The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-29
DRUNKEN MAN RUNS CAR.
WE'VE full lTILT TILL 1T LEFT TIM
TRACK .IND BINGED THTO Amor.
The Conductor nnd sixteen Passengers Were
In = Panic ns the Tar Raced Gp ard bows
Hurt. Not Even the NOtsrmnp
Who Made the Trouble - Gar Wrecked.

The Conductor nnd siNteen Passengers Were
In = Panic ns the Car Raced alp ard Down
HnI-NobonS Hurt. Not Even tho Nfotsrmap
Whe Made the Trouble Gar wreckea.
NEW BRUNSWICK. y. j., Dos. 2S.-An intox-
icatod motornan imporillcd seventeen livcs DO
sides his own on the limo Of the brunswick
Traction Company between Midtown, three
miles away, and this city, about II o'clock last
night. Conductor James Wright had noticed
that Tom Miller, the motorman, was In no con-
dition TO run the car when they left Midtown,
but thought he would know enough 70 U slowly
when necessary. There were sixteen young
persons in the car who had spent the evening
skating OH tho Midtown pond. Mono of Thorn
knew that a dt unkon motorman was funning
the car. .
immediately after leaving Midtown Miller
pushed his controller around to the last notch.
and the CTR sprung forward at its highsst posst-
bic speed. Conductor Wright became fright
ened when he found that the motorman main
tanned this speed up hill and down aiddid noe
slow up for the curves and heavy grados. The
conductor knew that. Miller wns we'll aoquaint-
cd with the line. having run o oar, oyer ii for
more than n year. .
About II milo out of Millown Wright rang
the bell for Miller to stop the car. The motor
man did not heed the signal. Again the con-
ductor rang. but the motorman dashed tho car
down n steep incline and did not slow up; Both
passengers and conductor were 30 frightened
that they chung to whatever support they could
find to prevent their being hurled about the car
by tho shaking up the motorman was giving
them.
AZ the car approached Berdine's Corner Com
ductor Wright rang the bell again, but. Miller
did not slow up. Wright still hoped that the
inotornan would slow up before no reached this
place. Tho track turns there at right angles, and
fifty feet from the roadside Is n blacksmith
shop. Miller swung the car on toward the
corner at fun speed and the conductor shouted
killed. AT the corner the car left the track.
The lights went out, and in Q moment the car
had crashed into the blacksmith shop.
The passengers were not hurt, but were SO
frightened Mt this ending of their mad ride
TINT for a moment they were unable to stir.
Then they made a rush for the rear door. They
tumbled over one another in their haste to es-
Miller had escaped uninjured. and The passen-
gers found him staggering about yazing at the
ruin he had wrought and muttcrtng to him.
self. The conductor went to him and asked
what was the matter with him. Miller said
that he was drunk and didn't care what hap
wrecked car before him was the last he would
ever run.
Word was sent to this city, and a car was
sent out to bring the stranded passengers
home. Miller was discharged on tho spot.
Superintendent Edward II. Radel made an in
vestiagtion OF the accident this morning and de-
cidcd that Miller was alone to blame. The
shop was the only thing that saved the lives Of
the passengers. If the car had struck u little
TO the left OF 1t, 1t would have been overturned
in a deep gutter. s>