Show DASIIEOTOTHEIR DEATH 1 1 Frightful l Accident Occurs on Trolley Line Near Tacoma in Which Over Thirty Persons are Killed Sixty Other Persons are More or Less InjuredCar Jumps the Track Coming Down an Incline and Falls Over an Embankment I One Hundred Feet Crushing and Mangling the Occupants I i A any Injured Will Die 1 I Tacoma July 4 Nearly 100 people passengers on a car bound for this city were plunged down a gulch at Twentysixth and C streets shortly after af-ter S oclock this morning Those who were standing the platforms dropped off only to be crushed and wounded by the heavy body of the coach while others Inside wen killed and maimed before they knew what had happened The car jumped the track and was smashed to kindling wood In the bottom bot-tom of the chasm over 100 feet below The dead will number nearly threescore three-score for there are many ot the injured in-jured who will never recover and who are expected to die at any moment I and there are at least sixty of the passengers pas-sengers of the car now In the various hospitals and under the care of t ell own physicians DEAD Miss JLois Drake employee of tale phonccompany lives at South Tacoma Annie Glass South Tacoma I Leltie Suiter outh Tacoma Dorley Dinner Tjakeview I Louis DInger JLakevIew Edward Bray South Tacoma Carl Moser South Tacoma Albert Moser South Tacoma I r Richard Lee South Tacoma I airs Grossman McNeils island G Berioll Hlllhurst l Otis Larson Parkland Ole Ranseen Lake Park I James Benston Hlllhurst Charles Davis I William VllHams South Tacoma John PauL South Tacoma William Niesen Yllam Lake Park Robert Slcele South Tacoma I SeJdebejcg South Tacoma Rev Herbert Gregory Lake Park Griffith VanderslAilden Reservation lL L Healy Lake Park Rescnrton G McMulIcn South Tacoma John J Shauger Parkland I Unknown man W H Davis Lakevlew f Joseph McCann Ballard Roy ingerman South Tacoma Gordon Newton South Tacoma Richard Sanburn South Tacoma f Willie Hastings 1002 Tacoma avenue rs George Elliott 1317 South I street Mrs J J Shauger Parkland J D Calhoun conductor Tacoma Unknown woman SIXTYFIVE INJURED Besides these there are about sixty five more or less seriously Injured The accidentwasone of the most ap t palling that has ever occurred in this t clty and Cit camo ata time when It was least cxp ctcd Here were happy people residents of the nearby towns Edison Likevicw Parkland Lake Park and other places coming to Tacoma Ta-coma full 0fT joy and patriotism to spend the Fourth of < July DEATH CLAIMED THEM Their journey was nearly tan end vhen death Interfered and claimed them as his own In n most frightful manner He gave no quarters Neither man woman nor child was spared Crushed maimed and mangled the un fortunates were dragged from beneath the wreck of the car and tender hands ministered to thorn until conveyances I could be had to carry them to hospitals and to the homes of their friends MUTILATED HUMANITY 1 The dead were laid on the grass but there were few in the crowds of spectators spec-tators and rescuers who gathered the scene at that time who knew who were deadand living Such a spectacle of battered mutilated humanity has scarcely ever been seen A former member of the First Washington volunteers I vol-unteers who has played t part on many battlefields in the Philippines said he fore had never witnessed such a sight be SCENE A HORRIBLE ONE I was a spectacle of carnage such asS as-S scarcely ever observed in war for car wheels and trucks and heavy Um bers make more horrible wounds than bullet and ahell And the agonizing cries of Ihe wounded and the dying as they lay on the sides of the gulch and on the bottom or were laid down under heavy timbers that had once formed part of the wrecked car could he heard for blocks RESCUING THE WOUNDED Ther was help at hand a few moments mo-ments after the accident occurred Citi zens policemen firemen guardsmen S exvolunteers and women and children aided The sides of the gulch are Bleep in fad so steep that a goat would scarcely venture to descend them but bJt tho cries of the wounded made men forget themselves and they plunged downward wIthout regard to their own safety Ropes were quickly procured and the victims of the wreck were drawn carefully to thc top of the gulch and their wounds attended to as fast as It was possible for the physicians to 5 work Every doctor in the cIty was called on for his services IOSPITALS FILLED Tim Fnnnv Paddock St ToK nhc hospitals were soon crowded I C with patients pa-tients All sorts of conveyances were pressed into service but there was another an-other vehicle that was In use too I was the wagon of tho dead I came to take away the last evIdence of the S destruction caused by the wreck I mado journey alter journey and It was maQ always full Boys and girls and men and womon were Us freight The morgues of the various undertaking I rooms were scarcely large enough to h61d all I BESIEGED lIE MORGUES And then when the dead had been S sorted rom the living and the last pnc had beep removed from the wreck cx S cited men and women and children besieged p be-sieged thc morgues searching for missing miss-ing friends THOUSANDS VISIT BRIDGE Thousands of people visited the I bridge where the accident occurred during S dur-ing the day They watched the men at I work clearing away the dcbrlu of the car and looked curiously at the red stains on tho grass andat the tailored S pieces bushes of clothing that hung from tho LITTLE ONES ESCAPE They glanced too at two women who wandered about all day one with a babe In her arms and the other leading n little boy by the hand The charges of theso women wero foundlings of the wr ck Nobody had roundInis claim them Perhaps their iwronis were dead But they had found friends and If nobody asks for them their foHler mothers will probably bee hat they do not want Thqro is I a little girl of i r and a girl babe at the Fanny Paddock i hospital They seem to be forgotten but it is probable that some relative will look l after them CAR VAS CROWDED Tho car was No 116 of the United Traction companys cars and was on Trrcton the Edison line It loft Edison l about S oclock in charge of F L Boehn motorman I mo-torman and J D Calhoun conductor The car which Is one of the big boxlike I I box-like affairs was crowded to the doors and every Inch of space on thc pint forms was taken Men hung onto the I railings WHERE WRECK OCCURRED I The car ran merrily along the passengers pas-sengers dialling1 with each other until I reached thc apex of tIme hill just beyond I be-yond Tacoma avenue From this point the stories differ One is that the motorman mo-torman after starling down the hill turned on his current Instead of shutting shut-ting it off and when the car had gained such a momentum as to threaten to get away from him he turned off the current but it was then too late for the car was going at lightning speed and there was no way to bring it I to a standstill for tho incline is steep Passengers on the front platform who saw the sharp curve on the bridge as it leiivcs Do Lin street endeavored to jump Several of them succeeded and reached the ground 1 safely but others were as badly injured as they might have been had they remained in time car and gone lo the bottom of the chasm sIxty feet below FELL SIXTY FEET The gulch Is over 120 feet deep but where the car first struck the steep bank was about fifty or sixty feet down tile Hide of the gulch Here the carS car-S st crashed into the bank and smashed along down the side of the gulch grinding the victims under Its wreck |