Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1888-02-14
LATEST TELEGRAPH.
CRUSHED BY A Big DERRICK.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND SEVERAL
FATALLY INJURED.
Frightful Accident i'm Brooklyn-A Horse
Car LIZ AIDED With People shattered by
Falling Derrick.
From PRESS NEWS ASSOCIATION

Car LIZ AIDED With People shattered by
Falling Derrick.
New YORK. Feb IA frightful acci-
dent, in which five men are known to have
been killed outright and several Others
fatally injured, occurred at 10 o'clock this
morning at Broadway near Summer av-
enue, where men are at work constructing
the Brooklyn elevated road Ii was at
first reported that the structure had fallen
onto passing horse car loaded with peo-
pie. Sensational rumors We're at once cir
culated, and il was positively stated that
several persons Were killed and the car set
on fire. All the ambulances in Brooklyn
We're sent to the scene.
frightful accident it proved to be, al
though the reports somewhat exaggerated
the exact state of affairs. The heavy
structure had not fallen as reported but "A
huge hoisting derrick had toppled over
and carried portions of the trestle with it.
4 street car was passing at the time and ii
was crushed beneath the leasy Wi hit
Karl Keishler, a laborer ON the derrick, and
Michael McAnnally, driver of the horse
car, wera instantly killed Two passen-
gers were also killed and IL injured. many
of them seriously. The ambulance men
and police got to work and removed the
dead and wounded. Many We're taken nm
conscious and bleeding from the broken
timbers. 1t required hard work to release
some, and the shrieks of the wounded were
heart rending. Several persons are still
heard in the ruins, but gang is at work
cleaning away the debris and the wounded
are being removed as fast as possible and
taken To the hospital.
ha r.,ha sh.a
is a busy thoroughfare and is always filled
with people, but there was n warming given
and the pedestrians got out of the way, al
though there We're manv narrow escapes.
\ little girl ran across the street in front
of the horses Just the derrick fell.
Among those believed to be faally injured
| is Judge Pattei son of Brooklyn
Two more laborers have been taken
from the ruins dead, making the killed
! five. OF those injured eight were employ
, ed on the structure.
When the accident occurred the work
men were engag in hoisting a girtler in
position. While the huge piece of
iron work was suspended in the air TIE
structure began to tremble. Passers by
noticed il and with a scream to warn others
shot out of harms way. The guys on the
! big derrick creaked and groaned under the
strain, the great pole quivered, the struc-
ture on which it stood shook perceptibly,
in an instant there was a loud crash and
the derrick, boiler and a portion of the
structure lay in heap with horse car
crowded with people under it. The
men on the structure stood hor-
rur stricken, but were unable To
aye ert the di -aster and went down with tie
wreck. The steam from the boiler rushed
ont in clouds and interfered with the work
OF recovering the injured BY 12 o'clock
little had been done and many were inn
prs Jned in the ruins. The girders fell
across the forward part of the b. rse car
and rested on the horses which were
crushed to the ground with. their legs
spread ont from their bodies like those of
"a lobster. AS the work of recovering the
wounded continued the sight grew more
sickening. Foreman Schaefer was
rendered so sick by the scene that he had
to be taken home.