Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-25
THE TUNNEL COLLISION.

A Notable Coroner's Jury-Delay in
Beginning the Observation-Disclosures
Fowler Examined at the Afternoon
Sessten-The Hearing Continued
Until To-day.
New YORK, Feb. 24.-Coroner Levy
undertook this morning to begin an in
quest in the case of the victims of the rail
road collision in the Fourth avenue tunnel
last Friday, but as he secured only seven
jurors, he adjourned the inquiry until two
o'clock this afternoon. The coroner's fail
ure to secure more jurors was perhaps due
to his own tardy arrival at the coroner's
Office He had fixed half-past ten o'clock
as the time for beginning the inquest, and
his arrival was at five minutes to eleven
o'clock. In the meantime Carl Schurz and
Andrew II. Green, and perhaps others who
had been called as jurors, presented them
selves, and, after vainly waiting some min
utes for the coroner to appear, went away.
The adjournment was disappointment
to the large number of witnesses who were
present, the jurors and the representatives
of the district attorneys Office and the New
York Central railroad. Coroner Levy de-
clared that he announced the adjournment
reluctantly and regretfully."
The jurors who were present when the
roll was called were: Isaac Hamburger,
tobacco, No. TIA Water street; ex-Mayor
William H. Wickham, No. 1873 Lexing-
ton avenue; Andrew Mills, No. 65
West Eighty-fourth street, president
of the Dry Dock Savings bank; John
D. Crimmins, No. 40 East Sixtieth street,
contractor; George G. Williams, No. "a
West Fifty eighth street, president of the
Chemical bank; Nathan Frank, No. 666
Third avenue, contractor; David R. Willis,
No. 1877 Second avenue, restaurant keeper.
The others who were called, but
who were not present at the roll
call, were A. D, Juilliard, No. Is
West Fifty-seventh street. wholesale dry
goods; Joseph Fox, No. sol Fifth
avenue, president of the Columbia bank;
ex-Secretary Carl Schurz, No. 175 West
Fifty eighth street; William Steinway,
No. 26 Gramercy park; Jacob Rupert,
No 1116 Fifth avenue, brewer; Jacob b.
Blum, No. II East Si1ty-ffth street,
dry goods; J. Seaver Page, No.
1873 West Fifty-eighth street, colors;
Marc Eidlitz, No. 1873 East Seventy
second street, builder and presi-
dent of the Germania bank; Floyd Clark
son, No. 49 East Sixty-sixth street, presi-
dent of the Riverside bank; Jordan L..
Mott, No. II East Forty-seventh street,
president of the Mott iron works, and Os-
car s. Strauss, No. 81 West Seventy fourth
street, chinaware.
Assistant District Attorney Vernon N.
Brown was present on behalf of that office,
and Frank Loomis, general counsel of the
New York Central Railroad company, ap-
peared for that corporation.
At the afternoon session Engineer Fow-
Ter of the New Haven train was examined.
He said that on the morning of the acct
| dent he left the depot on time. At the
entrance of the tunnel he asked his fire.
man to look out for the signals. The lat
ter reported that they were all right. Fow-
| ler said he did not know the shop train
was ahead of him. His speed at the time
| of the collision was about twenty-five
| miles an hour. He said he had seen no
lights on the rear of tbs shop train as the
morning was foggier than usual. The
hearing will be continued tomorrow.