Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-11
-FOUR DEAD IN WRECK
Forty Injured in Collision at
Piqua, Ohio.
TROLLEY CARS IN CRASH
Meet Head-on at High Speed on
Curve.
PASSENGERS ALL UNCONSCIOUS
Two Fatally Injured and Others
May Die-One Coach
Telescoped.

'oipHeT SOStelO Oh SHelUy Will
probably prosecute MotOrman Harry
Hale of the southbound if Hale survives.
and also Conductor James Berry. The
charge will be manslaughter.
1t is said that this crew, being late vio
lated orders and tried to make a switch
other than the one ordered.
General Manager Carpenter of the West
crn Ohio and General Passenger Agent
Price will not make any statements ex-
cept that whoever was to blame must be
held responsible
Chief Train Dispatcher Tedrow was on
the northbound car when the accident Oc-
Cured. He says he is positive the orders
were clear to pass at stop No. 20. A tele-
phone dispatch system is used and no
written orders are given
e. w Hummelhouse of Detroit. who was
reported killed. was not in the wreck. but
was mistaken for another man.
Dead and Injured.
The dead are:
William Bailey, motorman. Piaua. Ohio.
James Kehoe, clerk at the National
cash register works.
George Robertson. Sidney. Ohio. clerk.
William McClellane. railroad employe.
Lockington. Ohio.
Others seriously injured are: Charles
Hale. motorman, Wapakoneta. Ohio. in
ternally injured: L. E. HagenrOd, Lock-
ington Ohio. head cut and internal in
juries: John Myer. Dayton, head and legs
injured: Charles Mcclure. Sidney Ohio.
internally injured; George A. Hax. Balti-
more. Ohio. head crushed: Clarence Long.
Dayton. head crushed: George Blakeley.
Sidney. Ohio: Charles Biloxi. Tippecanoe
City. Ohio. compound fracture of arm:
Fred Grammar. Philadelphia. head and
face cut: Cora Anderson. Piqua. head and
fo ont. III 7 EVna Ia Hytn hoe nd
face cut: Rollin s. Rex. Dayton. head and
face cut: lobe Moxley. Lima. hip broken.
head cut; E. E. Baskerville Sidney. scalp
wounds. collar bone broken: c. B. Hart,
drew Dubuse. Troy. Ohio. face and head
cut. eye gOuged out: c. w. Smith. Piqua.
slight fracture: r. L. Rex. Dayton, scalp
torn off: Gallietta Ganler. Convoy, Ohio
skull fractured.
Crash Head-on at High Speed.
Both trolley cars were late. and in addi-
ton to their usual high speed are said to
have been making up lost time. 1t is
said the southbound car from Sidney had
orders to reach and lay over at seldom
used siding. just south of Sidney. there to
wait until the northbound car from here
passed.
AS the southbound car rounded a curve
just before reaching the switch the north
d
high rate of speed In an instant there
was crash.
The southbound car was telescoped and
almost completely reduced to splinters. 1t
was on this car that the greatest number
were injured. MotOrman Bailey jumped
from this car and was killed.
Passengers in neither car had the slight
est warning. They were hurled forward
by the impact which SO suddenly checked
their fight. Thrown In heaps among the
hpnkon nd ShnWoro6 uyifb ole nd
splintered timbers. they heard the crash
ing tearing as the big coaches came to-
gether. Scarcely seat remained in place
in either car, so hard were the passengers
thrown against them.
Employees of the Shelby County Infirm-
airy. near the scene of the wreck. soon ar
rived. With their help the injured were re-
moved to the infirmary, which was made
temporary hospital. Physicians were
summoned at once from here and Sidney.
Few escaped without some minor hurt.
William Morgan. farmer, the first
man to reach the spot. said:
Both cars were piles of kindling.
There was a strange silence l did not
place 1t seemed as though everybody
must be dead. or unconscious.
Even the two or three passengers who
escaped serious harm must have been
stunned There was not sign OF life for
fully a minute after I got there.
Il pulled a timber off mans leg, and
he looked up with a silly smile, asking:
Have you buttonhook? Then he burst
out into idiotic laughter. There was a
hole~in his head.
something rolled against my foot 1t
looked like human head. Then 1 caved
in
farmers and other men were working like
demons TO liberate the folks in the wreck
] joined them.
So far as known the only man who es-
vu-ttt -N-I~
Yer of Sidney. "A merchant RE says he
must have been stunHed for a few min
utes Immediately after the crash, as a
farmer was desperately digging into the
debris when he pulled himself from under
seat.
Salesman Tells of Accident.
John j. Krell of Cleveland, a travelling
salesman. given graphic description of
what took place in the half minute that
elapsed from the time when the i'm
pending collision was realized on his car
and the second the heavy machines came
together
Sitting on the floor of the infirmary cor
ridor. his head in bandages and the palm
of his hand slit from top to base, he told
che following story:
There were about twenty-five or thir-
- passengers besides myself Many were
women and children. The speed of the
car was such that it rocked badly Sew
eral women appeared to be nervous evil
IDENTITY fearing the car would hit a curve
and jump the track
"All OF a sudden I heard some women
scream, Look at that light looked
Rearing down upon US, just we were
bearing down upon 1t. was the headlight
of another car.
not that lOng-elapsed between the time
we first the headlight and the time
We struck her
II made a dive for, the rear door Evil
IDENTIFY everybody in the car did the same
thing just at the time / started In
second two We We're all damned into
the rear end of the car
when j regained consciousness /
seemed to be buried under about 100 men,
women and children. l was smothering
Then. too. my head was bleeding fear
fully and the blood streamed down over
my face.
II tried TO shout. j guess l did shout.
but ! couldn't hear a sound. You see, l
was buried under all those folks.
Il did not know how badly L was hurt.
but I kept thinking that I would bleed
tn death II help did not come pretty
soon.
1T seemed year to me- down there
heard somebody yell. Then somebody
began TO pull out the folks"
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