Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 504, 23 January 1902 — TROLLEY CAR HURTS SAILOR [ARTICLE]

TROLLEY CAR HURTS SAILOR

JICOBSEN GETS I SCALP WOUND MOTORMAN RINGS GONG BLT IS NOT HEEOEO BY MAN NEAR TRACK. Sailor Evidently Get* Rattled, for He Jumps Against Car and is Hit by Grab Handle, Which Inflicts a Scalp Wound—Lieutenant Sam Leslie's Last Handkerchief. A sailor named Jacobsen had a narrow escape from serious injury yesterday afternoon. With a companion he was walking alongside the track of the Rapid Transit line on King street, near the bridge. Car No. 20 came along from behind the men. and it was traveling at a rate of about four miles an hour. The motorman saw the men and tapped his gong repeatedly but they did not seem to hear it. The motorman then sang out to the men to get off the track, but they did not move until the car got right up to them when Jacobsen probably got rattled. He jumped to the wrong side and got hit by the grab handle of the car, which was stopped immediately. Picked Up Unconscious. When Jacobsen was picked up he was unconscious. He had a scalp wound right above his ear but w-as not hurt otherwise. Lieutenant of the mounted police Sara Leslie was present and called the patrol wagon, which took the Injured man to the Queen's hospital. Leslie played the good Samaritan by raring for the man and tying up his wound with the only handkerchief he had left from the fire which destroyed his home some time ago. The man regained consciousness while in the patrol wagon. He is a lailof. his last vessel being the Star of Bengal. He had been in the hospital for some time and had just recently been discharged from there. The motorman of car No. 20 states that the accident would not have happened had Jacobsen not became rattled, as he was originally walking at a little distance from the track and out of reach of the car.