Might Have Met Death

MIGHT HAVE MET DEATH
Students on Car From Detroit Narrowly Escape
SERIOUS COLLISION
Was Averted by Motorman Stopping Car – Dispatcher Said to be at Fault

Nearly 100 University students who were passengers on a D., Y., A. A. & J. car which left Detroit shortly after 11 o'clock last Sunday night, for this city had a narrow escape from serious injury and perhaps death.

The account of the affair was given this morning by a prominent business man of this city, who was a passenger on the car, which he says, nearly came into collision with a car from the city bound for Detroit.

“I left Detroit shortly after 11 o’ clock," said the gentleman referred to. “There were a large number of passengers on the car for Ann Arbor. Most of them were students. There were a few ladles in the car. We had just passed Denton's station and were near a curve at that point, when we saw light of an approaching car. In an instant the passengers seemed to understand that the car approaching was going to collide with our car. Many of them rushed from their seats and made their way to the exits. For a few moments there was a great confusion and there might have been a panic had not the car on which we were suddenly stopped. The two cars were about three hundred feet apart, when our car was suddenly stopped by the motorman. Quiet was shortly restored among the passengers when they. found that they were safe. We had a lucky escape. If the cars had collided I have no doubt that some persons would have been killed, there were so many passengers on our car.”

It is said that the fact of the east bound car meeting the car from Detroit at the place designated was due to the mistake of a dispatcher of the road.

The east bound car had to back into Ypsilanti before the car for Ann Arbor could pass it.