Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-22

Dead;
WILLIAM KRUa.
Tnjursdi
Al Schultz supposed conclusion OF ths
brain with possible fracture OF the skull.
Internal injuries.
e. p. MoCorIniok, laoeratIon OF the scalpI
arms ana legs bruisedj rib broken; pos
sibls internal injuries.
Jimmie warren, left arm bruised ana
sprainedi laoerations about the legs ana
| body.
| William krug was knled and four other
passengers We're seriously injured when
| an American Mors touring car crushed
| head-on into Mr.. krug's machine at Thirty
| Iourth and Leavenwortn streets about IL
o'clock Tuesday morning.
Inc Mors machine, moving at the rate
OF sixty miles an hour, according 10 wit
nesses headed west on Leavenworth street,
| struck the front end OF tho Krug machine,
a gray Stearns touring car, swung 1t COM
! pletely round and hurled 1t against a tele-
phone pole and the curblng.
Mr.. Krug and Fred Z. Mccormick, who
was with him, were crushed against the
curbing. The ramming auto shot on past
the wreck for distance of 125 feet and
brought up to stop within scant foot
w. ii. Wallace of the Wallace Automo-
bile company was driving the Stearns car,
brand new machine which had never
| been out before lie was demonstrating the
machine to Mr. Krug in negotiation for
| the prospective sale of the car.
Mr.. krug lay unconscious with blood
gushing from a cut in his head and gashes
about the body, when rescuers came to
his side, and was moved under some trees
by Messrs Fred Harmon, S17 South Thirty
fourth street and FREQ Nelson, 5000 LeaV-
enworth street
HurryinK to Cemetery.
The life OF William Krug appears tn
have been sacrificed 10 the desire OF fiva
or six men to get to Holy Sepuloher ceme-
terry In time TO witness the intefment of
the body OF Patrick Ford, who was killed
in railroad accident two or three days
before. After the accident four Of the
men in the car driven by Al Schultz went
about their business. leaving schultz and
Warren to be taken to the hospital.
An eyewitness puts the scene this way,
as he viewed it, AS the Stearns car in
which Mr.. Krug was riding, came north
on the boulevard to Leavenworth street 1t
was going at only a medium rate OF speed.
The driver apparently slowed up to view
the street car track, but whether he be-
came ratified or not 1t would be impossible
to say, 1t appeared to me there was a
slight hesitation, then / heard some one
on the sidewalk yell: Look out for that
carr
almost before could realize what the
cry meant the flying car coming west
on Leavenworth had smashed into the
stearns car going north over the crossing
1t struck the right hind wheel of the latter
l. .tv,a L. 49,
clear around, with the rear wheels resting
against the north curb of Leavenworth
and the front, in exactly the opposite direc-
ton to that in which the Krug party had
been going
Krug Thrown Many Feet.
LAS the car struck the curb, Mr.. Krug
was thrown out to the right and rear
His head and shoulders hit the north curb
fully ten feet from the seat in which he
had been sitting He was bleeding penti-
fully and groaning. When lifted to the
shade of the trees on the corner he gasped
few times, and did not live over five
minutes"
In the meantime the American Mors car
shot ahead, without apparently any loss
of momentum. 1t ran 100 feet along tho
pavement, veering north, and Just missed
hitting a telephone pole. A few feet be-
yond the pole 1t was still going strong
enough to climb the curb, although
wrecked and shattered. The crossing of
the curb took about the last ounce OF
power left in the wreck, and it was stopped
by board set against posts which holds
a small embankment at that point
AS soon as his car stopped, Schultz ap-
pears to have allghted. Warren following,
and given some assistance to pick up Mr..
Krug. Then he busied himself gathering
up the scattered parts OF his own car
which were strewn from the spot where
the cars had collided to the place where
the Mors car finally landed While doing
this, and talking in rambling way with
the few men at the scene Schultz col
lapsed, sunk down, Gust crumpIed IN" az
one man put II. Shortly after he was
placed on a stretcher and taken to the hos
pital
Cars Complete Wrecks.
Examination of the stearns car as Il Jay
against the curb showed that every oca OF
the four tires was crushed, slowed aas
wrenched almost completely off T6s
short, stout spokes in the heavy hind
wheel. which had sustained the impact of
the American car were broken like reeds
mo ordinary blow did that damage" said
an automobile expert in grimy clothing who
was looking over the car.
On the American Mors car Itself nothing
was left whole except the seats, apparently.
Front was all gone to smithereens, the
works" OF the car being completely torn
OUT even the heavy axles and wheels were
broken, twisted and standing at every sort
Of angle, What had been in appearance
the prov Of an ironclad was now like a
pile Of old junk. The tonneau and rear
platform Of the car were not injured TO
any great degree.
Hospital Corps busy.
The operating room Of ST. Joseph's hos
pital was a busy place after the injured