CAR SMASHES TWO BUILDINGS; 2 DEAD, 8 HURT
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Big Trolley Jumps Track And Plows Into Saloon And Residence
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CHILDREN TUMBLED FROM BEDS UNHURT
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Motorman, Under Arrest, Is Said To Put Blame On Airbrakes.
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Two men were killed and eight persons -- six men and two women were injured when one of the heavy Bay Shore cars left the tracks at Fayette and Caroline streets, just as it was about to turn into Caroline, at 2:30 o'clock this morning.
The car crashed into a one-story saloon at the northwest corner, plowed through the brick walls as if they had been made of pasteboard, crossed a 15-foot space, smashed into the front of 1436 East Fayette street and stopped within a foot of the bed in which two brothers, one 6 and the other 8 years old, were sleeping.
Sleepers Thrown From Beds.
An elderly couple sleeping in the front second story of this house were thrown from their bed, as were the two boys, and they looked out of windows to find the car beneath them. If the vehicle had got two feet father than it did it would have crushed the sleeping boys, sons of Samuel L. Griebov.
The passengers, dead and injured, as well as the motorman and the conductor, were imprisoned inside the car by the jamming of the doors and, when help arrived, it was necessary to take them out of the windows.
The Dead.
Hyman Greenberg, 1122 East Lombard streeet. Dead when taken from under car. Body taken to morgue.
Harry Ditlow, 19 years old, 137 North Exeter street. Died at St. Joseph's Hospital at 3:45 this morning.
The Injured.
At St. Joseph's Hospital:
Andrew C. McGiney, 3406 Belair road; laceration of the forehead.
Mrs. Annie C. McGiney, 3406 Belair Road, bruised head.
At Johns Hopkins Hospital:
Keith W. Dressell, 42 years old, 1214 Brentwood avenue; laceration of the scalp and fractured knee.
Elmer Schultz, 17 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue; laceration of scalp and face.
Lieut. Thomas Crowley, 25 years old, of the Quartermaster's Corps, Camp Meade; contusion of left hip.
At Mercy Hospital:
Mrs. Catherine Brown, 3701 Centre Place; laceration of forehead.
William C. Horsly, 22 years old, sailor, from Naval Hospital, Annapolis; bruises on legs and hands.
Harry Baughman, 46 years old, 3205 Ester Place, motorman of the car, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and treated for severe laceration of scalp. He was later arrested and is now held at the Northeastern Police Station on the charge of causing the death of Greenberg and Ditlow.
Lloyd Horner, 228 North Caroline street, conductor of the car, escaped any injury.
Says Brakes Failed To Work.
Harry Baughman, the motorman, says that the accident was due to the failure of the air brakes to work. The car, although of the Bay Shore type, was being operated on the Middle River line.
Witnessed Crash From Store.
Emanuel Menash, 18 years old, living at 48 North Caroline street, who witnessed the accident from the door of Moritz Grossman's store, at 1441 East Fayette street, just across the way from the saloon, which is conducted by Leonard Plaesser, describes the accident as follows:
"The car was coming down the incline on Fayette street toward Caroline at a rapid rate of speed. I stood in the door watching it as it came noisily down the street, with the lights all on.
"And then when it reached Caroline street, instead of turning up that street I saw it smash across the street, its lights out all of a sudden, and I saw it smash into the east wall of the saloon, tearing the front wall out, drive across the 15-foot vacant lot and crash into No. 1436. Two telephone poles that were in its way broke off like pipe stems, the poles and the wires on them being dragged along with the car.
Trapped Passengers Scream.
"Immediately there were frantic screams from the interior of the car. It was impossible for anyone to get out there because the car was jammed into No. 1436 with piles of brick and plaster on it and a couple of barrels which the car had picked up in the saloon. The back was closed by the telegraph poles which had fallen against it. I heard the conductor yelling, "Where's my motorman?" over and over again and I could see him running up and down the car in the darkness."
Patrolman Harbourne and Sergeant George Wolper, of the Northeastern district, also witnessed the accident and tell substantially the same story that Menash does, saying that at one minute the car was running west on the downgrade on Fayette street at a rapid rate of speed, and the next it was jammed under the walls of the buildings, with passengers screaming for assistance from the interior of the car and the occupants of the flat in No. 1436 East Fayette street rushing from the building in their night clothes.
Helped To Get Out People.
Menash says that he smashed a window in the car and climbed in. As he got his feet on the floor of the car a man who had been shaking plaster from his hat and his shoulders climbed out. A woman near him was shouting and Menash and the policeman got her through the window. He thinks that she was Mrs. Andrew McGiney, of 3406 Belair road, who was accompanied by her husband. Menash says that as soon as she found herself safe in the street she said she had lost a pocketbook containing $38 and a diamond ring. A man who was with her climbed back in the car and tried to find it, but could not do so.
Firemen Help To Free Victims.
Pressing to the front of the car and stepping on the body of one of the dead men as he did some. Menash found the motorman buried under the debris of the front platform and of the walls he had been through, with two full-sized barrels picked up in the saloon, on the crushed-in front, helping to hold him prisoner.
Sergeant Wolper and Policeman Harbourne were working busily getting the injured out. They had sent a call to No. 3 Truck Company, and it arrived on the scene. With searchlights to aid them, firemen and police continued the work of getting the passengers out of the windows. Greenberg was the last to be taken out. That was about 4 o'clock in the morning. His body was terribly mutilated. He wore a workman's badge, indicating that he had been employed at Sparrow's Point.
Although Mrs. McGiney's purse and ring were not found Capt. S.V. Wise, of No. 3 Truck Company, did find a purse of $52 and a $50 Liberty bond belonging to Ditlow in the ruins f the car. The purse was in a pocket, which had been ripped away from Ditlow's clothes in the impact of the accident.
Children Alone In Flat.
No one was in the saloon building. Plaesser lives at 2211 Federal street. A collie dog used as a watch dog, which was in the saloon, was killed.
The children of Grisbov, who escaped injury, were alone in their flat, the two boys who were sleeping in the first-floor room at the front, a boy of 12 and a girl of 1 years. The 12-year-old boy wa sitting up in the kitchen in the rear, with his sister sitting on his lap asleep, his arms around her. The mother is in a hospital ill and the father was at work.
This house has a wide hall. The car, in crashing into it, ground the east wall of the house and the hall into bits and bumped into the wall against which, on the other side, was the bed of the children. There it halted. The lads tumbled unceremoniously to the floor. The older brother and the sister were thrown to the floor. The younger children ran into the kitchen terrified.
Tumbled From Their Beds.
In the front part of the second floor, Abraham Schwartz, his wife and their daughter Celia, about 20 years old, were treated in like manner. They could hardily believe their eyes when they looked out of their windows and saw the car underneath them. Simon Klitzer, his wife and son, were in the rear of the second floor. They were shaken up, as were Paul Levin, his wife and three children an John Klitzner, son of Simon, who were on the third floor.
As it smashed its way through the saloon, the car played queer antics. It cut off a section of the bottled goods shelf behind the bar as cleanly as if the thing had been done with a knife, but left the cash register standing. It struck one end of the bar itself and shoved this before the car. It tossed the big 30-gallon barrels of liquor about.
Ropes Keep Crowd Back.
Employees of the railway company got on the scene early and the car was taken away before 9 o'clock and the track cleared. Ropes were stretched about the wrecked buildings to keep the crowd at a safe distance and a squad of policemen mounted guard.
Private owned automobiles and the police ambulances of the Central, Eastern and the Northeastern districts had taken the injured to Johns Hopkins, Mercy and St. Joseph's Hospitals as fast as they were taken from the car.
After the dead and the larger number of the injured had been taken away and some of the excitement had subsided. Horner, the conductor, went into Grossman's store to apply peroxide to his cuts, as some of the slightly injured had done, and suddenly collapsed in a dead faint.
It is thought that the list of injured include all, save perhaps one or two, of those who were passengers on the car. Several persons who had been cut slightly about the hands and face applied peroxide and bandages to their wounds in Grossman's and then went to their houses.
Tells Story Of Accident.
Elmer Schultz, 18 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue, one of the inured passengers, said the car was coming down the Fayette street hill at a rapid rate.
Schultz was badly cut about the head and is now under the care of a physician at his home. He was able to give an account of the crash, this morning, but could not tell whether the car had gotten beyond the control of the motorman.
"I was dozing," he said, "returning from a gathering in East Baltimore. I was seated in about the middle of the car and while I was not entirely awake I was conscious that the car was traveling down the Fayette street hill at a good speed. The next thing I knew I was jolted from my seat and through the window. My head and shoulders went through the glass and I was pinned down by bricks and wood. I must have lost consciousness."
"The next thing I knew, a policeman was talking to me and digging me out of the debris. My feet and legs were still inside the car. When I got to the sidewalk I saw one man lying, apparently, dead. One of the arms was about four feet away. Another man I had noticed sitting in front of me was also lying on the pavement. They told me he was dead.
"I was bleeding freely, and some one tied a cloth around my head. The patrol took me to Johns Hopkins Hospital. When I arrived there I saw at least 18 injured persons, some of whom were hurt in the car accident on the Belair road. Some of them were being treated."
Schultz was detained at the hospital until 8 o'clock this morning, when he was sent home in an automobile. He was able to tell his mother all he knew of the accident before he became delirious.
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Big Trolley Jumps Track And Plows Into Saloon And Residence
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CHILDREN TUMBLED FROM BEDS UNHURT
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Motorman, Under Arrest, Is Said To Put Blame On Airbrakes.
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Two men were killed and eight persons -- six men and two women were injured when one of the heavy Bay Shore cars left the tracks at Fayette and Caroline streets, just as it was about to turn into Caroline, at 2:30 o'clock this morning.
The car crashed into a one-story saloon at the northwest corner, plowed through the brick walls as if they had been made of pasteboard, crossed a 15-foot space, smashed into the front of 1436 East Fayette street and stopped within a foot of the bed in which two brothers, one 6 and the other 8 years old, were sleeping.
Sleepers Thrown From Beds.
An elderly couple sleeping in the front second story of this house were thrown from their bed, as were the two boys, and they looked out of windows to find the car beneath them. If the vehicle had got two feet father than it did it would have crushed the sleeping boys, sons of Samuel L. Griebov.
The passengers, dead and injured, as well as the motorman and the conductor, were imprisoned inside the car by the jamming of the doors and, when help arrived, it was necessary to take them out of the windows.
The Dead.
Hyman Greenberg, 1122 East Lombard streeet. Dead when taken from under car. Body taken to morgue.
Harry Ditlow, 19 years old, 137 North Exeter street. Died at St. Joseph's Hospital at 3:45 this morning.
The Injured.
At St. Joseph's Hospital:
Andrew C. McGiney, 3406 Belair road; laceration of the forehead.
Mrs. Annie C. McGiney, 3406 Belair Road, bruised head.
At Johns Hopkins Hospital:
Keith W. Dressell, 42 years old, 1214 Brentwood avenue; laceration of the scalp and fractured knee.
Elmer Schultz, 17 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue; laceration of scalp and face.
Lieut. Thomas Crowley, 25 years old, of the Quartermaster's Corps, Camp Meade; contusion of left hip.
At Mercy Hospital:
Mrs. Catherine Brown, 3701 Centre Place; laceration of forehead.
William C. Horsly, 22 years old, sailor, from Naval Hospital, Annapolis; bruises on legs and hands.
Harry Baughman, 46 years old, 3205 Ester Place, motorman of the car, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and treated for severe laceration of scalp. He was later arrested and is now held at the Northeastern Police Station on the charge of causing the death of Greenberg and Ditlow.
Lloyd Horner, 228 North Caroline street, conductor of the car, escaped any injury.
Says Brakes Failed To Work.
Harry Baughman, the motorman, says that the accident was due to the failure of the air brakes to work. The car, although of the Bay Shore type, was being operated on the Middle River line.
Witnessed Crash From Store.
Emanuel Menash, 18 years old, living at 48 North Caroline street, who witnessed the accident from the door of Moritz Grossman's store, at 1441 East Fayette street, just across the way from the saloon, which is conducted by Leonard Plaesser, describes the accident as follows:
"The car was coming down the incline on Fayette street toward Caroline at a rapid rate of speed. I stood in the door watching it as it came noisily down the street, with the lights all on.
"And then when it reached Caroline street, instead of turning up that street I saw it smash across the street, its lights out all of a sudden, and I saw it smash into the east wall of the saloon, tearing the front wall out, drive across the 15-foot vacant lot and crash into No. 1436. Two telephone poles that were in its way broke off like pipe stems, the poles and the wires on them being dragged along with the car.
Trapped Passengers Scream.
"Immediately there were frantic screams from the interior of the car. It was impossible for anyone to get out there because the car was jammed into No. 1436 with piles of brick and plaster on it and a couple of barrels which the car had picked up in the saloon. The back was closed by the telegraph poles which had fallen against it. I heard the conductor yelling, "Where's my motorman?" over and over again and I could see him running up and down the car in the darkness."
Patrolman Harbourne and Sergeant George Wolper, of the Northeastern district, also witnessed the accident and tell substantially the same story that Menash does, saying that at one minute the car was running west on the downgrade on Fayette street at a rapid rate of speed, and the next it was jammed under the walls of the buildings, with passengers screaming for assistance from the interior of the car and the occupants of the flat in No. 1436 East Fayette street rushing from the building in their night clothes.
Helped To Get Out People.
Menash says that he smashed a window in the car and climbed in. As he got his feet on the floor of the car a man who had been shaking plaster from his hat and his shoulders climbed out. A woman near him was shouting and Menash and the policeman got her through the window. He thinks that she was Mrs. Andrew McGiney, of 3406 Belair road, who was accompanied by her husband. Menash says that as soon as she found herself safe in the street she said she had lost a pocketbook containing $38 and a diamond ring. A man who was with her climbed back in the car and tried to find it, but could not do so.
Firemen Help To Free Victims.
Pressing to the front of the car and stepping on the body of one of the dead men as he did some. Menash found the motorman buried under the debris of the front platform and of the walls he had been through, with two full-sized barrels picked up in the saloon, on the crushed-in front, helping to hold him prisoner.
Sergeant Wolper and Policeman Harbourne were working busily getting the injured out. They had sent a call to No. 3 Truck Company, and it arrived on the scene. With searchlights to aid them, firemen and police continued the work of getting the passengers out of the windows. Greenberg was the last to be taken out. That was about 4 o'clock in the morning. His body was terribly mutilated. He wore a workman's badge, indicating that he had been employed at Sparrow's Point.
Although Mrs. McGiney's purse and ring were not found Capt. S.V. Wise, of No. 3 Truck Company, did find a purse of $52 and a $50 Liberty bond belonging to Ditlow in the ruins f the car. The purse was in a pocket, which had been ripped away from Ditlow's clothes in the impact of the accident.
Children Alone In Flat.
No one was in the saloon building. Plaesser lives at 2211 Federal street. A collie dog used as a watch dog, which was in the saloon, was killed.
The children of Grisbov, who escaped injury, were alone in their flat, the two boys who were sleeping in the first-floor room at the front, a boy of 12 and a girl of 1 years. The 12-year-old boy wa sitting up in the kitchen in the rear, with his sister sitting on his lap asleep, his arms around her. The mother is in a hospital ill and the father was at work.
This house has a wide hall. The car, in crashing into it, ground the east wall of the house and the hall into bits and bumped into the wall against which, on the other side, was the bed of the children. There it halted. The lads tumbled unceremoniously to the floor. The older brother and the sister were thrown to the floor. The younger children ran into the kitchen terrified.
Tumbled From Their Beds.
In the front part of the second floor, Abraham Schwartz, his wife and their daughter Celia, about 20 years old, were treated in like manner. They could hardily believe their eyes when they looked out of their windows and saw the car underneath them. Simon Klitzer, his wife and son, were in the rear of the second floor. They were shaken up, as were Paul Levin, his wife and three children an John Klitzner, son of Simon, who were on the third floor.
As it smashed its way through the saloon, the car played queer antics. It cut off a section of the bottled goods shelf behind the bar as cleanly as if the thing had been done with a knife, but left the cash register standing. It struck one end of the bar itself and shoved this before the car. It tossed the big 30-gallon barrels of liquor about.
Ropes Keep Crowd Back.
Employees of the railway company got on the scene early and the car was taken away before 9 o'clock and the track cleared. Ropes were stretched about the wrecked buildings to keep the crowd at a safe distance and a squad of policemen mounted guard.
Private owned automobiles and the police ambulances of the Central, Eastern and the Northeastern districts had taken the injured to Johns Hopkins, Mercy and St. Joseph's Hospitals as fast as they were taken from the car.
After the dead and the larger number of the injured had been taken away and some of the excitement had subsided. Horner, the conductor, went into Grossman's store to apply peroxide to his cuts, as some of the slightly injured had done, and suddenly collapsed in a dead faint.
It is thought that the list of injured include all, save perhaps one or two, of those who were passengers on the car. Several persons who had been cut slightly about the hands and face applied peroxide and bandages to their wounds in Grossman's and then went to their houses.
Tells Story Of Accident.
Elmer Schultz, 18 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue, one of the inured passengers, said the car was coming down the Fayette street hill at a rapid rate.
Schultz was badly cut about the head and is now under the care of a physician at his home. He was able to give an account of the crash, this morning, but could not tell whether the car had gotten beyond the control of the motorman.
"I was dozing," he said, "returning from a gathering in East Baltimore. I was seated in about the middle of the car and while I was not entirely awake I was conscious that the car was traveling down the Fayette street hill at a good speed. The next thing I knew I was jolted from my seat and through the window. My head and shoulders went through the glass and I was pinned down by bricks and wood. I must have lost consciousness."
"The next thing I knew, a policeman was talking to me and digging me out of the debris. My feet and legs were still inside the car. When I got to the sidewalk I saw one man lying, apparently, dead. One of the arms was about four feet away. Another man I had noticed sitting in front of me was also lying on the pavement. They told me he was dead.
"I was bleeding freely, and some one tied a cloth around my head. The patrol took me to Johns Hopkins Hospital. When I arrived there I saw at least 18 injured persons, some of whom were hurt in the car accident on the Belair road. Some of them were being treated."
Schultz was detained at the hospital until 8 o'clock this morning, when he was sent home in an automobile. He was able to tell his mother all he knew of the accident before he became delirious.
CAR SMASHES TWO BUILDINGS; 2 DEAD, 8 HURT
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Big Trolley Jumps Track And Plows Into Saloon And Residence
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CHILDREN TUMBLED FROM BEDS UNHURT
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Motorman, Under Arrest, Is Said To Put Blame On Airbrakes.
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Two men were killed and eight persons -- six men and two women were injured when one of the heavy Bay Shore cars left the tracks at Fayette and Caroline streets, just as it was about to turn into Caroline, at 2:30 o'clock this morning.
The car crashed into a one-story saloon at the northwest corner, plowed through the brick walls as if they had been made of pasteboard, crossed a 15-foot space, smashed into the front of 1436 East Fayette street and stopped within a foot of the bed in which two brothers, one 6 and the other 8 years old, were sleeping.
Sleepers Thrown From Beds.
An elderly couple sleeping in the front second story of this house were thrown from their bed, as were the two boys, and they looked out of windows to find the car beneath them. If the vehicle had got two feet father than it did it would have crushed the sleeping boys, sons of Samuel L. Griebov.
The passengers, dead and injured, as well as the motorman and the conductor, were imprisoned inside the car by the jamming of the doors and, when help arrived, it was necessary to take them out of the windows.
The Dead.
Hyman Greenberg, 1122 East Lombard streeet. Dead when taken from under car. Body taken to morgue.
Harry Ditlow, 19 years old, 137 North Exeter street. Died at St. Joseph's Hospital at 3:45 this morning.
The Injured.
At St. Joseph's Hospital:
Andrew C. McGiney, 3406 Belair road; laceration of the forehead.
Mrs. Annie C. McGiney, 3406 Belair Road, bruised head.
At Johns Hopkins Hospital:
Keith W. Dressell, 42 years old, 1214 Brentwood avenue; laceration of the scalp and fractured knee.
Elmer Schultz, 17 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue; laceration of scalp and face.
Lieut. Thomas Crowley, 25 years old, of the Quartermaster's Corps, Camp Meade; contusion of left hip.
At Mercy Hospital:
Mrs. Catherine Brown, 3701 Centre Place; laceration of forehead.
William C. Horsly, 22 years old, sailor, from Naval Hospital, Annapolis; bruises on legs and hands.
Harry Baughman, 46 years old, 3205 Ester Place, motorman of the car, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and treated for severe laceration of scalp. He was later arrested and is now held at the Northeastern Police Station on the charge of causing the death of Greenberg and Ditlow.
Lloyd Horner, 228 North Caroline street, conductor of the car, escaped any injury.
Says Brakes Failed To Work.
Harry Baughman, the motorman, says that the accident was due to the failure of the air brakes to work. The car, although of the Bay Shore type, was being operated on the Middle River line.
Witnessed Crash From Store.
Emanuel Menash, 18 years old, living at 48 North Caroline street, who witnessed the accident from the door of Moritz Grossman's store, at 1441 East Fayette street, just across the way from the saloon, which is conducted by Leonard Plaesser, describes the accident as follows:
"The car was coming down the incline on Fayette street toward Caroline at a rapid rate of speed. I stood in the door watching it as it came noisily down the street, with the lights all on.
"And then when it reached Caroline street, instead of turning up that street I saw it smash across the street, its lights out all of a sudden, and I saw it smash into the east wall of the saloon, tearing the front wall out, drive across the 15-foot vacant lot and crash into No. 1436. Two telephone poles that were in its way broke off like pipe stems, the poles and the wires on them being dragged along with the car.
Trapped Passengers Scream.
"Immediately there were frantic screams from the interior of the car. It was impossible for anyone to get out there because the car was jammed into No. 1436 with piles of brick and plaster on it and a couple of barrels which the car had picked up in the saloon. The back was closed by the telegraph poles which had fallen against it. I heard the conductor yelling, "Where's my motorman?" over and over again and I could see him running up and down the car in the darkness."
Patrolman Harbourne and Sergeant George Wolper, of the Northeastern district, also witnessed the accident and tell substantially the same story that Menash does, saying that at one minute the car was running west on the downgrade on Fayette street at a rapid rate of speed, and the next it was jammed under the walls of the buildings, with passengers screaming for assistance from the interior of the car and the occupants of the flat in No. 1436 East Fayette street rushing from the building in their night clothes.
Helped To Get Out People.
Menash says that he smashed a window in the car and climbed in. As he got his feet on the floor of the car a man who had been shaking plaster from his hat and his shoulders climbed out. A woman near him was shouting and Menash and the policeman got her through the window. He thinks that she was Mrs. Andrew McGiney, of 3406 Belair road, who was accompanied by her husband. Menash says that as soon as she found herself safe in the street she said she had lost a pocketbook containing $38 and a diamond ring. A man who was with her climbed back in the car and tried to find it, but could not do so.
Firemen Help To Free Victims.
Pressing to the front of the car and stepping on the body of one of the dead men as he did some. Menash found the motorman buried under the debris of the front platform and of the walls he had been through, with two full-sized barrels picked up in the saloon, on the crushed-in front, helping to hold him prisoner.
Sergeant Wolper and Policeman Harbourne were working busily getting the injured out. They had sent a call to No. 3 Truck Company, and it arrived on the scene. With searchlights to aid them, firemen and police continued the work of getting the passengers out of the windows. Greenberg was the last to be taken out. That was about 4 o'clock in the morning. His body was terribly mutilated. He wore a workman's badge, indicating that he had been employed at Sparrow's Point.
Although Mrs. McGiney's purse and ring were not found Capt. S.V. Wise, of No. 3 Truck Company, did find a purse of $52 and a $50 Liberty bond belonging to Ditlow in the ruins f the car. The purse was in a pocket, which had been ripped away from Ditlow's clothes in the impact of the accident.
Children Alone In Flat.
No one was in the saloon building. Plaesser lives at 2211 Federal street. A collie dog used as a watch dog, which was in the saloon, was killed.
The children of Grisbov, who escaped injury, were alone in their flat, the two boys who were sleeping in the first-floor room at the front, a boy of 12 and a girl of 1 years. The 12-year-old boy wa sitting up in the kitchen in the rear, with his sister sitting on his lap asleep, his arms around her. The mother is in a hospital ill and the father was at work.
This house has a wide hall. The car, in crashing into it, ground the east wall of the house and the hall into bits and bumped into the wall against which, on the other side, was the bed of the children. There it halted. The lads tumbled unceremoniously to the floor. The older brother and the sister were thrown to the floor. The younger children ran into the kitchen terrified.
Tumbled From Their Beds.
In the front part of the second floor, Abraham Schwartz, his wife and their daughter Celia, about 20 years old, were treated in like manner. They could hardily believe their eyes when they looked out of their windows and saw the car underneath them. Simon Klitzer, his wife and son, were in the rear of the second floor. They were shaken up, as were Paul Levin, his wife and three children an John Klitzner, son of Simon, who were on the third floor.
As it smashed its way through the saloon, the car played queer antics. It cut off a section of the bottled goods shelf behind the bar as cleanly as if the thing had been done with a knife, but left the cash register standing. It struck one end of the bar itself and shoved this before the car. It tossed the big 30-gallon barrels of liquor about.
Ropes Keep Crowd Back.
Employees of the railway company got on the scene early and the car was taken away before 9 o'clock and the track cleared. Ropes were stretched about the wrecked buildings to keep the crowd at a safe distance and a squad of policemen mounted guard.
Private owned automobiles and the police ambulances of the Central, Eastern and the Northeastern districts had taken the injured to Johns Hopkins, Mercy and St. Joseph's Hospitals as fast as they were taken from the car.
After the dead and the larger number of the injured had been taken away and some of the excitement had subsided. Horner, the conductor, went into Grossman's store to apply peroxide to his cuts, as some of the slightly injured had done, and suddenly collapsed in a dead faint.
It is thought that the list of injured include all, save perhaps one or two, of those who were passengers on the car. Several persons who had been cut slightly about the hands and face applied peroxide and bandages to their wounds in Grossman's and then went to their houses.
Tells Story Of Accident.
Elmer Schultz, 18 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue, one of the inured passengers, said the car was coming down the Fayette street hill at a rapid rate.
Schultz was badly cut about the head and is now under the care of a physician at his home. He was able to give an account of the crash, this morning, but could not tell whether the car had gotten beyond the control of the motorman.
"I was dozing," he said, "returning from a gathering in East Baltimore. I was seated in about the middle of the car and while I was not entirely awake I was conscious that the car was traveling down the Fayette street hill at a good speed. The next thing I knew I was jolted from my seat and through the window. My head and shoulders went through the glass and I was pinned down by bricks and wood. I must have lost consciousness."
"The next thing I knew, a policeman was talking to me and digging me out of the debris. My feet and legs were still inside the car. When I got to the sidewalk I saw one man lying, apparently, dead. One of the arms was about four feet away. Another man I had noticed sitting in front of me was also lying on the pavement. They told me he was dead.
"I was bleeding freely, and some one tied a cloth around my head. The patrol took me to Johns Hopkins Hospital. When I arrived there I saw at least 18 injured persons, some of whom were hurt in the car accident on the Belair road. Some of them were being treated."
Schultz was detained at the hospital until 8 o'clock this morning, when he was sent home in an automobile. He was able to tell his mother all he knew of the accident before he became delirious.
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Big Trolley Jumps Track And Plows Into Saloon And Residence
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CHILDREN TUMBLED FROM BEDS UNHURT
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Motorman, Under Arrest, Is Said To Put Blame On Airbrakes.
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Two men were killed and eight persons -- six men and two women were injured when one of the heavy Bay Shore cars left the tracks at Fayette and Caroline streets, just as it was about to turn into Caroline, at 2:30 o'clock this morning.
The car crashed into a one-story saloon at the northwest corner, plowed through the brick walls as if they had been made of pasteboard, crossed a 15-foot space, smashed into the front of 1436 East Fayette street and stopped within a foot of the bed in which two brothers, one 6 and the other 8 years old, were sleeping.
Sleepers Thrown From Beds.
An elderly couple sleeping in the front second story of this house were thrown from their bed, as were the two boys, and they looked out of windows to find the car beneath them. If the vehicle had got two feet father than it did it would have crushed the sleeping boys, sons of Samuel L. Griebov.
The passengers, dead and injured, as well as the motorman and the conductor, were imprisoned inside the car by the jamming of the doors and, when help arrived, it was necessary to take them out of the windows.
The Dead.
Hyman Greenberg, 1122 East Lombard streeet. Dead when taken from under car. Body taken to morgue.
Harry Ditlow, 19 years old, 137 North Exeter street. Died at St. Joseph's Hospital at 3:45 this morning.
The Injured.
At St. Joseph's Hospital:
Andrew C. McGiney, 3406 Belair road; laceration of the forehead.
Mrs. Annie C. McGiney, 3406 Belair Road, bruised head.
At Johns Hopkins Hospital:
Keith W. Dressell, 42 years old, 1214 Brentwood avenue; laceration of the scalp and fractured knee.
Elmer Schultz, 17 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue; laceration of scalp and face.
Lieut. Thomas Crowley, 25 years old, of the Quartermaster's Corps, Camp Meade; contusion of left hip.
At Mercy Hospital:
Mrs. Catherine Brown, 3701 Centre Place; laceration of forehead.
William C. Horsly, 22 years old, sailor, from Naval Hospital, Annapolis; bruises on legs and hands.
Harry Baughman, 46 years old, 3205 Ester Place, motorman of the car, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and treated for severe laceration of scalp. He was later arrested and is now held at the Northeastern Police Station on the charge of causing the death of Greenberg and Ditlow.
Lloyd Horner, 228 North Caroline street, conductor of the car, escaped any injury.
Says Brakes Failed To Work.
Harry Baughman, the motorman, says that the accident was due to the failure of the air brakes to work. The car, although of the Bay Shore type, was being operated on the Middle River line.
Witnessed Crash From Store.
Emanuel Menash, 18 years old, living at 48 North Caroline street, who witnessed the accident from the door of Moritz Grossman's store, at 1441 East Fayette street, just across the way from the saloon, which is conducted by Leonard Plaesser, describes the accident as follows:
"The car was coming down the incline on Fayette street toward Caroline at a rapid rate of speed. I stood in the door watching it as it came noisily down the street, with the lights all on.
"And then when it reached Caroline street, instead of turning up that street I saw it smash across the street, its lights out all of a sudden, and I saw it smash into the east wall of the saloon, tearing the front wall out, drive across the 15-foot vacant lot and crash into No. 1436. Two telephone poles that were in its way broke off like pipe stems, the poles and the wires on them being dragged along with the car.
Trapped Passengers Scream.
"Immediately there were frantic screams from the interior of the car. It was impossible for anyone to get out there because the car was jammed into No. 1436 with piles of brick and plaster on it and a couple of barrels which the car had picked up in the saloon. The back was closed by the telegraph poles which had fallen against it. I heard the conductor yelling, "Where's my motorman?" over and over again and I could see him running up and down the car in the darkness."
Patrolman Harbourne and Sergeant George Wolper, of the Northeastern district, also witnessed the accident and tell substantially the same story that Menash does, saying that at one minute the car was running west on the downgrade on Fayette street at a rapid rate of speed, and the next it was jammed under the walls of the buildings, with passengers screaming for assistance from the interior of the car and the occupants of the flat in No. 1436 East Fayette street rushing from the building in their night clothes.
Helped To Get Out People.
Menash says that he smashed a window in the car and climbed in. As he got his feet on the floor of the car a man who had been shaking plaster from his hat and his shoulders climbed out. A woman near him was shouting and Menash and the policeman got her through the window. He thinks that she was Mrs. Andrew McGiney, of 3406 Belair road, who was accompanied by her husband. Menash says that as soon as she found herself safe in the street she said she had lost a pocketbook containing $38 and a diamond ring. A man who was with her climbed back in the car and tried to find it, but could not do so.
Firemen Help To Free Victims.
Pressing to the front of the car and stepping on the body of one of the dead men as he did some. Menash found the motorman buried under the debris of the front platform and of the walls he had been through, with two full-sized barrels picked up in the saloon, on the crushed-in front, helping to hold him prisoner.
Sergeant Wolper and Policeman Harbourne were working busily getting the injured out. They had sent a call to No. 3 Truck Company, and it arrived on the scene. With searchlights to aid them, firemen and police continued the work of getting the passengers out of the windows. Greenberg was the last to be taken out. That was about 4 o'clock in the morning. His body was terribly mutilated. He wore a workman's badge, indicating that he had been employed at Sparrow's Point.
Although Mrs. McGiney's purse and ring were not found Capt. S.V. Wise, of No. 3 Truck Company, did find a purse of $52 and a $50 Liberty bond belonging to Ditlow in the ruins f the car. The purse was in a pocket, which had been ripped away from Ditlow's clothes in the impact of the accident.
Children Alone In Flat.
No one was in the saloon building. Plaesser lives at 2211 Federal street. A collie dog used as a watch dog, which was in the saloon, was killed.
The children of Grisbov, who escaped injury, were alone in their flat, the two boys who were sleeping in the first-floor room at the front, a boy of 12 and a girl of 1 years. The 12-year-old boy wa sitting up in the kitchen in the rear, with his sister sitting on his lap asleep, his arms around her. The mother is in a hospital ill and the father was at work.
This house has a wide hall. The car, in crashing into it, ground the east wall of the house and the hall into bits and bumped into the wall against which, on the other side, was the bed of the children. There it halted. The lads tumbled unceremoniously to the floor. The older brother and the sister were thrown to the floor. The younger children ran into the kitchen terrified.
Tumbled From Their Beds.
In the front part of the second floor, Abraham Schwartz, his wife and their daughter Celia, about 20 years old, were treated in like manner. They could hardily believe their eyes when they looked out of their windows and saw the car underneath them. Simon Klitzer, his wife and son, were in the rear of the second floor. They were shaken up, as were Paul Levin, his wife and three children an John Klitzner, son of Simon, who were on the third floor.
As it smashed its way through the saloon, the car played queer antics. It cut off a section of the bottled goods shelf behind the bar as cleanly as if the thing had been done with a knife, but left the cash register standing. It struck one end of the bar itself and shoved this before the car. It tossed the big 30-gallon barrels of liquor about.
Ropes Keep Crowd Back.
Employees of the railway company got on the scene early and the car was taken away before 9 o'clock and the track cleared. Ropes were stretched about the wrecked buildings to keep the crowd at a safe distance and a squad of policemen mounted guard.
Private owned automobiles and the police ambulances of the Central, Eastern and the Northeastern districts had taken the injured to Johns Hopkins, Mercy and St. Joseph's Hospitals as fast as they were taken from the car.
After the dead and the larger number of the injured had been taken away and some of the excitement had subsided. Horner, the conductor, went into Grossman's store to apply peroxide to his cuts, as some of the slightly injured had done, and suddenly collapsed in a dead faint.
It is thought that the list of injured include all, save perhaps one or two, of those who were passengers on the car. Several persons who had been cut slightly about the hands and face applied peroxide and bandages to their wounds in Grossman's and then went to their houses.
Tells Story Of Accident.
Elmer Schultz, 18 years old, 118 South Fulton avenue, one of the inured passengers, said the car was coming down the Fayette street hill at a rapid rate.
Schultz was badly cut about the head and is now under the care of a physician at his home. He was able to give an account of the crash, this morning, but could not tell whether the car had gotten beyond the control of the motorman.
"I was dozing," he said, "returning from a gathering in East Baltimore. I was seated in about the middle of the car and while I was not entirely awake I was conscious that the car was traveling down the Fayette street hill at a good speed. The next thing I knew I was jolted from my seat and through the window. My head and shoulders went through the glass and I was pinned down by bricks and wood. I must have lost consciousness."
"The next thing I knew, a policeman was talking to me and digging me out of the debris. My feet and legs were still inside the car. When I got to the sidewalk I saw one man lying, apparently, dead. One of the arms was about four feet away. Another man I had noticed sitting in front of me was also lying on the pavement. They told me he was dead.
"I was bleeding freely, and some one tied a cloth around my head. The patrol took me to Johns Hopkins Hospital. When I arrived there I saw at least 18 injured persons, some of whom were hurt in the car accident on the Belair road. Some of them were being treated."
Schultz was detained at the hospital until 8 o'clock this morning, when he was sent home in an automobile. He was able to tell his mother all he knew of the accident before he became delirious.
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