New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-14
AN AMBULANCE RUN DOWN.
CRASHED INTO BY A CABLE-CAR AND
THE OCCUPANTS INJURED.
ONE OF THE TWO DOCTORS 1T CONTAINED
PICKED UP UNCoNscIoUs-rHE OTHERS HIP
PROBABLY DIsLoCATED-THE THIRD
ACCIDENT OF THE KIND IN
THREE WEEKS ON THE
THIRD-AVE. ROAD.


THIRp-AvE ROAD.
A southbound cable-car crashed into ana over,
turned {. Harlem Hospital ambulance d.
o'clock last night in Third-ave pet"ee" va"
hundred -and-twenty-f and One-hundred-
and-twenty-ffth SITS. DR.. Armstrong' ""o was
in charge Of the ambulance his assistant. Dr. u
p Bulson, and the driver. Peter Stdnder, were
all hurled some distance away and padiy III
tured DR. Buson was picked UP UNCONSCIOUS
and did not regain his senses until he had oeen
taken back TO the hospital in another ampu-
lance.
The doctors were answering hurry Gail s'h'
IN from No G94 East e-hundred-and-forty-
seventh-st where Margaret Miller four years
old had fallen from the second floor 10 the pave
ment and had sustained compound fracture Vi
the skull. The driver was instructed 10 lose ho
time. After turning out from the hospi'ai 'he
ambulance ran along One hundred -and-twen-
tieth-st to Third. ave and crossed over to the
west side Of that thoroughfare. 1t MADE good
time to One-hundred- and y-fourth-st.'
meeting no obstacle Halfway between ohe-
hundred a nd twenty fourth and One-huhdreu-
and-twenty-ffth SITS. there were hunlper Vi
trucks conCested however, and the driver de-
cided to cross the tracks and take the east
side Of the avenue He had clear track, but
was a cabe-car 1t was taking on several pas
sengers. and the gripman, Michael Hawley, Of
No III East Seventy y-seventh-st. was looking
back them
Several bystanders who witnessed the acci-
dent said last night that Hawley, while stu
looking backward pulled the lever and started
his car at full speed The doctors in the ambu-
lance saw the car bearing down on them, and Dr.
Armstrong remarked to Dr.. Buson: What Is
the matter with that grpman. He doesn't seem
to see U.S. and will run us down If he is not more
careful"
The driver OF the ambulance also saw the
cable-car coming and loudly rang his fourteen
inch gong. Several pedestrians stopped at
tracted by the clamor Of the bell, but the grip
man still looking in the other direction, heard
nothing. and II was not until his car was within
ten feet Of the ambulance that he realized that
a collision was probable. Then he made desper-
ate efforts to stop his car. but too late. 1t
crashed into the ambulance between the front
and rear wheels. hurting it against an elevated
railroad pillar.
DR. Buson was hurled through the opening
in the left side Of the ambulance across the east
track against the pillar. and lay unconscious,
literally wrapped about ii. Dr. Armstrong was
thrown through the opening on the opposite
side of the ambulance and struck on his mp.
The bedding and medicines and other equip
ment Of the ambulance were piled above him.
The ambulance hit another pillar and rebounded.
The horse plunged, and in its frantic efforts to
get away turned the ambulance over on one
side The driver was thrown from his seat.
striking the pavement at full length but plucki-
ly clung 10 the reins and managed to quiet his
horse.
Or Armstrong was assisted to his feet and
though suffering great pain attended to DR..
BusOn. He carried, under DR.. Armstrong;
instructions. into a nearby store. and Police
man Kane sent hurry call for another ambu-
lance DR.. j. c. Taylor of the Harlem Hospital
quickly responded and the injured surgeons
We're lifted into the relief ambulance and rapid
" taken to the hospital Stander tho driver.
when asked to go also. replied with great pluck:
Never mind me. Doc. I'll get back all right
and remained on the ground until his ambu-
lance was righted and then took it to the hos
pital.
4 big crowd attracted by the collision. as
great throng of laborers and clerks
their way home from work at the time. The
cabe-cars were stopped for an hour and traffic
blocked.
At the hospital it was found that DR. Bulson
had bad confusion OF the left arm and side, in
jurles to tho right hand. and probable internal
injuries DR.. Armstrong suffered great pain,
from what the doctors fear is disocated hip.
Witnesses Of the collision declared that it was
caused by the stupidity of the grpman. The
latter placed under arrest by Policeman
Kane and taken to the East One-hundred- and
wenty-sixth-st. station.
The ordinances governing the speed Of vehicles
in the city streets give to fire engines and am
balances precedence of all other vehicles. This
fact does not seem to be known to the gripmcn
OF the ThirdaVe. line as they have within the
last three weeks run down three ambuances.
one OF the unfortunate features OF last nights
accident the int vitable serious effect on the
child for whom the ambulance was called.
When she finally taken to the hospital her
condition serious. and the doctors say that
it was much aggravated by the delay.