New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-17
A CABLE-CAR SMASH UP.
PASSENGERS THROWN OUT AND THE
THIRD AVENUE ROAD BLOCKED.
GENERAL rANGLE OF vEHICLEs-A FEW PER-
SONS SLIGHTLY INJURED-THE ACCIDENT
DUE TO WAGON LEFT STAND
INC IN THE STREET

ING IN THE STREET.
A downtown cable-car and uptown car and
trailer came into collision with a business wagon
belonging to Jacob Meyer of No 2s Rivington-
st. at Ffth-st. and Third-ave.. at $3.50 last night.
The wagon was smashed into kindling-wood one
Of the cars was thrown from the track ana the
Messengers it contained escaped. bruised and
dirty glad to have come alive out OF the SMASH
up. The road was blocked from rwenty-third-st.
to the Postoffice for over an hour. While
wrecking gang from the power-house at Bayard-
at cleared away the debris and replaced the In
jured car upon the rails.
The story given out by the passengers who were
tumbled out OF the and the two cable-car
gripmen attributed the accident to piece OF care
Iessness on the part OF the men who should have
had the wagon In charge. The vehicle was stand
ing at the corner of Fifth-st when the uptown
car came along. Apparently there was no one
In charge OF II. Its owner had lent II FOR the oay
to a neighbor who had sent 1t out IN charee Oh
his driver. All that is known of the latter Is that
his name is Mcclellan
When the motorman saw the wagon stahu'ns
in the track in front of the uptown car before ne
could apply the brake his car crashed INTO the
wagon. knocking it sideways into the path OF
car and heavy trailer on its way downtown on
the other track.
In q moment the three cars and the horse ana
wagon We're thrown together in tangle The
uptown car was thrown from the track. and the
twenty cd passengers Il contained jumped lor
their lives One OF them. John Manning. OF NO
65 Fifth-st was struck by the shaft or the
wagon. which rippe up the left leg OF MS uou-
and severely crushed the limo
There were between twenty and thirty women
among the passengers in the three cars. and their
terrified screams and the plunging Of Myer' $
horse which was pinned between the cars, ADDED
to the confusion Of the wreck. The bystandcrs
and the nearest policeman who hurried 10 tne
spot did not know where 10 begin 10 disen'ahe'e
the mass A dozen had stopped on each
track in front and behind the wreck before any
thing could be done. Then the cabe-road men
who came from the junction OF the cables near
Cooper Union telephoned 10 the power mouse at
Bayard-st. and the Bowery for a wreckins ere"
and began TO clear the road
The horse was got out but slipped from the
men who were holding him and dashed up
Fourth-ave until he stopped by ponce-
man.
cleared and the slight wounds received by one
or two Of the passengers on the car were uresseu
by an ambulance surgeon who was called from
Bellevue Hospital. John sullivan and ThomaS
Burke the gripmen In charge OF the uptown car
and the downtown car and It's trailer. TOOK tnelr
disabled vehicles to the depot. where they were
both placed under arrest. They were then taken
down to the Fifth-st. station where tney Were
locked I'd They will be arragned In forkville
Court this morning charge OF criminal care
from blame by the witnesses Of the accident last
night All the responsibility for the ACCIDENT was
laid by the passengers on the missing driVer OF
the wagon.