The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-09-24
MIRACULOUS
ESCAPE FOR
MANY IN CAR
Three Score Passengers
Tossed About in Huge
Trap When Car Runs
Wild Near Entrance.

Wallingford av. car No. 6s2, fill.
ed with people. crashed around the 7
curve on 18th av.. ut the entrance
to the Fair. at l1:l0 this morning,
demollshing the Mexican restaslyf
rant on the corner, smashing the
car into klndling wood. and in,ur.
ing. more or less seriously, 80 peo-
pie.
James Hull. OF East Tacoma, was
fatally injured. He died an houy
later. r. y. Winslow win probably
die.
The car. filled with slghtseerr on
the way to the Exposition, was
coming down the hill. preparing 10
turn the curve onto sist st.. when
the air brakes refused 10 work.
Many Were injured.
Dashing down the hill, the car
jumped the curve into the wooden
restaurant. II plowed its way
through the building. leaving II .
pile OF broken timber In rolling
over aud crashing through the
building. the three-score people
were Juggled about like peas in {
hopper
AS the front wheels hit the curb
the rear Of the car swung around
against the telephone pole on the
corner. The top and sides of the
car from the center TO the back
platform were ripped off like go
much pasieboard clear 10 the top
Of the seats.
The motorman, r. w. Meiendy,
practically escaped uninjnred. and
walked away A. w. Iundbors. the
conductor. was not badly hurt.
None Had Chance to Escape.
None had time to Jump, and the
wounded were pulled through the
windows of the wreck. where there
were windows left Much OF the
debris Of the restaurant fell on the
car and added TO the confusion.
Ambnlances from the A.-Y.-P,
Exposition Emergency Hospital
we're on the scene within three
minutes. and hurry calls we're sent
down town.
As fast as the injured were
taken from the wreck they were
hurried 10 the Emergency Hospital.
There the worst cases were hurried
to the operating rooms. while the
more fortunate sat dazed In cor
ners, holding their bleeding heads
and saying nothing.
Great Crowd Gathers.
Outside a great crowd of anxious
relatives and curiosity seekers
blocked the approaches to the hos
pital
As fast as the wounds Of those
with minor injuries we're dressed
they were taken 10 their homes
or hotels In ambulances.
That no one was killed outright
is more than miraculous. The car,
the restaurant and the restaurant
furniture are one great pile Of
wreckage.
Is a Great conolomeration.
Women's hats and purses are
mingled in a tangle OF broken pop
bottles. hamburger steaks. dining
room furniture and cooking uten.
sils.
The rear OF the car, where the
roof and sides were swept off clean
as II with a buzz saw. is spattered
with blood. but no dead bodies
We're hauled out. though how any.
one in those seats escaped puzzles
even the car men.
Few on the car tell the same
story. THE motorman seemed T.
slow up as we reached the ton
of the grade, said Mrs. Anna NJ
Brown of Kelso. Wash. Just then
another car rounded the curve, and
everything seemed to shoot for
ward in the air Before | realized
what was happening the car was
off the track and grinding its way
through a store"
Thrown from Their Seats.
The street car cleared the street
altogether. and the rear end lies
~ feet from the track. The front
of the car met little resistance
from the frame restaurant and
went entirely through the build
ing.
But when the rear end swung
around, smashing against the tele-
phone pole on the corner, the pas
sengers were thrown from their
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