Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-19 | Page 11 | Trolley Cars Smash Together in a Fog

TROllEY GARS CARS SMASH ER IN A fOG Four Killed and Seven Injured Stamps Out Fire J in Wreckage Kansas CIt City Dec IS That IS-That That the casualties casualties cas cas- In a a. collision between two Icy hey cars on the Kansas Leaven City worth electric line lino at Wolcott olcott Kan today were anI only four tour killed and seven Injured was due ue to the heroism of or Hoscoe Agers an A Agers ers was vas In tho the smoking com compartment compart compart- part part- ment of the southbound car when the two met each going at a speed of about five thirty miles an hour The Tho northbound car plowed its way almost half halt through h tho the other smashing the forward smoking compartment into splinters As s Agers crawled from Cram the wreckage coals from the battered stove sto already had set fire tire to the thc wreckage He lie stamped the fire out and with his bare baro han hands bands tl threw th the tho pieces of the broken stove sto awa away aay His hands were badly burned but he saved the wreckage wreck- wreck ago age from catching fire Through h a misunderstanding of or orders orders or or- ders dora the tho motorman of at tho the southbound car failed tailed to wait walt on the siding at Wolcott olcott for Cor the other car to pa pass s. s Blinded by br fog the motormen failed to reverse re their motors in time to avoid tho the crash