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The Car Turned Over

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
November
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Car Turned Over

A CAR ON THE DETROIT LINE GOES INTO A DITCH

The Thirty Passengers Miraculously Escape Serious Injury While the Motorman Has a Broken Collar Bone

A car of the Detroit, Ypsilanti & Aun Arbor line was derailed in Detroit Wednesday and 30 passengers miracuously escaped injury. The front wheels of the car left the track and for some little distance the rear wheels stayed upon the rails, the car swung around and made for the eight-foot ditch along side the street and overturned completely, resting in the ditch upon its top and one side. How the passengers escaped injury is not known. Only two of the windows of the car were broken. The passengers crawled out through the rear door. Motorman Willis was found unconscious with his collar bone broken and Conductor Baetcher, who was thrown through the rear door, had his face badly cut with the glass. None of the passengers had any bones broken. A long line of brick wagons was passing at the time but none were struck by the car when it left the track, althongh it passed betwenen two of them, grazing the horses noses. It is supposed that the brick sifting front the wagons had filled up the track in such a way as to cause the front track of the car to leave the track. Quite a number of Ann Arborites went out to see the scene of the accident. It will be a big job to pull the heavy car out of the ditch.