The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-07-14
Two Pacific Electric Interur-
ban Trains Meet in Rear
end Collision at City Linz
its-Specials Rush Victims
to Hospital-Autos Are
Pressed Into Service
APPALLING CRASH AT
VINEYARD STATION
Ollie Waxley, San Francisco
Woman, Among Those
Whose Lives Were Crush
ed Out-Cars Filled to Ca
pacity With Pleasure Seek
ers Returning From Beach

Los ANGELES. July 13,--To "horse
play by youths who played with the
train whistle. is attributed the loss OF
about IL lives and the injuring of some
50 persons near here tonight Two Pa
cific Electric trains colhded. teIescop-
Ing two cars and wreckipg another at
Vineyard station. near the city limifs
Three trains loaded with excursion
lists to the beaches were returning here
from Venice. They were running.
railway men report. about three min
utes apart when a stop was made on a
curve at Vineyard.
Hearing the false signal the
most forward train backed around the
curve. running squarely into the front
car of a stationary train.
The two cars were telescoped.
The crash occurred in cut at the
junction Of the Santa Monica and
Venice lines. on the edge OF the city.
Every car of the train was filled with
Sunday pleasure seekers returning
the other. the victims were terribly
crushed and many of them almost be-
yond recognition
DANGER LIGHTS SHOWN
Three trains approached the junction
at about the sarre time The first was
stalled because OF some tang1e in the
overhead wires and put out danger
lights
The train following saw those lights
and backed to the junction, but before
its crew had time to put out danger
signals the third train crashed into IL.
Doctors and nurses were rushed to
the scene of the disaster on special
cars, and automobiles were pressed into
service.
An immense crowd congregated. but
above its din could be heard the an
guished cries of the woupded The
crowd was frantic and mobbed news
paper men who tried to take fiashlight
pictures of the terrible spectacle.
Because of the cars being rammed
into each other it took two hours to
remove the dead and even longer to
dispose of all the injured.
The first 10 arrived at the receiving
hospital fully an hour after the acci-
dent. 1t is feared that at least 20
more will be added to the death list to-
morrow morning.
Utmost CONFUSION REICys
Even after midnight the utmost con-
fusion still reigned and the only names
of dead thus far ascertained are:
OLLIE wAxLEY, IS years old, resi-
dence unknown. was in Imperial hotel.
San Francisco. July Z.
BRESEE.
VERONICA MILLER, 25 years old.
telephone girl OF the Bell company.
Injured:
E. e. Bryan. East Vernon, knees
wrenched. leg cut.
c. II. Combe. Coronado. stopping at
the Crest Home hotel Fifth and Bunker
HILL both legs broken, arm cut.
Mrs. c. II. Combe, badly injured.
Gregg o. wiIler, Tropica, CAL, leg
broken, cut about head and body.
Max JunghandeI. both legs broken.
Dee Blocker. left foot crushed
Mrs. Dee Blocker, both legs broken
Charles Hoffman, Argonaut hotel, arm
broken.
Miss NJ. A. Parker, abrasions and
shock.
Harold Exeay. East Fifth street, in
jured about head. cut by flying glass;
serious
- Culp. slightly injured: his two chill
dren, aged 9 and Z. terribly cut about
head.
h. A. Thomas, cut about hands and
head, internal injuries.
ID. b. Reader. injured about body.
4. Takahaxhe, both legs lacerafed
G. Kubeto. Japanese, slightly hurt.
T. sameshL terribly injured about
legs.
*. Morita, injured about limbs.
Il. #. walter, shoulder wrenched.
Mrs. Harry c. Cain. right arm and leg
crushed.
b. Thomas. injured internally.
Herbert Carley. ankle dislocatcd.
u. II. Denton of Kansas City. cuts
and abrasions.
!. Darlington, internal injuries.
Mas Jeanette Brown, telephone
operator. contusions and decorations of
entire body and broken arm. will re-
cover.
John Baker Jr.. laceration of head
and body.
Mis-. swendsen, Hotel snow, fracture
of knee.
Mrs. J. #. Meek. arm cut of in wreck.
probably fatally injured