Detroit, Michigan
Interurban Train Wreck
May 27, 1923
SEVEN KILLED NEAR DETROIT
Interurban Strikes Auto and Hurls Wreckage on
Crowded Highway, Adding to Death Toll.
DETROIT, Mich., May 27.--Seven persons were
killed and several injured, two dangerously,
when an interurban car bound from Pontiac to
Detroit struck a blue touring car eight miles
north of Detroit early this evening. The death
included four young women and three young men.
The accident happened when an automobile, the
driver of which is as yet identified, going
north on Woodruff avenue, swung out of the line
of traffic to pass another car. The machine
swerved onto the interurban tracks and was
struck squarely in the center.
Three Cars Damaged
The force of the collision threw the engine of
the wrecked car into the line of traffic moving
south, wrecking another automobile. Five of the
dead were in the blue touring car and two were
in the car wrecked by the engine of that
automobile. A third car was slightly damaged and
some of its occupants cut by flying glass when
it ran into the second wrecked car.
Bodies of the persons in the automobile struck
by the interurban were practically stripped of
all clothing and so badly mangled as to make
identification extremely difficult. One of the
dead is believed to be JOSEPH BOLCAR of
Hamtramck, a suburb.
The impact tore the airbrake connections on the
interurban car and the blue car was carried two
blocks before the motorman could stop.
The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune,
Chillicothe, MO 28 May 1923
SEVEN DIE IN CRASH, DETROIT
(By United Press)
Detroit. -- Seven persons were killed and twenty
hurt, none seriously, when an interurban crashed
into an automobile in the suburbs here last
night.
The accident occurred when the driver of a bus
containing five persons grew impatient and
turned to the left from behind a stalled
automobile onto the interurban tracks.
The engine of the bus was thrown loose and
landed in another car, killing two occupants.
The injured were motorists struck by flying
wreckage, and panic stricken passengers on the
interurban who jumped through windows.
The dead, all of Detroit, are:
JOSEPH BALCAR, 17; ALOYSIUS BALCAR, 20; ANNA
FRASCH, 20; MARY FRASCH, 17; MARY BLASZCZYK, 17;
BEATRICE CHLOPCIK, 18; and JOSEPH ROBENSKI, 22.
Sheboygan Press Telegram, Sheboygan, WI 28
May 1923
Articles transcribed by Connie.
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