Show CAR PlUNGES ACROSS CANAL T TI I AND FLOPS OVER IN RUINS I i Nine Persons Injured d in a Spectacular Trolley rolley T Wreck at North Temple emple I and Sec Second j t tI I ond West Streets I I I Big Car Cr Going f at High Speed Jumps Rails and Fronti d dj j Plunges Pl Ove Over r Big Ditch t Yi 5 t Z LIST OF INJURED E ECharles Charles W Y 5 t tC Gannon motorman sprained ankle ankie ank E C P Hanson conductor right leg k injured Edward Edwa r d E Foster Foiter passenger pa enger Norh Salt alt Luke Lake badly ball I bruised and ri b i broken I I Rachel Rudy Pudy West Vest Second S street str t l back ack strained I I Mary Welsh West Fifth North street bruised on body bod Mrs fn J J W Pike Second North and Third West Vest streets street t bruised o oW on body W We Clarke larke and Mitchell streets left leg wrenched Mrs t Salt Lake J ake cut on head Mr s Mark tark Grow Gro row l West t Third North street cut on forehead b by r broken glass gLiss With ar it crash and a Ii roar hat re rf resounded sounded throughout ut the neighborhood one oneo of the big I ig cars of the Utah Light Railway company bowling along at the terrific clip of b thirty and mlles miles an hour jumped the rails at the junction of or North Temple and Second West streets at last night bumped along over OEr the ground for a distance of nearly nearl twenty yards and then turned complete completely ly I over Nine persons were hurt a dozen more scratched and bruised ed and the carre ear car re reduced reduced ao a mass of debris short hort of a miracle prevented several fa fatalities a The big car wound up Its wild dash In a curious position diagonally across the rails mils and spanning a canal twelve feet wide which runs along North orth Temple street beside the car rails It turned completely over on its side and presented an sight a n amass amass mass of oC twisted iron bon and splintered wood Twentythree Tent passengers engers were in the car when It was Jerked from the rails The The car v s Xo No and was as In charge of C Motorman C W IV Gannon ot of 23 34 t First V and Conductor C Co P Fourth avenue It was a Sair Lake west Oton on West Temple I The Tile big bg ditch which conveys K the over overflow overflow flow of water from City tU Cree canyon I runs alongside the street car track tracks on I North Temple street It is about abo t twelve I feet wide and five fie feet deep and about I one foot of water flows through it at I this season of ot the year The TIme car tell fell I directly over oer the tile big ditch the front fronti j ji i i i i end resting on the top of the bank banki i across from flOm the track and the rear end 1 lying across the rails ralls I A Freak of Fate i It was wall one of o th tile the freaks of ot fate that the car ear jumped across the big space of or twelve feet tj et instead of or plunging down into the he dUel ditch Only j the fortunate fact that the car was aJ traveling trat with enough speed to enable It to Jump across saved raved an appalling catastrophe t I Pedestrians Pf who witnessed the acci accident accident accident dent say that the car was traveling along at terrific speed just before its Iti career was so abruptly terminated terminate Conductor Hansen had just finished d 1 ringing up u his register thirteen cash cah and ten ticket fares tares when the first In Intimation Intimation Intimation of ot the trouble came The car sped forward ronard trembling vie vio 10 with each lurch and sliding se ar r eral people from their seats It veered vee l to the right from the rails raUs plowed plot through mud for tor about twenty yards yard and then lurched and headed over o r the wide ditch One end of the car pra practically hung in the air for an Instant 1 and then the entire structure flopped over per Upturned nearl nearly A over oer the under tinder body bedy the ular War The under side of ot o the car was crushed In windows shattered and frames broken by th the force which It ft jammed Into the earth Both of ot the heavy hea trucks were torn from rom th t tI I body bod the front trucks dropping off the bottom of or the ditch and the rear I Continued on Page 2 1 r R RESULT SUL OF STREET TRET CAR CRASH CRASH ON NORTH TEMPLE L LI J jj is L I I I I I i I I Zi I I I gar S z S i v I 4 It ff rf T S s Newspaper artists ar j s of th c which w ich figured g In Iii the h the Utah Light Railway company wreck at North Temple and nd Second West t ii i CAR PLUNGES ACROSS CANAL AND FLOPS OVER IN RUINS RUIN Continued Contin u d from fro page P 1 one one hanging at the top of the em embankment embankment embankment nearest the rails r Car Is Demolished The car body itself was ruined It was torn apart cracked and splintered fore tore and aft Big iron braces and sup supports supports supports ports were twisted Into an unrecognizable unrecognizable unrecognizable mass as if It they were ribbons Hardly a sQuare foot toot of ot It was left lert Intact Fenders were torn from both ends and both vestibules were torn par partially partially from the car body They were simply reduced to a mass of ot debris Traffic over ov r the North Temple street rails mils was blocked all aU night The wrecking car and crew cre arrived on the scene seene half hal an hour accident a and Rod labored industriously on the wreck They succeeded at a n late hour In pull pulling pullIng pulling ing the trucks out of ot the ditch and righting both sets on the rails but found the overturned car a ponderous proposition Heroic work was done in freeing the passengers pae gers from the wreckage Con Conductor Conductor Conductor ductor Hansen whose right leg was in injured injured inJured was burled buried under five men who were standing In the rear vestibule when the car tipped He freed treed him himself himself self from the squirming bunch yanked open one of ot the car doors and aided the struggling mass of ot humanity in Ing g getting etting out Women wom were brushed aside arid and and trampled upon by men m n In the rush for doors v Two men passengers fell feU tout ut of the car into the bottom of of the tle creek as asIt asIt asit It was poised in the air They The both es escaped escaped escaped uninjured landing in JQ the soft mud and water below lelow One On tiny baby I apparently about seven months months of oage o age I made itself heard above the noise and the din by its Us pathetic cries The of or Its guardian shielded the child from injury though the mother was bruised Assisting the Injured Two soldiers from Fort Wort Douglas and nearby citizens who were attracted by bythe bythe bythe the noise of ot the wreck the screams of ot the suffering humanity the sharp crackling of ot the car as It bounded over the rocks and ties and the climaxing roar when it dashed itself into a heap ot of f wreckage aided Conductor Hansen In untangling several people from the wreckage In which they had become en entangled entangled entangled tangled As fast tast as the people were pulled out or limped out of ot the car they were taken care of ot by willing hands and rushed to nearby residences The Th homes of at W H Blood No North Second West street R H J Dinwoodey No So 59 North Second West street and William Tripp and Joseph Foden were I converted Into temporary hospitals where the injured and frightened peo people people pie were cared for until ambulances and ind carriages could be summoned to convey them to the hospital l or their homes lomes Lieutenant Shannon and Sergeant i Roberts from police headquarters head quarters were i early op on the scene e and assisted in re relieving ieving lieving the Injured and ind In driving back i the mob of oj curious people who had col collected collected Telephone T calls caUs summoned the police patrol the I L D S and andSt St Marks ambulances and these In addi addition addition tion to automobiles and hacks con conveyed ve the injured to their homes One thousand tho ld people were soon on the scene as news eus n of ot the wreck Pread spread I through the city Tales of ot horrible ac accidents accidents accidents I U news and it i seemed as if it each person made the story more gruesome People flocked f there in big numbers up to midnight and when they found that the he accident had not resulted very ver seriously to the passengers they thy gave time tI e to watching wat the wrecking crew and anti tr try tryIng trying f fIng Ing to figure out how the thC passengers I escaped so 50 lightly Conductors Cond ucto Statement nt Conductor C P Pl Hansen ansen despite the pain from his injured right leg was able to give the following Interview I Our car left the Salt Palace at and picked up a fair cargo carbo of people along Main street It was 64 when we were crossing Second West on North Temple and the car commenced to bounce shake and tremble from the rocks on the rails One of them weighed about five pounds as I after afterwards wards Awards found out and that threw us u from irom from the th rails ral s sWe We bumped along about twenty yards and then the car seemed to swing f around as if it was on a pivot phot It was all done in a twinkling g as we e had been humming along at big speed The Jb car i turned half halt a circle and then rolled railed I over making a bridge across the creek cree The fact tact that the gates on the side of the car that landed underneath were i shut was all that prevented everybody I Ion on the front and rear from j 11 being hurled below beIo i iI t I 1 I was w buried burled under five men and an my j I right leg was trapped in the th ruins I I managed to struggle and abd squirm out Inside the car it was a mass of ot inde indescribable I confusion contusIon Everybody was All were trying to get out amid cries of pain and other yells of Df t fright I managed to pull open the thedoor thedoor thedoor door and those who were not hurt piled out The Injured were pulled out of ot the wreckage with the assistance as e of ot cit cU citizens I zens in the vicinity who rushed to my c accident aS by b any ny negligence n but by the herock rocks on the fails faUs Furthermore I feel sure that they were placed there by small boys who have been trying that trick in the past 5 ante Cork Leg co coI V t L t C cr c S I J Pi low and Pinkerton were hurried to the scene of ot the wreck by telephone calls and cared eared for the th Injured Mrs John JohnW JohnW JohnW W Pike who was as taken into the theonie home onie of W VT H Jr Blood a San Pedro conductor received the most severe in injuries injuries juries juiles She was taken away on a stretcher and complained c ln in d of f severe pains in the back baek One of at the Interesting thing In con connection ori o with the injuries of ot Motorman Gannon is that one of his legs is sup supported supported supported ported by a cork limb it having been amputated Just below the knee as the result of ot a railroad ac c Jn which he figured six yeu ago igo In Colorado He was formerly a railroad out of Denver but had been b en working on the tM th street car c r line for tOr the tJ ep past st year Conductor Hansen has had one and a ahaU half haU years experience exp here Officials of tile the Utah Light Railway company who hurried to the wreck stated that a rigid probe wit wil be con conducted conducted conducted ducted Into the circumstances to place the blame If it Is found that boys were responsible every endeavor will willbe willbe willbe be made to run fun them down and bring them before the bar of justice I Claim Agent Reticent Re cent Owing to the reticence on the part of ot the Utah Light Railway company it was impossible Imp ss ble last night to secure an art official statement regarding the acci accident dent and tits its causes cat F P E Hanson claim agent who vho investigated all the incidents of ot the accident and who In Interviewed interviewed both the crew and injured passengers flatly natly refused fused r to make any statement on behalf of ot the company or orto orto orto to give out any information regarding the wreck From an authoritative source how however however however ever the intimation was given that the accident was due to an road roadway roadway roadway way or track and the excessive rate of ot speed of ot the car at the time of at the ac ao accident accident It is said that although the rails on North Temple where the wreck oc occurred occurred cursed have only been laid some six or eight weeks and are of at the standard material yet y t the inner sides of the rails have been permitted to clog with dirt and gravel Examination Examination Examination nation immediately after the wreck re revealed revealed revealed condition the accumulation of ot clogging dirt and gravel In some i places rising almost to the level leel of ot the rails top This same examination also revealed the fact that owing to this condition one set of ot the wheels had been thrown Off ofT the rail while the other remained on and the theory is advanced that owing to the hardness and smoothness of the street the motorman did not realize the theat car cay at was tr the track until after atter trav tray traveling ling eling a hundred feet teet it swerved and plunged Into the ditch It Is asserted by eye witnesses and passengers that the car was running on an down grade at an excessive rate Tate of ot speed but even with this condition the theory given still holds since had the motorman realized that the car was off orr the track within the hundred feet teet by bythe bythe bythe the use of ot the powerful air brakes he could have checked the car down be before before before fore It swerved |