Show TERRIBLE ACCIDENT cllveland 0 NOT 16 A heavy electric motor oar car containing bet between Willen twenty and thirty passengers went through the draw of toe the central viaduct at this eveni nir and dropped foot feet to we the river below it to a borror the like of which never occurred here before first reports from the scene of the disaster seem to place the me blame on the conductor they were to the e leot feet tuat the ill fated motor car eon laining tie tween twenty and thirty people approached the draw just juet as aa a vessel was wa bearing it its and the bridge fl had bad the big iron gates gatea mud and were preparing to owing the draw As A is the rule the car stopped and the coD conductor ductor went for ward to release the switch in ID ones the way sy was clear he must have been blinded by the elec arc for SO an tye eye witness ue clarea that although the rates nates were caused and ane draw was in motion the con clon ductor raised the switch handle the motorman aaa applied the current and the oar car shot dorward and struck the gates gatea with a crash there was waa only a moments ments mentis Is pause and then the heavy oar car ground its way through the wre wree okane kaite anil and plunged over the brink into the black abyss amid the acreage and frantic struggles of the passengers who at the first intimation of danger rushed for the rear door the car earu ck the water with a great splash and then there was waa silence soon boon men began to rush about shout about ing wildly aud the police patrol wagons and ambulances were flying to the pot in response to telephone calls in an incredibly short space apace of time the he work of rosette had begun the occupants occupant a of the car with the exception of the low few who bad main managed aged to i lump ump as it toppled over went iown to certain deahn the car disappeared disappear edi from might eight an aa soon as 88 it struck the be water within five minutes after the accident the bursee sursee aur ace ot of the river revealed oi 01 the terrible tragedy that thai had bad just been enacted the water batera had eloped over the oar car and its and too lue work ut of rescuing rea cuini the bodies bodied in the uncertain light was waa slow indeed at 9 hf bf h b f a bodies that had evi evidently dewly flirted out of the car and fiam to the surface were frum the tb river and carried to the various morgues ide newa of the terrible wel accident weldene dent spread like wildfire through the oily city sud bud a large crosti poon collected on the bridge and along the banike of the river they could do g however but bul watch i the he slow elow work of grappling for the bod bodice lam the captain of the bridge guards guarda says say 1 I saw bis car coming rapidly toward the draw just as an I 1 had given the theaiR signal oal to owing it to admit of the abe passage of a vessel I 1 waved my hands and hallooed hallowed hallo oed to the motorman mo lorman to stop but apparently be paid no attention to tome me the bar ar came cacao on just before it went over the be brink the motorman jumped and ran a away iray thin statement dees not agree with those of eyewitness eye witness witnesses who deollie that the conductor went ahead to open the switch which is about feet feel from the be draw and motioned fur for the ear car to come ahead certain it is in that the conductor mounted the oar again and went down with the pass passenger to death and it will devir never bu be possible poe sible to tell exactly what he be did before vile the railway i colais say may they are unable to give the names of the conductor and motorman who were in charge of the car tots toe police are looking for the motorman CLEVELAND nov 17 the people of this city stood appalled today when bey abey realized the full horror of et the abe terrible accident which occurred last evening on the big ce central Q 1 ral r viaduct it was the worst accident I that ever happened in this thia city and the story of how the motor oar car loaded with meo men women and children plunged through the drawbridge draw bridge atral glit down a bun drel diel feet into the she river was toli over and over again thousands of people remained by the river band all last night and thousands thoua ands more were there early eaily this morning great crowds are still standing on the bridge above abe wrecked car and about the abe place where the wreck la in buried in ia the river eagerly discussing every detail ot of abe accident the first fint reports of the disaster have been verified la in every particular with the possible exception of the number cumber of victims which to somewhat smaller mailer than at first supposed suppo eed the work ut rescuing the boales bodles bod lea of the victims has gone on steadily since 9 last evening and it la is now believed nothing more can be done until the last bit ul of wreckage of the oar car has haa been removed tram irom the river the scones about the river last night while the work of rescue was being prosecuted were pathetic in the extreme the thousands thou sanda of people who bad baa assembled waited with bated breath for toe the discovery ot at bodies it was a sad aad crowd and out of respect lor for the unfortunate dead but very little noise was made occasionally the wild scream of some borne frantic woman who believed some one door dear to her was among the unfortunate ones would echo over the flats fiats only to be taken up at a distance diet anoe by some other women woman whose heart was breaking over her bar lose it was with great difficulty that a body when recovered was taken to one no of the dead wagons pour four bodies were found almost at the same time aney were placed on stretches and the solemn march to the ambulance start ed As the bodies were leoid from the tire lire boats to the willing hands bands bore an tale was made and the he bodies passed along every fw few feet some woman would step out from the crowd peer into the face ace of the body as it passed and with it is ie not him thank god 11 1 1 would retire and so the sad aad procession moved oi od As the body of a young boy was taken from the fire boat an a a old lady neatly nearly fell into the river in her bar aexie ty to see the face of the dead boy she would not be put pat back she threw herself onto the body looked into the face ao falling failing upon her knees she raised her voice to heaven and prayed as only a mother could auder the circumstances cum stances pressing close around her ber were anywhere from 1000 to people enose who saw ber bar raised their hats hate and not a few joined to in her ber prayer at another spot two men man were trying to hold an almost distracted woman rabe believed her bet bueland was on the ill fated oar car and was almost insane insa a with grief all the time the search was going on oars cars kept running over the vla viaduct dubs buth rails irum irom the west to the eat east of the bridge were blockaded with people in the cloter of the bridge meo women and children went this bia and that way so screaming reaming jostling each other women tearing their lb it hair and calling on god to save thir their dear ones ogles women fainted and wore trampled on by the ma mad d rushing nod and crowd it Is was impossible to keep up uny boy kind of order and the was finally abandoned CI ohio nov IS 18 the life saving rod and tire fire bouts boats 9 crown crews resumed work eaffy this morning to in ati an endeavor to recover additional bodies of the los victims cf saturday nights street car disaster at the drawbridge control central viaduct via Ducr the budy body of a woman was brought to the muriace and identified as MIN mica martha the alti of mrs john A bauern beitner whee body was recovered oo on saturday night it Is i believed there are one or twos two more bodies still in the river the motorman who jumped from the oar anil and thus saved his life was wai bound over this morning for or two tro weeks without ball A thorough le lc vesti gation will be made |