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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Car No. 2 of the Intcrurbari electiic rallway, bound south f rom Bay City to Saginaw with eight passengers and three employés of tbc railioad on board, ran off into au open draw span of tbe Interurban bridge, about six miles north of öaginaw, and six lives were lost and five peisons badly injured - tvvo fatally. The car was ia charge of Motortnan Ilerbert Riley and Conductor John O'Brien, of Saginaw, and was goiag ai a good rate of speed. The swing was open, but the motorman cvidently thougbt he conld stop in Urne. There was something the matter with the machinery, however, and the car plunped into the ri ver, 20 feet f rom the abutment. Mrs. Will McClellan, aged 2.'), of l!ay City; rr.s. David Campbell, aged 28, and her three little girls, Hattie, Lena and Eva, aj?ed 7, 5 and 3 respective ly, of Meta mora; .1. VV. HawUins, Sr., aged 77, of South Bay City, all lost their lives. T. P. Khimpf, of (ene va, O., a traveling man. was s0 badlv injured that he cannot recover, nd Joseph Mayhew, of Essexville, ill probabJy die. Edward Girkins, of Hay City, assistant Reneral freight agent of the Michigan Central railroad, was badly eut and bruised, and Motorman Riley, Conductor O'Biien and Extra Molorman Michael McDonald, of Bay City, were also injured. Anóther account of the disaster says that the eieetric ear was racing with an F. & 1'. M. train, whicli rond Is a oompstltor of the Interuban for tlie trafile between Baj Ci;y and Saginaw, and in the excitement the motonnan tlid not notice the siu-nuls and could not stop the car atter me swu umi started to turn. The conductor and motorinan liave refused to talk of the disaster, on the advice oL tliéir employers. It is said the Interurban cars attain a speed of 50 miles an hour butween the twocities. It is fortúnate that the aft'air occurred at an hour wlien the passenger trafile is the lightest, had it happened tvvo hours later the death list might have contained betueen 2Q and 30 naines. The road is owned by Saginaw parties, and the bride was built last year at a cost of $0."),000. Later- T. I'. Kluinpf, the traveling man, of Geneva, O., died of his injuries, Conductor O'Brien arid ltrakemau Reilly %vci.' nirested, but have been released on $",U00 bail each, sig-ned by l.saac Uearinger, of Sag-inaw, president of the Interurban raihvav.

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