Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-23
.19 HURT WHEN
3 STREET CARS
RUN TOGETHER
ACCIDENT OCCURS AT FIRST
AND SPRING STREETS
RUNAWAY TROLLEY DASHES
DOWN INCLINE
Many Women Injured in Double Coll
IlsIon Caused by Failure to Work.
of Brakes on Crown Hill
Line
The INJURED

I
Sierra Madre; severe conclusion of the brain;
half-inch laceratiOn ON the nose, and slight
| ly bruised about the body. Condition seri-
GUS.
Mrs. Adolph JahnlSe, wife of the prOprie-
| tor of the Palace cafe, living at 331 Iona
drive; two-Inch laceration the forehead;
bruised about the body, and suffering from
shock and hysteria.
Mrs. X. E. Poulton, SO years old, q tour
ist from Denver, Colo, of $40 South Grand
avenue; cut and bruised right arm and
Leg and suffering from shock.
| Grace PoultOn, IL years old, same address
confusion on left knee and suffering from
shock.
Julia Christian, 80 years old, 1913 West
Thirty-seventh street; inch and a half lac
Grafton above left eye; bruised on the body,
and shock.
A. r. Burns, conductor of Downey avenue
car No. 491, 2s17 Jefrries avenue; one and
a half inch laceratiOn the right wrist;
abrasions on right and bruised about
body.
Charles Blind, 15 years old, a schoolboy
living at 8S7 South Hancock street, one
inch IaceratiOn above right eye; one-inch
Iaceration ON back of head, and slight con-
cussiOn.
Mrs. A. G. Michaels, 2s years old, of the
Florentine hair dressing parlOrs, 143 South
Gates avenue; contusions on left hip and
abrasion on left knee.
III. G. Saylor, A years old, an employe of
the Santa Fe railroad, 51S Colyton street;
back sprained, confusion on left knee and
on the back of the head.
Miss A. schicl, 229 Avenue Sixteen; slight
IaceratiOn on forehead, and shock.
Mrs. william j. Small of 212 South John
son street; contusions on both wrists, and
considerably shaken up.
Blanche Lloyd, 2O7 North Broadway,
slight IaceratiOn on head and contusiOns
on shoulders.
Mrs IL. L. Van Blk, 22Os Downey ave-
| nue.; slightly bruised body and suffering
| from shock.
John Coward, motorman on Downey ave-
nue. car No. 491, of 2S11 Huron street; slight
Iy bruised about hands and body and con-
sidcrably shaken up.
A. w. Buzzard, conductor on Grown Hill
car No. $780, of 1859 Georgia streets bruised
about body and shaken up.
w r. Lamb, mOtorman on Crown Hill
! car. of 1887 Byram street; bruised about
body and slight decorations on hands
Mrs. w. W. Aldrlch, 22 years old, 1887
East Fifty fourth street; neck and right
shoulder bruised; suffered from shock and
hysteria.
william AIdrIch, 3 years old, same ad-
dress; slightly bruised on body.
Mabel Proctor, school teacher, 1912 Bald
win street; slight cOncusslon and suffering
from hysteria.
MT INETEEN persons were injured
| W and a score of others narrow
AN ly escaped serious injury and
nrobably death shortly before o'clock
Yesterday afternoon when Crown Hill
car No. 839 failed to respond to the
brakes and dashed down the hill at
First and Hill streets and collided with
car No 491 of the Grand avenue line
| et First and Spring streets. The latter
car was shunted across Spring street,
| and in turn collided with car NO JO9
of the Angeleno Heights line.
There was but one passenger, MIS-
| Adolph Jahnke, aboard the runaway
car. She was seated in the rear part
| of the car and had arisen from her
seat and was preparing to jump when
| the crash came. A piece of Jagged
| glass struck her on the forehead and
| She was thrown violently to the Hoor
| of the car.
The other injured were passengers on
the Grand avenue car. This car had
stopped to take on passengers at FIRST
| and Spring streets and was preparing
| tO start when the collision occurred.
The switchman in the tower at First
and Spring streets had turned the lever
to allow the Grand avenue car to tur;l
north into Spring street, when he saw
| the onrushing car, and, realizing that
If the car was on the curve when the
| ir1pact came it might be overturned
| and the passengers killed, he threw the
switch and allowed the car to take the
First street track. He barely had time
to throw the lever when the crash
came.
Passengers Thrown About
When the collision occurred the pas
sengers on the Grand avenue car were
| thrown from their seats and shaken
| about on the floor and overturned seats,
which were torn from their fastenings, !
while the shattered glass from the win
dows rained down on them.
The impact wrecked both ends of the
| Grown Hill car and the rear end of the
Grand avenue car. The controllers at
each end of the former car were torn
from their fastenings, as was the fare
register, which hung suspended by a
! slender chain
| The force of the collision forced the
| Grand avenue car dCIOSS spring SlISSl,
and a number of pedestrians and three
teamsters had narrow escapes from
being struck by the flying car But for
the prompt action of Patrolman Wal
| lace, who is crossing officer at that
place, they might have been struck by
! the car.
When the Grand avenue car struck
the Angeleno Heights car the motorman
of the latter car was hurled ten feet
backward into the car, which continued
several yards before passenger sprang
to the controller, shut off the power
and brought the car to stop by ap- |
plying the brakes.
When the frightened passengers real
lied what had happened the women
who were injured shrieked Historically
and soon a crowd of several hundred |
persons were collected about the cars,
and it was necessary for half dozen
policemen to clear the way for the po-
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