Collision at Sioux City-1903

MCLEOD, OLSON, LOVERIDGE

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/18/2017 at 20:47:25

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Jan. 5, 1903

Collision at Sioux City
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Sioux City, Jan. 5. – In a collision between a Northwestern switch engine and a crowded streetcar this afternoon, John McLeod, motorman, was fatally injured, T. Olson was fearfully bruised, O. M. Olson was slightly cut about the head, and the car torn to pieces. McLeod was thrown forty feet. The accident was due to McLeod’s failure to see Conductor Loveridge’s signal.