Show CARS COLLIDE THREE DIE t Twenty Persons Are Hurt as Des Moines l Interurban Coaches Crash Des Moines Ia la Jan 11 More More than thana a score of or persons per ons wore were Injured J three probably mortally when two street streetcars streetcars streetcars cars of or the Urbandale route collided on head-on near Bennett Bonnett and Twentieth street here lato late toda today Except for 01 two or 01 throe three from nearby towns all nil tho the injured were from Des DesMoines Moines Including those most seriously hurt hurL The cars crashed together ether on a single le tacit at the bottom of two small hills down clown which tho the track wound in S fashion The fhe cause of or tho time collision lon I is ascribed to failure of or signal lights to work wort One car should have havo waited on ona ona ona a siding for the passing of the other Not more than ton ten people were In Inthe Inthe the time Incoming car but hut the outgoing one was wast packed with shoppers shopper and downtown workers homeward bound The Impact telescoped both cars n nearly all to tp their middle More loJe than Ulan n a dozen a-dozen persons person were taken taken tak talc en to l hospital o but tho the rest ret were able to continue continuo to th their lr hom homes s f for far minor medical attention Virtually ll ever every passenger was badly shaken vp rp and bruised J. J i X N. Thomas Thoma 70 years ears old Des De DesMoines Moines was reported d dying tonight Others seriously rlou l Injured d. d all from D Des DesMoines s Moines included Mrs Gels Botsford W. W I. I F F. Fisher J. J F. F and Mrs Irs II I E. E Jones |