New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-19

woRKMEN DROP OVER \ HUNDRED FEET
WITH AN ELEVATOR.

TWO OF THEM MAY DIE-ANoTHER SERIOUS ~
CrDENT IN THE EAST RIVER GAS TUNNEL.
Another Of the tragedies which have marked the
construction Of the tunnel OF the East River Gas
Company occurred last night the gangs OF men
employed in the tunnel were being shifted A. tn"
elevator which traverses The shaft on the Long
Island side Of the tunnel descending carrying
four men and carload OF bricks, the hosting
rope broke within twenty feet OF the top Of the
cage and the ana its load fell with "A crash TO
the bottom Of the shaft The car was smashed
and all its occupants stunned
The injured William Mckee engineer. No.
All East Seventieth-st. compound fracture Of
skull. will probably die: Martin Mahony. laborcr.
No IS Seventh-st Long Island City. right arm.
left ankle. collar bone and two ribs broken. and
internally injured; Will probably die Henry Ryan.
laborer No. 1872 Nernon-ave.. Long Island city. left
leg broken. Antonio Fialla laborer 80 70 East
seventy third-st. injured about the face and hands
The first three are In the Presbyterian Hos
pital Fiaa. his injuries having been dressed by
Ambulance Surgeon Norton. refused further aid
and home.
The accident occurred at the Troy Island en-
trance the tunnel at $40 p. m. In the angle be
tween Webster and Vernon aves.. Kavenswood.
there is a shaft about ten feet in diameter leading
to the tunnel 10 feet below the surface II carries
a tbree-foot gas main to the tunnel and Hight
elevator, 3 feet by T. which carries down 10 the
tunnel the material used In its completion. and
CONVEYS the workmen TO and from th"r WORK.
The elevator consists OF a simple platform OF
panks laid upon an iron frame. which IS connected
with wire hosting rope an inch and a quarter in
diameter by two steel braces. Four wire ropes
running down the shaft at the corners ana WORKING
I'm slots in the elevator frame serve to guide H.
The day gang IN the tunnel were hnishlhs, "oih
and the elevator was making its last trip before
the men were changed Wiich nle az a, 'ho ,sa
CURED. -Four men-Mckee the ensneei. VINO, VINO & Wa
going off duty; Antonio f1ala an lta1ah M h naDors
Ryan.stepped the elevator Mckee , ana tn iaia,
intended TO walk through the tunnel 10 'he'r ho'eS
The signal Lower away" had been given ana ana
the elevator had begun TO descent, ,nIe,ed wIe and
twenty feet OF the rope payed our; 't ia "a
cable snapped close to the drum Inc d said' fc to
feet deep. and ne elevator ana "S ''''
A dozen OF the day men who wcff "ai,a"h ,g "a
OF the tunnel when the cage leH ,,h "G diairyritv
men dragged out Of me heap WIN and ' Fiaiia
All were unconscious o1t hyhe the efrorts Of
James Davis. the foreman, u W. W. ,hnm io
ibe to rig mp any apparatus ponah TO sah' the night
engineer and half dozen workneh 30 %, a LII Thry
gang were waiting there; anxious TO CIV si, ~ thc
we're Informed by telephone or me resu' non 90 to
The New York end Of the tunnel DAVIS any IL ~
men took the injured men one by one ~ wv
TairIck Fitzgerald the superntendent of the 'Gn- n
mel. and Mr. Frye the rneine ,ne,pan Lane spoion.
", ne Tast Sxty-seventh-st station, Who 5ri W. an
"os near got an ambulance from ,ne erions and he
hosPil-''', ad Nome ticKee and Mahoney were VI
conscious and with Ryan. VINO was sD'g lae last
night f. was said that there was sp'a" o"'"' "
the recovery Of either. A. ,o,L,,or 20 a faw
n r. H. rore as the broken cable was almost ,r" &
ono having been in use less than 3est. es,r,in Of a
wnirrbt twice az great as that 1t snappe' ""''' W