New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-15
KILLED BY A CABLE CAR.
PATRICK ]. CONLEY STRUCK DOWN IN
FRONT OF PAIMER'S THEATRE.
lie WAS ROLLED OVER AND OVER BY TIE CAR,
AND BEFORE 1T COULD DE- STOPPED HIS
NECK WAS EROKEN-CONFUsE BY TIE

lie WAS ROLLED OVER AND OVER BY TIE CAR,
AND BEFORE 1T COULD DE- STOPPED HIS
NECK WAS BROKEN-CONFUsED BY TIE
GONGS-TIE GHTPMAN ARRESTED.
The Broadway cable claimed another victim
last evening when Patrick j. Conley, the gen.
eral superintendent of the Woonsocket Ruoper
Company's works. was crushed to death by one
of the cars almost directly in front OF Palmer
Theatre Many persons were at Broadway ana
Thrteth-st at $40 p. m.. when the acci"c"'
occurred, and they witnessed shochiHs
spectacle They a large. portly we'll
dressed man flung on the pavement ana rohed
over and over like football By the front end
of a car going uptown. until his neck was
broken and there was no sign OF lie lett III
his bruised body.
A crowd of excited men surrounded the car
and hooted at the gripman who was arres'ei
promptly. Then there was wait FOR an AMI
bulance which did not arrive until IL was
known that the injured man was dead fohce-
men carried the mans body to the police station
in West Thrteth-st, where his name ana
history were soon known.
Mr. Conlcy was forty-eight years old. and his
home was at Woonsocket. r. L. where ne hah
a wife and thirteen children. For twelve years
he had been the superintendent OF the rupDer
works there. and he also had overlooked the
building and operating of the company's works
at Providence, r. l., and at New-BrunswicK, y.
J. He left his home yesterday morning in
spected the works at Providence. and came TO
this city in the afternoon. expecting to be in
New Brunswick to-day. He hired room at
the Plaza Hotel for the night. and took dinner
therc About s D. m he left the hotel and
walked to Broadway. There he boarded cable
car going downtown probably intending To go
To the theatre In front Of which he was Killed.
lie left the ear at Thirtieth-st. and started to
cross Broadway diagonally toward the theatre
entrance
Persons who witnessed the accident said that
Mr. Conley appeared to be confused by the
jangling OF the bells the cars. He looked at
another car going downtown. following the one
from which he had just alighted and walked
directly in front OF No. 1902, which was go
ing uptown and crossing Thirtieth-st.
william McDcrmott, the gripman Of the car,
made a frantic effort to stop the car as Mr..
Conley was struck and knocked down by the
guard rail Mr. Coney fell across the track i'll
front of the car I'm such a position that his
head was caught between the buffer OF the
car and the pavement. Then. as the car still
eral times as it was dragged along on the
pavement. The car moved about thirty feet De-
fore McDermott coull stop II.
Several men ran to lift Mr.. Conley's body
and carry it to the sidewalk in front of the
theatre His head hung down in way that
showed that his neck had been broken, but the
mon i'm the crowd thought he was still living
Dr. W. washburn. of No. AZ Irving Place,
actfi oil oh tod
to apply restorativcs. while policemen sent for
an ambulance frcm the New-York Hospital.
Policeman Gallagher got on the car, placed Nc
Dcrmott under arrest. and told MN 10 take
the car To the END of the line in order not 10
delay travel. Many men In the crowd cried
out at the gripman accusing him of reckless
ness as the car mt on up Broadway
The ambulance arrived In front OF the theatre
twenty minutes after the accident occurred.
Mr. Conley had been dead several minutes. the
surgeon said Policemen then carried the body
To the station.
In Mr.. Conley's pbckets were found about $50.
a rosary and a receipt for pew rent in St.
Charltss Roman Catholic Church in Woon-
socket His name was on the band OF his over
coat and on "A handkerchief
the station. He said he was forty years old,
unmarried. and lived at No 500 West Forty
ninth-st
Joseph Banigan, the president of the Woon-
socket Rubber Company. the NewYork office
of which is at No. 81 Reade-st.. went to the
station last night and took charge of Mr..
COnleys body. He came from Providence, r. L..
last evening. and also took room at the Plaza
Hotel where he heard of Mr.. Conleys death.
He said that Mr.. COnlcy capable and
trustworthy man. Of most exemplary habits, and
was highly respected in Woonsockct.
The first Of the rubber company's works was
managed 80 satisfactorily by Mr.. Conley that
he was placed in charge of the newer works.
His body will be sent to Woonsocket for burial.
McDermou the gripman. said last night that
Mr.. Conley stepped in front of the car so
quickly that the accident could not be avoided.