| Show Supt R E Hunt Thinks They Were Cause of Last Nights Car Wreck STATEMENT OF OFFICIALS Passengers on North Salt Lake Car Ton Hurt Sup It 10 Hunt Utah Light ami company It appears gravel had been collecting on tho track and the thrown by an am light cloo to tho of accident kept hi from tills 1 tun of the gravel was by Ua and forth the tracks rodi rodia a far mi and then the trucks climbed ilic Gen It may been that not how nn accident they put rocks gravel along the Inside s of rail 1 prefer to think thu dirt collected then c cof of however Xen laid MI recently There is no blame on this All p r Injured in last nights street car accident are getting along although many arc in bed today they will bo out and around as usual within a reasonable stretch of time The C W Cannon motorman 23 First West street right ankle and hack sprained taken to L D S hos hospital pital later sent home Mrs J W Pike Second North arid Third West streets blight contusions and suffering from shock Sent home Mrs Jl J Grow North Salt Lake Lakehead head severely cut sent home Her In Infant fant child escaped without so much as asa a Mary Superior Addition North Salt Lake scalp wound sent home west Second North street contusion of scalp and wound in back sent homo Edward Foster North Salt Lake contusion of chest sent home Ci P Hansen conductor east Fourth South street contusion of right Ic sent home homeI I Clara and streets abrasion home May Welsh west Fifth North suffered from shock and bruised about body home Peter A Anderson SOT Minnesota Salt Lake contusion o lower limbs went homo and fortunate features nothing has ever happened in loca streetcar history 0 th title miracle The car swung around at angles with the tracks fell on Its side spanning vas splintered and twisted Into a mas one was Injured seri seriously The accident occurred on North line the exact scene ot tho trouble was tho Intersection of North Temple and Second West streets The cause off tho car jumping the tracks was not known definitely until a careful investigation had been completed No olio could a rea the remarkable escape of pas and crew from death or fatal Injuries however The car was going west when lb ley he rails Besides tho motorman and conductor here were 23 passengers aboard the conductor had Just ringing up K cash and 10 ticket fares It was 6 and dark This added to the horror of tho affair splintering ot wood grinding of steel tinkling of smashed glass a no cries of as the car pitched one way and then an brought residents ot tho neigh neighborhood to doors They saw a scene that made them weak with fright Tho car had careened from side to side as tho trucks left the rails arid finally plow plowing ing into mud and dirt had stopped suddenly The speed with which it had been going ami the suddenness with which the flight was stopped threw tho rear end In tho air and around square with the track Then the whole thing settled on Its side to tho accompaniment oC a hundred sounds of destruction and fright All the lower half of the car was smash smashed ed In bj force of tho fall trucks fenders und vestibules were torn from tho car and every portion was wrenched from its holdings and ground Into so much kindling anil junk For a few brief seconds there seemed tp be no under the wreck Conductor Hanson was among the of the victims to recover his senses and strength Pulling a pinned lej loose he bagan tearing at the debris to let those Inside the car who might be alive get out From beneath the shattered car came the cries of a baby who mado Itself heard above tho cries and shouts of the grown folks This was Mis Crows child The mother had protected It from injury by exposing herself From n boarding house came a half dozen men and several passing the spot at the time rushed to the rescue arid a car door was wrenched open A rush for the open followed wherein men pushed women aside In haste As fast as the victims came put they were assisted to neighboring Hospital ambulances the patrol carriages and delivery wagons were soon appearing and tak taking ing the Injured homo and the more badly hurt to tho hospital A wrecking and outfit was on the ground and worked all night to got debris removed and the track cleared |
