Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-10-02 | Page 1 | Thirteen Are Killed in Crossing Crash

THIRTEEN ARE KILLED IN CROSSING CRASH five Twenty Others Injured When Loaded Trolley Car Is Run Down by Switch Engine in Detroit Suburbs S D Oct 1 Thirteen l. Thirteen persons were killed and more than twenty twenty- five hoe injured several se probably fatally late tonight when a switch enI engine en- en I pine gine pushing tw freight cars crashed into a crowded street car at Forest avenue and street on the cast east side There were more than ninety persons in ill the street car many of them from the tho theatres H The street car was str struck al almost t I In Inthe inthe I. I the center tho the Impact Imp pushing It from the tracks and arid sll sliding It alongside of oC the freight cars P stricken Panic passengers began Jumping from doors and climbing through windows Most of ot the dead were killed by Jumping from tho the car carand car carand carand and falling under the wheels of oC the tho still moving freight cars Ambulances wore rushed to tho the scene and quickly took the Injured to th tho hospitals At midnight one hospital hospital hospi hospi- tal alono alone reported fifteen Injured and andone ono one dead had ad been taken lher there Tonight's accident ent is the third of ot a similar nature natura here ir II In th the last year ear and the second to occur at the tho Forest crossing T The railroad tracks at street stroet are us used d b by the Grand Trunk and Detroit Terminal railroad com corn I panics n n n The death of ot a little girl who t died while being taken to a hospItals brou brought ht the list of ot dead to fourteen At the same hospital one man was re reported reported reported re- re ported to bo be dying while three others unidentified were unconscious and the extent of or their Injuries undetermined Those who were killed outright at atthe atthe atthe the crossing creasing were so badly mangled that identification there thero was sl sible ble According to a n. member of ot the I switching crew tho the train was moving mo at about twenty t miles an hour when it struck tho street car Robert nobert OKeefe conductor In charge of ot the switching crew and William Carter and Alex motorman and conductor of ot the street car were taken to police headquarters where I they were being questioned long after aCter midnight Newspaper men were not permitted t ted to see them