New-York tribune., 1891-05-18
CROWDS CAUSE TROUBLE.
A LINE OF SIXTHAvE- ELEVATED TRAINS
FIFTY BLOCKS LONG.
WOMAN KNOCKED DOWN AND DRAGGED A
cARLENGTH-A BROKEN ENGINE CAUSES
A JAM ALSO IN THIRDAXE.


Thousands of people, who purchased excursion
tickets on the Sixthave elevated to Yonkers for %
cents yesterday, got further than High Bridge. and
that after standing for hours In crowded trains Among
them were many Catholics from New-York and
Brooklyn who wished 10 attend the ceremonies attend
ing the laying Of the cornerstone Of the new Catholic
Seminary at st. Valentines Hill, and others who
wished to avail themselves Of the excursion rates IN
reach the country. The NewYork and Northern Rail
road has but one track between Van COrtlandt and
Dunwoodie and 1t had to send all the trains 1t could
up over this lne six miles long, unload them and back
them down, while long line Of trains crammed with
people were waiting to get on the single track AZ
time nearly all the trains of the road were locked
up In this way while the station at Onehundredand-
fifty -ffth-st. packed with people from the ele-
waited. Elevated trains could not land their pas
sengers and long line of them moving at q snaips
pace, extended from one IIndrod and-ffty fifth ST.
down TO One hundred dfourth-st. Many trains were
emptied they could reach any station above
One hundred and fOurth-st, and the cars were sent
down town. The blockade lasted from p. m. until
80 and 1t took two hours to reach Onehundred and
fifty -hfthst from south Ferry. Archbishop Corrgan
and other digntares of the Church were among those
caught in the blockade.
Northern Railroad officials say that the blockade was
due 10 the action of Yonkers officials in refusing to
allow them 70 their trains On siding as they
arrived and turn the engines about Elevated rail
road men say that the Northern road could rot handle
the traffic and that II their had been allowed TO
run through the trouble would have been averted.
An accident that may prove serious occurred at 80
O'Clock at the one hundred and fifty ifth-st station
Mrs Annie Brownlee thrown to the platform while
attempting 10 board a train and dragged the length
OF a car before she was rescued. she was removed 10
the Manhattan Hospital at one
81 and Amsterdam ave. Mrs Brownlee keeps a
boarding house at No. 165 Fast Twenty sevent1-st.
She is widow. with son. and is sister OF As
scmblyman John Connolly Of the XIXth Assembly Dis
trict She accompanied Yesterday by MISS Nora le
ton, who lives In the house with her. Inc
two women had bought excursion tickets, but ala
not understand just how 10 reach fOnheTs' WHICH,
their train reached One-undred andfty ffth-st Acy
left the car with the other passengers, but ala not
60 along the platform to the station OF the
and Northern road
As soon as the train from which they had
alcbted had gone ahead TO be switched 10 the
southbound track another train drew up at the
station. The two women concluded tha'
this was the through train to lonAcrs
and proposed to board it. The tram
stopped before reaching the proper place, ana the
eatemen partially opened the gates. Mrs. Brownlee
rushed forward and got one OF the car platforms
outside of the partly opened gate Then the engineer
started up again 10 bring the train INTO the proper
position and MIs. BrOwnlce was thrown down. She
partly on the car and partly on the station pat
form, and I'm that position SHE was dregseH d"h5
Officer Thomas walsh, Of the Twenty ninth Precinct
came to her assistance, and tried to support her
as the car moved. When the engineer stopped
the train had tainted. An ambulance was caIoi,
and snc was at once removed 10 the Manhattan Hosp
tall She is suffering from number OF cOntusi0hS on
her right side and from internal injuries, the Character
OF which yet cannot be ascerlalned; Inc hJusc
surgeon al the hospital says, however that hey are
PROBABLY not serious. e e,, ...
Tho station at one hundred and hfty -lfth-st was
surrounded and overrun by dense crcwu when inc
people began 10 come bacr from fonEers. IL was ~
O'Clock before the Jam TIC elevated trains began 10
diminish The men at that part Of the road sald u
was the biggest day's traffic they hal ever seem.
Thee was a block lasting Ty.eight minutes
on the Second-ave. elevated raiirJah ytScr
dav caused by an accident u an eheihc
shortly before y. M, when tie noe u
sunday travel to the liatcry at it. height. feo
uIc living in SecOndave. at .Twenty-thlIl-str were
Startled by the sound OF loud crash. ltsnhs or
they found that All elevated train on the dOwh uach
had come to dead stop when half way round the curve
from SccOndavc. into Twenty third st. ON e1anihi,
lion IL was found that the axle OF the engine na1
b-oken A gang OF workuen was QUICKLY procured
and the engine was repaired sufficiently u allow OF
its being pushed by another tram 10 Grand ISL lheh
tho train was switched off the lire. The repairs o.
cuDicd more than three-quarters Of an honr In tlih
tmc there was a steady accumulation Of downtown
trains all along the line TO and beyond Twenye!gnt
Il. The passengers got out aIu "dlieu uo"H I'M
line 10 the TWenty-thdst. statOh'