Streetcar Accidents Plague Tacoma

Martin Matson, a longshoreman, was struck by a street car near the Commercial dock bridge at 5 o'clock this afternoon and badly hurt. He was waiting for an up-bound car and did not see a car coming from the opposite direction until too late to get out of the way. He was thrown a considerable distance and received some bad cuts on the head. He was taken to the Fannie Paddock hospital. About the same time a man was injured by falling off a street car at Jefferson avenue and Commerce street. An ambulance call was sent in, but before the ambulance could reach the spot, friends had taken the injured man away in an express wagon. His name was not learned. Caleb Berg, a messenger, employed at the Western Union telegraph office, was badly bruised and hurt internally by being thrown off a car at Thirteenth and C streets this afternoon. Young Berg was on his way out Jefferson avenue when the accident occurred. His head is severely bruised and he complains of intense pain in his side. He was taken to the Fannie Paddock hospital in the ambulance. Manager Brown of the Western Union states that, although the boy is quite seriously hurt, he will recover.