Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-21

STOPPED.
ness said the lanterns remain lighted
from shutdown to sunrise. There were
| also danger signals at both ends of the
street distractions. The signs are about
! three by six feet in size and the word
| danger" appears in large letters.
! Policeman Wood said there We're no
lights On the rear of the damaged auto
when he arrived. 1t was dark at that
| time.
Witness gave it as his opinion that the
I auto was driven into pole 49,. The
! machine must have been on the tracks
half block from the point of entrance
| when it struck.
DIR. GlaZebrook called to the attention of
| the policeman that the police photograph
indicates that the auto was crushed into
pole 1I:, as blood marks and dents were
| found on that pole. There was no evil
dence that the auto had been thrown
over its side
Waterman Coughlin's Story.
Patrick Coughlin Waterman in the
| District of Columbia sewer service,
was on duty last night at the time of the
| accident on Connecticut avenue extended
| and McComb street. He went on duty
at $3.50 o'clock and continued until II
| o'clock last night. His duty is to light
the lanterns and see that they remain
lighted throughout the night. According
! to his reckoning the accident happened
about ten or fifteen minutes after
o'clock yesterday evening.
Watchman Coughlin heard the crasA
and ran to the scene of the accident
"A lady was alighting from the auto.
in distress and assisted her from the
| machine on the west side Then the con-
ductor of the car came up, and together
We lifted her from the auto and some
I nTl cod hot o1yn lar
by house. Others suggested taking her
to the hospital
THE Hubbard auto was straddling on
the east rail as we came up to it. The
lady was unconscious and lying on the
roadway across the tracks. about two
feet in rear of the auto.
David Fairchild, resident of Chevy
Chase at whose house Mrs. Hubbard and
Mrs. Marsh had been visiting and from
whence they were returning to Washing
ton. said the work car was of an old and
obsolete type and was more, or loss filed
with negro laborers. He gave testimony
indicating that the work car was proceed
ing at a high rate of speed.
Maj. Coles Testimony.
Maj. Henry G. Cole. Corps of Engi-
neers, L. S. A, in whose auto Mrs. Hub
| bard and Mrs. Morse were hurried to
He said between and 6 o'clock
4 =
along Connecticut avenue toward
Washington in company with Maj.
| Reisinger of the Marine Corps. He was
returning from the Chevy Chase Club.
1t was about 8 O'Clock when he reached
| the Cleveland Park station. He saw
what appeared to be a wreck ahead.
| He ran toward the wreck and found
two men carrying Mrs. Hubbard in their
arms. About two minutes We're occu-
pied in discussion as to where Mrs
Hubbard and Mrs. Morse should be
taken.
Maj. Cole facilitated matters by de-
! Gliding that the ladies should be placed
in his auto. and a railroad man insisted
that the injured ladies should be taken
to Garfield Hospital, and he hurried to
that institution with the dying woman
and her companion.
Car Running Fast.
Just prior to the accident, Maj. Cole ex-
planned. an electric car passed his auto,
both going in the same direction. The car
was proceeding at a dangerous rate of
| speed.
| Maj. Cole said lie first noticed the rap
| idly moving car at Grant road. Mai.
Reisinger. his companion. remarked:
| Look out for that car behind you. 1t
! is coming like the d.
At that time the work car was coming
over Fernwood crest at or near the Pierce
Mil road.
Just below that point Mai. Cole said
''he passed me going at the rate o. thirty
five or forty miles hour. Maj. Rel
singer again remarked:
| THAT fellow is going at a frightful
! rate of speed, and some one is going to
| get hurt
I'VE discussed the matter of how dam
gerous it was TO be going at such
I high rate of speed where the roadway
was obstructed-the place OF the disaster.
Saw No Headlight.
The rapidly moving work car had no
! headlight that l could notice.
las the passed me it was going so
| fast that my automobile seemed to be
standing still. or as a stationary object
| appears 10 l pass it. 1t was just
| turning dark. ! could see objects about
| fifty feet ahead / saw a flash about two
/ hundred yards ahead Of me. Then came
! another peculiar sort of flash. That was
III the moment OF the crashing together
. of the car and automobile.
| Maj. Cole told of his difficulties in get
! ting To the wrecked automobile. and then
! of getting out with the dying woman.
| circulation seemed to. partially revive Mrs.
| Hubbard, and she groaned several times.
| The work car was going twice as
, sast as our auto testified Maj. II. G..
| Reisnger. United States Marine Corps.
| the next witness, and we were going at
| the rate IF twenty miles an hour"
| Then the work car must have been
! making forty miles an hour? queried
! Acting Coroner .ilazebrook.
| "EXactly, Was the marine officer; re-
ply,
Speed Was Terrific.
Mai. Resinger described the speed of