Show TROLLY PLUNGES LI INTO DEEP EE WATER FOUR PERSONS MEET DEATH IN TACOMA WHEN CAR GETS DEVOND BEYOND DE BE YOND POND CO CONTROL Motorman Motormen Shouts Shout Warning To P. P Passengers Passengers Pass Pass- engers enger and end Four Manage To Save Lives When Car Cr Falls Fall To Piece Wash A Wash A plunge e of or a street car here eighty feet into the waters of the municipal waterway at Eleventh street and the consequent breaking up of or the street car resulted in the death of or four persons and the Injury of four foul others The car beyond beyond be be- yond the control of or Its operator shot through the the- open draw bridge and broke as it struck the water It Is Is' believed that the breaking up of the car cal prevented even greater loss 1088 of II v. v v One of or the survivors asserts that at least a dozen persons were on the trolley at the tho time This Is denied dented however by the tho operator of the car who declares that only eight passengers passengers gers were aboard The car was outbound outbound out out- bound for the tidewater district Failure of or the brakes on the street streetcar car Is blamed by Clyde Staley operator operator opera opera- tor for the accident Staley declared that he applied the theair air brakes In the usual manner as the car came onto the bridge and he noticed the warning warning warn warn- ing lights on the tho lowered gates At their failure to respond he used the hand brake and then released sand and ana threw his motor Into reverse he asserted The street car then struck an automobile standing before the first gate and knocked the machine through the and oft off to one side against a second inside gate Seeing that his car was beyond control control con con- and an accident unavoidable Staley Staley Sta Sta- ley threw throw open oven the doors and shouting a warning to his passengers leaped out lie He landed unhurt on the deck of the bridge Hurd tho the only one of or the passengers gers gore who had an opportunity to heed the warning also leaped out but not until the street car car had topples from the tho bridge lie He plunged through the theair theair air all eighty feet to the waters of or the bay The street stroet car which was one of those built during the tho war to carry shipyard workers broke Into several pieces as It tell fell witnesses say This fact accounted for the rescue of f four who survived as they were wele found clinging to bits of the roof and walls floating on the BUI surface face of the bay A lifeboat from the steamer Virginia Virgin Virgin- la ia No 5 tied up to a dock beneath the bridge was put putout out in two minutes after the crash and picked up most of the victims A launch and tugboat also aided In the rescue work Apparatus from headquarters company com pany parry of tho the fire tire department was also called to the scene |