New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-06
FIVE PERSONS HURT on 4 CAR.

TROLLEY COLLISION IN BROOKLYN-A ROY
FOUND DEAD AND OTHER ACCIDENTS.
One Of the worst trolley accidents in the storm
was near the junction of Avenue y and Fiat
bush-ave. where the straight line from Bergen
Beach intersects the Flatbush line The
cars from Bergen Beach were heavily laden
with people fleeing from the storm. AT the
height Of the storm two cars running in the
same direction collided at the points named
and the following were injured
FISHER. Gustaye. No. 227 seventh-s sprained snke
TEs Thn p SG az S %
- foot and sprained ankle 40 r., v,,. c,s,., Man
sG' arm S5oke Ks in two se and thigh cut
All the injured were removed to St Johns
Hospital where they were reported TO be doing
we'll last night. Some of them after being
treated were sent home.
The Rapid Transit officials would not give out
any details concerning the accident. 1t was
learned however. that the motorman on the
rear car was facing the storm and did not ap-
parently see how close he was TO the car ahead
driving his car into 1t at nearly full speed
Taylor S. Buck. Of No 357 Fourth-st. was
RAISING Second-ave. and Forteth-st. at =
O'clock when he ran TO the PROSTATE form or
a boy apparently about twelve years old. The
Jean overas He had a crab net in his hand.
Near by was a trolley pole. from which dangled
a wire This wire reached the top strand OF
wire fence and the two OF a height so
that the lad could have run against them as ne
was trudging home from Grabbing He was sun
alive when Mr. Buck saw him. and an am
tulance was summoned from the Norwegian
HOSPITAL. The surgeon said that the lad had
been shocked TO death. The body was taken 10
the Fourth-ave. precinct station 80
Mary McGibney, OF No. 24 feminist, while
running along Third ave. stumbled through an
open cellar door in front Of the house OF John
Sohratweiser. at No. 426 Thrd-ave The ceHar
Rad been flooded ny the sudden doWnpour' ana
Mary in danger Of drowning wheh she
rescued by William CaIboy.
Nathan Straus Of No. SOS Baltic-st, was
knocked from a Borden milk wagon AT ODD 30
O'Clock last night In the storm by car No. Z,Zot
of the Fort Hamilton line at Fifth-ave. and
Seventy ifth-st. Straus had his rlght MP IN
jured and he was taken TO the Norwegian HOS
pital
When Captain Charles Rogers named his new
coal boat Major Mckinley he thought ne ought
TO have good luck with the vessel from that time
forward. He had pretty GOOD luck untI the
storm OF yesterday came along. Then the MAJOR
Mckinley with $50 tons Of coal on board be
longing to the Pennsylvania Ferry company
went down at her pier at Coney-st' ana E dte
Basin. Captain Rogers. who lives ca at no 40 OLD
Fifth-ave says his boat was worth S3vp
Martin Cox Of No 119 Forty-third-st. yester-
day afternoon at 4:45 O'Clock drove MS span Oh
horses unconsCiously against a Uolley pore "hlcl
the storm had wrested from its foundation AZ
Thirty-ninth-st and Fort Hamilton-aVe ana
the horses dropped dead almost az soon as they
struck It. Mr.. Cox valued his horses al S7dr II
is said that he narrowly missed meeting the
| Same fate in his efforts to extricate his horses
after they against the pole ~,
The bathing houses at the Congress farK
| Hotel at Sxtieth-st.. Bay Ridge were nearly
wrecked during the early part OF the storm. Inc
houses were occupied by number or women
and children when the storm broke ana nat
| tened them out. The occupants were sooh
| foundering around in the water In the wreck
age James NJ Connolly, proprietor or the hotel'
! and a number OF his guests rushed TO the assist
ance of the endangered bathers. and carried on
! their backs many OF them TO places or safety.
| NJ Connolly says his damage amounts TO about
! q 600. The Ariel Boat Club house was also
/ nartly wrecked and an eight Dared boat was
sent adrift 1t was afterward recovered
| The two story barn on the Hamilton estate at
| brighton Place and Third-st. Coney Island. was
! demolished and thrown against frame fiat
| house building across the street. The fathouse
| was wrecked and the walls broken In by the
| shock The trestle OF the old unused treste rail-
road from Coney Island to Brighton Beach was
| blown down. 49,, . D..
| Twentieth-st and BensonhLrst- ave, Bath
! reach was struck People at Coney Island SAID
| they saw yacht capsize offshore IT. the storm
II was mile away and opposite the Shelter
|