New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-11
KILLED BY AN ELEVATED CAR
CRUSHED AGAINST THE PLATFORM AND
UNDER THE WHEELS.
SHOCKING DEATH OF A WOMAN AT THE STATION
AT NIyrH-AvE. AND SINETY-THIRD-sT.-sH
TRIED TO BOARD MOVING TRAIN
THE CAR HAD To BE LIFTED TO

AT NINrH-AvE. AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TRIED TO BOARD MOVING TRAIN
The CAR HAD To BE LIFTED TO
GET HER BODY OUT
As a downtown train was leaving the Ninety.
thrd-st station Of the Ninth Avenue Elevated Road
last evening slender woman pla My dressed in
black. rushed from the waiting room and tried
to get on the second car. Most Of the gates were
already closed but the woman saw that the gate
Of the second was stiIl open and she ran for IT,
The train was already moving and the conductor
was closing the cato at the same moment. II shut
with crash as the woman placed her foot on tho
platform Of the car. The passengers who were
hurrying into the station saw the woman staggcr
fr an instant. Then she appeared to be caught
by the train which carried her along with IL. crush
ing her against the platform.
A cry of horror went up from the passengers
who witnessed the accident but were unable TO
lend any aid. As the train cleared the platform
the woman disappeared and was drawn beneath tho
car. In another instant the train had come to .
dead stop, but the body Of the woman had been
dragged ten feet and was seen to be wedged IN
crouched position between the forward trucks OF
the second car. She had uttered single cry 40
she tram caught her but Wne1 snc s,"nnsS
she was already dead. A frosted cake that she
carried in her arms had been broken and tho
crumbs were sprirlded in the street below
All efforts to extricate the body were useless.
II wedged in between the trucks as II held
in wise. the entire weight OF the holding
it down. Word had to be sent to the ear shops
at Observation-Disclosures y-ffth,st for jacks and
men to lift up the car before the body could be
removed
The accident happened at 30 p m, when the
cars were moving rapidly on the road to meet
the heavy traffic of that hour. serious blockade
avoided by switching the down trains on 10
the middle track which Lasses the station. The
passengers on the delayed train were transferred
End in short time the trains were i'll motion
again. IL nearly an hour however, before
the had been raised over the BODY sufficiently
to extricate the dead woman. litter and
detail of policemen had then been sent from tho
police station in Observation-Disclosures. by Sergeant
Fitzgerald and the body carried to the station:
A crowd Of several thousand men and women had
gathered beneath the railroad while the body WAS
being eXtricated, but no one appeared TO rccog-
nize the woman know anything about her,
The gateman at the station said that she had
walked up and down the platform several times
as If waiting for some one. Then she went INTO
the waiting and allowed two trains To pass,
rushing out Just as a Ninth ave. train from liar-
! lem was moving from the station At the police
station only snail brass key and pocl1etbook
| with some change in 1t were found in her dress
| pocket
| IDENTIFIED AS MRS. sHE.N.
The body had been at the station only n littls
| time when young man came in greatly excited
and asked to see it. He identified the body as
that or his SlSter-n-aW. Kate Sncan, ana pfNe niS
own name Weffer, living at No. |, 1913 Ninth
ave-. q block from the station.
Mr. Weffer said that the dead woman had been
staying for two days with his wife. her sister. at
their home She was drcssmaker and had been
| helping Mrs. Weffer with some sewing. She left
| the house about o'clock to go to her own home
a small furnished room which she rented in Third
st. His wife had urged her to stay over night,
hut she had insisted on going home that evening,
| as she had some affairs which she wanted 10 at
| tend to. She a widow and thirty nine years
| old but without any family. Her husband died
several years ago. and since his death she had
| supported herself by dressmal<ing, and when she
did not remain at the house where she was en-
plOyed she would sleep and get her meals at her
room in Third st. Mr.. Weffcr thought that she
had been waiting at the station for Sixthave
train. which would take her nearer her home than
Ninth-ave. one, but she had become confused
and had mistaken the Nnth-avc. train for the one
she wanted and had tried at the last moment ID
get on it. The body remained at the station last
night
Immediately after the accident the trainmastel
OF the road arrived at the Ninety thirdt. station
In an excited frame OF mind and issued positive
instructions to the employees Of the road to give
no information whatever about the accident.