The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-04
BRIDGE CAR
TOPPLES over.
Only Three Persons In 1t
When It Falls IltO
the Driveway.
NO ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED.
The Car Was the Rear One
Of a Tran from Brooklyn
and Jumped the Track.
TRAFFIC EACH WAY DELAYED.
The Train Had Only lust Started
from the Brook yn Station and
Was Runaing Slowly.
TRAFFIC EACH WAY DELAYED.

a panic was caused at the Brooklyn
end of the bridge this afternoon by one
Of 4 train of cars jumping the track and
topping over the driveway some ten feet
below.
Only three people were in the car when
1t fell, a woman and two conductors.
The woman tainted. No one was injured.
The train leaving Brooklyn at 3l5
o'clock had just reached the curve,
about sixty feet from the pla tform. when
the last car of the train, No. 50, suddenly
jumped the track and the forward
wheels went scraplng over the ties. The
frs. three cars of the train had taken
the cable and were whirling car No. So
along at II rapid rate.
In a twink.ing the car topped over into
the roadway.
There were four men and two women
in the ear. besides the conductors, Ru-
iolph Il: Hunt aud James Clark. The
men and one Of the women ran into the
car next IN front AS soon az the rear
No one was seriously injured; The
woman ,sinted .,6 but hreaoysrsd a and
The car in it's downward flight struck
the little frame signal-house, In whlcii
Thomas w. Wooten usually sits and
rings gong as the cars take up the
cable.
the house was knocked into, kndling
wood and Wooten received few
scratches. The crash OF the car along
the tracks and the fall created a wild
scene on the station platform;
The police seemed powerless for a
large crowd that was walking on the
promenade rushed over to the point
where the car fell and caused a jam;
The roadway from Brooklyn was choked
Nil n x.ahi al nd la ct
the police got the better or the crowd
and order was restored,
Chief Trainmaster Prince took charge
of the wreck and began to clear away
waiting at at the entrance, but they
were sent away empty. The car lies
across the road led, completely block
Travel from Brooklyn on the cable
cars was delayed about forty-fve min
utes.
nearly total wreck.
No theory is advanced by the man
agement or employees MS to the cause
T. NJ. Wooten, the lever man. who
passes the cable to the trains, had II
most miraculous escape fror,, death.
hoe had h dHst w st%Feea to ae ne S havns
passed the cable to the 3.l5 train, and
was preparing to sit down when /
hear a terrific crash and / found my.
ser lying w tne ullouie ~ ". W, 49,,
with the wreckage of the guard-house
lying on top and all around me.
" About three feet to the west OF
where | lay. was what seemed to my
daZed senses, huge mountain, but
which afterwards recognized to be the
wrecked car. ! extricated myself from
the debris and found to my relief that
the only injury ] had sustained was a
triing bruse on the left wrist.
The curve at the Brooklyn end of the
bridge has always been considered a
dangerous place, and it has frequently
been predicted by those familiar with
railroading that II would sooner or
later be the scene of an accident. Had
the accident occurred during the rush
hours OF the morning the loss of life
would have been very large.