The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-09-25
CAR JUMPS TRACK,
| KILLED, 80 HURT
Motorman Loses Control on
Seattle Electric Near Main
Gate of Exposition

SEATTLE, Sept. 24.-Of the so pas
sengers on big wallingford avenue
car that was wrecked at a curve near
the main gate of the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition shortly before noon
today not one escaped being cut or
bruised or sharply shaken, but 1t is
believed that none of the injured
will die.
Frank Hull of Tacoma. aged 46, an
Odd Fellow attending the festivities
accompanying the sovereign grand
lodge meeting. died Ian hour after being
taken from the wreck.
DEAD
FRANK HULL, Tacoma aged 49,
INJURED
Mrs. C. ]. schol, Oakland CAL. both legs
W. j. Homer, Berkeley, CAL; slight scalp
wound
Mr. and Mrs. T. NJ Hornaday, Los Angeles;
Miss Helen CArdwell Portland, Ore; one rib
broken. back strained, bruised from head TO
foot; injuries very painful but. not fatal
Charles A. johnson, Portland, Ore; condition
p M. Henlein, orand. o.; back and shoulder
P. ]. cardwell, youngstown. o.; severely
B. c. Rainey, Youngstown, o.; severely
r w purubaoh. Portland Ore; bruised.
r ponnelly, Dayton. Wash: bruised.
Charles Ksstle. Napavine. Wash; arm frac-
Michael Mayer, Unontown. Wash; head and
arm ~,i Injured M.v.r 1uioptown. wash. head in
Mrs. A. P. scoaeld, Council Bluffs. Ia; head
injured a :, sne,tan wash.
J. A. Housman, shelton, Wash; head and arm
Ernest ]. Heinrich. Lesvenwcrth, Wash; Sc
we're scalp wound.
Mrs, Thornhill Walker, DiGhton, hans.' nead
bruised: severely shaken up.
ThornhilI Walker, Dighton, kans; arms anu
head cut. ,, rro mech .
hurt internally; condition serious. ..r.o
r G. Jolly, Joliet. H.. lecturer on line
Jolly Side of Life; head and hands cut.
Edward winsow. Seattle; badly bruised
Mr.. and Mrs p B. McClung, o'keene, OKLA
both hurt on head, slight 81 %
J. W. McClung, 0'Keene. oKla.' latne' % =
r McClung: head cut by glass.
MI and Mrs Frank Farnsworth. Denver, Ia;
both cut by glass on head ana n cnt hv glass
Anna NJ. Brown. Kelso. Wash; cut oy giass-
MANY FAIL TO REPORT
Many of the passengers mace no re-
port of their injuries; others went
home after their wounds were dressed
and tonight there are "a patients IN
four Seattle hospitals.
Mrs. Charles E. Hornaday OF Los
Angeles. who was at first thought to
be fatally injured, is at Minor hospitai.
suffering from wounds in the head and
will recover.
THE dead man, Frank Hull of Ia
coma, was member of Tacoma lodse
No. SO, L o. o. F.. and was yesterday
initiated into the Patriarchs Militant.
He was married.
n-vnNn CnNUQ
OF the so passengers SIS were seated
and the others clingings to seats and
straps when the car got beyond the
control of the motorman and attained
speed of go miles an hour and at the
corner of Fourteenth avenue, north
east. and East Fortieth street careened,
left the track and crashed into one
story building at the southeast corner
of the crossing. demolishing the f1fmsy
building. splitting and wrecking the car
and hurting the passengers forward
with frightful force
The motorman, Il. w. Melendy,
gray haired veteran with reputation
for carefulness. opened the door behind
him as soon as he found the car had
got out of control and shouted to the
passengers:
Brace yourselves; can't help you"
CAFE OWNER INJURED
few seconds later the runaway car
plunged into the st. Louis cafe. a little
restaurant built for the worlds fair
trade Edward Winslow. proprietor of
the restaurant, was struck down and
bruised. He is in no danger. Arthur
Frye who was also in the restaurant,
wsU cut above the eye.
Every pane of car glass in the car
, was broken and the jagged. pieces
showered upon the passengers, who
were tossed one upon another in in
describable confusion.