New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-20
ONLY ONE SIGNAL HEARD.
A WHISTLE AT CLOSE RANGE ALL THAT
WARNED THE. TALLY-Ho PARTY
WITNESSES DECLARE THAT THEY HEARD NJ
pr1Is RuNG - TESTIMONY AT THE

PEIIS RUNG - TESTlMJNi NJ 49,
MERRrcK ROAD INQUEST
co-or.r coombs. at Inwood. Long Island. yester-
dav resumed the inquest into the Merrick r'oau &c
cident on Memorial Day by which hVe peopis W.
ru,ed and three times that number injured D!
Iony Island Railroad train crashing into 'a'i9
~ containing members Of the Greene Avenue bap-
,is, Church In Brooklyn. District-Attorne! iou"e
was not present but District-Attorney onoe'"', =.
Queens, represented the people Judge Neu' 1uue
kramer ex-Judge Daley. Willard r. fseeu' f,
Harvey Field John NJ. Foley and Cnar'eS Me-
,,,o Weeks represented clients in damage soi's'
and william j. Deny and Frederick lngraham "efo
present In the interest Of the railroad.
Al tho witnesses testified that the only warning
given was the four sharp whistles sounded when
the horses of the tally-ho were actaaiiy y" 'N'
track None heard the automatic oeh ~ Va"
ing or the bell on the engine
John c. Hendrickson. Of Queens. was INC ~, o.
witness called He was driving pehino ''o ''
no. II passed them near the crossine' ~
,,rocaedea hardly a hundred yards when iookeo
hack he said The train and the tahE-"o "e''
-oss,r, toge,be- II was too late 10 do anything
Cor tho next second q crash came that cou'o pe
heard a mile ,.,,,, hsar
ing the electric bell?' asked the Coroner
81 never knew there was a bell there" said the
witness. .ro, oh.
Mrs A. Shaw. OF Valley Stream ioiio"e' '"'
hard only the whistles of the engine.
Miss Julia Jenkins. of No. Il Iliiary-S'' D'
,vr ono NJ the Claremont Cycling Club. VINO sa"
the accident, was 100 feet from the crossihs ""o"
the crash came She heard no autoWauo ~ "
any other bell ring. q . prook
Mrs Godfrey Rain, Of No is Pilling-s'' p'
,xr another member of the cycling party nea,u
M warning whistle, and TO her the sounu VI Wv
collision resembled explosion Inc "H's ~
lust before the crash came. . ,,... =,
picbard C;ribbon, of No. ia North ~, took
of
ibe chair I'VE were coming along ne saw some
pretty we were right the on tram 1'n The middle
,G was on the track before could see Ine have
although looked both way and o said it was like
walking along a street and having '"a ~
OF an aes S descrpion caused laughter Edward
kenny no i North Sn.Rdit rbbon and then
prver Henry Mccormick, of S S0 hse n enjoyed
brooklyn followed H. said ne w hSa owned the tSy
no. He tred whether ra be started
Ing but didn't see 20 aR Sd ah the s train on Top Of him
..Thers was no time chance to turn OF; n time
the noISvS would have upset the tay-ho on the
rack" said Mccormick He added that 10 oe" ""'
Martin Cornell the next witness The H tos neata
the engine blow only once right near rIe How the
JACOB "T nnt long after the train had passed his
house. which only twelve huhoreo Sd'u' ''''"
The ho%ss Smith civil engineer smp SSen by by
the aGad oDK feet Sin from the railroad he cNnd
e m the track 1900 feet Witnesses had ,es ds,
tina, the track could not be seen at as 'n looking
under the branches OF trees at the time no that
Iue ,rees would have INSTRUCTED the view
Coroner Coombs then announce an pam of No il
Piling-st Brooklyn was present anu coui heor S
come again His testimony was tneretoIe n awav
There was no warning other than the BLOWING no on
w c-nssine His testimony was corrooorauon Oh
Inc jsen nv his sister and others who were with
lin on the day Of the accident -, . ,r,,r.
an adjournment was then taken until next i"u'S-
day morning.