The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-14
|[LEVEN KILLED |.
|NHEN ELECTRIC
i CARS COLLIDE
pscifie Electric lnterurtan
Train, Going 20 Miles an
Hour, Crashes Into Cars
Standing Still.
|DIsASTER OCCURS
NEAR LOS ANGELES
Holiday Crowd Returning
From Venice and Ocean
Park Meet Death With
out Warning.
n fnterna tional News Service,

|By fnterno tional News Service,
LOS ANGELES, July ia rar
md collision between two three-,al
||fains packed with pleasure seekers re
|nruinp from Venice and Ocean P;rl
|trpught death to eleven persons tonight
|sud injured at least $50, some of whon
nay die.
. The wreck occurred on the Venice
6hort Line just opposite the power
&onse at the end of Sixteenth street
De extreme western limits of Los An.
<tles, at 9:2S clock. 1t was well ait.
. midnight before the complete til
a dead and injured could be usc.r-
sined.
known Dead.
JAKE BARMAN, address unknown.
ed MURRAY, address unknown.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, address IN.
|novn.
MERRILL EVANS, $50 South Ii.
uetoa, Los Angeles.
MILFORD AXLEY, San Francisco
zw0 UNIDENTIFIED MEN.
VERONICA MILLER, telephone cp.
1ator.
ONE UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
oNE UNIDENTIFIED BABY.
EDNA P, ALTER, secretary of tie
Eociated Charities, Pasadena.
rains Packed.
a tnree'car train packed from doc.
door with returning beach visito.s
'ashed into standing three.car tram
'ple running at high rate Of spee1
nefe were no lights III the last coach
fnc standing train and the motorma an
tne speeding train had only the
AfnIng of few seconds that ELAPSED
rounding the curve until his head
eat flashed on the rear Of the coadl
head, (
tar No. ss7, the first of the moving
a'n, struck the stalled train and
'nged into the last coach, telescoping
ano smashing itself by the impact.
"en, women and children who had
'n standing in the aisles were Jammei
sslner III both cars, which bore tb
pnt OF the collision. Those sitting in
seats were wedged together in Q
npact mass, when the force of the
'nsion Jammed tho seats together lik;
folding Of coucertina,
arkness Adds to Horror.
'arkness added TO the horror of tn:
eation, and delayed the work Of res
ip which those slightly hurt or un
'aeu lent assistance. 1t was tw,
V. before the army of rescuers con,
eo Tue task Of extricating the bod
~ the dead and the broken bodies O
MANNED.
"nether or not the conductor of tn
'''ca train had sent a man back o!
surVc to flag the approaching trail
- not be learned tonight. Official
ny Pacific Electric declined to max
s'a'einent fixing the blame for tn
ser 1t was said, however, tha
motorman of the train which wa
-atnor Of the terrific crash, disap
'Sssoon NJ soon after the collision.
trains of three coaches eacI
slailed On the incoming track, ow
broken trolley, but only tn
'e been dark
pIlision in Deep Cut.
ae scene of the collision was in
.,{v WI which swings into curv
|1rs a. NO, Members Of one of the tran
III aaao that a man had boon sen
fbeso " nag each train after the breal
sloiley wire at the junction O
"a senice and Sherman lines. A ma
n CO., $500 On the front platform of ca
.ol WAS rendered unconscious b.
Eoss, but rolled of the car to safe
~ s Isre reported that the motorman ha
6cdaied but no trace was found O
.lously Injured.
A
- Zones, both legs broken.
1s swartz, aged 20 years; sc
4 cut about face; one eye out.
~ Norman, injured internally