| Show PLEASURE SEEKERS KILLED IN WRECK ELECTRIC CAR RUNNING FORTY MILES AN HOUR CRASHES RASHES INTO CAR STANDING STILL Fourteen Killed and at Least In In Injured as as' as Result of Some Ones One's Blunder While Death List May be Increased Los Angeles A A re rear end rend collision between tw two ele electric trains packed with pleasure seekers returning from Venice arid and O Ocean ean Park brought death to r fourteen urte n persons Sunday night and injured at least acme seme of whom may die The wre wreck k occurred on the Venice Short Line just opposite the power powerhouse powerhouse powerhouse house just at the he e end d of Sixteenth street the extreme western estern limits of Los Angeles A three-car three train packed from doot doo to td door with returning bea beach h visitors crashed into a standing three car train while running at a high rate of at speed There were no lights in thelast the thelast thelast last coach of ot the the standing train and the motorman of the speeding tr train in had only the warning of a few seconds that elapsed in rounding the curve until his headlight flashed on the reaf rea rear of f the coach ahead Men women and children who had haCI been standing in the aisles aisles' were Jammed together in both cars which bore the brunt of the collision Those sittIng in n the seats were wedged together together together to to- gether in a compact mass when the force of the collision collison jammed the seats together ilke the folding of a concertina Darkness added to the horror of the situation and delayed the work worl of rescue in which those slightly hurt or unscathed lent assistance Whether or oJ not the conductor of the stalled train had sent a man back on the curve to flag the approaching ap ap- ap- ap proa hing train could could not be learned |
