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Show CROWD OF 100 STRUCK BY CAR DETROIT, Dee. tA? An automobile auto-mobile ploughed through a crowd of nearly 100 persons waiting for a street car last night, killing one and Injuring at least 16. ' .William Markleln, 90, an automobile auto-mobile factory foreman, the driver, was arrested and Chief of Police Carl A. Brooks of suburban Dear- , born, where tha accident occurred, said ha would seek a warrant for him today charging negligent homl-cide. homl-cide. A physician and two policemen , eaid-Marklein had been drinking The crowd In the street car waiting wait-ing sona waa made up mainly of churchgoers, who had Just coma from a near-by tabernacle. r . Mrs. Theresa Schnyer, 48, was killed. Every emergency conveyance In Dearborn waa pressed into service as panic prevailed at the scene of the accident Hysterical shrieks from witnesses mingled with the moans of the Injured piled up along the street car track and around and under the battered automobile , which atoped among them. . Mrs. Agnes Ferry, 60, one of the Injured, said: 'The car struck me and knocked my pumps and galoshes off. When It waa all over I found myself right under the car between the front and back, wheels.'!- . Mrs. Eleanor Newell. M, another victim, aaid some of the uninjured or less severely hurt churchgoers , knelt in the snow and prayed aloud over the unconscious ones. Markleln waa quoted by police: "Something happened to ma, I could not see. I jumped out of. my car as soon as I hit the people I could have kept on going, but I'm hot that kind of a man." |