Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1908-09-18 | Page 3 | Elevated Trains Collide

ELEVATED TRAINS COLLIDE motorman killed and twenty five p injured now new york goorge georgo koellner a mo lorman anti and about flee pas agers ng ers N ere more or less sei seriously bously in aured in a real end collision of two cleva ted railroad raili oad on oil avenue Broo brooklyn libil on rilday the two trains nere bound out from the ro oldyn bildne in the direction of fast east new aock ork one of the trains fc lopped some distance from a station Ical I 1 cause lse of a fire and the second ti tiala aln w which litch came along at hloch aped con could id not bo be stopped in time to I 1 prevent a coll collision faion it crashed into the standing train alth terrific foice pasq passengers engers in both trains were ere thrown flom aiom their beat and many vote badly burned instantly there v as a scene of panic among tb the e fright ened cried occupants of the cars and it was war not until after ameral fire corn com panics had reached the scene in response to an aburn that older was rt stored restored by bv the aid ot of ladders the carried many pasq passengers engers to the streets