The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-07-05
CAR PLUNCES INTO.
NIAGARA TORRENT.
Nine Deaf; Two Missing; Score
In Hospitals.
RECENT RAINS ARE. BLAMED

"s"S WIZ Oe"WeO
wsshout ~ rrsek Bed causs Of 40.
sIdsnt-suddsnnsss Of Plunge Pre-
vsnts Attempts to Esesps-car
b. Iorrs cempIsts'y Over.
Niagara Falls. N. Y. July 4.-Nine
persons are dead and . number in.
jured. while several are missing ~ q
result of q trolley car on the gorge
route jumping the track and piunging
into the Niagara river. The bodies
were recovered when the car was re-
moved by q derrick five hours later.
The fare register indicated that the
car was carrying about forty persons.
II is assumed that the missing were
swept down stream in the rushing
current.
The dead: Marion Lloyd schu-
maker. Akron. o.; J. r. Muck, Prince
ton, Ind; Mrs. Bertha Ssastrom.
Jamestown, N. Y; Mrs. G. J. Mccoy.
Kansas City: Alexander Heron, Mia
CARA Falls; two unidentified men and
two unidentified women.
Missing: Violet seastrom, James
town. N. T., and 8. X. Brown. War
rem, o. - .--
Injured: Alec, Alma and Florence
Seastrom, jamestown, N. T.; Mrs.
Eta ]. Poole, Cincinnati, O.: Mrs.
James Kent. Scranton. Pa; Mrs. H.
o. Smith, Akron. o.; Frank stominski,
Chicago; Norman Miller, Err. Pa: s.
skmoni and 8. Haraodo. Japanese
students; Rachael B, Simpson, Mart
ihs Ferry, o. Mrs. 8. W. Bail, Wash
ington, Pa; Miss Josephine volg.
steadt, Err, Pa; Clarence Mc1ill, Buff
fslo; George Rising, Erie. Pa: Chaun-
cey Hem, New York; Daniel J. Man
nign. New York; Mrs. 8. X. Brown,
Warren, O.; George w. Sweeney, Re
novo, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. J. Holscher
Rochester; Mrs. d. j. Slee, Toledo
and Bertha Lucas, Remove. Pa.
The car left the track just below
the captilever bridge on the American
side OF the river and turned bottom
side up. The cause of the accident II
said to have been a washout. The
roadbed under the cantilever bridge
at the point where II occurred rs 9
clay fill and recent heavy rains com
ing down the side of the chasm hat
washed 1t out below the surface of the
roadbed.
Rail Gives Way.
When the heavily loaded car struci
this weak spot, the rail on the rivel
side, about ten feet from the water
gave way. The car turned on iti
side. slid down into the water and al
1t struck the rocky bottom Of the
river turned completely over, the toI
Of the car resting on the bottom o.
the river Not more than half a min
ute elapsed between the time the cal
left the rails until II came to q stand
still in the river.
The suddenness of the plunge pre-
vented any attempts to escape, al
though the crowds in the vicinity
quickly began the work OF rescue. Tn,
point where the accident occurred
was only a short distance below tn,
falls and in Yull view Of the crowd
that throng the giant cantilsvel
bridge.
The car was one of the open type
the seats extending from side to sid,
with steps on both sides the full
length of the car. All the seats wer,
occupied and some OF the passenger
were standing between them anC
there were others on the rear plat
form.
The car was running at a speed o.
about twenty miles an hour when 4
struck the weak spot in the roadbed
Az II slipped down the twenty-foot In
cliue from the tracks to the edge o.
the river, screaming men and womer
fought to escape and some of then
we're able to get free, but were un
able to obtain a footing on the steer
bank.
There was q mad scramble In the
shallow wsser between the wrecked
car and the river bank. From the
river side the bodies OF at least two
OF the passengers we're seen to be
caught In the swiiter waters and were
carried down to the whirlpool.
Members OF a national guard regi.
ment, who were on guard at the Can't.
lever bridge saw the accident and
were the FIRST to the rescue. The sol.
diers slid down the bank into the
river and worked up to their waists
getting injured passengers free from
the wreckase and passing them up
the bank. where an emergency car
had been placed to carry them to the
Niagara Falls hospital.