The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-19
Part Of One Of the Elevated Roads
Wrecked.
TOOK PLACE THIS MORNING.
No Trains Either Way Since the
Affair Occurred.

| After O'clock-The Shock Was Felt
| Mt Police Headquarters Details of Po-
lice Hurried to the scene-An Travel
to Coney Island and Bav Ridge on the
| Fifth Avenue Line Cut on a Great Hole
In tho Earth Under tho Structure.
! Two heavy explosions startled half OF Brook
Ign shortly after O'Clock this morning The
shock was felt at Police Headquarters and
| also at the main Office of the Brooklyn Rapid
| Transit system. Both offices sent men out to
| Investigate
| 1t was reported at the Office OF the trolley
company few minutes later that some one
had placed a bomb under the structure OF tho
| Brooklyn Elevated road at Fifth avenue and
| Thirty seventh street aud that the stru cture
had been wrecked
This would completely block the running OF
the entire road and would cut of all communi-
cation with Bay Ridge and probably Coney
Island.
At . o'clock this morning word was received
at Brooklyn Police Headquarters that two
| bombs had been exploded under the switch
|
Thirt, sixth street
1t was not known at that hour what the re-
suit of the explosions had been or how badly
the structure had been wrecked. All OF the
detectives al Police Headquarters were imme-
datey sent to the scene OF the explosion in u
patrol wagon.
At = O'Clock the trolley company reported
| t,f,l lie, 81.
structure had not been learned. 1t was pos
lively known that there had been no train
either way since the explosion.
The operator in the tower at Thirty-sixtn
street reported to the train dispatcher at the
bridge Just after the explosions thai
they had knock ed the entire bottom,
out OF the street underneath the road.
He said the road was Just hanging
over a hole. the bottom OF which he could
not see He reported the whole structure in
danger. and the dispatcher ordered that trains
be suspended in both directions. The last
train to leave the Brooklyn end Of tho bridge
was at 80. That had hardly got away when
the report came.
A big crowd was waiting at the bridge for
-
ing unsuccessfuly to get further Information.
He said that the operator had said that there
were two explosions and that they were caused
by either giant powder or dynamite.
Two dynamite cartridges used ono
was put in the pier on the east side OF tho Gle
waited structure at Fifth avenue and Thirty
sixth street. and the other in the pier in the
west side directly opposite.
They exploded at almost tho same instant.
The east side pier was blown completely to
pieces The west side was only party
wrecked.
The street was torn up In the neighborhood.
a three story building at 800 Fifth avenue was
damaged by scraps Of iron. and the office OF
the Greenwood Cemetery Company was partly
wrecked. The explosion shook every building
within mile.
An immense crowd gathe red within few
minutes and a hundred police stationed In this
neighborhood came hurrying In. Word was
sent to the various headquarters OF the rail-
road company and wreckng crews were sent
in wagons to the scene.
All traffc on the roads in the neighborhood
was stopped. At 2:45 A. NJ. no arrests had
been made and tho police had driven away the
crowd.
The explosion smashed the ironwork on tho
east side almost completely; the west side
damage was slight. There is a tunnel under
the street where the explosion occurred:
whether it is damaged or not is not known.
The following statement was issued by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company at 2:45
o'clock this morning:
AT 20 o'clock this morning the strikers
placed bombs under two columns OF the ele-
waited structure at Thirty-nfth street and Fifth
avenue The bombs were undoubted OF dyna-
mite
The structure Is high here. and the tall
columns were supported by masonry. These
supports have been blown ont, and tho col
umns are now hanging suspended In the air
from the structure.
The Superintendent OF the wrorking crew
with all OF his men are now at work on the
structure. They hope 10 have enough braces
in by the morning so that the regular traffic
can be rc9un,bcd with safety
THE police 10y command Of Deputy Mac
kelar. are now at the scene. 80 men guarding
our property"
SITUATION N BROoEIYN DURING THE DAY,
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company oper-
atcd Yesterday 80 per cent, Oi all Of its ears on
the BROOKLYN Heights system. and thns" ears
made so per cent Of all tn" trips scheduled for
all the cars. On III" Tassau system between
~ and 30 per cent. Of all the cars wer" OI"r-
ated, and they maize NOR" than ~ per cent Ot
the total Of the rips that the schedule called for
Several hundred cars on the Heights system
carried two motormcn and two conductors.
The extra mOtormcn and conductors were new
men employed by tho company to take the
places Of the extras and trippers who got regu-
lar Jobs through the quitting Of tn" men Of tho