Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-04-15 | Page 1 | Train Crashes into Street Car

TRAIN CRASHES I INTO STREET CAR I Thirteen Persons Killed and Twenty seven Injured in Collision Collision Collision Col Col- in Detroit Detroit April 14 Thirteen 14 Thirteen persons ten of oC them women were ero Instantly killed and anil t woven twenty others wore injured late today In a collision between a Detroit city street car and a freight ht train Three of oC tire the Injured are arc expected expect expect- ed cd to die die V V Hours after acter the thc ac only onh three of oC the dead l had d b been n l identified cJ Thc They were V MISS lISS GAll GLADYS GEORGE a school teacher MH MRS HEPAK Z I P K V. GOnGAS V LOUIS KOn KORNICH l Most olo t of oC were foreigners The street car was as heavily loa loaded cI with passengers homeward b bound from th their h days clays s work As It approached the crossing tho the conductor ran ahead loIce to lo see Ice If It the tho track wa was clear elear He lie signalled sig sig- nailed tho the motorman to walt wait but hut apparent apparently ap up- parent I the lie misunderstood his meaning and ran i-an the car onto the tm tracks c Ic s. s The freight cn engine struck the car ear fairly in Ill the tho middle smashing It al almost almost oh- oh most to bits The wreckage was pushed feet several of oC tho the dead head and in- in jurod dropping along the Die street before the train could ho bo stopped Several Se passed before some seine of oC the In Injured in- in could bo hue extricated from Crom the tho In wi wreckage I I