Show nr TROLLEYS CRASH PASSENGERS Oil DIE Philadelphia Car Runs Awa Away and and Strikes Others on Hill STRING OF FIVE INCLUDED I Brakes Failed to 10 Work is i is Given as Same Old 4 Story Philadelphia May Ia 24 Two Two women and two tto t o. o men met instant death late this evening and Cort forty persons were i injured in a collision between trolleys on Germantown avenue near Chestnut Chest Chest- nut lUt Hill Mill park a pleasure resort close to this city Two men who being unconscious and nd na bearing no o cards with their names ot oi es are arc unidentified un un- un- un identified Ide In the th Germantown hospital hospital hos lios- pital dying Only one one of those killed S. S has lias been l Identified She is Mrs Irs George Dallas Wagner G Co years ol old I of Cornwall l Pa la a Her bod body with those of the tho other woman and the I two men is in the the- morgue at Ger- Ger Probably persons crowded Into Inlo five trolley cars at the park after a a. picnic t today Jda They The were bound for Philadelphia and its suburbs The 3 first car started with men and arid boys bo s 's clinging to the side guards each some oven oen oven riding on the fen fender er The car vent up a lull hill near the park when suddenly at tho the crest of the eminence c the power was shut oft off in some mysterious mys mys- manner and the brakes did not work Tho car gaining gaInin momentum momentum momen momen- tum turn every evor second sped downward and crashed Into a n. crowded car Just behind it fl causing the death of the four Wild l EnSUl In a few tew seconds the two shattered vehicles s had ha raced down lull hill and struck a third car which banged Into a fourth and then a a. fifth was as struck There was wild punic panic among the pasI pas pas- I engers ng-e ng man ninny many of whom hum in the rear trolleys hearing the cries of oC those L who were hurling downward leaped y to the street receiving Injuries which had hod to be treated by lW ambulance sur sur- geons The car which cause caused tho the wreck and amI the one which It Jt struck were vere practically PT demolished h 1 Men Ion and r plic Ja conscious 4 g Ju t was was culled n toc together with nearly all the surgeons tn the Germantown los hos pim pital Many Many- Ian automobiles o collecting ng men and women Who had spent a pleasant da tiny day at the park parle were going up the hill hlll at the tite time an and the motor cars were pressed Into service eer as ambulances om ambulances ambul ambul- ul- ul ances to rush the injured to the hos hog pital t It is known Imo that the two men mei are arc dying but ut the phy physicians arc are not certain certain tam tain that other deaths will result front from the accident 9 C. CALIFORNIA L ACCIDENT Tl 10 1 Y San m lo it S r Orders Order Killing anti anil 1 1 San Ean Francisco Ma JHa May 24 In In a rush of trolley cars at D and amI Sacramento streets today tOdar in wl ch one car was as completely overturned an and wrecked d one man was as killed and el eighteen persons were seriously In In- In tt One of or the injured a nine months old baby may die I In the panic l that accompanied d theLi the Li collision man many were trampled upon i. i men Inch fought with each other r In th the exits and fainting women had to be beI 1 I chopped from flom the wreckage Disobedience of or or orders rs was as the cause of the tho wreck Because of aI a blockade e a motorman ran his ILlS car along Sacramento street an and endeavored endeavored endeavored en en- to take it up UI the steep in incline In- In r cline ellne that lea leads s along ero I IL street to Jackson street The heavy was unable Unable unable un un- car slipped rho The motorman able to check it and it went dashing down the hill lull into a n Devisadero ero street streetcar v car which was Just rounding roun Ing the tho turn I f The Devisadero De ro car cal was n-as hurled turned its ido side from irom tho the track an and on 7 It was crowded with passengers l None was able to jump Henry Baer a traveling was crushed I beneath a stanchion and an died in In- L f. f The other injured passengers were taken to a nearby hospital I HarrIman tho the infant child t 1 of Mr 11 and Mrs W. W J. J harriman wasI was thrown through a a. window and suffered suf suf- I L ere a fracture of ot the al skulL ulI |