Twenty-Two Injured, 2 Probably Fatally, in Camden Car Wreck

Philadelphia Inquirer, September 10, 1917

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TWENTY-TWO INJURED, 2 PROBABLY FATALLY, IN CAMDEN CAR WRECK Body of Trolley Car Leaps From Trucks Throwing Passengers Through Windows—Majority of Victims Are Philadelphians—Automobilists Carry Wounded to Cooper Hospital Twenty-two persons were injured, two of them probably fatally, when a street car on the Pensauken line was wrecked in Camden, at 8 o'clock last night. The accident happened at Forty-seventh street and Maple avenue as the car was bound for the Federal street terminal. The majority of the injured were Philadelphians. According to the motorman, Percy Williams, 37 years old, of 688 Woodland avenue, Camden, who, himself, received internal injuries, he was running at a moderate rate of speed when he came to the turn at Forty-seventh street and Maple avenue. Suddenly, he said, the lights on the car went out and the body of the car jumped from the trucks and toppled to the side of the tracks. The passengers were thrown from their seats and many were cut by flying glass. The more seriously injured, whose injuries were treated at the Cooper Hospital, Camden, are: MRS. AMELIA DUNCAN, 3[?] years old, 8 South Second street, Camden; internal injuries; condition serious. LOUIS GRIBB, 29, 5327 Market street, Philadelphia: internal injuries; condition serious. GEORGE McNALLY, 20, 6[?]7 Jackson street, Camden: contusions. MRS. CHARLES PAT[?], 24, 44[?]9 North Fourth street, Philadelphia: cuts on face and body. MRS. WILLIAM FRANKS, 5[?], 4457 North Fourth street, Philadelphia: contusions. DANIEL O. DUNCAN, 34, 8 South Second street, Camden; contusions on arms. MRS. A. YEAHRLING, 43, 413 North Second street, Philadelphia: side and right leg injured. MRS. JOHN CAMPBELL, 80, 7[?]5 Dorrance street, Philadelphia: contusions of the body. JOHN PLITSKI, 34, 33 Spring street, Camden: leg broken and contusions. Those slightly injured were: Eugene (Continued on 4th Page, 5th Col.

Body of Trolley Car Leaps From Trucks Throwing Passengers Through Windows—Majority of Victims Are Philadelphians—Automobilists Carry Wounded to Cooper Hospital

Twenty-two persons were injured, two of them probably fatally, when a street car on the Pensauken [sic] line was wrecked in Camden, at 8 o'clock last night. The accident happened at Forty-seventh street and Maple avenue as the car was bound for the Federal street terminal. The majority of the injured were Philadelphians.

According to the motorman, Percy Williams, 37 years old, of 688 Woodland avenue, Camden, who, himself, received internal injuries, he was running at a moderate rate of speed when he came to the turn at Forty-seventh street and Maple avenue. Suddenly, he said, the lights on the car went out and the body of the car jumped from the trucks and toppled to the side of the tracks.

The passengers were thrown from their seats and many were cut by flying glass. The more seriously injured, whose injuries were treated at the Cooper Hospital, Camden, are:

MRS. AMELIA DUNCAN, 3[?] years old, 8 South Second street, Camden; internal injuries; condition serious.

LOUIS GRIBB, 29, 5327 Market street, Philadelphia: internal injuries; condition serious.

GEORGE McNALLY, 20, 6[?]7 Jackson street, Camden: contusions.

MRS. CHARLES PAT[?], 24, 44[?]9 North Fourth street, Philadelphia: cuts on face and body.

MRS. WILLIAM FRANKS, 5[?], 4457 North Fourth street, Philadelphia: contusions.

DANIEL O. DUNCAN, 34, 8 South Second street, Camden; contusions on arms.

MRS. A. YEAHRLING, 43, 413 North Second street, Philadelphia: side and right leg injured.

MRS. JOHN CAMPBELL, 80, 7[?]5 Dorrance street, Philadelphia: contusions of the body.

JOHN PLITSKI, 34, 33 Spring street, Camden: leg broken and contusions.

Those slightly injured were: Eugene Dampfield, 30, 7128 Keystone avenue, Philadelphia; Mrs. Eugene Dampfield, 3[?], same address; Howard Dampfield, 7, same address; Miss Mary Huddy, 16, 1906 Wolf street, Philadelphia; Miss Mary Fraley, 16, 1915 Dereford street, Philadelphia: George R. Polk, 70, 2140 Sherwood street, Philadelphia; Mrs. Lavinia Dufly, [?]9, 1811 South Twentieth street, Philadelphia; Mrs. Catherine Lillinger, 3[?], 5444 Norfolk street, Philadelphia, Miss Lucy Duffy, 2414 Moore street, Philadelphia; Mrs. Mattie Bayham, 49, of Woodbury, N. J.; A. Kettnetz, 5[?], 3318 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Mary James, colored, Wilmington, Del.

There was no warning for the passengers in the car and none had a chance to leap before the accident took place. Because of the darkness relatives were separated and it was some time before the persons attracted to the scene were certain there had been no deaths. Most of the injured were taken to the hospital by passing motorists Others went to their homes