Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-05-07 | Page 1 | 125 Injured in Crash of Cable Cars in Frisco

IN i CRASH Of CADlE CARS IN fRIS O Rope Snaps and Tram Is 13 Hurtled Down Hill at Most Terrific Sp Speed ed TWENTY REPORTED SERIOUSLY HURT Terrific Smash of Collision Colli sion With Second Car CarIs Is Heard for Blocks SAN FRANCISCO May 7 AP Approximately people were injured twenty or 01 more of them F- F A seriously in the running away of a cable car on the California street stroet hill today and its resultant collision collision collision colli colli- sion with another car on the samo same track One was reported dying The Harbor Emergency hospital was crowded with the injured Ira S. S Lillick and Frank Deering two prominent San Francisco attorneys attorneys attorneys at at- were among those seriously serious serious serious- ly injured SAN SA FRANCISCO FRACISCO May lay 7 United Unit Unit- ed Press Press Between Between thirty and for for- t persons ty were Injured several fatally fatally fa- fa t. t tally when two cable cars heavily loaded with office employee on their way to work crashed today at the tho bottom of ot the steep California street hill bill 0 Every ery available ambulance was wag rushed to the scene where the Injured in injured injured In- In were ere strewn over o the street and arid sidewalk some unconscious some dying others attempting to era crawl wI to the shelter of ot doorways Along the length of at an entire block hospital and ambulance ambulance lance drivers aided by policemen and witnesses gathered up the Injured in injured In- In passengers RUSHED TO HOSPITALS They were rushed to various arlous hospitals hos hos hos- The confusion barred first attempts to learn the names of pf those thos injured and wh whether thet atly had 5 died The crash took pl place ce at California and Montgomery streets An eastbound eastbound eastbound east- east bound California California- street t cable car at the top of ot the California str street t. t hill was struck by a truck loaded with bricks The impact caused the cable to give way The car loaded to overflowing overflowing overflowing over- over m flowing with passengers hurtled down the steep Incline It passed the first intersection intersectIon- Grant avenue without mishap 7 HEARD FOR BLOCKS Continuing its Us mad descent gath gathering gathering gath gath- erh ering speed to sixty miles an ho hour r. r It went Into on head-on collision at at L California and Montgomery streets streets' with the second car which had ad been been- proceeding one block ahead of or It The crash was heard for blocks The second car to totally lI wrecked s was carried a block Curtner down aown The passengers were thrown out bodily Witnesses said they were dj strewn alon along the entire entire block be between between between be be- tween Montgomery o and r streets i