The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-05
HURT ON A GRADE CROSSING.
TEN STREET CIR P4SSENG ERS IN
JtRED BT IN ENGINE.
A Reading Railroad Crossing In Philadelphia
Which Was Well Guarded nv wntchnen
ana by Gntcs-Thc Engtuc Was Not seen.

A Reading Railroad Crossing In philadelphia
Which Was Well Guarded nv wntchnen
ana by Gntes-Thc Engiuc Was Not seen.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. "A Rca ling shifting
engine wrecked a bobtai car OF tho Jefferson
and Master street branch OF the Traction
Compnny's system ut American street and
Columbia avenue at S:l5 o'clock tonight
Two persons were fatally injured and eight
others were badly hurt Tho list is:
BALLERjtAN, SaNun. ~, ~; North SIXTH street. Sc.
vere injuries about body AMI legs.
CuNSiNGniN, WILLIAM r.. 81 years. 1Ilo Tnp street.
conductor on seventeenth and Nineteenth street line
OF traction company left log broken. severe scalp
wound and otherwise injured. wilt probably die
CARkouGm Ihzzf, IL years. 2i3i Mo.ch-r street:
right leg broken. cut about face and internally In.
jursd; will probably die.
CARSouGm. EsxA. ~. No lt25 Park avenue. injured
about head and face.
DELANEY JAM AZ No. Ta2 seybert street, Injuries
about body severe confusion OF left hip.
DrASry. Rosx. IL. 1907 Howard street, severe in.
juries Of leg.
McERLANr Bnrefr. 10. l7s Columbia avenue; in.
jured about body and cut with glass.
McApoo. ELsLiSy, II, 2.soy Rose i street. bruised
about body.
RICHARDS MARY. 40. $500 Rose Iil street, bruised
about body.
WARD. Jons. 10 Cadwaader street. above oxford.
right leg terribly laceratod.
The car was driven by Charles Pierce and
nnu JUST BIATtcQ on inc tTlCkS on INC
grade crossing. when shifting engine NJ. $40.
John Cobson engineer. bore down upon 1t,
struck the rear platform. and topplcd it over.
1t contained twenty passengers The shreks
OF the passengers alarmed tho whole neigh
borhood at once. and soon hundreds OF people
ran to the spot.
The police were summoned Mt once and
those badly injured were taken to St Mary's
Hospital. At the point where the accident oc.
Cured the kendin: road has safety gates and
they were being attended by Patrick lIunlon.
an experienced mnn.
The Traction company MISC employs n flag
Charles Pierce. the driver Of the horse rar.whp
also acts rs conductor. gave this version Of
the accident:
II was coming east on Columbia avenue.
and seeing tho gates M supposed that nll was
right and drove on. No sooner had my horses
reached tho tracks Of the railroad than ! saw
nm engine bearing down on me. and knew
that | must be struck unless l could get
across the tracks. ! dashed UP my horses
and the next thing heard was a crash on tho
were carried down the tracks; l jumped for
my life. clearing the wreck. Tho force OF tho
blow detached the horses from the car and
they escaped. then saw that the gate he
Patrick Hanlon. the gate tender. said that
he lowered the gate. as was his custom. rs
soon as tho horse car passed under it. John
Riley. the tlagman employed by the traction
rened. The first thing ho knew. OF 1t was
when tho engin.. struck the car and he heard
the shricks Of the passengers
Even John Ward. VINO was walking across
the track on the south side Of Columbia ave-
nue.. could not tell how the hing happened.
The first thing h saw was the horse car COM
ing toward him sideways. and he found him
self in the wreck.