Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-11 | Page 7 | Fourteen Killed and Many Injured

FOURTEEN KillED AND MANY INJURED Runaway Car of Lumber Col Collides Collides Collides lides With Interurban Car Carat Carat Carat at Vancouver B C Vancouver B C Nov 10 A runaway car of lumber collided early today with witha a crowded passenger car on the British Columbia Electric Railway In Interurban Interurban interurban line Fourteen persons were killed including the motorman and con conductor conductor conductor ductor of the freight car the passengers gers being mostly workingmen bound for forthe forthe forthe the British Columbia Electric Car build buildIng buildIng building Ing shops In New Westminster Seven Sevenpersons Sevenpersons Sevenpersons persons were injured and at least two of these will die Virtually every person In the passenger passenger passenger ger car was killed died or injured Some of those who met death in the first crash were killed when the timbers fell upon them at the edge of the track Only two bodies have been identified those of Mo Motorman Motorman Motorman torman Thoburn and Conductor Harris Nearly all of the victims were laborers on their way to work The passenger car left the Vancouver station Just behind an electric freight train consisting of locomotive box car carand carand carand and flat car laden with heavy timbers The timbers were 60 50 or 60 feet long and anda a foot thick Three miles out at the head of a grade which tho the freight cars had Just ascended the coupling of the lumber car broke and it started back toward the city By this time the tho passenger car was a quarter of ofa a mile behind It was Just leaving Lake Lakeview Lakeview Lakeview view station a short distance beyond the city limits when the lumber car dashed Into view The runaways speed must have been tremendous for Motorman Thoburn had hadnot hadnot hadnot not time to move When the Impact oc occurred occurred occurred the heavy timbers of the flat car slid sUd forward and ripped the passenger car level with the floor Not a sliver was left standing of or the passenger car