Show STREET CAR GAR STRIKES I GOING AUTOMOBILE AUTOMO lLE I Three Men and Child Narrowly Escape With Their i Lives the Kind Providence alone ono spared the lives of three men coca ant and a 0 two years old In one of or tho the most dramatic I street car ear collisions the city lias has known The accident occurred at atthe atthe atthe the corner of or Tenth Cast Enst and First t South streets yesterday morning at 11 o'clock when car No o. o University line line crashed Into a 0 Ford runabout oWned oWne and driven en by John A. A I proprietor tor of 01 the Stimpson restaurant t tat at Ogden Beside Mr way was G. G C. C Griffith of or this city a a. brother r law In while whilo in the small rear seat scat was Avas lien Bon II IJ Stimpson with Mr r Grif- Grif fifths fifth's small son in his arms Tho The automobile was going north on Tenth 1 Bast street and had nad reached l the tho h center of or tho the south tra track k when when the eastbound car struck It squarely in the center John A. A Stimpson was thrown Into the air but clear of tho the tracks s. s Mr Griffith was caught In tho wreck o of the automobile and dragged cragged under the tho front platform of or the street car cal Ben Den II H. H Stimpson with the tho child was thrown into the tho air but hel held the child In his arms The two struck the tho front steps of or tho rho car where Stimpson managed managed mann man man- n aged ell to cling shielding young oung so that he was not Injured Motorman Haney finally mann managed e t t. t to t stop the tho car which ground round the Uw automobile auto- auto mobile to pieces John A. A Stimpson received a ba bad baa cut on his head hea an and loft loti leg the cm cut cuton on the head necessitating several se stitches Mr Ir Griffith although badly hadly bruised under the time fender escaped s s. s f rious Injury Ben nen II Stimpson and tho tiro child es escaped escaped es- es capell with a few tew scratches All wore wIre I taken into the tho Holy Cross hospital I where their wounds were dressed According to tho the occupants of the time automobile Motorman Haney was not at his post but hut was engaged In fastening fastening fasten fasten- ing Ingo the gate at the sido of the tho plat pint form torm This Is denied by Haney who says that tho time automobile attempted to cross the tracks Immediately in front of his hits car The runabout was waR wrecked beyond repair |