The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1920, Page 1

ce y ae “STREET CAR. OVERTURNS. SI INJU On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tides in Seattle 4 Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, af the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under thé Act of Congress March 8, 1879 ht and Tuesday, rain; ate northerly wind@ VOLUME 22. a SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JANUARY 'b, 1920. Weather Forecast :7.°" Pictares Tel How Green Lake Passenger Were Trapped in Street Car Wreck-| MO TO R MA ie . RACES INTO “S” CURVE Speeding downgrade over slippery rails into \a dangerous “S” curve at 39th st. and Wood= land Park ave., at 7:13 a. m. Monday, Gre Lake street car No. 721 jumped the track, | ithe curb broadside, turned over and crashet into an electric light pole with such force thd the car was cut almost in two and at least ijpassengers were injured, many serio |amid the splintered wreckage and shower Of \flying glass. Injured victims not yet liste are believed to have gone to their homes b |fore police ambulances arrived. | Miraculously all escaped instantaneous . de: |Sophia Machek, 17, 6208 McKinley place, who is if lthe city hospital with her skull fractured, may di Others sustained broken arms and legs, fractu collar bones, splintered ribs, severe bruises jagged cuts from broken glass and wood splinters, — "ENG ABd ONY on 5 Nearly hall the passengers, of whom there were than 100 in the seats and standing, were girls and > on their way to work. As the car hit the curve and i This pheto- on its side none had a chance to jump. There was @ Gra graph shows of glass and wood, followed by screams and moans of 1 the hole shocked and injured, and scores of residents in Tem tern in top homes rushed into the street and began the work of tea of over: Someone with presence of mind got to the nea turned car phone and called all the ambulances in the city. Fi when te paratus was also summoned and pressed into service o strech tale carry victims to nearby hospitals. ; “neh Injured Carried to Nearby Houses; MISS SOPHTA MACHEK, 17, of 6208 McKinley Pince—|- ¥** hopped Many Crawl From Debris to Bon Fire ‘skull fractured; probably will die. larger ty Injured girls, women and men were carried debris and moved into homes closest to the wreck. able to assist themselves crawled out and stood shiv the mist about a fire in a vacant lot, while lost hats, Ii baskets and miscellaneous bundles, many blood spatters ‘ were tossed into a heap at the side of the smashed car, The top photograph shows the overturned Green Lake street ear, as it apprared the telephone pole at the N. 39th st.| While the ambulances, arriving and departing in a ¢ s no seen the crossarm by the impact of the catapulting car. (All photos| stant stream, carried the most badly injured to the hospi Creee-Dale) first, this heap of miscellany became the center of intel EMMA BUSHER, 529 N. 68th st—fractured jaw; JACK CAREY, 902 N. 79th st.—badly shaken up. J. M. CAUFIELD, 2118 N. 64th st.—left arm broken. L. HUMPHREYS, 15, 202 E. 80th—cut hand. MRS, K. SPINDEN, 47, 8516 Corliss—bruised knee. 4D. DUNN, 25, 2009 10th ave. N—bruised legs. < ee ee _ W. K. GEORGE, 7829 Sunnyside ave—bruised. 1. M. WARD, 6206 Woodland Park ave—bruised. | E. OLSON, 7561 Crescent place—bruised. _ H. W. EVERTS, 7415 Corliss ave.—bruised. > M. SCOTT, 1517 Sixth ave—incurred a sprained wrist injury to his ribs, Scott started to walk toward town ’ g himself from the wreckage, but fainted. He | was taken to the city hospital by Albert Boschan, a driver | | & for the Cleaner Dye Works. ff £ D. ANDREWS, 911 NO. 76TH:'ST—arm cut by flying | = | ‘ W. H. BENNETT, 853 Sunnyside ave.—head cut and} smashed. | WILLIAM JOHNSON, 2039 No. 78th st—bruised and shits Hh ge of an eager throng of women and men arriving on later = ing.” Says ee IDENTIFY GIRL a from the Green Lake district. Speeding, We » Husband Frantically Searches f | 9 ” f wre * 7 tg “Brakes Wouldn't Hold, Is ON DEATH BED|| | 4S IT SEEMS) | His Wite; Found With Her Sister Explanation lotorman | “That’s my wife’s!” cried a man as he found in the egotone | T0 ME ‘of the heap a green soft hat. “My God! was she ki Muarphine’s State She Was to Be Married) — |Where fs she? And that’s her pocketbook. Where is urphine’s Statement Next Month DANA SLEETH |I want to know!” “Tie so ee 6 eckdent resulted from eapleih case of spending. in rnc P| = He said his name was Alfred R. Smith, 588 N. : my Judgment,” Su; of Pu rt as F. After lying all ing un- |He had been in the car following his wife, who was cold Nentap, after reparte of the sired cor wredh.ap X. S6mh si. and conscious and fear ae ‘ch in the TIDAY waning ma tw |Way to work at the Capitol Hill telephote office whee “1 have tried every remedy for using ‘Julce’ on hilla, from personal || ured, the mort seriously Injured myclf, sez I: “Thin accident occurred. She was finally located in the home, | of Green Lake st. car victims time I'll not get to that | sister, Mrs. W. J. Robinson, on Stone way. is | pag vgs Poa nse afternoon pce Boe iia Others cl over the heap of ype identiifed: | ast t lachek of 6208 minutes 100 waa juat jatticles. Some turned away to sob and wring their x McKinley, Place. snd in engaged | 10 minutes after s'when Treached |A8 they recognized a blood-spattered bag or basket of Iu |to be married to al young man in| Mr. Meany’s front door, reached in |In the heap was a pair of men’s shoes which none Michigan next month. At Christmas for my billfold, and | identify. All the articles were finally gathered up by a p time he sent her a full net of en I had left it at home, |); | graved silverware In anticipation of tickets inclosed. liceman and taken to headquarters. | their wedding Life IS just one darn thing. Those who had been seated or|they were removed to thelr | She was identified by an acquaint So out into the fog I fled, and in | standing near the center of the car) Dr. Case. said he had calls ance, Mra. M. BE. Ward, and her|ac ning flivver I dashed on the |when the crash came, were most se-|several other patients shortly, | father notified to hurry to the hos-| ail, following the car tracks |Tiously injured. The car hit the pole|the wreck, tho whether they: | pital at once if he wished to see his st I could; and, in the fog, fol. [almost amidships, and with such|among the injured or daughter alive. ng them a block beyond the | force that the top of the pole, 15 feet | cases, he could not say. Miss Machek was seated near the |¢nd of the pavement and up into |down, was broken. It hung at a Arm Is Smashed reprimands to warning bulletins, but the practice still persists, The only remedy seems to be firing those motormen who must speed. “There could have been no exeuse for the accident. There is a safety stop Just above the curve on Woodland Park ave., and another safety stop signal a block above the scene of the wreck. Neither of these safety stop signals secms to have been observed by Motorman Fuller- ton. 1 will make a thoro investigation of the accident before passing final judgment on Motorman Fullerton, however.” , Motorman’s Statement “The rails were slippery and the brakes wouldn't hold,” was the ex- planation advanced by Motorman W. RK. Fullerton after the accident, “We started down the slight hill, but the car refused to stop when I tried to work the brakes. We just crashed into the curve and hit the pole.” ‘ N. G. SALLEE, 8011 First ave. N. E.—lacerations. E. F. HORN AND DAUGHTER, 430 Ravenna bivd.—}) lacerations. | F. W. HALL, 8139 Latona ave.—bruised and cut. MISS AMY MESHOLM, 2025 N. 78th st.—laéerations. | | ° . o ro 2 Da 7 da ero! gle over thi wd of . MISS IRENE HOLMSTEDT, 2039 N. 78th st—lacera-|———————= === | center of the car when the Vehicle et ened to travel [bystanders and injured persons, until| oN; Ae, Bennett, 3118 NF PAUL F. BEHNKE, boilermaker, 7453 Woodland Park} crash against the telephone pole. Nothing but a flivver would ever pina ec egy od Pega more seriously injured (Sree, MISS ETHEL HOLMSTEDT, same address—Jacerations.| ave.—cuts on head and neck. LRN RE TENS fe dldn and T sage Wt beck te the |. The Impect was ne arent that |I0 hiotend cae henna ROBERT M’NEESE—head cut and bruised. IRENE HINTON, 18, dental assistant—954 N. 76th st.— HOLDUP ARTIST concert place just in time to get the fore-trucks of So cor were wet vada, BaP: in right arm . the door shut on my nose as the roken squarely off, went ted h | WILLIAM CONDON, 515 N. 72nd st.—bruised. \left side injured. orchestra started on. the sym- skidding across the street, where bea of being the last man JOHN LYMAN, 1412 N. 49th st.—shipworker; bruised} CHARLES E. LINCKS, 20, surveyor, 731 N. 71st st—)| |: phony. they lodged upended against the Mrs, Ada Carroll, Miss Clara’ I and cut. right arm injured and head cut. HAS RED HAIR ‘And there were a lot more in the curb, and Mrs, G. L, Shinden, all bad ' 5 same plight. Neither Motorman W. R. Fuller.|jured, were carried into & H. J. MUNGRAN, 946 N. 76th st—bruised and cut. MRS. GRACE HART, 18, 4713 Whitman ave.—back se- I would sw § D ierest that usually it ton nor Conductor A, F. Corbin, of | home, their wounds dressed f W. J. HARIGEL, 817 N. 48th st—bruised and cut. | verely injured. } Chiztig Biba hae euath eek. (Ue better 40 dtaxt the Wrogrete ised tevansten ave, waa hurt, .ner|ty es pemthle, Gnd removed on WILLIAM J. EYERDAN, 958 Corliss ave—bruised and) A. HABIGEL, 33, 917 N. 48th st.—head cut and arms and | ,eported to the police Monday he was | warn pnn OF the Rhorter works: the | rire ay oie ear Fullerton, ~_ iol on Aromat Aa W. C. FORESMAN, 6502 E. Green Lake way—finger| ue b » 80, 917 N, 4 st., an employe o' 0 Puget one wticktine Tan When te yelled coming crowds, both orchestra and front end. He at first refused to) J 3 i : Si anel ) andience are thrown off the me ver questions as to the cause of severed and fractured ribs; taken to city hospital. rene Light and Power Co.—head cut just below TIGHE | petore they had finished searching ec celaathe WMieak ond pa the main meet foie Hop Peiny vary tom SEA LE YO WILLIAM BUFFEM, 712 N. 70th st—deep cut on head; | temple. | the palloe, "One waa about 40 years EG by an inspector to keep his mouth I ; taken to city hospital. ‘ DAN ANDERSON, 54, 2061 N. 78th st., an employe of the aa. roth San Cah haa 100 MRS. fini Me sm ots SMITH, 533 N. 73rd st.—ankle broken | Great Northern Railroad Co.—bruised hip, shoulders and | tiie.” fis Ale Rg Bi tl | arms. and carried a gun, He wore a hand WOULD like to say | closed. F something about sym- Five Cousins Injured D i f phonies that would per- ed hapa help somebody to a Among the passengers were five and internal injuries. | . ° e. Rinehilde Ol n x | JOE PFISTER, 36, 7550 Crescent place—an employe of | Ktrchiet over his face, ; realization of & new Joy one teen a td eee tmen more | Mii ; MRS. ADELAIDE CARROLL, 1422 N. 52nd st-—right| 4. pacitic Telephone & Telegraph Co., head and neck cut. | ———————————— | in itving, whom were said to have been more His Companion in Gun O arm fractured. GEORGE RAUCH, 28, 740 N. 66th st 1 of A symphony 1s not essentially [Or ne ae Mi yvetle and signe Erick: Slain by Police MISS CLARA EVANS, 762 N. 72nd st.—head cut. ae ied es Aint 23 : st—an employe Of} myo cook threw up her Job, you | |highbrow: it does not require techs |{°T" Core badly bruleagand shaken - - mes we - the city light department, head and arms cut. say? nical musical training for apprect- ‘They all work. Sears-Ri MISS RHINEHILDE OLSON, 7543 First ave. N. E— ROMEO NICOLIN, 49, 8226 Ashworth ave employe|| Well, don’t tet that cause you dis. || Atlon: tt is no more mysterious nor ee Dick Set Sears-Roe-) DENVER, Jan. 5.—A. P. badly cut on head and body. of the Hofius Steel Co., pf ht gen unapproachable than the ery of a Wour injered one of them|#n, youthful automobile bandit, mother over her dying child, or a man in seri condition, ‘were | shot and killed shortly before MRS. G. L. ZBINDEN, 8516 Corliss ave. iis . Just put « Want Ad on our page— MISS SADIE ERICKSON, 910 N. 82nd st—bruised| pp ‘ || ‘Another cook you'll soon engage. || extn mripe with his foo, ? St {taken to Lakealde osptal, four today in a gun duel with PRESIDENT ASKS GLASS |Negro Robs Woman All of tix have heard storms that | DOCKS from tie i aeamtetaac ky (Posse in Argo, a suburb, “ and cut. 4 | : - | }tltted us up, and brought th e F MISS MYRTLE ERICKSON, same address—bruised and) NOT TO ENTER SENATE in Street Holdup Get in the shyme con- | (ere tte naa tone, re |= seowt cit action tg imme” Green SR Ee , cut. WASHINGTON, Jan, 6.—At the} A negro footpad held up Mra, H. ae ‘an particulars on ‘Mpst ‘of ua have, once or ‘twice ty At ny Betcdine son “ hagas peti MISS SIGNE E. ERICKSON, same address—bruised and|reavest of President Wilson, Boore-|Harada, $16 Washington at. nt nseitied ‘page. Pre ean ty felt the herote urge: | punler, Ringhilde Olson, wile iti jrahetestecd Meecha j t tary of the Treasury Glass will not|Bighth ave. and Washington at., late Free seats to Clem- }/{he’ sacrific ourselves for {johnson and J. M. Caufield, were mt eat. - take his seat as senator from Vir-| Sunday Aight and robbed her of $20./] nor Theatre. "age bb , hurried to Dr. G. W. Case's, private [streets last night. MISS MABEL NELSON, 6716 W. Green Lake way—|ginia until January 15, it was an-| Mea, da told the poliée the . BY er knows what'great. | hospital, 3612 Fremont ave. where| Green, who anys his 4 ‘ d and cut. nounced today at the White Housa |negro Was dressed in black clothing. on Page Nine) —_—their injuries were dressed before ; TOR mee ie - s ’ Ras A ive ~ aoe este iets Bel iain pit nana . ; ro ant d oe