Show CAR AR CRASHED I INTO ATRAIN Disastrous Crossing Accident AccidentS S at Oakland After the Baseball Game SCORE OF PEOPLE INJURED I TWO OF THEM WILL PROBABLY DIE DI E Oakland Cal Ca Aug 12 The most m st dis disastrous disastrous disastrous street car accident in Oakland in h years took place this afternoon when a Telegraph avenue car packed with pleasure crowds from Berkeley and Idora park crashed into the Key route lee elee electric leet t tile trie train trainS bound from to the ferry mole at the Fortieth street cross crossing crossIng crossing ing A score of persons were badly in injured injured at least two of whom are so badly 1 hurt that death may result 1 The injured were nearly all riding In Inthe inthe f the street car Those on the Key route train tr in were but slightly hurt On the th street car were most of the members ot o othe the San Francisco and Los Angeles ball teams who had just finished a game at atthe atthe atthe the park Some pf of the Injured James St Johns Oakland pinned un under under under der car left arm broken ribs broken ankle crushed L Bloom Oakland ribs fractured left side Internal injuries F E Dillon Los Angeles baseball team deep gash over eye contusions on body George Hodson baseball umpire thrown twenty feet through car window scalp wounds G L Wheeler San Francisco baseball team contusions on body bOd Albert Sauberg Alameda ribs broken Mrs Margaret Welch Velch Oakland ear torn I off of face gashed Edith Parker Oakland arm torn 4 tI Mrs Henry He n ry ismaIl D Oakland arm broken k T C Cheney v Point Richmond nose torn off V William Pittman motorman of wrecked street car deep scalp wounds leg crushed and a number of minor hurts Mrs Irs Frank Burton severely cut about head headD D V Olsen scalp wounds p Mrs R A Rose Alameda left arm in injured injured injured iV J t tUnable Unable to Stop Car CarA A defective defective airbrake on the street car caris caris caris is said to have been the cause of the ac accident accIdent accident The flagman at the Key route crossing signalled the street streetcar car to slow up but Motorman Pittman was to stop The front end of the electric car struck str the front car of the Key route train near the forward trucks The wheels of the trucks of both cars fouled and the street car was dragged at right angles from the tha track its entire length before Motorman Broder of the Key route could bring his train to a stop atop Every pane of glass In the street car ear was shattered and the passengers were hurled under und r the seats and through the windows The ing glass cut the passengers Motorman Pittman was pinned under the front of his car ear and Passenger St John was hurled through the street car window un under under under der the wheels of the Key Ke route r ute train where he lay la for half an hour before a detail of the Oakland fire department arrived with lifting cranes Passengers in a Panic For hours after the accident the scene was one of ot Indescribable confusion The O passengers on the Key route train were in a state of panic Some of the tho Injured were carried into the sta station station station tion to a f t grocery store and private houses near by while others lay 1 a on the side sidewalk sidewalk L walk screaming for help waiting the ar arrival arIf arI If I rival rhal of doctors and ambulances to take them to the hospitals The passengers on the street car real realized realized realized the Impending accident but the car was a long closed affair and only eight eighton on the small rear platform were able to jump Among those who escaped serious in injury injury injury jury In this manner were City Council Councilman Councilman Councilman man George Fitzgerald City Clerk Hol 1101 Holland Holland land and the conductor of the wrecked car carThe The first car ca on the Key Ke route train was badly bad 1 wrecked and traffic was w s de delayed delayed laed until late this evening Daughter Was Injured Miss Radord Radford a San Francisco society girl daughter of Captain James v was as standing in front of the Telegraph avenue car with her mother Both were hurled under the seat The mother es escaped escaped escaped serious injury Although the members of the San Francisco and Los Angeles baseball teams were on the car Wheeler Dillion and Umpire Hodson were the only ones hurt Hodson was hurled twenty feet through an open window and rolled over t and over in the dirt dazed anti and stunned Jut no bones were broken Dillon was cut ut the left eye by flying glass glassand glassAnd and badly contused about the body Wheeler sustained minor injuries about the hands and arms Surgeons at the re receiving hospital hold out little hope for forthe forthe forthe the recovery of St John who was pinned under the Key route car He Is an Oak Oakland Oakland Oakland land capitalist |