Show STREET CAR COLLISION The Rapid Transit Crashes Into a Salt Lake City Car A disastrous collision of Rapid Transit and Salt Lake City street cars occurred yesterday afternoon at the intersection of State and Third South streets The Salt Lake City car was smashed to splinters the Rapid Transit badly damaged and it was almost by a miracle that no one was killed A Rio Grande Rapid Transit car was coming down State street at a pretty lively gate As it approached the Third South street intersection a Salt Lake City car hove in sight and tho Rapid Transit motorman set his brake with little apparent ap-parent effect on the speed of the car The Salt Lake motorman threw off his power as if intending to stop but changed his mind and attempted to run the gauntlet The result was that the Rapid Transit crashed into the Salt Lake City car throwing it around at right angles with the track and making kindling wood of it The two motormen escaped unharmed un-harmed by jumping from the platforms There were several passengers in the Salt Lake City car but none of them were injured The Rapid Transit car was unoccupied Shortly afterwards another Third South street car was badly damaged by attempting attempt-ing t pass the derailed wreck In view of the frequent collisions and narrow escapes it might not be a bad thing to require all street cars to come to a full stop before reaching a junction with another line |