The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-17
KILLED ON THE ELEVATED.
AN IRoNFoRKER RUN Down IN
THIRD AVENUE.

NE Tried TO Cross the Tracks ut FortyIsecona
street, Instead or Taking the Bridge over.
head. and was Overhauicd by n Tra,,
while Climbing Up to the Opposite PLATFORM.
Edward Moran. an ironworker, of 100 Perry
street, was run down and killed by an uptown
Third avenue elevated train at the Forty.second
street station yesterday afternoon at $50
o'clock. Moran was in the employ of Com
tractor ]. d. Crimmins, and had been working
during the day on the Second avenue under
ground trolley line now in process Of c~onstruo.
ton.
According to the stories told by the railway
men, Moran got OFF a Grand Central Station
train and asked the gateman of tho downtown
station which was the uptown station.
Across the track. Take the bridge. was the
eateman's reply.
"Oh. I guess the track will do me-" said Mo
ran, and he jumped from the platform. The
gateman called to him to como back, but Moran
paid no attention.
The uptown train which leaves tho City Hall
station at 500 o'clock arrived at Forty.second
street as Moran reached the platform of the up
town station. The engineer was Sylvander Mer.
ritt and the fireman Albert Narvis. When the
train was at the southern end of the station
platform, Narvis saw an object on the track
about sixty feet ahead.
Look out. Syl: look out. There's q man On
the track y shouted Narvis.
Merritt pulled the whistle cord, opened the
emergency brake valves. and reversed his en-
CINE. The platform was crowded with prospeo.
tive passengers, many of them women, who had
Just arrived from tho Grand Central Station.
Jump to the other side - "Get out of the
way y cried q dozen men as they rushed
toward Moran. Tho latter had evidently lost
his presence of mind, for. while he had
plenty OF time to leap out OF the engines way.
he grabbed the platform guard rail, and placing
his foot on the timbors endeavored to climb up.
He had nearly swung himself out of danger.
when his foot slipped, and he was left hanging
was coupled to. the train Of i've cars head on,
and the heavy load made 1t impossible to stop
before Moran was reached.
| a dozen men jumped toward Moran, who was
OF them had grabbed his hand the coal bunker
railing. Moran was rolled around until the
fr.t break in the guard rail, whore passengerg
to the track, between the, platform and tho in
ner rail. The drivers of tho engine crushed his
and those OF the forward truck of the second
car passed over him, severing his left leg just
"e TSe t bod kR %s. a ss1r ass left tbIr arm Ss t ths s hoS %n:
wedged between the second car and the plat
form before the train come to a stop, two car
lengths from the end Of the platform.
The body, after it had been extricated, was
removed to the East Thirty-tfth street station.
After Engineer Merritt had completed his run
he was taken to the same station, where bail
was given by Engine Dispatcher George M.
Morrison and Engineer Charles Seeley. Engineer
Merritt said. owing to the darkness, be did OF
see Moran until he was within sixty feet Of him.
He declares that the man had sufficient time to
escape II he had not lost his head and attempted
to climb to the platform over the rail.
About q year ago Merritt's train ran ovcr and
killed a man at Fifty.ninth street and Third
avenue, but, In this instance, the mar com.
mitted suicide. He had been arrested for the
murder Of his wife. In being taken to court he
escaped from the detective on Fifty.oighth street,
near the elevated road. He ran to the Fifty.ninth
street station and threw himself in front OF
hlerritt's train. Merritt has been in tho employ
Of the company for over nineteen years. Narvin
has also held his post for several years.
Patrick Walsh. Moran's stepfather. who lived
with him at l66 Perry street, was unable to ex-
plain why Moran should have taken an uptown
train. He was accustomed to riding on the
elevated road, and must have known that
crossing the tracks was forbidden. In Mo.
rams pocket was found his time check for
yesterdays work on the Second avenue trolley,
His brother believes he intended to como home
and. In q fit Of observation-disclosures, walked to the
Grand Central Station. He took the train at the
sub-station. and, arriving at the Forty.second
street station. his brother believes. he became
confused about the time, misunderstood the
gateman, and. not wishing to pay another fare
walked aCrOBS the trackR.