New-York tribune., 1894-03-02
ACCIDENTS IN THE FOG.
DAMAGE DUE TO THE DENSE MIST on
LAND AND WATER.
TEN COLLISIONS on THE BROOKLYN ELEVATED
RoADs-sEvERAL on THE NETWORK LINES
NO LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED-FERRY-
BOATS BANG INTO EACH OTHER
DEsPITD CONSTANT PRE-


BOATS BANG INTO EACH OTHER
DESPITE CONSTANT PRE-
CAUTIONS.
A dense fog hung over the city and its surround
ing rivers and bays yesterday morning IL maNe
river traffic slow and dangerous. ana COLLISIONS '
the elevated roads frequent All the ferry WheS
were bothered by the dense bank OF mist '"'oue'
which the boats had steer. and the Sounu steam
ers did not dare come down by IhrogB Mem
until the fog lifted The Staten Island ferrypod'S
ran at reduced speed. their plots steering D! COM
pass and finding their slips at either end OF 'he
route by the sound of the fog bells ringing on the
end OF the piers There continued tootnE
of whistles from the ferryboats cropping their way
through the obscurity and a continued changing OF
bells from the ferry slips along the shore'
FERRY-BoATs CRASH TOGETHER
In the hours of the early forenoon hghterage
traffic was entirely suspended The ferries running
10 any considerable distance were all late nh.i
Q o'clock when the fog lifted, and the ordinary
traffic Of the river and bay was resumed. Ihere
were several collisions in the fog between Terry
boats and many others were narrowly aVerten
The ferry-boats Arizona and Oregon. OF the Grand
st ferry came in collision about o'clock. The
Oregon was just leaving her slip on the New-fork
side and the Arizona JUS. leaving the ad)oh-
ing one The Oregon had her starboard rail carried
away and received other damage. Charles VIM
gerter seventeen years old. Of NO "5 Hart-st'
Rrooklvn who was standing the forward deck
of the Arizona was struck by the flying wood or
the smashed rails and had his legs injured. He
was removed 10 Gouveneur Hospital Several peo-
pl> on both boats were thrown down by the force
of the collision, but not seriously injured
The Erie ferTy-boats Pavona and Erie ran to-
gether in the ferry Slips at Jersey City at $50
O'Clock yesterday morning The passengers We're
badly shaken up, but no one was hurt Ihe fog
was so thick that the pilot of the Pavonia could
not see that the Erie still lying in the slip.
he cd D A
Payonia and Susquehanna narrowly escaped a
collision.
There were several minor collisions reported by
noon from which serious damage resulted. There
were large fields of ice in the bay. but they were
so soft and spongy that steam vessels experienced
no difficulty from them.
DAMAGE IN BROOKLYN.
The dense fog in Brooklyn yesterday morning
caused a series of accidents the line OF the Brook
lyn elevated railroad East New-Iork. but no
serious damage done. except delaying traVei
on one track for time. In all there were ten rear
end collisions, but the trains were moving Slowly
they were by no means serious as might have
been expected. At 7:15 a. m four-car train drawn
nv Engine No 20. stopped on the up
,,ound track at Manhattan Crossing and
Broadway for coal 1t is said that no hagman
was sent to the train following lhis was
drawn by Engine No 70, and was in charge oil En-
gineer Graves and Fireman Davis. When 1t neared
Manhattan Crossing. running at a slow rate OF
sneed the train in advance seen close in front
in the fog and the engineer reversed his lever ana
put on the air-brakes. but not soon enough TO aVold
collision. His engine teescOped the rear car lot
some distance and then recoiled so as to smash the
forward car of the train it was attached To- ne
fireman was caught in the wreck ana ms IishO
ankle was crushed Ihe eng eHgpeGF ber GaRn
gers in the two trains. and they were nDI Hul' q
all Davis. the injured fireman. was taken to ST.
Johns Hospital.
PIIING Up THE WRECKS.
In the excitement no one sent to the rear
OF the blocked train, and in few moments another
train appeared in the fog and smashed into Vne
rear car 1t was drawn by Engine No. 5o ana 'he
engineer and fireman got out of danger. In quicH
succession the trains drawn by Engines Nos. anu
bs crashed into the wreck. and then came Engines
Nos l. 6S a. 80 and 81. all adding to the damage:
those before mentioned. Finally signals We're sen,
TO the 05hsp broken glass
and engines jammed together We're the & cn!S. -
hours TO get the track clear, and meanwhile tne
other track used for traNel IN noih H.
TneTe IascS,ns was the e0fs9gPa0e Bridge. OV''
fesel Seversl more trains might have been added to
the wreck. stretching from Manhattan Crossing To
Conway-st had not John Braisied OF Engine ON %
pany 10 o. who passenger on one of the
the and waved his red-lined coat and stoPpel
a train just leaving the Chauncey-St station; Gen
eral Manager Barton said mat the damage 9y t IN,
he had found many incompetent men on the n Tpac a.
since he took charge and that their places would be
gneers and brakeman will be opened under his
direction.
COLLISIONS on ELEVATED ROADS.
\ The fog made travel the elevated roads in thi:
u city SLOW and caused several collisions in spite OF
the precautions taken by the railroad company &
prevent accidents The engineers the roads coulC
see only few yards ahead Of the locomotives
T'rackmen. porters and other employees Of the rail
road company stationed along the lines at fre
quent intervals flag trains which running
trains abe oaH NJ h. Ger
were cautious when the way clear. ana the!
delayed the trains behind them; Trains which ordi
minutes took an hour for the rip yesterday
ing and many persons were late in getting TO thei
places Of employment in the lower part Of the city
AT a. m; train on the secondary line at one
hundred -andseventh-st was stopped by train ahea
of it and was run into by the t@liowlnE train wnic
fortunately was going slowly Ihe trains were goln
downtown and were crowded with passengers. tn
rear platform of the last car of the train that wa
run into was smashed ana the WINDOWS OF me ca
were broken but the passengers all escaped injury
THE locomotive Of the rear train was thrown fror
ssrack there was a lay OF half an hour in travt
,on the line The accident threw a heavier burden q
About the same time there was rear-end colliso
the ne al Ton Tbcb wa gor au SSy n2I
,tjon. AS both trains were moving slowly. however
The collision dd not cause serious damage and II
.person was hurt
wHERD THE BLAME LAY.
A drunken passenger on one Of the trains Of III
Ninth-ave line made such disturbance that
was necessary TO eject him from car at III
Chrstopher-st station. The train delayed
the station longer than usual second trai
which was close behind stopped in time. but
was run into by third train which rounded tn
curve AT Twelfth-st and ran past the hagmaI
The engineer saw the signal in time TO bring hi
train neatly t stop before running into the othe
train. and there serious damage by tn
collision. but the passengers on the second tral
were jOstled and badly scared.
Colonel Hahn. the superintendent OF the Man
haitian Railway Company. said that there woul
be Investigations determine why the collision
had occurred. He appeared TO think that the engi
neers had run past the block signals in each case.
PASSENGERS From THE WEST INDIES
Among the passengers who arrived here yeser
day on the Quebec line steamer Caribbee from tn