Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-18
.IWENTY-THREE ARE HURT
jim THREE CAR COLLISIONS
Heavy Fog Which Cloakcd Richmond
Early Yesterday Takes
1s.ra- Heavy Toll.
FIVE VICTIMS IN HOSPITALS
Mantle of Mist Obscures Vision Of
~. MotorIncn and Autoists-NioSt Sc
we're Crash Takes Place on High
land Park Line.

Twenty-;hrce persons are suffering
from more or less serious injuries as
the result OF head-on trolley collisions
in three different sections of Rich
mond carly yesterday morning when
the city was cloaked in one of the
heaves; focs experienced here in
OF the victims, nvc arc confined 20
various hospitals Heaviest toll was
e1acted by the crash q two cars on
the Highland Park line, on Fourth
Avenue, between Alder and Chestnut
twsnty-one persons we're hurt:
Those mos; seriously injured there
&ad tsks. 70 Grace iiospItal were;
TNTen;y-siN:h Street. serious laccra-
George +, ShaGe7, I'LL Second Ave
Mrs LruiSS Francis. 1893 Delaware
Avenue INJURIES % hip aud shock.
Pureeli Garnet, fourteen years OF
SEs 1905 Ni-Siasa Avenue; crushed
Zee; Es was taken 70 the stuart Cir
other Victim. Of Crash.
Iso's les $s.'Gl<ly INJURED who
crle-Gencr treatment; we-e:
jim SScks- 200 SIua-; street,
L ". See. l406 G-ovsland Avenue
Miss Evelyn Diliart. I7i5 Second
Miss Grace Sichols> 1905 virginia
Miss Susie Williams, $50, Fourth
Miss Hazel crurnp, 1900 Third Ave
Miss Virginia Taylor, 1918 Virginia
Miss Annie Leigh Rowe. :oi5 VIZ
Miss Haskins Garrett, 1903 Delaware
Avenue.
n. D. Moseley, 1871 Virginia Avenue.
Motorman w. S. Bailey. no address.
Conductor r. L. Vaughan. no address
II. Collins, Milton Street
Motorman T. W. Wilcox, address not
given.
Conductor F. G. Boiling. no address
Chr Filled With Children.
Running full speed ahead a north
bound car on the Highland Park line
ran head-on into a southhound car on
the same line little after o'clock
in the most serious collision Of yes
terday. Both cars were packed with
school children and other passengers.
n. W GarriEan, motorman in charge
at the Grace Hospital last night said
that the fog was so dense that nc did
not see the approaching northbound
car until it was too late TO avert the
esa ais eon G1tbo,;, E. T. La Eontaine.
practically every passenger aboard
The northbound car was In charge
OF Motorman w s. Bailey and Con
hurt. ~"
In the official investigation OF the
wreck that occurred yesterday morn.
ing. at the offices Of the Virginia Rail.
way and Power Company, members -,
me crews were not blamed for the ac.
cident 1T developed mt the hcarinr
that Motorman Bailey saw tho mn
preaching northbound car when il was
only a few feet away and tried n
avert the smash-up by reversing ali
Two Other Accidents.
Police reports show that two othA,
mead on collisions between street rara
On the Ginter Park line. also occurred
at apr s!HS d the h,eavy fog; one happened
duet. No damage was done
Fttty-hve minutes later two c,--
crashed headlonG ut Stop rs ana
three Three passengers were slightly hnr ra
rhnS were were Iyree and J. w. Watkins,
Mho live on Hermitage Road, and
ing Al is Rosemary Avenue.
Seferal automobile accidents wer.
nrposd to the police. investigation
proved that none of these cr,shcs
were or serious nature.