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Show I Runaway Street Car Imperils Many Lives Pasties Down Sleep Mill; Crashes Mo Store About a hundred lives were endan- i gered yesterday afternoon when, the i Twenty-fifth street car, after It had runaway down the hill crashed across the sidewalk at the Broom hotel cor- i ner into the hat store of Norman Ives. 1 The escape of the four or five pas- 1 sengers aboard the car and of a num- ber of people on the sidewalk is a ; miracle. The accident occurred at a i time when business activity at the corner was quiet. i The wild dash of the car down the steep incline started at Butler avenue. ; where the car crew, Motorman George I Potcrson and Conductor Melvin Peters, I left the car and alternated to help a i Twenty-seventh street car, which was stalled ahead of them. The sand- ; blower of the car would not work 1 properly, it is stated, and the crew were throwing sand upon the trakc, I when the brakes on the Twenty -fifth street car became loosened and the i car crew (jould not board it before it i was under full speed. ' i The passengers aboard the runaway car during its flight were Mrs., T. Ga-jewsky, Ga-jewsky, Capitol avenue: Miss Ruth Lec, 18 years of age. of Tooele, who is here to train as a nurse at the Dee hospital: Dorothy Nichols, 17 years of age, 256G Harrison avenue; George Van Dail. 14 years of age. 774 Twentieth Twen-tieth street Mrs. Gajewsky suffered from a nervous shock. She was taken to her home by P. T. WrighL The others on the car were able to walk home. i Many Narrow Escapes Mrs. Albert E. Erickson. who was walking down the street with her mo- ; ther and sister, Mrs. H. E. Skinner and Mrs. LaRue Lammers, narrowly escaped being caught beneath the car. Miss Ella Hadley escaped from the pathway of the car, but lost a pocket-book pocket-book and a number of parcels. W. W. j Browning, William Sewell and Joseph Cottroll were others who escaped from injury. According to information obtained titter the accident, the Twenty-fifth street car. No. 42, was going east up Lhc hill on the south track. When at the intersection of Butler avenue, the car stopped on account of a Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh street car's being unablo to proceed through a fall of the sandblow- i ?r, the falling' leaves having made the I i rails very slippery. I When they saw the stalled car Uiead of them Motorman Peterson set Lhc air brake, and with Conductor Peters Pe-ters went to the assistance of the i crew of car No. 14, by throwing sand an the track. In some manner the airbrake on car No. 42 became re- leased and the car started moving, 3own the hill. The passengers became frightened, and a man, whose name I was not obtained, jumped from the j car at Adams avenue. The car gained In momentum as It ran down the hill, j and when it passed the Reed hotel near the bottom of the Hijl. It was going go-ing so fast that -people upon the street could not , distinguish whether there were passengers aboard or not. Vrecks Store Front When the car hit the crossing on Twenty. fifths street and Washington avenue, it jumped the track and collided col-lided with a steel street lamp polo. The force of the collision threw the car around and the other end of the car crashed into the Sims hat store. The trucks of the end of the car which hit the hat store were torn off and the body of the car ploughed Into' the store, demolishing the entire plate glass front, and damaging a largo stock of hats in the show window. Within a short lime after the accident ac-cident the street car company had the wrecking crew on the scene, removing the wrecked car and opening the way for through depot traffic. The acci- j dent did nol Interrupt the main line traffic at all and only a few minutes on the depot line. Assistant General Manager Charles Muller appeared upon the scene of the wreck. He said the company would conduct an immediate investigation. It was expected that an investiga.-tion investiga.-tion into the street car smash which occurred on Twenty-fifth and Washington Wash-ington avenue last night, would be held this morning, but according to information infor-mation received In the offices of the Utah-Idaho Central railroad the hearing hear-ing Is delayed but will bo held shortly. |