Show STREET GAR AR MEN ARE HEROES Might Have Saved Sayed Their Own Lives by I Deserting I. I P Posts os t s. s I COLLISION AT CROSSING Engine lW I I 11 II II I n nt mit Full Speed Cm Dili's Dilis Into Chicago tl Trolley Cute Cm Chicago March 1 11 Three Three men n and two little girls wre were so flO badly hurt when a switch engine ran lan Into a street car ear shortly after C G o'clock tonight to- to nl night nigh M that It Il I Is thought that only omm one of them can eRn survive I The accident occurred at nt the crossing of ot the Belt Deit Line railway ny and Wem WI Twenty sixth street at nt which titer ther are no gates gate When th the street car n arrived ar nu- rived u-ived there the time conductor ran ran ahead of 01 the time car and seeing no train ala approach ap au- Ing signaled the motorman ti to III across time the tracks The rime car cal had Imad but fairly got ot on the tracks when the switch 8 engine shot onto the main tracks ti from frim a n siding and und bore bOIe down lown I upon the ear car under full speed I The Due motorman threw his lever around lo to the point and tried to bent bentt t he h engine across osa the tracks as aM h he knew that lust it would be he Impossible otherwise e to escape He lie took th time the one chance I left tt to him anti and will In all alt probability give hl his hil life nr as aR a forfeit for Cor sticking slicking to 10 h his post po a ahe as ashe he eon could have easily jumped and saved his nfl life Time The conductor of ci the the- car CiU proved prove himself a hero also In Iii tend stead of running out of ot harms harm's a way he h.- heran ran rami and iund jumped upon the tho rear platform plat pint form mrm of or the car cam to guide th the tb trolley on aim the the- wire He lIe lost both legs and can live n a few hours houis Only three thu-ce passengers were on the thear cat cat- ar and all were wt injured one probably ably fatally Had th ear been filled lied liedthe the casualty list would have eli be-eli frightful as the car cam was smashed tn Into i mat and the wonder Is that nil all aboard were not killed Injured Conductor James both both- legs ut off above the knees internally In Injured in- in will lie die Motorman Peter Poter 29 I years vent old badly cut and ui be- be lo to bo be internally Injured Sylvia t-t t years old in- in lured about the heAd and body will recover Alice 12 years old eM believed be be- ti to be 10 internally Injured con con- lillon verv critical iii ical John Patrick GT 67 years old olti severe calp wounds internally Injured i. i The crew was arrested ai |