STREET CAR CRASH
FATAL TO FIREMAN
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LIETU. TROWBRIDGE, ENGINE 7
PROBABLY MORTALLY
INJURED BY BEING RUN DOWN
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CAR RUNNING 35 MILES
AN HOUR, IN THE CITY, CRUSHES AND MAIMS MEMBERS OF FIRE
DEPARTMENT.
THE
INJURED.
D.
W. Trowbridge, lieutenant Engine Co. 7; left leg broken,
internal injuries; may die.
Harry Hicks, direr, Engine Co. 7; left
arm and three ribs broken.
C. H. Gridley, hoseman, lacerations.
Two passengers, names not given; cut by
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Running at a high rate of speed Main st. car No. 381, Los Angeles
Ry. Co., crashed into engine company No. 7's combination hose
wagon, at 10:45 Saturday morning, injuring five people. Thee
of these were firemen, on their way to answer an alarm at
Forty-fourth st. and Figueroa. One may die.
Lieut. D. W. Trowbridge, Engine Co. No. 7 is at his home, 2104
Maple av., suffering from a broken left leg and internal injuries,
which may prove fatal.
Driver Harry Hicks is at the Californian hospital with a broken
left arm, three broken ribs, ugly cuts and bruises.
Hoseman C. H. Gridley was able to go back to the engine house,
corner Twenty-fourth st. and Maple av. He has a long cut on
his scalp. Two passengers on the car were hurt by flying
glass, but were not seriously injured.
When the alarm from Forty-fourth and Figueroa sts. came in engine
7 answered. The combination hose wagon, in its accustomed
place followed the engine. The clang of gongs startled
pedestrians on Twenty-fourth and Main sts. Two of these,
seeing the wagon coming from the east, looked south and saw the
Main st. car approaching at high speed.
Frantically these citizens waved to the motorman, C. A. Bazoni,
to stop. He did not heed. At the rate of 35 miles an
hour, the car sped into Twenty-fourth st. It struck the hose
wagon fairly in the middle, and rolled it over to one side.
Splintered glass fell in a shower over horror-stricken
passengers. The wagon horses were thrown on their
sides. Two of the three men who rode in it lay beneath the
heavy vehicle. The body of the wagon was dragged over their
limbs.
Miraculously, Hoseman Gridley, who was hurled to one side,
escaped without broken bones. He arose, bleeding, from the
roadway, and helped his companions form their dangerous positions.
Hicks was taken to the California hospital by the police
ambulance, which made a swift run to the scene of the
accident. Trowbridge, who is in bad shape, was taken to his
home. The injured passengers quickly left the neighborhood
and did not give their names. Conductor G. W. Clark was in charge
of the car.
The wagon was completely wrecked. This is the second
accident within a month from the same cause that has come to
Engine Co. 7.
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FIRE WAGON
RUNS INTO
STREET CAR
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Three Members of Engine Co.
7 Hurt, Two Suffering
Broken Bones--Apparatus Is
Wrecked
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THE INJURED
Lieutenant
J. W. Trowbridge, Engine Co. 7; left leg broken above the
knee, let arm broken, internal injuries.
Edward Hicks, hose wagon driver, Engine Co.
7; left arm broken, cut about head, crushed; may be
injured internally.
C. H. Gridley, hoseman, Engine Co. 7; cut
about face and head.
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In
a collision between the hose wagon of Engine Co. No. 7 and car No.
381 of the Moneta avenue line, at 11 o'clock this morning, at the
corner of Main and Twenty-fourth streets, three men on the hose
wagon were seriously injured.
The car was going south on Main street at high speed, and through
signaled to stop, it did not slow up as is approached Twenty-fourth
street. The hose wagon was going west on Twenty-fourth street,
responding to a fire alarm turned in from Forty-fourth and
Figueroa streets, and was passing in front of the car when
struck. The three men were crushed between the front
of the car and the hose wagon.
The car was in charge of Motorman C. A. Bazoni of 454 Crocker street,
and Conductor C. E. Clark, of 815 hemlock street.
Edward Hicks was taken to the California hospital for
treatment. Lieutenant Trowbridge was taken to his hone, 2104
Maple avenue. Hoseman Gridley returned to the engine house.
The fire apparatus was wrecked and the car slightly damaged.
F. P. Hewitt, engineer of Company 7, who saw the accident from his
engine, said: "The car was flagged by A. Cohen of 121
West Thirtieth street, who saw the department coming, but the
motorman refused to answer the signal.
"After the crash the motorman jumped from his car and
attempted to run away, thinking he had killed the men on the
cart. I ran after him, caught him, choked him and brought
him back, so that we could get his name. He threatens me
with arrest for assault.
"It was impossible for Diver Hicks to avoid the accident, as
he saw the men in the street in front flag the car to give him the
right of way, and from the speed at which the car was going when
she struck I do not think the brakes could have been applied at
all."
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