The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-05
SCHOONER AND
STREET CAR HIT

Salt Lake, Jan. lone boy was
killed instantly and five others wer.,
injured two seriously, shortly after
s o'clock last night when heavy
schooner" carrying nine youthful,
passengers collided with an east.
bound Second South street car ana
tenth Fast and Second South. '"he
schooner, getting beyond control Of
the youth who was guiding 1t, crash
&c into the rear end OF the street
car as the car wat rounding the
Curve from Second South into Tent
East. The boys were ln rled vidicnt
ly against the side OF the car.
Joseph e. Green. motornan o: the
car saw the scr JOner coniuy at .
rapIG rate of speed and wien he saw
that collision was inevitable, he
applied the brakes. He says that
when the impact came his car was
stationary.
The HCrt ent was witnessed by
some tNCLty persons Who hurried 10
aid Mntorman Green and Conduc.)r
Harvey NJ. Taylor in caring for
the injured. The police were mott
lied and PGtrolman w e. JewkGs
and Cladfsu George MoUrs respond
ed in ;hv police ambulau;h.
Russell Latter Killed
Several men who assisted the
street car crew dragged the body Of
Russell Latter, 6 year old son or j.
w. II. Latter of 235 Ninth East. from
beneath the rear truck He was dead.
A medical examination later showed
that the boy had sustained a fracture
of the skull and a broken neck. He
died instantly.
The injured boys, three OF them in
police automobile and two others In
another automobile requtsitioned by
the police, were hurried to the police
emergency hospital where Ave doc
tors awaited their arrival. Their in.
juries were dressed and they were,
with one exception taken to the l..
d. S. hospital.
Three Are unhurt
Three other boys, Orson Hill whose
parents live in the vicinity OF the
accident, and Tom Bing Brown and
another lad, whose name could not be
learned, escaped without injury.
The police were unable to learn
definitely who was guiding the schoo.
nor, when the accident occurred
Some of the injured lads said that
Tom Brown was steering while Har-
ry White, one of the injured, insist
ed that 1t was he. The police say
they are inclined to believe that the
Brown boy, who is a student at the
assert that he corresponds to the de-
scription of the pilot furnished by
several witnesses Of the accident.
Carl A. Carlson, inspector of police,
said that the White boy was in a
dazed condition when he made the
= statement that he had been guiding
the schooner and that this might ac-
count for his statement.
At police headquarters none of the
injured lads was able to tell just how
the collision occurred. The Nebe
ker lad gave the most concise story
of the accident. He said that boy
about II years of age was guiding
the schooner. Nebeker was sitting
third from the front and between him
and the pilot sat the Latter boy, who
was killed.
1--WE all saw the street car as 1t
started to make the turn" said Neb'
eker, land the boy who was guiding
the schooner started to turn to the
north side OF the street to avoid 1t.
1t appeared that the street car NOV
ed slower than he had anticipated
and before We realized our peril the
schooner was almost upon the street
car. The boy who was guiding at
empted to turn to the north side OF
the street, but the schooner swerved
and crashed into the car. / saw the
Latter boy as he was thrown against
the side of the car. AS he fell the
sled forced his body beneath the
trucks. Some man pulled me from
the side of the car"
1t was an agonizing spectacle that
greeted the police when tney arriv.
ed on the scene. Brothers and sis
tiers of the injured, some OF whom
had been Witnesses of the accident
were gathered about weeping. Rescu
ers sought to remove the injured from
the midst of the surging crowd, but
to no avail, and 1t was with no little
difficulty that the police succeeded in
removing the boys to automobiles
for transportation to the emergency