Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-02
NINE ARE KILLED
WHEN CAR DIVES
Crowded Trolley Leaves Track
and Plunges Into Niagara
Falls Rapids.
MORE THAN SCORE INJURED
Soldiers Rush to Scene of Ac.
cident and Save Lives OF
Women and Children.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y. July l.
A beltlne car on the Great Gorge
route loaded with passengers left tho
rails, plunged down a twenty-fQc; em-
banl<ment and turned over in ten feet
of water on the edge OF the Whirl-
pool rapids this afternoon.
Nine persons are known to be dead.
two known to have been on the car
have not been seen since tho accident
and probably are dead, an indefinite
number estimated from two to ten are
reported missing, and more than
score are in hospitals suffering from
injuries
The dead:
MRS. b. NJ. RAsTERY. Chicago.
HARVEY G. PHELPS, Schenectady.
N. Y.
JAMES S. KEMP, Scranton. Pa.
MARION LLOYD, Schumacher.
Akron. Ohio.
MRS. l.. +. WALLACE. Akron.
Ohio.
J. y. MUCK, Princeton. Ind.
MRS. BERTHA SEAST r o NJ.
jamestown. n. Y.
ALEXANDER HERON. Niagara
Falls
one unidentified woman.
Due 10 WashOut.
washout due to recent heav-
rains. was tho cause OF the disaster,
which occurred Just below the Canti-
lever bridge and sixty feet below the
point where the smooth water OF the
upper reaches OF the Niagara break
into the turbulent whirlpool rapids.
The car had all but completed tho
circuit OF the gorge. having crossed
from the Canadian side OF the river
on the trolley bridge at Lewiston.
There were more than fifty passen-
gers on board. 1t was believed.
The car was one of the open style.
the seats extending from side to side.
with steps on both sides the full
length. The seats were occupied. some
passengers were standing between
them and there were others on the
rear platform.
The car was running at a speed OF
about twenty miles an hour when II
struck the weak spot In ;he roadbed.
Less than half minute elapsed from
the time the motorman felt the first
jarring sway until the car was bot
tom side up on the edge of the rush.
ing rapids.
As 1t slipped down the twenty-foot
incline from the tracks to the edge
OF the river screaming men and wom-
en- fought to escape. Some of them
freed themselves, but were unable to
obtain n footing on the steep bank.
Scramble for Life.
There was mad scramble in the
shallow water between the wrecked
car and the river bank. From the
riverside the bodies of at least two
OF the passengers were seen to be
caught in the swifter waters and were
carried down to the whirlpool.
Members of national guard COM
pany on guard at the Cantilever
bridge. saw the accident and were the
first to the rescue. The soldiers slid
down the bank into the river and
worked in water up to their waists
getting injured passengers free from
the wreckage and passing them up
the bank, where an emergency car
had been placed to carry them to the
/ Niagara Falls hospital.
The supports of the roof on the for
ward part of the car had been
crushed by the impact on the rocks
| in the river bottom, throwing the
seats together. This pinioned many
/ OF the passengers below the surface
of the water and 1t was in this section
OF the car that most of the fatalities
occurred.
| The missing:
VIOLET sEASTROM. jamestown.
N Y.
s. X. BROWN, Warren. Ohio.
The injured.
MRS. j. G.. Mccoy. 3344 South
Benton boulevard, Kansas City. Mo.
Alec Seastrom, jamestown, n. Y.
! Alma and Florence Seastrom.
daughters OF Alec Seastrom.
Mrs Eta j. Poole, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mrs. James Kent, Scranton, Pa.
! Mrs. II. o. Smith, Akron, Ohio.
/ Frank Stominski. Chicago.
Norman Miller, Erie. Pa.
Mrs James $. Kemp, Scranton. Pa.
S. Skmoni and S. Haraodo, Jap
anese students.
Rachael b. Simpson, Martins. Ferry.
Ohio.
Mrs S. w. Bail Washington. Pa.
/ Miss Josephine Volgsteadt, Erie,
Pa.
Clarence McGill, member Seventy
fourth regiment. Buffalo.
George Rising, Erie, Pa.
Chauncey Hem, New York.
} Daniel j. Manning, New York.
Mrs. S. X. Brown, Warren, Ohio.
George W. Sweeney Revono, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Olschger. Roches-
ter.
Mrs II 7 SIee Toledo