New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-19
GROUND TO PIECES by A CAR
SHOCKING DEATH ON AN ELEVATED ROAD.
A CARPENTER PusHEp BETWEEN TWO PLATFORMS
-sAIn 10 III INInXICATIn.


4 CARPENTER PUSHED BETWEEN TWO PLATFORMS
SAID 10 BE NToXlCArrD.
Samuel Merwyn, q carpenter, living at No 233
East Seventy in company with Walter
H. liogue, of No 2,3I6 first-aye., went early yes
terday to New-ilayen to do some collecting
for stair building concern with which
he was connected. Having finished his
business he and IIocne returned TO the city and
reached the depot at Forty -sccond-st and Third
ave shortly after O p. m. They took the train
bound uptown, and, usual nj that hour, the train
was crowded and Mcrwyn and lIogue found 1t inn
possible to get inside the car door. and they
stood on the rear platform Of the third car. The
cars of the Elevated Railroad are fitted with
bumpers, which leave a space of about foot be
tween the platforms This space is guarded by
railings except a space sufficiently vide to allow
the passage of man from car 10 car.
The train reached the Sixty-scycnth Street Sta
tion without mishap, and enough passengers got
ont 10 permit of a person standing inside the
ear. II was so near the station az
which Merwyn desired to leave the train, how
ever, that he with number of others retained
their places on the platform. just after leaving
the Sixty-scventh-st station there is heavy
down-cradc until the Seyenty-sixth-st. station
is reached. With heavy tram be-
hind one of tho small engines goes
laundering down the grade at the rate
Of thirty miles hour and it is next 10 Impossible
70 check this speed until the station Is reached
The city about Seventv-sixth-st. is thickly pOpu-
lated and number of people leave the tram at the
station that street A. the tram apDroac achcd the
station many passengers began t. leave their seats
and press toward the door. Mcrwvn was stancing
on the front platform oi the thrd car Just 3t me
termination of the railing on the lcit mana. sidc
The train had reached the atccp'st part ot the
grade iahOut seventy V-fOurfl-stI when there
a al rd
Merwvn lost his balance and fell between the cars
Conductor lursOn and dozen passengers cUtcueu
at the falling man but their effort, were uhavaIiug
and with a Wild cry ne lel uuNer lh'
wnccs. He was literally cut to pieces
and the street for twenty feet under the track was
covered with blood and pieces of flesh ana Dohc
The tram could not be- brought to a staud,lil until
II had reached the station. The trains then We're
running mdcra minute and a half headWay, ana lhe
engine of the following train had passed over the
fragments of Mcrwyus body rcmalnlngon the tiaGN
before ~ could be stopped. The engine had 10 pc
unconplcd aud sent on TO the station before the
body could he reached. Policeman Roach. OF the
Twcuty-cighth Precinct. was ou duty on the street
below when the accident took place. and he az once
went TO the track and had the remains placed IN an
ninth street Police station. lhe pieces Oh p''A
aud clothing both on the track and nm
the street below. had literally TO be swept
Onircr Roach fol the names Of Morris Nangn,
Of 500. 80 East Eighty-touTth-~t; Charles rank
lin. of NO. IL East Eigcty-iourtl-sti j. bgala s.
..f.r
Ncustadtcr. of No. l07 East Ilehty-hith-si';
VINO stood ON the platform and Witnessed
thc accident. Conductor lcns0n said that Men" y
was under the influence of liquor and that he told
She man several times to go inside ga soon ms there
was any room there. The conductors etale euehl
rs borne ont Dos the four witnesses iueuton'd noiu
iu regard to the fact of Norwvns being under
tho influence If liquor and the conductor I'l0,t ,t'
to po Ion the ear McrVyn replied bh m all rtht
I ! ,au taltc care of myself Hoguc who was lh'
companion of tine dead man denicd thnt h" "i
iu thr slightest drure intoxicated The Who'
accident vas e1id by witnesses to h" cau7rd hN t''
u,ur,tnudiur ur thn rnta and the fl't th1i th'io
/ u'iluug tu prevent o. man iailiuH hetNr"h lil'
pst tfufts in the sprrr lnf Ter passing tium rhi "
tat A apun tho accident occurred th'i" W1'
,tuvd on tho etf''t oppoaito r, llut
mHua ou. kuN Htutr. No. l.-ni lhld
Htr. whom tho H..t,ut tuub place
rowo of tlr ,liiu-ttt 7rr.rta V'tr fralrHrH HItri
dlt. with h4nt,l mit,hrl tu arr b. thrt could lud
NIe.rui7 uf tIr hpdt uu ih- .Io NO Toe police
/ mtd. uu iutrst H1t night hi t1r rut"u't hH1 trrt
informed uul duHhtIrea tu iutr .ii4 ltIuu Nll Zoe
made NriViu vla about ulA -"W Arha "l ds'
uud 49,. ID u,.. ,4ipu.rr iir tul lhr trplii
oi being % sober. industrious mIu. llr leaves d
VII. but mo- tuIIdIru