Five Killed, Three Injured as Trolley Hits Car

Posted on November 26, 2009 by lmharnisch
Nov. 26, 1909, Crash

One of the victims is removed from a streetcar at the Pacific Electric Building.

Nov. 26, 1909, Crash

Nov. 26, 1909: The Santa Ana Flyer hits a  car carrying 10 members of the Jacobs family on their way home from a Thanksgiving party. The crash kills the driver, Nicholas Jacobs, and four of his eight children and injures his wife, daughter and his son John’s fiance. Three of the sons, Peter, John and Franklin, jumped from the car before the collision.

The streetcar carrying the victims to the Pacific Electric Building collided with a streetcar at Central Avenue and 7th Street, injuring seven people on the  Central car.

I’m unable to determine the exact location of the Latin Station. The 1945 Thomas Bros. guide shows the Pacific Electric tracks on Garfield crossing Shorb Street in Alhambra. 

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1 Response to Five Killed, Three Injured as Trolley Hits Car

  1. Paul Jackson's avatar Paul Jackson says:
    November 26, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    A group of us diehard trolley fans has located Latin Station on the Pacific Electric Railway. It was at 92nd Street just north of Watts Station on the line to Long Beach, which right-of-way is used by the Metro Red Line. At Watts the line to Santa Ana branched off.
    [Update:Paul writes that this is the Blue Line]
    East 92nd Street had been known as Shorb Avenue until 1925/26, but this is a completely different Shorb from the one in Alhambra, which was the name of the Southern Pacific Station there, also served for some years by Pacific Electric’s Red Cars.

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