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Show PICNIC PARTY IN HEAD'ONJMUSION OAKLAND. Mas 20. As the result of a head-on collision hetween two street cars of the California Kleefrle Railway near leona Heights today. C. A. Chrfslensmi, motorman of ono of the cars. Is dead and fifty pasHcn-per pasHcn-per Huffered Injuries which may result re-sult fatally in several cases. The collision col-lision occurred on a steep grade at a sharp turn in the road DelleliiR that he had a clear track the motorman of the Inbound car was comlnp; down the grade at a high rate of speed when an outbound car load-erf load-erf with n picnic party crashed Into It, head on. Half of each car was teles-coped teles-coped hy the Impact and the outbound car. out r,f the control of Its fatally Injured motorman, went hurllnc; hack down the track, scattering the wounded wound-ed victims along the light of way. The picnic party was planned in honor of a newly engaerf couple and was composed mainly of women and children. The prospective bridal pair were nnl serli.usly Injured. Ry the telescoping of the seals In the cars, many of the passenger sustained sus-tained serious injuries about the lers Amputation will he necessary !n several cases. nith legs of the dead motorman were so badly crushed that amputation was resorted to, but too late t. save his life. Tho location of the wreek Is nine miles from the center of thl city and some trouble was experienced in providing pro-viding proper hospital facilities for the Injured, but sfjiM) all of the available avail-able ambulances were anrainonod and the victims were removed as rapidly as possible to private and public hospitals. hos-pitals. The blame for the accident is generally gen-erally laid on the Inbound car. which, behind lime, was speeding for the switch at the Bellevue curve,, where the cars came together. The crash as the cars struck attracted at-tracted a crowd of residents of the neU'hborhood and they assisted In removing the injured from the wreckage. wreck-age. The victims on the outbound car were thrown to tho side of the track as the wrecked coach careened wildly down the grade for a half mile before H. stopped at the foot of the grade. The scene about tho wreck wa9 heartrending, particularly so because of the number of painfully Injured children and women. |