The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-26

was flashed along the entire line. This means:
Stop all trains where they are" The down
train Immediately following that drawn by
locomotive sc had come to halt short dis
tanc0 above the station. Tho engine from
this train was detached. and by II the three
curs on the curve were Hurled of and
run on to the third track" Locomotive SO
backed on TO the main track md steamed toward
South Ferry. The locomotive OF the up train
was towed away and the cars were placed on the
middle track with the others whence they wero
taken up the rond to Ninety eighth street Men
were set ut work chopping away the splintcred
guard rails and putting the tracks in order.
After, "a delay Of one hour and twenty minutes
travel on the road was resumed the trains start.
in from the stations at which they were halted
by the signal 65."
lison reached him. He was unable to give an
opinion as to where the blame rested. saying
mat ne mad lust arrived on the errand OF get
ting light on that question. The officers OF the
rond say that neither pains nor expense was
spared to insure safety at this station.
guard against the possibility OF atrain going of
the track. and this accident shows that train
switch. Every effort will DO made by tho man
agcment to dctormine who 10 to blame for the
collision, and the culpablo person or persons
will be denlt with in n manner that will be a
lesson to all employees Of the road.
In the street below. nm hour after the collision.
only few splinters Of wood and scraps OF iron
indicated that anything had happened. but on
the sidewalk, at the instant OF the collision.
were running men. shouting boys, and terror
stricken women and girls and on the pavement
were prancing horses held In 10y drivers whose
cheeks were made pale 10y fright. Persons liv-
ing near were only n few minutes In throwing
open their windows or their doors and looking
out, or minRling in the throng that after the
first few minutes Of terror ran from tho side
streets and up and down Third avenue to the
corners Of Forty first and Forty-second streets.
Many persons were at the corners on their way
home 10 dinner at the time OF tho accident.
After one look upward. the most OF them ran
from beneath the elevated tracks and
into the side streets. Two street cars and
several vendcrs wagons were underneath tho
tracks. The drivers on the street cars put on
their brakes and tried TO hold in their horses
side. The horses attached to the vendors
wagons dashed along the avenue at furious
across the crossings. Two or three Of the
wonders turned their horses into side streets.
and succeeded at length in quicting them.
Travellers in the street cars jumped up from
their seats. and many OF them spranR through
the doorway and Jumped on. But the excite,
ment lasted only few minutes. The noise OF
the crash and the grating Of the wheels as they
slipped along the rails did not last five seconds.
After tho crash OF the smoke stack Of the up
train locomotive as il fell to the pave
ment thousands gathered in tho avenue,
nlling the sidewalks Of two blocks and
persons underneath tho locked locomotives
picked up pieces Of iron and splinters Of wood
that had been broken on by the collision. and
put them in their pockets rs mementces. and
one man picked up police officers hat that
had been Knocked from the head Of the wearer,
who was on the platform OF ono OF the cars Of
the up train. Men were in their shirt sleeves,
women with aprons as head covering mingled
in tho throng. and the children clung to the
telegraph poles. ash barrels. and iron pillars to
prevent being knocked down and trampled
upon, From almost every window in the block
head was thrust out, and the cry came down {:
ANYBODY killed7'
Until the trains were drawn apart and hauled
to Harlem. and the smokestack picked up and
carried away, u large throng remained on tho
sidewalks. What the damage was. and whether
below for some time after the collision. Several
persons who were in tho trains got of at tho
first opportunity and went to the sidewalks
sought refuge In stores and street cars. Tho
storek0epers had 10 close their doors and clear
the way in front Of them until police officers
took pains 10 make a passage way on the side
walk.
far north as Forty-siXth street. as far south rs
Thirty ninth street and as far east and west rs
Second avenue and Lexington avenue, What
II roscmblod differs. To somo IL sounded like
an explosion. the fall ola building. or the fall of
an iron span. and 10 others IL sounded liko the
first rgmbling q thunder, the dumping ot an
earth had cayed In. and 20 ono man i sounded
as II twenty lions were roaring. The concus-
sion shook the buildings in Third avenue from
cry in cupboards and on tho shelves In stores
was ratified and In soma houses shaken down :
bottles and glasses behind hurs were kn0. ked
against one another, and small muntelpicce
ornaments We're Knocked down. Persons in
some OF the stores and houses thought that the
A clock at ,Gi9 Third avenue was stopped by
the s49ck, ne hands indicated l6, ,minrtes
wore IN the place AZ the time Of the collision
To them It sounded as 4 The depot at Forty
cellar said that his heart Jumped into his throat
because he thought that he was to Dc buried
underneath the noors above him.
John X Ford conductor Of the up town train.
was IL the forward end of the car nearest 10 tho
locomotive. and had his hand on the door
fastening. intending to go Immediately out on
the platform. when the crash came. His loco
motive was running backwards, He saw the
locomotive platform slide under the coach plat
form and crush II. and then the locomotive
crashed up to the end OF the coach. breaking in
the door and, windows and crushing in the
woodwork He said atterward that he would
have been crushed 10 Jelly between the coach
aud tho motor II he had been a moment quicker
Sitting near the door at which Conductor
Ford stood was q richly dressed, middle-aged
woman, Mrs; William, Henry Peck OF Atlanta,
on her way 10 visit friends in Harlem. where
ehe formerly lived. She said, after she had
been taken 10 the residence of Mrs. A. b Decker.
56 East l2slh street that she was looking at
bright-eyed little boy sitting. opposite her,
when, without warning a crash came ana me
coach was wrenched violently TO one side. She
was thrown across the aisle and she fell on the
opposite seat. striking her side against the pro-
je.Nng edge. For minute she was uncon-
scious and when she recovered her senses she
found that man had helped her 10 her feet
ana was ingpripH whether sas was S
him an Old acquaintance. Mr., William
Graham. His hand had been cut on the back
pitched along the seats in the collision, he said,
and piece OF broken glass from the windows
had fallen and cut him. Fragments Of glass
were scattered over the seats aud the floor mat
ting. Mrs. Peck found that the passengers, OF
whom there had been about twenty in the
coach had nearly all hurried out at the rear
door and We're huddled on the platforms. Last
% 90 wns tho little boy whom she had noticed.
His mother was wiping the blood from glass
cut on his hand.
Mrs Peck wns too bewildered at first she said,
10 know what 10 do; but Mr.. Graham suggested
that he should take her homo by way Of the llar-
lem Railroad. With difficulty they walked to
the Grand Central Depot There DIR. Sayre Of
Bellevue Hospital was sent for, and after an OK
animation. he decided that She could be taken
to Harlem without risk 10 her life. DR.. Earring
ton, her former family physician. WAS sont for.
Her side was found to bo badly bruised and 1t
was feared that she was injured internally. A
despatch ombodying these facts was sent 10 her
husband IN Atlanta, Prof. W. ii, Peck, a con-
tributor TO Mr.. Bonner's Ledger. In tho after
noon Mrs Decker. TO whose house Mrs. Peck
was taken, said that Mrs. Peck was in bed. and
was no better.
Brakeman Frank Mullgan OF 1913 East
Eighty second street had bis second hair
breadth escape yesterday. He wns on duty on
the train when the recent accident at tho Frank
lin square station occurred. but was not hurt.
He walked up and down IN his paror yesterday
with his head bandngod, cOngratuHtinR him
self that his injury was no greater than cash
over his right eye that laid bare tho bono. Ho
said that ne was standing on the front platform
OF the rear car talking with OHlcer Terry Gal