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Show ! EIGHT BADLY HURT IN ELEVATED ACGiDEHT Car Running al Hiii Speed Jumps Track and. Plunges fo flie Ground. CHICAGO. April 7. Eight persons wero serionsl" injured and nearly a score of others wero hurt today When tho motor cur of the southbound train on the Bouthsido elevated road .jumped tho track a fow feet north of tho Indiana In-diana avenue station and crashed to the ground. Tho front of the car foil into the rear yard of a rcsidenco at 4233 Prairie nvcnuo, but the end remained propped up against tho structure. Tho car was boing usod as a smoker. Tho motormnn of the car, George Stang, was cut and bruised about the head and bod-, and his sknll fractured. Ho was also internally in.iurod.' He was taken to tho Wcsloy hospital, where it was said hp might dio. Others Seriously Hurt. Tosoph Darmody, Marion, Ohio, internally in-ternally injured, head out and log broken; brok-en; ma die. E. O. Smith, gniard of motor car, skull fracturod; may die. Thomas jM.'Mosser, skull fractured; mav dio. Barney Tlonian, internal injuries. James O'Hare. leg broken, internal injuries; may dio. E. V, Quinn, leg broken, internal injuries; in-juries; may die. The train was moving rapidly when tho front trucks of the motor car jump-od jump-od the track. Tho car bumped along tho rails for a short distance and then plunged off the elevated structure. The second car crashed into tho rear of the motor car and carried it along the tracks for several feet. Tho front trucks of tho second car also loft the track. The passengers in tho front car, about fift3"in number, were thrown, in a heap to tho .floor and somo of them wore dnshed against tho windows, cutting-themselves cutting-themselves badlv. Panic-stricken Passengers. A panic followed in tho four rear cars and a number of men raised windows win-dows and leaped out onto tho elevated structure, where they were in imminent danger from tho third rail. Tho attendants at-tendants of tho Tear cars, howover, managed to get them back into the train before anybody was injured. Ambulances Am-bulances and patrol wagons wero hurried hur-ried to the scene from nearly all the police stations on tho south side of the city. Lieutenant Cronin and ten officers offi-cers from tho lftieth street station vi ore the first to arrive. They found tho passengers of tho motor car penned in, and struggling to mako their escape. "When additional help arrived the imprisoned im-prisoned passengers were draggod through the shattered windows and carried car-ried into nearby residences, while tho more seriously injurod were hurried to various hospitals. C. V. Weston, gonoral manager of the company, said that tho accident was caused by tho motor casing of tho front car dropping to the track and raising tho trucks above the structure. |