The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-20
4 REAR END COLLISION.

Crash on Brooklyn Bridge-Iwo Men Bad ly Hurt-One Died From shock-Con-
 duetor Hurled Twenty Feet-Fog ob-
 seured signals.
 New York, Nov. 2O.--A bad smash-up occurred near the Brooklyn end of the big bridge at 7:2O o'clock this morning in which two men were so seriously in- jured that at first it was thought they would die before night. One man had both his legs cut off His body was hurled into the middle of car from the rear platform. Both were bruised about the body and sustained internal injuries.
 The injured and dead men are: Thomas Cooper, twenty-seven years old, conductor on the train, of 1S1 Dikeman street, Brooklyn; taken to the Homeopathic hospital; both legs cut off.
 George Granite, twenty-eight years old, a passenger on the train, of $40 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street. this city, leg badly crushed; taken to the Brooklyn hospital, where his leg was amputated. He died at l1:45 o'clock.
 The accident occurred just at the time when the heavy fog was thickest, One train was standing west of the Brooklyn terminal waiting for the train ahead to be switched over to the west | bound track. A second train bound from this city came bowling along at a high rate of speed, and evidently the conductor could not see the train ahead until he was within a few feet of it. He put on the brakes, but it was too late.
 The train crashed into the one ahead of 1t, telescoping the rear car and hurling before 1t the two injured men, who were standing on the rear plat | form.
 The train which caused the collision was composed of four cars-Nos. 57 72, 65 and 46. It left the terminal on this side of the bridge at TIA o'clock. The train upon which the injured persons were preceded it by ninety seconds. | Before the accident occurred an en- zine had been derailed, causing the de- lay of trains.
 | AN W @hhoh1lAANNLFleho <AioO@AAND' | There were not more than twenty-five or thirty passengers in each of the two | trains, Travel from New York to Brooklyn at this hour of the morning is always light. Had the accident oc. cured a little later, or had the collision been on the westbound instead of the eastbound track, the loss of life would have been large.
 As it was, however, all the passengers in both trains were badly shaken up and many more or less bruised. Many were hurled from their seats to the floor.
 The bridge police immediately after the accident turned in general alarm for ambulances. The first to arrive were those from Brooklyn and Homoeo- pathic hospitals. rs 1 By the time the ambulances arrived the wreckers and train hands had cut the mass of broken timbers and bent irons between the two cars and had extricated the legs of the injured. The men were then lowered down to the east bound roadway and placed in the | ambulances.
 The sight of Conductor Cooper's con- dition made many who saw him al- most faint. He was moaning piteously and was very badly injured.
 The platform was jammed with Brooklynites bound for this city. They pushed and crowded despite the efforts of the police to force them back into the | street. The staircases leading from both elevated railroads and from the street were packed with mass of per- sons, some fighting and crushing to get up and others trying to go in the opposite direction.
 Down stairs in the street the excite ment was just as intense, and the danger was increased by a jam of | trucks, wagons and all sorts of ve- hicles all trying to go in different direc- tions at the same time. The crowd of 1 persons held back by the mohs in the bridge station reached on both sides of the street.
 The rear of car No. SO and the front of car No. 57 of the second train were each almost completely demolished for a distance of ten feet. Car No 57 broke the rear of car No 70 into splint- CTS. It jumped from the track and ploughed it's way into the car, making splinters of part of the roof of Mo- SO twisting and binding the iron gates as though they were so much wire The front of No. 57 stopped where il had dovetailed itself in the rear of No 60, for about five feet.
 At the time of the accident Cooper the conductor, and Granite, the passen. ger, were the only persons on the real platform of No. 60. They were talking about the heavy fog and did not see cal No. 57 as it came bearing down to- ward them.
 BOYS BRIGADE.