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Show FOURTEEN KILLED IN A STREET CAR Switch Engine Strikes Detroit Trolley Car Loaded With Theatre Goers. Detroit, Oct 1. Fourteen persons were killed and moro than 25 injured, in-jured, several probably fatally, late tonight when a switch engine pushing push-ing two freight cars, crashed into a crowded street car at Forest avenue ave-nue and Dequlnder streets on the East Side. There were more than 90 persons in the street car, many of them returning from the theatres. The street car was struck almost in the center, the impact pushing It from the tracks and sliding it alongside along-side of the freight cars. Panic-stricken passengers began jumping from doors and climbing through windows. Most of the dead were killed by Jumping from the car nnd falling under the wheels of the still-moving freight cars. Ambulances were rushed to the scene and quickly took the injured to the hospitals. At midnight one hospital alone reported fifteen Injured Injur-ed and one dead had been taken there. Tonight's accident is the third of a similar nature here in the last year and the second to occur at the Forest For-est avenue crossing. The railroad tracks at Dequlnder street are used by the Grank Trunk and Detroit Terminal Railroad companies. com-panies. The death of a little girl, who died while being taken to a hospital, brought the list of dead to fourteen. At the same hospital one man was reported to be dying, while three others, oth-ers, unidentified, wore unconscious and the extent of their injuries undetermined. unde-termined. Those who were killed outright at uie crussnig weru bo uauiy iLuuiyiuu that identification there was impossible. impos-sible. According to a member of the switching crew, the train was moving mov-ing at about 20 miles an hour when it struck the street car. Robert O'Keefo, conductor in charge of the switching crew, and William Carter and Alexander Cliss-he, Cliss-he, motorman and conductor of the street car, were taken to police headquarters, head-quarters, where they were bolng questioned ques-tioned long after midnight. Newspapermen News-papermen were not permitted to see them. The police are looking for the gateman of the Dequlnder street crossing, who, it is said, disappeared immediately after the accident. None of the gates were damaged, indicating, indicat-ing, It is claimed, that they were not down at the time of the crash. There is a derailing device on the street car tracks at Dequlnder street and the train crew before being taken tak-en to police headquarters claimed there was nothing to prevent the conductor con-ductor of the car from seeing the approaching train, had he operated the derailer. oo |