Show flfCTRlG CARS flfSCOrfO ERI3HTFUL ACCIDENT IN DETROIT DE-TROIT SUBURBS miree Men KilledInstantly a Score Injured SeriouslyCars Driven Half Through Each Other Detroit Mich Dec ITwo suburban cars carrying some 20 passengers and both running at a speed of 25 miles an hour collided on the Detroit Oakland electric railroad at 1 oclock this afternoon after-noon The result was that three men were instantly killed and a score of persons per-sons injured several of them seriously A dozen others were more or less cut by flying glass The exact causeof the accident is as yet in doubt According to the schedule sched-ule a car leaves each end Detroit and Pontiac every hour and there are three sidings along the road Today I the cars were behind time The one bound southward for Detroit had passed an outbound car at the switch two miles from Pontiac the crew apparently ap-parently being ignorant of the fact that another ot bound car was approaching ap-proaching them less than two miles distant dis-tant The weather was foggy and the i rails slippery from sleet The collision came near a gravel pit about midway between Pontiac and Birmingham at the foot of two steep I grades down which the fated cars ran I at full speed The impact was terrific The cars were driven half through each I other and crushed to pieces Superintendent Superin-tendent Savage was in the motormans I vestibule operating the outbound car I Both his legs were cut off and his dead body was frightfully mangled Motorman i Motor-man McHugh who stood behind Savage Sav-age narrowly escaped a similar fate r John Kelly was evidently the only passenger pas-senger who saw the northbound car approaching i ap-proaching He rushed for the vestibule I door and he and Motorman Whitehead White-head were struggling together to get out of the door when the crash came Both were killed Kellys head and shoulders were jammed out of the vestibule ves-tibule window and his neck was broken Whiteheads head was cut open and his chest crushed Had it not been for the stout construction con-struction of the cars both of which were new it is doubtful whether any of their occupants would have escaped alive As it was nearly all of the 14 passengers in the southbound car suffered suf-fered some injury Some of the injured were taken to farm houses and others brought to the city hospitals |