Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-07
death STREWN BY
| A SPEEDING AUTO
Giant 5O-Horse Stearns Touring
Car, Plunging Out Peachtree
Road, Crashes Into Trolley
Car at Brookwood.

e BY an the elements Of quaking horror
and keen tragedy Atlanta was racked.
THURSDAY evening. An automobile filled
with a party Of eight-men. women and
chlIdren-had hit trolley car on Brook
wood bridge. had glanced on and had
turned turtle. strewing its passengers all
over the bridge and pinning its driver ana
part owner under its two tons OF weight
= Charles 3. Tidwell. driving his 5o-horse
rower Stearns. said ohave been speeding
Go overtake the car IN which Roy Collier
WAS riding. but whose presence and motive
were unknown TO Mr.. Collier, was the
man who was fatally hurt. and picked
mp in a dying condition.
Mrs. Charles B. TidweIl. bride since
Vast Sunday OF the dying man. had been
thrown out OF the stunned and stagger-
ing car 20 the street pavement and had
heen painfully hurt
4 1Irs- c. ]. Hightower was unconscious.
and probably had sustained conclusion
o. the brain.
&C j.. Hightower's nose had been broken.
and he had been hurt in the head and
probably also internally.
r Ms Mamie Tidwell had been cut and
bruised and was badly shaken up. Mamie
rfdwell. her little daughter. and Ruth
Tidwell and Willie Tidwell, the children
N the car ndu DECAA dAA SNA6NNA~A 0HA
bruised and shaken. though none Of them
was believed TO have been seriously hurt
TTDwELL DIES AT GRADY.
At $40 o'clock Friday morning, eight
hours after the disaster. Mr.. Tidwell died
N the Grady hospital His bride was In
another part OF the hospital at that mo-
.snent.
NJ. and Mrs. Hightower are in the Wes-
lev Memorial hospital The extent OF their
injuries has not yet been accurately de-
termined. Their condition is regarded as
serious.
Ms. Mamie Tidwen and her three chill
dren, taken first to the Wesley Memo
rial hospital. were removed later in the
might 10 their home, their injuries being
looked upon as not necessarily serious
RECORD AMBULANCE FLIGHT.
shortly after 1880 o'clock Thursday
exening the disaster was recorded Inc
marty OF the wrecked car was all inter
related After the car turned over, II
caught hre. but the fire was put out
berore Il had done great damage ana
roefore the IRE department. nose wagon
arrived The ambulance call was prob
ranly the quickest on record. the phone
sr1nging at Grady hospital within a min
4 ute after the crash and screams startled
-ahe residents near I4se bridge.
On the asst track on BrOokwood bridge,
= trolley car No. ass was standing thurs
-6ay evening when the mad racers with
death hove in sight at the top or the
long hin toward town
j. Around the broad sweep OF the curve
sat the TOP OF the gently sloping hill
swung thestwo pairs OF demon eyes that
,nlerced the darkness. and then straight
down the broad SO-fOot sweep OF tie
fsmooth avenue they glared, straight to-
ward the quiet trolley car. The sullen
t.roarf CT their approach grew palmer.
A. Roy Collier passed the car and crossed
the bridge sim in ignorance of the car
shshlnd- He says he slowed down 10 Is
rafIes an hour over the bridge. He says
the car was lighted at the time he passed.
&C. SAYS GAR WAS LIGHTED.
e Cnductor- T. B. Willard, Of the street
rssar. hss.I just pulled the trolley down on
fhe wire preparatory to swinging 10
fsround for the trip hack to town There
ssas the terminal OF the Brookwood run.
rxhe street car had only moment be-
4fors stopped. tr
.Rfoforman W. 81 DOdsOn had lifted
the big headlight lens on the north end
OF the car and was walking around TO
nut Il on the south end
z { Conductor Willard saw the glaring
eyes bearing down upon the car. He
.ihseard the angry growing Of the motors
nqnfnkfng TO play safe till they were
fqAst -fe released the trolley ~ TO the
sire again. and the street car lit up
strfth the new hOw Of fluid.
nj 50 say the street car cOmpany's repre-
rfantatives. The car men claim that be-
<fore the disaster the car was lit. and
shat with its own illumination and in
rtne brilliancy OF the approaching auto
mobile headlights the ponderous trolley
coach stood clear in the vision of those
fgvhO approached the disaster.
- In a moment or two the horror was
son-
- Like a bat out Of the Internal regions
says the conductor, one Of the automo-
-hiles few by and was gone into the
anight beyond
zN AWFUL CRASH-THEN SCREAMS
simultaneously there came a crash on
the left north end of the trolley. near
-Uhere the conductor was standing; then