Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-10
INJURED ARE RUSHED
TO CASUALTY HOSPITAL
Car Is Stalled on Curve by Dis
placed Trolley Pole.
ANOTHER CRASHES INTO REAR
Occupants Piled in Heaps by Force
of Impact and Many Are
Cut by Flying
Glass.

Glass.
! Two women, one child and nine man
were more or less seriously injured in the
rear-end collision of two cars on tba
| Columbia electric line crowded with mas
| sengers just transferred from the Ches-
/ apeake Beach train, about 1:l5 O'Clock
| last night. The accident occurred at 5Tth
! street and Benning road. None OF the
| Injuries is regarded as grave although
the hurts of one man have not yet been
| absolutely determined
| Scenes of panic preceded and followed
| the collision. In the forward car. stalled
| on the track when the trolley jumped
| the wire. and dark except for running
| lights. passengers hurled themselves
through the windows in the effort to es-
| cape the inevitable smash-up When the
| shock of impact came, a surprise for ali
| within the rear car. passengers standing
| in the isle We're tumbed over one an
other and thrown forward in a heap.
/ Women and children screamed. several
tainted and others sobbed i'm fright
/ The shock was terrific. IL knocked the
/ controller from the rear car and WIN
dows and glass doors were shattered.
4 The cars were forced forward nifty or
| Sixty 1eet a1ter the cOlllSlon DeIOFe tHeS
| came TO a standStill.
| The forward car, carrying about ninety
| passengers, after rounding the curve
| short way from the District line sta
ton of the Chesapeake Beach railway,
jumped its trolley at about 57t. street.
| All the lights went out.
Crashes Into Stalled Car.
Another car. following right behind
with about seventy-hve passengers.
turned the curve minute afterward.
Unable TO check speed in time to avert
the collision, 1t crashed with terrible
force into the.car ahead.
(. Both cars were OF the old type with
long seats ranging on either side. The
aisies between were crowded with pas
sengers. In the forward car, with tho
lights out the approach of the car that
followed was observed instantly as II
came around the curve. A cry went up
land panic ensued. The passengers leap
ed to their feet, scramDling To get out
of doors and windows. Many jumped
to safety.
The conductor of the forward car.
who was trying to readjust the trolley
pole. seized the red running light-
which had not been put into place.
according to a passenger Paul K. Bar
den of Springman farm. Benning. but
was resting on the rear piatform-and
waved 1t Irantically at the oncomins
car. The signal was not seen In time.
Iapparently as the speed OF the moving
car was not reduced.
| With the crash the standing passengers
i'm the second car, unprepared Tor the
shock, were hurtled to the forward end, :.
| where they fell in tangled heaps of hu-
manity. Most of them were men, now
| ever. as the women were, provided with
seats.
The motorrnan Of the second car was
!, pitched into the roadway. the conductor.
collecting fares in the front of the car.
was thrown against the glass door and
knocked insensible. Few escaped
scratches or bruises of some sort.
Taken to Casualty.
Five men, all more or less injured, We're
brought to Casualty Hospital The hos
pital ambulance, with DR.. III. W. Jaeger
, in charge. made three hurried trips 10
18th and III streets northeast bringing
back three patients. An automobile con-
veyed the other two men TO the hospital.
George L. Schafer. young man twenty
years old. whose home is at ia Indiana
. | avenue is apparently the worst injured.
, Shock and perhaps internal injuries. and
badly cut hand i the enumeration u
. his casualties given by the physicians.
| Epaminondas Perkins, seventy-nve years
of age of "a street, Is in much pain.
and apparently has sprained his Ddca-
His condition gave considerable alarm.
until the investigate of the surgeons
| determined that he had suffered no grave
harm. His scalp was badly torn, ana
required many stitches TO put into place"
A confused wound over the right eye.
which is blackened and much swollen. VAS
sustained by Frank V. Dupont. seventeen
wears old a visitor to Washington from
Wilmington. Del. He did not remain at
the hospital after his wounds were
dressed
Bruises about the face and right leg
were the injuries TO George w Rogers
of Alexandria He Is twenty-slN years
old Mr.. Rogers returned TO his home
after the surgeons had examined him.
Orville {. PoSey. twenty-seven years
old of to. 18th street northeast had =
| badly lacerated hip. face contusions and
| a cut scalp lie was the conductor on
the rear car in the collision.
Others injured. who were not taken 10
the hospital. were:
| C. w Johnson. siNty-five years. u? llth
| street southwest. injuries to right arm
i and thigh.
| Mrs s. A. Wilkerson. fifty years. t2S
Nj street northwest, injuries not asccr-
tanned by police.
| Walter Barnsrey, sixty years, 13 l.
| street northeast right ankle hurt.
| James Lear, thirty-eght years, 1916
| North Capitol street, injuries not ascer-
| tanned by police
| These were all taken to their homes in
| the second precinct automobile patrol
| wagon.
| Lucius Fl. Emmons. his wife and child
| of $50 street northeast were taken home
| 14S Tennessee avenue northeast.