WILLIAM S. FITZPATRICK
William S. Fitzpatrick, Lieutenant - January 9, 1922 (#71)
Truck Co. No. 5 - 2136 Geary Blvd. 

COLLISION WITH STREET CAR - BRODERICK & SUTTER

Appointed February 1, 1910

Assigned to Engine Co. No. 20, 1910
Assigned to Engine Co. No. 22, 1911

Appointed Lieutenant, August 21, 1920

Assigned to Truck Co. No. 5, 1920

WILLIAM JOHN COOPER
William J. Cooper - January 9, 1922  (#72)
Truck Co. No. 5 - 2136 Geary Blvd. 

COLLISION WITH STREET CAR - BRODERICK & SUTTER

Appointed January 21, 1918

Assigned to Truck Co. No. 5, 1918

ANTON LOGAR
Anton Logar - January 9, 1922 (#73)
Truck Co. No. 5 - 2136 Geary Blvd.

COLLISION WITH STREET CAR - BRODERICK & SUTTER

Appointed April 9, 1919

Assigned to Truck Co. No. 5, 1919

TERRIBLE COLLISION OF FIRE TRUCK AND STREET CAR

1917 American LaFrance, Type 17-6, 4-wheel Tractor, registration #1462, with a 1901 Rumsey City Service Trailer. In service - Truck Co. No. 5, 2136 Geary Street, 1917 - November 14, 1924.

THREE FIREMEN DIE IN CRASH OF TRUCK WITH STREET CAR.
WOMAN, BABE AMONG LIST OF INJURED.
COLLISION AT SUTTER AND BRODERICK STREETS SHAKES UP FIFTY PASSENGERS; MANY BRUISED.
FORCE OF IMPACT DERAILS CAR;
WOMEN FAINT AS CRASH WRECKS WINDOWS;
PROBE IS ORDERED.

1922 January 10

Three San Francisco firemen are dead, another is reported dying ,three are badly hurt and a woman and child are suffering from Injuries as a result of a collision between Fire Truck No. 5 and a Market Street Railway street car yesterday afternoon at Sutter and Broderick streets.

Nearly fifty passengers on the car, many of them women, were severely shaken up and bruised, but none seriously hurt, A woman and her 4-year-old granddaughter suffered shock and minor bruises which the street car left the rails and hurtling across the street, wrecked the parked automobile in which they were seated.

Euclid W. Anson. 520 Forty-sixth avenue, motorman of the car. was arrested on a technical charge of manslaughter.            

DEAD.

KIRKPATRICK. LIEUT. WILLIAM S„ 42, 1342 Eleventh avenue
LOGAR, ANTONE, 31, 2S3 Seventh avenue, truckmen on fire truck.
COOPER. WILLIAM, 33, 2435 Twenty-fourth avenue, driver of the fire truck.

INJURED.

Waterman, Truman, 404 Andover street, truckman. Fractured right elbow, wrenched shoulder and minor ruts and bruises.
Horan, William, 684 Ninth avenue, truckman. Badly bruised knees and minor lacerations.
Muldoon, Thomas, 1387 Baker street, tillerman. Shock and minor bruises.
Vizzard, Mrs. J. B., 174 Ninth avenue. Bruised and shaken when car hit parked auto.
Vizzard, Marguerite, 4, her granddaughter. Bruised and shaken.

Spectators said the street car bound for the ferries was traveling at a high rate of speed down grade when if crashed into the fire truck, north bound along Broderick street, to answer a still alarm at Bush and Broderick streets.

There was a terrific crash as the truck was thrown to one side of the street and the car derailed. The street car ran across the street, striking the parked automobile containing Mrs. Vizzard and her little granddaughter and brought up against the curb. The rear of the machine was wrecked.

Lieutenant Kirkpatrick, riding on the seat of the truck with Cooper, was hurled violently to the pavement, landing on his head. He was rushed to Mt. Zion Hospital »but was dead upon arrival.

Cooper and Logar, who was riding on the side, were also thrown off, landing on their heads and sustaining fractured skulls.

Logar died at the hospital shortly before 11 o'clock last night. Cooper died at 1 o'clock this morning,

Horan jumped when he saw the crash inevitable. This probably saved his life as he escaped with injuries to his knees and minor bruises. Waterman hung on to the truck and was not seriously hurt.

Muldoon at the tiller stuck to his post and suffered only shock and bruises.

Passengers on the street car screamed in terror and some of the women were reported to have fainted as the crash broke windows and wrecked the vestibule. Most of I those in the seats were thrown to the floor or against the side of the car.

The car was in charge of Motorman Anson and Conductor G. Weisz , 245 Twenty-third avenue.

Passengers included John E. Hines, 443 Fifteenth avenue; Mrs. J. Z. Hanmersalg, 253 Sixteenth avenue. Mrs. C. D. Frame, 535 17th Ave., in Thomas Dowd, special officer for the Market St., Railway Company.

Chemical No. 2, in charge of Lieut. C. C. Sullivan, was 150 feet ahead of Truck No. 5, and had just past the intersection of Sutter and Broderick streets when the accident occurred. The chemical and the truck are house at the same quarters on Geary Street near to Divisadero.     Witnesses said that the streetcar was coming down the Sutter street hill at a high rate of speed and that motorman Anson was unable to stop his car for 100 feet after the crash. They said he must have seen Chemical No. 2 pass the crossing, but this he denied.

According to the motorman, he did not see the chemical; neither did you hear the shrieking siren or the clanging of Truck No. 5, which caused pedestrians to remain on sidewalks and autoists to pull up to one side of the street. Chemical No. 2 proceeded to answer the still alarm which was for a small roof fire at Bush and Broderick streets.

Lieutenant Kirkpatrick been a member of the fire department for 13 years and had been very popular. He had been attached to Truck No. 5 for the past two years and was very coming from Engine No. 22. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Katherine Kirkpatrick and three children – Ella, age 12; Martha 11 and William Jr., 13.

Logar, a former soldier, joined the fire department three years ago. He was unmarried and lived with his parents.

Fire Chief Thomas Murphy ordered an investigation of the accident in order to determine whether there was any criminal negligence.
Source: The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California,10 January 1922, Tuesday Page 1.

TERRIBLE COLLISION OF FIRE TRUCK AND STREET CAR

SAN FRANCISCO,
1922 January 10

Two firemen are dead and four injured, one so seriously he may die, as the result of a collision yesterday when a Sutter street car crashed, into a fire truck at Broderick street. A woman and her little granddaughter were hurt when the truck was hurled against their automobile. Fifty passengers in the street car were thrown into panic and some were knocked down, but none injured seriously.

Dead Lieutenant William Fitzpatrick, 1342 Eleventh avenue; Antone Logar, 252 Seventh avenue, died at Mount Zion hospital from fractured skull. Injured William Cooper, 2435 Twenty-fourth avenue, in Mount Zion hospital with fractured skull; Truman Waterman. 404 Andover street, fractured elbow, dislocations, bruises; William Horan, 684 Ninth avenue knees badly bruised, lacerations; Thomas Muldoon, 1387 Baker street, lacerations, shock; Mrs. J. B. Vizzard, 174 Ninth avenue, bruised shock; Marguerite Vizzard, granddaughter, 4 years old, bruised, shock.

The collision occurred when truck 5, in response to a telephone alarm from Bush and Broderick streets, left the firehouse at Geary and Divisadero streets and sped along Broderick street, traveling north, preceded by the chemical from the same house.

At Sutter street the apparatus encountered an eastbound Sutter street car coming down the hill to cross Broderick street. The chemical cleared the track in front of the car, but the heavy truck was struck almost broadside.
Source: Santa Cruz Evening News, Volume 29, Number 58, 10 January 1922— Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO,
1922 January 10

A charge of manslaughter was to be placed today against Euclid Ashton, motorman of the street car which yesterday struck the fire truck, causing the deaths of Lieutenant William Fitzpatrick and firemen, Antone Logar and William Cooper. Bystanders asserted the street car was running too fast. Fitzpatrick died a few moments after the accident and Logar and Cooper later in a hospital. 
Source: Santa Cruz Evening News, Volume 29, Number 58, 10 January 1922 — Page 1

FIRE DEPARTMENT TO PROBE

1922 January 11

Investigation to determine the responsibility for the collision between a fire truck and a Sutter street car in which three firemen lost their lives and several others were injured was begun by Fire Chief Thomas R. Murphy yesterday. While making arrangements for the funeral of the men and the care of the others the Chief issued orders calling for a full written report from all of the men on the truck and such others as he is able to obtain.

“If it is possible to avoid such accidents in the future by any measures that may be taken I intend to see that they are put into effect.” the Chief said.

The chief intends to have the reports of all of the men in hand ready for the coroner's inquest. And orders were issued yesterday to have the men on the engine which immediately preceded the truck which was struck come to headquarters today and have their statements taken by a stenographer.

Battalion Chief Fred Orontes, who was off duty, but who happened to be in the vicinity, of the accident, was also a witness of the disaster and will assist in getting the evidence of all of those who can throw any light on how the accident occurred.

Funeral arrangements wars practically completed for the burial of the three men tomorrow morning.

The bodies of Lieutenant William Kirkpatrick and William Cooper will be taken from the undertaking parlors of Carew & English at Geary and Broderick streets to St. Mary’s Cathedral, where a solemn high mass will take place at 10 a. m.

At the same time funeral services will be held over the body of Antone Logar at the Lutheran church on Seventh avenue in the Richmond district. Logar's remains will then be taken to Van Ness avenue in time to join the other funeral procession. A detail of firemen and policemen will accompany and act as an escort.
Source: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 11 January 1922, Wednesday, Page 13

DEATH OF THREE BAY FIREMEN TO BE PROBED

SAN FRANCISCO,
1922 January 11

The police ordered today an investigation of the collision between a street car and a fire truck which resulted in the death yesterday of three firemen. The dead are Lieutenant William Fitzpatrick, Antone Logar and William Cooper, firemen. The street car was running at an excessive rate of speed on Sutter street, bystanders said. A charge of manslaughter against Euclid Ashton, motorman, will be made, the police declared, if investigation shows he was negligent.
Source: Sacramento Union, Volume 224, Number 25865, 11 January 1922 — Death of Three Bay Firemen to Be Probed [ARTICLE]

THREE FIREMEN HEROES BURIED

1922 January 13

With all the ceremony that could be accorded to the highest member of the department, the three firemen who lout their lives an the result of a collision between a fire truck on its way to a fire and a Sutter street car were buried yesterday morning.

Representatives of the Mayor's office, the various commissions, the Board of Supervisors and other officials joined in the cortege that formed at St. Mary's Cathedral on Van Ness and acted an as escort to the funeral cortege out Valencia street on its way to the cemeteries in San Mateo county.

The services were held in two different churches. Those for Lieutenant Wm. Fitzpatrick of 1342 Eleventh avenue and Wm. Cooper of 2435 Twenty-fourth avenue were held at St. Mary's with a solemn high mass. The services for Antone Logar of 252 Seventh avenue were held in the Lutheran Church on Seventh avenue.

The three bodies were brought together for the formation of the cortege from St. Mary's Cathedral. It was headed by the fire department band, followed by two platoons of police led by Captain Al Wright and a representation of the Boy Scouts.

Then came the three hearses, abreast, with automobiles for the mourners following each hearse, Each hearse was also accompanied by the members of the company of which the deceased were members.

Following these again were a row of municipal officials, including Police Commissioner Cook, Fire Commissioner Herring. Sergeant Walsh and Edward Rainey from the Mayor's office. Battalion Chief Radford and Frank Kennedy, secretary of the fire commission.

Behind these came Fire Chief Thomas R. Murphy with the battalion chiefs of the department and seven companies of the fire department.
Source: The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) 13 Jan 1922, Friday, Page 6

Extracted from original sources with grammar and spelling as published.

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