Coalville Times | 1905-02-10 | Page 2 | Fatal Trolley Accident

FATAL TROLLEY ACCIDENT. Car Jumps the Track, Killing One and Injuring Ten Ptrsons, Adolph I' Johnson was killed and ten persons wi ro Injured In a runaway car accident In Portland, Ore Mon day morning Tho car ran away on a grade, and on striking a curvo Jumped tho track The Injured were ejlrlcat ed from their peril with great dim rutty, the car being almost chopped to pieces before the last of tho Injured was removed The wreck seems lo have been caused by tho slippery condition of tho rails owing to a frost Tho mo-torman, mo-torman, when ho readied that tho enr was approaching tho curvo too rapid ly threw on his brakes and reversed the current but tills was not turn rlent to check tho momentum, and tho car, with Ita load, struck tho curvo with so terrific force that tho body of Die car left tho forward trucks before Ihn trucks left tho tracks This ro-iiilled ro-iiilled In the roar trucks dragging tho back part of the body of tho car with them until It was turned half way round