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Show ' TWENTY PEOPLE HURT III STREET RAILWAY ACCIDENT Two Portland Street Cars, Running at Terrlfflc Speed, Collide, With Disastrous Results. Portlnnd. More than twenty persons per-sons were Injured In a head-on collision colli-sion between two loaded Woodlawn enrs of the Portland Rnllwny company com-pany nt tho Intersection of Union nnd Holladny avenues. Thcro Is n considerable consid-erable Incline on Union nvcnuo Just beyond Holladny, nnd on this tho Incoming In-coming enr, which Is supposed to con-tlhuo con-tlhuo on past Hollndny, became uti controllable. Tho car, instend of con tinning on Its proper tracks, rnn Into nn open switch nt Hollnday nnd with tcrrlfllc speed whirled around the cor nor nnd Into nn outgoing Woodlawn enr, which had como to u stop before turning from Hollndny Into Union nve-nue. nve-nue. Hoth cars wero badly wrecked nnd hurried calls wero sent for tho ?ollco nnd ambulances, When nil tho passengers hnd been removed from tho cars It was found thnt only eight persons had suffered surtlclent Injury to nccessltnto removal to tho hospital. |