The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-14
WHISTLE TAKEN AS SIGNAL
Train Behind Puts on Full Speed
and Crashes Into Waiting
Train Ahead
ONE OF THE CARS TELESC0PED

Los Angeles, Cal. July 14.-"To
horse play by youths, who pulled a
! train whistle is attributed to the loss
of about twelve lives and injury TO
200 persons, many fatally, near here
/ last night.
Two Pacific electric trains collided,
/ tclcscoping TWO cars and wrecking an
other at the Vineyard station, near the
city limits
Three trains loaded with excursion
/ lists TO the beach AZ Venice, sixteen
miles from Los Angeles, had stopped
at curve where a switch is turned.
The last train began moving slowly
forward, while the two foremost trains
remained at a standstil. Conductor
Bartholomae, of the last car of the
center train Jumped 10 the track with
light 10 flag" down the approaching
train. Some youths on his car. say
passengers who escaped death, pulled
the whistle i'm Jest. This. it is said by
railroad men, was misintcrpreted by
the motorman Of the moving train as
a signal to 80 ahead
With crash OF breaking glass.
spl,ttiug timber and cries OF passen-
gers the motor car of the last train
drove into the rear of the center train.
The youths who had played with the
whistle were crushed in the debris
The colliding cars were telescoped.
The second of the stationary train
was almost demolished.
Dead Cut To Pieces.
The motorman of the moving train
hearing the whistle, had put on full
speed. The curve had prevented his
seeing the standing cars on the next
train. The third train WAS not af-
fcctcd
The three trains were said to be
running at three-miuute intervals
Most of the dead were cut to pieces
Special trains rushed the injured to
Los Angeles hospitals and the dead 10
morEucs.
Passengers on the rear car Of the
standing train filed the seats and
stood IN the aisles when the crash
caroe Those who stood were crushed
against each other into the far end Of
the car The lights went out.
Arthur I'M, "a sailor of the torpedo
boat Paul Jones. carried out eight bod
les, including a woman gripping an
infants body in her arms, The mother
and child were dead. Mrs. W y stew
art. OF Los Angeles, dragged out the
PROSTATE body of her husband, who
was stunned few Of the Christian
Endeavor delegates were on the trains.
Practically all of the killed and in
jured were residents of Los Angelel
and suburbs.
investigation Started Today.
An INVESTIGATION of the wreck to fix
blame was hegun today A curve in
the tracks a. the Venice short line. at
the place where the wreck occurred.
partially is held responsible for the
failure Of the motorman to see the sta
tiunary cars with which his train col-
Iided. Th, motormau is missing today
His body was not found in the debris,
although il rs certain ne was killed
Stories of the accident differ wide
~ and much difficulty will be exper-
fenced 10y the officials and coroner's
jury.
The known dead.
MISS EDNA ALTER. Pasadena.
OLLIE ANJEY. san Francisco.
MISS VERONICA MILLER. Los
Angeles.
MERLE EVANS. Los Angeles.
WILLIAM TAYLOR. JACOB BAR
MAN. EDWARD MURRAY, addresses
Unknown.
+. r. FORESTER. motorman of
wrecked train. missing
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