Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
SIX ARE INJURED
IN z CAR CRASHES.
Panic on Bridesburg Trolley
When 1t Is Sidewiped by
Freight-Two Hurt
OTHER COLLISION UPTOWN

Six persons were injured and scores
had narrow escapes in two trolley
crashes in the fog at Z o'clock this
morning.
Three men and one woman were hurt
in collision between two trolley cars
at Nineteenth and Norris streets.
Two more were hurt in a panic on a
Bridesburg car when it was side
wiped by a steel freight car which left
the rails opposite Cramps Shipyard,
on Richmond street below Climber
land.
Those injured in the collision at
Nineteenth and Norris streets were:
James Morton, forty FIVE years old,
2O22 North Twentieth street, lower
chest crushed.
Marino Gercello, forty years old, 642
Washington avenue, lower chest crushed
and several ribs fractured.
Stephen Carroll, forty four years old,
1918 North Croskey street, bruises of
chest and fractured rib.
Marcella RiccOlIen, forty four years
old, 1915 Weikel street, cuts on left
cheek.
The injured were taken to the WON
ans Homeopathic Hospital. Morton
and Gercello were placed on operating
tables at once.
Those hurt in the Richmond street
wreck were
Vincenzo Chilni. fifty five years old.
119 Almond street, bruises of right
knee.
I. Gorslsey. 1863 Winter street, bruises
Of right knee.
Chilni tripped and fell in getting out
of the car. Gorskey lost his footing in
the rush for the doors, and was
trampled. Neither man waS hurt sufi
ciently to go to a hospital.
Signals Are Misunderstood
According to witnesses of the col
lision at Nineteenth and Norris streets
both cars had stopped at the intersec
ton. In starting the motormen are
said to have misunderstood each Others
signals and the cars collided in con
sequence.
Passengers on the Bridesburg cal
escaped more serious accident by tn,
matter of a few seconds.
The car was running north, jammet
to the doors at front and back with
men riding to their work in Richmond
mills. Trolley and railroad tracks rur
parallel on Richmond street. On til,
west side of the street is a freight yard
with a spur of the railroad track cross
ing over the trolley track from the bel
line railroad.
A string of thirty steel cars, drawn
! by two engines, was running slowl,
north on Richmond street, putting VI
the slight grade, the engines whstlin,
! loudly because of the fog which hun,
oyer the river early this morning.
Freight Breaks in Middle
When the trolley car was only few
feet from the crossover switch, the lon,
freight broke in the middle, and tiv,
cars shot off the track, tearing up tn
switch and running in the path of tn
! trolley car. Had the trolley been
few seconds earlier, it would have beef
struck fairly in the middle. AS i
| happened, one of the freight cars side
wiped it. tore it from the tracks an
dragged it along.
Passengers saw the danger and surge
toward the exits. A little more an
the trolley car would have been turne
over on its side. Men struggled to reac
the doors. Many of them smashed win
dows and dropped to the street.
The five runaway cars continued o
their way One broke loose, dashed o
the sidewalk and broke telegraph pcle
The heavy pole stove in shack nearb
in falling.