Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-30
TROLLEY CRASH
Several People IDIured When
 Oakvllle Cars Collided.

girls to faint and created the widest excitement among several hundred factory employees, occurred on the Oakville line about 7:45 o'clock this morning. The accident happened right In front of John Geisler's store, which is situated on the Watertown road, short distance from Aurora street. Two big double trucks fig ured in the accident, and 1t is sur prising that more persons were not seriously hurt. It was one Of those rear ends which seem to be occur ring with amazing frequency, the reg ular in charge of Conductor Arthur M. Herbert and Motorman John Cos tello crashing into an extra in charge of Conductor Andrew, Haight and Motorman William H, Howe.
 Edward Wallace of 517 East Main street, Mrs Adele Massicotte of 6O5 South Main street and the three Per rin sisters of St Paul street, were injured. MT Wallace was thrown to the floor when the crash came and was rendered unconscious by the fall. He was carried into the home of Mrs Howard Valley, who resides at 673 Watertown road, but it was more than an hour before the young man was revived. Dr Goodrich, who worked over him, had a difficult time bringing the man to consciousness. He did not apparently have any bones broken but was suffering greatly from shock and was considerably bruised. He was taken to his home in one of T. F. Lunny's carriages.
 Although at first Mrs Massicotte did not seem to be badly injured, her condition later became so serious that the attending physician, Dr Xiii martin, would not allow anyone to see her during the day. She is suf- fering from a fracture of the right elbow, several severe contusions and has been much affected by the shock of the accident.
 Although the three Perrin sisters were together when the bang came, only one of them is seriously hurt. Dr Thibault said that her body was mass of bruises and that she was so effected by the accident her in- juries might confine her to her bed for some time.
 William Lawlor of South Main street was also slightly hurt while several of the passengers received cuts and bruises. Drs Crane, Good rich, Thibault and Kilmartin attend ed the injured, the first two being at the scene of the accident a short time after it happened. All of the persons injured are employees of the Oakville Pin company and were on their way to work. No one seemed to know how the collision occurred. The cars left Exchange place at 6:30 o'clock and were followed by four others all of which were heavily loaded. The regular car with Her bert and Cortello was second in the line. It is the general opinion that Howe and Haight, who were on the first car, stopped to. pick up pas senger near Geisler's store It is straightaway course at the point where the cars bumped and as Cos tello has tic reputation of being one of the most careful and competent m-s employed by the company it is thought the tracks may have been slippery and the brakes refused to work. Moreover the extra is not ac- customed to pick up passengers at the point mentioned and the car fol- lowing might have been trife too Iln esln bo rn1 into the extra with enough force to drive it almost up to Aurora street many yards away.
 Another passenger injured was Jo- seph Perrault of 4S Dover street, who had his hip badly hurt and his back is injured, He is unable to walk and is being attended by Dr Thibault.
 The cars made such a racket as they bumped that the people in the neighborhood who were asleep were rudely awakened.
 For few minutes after the crash utter confusion prevailed and several of the many girls aboard tainted. Two young women tainted while alighting from the first car and one of them fell headlong to the ground on her head. The home of Frank Bryan. No 641 Watertown road, looked like an emergency hospital for a short time after the accident, as about half dozen girls who had tainted were being resuscitated there.
 The cars in view of the force with which they met were not badly dam aged. Their lenders were smashed and iron was strewn in all direc- tions but they were able to continue the trip. The six cars were delayed about three quarters of an hour by the accident.
 These early morning shop trips seem to have some kind of hoodoo on them. 1t was only a little more than year ago-Friday morning, November 29, 1907-that the big trolley accident in which five were killed and score injured happened on the West Main crossing which since that time has been eliminated The persons killed and injured that morning were also employees of the Oakville Pin company and many of the ones in that accident were close by the one this morning. It is only short time ago that a serious acci- dent occurred on the Waterville line. the injured being employees of tl4, Waterville Pin Co. r
 A Miss Phelan of 191 Hamilton avenue was also slightly hurt in this mornings accident. She rode out as far as Silver street on a car but had to be carried the remaining distance to her home in hack.