Show i CARS SLIDE ON WET RAILS 20 PERSONS HURT CHICAGO Oct 21 More More oro than twenty persons were injured in a street streetcar car collision here bere last night The crash was duo to wet rails A Madison j street streetcar streetcar car CRr ran into a n Western avenue car which was ws crossing cro sin over Madison street trot The fhe efforts of the motormen to stop the cars I were wera vain rain because of the cars sliding diding along the thEl tracks track Both cars were de I railed Many escaped injury by jump jump- ing i When hen the cars met all the lights were extin extinguished and the Western avenue train was carried along alon toward the tho curbing Panic seized lile the he passengers and the tho screams of women and children chil chil- I dren aroused dren aroused residents in the vicinity I R bert Rc ert H. H Smith the most host dangerously danger injured was cau caught ht b between tween the two cars nd eo so severely crushed that it is IB believed he ho will die die- |