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Show If WRECK ON THE i BRSGHAM ROAD H-i M . Trolley Cars Collide at a Point Between Harrisville and Five Points H, and Passengers Are Injured "Wrecked Train From the North WJ3 Is the Firemen's Excursion Train From Brigham, Carrying ff 375 Persons to Lagoon Misunderstanding As to Hjj Orders Is the Cause of Collision. 4- H The Ogden Rapid Transit and Salt Hu Lake & Ogden combination elective HM special, from Brigham City, headed V for Lagoon was wrecked nt "Taylor's Hjfl curvo" about midway between the 1 Harrisville siding and FIvo Pofnis. Bfl at 9 '20 this morning, a number of Hfl cars being damaged and several per- HI sons suffering slight Injuries. It Hfl will require the wrecking machinery Hfl and crewmost of the day to clear Hl the track. H The accident was caused bv a head- H on collision between the heavy train, H carrying nearly four hundred Brig- H ham excursionists to the Davis county H resort, and two motor cars, a special H and the regular, going nofrth, having Hj made the trip to the Bamberger depot M In the city, where a crowd of pleasure H seekers had been unloaded Orders M had been given at the Ogdcn Rapid B Transit depot in Ogden Cor the eloc- H trie train to wait at Harrisville siding T for the north-bound car. This order H i was given to the conductor of the H regular car and also tbe conductor H , 01 the special made up of two earn, H - the latter following the former only H J a few minutes. When the regular H car passed the siding at Harrisville, 1' the electric train pulled out forfcOg- Bt den, not knowing that there was a i? special approaching. The special, an- BS tlclpatlng meeting the train at the K siding, moved along nt the regular Hf rate of speed tho two cars being in v 1 hte hands of Conductor L. M. Hess Hj and Motorman John Maddock. Motor- Hr man E. Robinson was handling tho H electric locomotive on tho Brigham V' train and Conductor J. E, Shaw had V charge of the train. Superintendent H Joseph Bailey also was on the Brig- H ham train. fl It appears that the two ars that B had been used to assist in getting a BP part of the Brigham people to the H Bamberger station was not expected H to return to Brigham, but through H; some misunderstanding of orders, It H' started back. It is said that there Hh Is no place on the Harrisville cutoff V where a head-on collision could occur Hj except at the curve near the Taylor H residence, because there is np other H curve on the road at which enrn rnn lrl M not be readily seen at a distance, M J Shade trees skirt the roadbed at the H Taylor place which quite completely H obstruct the view. m ' The cars came together with terrific H force, the locomotive almost completers complete-rs ly telescoping the wooden motor car H Into which it crashed. The trailor Hl was derailed. The motorman and H conductor were the only persons on H these cars and they escaped injury H ( by Jumping. The motorman on the locomotive left the car like .a sky-H sky-H rocket, fortunately through escaping H Injury, except suffering minor bruises H about tho body. A passenger sprained H bis ankle Jumping from ono of the Hj coaches. H The cars were crowded to the limit H with about 375 people on tho train H of six coaches. Fortunately, the B coaches were not turned over, hnv. Hj Ing barely left the rails. The passcn- H gers were given a good shaking up H and many were badly frightened, but H only two were seriously injured. H r The most serious Injury was bus- H talned by Mrs. Mary F. Hanson o Brigham City. When the collision occurred, Mrs. Hanson was thrown forward In her seat with great force, hor nose striking on tho back of tho seat in front, fracturing the nasel bones. Mrs Hanson 5s nearly ninety vears of ago, and, because of this fact, the Injury and nervoiiB bhock Incident to it may prove fatal The little daughter of Peter Ras-mussen Ras-mussen of Brigham City, riding in , tho Fame coach with Mrs Hanson, 1 was badly bruised about the abdo- men. While her Injury may be of lit- 1 tie consequence, the "position of the bruises indicate a possibility of Internal Inter-nal injuries The surface bruises in themselves are not of a serious character. char-acter. The child is about nine years of age. Louis Olson of Brigham City had his left nnkle badry sprained and a number num-ber of other passengers suffered slight bruises. All of the Injured wore taken back to Brigham after their Injuries In-juries had been temporarily dressed by Dr. E M, Conroy. who was hurriedly hur-riedly summoned to the' scene of the wreck. The physician states that there Is little danger of any fatalities resulting from the collision. Superintendent Joseph Bailey estimates esti-mates the damage to the railway property at $1,500 The electric locomotlvo on the Brigham train and the motor car on the special, were badly damaged and so disabled that It became necessary to take them to the car bams for repairs. re-pairs. Some of the Bamberger coaches were damaged, but the track was not much disturbed. Extra cars were soon dispatched to the place of the wreck and the passengers pas-sengers wore conveyed to the Salt Lake &. Ocden depot on Lincoln avenue ave-nue and Twcnty-flfth street, transferred trans-ferred to the Lagoon trains and sent on their way rejoicing. The train was running on time when the accident happened and It would have arrived in Ogden at about a. 30 and at Lagoon an hour later. Immediately after the accident cars coming from and going to Brigham were sent over tho North Ogden lino. |
