The sun., 1895-05-20
TROLLEY INJURIES SEVEN.
A COLLISION DUE ENTIRELY TO
VIOLATION OF RULES.

neh,rd Another Crashes Hnto nt Bee
cause M stops where II shouid Not
stop--A Rear Platform on which
Many Persons Are tStandine 10 Crashed
Seven persons were badly injured and
dozen or moro had their clothes ruined In
oollision of trolley cars on tho Bensonhurst
branch Of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, at
Eivbty.sixth street and Twenty.s second avenue,
Yesterday afternoon. A third car came near
colliding with the wrecked cars, but the motor
n,nn stopped Just In timo. Following Is q list of
the injured:
AHaryp CHARLEs ls years old, Of 222 Eliery street.
Brooklyn. Badly hurt about the head. Taken home.
pyuRNASy JOIN. 40 years old. Of 1919 Broadway.
contusions about tho head and body. Taken home.
p1reER. ApoIPu. 20 years old of Tompkins avenue
and Fulton street. Bad fracture OF the iee Taken TO
the seney Hospital
FuRxAs RoRKRr H. 90 years old, Of soi Sixth street,
conductor Of one Of the in collision BAD fracture
OF the leg. TAKEN to the Norwegian Hospital.
MEssERscHMIpr. WILLIAM. 20 years OLD. Of 294 Henry
street. compound fracture of the lea and contus,ons
about the head and body. Taken 70 the seney Hos
ptaL
ROCHE JOHN b. 80 years old Of los Rutledge street,
badly bruised about the head and face. Taken home.
WILKINSON, JOSEPH, % years old, OF 100 Thirteenth
street. contusons Of legs and body and serious in.
ternal injuries. Taken to the Norwegian Hospital.
The accident was q rear-end collision, andSo
far as can be learned there was no excuse for it.
In stopping at the further corner Of Twenty
second avenue and Eighty sixth street the mo-
tor,nan OF the first car deliberately violated the
rule. OF the company and q recent city ordi-
nance, which says that the cars must stop be-
fore crossing q cross street. instead Of after
ward, as heretofore. The motorman Of the
second car also violated strict rule Of the COM
pany in going at high rate of speed when only
q few yards behind the first car.
He insists. however. that the collision was not
due to this at all, but was on account Of the
failure Of the brake on his car to work. The
police, however, say that they found the brake
all right after the accident and they attribute
the collision TO the carelessnsss on the part Of
the motormRn of the rear car and dsobedience
Of the law on the part OF tho motorman Of the
first car.
The motorman of the rear car was Percy G.
Smith, % years old. OF 144 Fifty-sixth street.
He was placed under arrest Immediately after
the accident and locked up In the Bensonhurst
station. Later in tho day Albert Burke OF
1856 Fifty-eighth street, the conductor. OF the
car was arrested and locked up.
On account of the great amount OF traffic be-
tween Brooklyn, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, and
Ulmer Park on Sundays, the BROOKLYN Heights
Railroad Company runs e great many cars and
under very few minutea' headway.
liner Park. the terminus OF the road, is on
~ r,on ON: sundays. @ $ The C cars % In col collision
.e.. I..cl. and they were filled to their ut
Tie first car was No. 7ol and was clcsed car.
1t WAS in charge Of Motorman Willis Fr"hninx
70 tho 's oondnetor Inc to = on mt the TssT platform. TSs
w. on Spss Ghs aea VA "a ss
passengers were riding on the side steps whom
despite the city ordinance torbidding trolley
vars 10 go at q higher rate OF speed than eight
Tanss @ ~ exceed @ That limit. The % portion % Of New
trecht through whica they pass 10 thinly
'slied, and once out Ia tho open country the
II was about a:4O o'clock when the two cars
vent spinning along Eighty sixth street. There
ieenth avenue. and when the cars struck this
grade the speed increased considerably. The
to
route are used to high speed and nobody OBJ
iseted. On the contrary. everybody seemed to
corner Of Iwenty-second avenue somebody in
The conductor immediately pulled the bell strap
and Motormen trohning turned of the current
and twisted his brake vigorously.
since the Aldermen passed the ordinance or
railroad company has notihed ali of its motor
@ na Rey SOP 70 Se car
until II has passed the interesting street; II
nl5 Er9hl51ing & had obeyed this order. the accident
AsIt was, when he found that he could not
he the 10 m he fsr
Ssfn coming along =. a high rate Of speed. was
rear platform OF the first car ali had their backs
toward the approaching car and were entirely
In fact the only persons on the FIRST car who
saw the impending collision were Motorman
@Ha waS ssSe shSa. 81 Ss
about a second before the crash came. and that
was wa, the only warming that those on the rear
The rear car arc came S With Wit tsrridc force against
ne ias closed car. and in q second those who had
n as ea s.naS g.
ne ne closed car was smashed into flinders. and
,s Ms open car didn't stop until 1t was right up to
The shock OF the thee, collision threw the occupants
oi bpth cars on their feet and several sustained
rea' platform of the closed car were seriously
wom.6 ursd A About third Of the passengers were
,, The women screamed frantically, and some
1aeI hasts 70 get out Of the showed Their
oesn thrown TO the ground by the force Of the
Soihision. half dozen persons were pinned fast
tbs iw%k wreck OF the rear and front platforms OF
For For moment no ono seemed to know Just
rSn rSnn ont Of a sshborina M house shoutsd, aGrab
me me open car and push 1t back, or you'll kill
men," that the people seemed to grasp the
.n Then dozen men took hold Of the car
nha Iu forced II back, while tho unfortunates
c,rn,ad nU had heen pinned fell helplessly to the
nroiuha. one or two OF them managed to got to
er sI Ieet again. but 1t was not without strug-
naI nsJ ana u was evident that they were In great
ths , ,o.a a. Tor the Others they lay groaning In
nsyhi ny ms time number OF people living In the
donsnoeorhood dona had run out, and everything was
H. ne 70 make the injured ones comfortable.
H. p. r A; f. Boetzkes, whose son. W. L.
Eirbm,xxe Eibmxes; keeps drug store at tho corner of
WA ss.ysdth .,mh street and Twenty y-second avenue.
wonnS moned, and ho proceeded to dress the
"TTlhnas OF the injured.
s,a. seven men were carried into the drug
rs,nod FAM, ana when the am balances came they were
Tbn.ss Tbsed 10 the seney and Norwegian hospitals.
that ast .hst wanted 70 20 homo were taken TO
I'll M. 'esiaehcea later In the ambuances.
for, e ineh VINO had escaped from the rear plnt-
So the closed car with injuries were not
has ssunate In the matter OF clothing Their
,nrn we're S al smashed, their coats and trousers
disaa ana their neckties and collars ludicrousiy
sIanrssaged. Many Of those who had been In
The W. wons1 me cars also had their clothing torn.
mats In their hands. ~ N''N ''e'A ~ S'"'"'N
seysss, ne mans trousers were ripped up the leg
sesvs inches above the knee, while the entire
Goat had been pulled out Of another mans