs. H. c. Peters, 700 West
First street; bruised back and
hip, abrased wounds of body.
G. M. Chenworth, $40 South
Broadway; lacerated wounds of
head and face, badly sprained
back and slight conclusion.
H. B. Nichols, head switchman
Salt Lake route; badly bruised,
abrased wounds of body, sprained
ankle.
Brooklyn avenue car 110, inbound,
| was struck at the east end of the Macy
street bridge over the Los Angeles
river about midnight last night and
the conductor was killed beneath his
car, the motorman and four passengers
severely hurt.
The head brakeman of the Salt Lake.
| train which struck the car was also
badly injured,
Conductor Leaves Car
The car was in charge of Motorman
! A. Il. Beck and the conductor, r. II.
Carter. 1t arrived at the Macy street
crossing of the Salt Lake railroad just
as a freight train, which was being
| pushed by two big mogul engines. was
! standing at the crossing.
The freight train was in charge of
Head Brakeman H. b. Nichols, En-
gineer William Studnicka and Fireman
e. L. Hammond.
The engineer and fireman were on
their engine fully 300 feet from the
crossing. Brakeman Nichols had cut
the train IN two at the crossing to per-
NIT the passage of two street cars and
several other vehicles.
At the time of the approach of the
car which was struck there was stand
ing on the north side of the crossing
a big oil tank car and on the south
side a gondola attached to the balance
of the train.
When the street car arrived at the
crossing there was no indication of a
movement of the freight, and Conduc-
tor Carter stopped his car and walked
forward TO the track and gave his mo-
torman the signal to go ahead.
Car Reaches Crossing
AS the car moved onto the crossing
the freight started up and the gondola
car, on which was Brakeman Nichols.
struck the forward corner of the street
car and slowed ii around at right
angles with the track.
An instant later it was overturned
and Carter was caught beneath the
car and his life crushed out in an in
stant.
Beck, the motorman, was hurled
from the car and landed in the street
ten feet away. He picked himself up
in dazed condition. and at once ran
back TO his overturned car in an ef-
fort to render assistance to the three
passengers on the car, all of whom
were in the forward end, and to his
conductor.
The train crew in the meantime had
stopped the freight in time TO prevent
the big tank car from going into the
river. They then ran ahead to give
what assistance to the crew of the
street car and the passengers it was
possible
1t was found that Carter was pinned
beneath the big street car and life was
extinct.
H. c. Peters, who with Lis wife oc-
cupied a seat in the forward part of
the car, was hurled from the platform
as he rose with his wife in an endeavor
to escape from the collision and was
thrown twenty feet, being turned over
several times and cut by the broken
and flying glass.
Caught by Stanchions
His wife was caught by one of the
stanchions of the car and badly
bruised.
G. NJ. Chenworth was seated inn
mediately in the rear of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peters and was also thrown from the
car when 1t turned over, and escaped
without serious injury
Immediately after the accident the
police ambulance was sent for and
Doctors Garrett Wiley and Cook re-
sponded to the call with all the emer-
gency appliances necessary to care for
the injured.
A large force of policemen was soon
on the spot under the direction OF Lieu
tenant William Murray. and the big
crowd which had gathered was kept
back from the scene of the wreck
while the rescuers tried to get the body
of the dead conductor from beneath the
car.
A peculiarly pathetic incident of the
accident was the fact that within q
few moments after the wreck occurred
Brooklyn avenue car 116 outbound ar
rived on the scene and the conductor
In charge of this car was Edwin Car
ter, a brother Of the man killed in the
accident.
As soon as the surgeons arrived on
the spot the injured passengers were
taken TO a nearby residence where
their injuries were attended TO and
they were then sent 10 their homes la
ambularccs and hacks.