New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-08
EXCURSION TRAINS CRASH.
PASSENGERS INJURED ON THEIR WAY TO
COMFY ISLAND.

ACCIDENT on THE BROOKLYN. BATH AND WEST
END ROAD -pAN1C-sTRICKEN PEOPLE
CROWD ONE ANOTHER FROM THE
OPEN CARS.
Several hundred people were spilled in pro-
miscuous heaps from train bound ior Oohes
Island on the Brooklyn Bath and West End
Railroad yesterday Fully twenty were injured
some OF them seriously Six heavily loaded cars
on which the brakes refused TO work, crashed
into the rear Of five other cars equally heaVHy
loaded. The passengers in the rear section ha'
seen the impending danger, and many of them
attempted to jump from the open cars. IL was
this that caused the great proportion of the IN
urios The occupants of all the cars but two
wore thrown from their seats with great violence
| by the force Of the collision.
Since tbe opening of the big terminal cut con-
Meeting the West End Road with New ork by
way Of the Thirty y-ninth-st Ferry. the road mas
run two sections of a train simultaneously from
the ferry and the Union station. at thirty
ST. and Fifth-ave. Brooklyn The ilrst secuoh'
which comes up through the cut. precedes the
other section &c West Brooklyn station. and waits
| tlcre for the second section. which is drilled
down the track TO he coupled to the other cars
The train which left the Thirty-SiXth-st. Union
station at 3 30 p. IN. yesterday. was due at west
| BROOKLYN four minutes later. IL was composHo OF
six more cars, under the charge OF Magulre aS
! conductor. and was manned by three brakcmen
Az thc train approached tie first section which
vas awaiting II, the engine took hylhS SWITCH,
and thc six cars shot on down the main track
On brakeman named Kisner rested the response
Tirity of checking the momentum of the detached
cars The brake chain broke and Kisner sig
nailed frantically for down brakes to the rear
| cars where the other two brakemen were.
The conductor OF the forward section shouted
TO his engineer TO pull forward; and the engine
gave snort as the order was obeyed. 1he sud-
! den movement parted the second and third cars
and the engine pulled ahead with only two cars
| out OF danger.
There were probably 1000 men, women and
| children on the two sections, and there was a
! friehtful panic when the crash came. Many
| thought that the forward section had been tec-
scored. and they fairly threw themselves from
the ears. ndiscrimnatcly treadins upon one an
other. More injuries were caused by people jump
| ing or being crowded from the cars than Dy the
force Of thc collision. Tho three conductors ana
| five brakemen, in charge OF the eleven cans, ana
some Of the more cool-hcaded passengers, tired
in vain 10 stay the panic by assurances that the
danger over.
The list of those who were injured will probably
wick-avo. Brooklyn. was thrown from his seat
NJ tbe side of the last car. falling on the track
below. breaking his leg below the knee and cut-
ting a rash in his wrist Miss Annie Keerney, OF
M l1o Thirty-nlnth-st Brooklyn, was thrown
Violently on the back OF the scat in front Of her,
cutting wicked cash in her forehead and bruis-
ine her face badly. Young George B. Palmer. son
~ DR. J. G. Palmer No $50 Eleventh-st.. South
| BROOKLYN, was thrown half way through the WIN
dow Of a closed car gashng his face ana stripping
/ a niece Of flesh oil his eyclid large cash was
ako cnt in his forehead and his right nostril was
! completely slit for the depth of an inch. Herman
Zsclinski. of No % Fourtecnth-st was cut on
the forehead and had his arm scrapcd of the feSh
bv being caught between two seats and helu plileu
tirhtly while the crowd got ont. George llhi'lh'
423 Hamburg-avc,. Brooklyn. had frightful cash
which extended vertically from the riqht eye hall
way up his forehead. made by being thrown from
tho car and striking the rail below. AUGUST
Rodin. No 339 Frnnklin-ave. Brooklyn, wac badly
pashcd over tine forehead and the side OF MS
face wa. skinned by his being thrown against
one of the uprighs AT the side Of the ear ana orc'
bodily out of the ear, falling full length on MS
face and severely wrcnchiug his arm
Mrs Gazv. Of No 100 Concord 81, BROOKLYN
WIS thrown lrtm the car and badly cub about
the head. Thomas Gayins, No. f2 Fourtccnth-s'''
Drooklyn. had a deep cut over the right eye
Mrs Klcntz. No. lG2 IIopkinsaye, jersey 'lty,
had her spnc seriously injured Warren Buck
boltz. No $50 Atlantic-ave Brooklyn, had his
face cut.
Dozens of passengers were more or less bruised
and sonle women and children were overcome by
the shock One baby, which had been resting IN
its mothers lap, was thrown from the ear SIlK'
| iro fine Ground several feet from the track. lts
| injuries were serious.
There seemed TO BE- no physicians on tie train,
nor are there any at West Brooklyn. Charles
Fellows. Iilon H. sawyer. and other summer
residents Of the village FASTENED 20 the station
with lint and arnica, and tied up the injured
paescnecrs. and set, as we'll aS they could, Eek
stems broken leg. Several phy sicans were al'er-
ward brought from Blythebourn". Several of the
injured people among whom was man with II
broken arm who declined 10 tell his name were
placed on the cars and taken buck 10 Brooklyn,
| where they were met by ambnlances
| K few Of the thousand pleasure cseckers whose
Journey had been thus rudcly interrupted, re-
turned TO Brooklyn and Ncwlork. The rest
Waltel AT the West Brooklyn station until the
| track could lc cleared and regular tralhc re-
sumed. when they went toward the scashorr;
| Little damage was done 10 The ears pNold
the breaking Of Il cogwheel or two. and the break
ing of the windows in the single closed ear III the
| frort section This is the third acclicnt that mas
| Iap,ened on the West End Road within fort
ni-nt