The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-31
|DED Street CAR.
IDfRE|GHTCRAsH;
MANY HURT
Wyandotte Interurban Filled With
: Passengers When Struck On D. 7.
al. Tracks in Delray-Injuries
Not Of Serious Character.
lame Seems To Lie With Steam
Road, as Derailer Was Set To Indi-
cate Clear Track for Trolley.

With terrific force. a freight car,
shunted by switch engine, backed
into a wyandotte interurban car on
che crossing OF the Detroit, Toledo q
Irunton railway In Delray, about
o'clock, Monday morning, knocking
the street car over on Its side and
causing slight injuries to most OF me
20 or so passengers. The freight car
nfruck the street car near the front
vestibule and II II considered q mir
ncle that no one was killed. So fast
vas the freight car going that II con-
finued its course after the impact, anc
when Il finally came to a stop 1t was
resting on top Of the street car at an
angle Of about As degrees.
The passengers, including many
girlg who were on their way TO WORE
and school I'm Detroit, scrambled ONT
of the overturned street car In lively
fashion. Many were bleeding from
contact with flying glass as they
emerged from their perilous position
hut none seemed seriously hurt. One
Young lady, Miss Sarah Kozlow, the
daughter of a milliner, whose store is
within a rod or two OF the scene III
the accident, was injured the most
rsriously. She complained OF severe
mains about the body and was assisted
to her home.
DIR. +. ]. Clippert, No. Dearborn
road. only a block or so away froTa
where the collision took place, was on
hand to give first aid 10 the injured.
He found, however that none needed
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ho went straight TO her aid. He mace
a examination OF her but found no
external evidences OF serious injuries.
Gke may, however, be seriously hurt,
he says. She was on her way to a De-
<roit business university, which she az
tends, when the accident occurred. hay-
1nx lust boarded the street car mo-
nnent before.
An unidentified man is in the Sol
yay General hospital, with a fractured
skull. At the time OF the collision.
he fell from the top Of the freight
car, where he had been standing. Jo-
oeph Bair, No. 81 Reid-st, was slight
1y injured.
Most of the other passengers were
able to proceed TO their work on an.
ether car provided by the ID. u. X.
Those who saw the accident are in
cIined to relieve the crew OF the street
chr from blame. pointing out that the
dcrailer was set by the railway watch
man in the tower at the crossing, for
the street car to come over the steam
roads tracks. Officials OF the ID. u.
III. however, are making an investiga-
HIM, an are also representatives OF
~ Detroit, Toledo & Ironton railway,
% az the responsibility for the coli
Hnion.
ct IL high time" said DR.. Clippert
. 10 The Times, that We had gates at
the crossing where the accident &C.
curred More than that. We ought to
have q subway, for much valuable
tine IL lost every day by trains hold
ing up street cars at this point. Be
oldes the great loss OF time. pas
oongers on the d. u. r. cars are daily
oubjected to the danger OF losing life
md limb. We certainly ought to have
oo1nething done to remove the great
danger which now attends the cross
Ing of street cars at the ID. T. & /.
cr0Deing In DeIray."