New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-23
CABLE-CAR ACCIDENTS.
MANS LEG CRUSHED BETWEEN TWO
OF THEM IN BROADWAY.
AT ONE-HUNDRED- AND TWENTY -FIFTHsT. a
THIRDAvE CAR STRIKES MAMIE GRAsPs
THE HANDRAI. AND SAVES HIMSELF.
TNROI,GH

ALTHOUGH HE is DRAGGED TTIRorGH
THE MUD FOR FIFTY FEET.
A shocking accident occurred at 6:l5 o'clock
last night at Twenty -ninth-st. and Broadway
The victim Alfred Shreyer about hfty years
Old who lives at No 2S0 West Twenty-ninth-st''
and is a designer. employed 10y n man named
Rouss, wood engraver at No 50 Nassau-s'.
The man crushed between two cable cars
AID he will lose his right leg
Shortly after o'clock the cable cars bound
uptown were blocked from Fortysecond-st to
Twenty hth-st. Broadway was thronged at the
time. space at IN crossing large enough To
permit persons to pass from one side OF inc
street to the other was made by the gripmen
Cable cars Nos l6S and 173 were standing at
Broadway and Twenty -nnth-st.. the former IN
front and between the two was space OF ABOUT
five feet. through which pedestrians passed
Shreyer was on his way from work. and walked
up Broadway the east side Of the street. Al
the Twenty-ninth-st. corner he turned west. In
tending 10 cross the track Half dozen people
hurried over In front Of him. Just as he was
midway between the tracks car No. l13 started
quickly. and before he could reach place OF
safety his right leg pinioned between the
extension OF the rear platform Of car No. l6s ana
the front platform OF car No. l13. There was
Shrill cry OF PAIN from the Tlan Inc 'i""'
which saw the accident heard the and
hurried 10 the mans assistance. The gHpman
OF car No 49, whose name could not be learned
released the brakes and the car moved back ON
the grade Isaac Mann. district messenger
boy. working in the Office at No. 1927 Broadway
and Theodore Kirschoff. Of No. Forsyth-s'
saw the accident; and were the first TO hurry TO
Shreyers assistance.
tha Of
Shreycr. who was unconscious. and carried him
into A store Policeman Fitzgerald. Of the West
Twentleth-st station. called In. and he sent
out a call 10 the New-York Hospital for an
ambulance. while citizen telephoned to Belle
vuc for another.
In the mean time Michael Lehmair ~ ~. JOG
East Eighty -nrs,-st. hurried t. Dr Twins office,
so II Wet Twcniy-nnth-st. He found the
doctor In his onico and explained the case t.
him. but the doctor refused 10 give medical aid.
unless according t. Mr.. Lehman. he received
siO for his trouble Dr William : Han.
II ~ East Thirtloth-st. was summoned. and
did what he could for The injured man. He
stancheI the How ~ blood until the arrival u
tre bellevue Hospital ambulance. which reached
the scene twenty minutes after the call was
sent out The NcW-York Hospital ambulance
dd not arrive until the injured man on his
Bellevue and Dr. Hal. shrcycr win surely lose
a lex.
The system used by the Thlr!-ave. able road
et the crossing at ThIrd-sve. and one hundred
an1-,wenty -nftn-s, was yestcrtny productive ~
an accident which came near being fatal AZ
the junction tn, cables u the Thrd-asc ana ihe
nc-hundred- nd twenty hith-st roads CT 81 each
other the hundred -and-;wenty- ~. cable
being above the other. When the Thfd-aVe
cars cross Onc-hunired-and-twe -hfih-si.. they
let gO the grip and are carried across the street
by their momentum. IL has been the subjeci %,
wonder that serious accidents hav" not been q,
almost daily occurrence on account ". thc speed
with which these cars cross the street which u
crowded with people at all hours oi the day ana
evening. A. O'Clock yesterday afternoon George
/. Lewis an Insurance agent. and his "!e. VINO
live at No. ii2 West One-hundred- -ani-thirly-
thirI-st allghtci from northbound Third-aYe
car al the north side " nr-hundrei nni-twenty-
nfth-st with the Intention II taking "A one nun
dred-and-twenty .hfth-st car westward lhry
stepped behind the car from which they had just
aIghied and started for the west side ~ thc
avenue. Just "a they reached the track on me
ives, side. without the least warning. sou'h-
bound cam" rushing along under iuIl hei'-
way Mr. Lewis. who was In front ~ his VIE,
was struck by the dashboard ~ The car WIN
the instinct Of preservation MI Lewis fea,h'n
upward az h- fell and graspcd the handraiI o'
the car holding On with the energy ~ despair
and managing To keep himself UP suihcehuy 20
prevent his being dragged under uhr car. he
was half carried. half dragged. a distance 81 ~
feet before the grlpman could stop the car Wheh
the car brought 20 a strndstlI fonceinah
Kipp and several citizens rushed 10 MT. i~"'S
assistance He still held on to the hanirail. al
though he was almost exhausted. ana his cIoth-
Ing from the waist dOwn. Was covered WIN me
mud through which he had been dragged. lie
was badly bruised. The grpnan. Isaac Bo"run,
OF No l2i Cherry-st.. was arrested by Policeman
Kipp and taken 10 the East One-hundred-anl-
tw enty-s!Xth-st. station. followed by a cfN'" I
MIR Lewis went home I'm n coach. HIS injuries
were not considered dangerous.
Shortly after o'clock last night Addie NUN
sOrd. colorcd. Of No. 90 West sixty ninth-si. /
while aliphting from a nnrthbound cablc-car AT
Seventy -ninth-si. and Columbus was
thrown against an elevated railroad pillar ana
sustained slight Injuries about the head. She
was attended by ambulance surgeon ana
went home.
An hour later John Kecshaw. homeless man |
who for the last two days has been worklhR |
on the cable track at Sixty-scvcnth-st. and |
Ninth-avc. was struck by southbound cable |
and sustained two severe scalp wounds. ana |
was removed to Roosevelt Hospital.