New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-12
SMASH o. THE ELEVATED.
PASSENGERS SE-RELY BRUISED AND CUT.
TWO WOMEN sERI;SLY INJURED. But 80 ONE
E1LLFD-COLMsN CAUSED By THE BLOW

TWO WOMEN SEHISLY INJURED, But NJ On
EGLFD-COLL1sN CAUSED BY THE BLOW
ING OUT o cYLINDERnEAD.
Whether the blunrny Of a switchman the
reclleSeness OF an cine driver Is responsible Tor
collision between w crowded trains on the sixth
Avenue Elevated Rabad last night By which iour-
teen people were mo less seriously injured i
a, vet unknown. r officials Of the line, acting
under Colonel Hahn roncad rules, maintain their
usual attitude Of reidlcnce. refuse 10 tell any
thing. No He'd outright: 10 one OF 'he
pas .engers Is in dangcrl death. and there is no Ke
hood Of troublesome oroner's inquest with imper-
tinent inquiries into e Elevated Railroad Com
pany's business. TWAS just half past seven
O'Clock when train NO20o drawn by engine NO
o42, and bound upowmoved out OF the sta'ioh III
West One-hundred-and' enty -fith-,t for what re-
manned of It's journey uown. All through the la'e
afternoon and early eveng The traffic had been cN-
ceedingly heavy and Onhs train there were al least
200 people. The big acs,on OF holiday travel had
delayed trains all along 10 line. and engine NO. az
obeyng the signals fronOne hundred and thirty i'h
ST. moved slowly out Ofhe nehundred ana twenty
ffth.st station. Almos immediately behind taih
No. 209 came another wlch had been waiting ABOUT
fifty yard. down The lindor chance TO reach ohe-
hundred and .twcnty-Hfth As the last car Of train
No. 200 cleared the Staon engine No Il' puIicu
into The station. ant AFR moments wait started
for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hrt -hfth-st
By The time the nai aEead OF II had rcachel
within fifty feet south Of hundred and-twenty
sXth-st.. there a shtt. sharp snap followed Oy
d g,Ish 4 steam. and The train stopped 'y ihdeF
hcsd OF thc engine hid i0wn oUt. Ihelc W.T. ''f
train behind. scarcely ucny yards away ana coming
on ain 81 at fi,n speed Ienry Henderson. TIE enE
III" danger. siut III steam ana reversal 'l'
engine. But he t,o Lite. While his hand wa
SIN on Tie Their, terrific jerk jolt. aud
~ f. of
Of the fr, train. and ,hat. wish the force Of the
collision. reared right up IA. Under licndes son ;
efforts the train had slacSene speed. But i1r u l.
the rear car would have ben telescop"d lh'
platform ,;dls were smashed II splntc:s. and every
window in the train SHATTERED.
The passengers IN the first thin had notice. the
stop. hit were unpware Of their danger urtl here
came q terrific tsra the cars seemed TO hcave and
roll. and the next thing they kew ihey were FlhS
about he floor OF the car over IN" -clt mccaAn0IN
shielding thor faces ard eyes from the shower "i
srnteIed wood and broken glass that Tined gown o'
them foIu above Then in a moment they saw t'e'i
danger, and Wild screams Of terror burst from 'h"n
lips. The women lay saspine flnting or hys'e:'"iN
sobbuc The men. many With blood pouring dow
their faces made mad rush fOr the doors. foilce
men Murtha and Buckley and o Dr.. Donohuc ha'
heard the crash from The street below ana momen
later had reached the platform and forcing lhei
way into the car. Through the front entrance OF III
rear cag Buckley Mur,ha and the doctor drove Wci
way a.d, having treasured The passengers, s'ar'e'
to help the injured people out on the platform
One by one the sufferer, weie helped ont To IN
platform and taken Downstairs 10 the Hotel Hamilton
and after being attended. sent direct to their home
or 10 the homes OF friends. The only pasScnsc
seriously burt Miss Agnes Lyons. was lifted bodii
out OF her scat and thrown to the further end OF III
aisle The shock brought 81 Il hemD"rhasc from T..
lungs in addition 10 which she has sustained tHVcr'
internal Injuries Having been tended al the iiaml
ton Hotel Miss Lyons who * eighteen yeats old an
lives a, No l6l Eat one hundred anf-scvcnt"enll st.
wa, taken 10 the home OF Mrs DuI-cc. nj the Cosmr
poItan Flats- ore hundred and thirty ATHEIST an
Eighth ave. Mr.. Kac liodskins. r,y years on
so 1856 West one hundred aud hlty -hrSiSt., Hes u
the Hamilton Hotel in badly shaken condillon an
1t is believed that she - Injured III
,ernaiy. Mrs. r. Bower, Frank ilib'on: MI
Nncevinc ]. F. LpwIey. Mrs. and Mis- Werner
Mrs Kate Frank Rogers and several other passenger
we're more or less bruised shaken. Wlllien
Brown, the conductor OF the ran. Ia, two ffac'u 9
fibs But he. like the rest. preferred u 20 T. ~
home. Henderson. the engineer vanished immc II
sielv after he collision. and could not be founi
peforc his disappearance he said that n" white "a
rlchtT sicnni showed plainly II, his engine cleare
the station. ON the other hand II IS asserted TIA
The danger signal was Nirned on simultaneously 81
the sioppagc Of the fist engine. ard that II ndtr or
with reasonable quckne's could have stopped IA
train I'm time 10 avoid n collision. For mpre lhai
an hour gang OF men worked Ike h'aver' b. clca
the line. but II was nearly . O'Clock BEFORE ih'h
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