Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-17
IMPACT OF CARS HURTS FIVE
Runaway Crosstown Car Crashes Into
Hanscom Park Trolley.
BRAKEs FAIL, CONTROL Is LOST
Accident Occurs shortly After seven
O'eiock This MornfnE ~ the Cor
ner Of Twenty-FourtR and
GAMING streets.

Five were injured IN street car collision
~ Twenty-fourth and Cunning streets at
1905 O'Clock Thursday morning. A northbound
cross-town car on the Twenty-fourth street
line refused to respond 70 the brakes and
crashed head-on into the side Of a south
bound Hanscom park car turning east at
the intersection.
The Injured.
Mrs Louise Hjeiam. laundry worker,
22is Monroe street South Omaha, bruis "a
about the head, possible fracture Of the
skull
Miss Rose Hjelam. laundry worker.
daughter right knee sprained and bruised.
Harry Black. mail carrier, 1923 North
Twenty-nfth street calf OF right leg pune
tufed and torn.
cuts on head.
James Brooks. laborer, 1924 North Thirty
first street, scalp wound.
The two women injured were passengers
on the cross-town car The men who re-
ceived hurts we're riding on the Hansoom
Park car.
Injured May Recover.
Mrs. Hjeiam is the most seriously injured.
She may not recover in the event that later
examination proves that she Incurred
fracture Of the skull She was taken to
the fire station nearby the wreck, and
there treated by DR.. B. G. Willis and Or.
o c. Bishop. police surgeon. Mrs. Hielam
was removed 10 her home in South Omaha
in the police ambulance two hours after the
accident. ........... &c.,.
All other victims Of the wreck were taken
20 their homes.
N Nelson motorman on the Hanscom
park car, was bruised about tile hands and
wrists. A. f. Cooper, conductor on this
car, escaped injury. .......... ....
The members Of the crew of the cross
town car are z. c. johnson, conductor
and Elmer willis, motorman. Neither was
hurt
Cannot stop Car.
The crew or the cross-town car did every
thing in It's power to stop IT'S flight, bat
the ateepness Of the hill, and the wet, slip
perry tracks made the brakes OF no use
When Motorman Johnson Of the cross
town car saw that the brakes had failed
him. he opened the window Of his vestibule
and began to yell excitedly and wave his
arms in an attempt TO attract the attention
Of the motorman on the other car. His
sffors. however we're unsuccessful.
The Park car was thrown over on it's
side by. the force OF the collision and badly
wrecked. The cross-town car remained on
It's trucks ana on the track, although the
front vestibule was also badly wrecked.
Traffic on the lines was blocked for up
wards Of an hour. .
There were ten .passengers on the park
car, three Of whom we're women There
we're three passengers, all OF them women,
on the crosstown car
Many OF the passengers on the park car,
which was turned over on its side, crawled
out through the trap doors in the bottom of
the car. All we're badly Jared. Israel
Lobett Of 2iO2 Lothrop street says that
It seemed TO him as II the car turned over
about three times and that when it finally
settled down fellow passenger was sit
ting squarely Rstride his neck.
The woman most badly injured. Mrs.
Louise Hjelam, according to the latest re-
ports OF the doctors, stands IN very little
danger Of a fractured skull or internal in
juries, a. at first was feared.