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Show STREET GAR STRIKES TRA1 An accident, in the miracle class, oc curred last night at S:.10. when the Twenty-seventh street car struck a Bamberger train of four cars, loaded with young people bound for Lagoon, at the corner of Twenty-fifth street and Lincoln avenue. The interurban had stopped on the north side of Twenty-rifth to take ou several hundred passengers. As it started, the Twenty-seventh car was just approaching Lincoln, coming from the east. When the Bamberger cars were stretched across Twenty-fifth street slowly moving south, the street car crashed against the train. Tho vestibule of the street car was flattened, flat-tened, Motorman Charles E. Layne escaping es-caping death by jumping back into the car. Passengers on both lines received a thorough jolting. The street car was of the small type and operated with a hand brake, which is considered tho cause of the accident. Motorman Layne said that he had had the brakes on for twentv or thirty feet, but couldn't stop the" car, due partly to the rain on the rails, but mostly to the obsolete hand brakes Not a person was Injured, although tno streets were crowded, as well as the four cars. More than half an hour yas consumed in clearing up the traf. fie. The terrific impact of the collision collis-ion almost welded the street car and Lhe interurban into a letter T. oo |