Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-15
ONEDEAD, Two HURT EYCARS
Edward Mccarthy Killed in Wreck Of
Construction TrOlleys.
MoTORMAE LOSES HIS CONTROL
Down Tenth street on Newly Laid
Riverview Park LtRe First Trip
r. Fatal Because of
slick Rails.

Dead and injured:
EDWARD MCCARTHY, 4915 North Forty
second street, crushed. Lived one hour,
dying In st. Joseph hospital.
John Dougherty, 2756 Cunning street. left
leg crushed.
| 7. L. Parsons, Tnotorman, 1917 North
! Twenty-third street. two ribs broken,
severely scratched about the head.
An italian, unidentified. escaped with
small injuries by jumping just before the
| crash.
One man killed and three injured. two
| seriously so, is the result of wreck OF a
construction car and trailer on the South
Tenth street line Of the Omaha & Council
| Bluffs Street Railway company. The
wreck occurred at the terminal Of the new
extension at Valley street between 7:45 and
o'clock Friday morning.
The street car company is building an
extension from its present service terminal
at Tenth and Bancroft streets to River
side park. about four blocks Of the new
track having been laid Bancroft street
is on the top of high hill and the re-
cently laid tracks extend down a steep
| Incline.
The car which was wrecked was the first
to go over the Vine Friday morning, run
ming empty. The snew of the night before
lay thick on the rails and when the incline
was reached the motorman lost control
and the car with it's four persons and the
empty trailer plunged headlong down the
grade, gathering momentum at every
bound. swaying from one side to the
other, the men on the car momentarily ex-
pected it would jump the track, but it
kept to the rails until the end of the track
was reached, when the car and its trailer
piled up.
Ben Anderson Gives Alarm.
Ben Anderson, foreman of the street
| gang working on the extension, saw the
car coming and yelled to his men to get
out Of the way, which they did just in
time, the runaway car tearing past them
faster than anything you ever saw,9 says
| Mr.. Anderson. The men Immediately
! dropped their tools and hurried to the
| wreck, the end Of the line being less than
block distant and set about the work of
! rescue. a... ...
! The two cars were in pile, the motor
| man being underneath. Mccarthy lay
| crushed between the two cars and Parsons
was held under one end of the trailer.
/ Dougherty was thrown about twenty feet
| free of the wreck The construction crew
| composed mostly of Italians working under
| the direction of Foreman Anderson, first
| lay bleeding and torn, rapidly breathing his
| last. --. .-.
The men worked over an hour before
they finally liberated the man and he was
hurried to st. Joseph's hospital, where
everything possible. was done to alleviate
his sufferings and prolong his life. He
lived but a few minutes after heing car
rled to the hospital. His, body was taken
in charge by Coroner Davis. who will hold
an, Inquest Saturday. ,.,a,..,- ., ......r
Parsons was, taken out next, axes and
saws being used to free the, debris which
held the two men, While he had two ribs
broken and was severely scratched and in
jured internally the man was conscious and
would not allow the rescuers to aid him
until everything. possible had been done
for Mccarthy, who he could see was hurt
far worse. '-et" atr a+ F~ifrapE
,"CIOsest Call Ever Hale
at was the closest call / ever had and /
never want to be any nearer death g. door
than was this morning" said John Dough
| erty, one of the injured men, to a reporter
for The Bee. b.
II was standing in the front vestibula
with Motorman Parsons when the car
started on its run down the hill. Parsons