The Detroit times., 1909-12-27
TROLLEY WRECKED;
ONE KILLED; MANY
INJURED
Interurban Car on D., p. 4 n. Di-
vision Of D. U. r. Jumps Track
-Four Miles North of Wayne !,
and Turns Turtle.
Frank Kendall, Plymouth, Found
Dead in Debris-Passengers
Blame Motorman.

One person was killed and more than
score OF others. mostly Detroit
ers, were injured, when a Detroit
bound car on the Detroit, Ply
mouth & Worthwhile division OF the d.
U. r. jumped the track at a curve
about four miles north OF Wayne about
1880 o'clock Sunday night. The car
was going at high speed when the ac-
cident occurred, the motorman. p. r.
Collar. OF Ypsilanti, having failed TO
slow down sufficiently, according to
passengers. The majority of the 40
or more passengers on the car were
Detroiters returning to their homes
after spending Christmas with rela-
tives In the country.
| Frank Kendall. aged 30. OF Ply
mouth, was the person killed. He was
dead when carried out OF the. car.
Kendall's life was crushed out when
the snow, turned over on its side and
came In violent contact With the frog
on ground. Though his home was I'm
Plymouth. Kendall Is said to have
been employed in Detroit and was ON
his way back to the city after spend
ing the holidays with with his rela-
ttves, IL is supposed.
Frank Bassett. also OF Plymouth.
was so badly crushed that little hope
is entertained for his recovery. Physi-
Glars worked oyer him all night. He
was taken home.
Both the motorman and the con-
ducto-, whose name is Stockdale and
who lives I'm Ypsilanti. escaped with
out injury. Immediately after the ac-
tzl- a
O special car with doctors from the
village was soon on the scene Of the
wreck and ministering TO the injured.
A farm house near by was converted
into temporary hospital.
! The most seriously injured of the
Detroit passengers we're Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Roe, OF No. 1248 Sixteenth-st.,
and their four-year-old son, Richard
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Roe were badly cut
and bruised and, IL is feared that they
also sustained internal injuries. while
little Richards right hand was COM
pletely severed when his arm went
through a window. the hand dropping
| In the snow outside.
| The boy was sitting on the lap of
his uncle. NJ. II. Hainey, No. 979 Nc
Kinley-ave. who gives a graphic &C
count OF the affair.
THE boys hand was cut of before
my very eyes and dropped through the
window" said he. The poor little fei-
low tainted dead away and was afraid
he would bleed to death before the
doctors could get there.
THE car was going full speed when
we hit the curve. The trucks were
torn off and the whole car demolished.
IL was frightful. Women were scream
ing and moaning and children were
crying at the top OF their voices. Many
OF the women were literally jammed
in between the seats and were taken
cut with difficulty.
In the crash Mr.. Hafney's overcoat
was torn OF and he received several
cuts and bruises.
The Roes, as were other other De-
troit people injured In the wreck. were
removed to the city in special car
Or. A. X. Northrup, the family ply
sician. met the Roes at Sixteenth-st
and took them home. No time was
lost in dressing the boys injuries. HIS
condition Is serious, but IL Ia believed
he will recover.
others rather seriously hurt were
Mr.. and Mrs Andrew stone. No. 1870
Military-ave.. and Mr.. and Mrs. A. f.
Van volkenberg, No. 2S5 Brush-st. Mr..
Van volkenberg attempted TO save his
wife's face from injury by throwing
his arm about her neck, but In spite
OF this precaution her cheeks were
painfuIly lacerated. Mrs. l.. c. Jewell,
No. 2S2 Brush-st, suffered consider
ably from shock.
Motorman Collar disappeared after
the accident and II is supposed that
he wandered away in sort of daze.
THE Detroit United officials are anxious
to get statement from him. There is
no excuse. they say. for his falling TO
slow up at the curve. All curves are
designated by signs. placed there for
the very purpose OF warning motor
men. The car, ii is said, left Plymouth
Is minutes late and II liz supposed the
motorman was trying to make up time.