Show fORTY PERSONS CRIPPLED AND MAIMED IN 1 A. A CAR COLLISION 1 Monster Suburban Coaches Running at t forty fortl Miles hues an n Hour Crash rash Headon Head Head- on oil Throwing P into Info i Life De tb le CHICAGO July Nearly 21 Nearly Nearly forty persons were in- in p f some of them probably fatally and eleven so seri- seri that they had to be taken to hospitals in a headon 1 collision today between two Aurora Elgin Chicago electric elec- elec trie railroad cars at Lovedale station four miles north of Aurora The disaster occurred reel when the coaches were vere each running at tf a speed est estimated at forty miles an hour The crash when hen they came caine t together was terrific Both cars were vere telescoped more than half their length the wood woodill ill xin them smashed to splinters iron twisted and gnarled out of all semblance to its original shape and scats seats thrown yards away I Passengers among l whom were cre nearly fifty ft women were thrown through wIndows win win- dows and tossed to tho the side of the tracks several severa feet away Suet Just after the tho wreck 4 occurred the cars caught fire firo from the trolley wire and began to but the uninjured passengers soon put putout putout out the blaze with water from a a. near by rivulet ulet and dragged the injured into places of safet safety f I The most seriously injured were taken to Aurora and ana nearby houses in in automobiles automobiles auto auto- I mobiles and farmers' farmers wagons Lovedale where the wreck occurred i II on the bank of tho the Spring Sprin creek Theline Tho The Tholine Tholine line at that point is ia n n. single track and although it is a part of tho third rail system trone trolley power was used on it At t Lovedale tho the station is a switch jj Disregarded Orders J Here a B southbound car from Elgin Eln in iu char charge e of f Motorman S. S Bell was supposed sup sup- r posed to stop shortly before S 8 a. a m. m and wait until a northbound und car from Aurora Auro- Auro I Lra ra passed Instead of stopping biscar bis his t ear car which carried from eighty to one onehundred one hundred passengers Motorman Bell BellI l I went ahead He started down a a. 10 per t grade rade and around a curve curTe at the i regulation 1 H n speed d of forty miles an hour I It If t f thinking n he says that he had a clear track 1 Just 3 aa an he be near neared d the b bottom of the the trade and lf around tho curve the northbound coach on the way from Au Au- uro to El Elgin n came caine into sight It also alsoc c carried from eigl eighty ty to toone one hundred passengers er and was running nearly neady as aa rapidly as the car approaching it it Cars Telescoped Many were thrown from the windows I and the remainder were jammed in a amass amass amass mass at the rear ends of the cars The Tho ears ear were telescoped more mora than half of I their length but the thC passengers ers were almost al a- a most all in m the rear none nono being caught in In the tho telescoped portion |