New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-18
RUN DOWN ON THE TRACK
TWO WOMEN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS
AND A MAN INJURED.

THE LATTER ARE IN a DANGEROUS CONDITION
AT HARLEM HospITAIo-CRUsnED BY AN
ENGINE NEAR oNE-HUNDRED-AND-
FORTY sECoND-sT.
Four women and one man employed as
car-cleaners by the Wagner Palace Car Com
pany the New-York Central Railroad and the
New-York, New-iIaven and Hartford Railroad
were run down early yesterday morning by en-
gine No S9l. light. bound north from the Grand
Central station to the roundhouse in the freight
yards Two women We're killed and the three
others were injured. probably fatally. The list
is as follows:
BFCYER Lizzie thi.ty-sx years ola, Of No. 400 East
eventcen;h-s,. widow with three children killed out
right,
MAuAN Della forty-nve years old. Of No 1913 East
Fortv-c.s5ih ST. married. horribly crushed and died
Will, being taken into the Mott Haven Depot Few
INJURED
DRUMM Maria, sixty-hye years old Of one-hun
dred-and- ATHEIST. and Iark-aNe was injured
internally.
TRACEY Maggie hirtynys years Cd Of NO. l iGS
Third left foot cut off at ankle con'usons ana
scalp wound.
YENDER. Louis fifty years old Of No. i49 West Forty
second St. right leg broken and severe scalp wounds
All Of the injured are in the Harlem Hospital
The two women are not expected to live.
1t is the custom of the car-cleaners who
work in the Melrose yards TO catch north
bound local train which leaves the Grand Cen
trail Station at 6:l5 O'Clock a. m. as they are
expected TO report for duty at : o'clock. Some
times they miss it by few moments. and are
compelled to take a later train. which makes
its last stop below the yard. at One-hundred-
and-twenty-nfth-st. When that occurs the
cleaners walk by the'way of Mott Haven to ;he
yards. That was the case yesterday morning.
nd g. -, c'p he o
cident met William Duane. of No. 200 East
Observation-Disclosures hird-st; John Mullgan
of No. 44S West Thirty-thrd-st.; John Kennedy,
of No 2lS East Forty-seventh-st; Michael Ma
honey and John O'Mara, who also cleaners,
and together they started to walk to the yard
Inst before they started the Springfield ex-
press. bound south, whZzed by, ana. AFTER IL
had passed. Duane suggested that they go by
way of Mott Haven, as II Is contrary 10 tne
regulations for them To walk on the track
The others demurred, however. so they all went
together on the southbound track. Duane. Null
ligan and Kennedy walked ahead Maloney,
OMara and Yender were next. and the women
were in the rear. II at the curve in the
tracks near One-hundred-a nd-fcrty-second-s'
that the accident occurred. Engine NO. S9l, IN
charge Of Charles Burr was going north back
at full speed. Kennedy alone heard warning
cry. and. giving shout seized MulllSan ana
Jumped into the ditch. Duane also jumped just
IN time. Yender was second behind the
others. and was hurled 10 one side. falling ne
tween the two tracks. The women did not nave
time to leap and were ground beneath the
wheels The engineer saw the party on the
tracks when almost up to them, and reversed
his lever and blew the whistle. but too late
The big engine swept on for hundred yards
and at last came to a standstllI.
The agent at Mott Haven station had all
trains stopped and the bodies were removed
TO the Morrisania police station. The injured
were taken to the Harlem Hospital 1t Is said
that the engineer neither rang his bell nor blew
his whistle