The sun., 1894-11-25
TRAGEDYON THE ELEVATED
DIR. WHITTEMoRE KILLED TRYING
TO SAVE HIS FRIEND BLsLEK.

wrerehee Himself Free .nd Jumped Re-
fore .. E,ei.e-whitteuore Trr,bies Be-
tween ths Car. sad the Pi.trer---B.--
Iey's Brothers,-L.w Thi-hs ne May
Have Hsa an Attack OF Vertigo.
Three well-dressed men Of middle ago entered
the uptown station Of the Sixth avenue elevated
road at Cortlsndt and Church streets q few min
utes after o'clock last night The FIRST man
that passed the ticket agents window showed In
a quarter and asked for three tickets. II IA
surmised that the three men were friends.
Soon after they reached the platform one
Of the men, who, II was afterward found,
was George H. Basley Of 30s West 12eth street,
was seen engaged In . struggle with one of his
companions, DR.. Francis s. Whettemore. Basley
talked In dogged undertone, and what he said
was not heard by the ticket chopper, Joseph
Schreiber, nor by any Of the six or seven passen-
gers on the platform. There was an impression
on the part Of at least four of these passengers
that the two men were skylarking.
Instead, the Doctor was making an effort TO
restrain his friend from jumping on the track
before q train that had just left Rector street
and was within half q block Of the south end Of
the station. lust as the headlight flashed upon the
struggling men Basley partly released himself
from the grip of his friend and tumbled, rather
than jumped from the last of the ten-foot open
ings between the station guard rails. Basley, II
is said, made no sound. He was struck by the
locomotive, which passed over him. crushing
him into insensibility.
The engineer, John Auryansen, aveteran Of the
road, saw Basley struggling with his friend and
partly OWNED his purpose. He Immediately
put the brakes hard down. II was impossible
TO check the momentum of the train 30 that It
would not pass the southernmost opening be-
tween the guard rails.
The engineer saw that DIR. whsttemore in his
zeal to save his friend from death was going TO
meet the Same fate. After releasing his hold on
Basley the Doctor lost his equilibrium and tip
ped forward. falling between the station plat
form and the front platform Of the bar next the
locomotive.
His body did not reach the track; It was
caught between the edge of the car floor and the
edge of the station platform and rolled from the
first opening nearly TO tho second opening bc-
tween the guard rails, somewhat more than half
the length Of tho car. The Doctor screamed As
he fell. The life was crushed out of him al
most instantly.
When tho locomotive was stopped, about nf-
teen feet north of the second opening between
the guard rails, nearly opposite the ticket ofce.
the UPPER half of whittemore's body fell for
ward lifelees on the station platform. The third
man. who had taken no part in the effort to re-
strain Basley from destroying himself, disap-
peared.
1t happened that an ambulance from the Hud-
son Street Hospital had been called to the
Church street station, only block away from
the scene Of the accident. TO take away
Nicholas Smith, . sick and destitute sailor
man The ambulance bad Just started TO
leave the police station when Ticket Agent
Benjamin Courier ran in and told Sergeant
Burns In q few hurried words what had hap
pened. He said IL would be necessary
to cut out the body Of whittemore. A
squad OF policemen. consisting Of Rounds
man William Butler and Patrolmen Cole
man, Fitzsimmons, Becker, and McKenna,
carrying axes, went up TO the station with Sur
geon CRANKY. who had been caught Just under
the Cortland street station. DIR. CRANKY ran up
stairs and felt the wrist of DR.. Whittemore and
declared that he was dead.
The policemen began at once to chop of the
woodwork floor of tho little raised stepping plat
form, about two feet wide. The wood was
pretty hard, and II took them nearly i've min
utes TO hew away the wood and extricate
the body. Other policemen had meanwhile
stepped down on the track TO recover
the body of Basley. Basley's right wrist
was almost severed, his body was covered with
bruises, and his skull apparently was fractured.
He was still alive, but unconscious. He was
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