Streetcar Smash-up on Madison and Third

A collision occurred at the crossing of Madison and Third streets at about 9:45 yesterday morning between a cable and electric car, in which two passengers on the cable car were slightly injured and both cars were damaged. The cars came together with a crash, and but for the coolness of the gripman and conductor of the cable car, the consequences would have been vastly more serious. Madison car No. 16 was on the crossing going west and car No. 8 was at the same point east-bound, when car No. 1, of the Third street line, came southward at the rate of about five miles an hour and not under the control of the motorman. Car No. 8 went on before it reached the crossing, and W. M. Harris, the gripman of No. 16, seeing that a collision was imminent, as the electric car did not slacken speed, took up the cable and started down the hill. The result was that his car was only struck on the rear end, but even then the rear truck was knocked off the track and was dragged along almost at right angles. Gripman Harlan held to the cable, and thus prevented the forward end of the car from being thrown off. When the shock came, Miss K. Marvin, assistant steward of the steamer City of Seattle, who was sitting on the right-hand rear seat, was thrown violently to the ground, so that her left ankle was sprained and her left knee injured. A woman, whose home is at Tacoma, but whose name could not be learned, was on the seat in front of him and jumped off, but was only slightly injured. The accident seems to be due to the failure or inability of the electric motorman to stop.