New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-11
THE ELEVATED RAILWAY ACCIDENT
PARTICULARS or THE HIDEOUS MANGLING OF
FREDERICK PIERCE AID THE NARROW ESCAPE
IRON DEATH OF ARTIIUR HALLER.

| PARTICULARS or THE HIDEOUS MNGLING OF
FREDERICK PIERCE AID THE NARROW ESCAPE
FROM DEATH OF ARTHUR HALLER.
Coroner Hermann will make an official investig7
ton probably next week OF the accident which Oc
Cured on Thursday evening at the nc-EUndred-
and-twcnty first street station OF the Second Ave
nue. Elevated Railroad, causing the death OF trcder-
lex Pierce and the injury oil Arthur.Haler two
employees of the Manhattan Railway Company.
All the action yet taken by the COroners once has
been the issue OF permit for the removal OF PlcrccS
remains from the Oue-hundred- ana ~ enti sixth
Street Police Station to his home IN Jersey City.
Colonel +. X Hahn, general manager OF the Nan
haitian COMPANY, has ordered Investigation OF
the accident, but has not advanced far enough for
him TO make any statement OF the case. lie init
mated that enough evidence had been obtained to
show that the company was not to blame IN the
least for the accident.
Arthur llaller, who was huIled into the street By
tine duwu-gOug engine No. 2Jl, bnt not klle 3, was
living in the large tent adjoining the DspcGsary of
the NiuetY-nlnth Street Hospital yesterday after
noon Hallers injuries consist of fracture OF the
right thsh. a ira tuTe Oh the left arm near the
wrist, and fracture OF the nose. lie also received
scalp wound an inch long over the right ear and
small incised wound over the left eye. lie was
born in Maryland and Is thlrty-hve years old lie
lives at No. > l32 ScCOnd-ayc., with his WIFE and
child. Yesterday he reported to be getting
along very well by the physician at the hospital who
said that he would recover. lie seems unable 10
give an utcuWble account OF the accident. He
said that he did not remember On winch track he
aud his companion were when the accident occurred
nor whether II WAS the down or M tam which
struck them They reported about he usual t!ne,
ESQ D. at the Office Vi the Inspector OF CaIs OF
the COMPANY at One-hundrcl- and cleyehth-st.,
and took a train FOR uptown llrt.c before =
They got ont at the Observation-Disclosures enty-fist
Street Station to &c ~ their work OF cieanin2 the
ears which lie on the midule track short distance
above that station. AZ this rolut Hdi,els story
becomes indefinite. He says that ne WAS walking
on the strloepiece and not On either track ust d
by the running trains. lie ahead and be 10
inclined TO think that Pierce when he got into dan
ger caught hold OF him iIa.ler and 50 lcrKed hun
Al the ira. into the street lie says he had not
rf..i
and ne did not notice any effect OF liquor on his
companion lie himself had not been drinking.
He has been IN the companys service since last
June.
There is a third track that runs some distance
above and belOW the station where Pierce was
killed This middle orr is used Tor tho purposes Of
Il side track. The ties Of all these tracks arc
boarded over, and The spaces between The up and
the down tracks and tue respective station II. f.
forms are also covered. There Is no open space
from one extreme side OF the railroad structure to
the other that Is wider than few inches. More
over above the station, hci the accident occurred
a wooden platform protected Oh the outside By
a wooden guard four OF five feet highTun along tho
outside Of the M and OF the down track fifteen or
twenty feet. The that lie on the middle track
above the station and which it was I1erces and
Haller's duty to Clean may be approached without
running any danger, alter the main tracks are
crossed either from passing trains or from falling
into the street From the character " the structure
the concluson Appeals to be unavoidable that the
cideut Thursday Was due to the carelessuess or
thon Obt lessnes, of the two car-ceanurs. There
down track III order to reach the cars they to
clean; yet both musJ have been upon 1t 10 have
been struck by the engine. 1t appears almost Il
miracle that Haller escaped instant death lie
must have been struck by the engine with sGili-
Gent force to lift him several feet in the air and
hur him sideways several feet over the wooden
guard before he could fall into the street, dis
tance of fully thirty feet. DR.. J. +. Rowan, who
superintendent Hallers removal to the hospital,
says that ne found him conscious when he was sum
moned to Tie scene, but unable to tell how the
cidcnt happened.
The two standing the down track
about a dozen feet beyond the end OF the station
platform when the engine struck them. Piefce was
krusked down and dragged along the track under
the tram some twenty feet before the train could
be stopped rho engineer knew from the Jar his
engine received that something wrong had
CURED The finding of Haerin the street led fur
ther search, ana Plerces manged remains were
discovered crushed in under the forward wheels of
the second car of The train. His mutllatlOn was
frightful His body was cut almost in two Ills
clothes were torn INTO strips and twisted around
bis head.