New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-28
THREE BRIDGE ACCIDENTS.
MAN CRUSHED To DEATH AND TWO
COLLISIONS N A DAY.

There we're three accidents Of serious nature
- the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday Last even
. man was killed while trying TO board a
.-szs1z train Earlier in the day there were
80 collisions
man. apparently about sixty-hve years
old vas crushed TO death al the Manhat-
.sn end Il the Brooklyn Bridge last evening by
hsi-r caught between a Bridge train and the
.g,ng The accident occurred when the bridge
vas crowded with persons going TO Brooklyn.
= few minutes before o'clock man rushed
~. the stairs and tried to get on a train bound
,o- Brooklyn The signal had already been
gixen and the train was under way. The man
made Jzrab for the handle the third car
Int the gate had been closed. He slipped and
feU be tween the car and the railing The train
was not brought 10 a standstin until the man
had been rolled the length Of a car when he fell
70 the tracks
The body was carried TO the Bridge hospital
on the lower promenade. call was sent to
The Hudson Street Hospital for an ambulance
but WREN the surgeon arrived he pronounced
the man dead, adding that every bone in his
bgav had been broken.
The man is believed 10 be Morris Ericius. of
No u Livingston-st., Brooklyn. This was
cleaned from check signed by the German
NedicsI Institution, Of which Ericius s, Brown
are the proprietors. for the sum of $3.50, made
out OF the Aston Place Bank TO Charles
Nve- & Co. advertisers No 154 Nassau-st.,
which vas found on the body. This concern is
located a. No. - East Eighth-st. When the
police went there they found the place dark,
rut learned that both Dr. Brown and Mr.. Ericius
were well known at a drug store in the neigh
borhoCd- Nyer & Co. have offices at No. 154
Nazsau-st A policeman sent to this ad-
dress. and returned with who has an
Office n the building, but he could not identify
tfe body.
The dead man wore cavalry boots, and it is
thought from this that he member Of the
German cavalry in former years. In the pock
cts were found some German newspapers and
SO - in cash There were also a gold watch
two pair Of eyeglasses. some keys, silver cigar
cutter, and he carried small satchel which
contained SI1 - and some stamps.
The dead man was more than six feet tall and
well proportioned. weighing about two hundred
and twenty pounds. He had iron gray hair, mus
tache. and an imperial beard. The left side OF
his face was badly cut
TRAVEL BLOCKED FOR AN HOUR.
An accident about q. N. yesterday at the
Manhattan terminal blocked traffic on the
Bridge railroad for hour, and travel on the
surface cars for some time It was collision,
which smashed the rear end Of one car and the
front platform Of another but only one passen-
ger was injured.
= Bridge train Of four crowded cars reached
the Manhattan station at 500 and after IN
loading started down over the switch on the
way 10 return 10 Brooklyn. A drawbar, how
ever pulled out OF Car No 80. and when the
train stopped another four-car train from Brook
Iyn was approaching the Manhattan terminal.
This train was shunted TO the opposite side OF
IT, platform but happened &c come 10 a stop
with the rear OF the last car No ~, covering
the switch The trainmen, II was learned after
ward thought they were safely over me frog,
but the fact was that the last car covered the
switch by several feet
The train was az the platform discharging It's
passengers when another four-caT train from
Brooklyn came into the terminal on the 'front.'
end, il charge Of Car No. 100, was Frlsoee the
rnororman, who noticed that the frog was not
clear and tried -unsuccessfully 10 stop on &C
count Of the grade and the short space. Inc
rains crashed together and Frisbee and the
man on the platform with him saved themselves
from injury by rushing back into the car
Stanley CASSIDY passenger. twen{ Iy-doSl
years old. Of No. 1l6 Van Noorhls-st- BROOK
lyn was found lying the floor OF the rear car
Of the forward train. He had a spralned knee
cap. and taken TO the waiting 70, - Where
he received medical attention Wrecklng crews
cleared the track in hour The rear OF Car
No. 80 was completely smashed. and The front
platform Of Car No. 1OI was demolished
Meanwhile on the Brooklyn side the elevated
trains were arriving. crowded with passengers
VINO on learning that the Bridge railroad was
not running made 2 rush for the surface cars
and filed them 10 the fullest extent Of their ca
pacity Passengers who came along later hur-
car that not already crowded. me conse-
aueuce Of 50 much unexpected traf1c resulted n
a block on the trolley cars. which EXTENDED VI
WashingtOn-st. as far as Fulton
The conductors We're made miserable Tor a
time Fv the passen ayers. who. as q rule refused
10 nav another fare for riding over the Bridge
They argued that they had already paid 10 be
taken 70 New York. No cars moved Tor tIae
while this dispute was going on in every car, but
later the conductors We're authorized 70 let the
Messengers ride without paying another fare
md 4 transfer agent 10 give transfers 70 the
surface road vas stationed at the BFldge ran
way. ,- ,--l-,-1C
A second collision on the Brooklyn Bridge TOOK
Mace shortly after O'Clock yesterday after
noon. when two Bridge cars crashed into eacf
other lust east Of the Brooklyn tower No one
was injured seriously enough 10 warrant ar
ambulance being. summoned but il was SAID ina
many people received slight cuts from hylhe
glass
train running 10 NewTork got stalled
through lack of power. Signals were set, Du
Inc train following was under full Roadway anc
the grfrnaan found himself unable 70 check II
His hands wee numb with cold. and realizing
that z crash was inevitable he rushed INTO the
car and shouted for the passengers TO 1olioM
him into the car behind The crash knocked
many Messengers from their seas 70 the noor
TIE platforms of both cars were demolished, anc
the windows broken
W4SHTEGTON-S HEADQUARTERS BURNED
The old two story and attic frame dive ling house
on the north side Of West acknowledgements y
second-st between Eighth-aye- ana Macoho
Dam Lane which was once par Il the june
estate and was built more Jhan one hundred year.