The sun., 1900-07-20
A RUSH-HOUR COLLISION.
g,LTED ELECTRIC TRAIN NIT BY
ROCKAWAY EXPRESS.
vo,o,man KILLED Under His Own Cara Few
Persons Injured = Hundreds Took Their
Lives In Their Hands and Dared the Deadly
rs,rd Rail - Arrest Of tho Engineer.

p.r,ons Injured = Hundreds Took Thei
,i,,s in Their Hands and Dared the Deadly
r,rd Rail - Arrest Of tho Engineer
rear-end collision occurred last evening or
A.. ruth avenue branch OF the Brooklyn Ele
r.,sd Railroad, In which one Of the elevated
...d's EMPLOYEES was killed and several othel
n.,.ons we're injured. That more were no,
.pled or injured Is a matter oi surprise. foi
.,,er the danger from the collision was oveI
,hsrs was the peril Of the death-charned wired
..n 10 be contended with. owing to the fact that
hrndreds OF passengers anxious to get TO their
dsstIpstions took foolhardy risks in walking
along the track from their stalled trains TO a
station exi, TO the street.
The collision occurred Just beyond the Full
ton street station. The trains involved were
the Bay Ridge elevated train. which leaves the
New York end OF the bridge at 5as o'clock.
and the Rockaway Express on the Long Island
railroad which leaves Ave minutes later. The
,orm,r train consisted Of two motor cars, one
a, each end. and two ordinary coaches be-
,vsen. II will be understood that the motor
oars also carry passengers. The Long Island
tr.in consisted Of an engine and five cars. Both
trains we're crowd as it was at the busiest
time Of the day.
Just after the Bay Ridge train pulled out of
the Fulton street station, making for the Flat
bush avenue station, which was the next ST op,
a fuse burned out on the rear motor. The
train came to q standstil on the wide curve
where the road swings out to make Flatbush
avenue. The rear coach was not in sight from
the station platform The burning out Of q
fuse Is not an unusual mishap in Brooklyn.
II happens many times day, on both the
surface and the elevated cars. Possibly this IL
why the trainmen on the crippled train forgot
10 send a man back TO warn the trains following
that there was danger around the curve. Per-
hsps they thought the next train would stop at
the station anyway. and that there would be
time enough TO warn them. Whatever were
their mental processes, they took no precau-
lions. They evidently apprehended no danger.
for the motorman Of the rear car. W. a. Young
Of s5 Fifth avenue. crawled down on the track
osee II he could repair the defect
He had cen there perhaps three minutes
when the Rockaway express came along. This
train is always In hurry. II makes no stop
at the Fulton street station. Standing on the
station platform waiting for train was II.
T. Bracken OF li3 DeKalb avenue He had
Just come up from Fulton street. where he
could see the stalled Bay Ridge train and he
knew what would happen II Engine 222 went
around that curve full TIT drawing those five
cars. For few seconds Mr.. Bracken had
the reputation among his fellow occupants OF
the platform OF being lunatic. He seized his
straw hat, in his hand. waved it wildly. let out
choice assortment OF screeches and ran toward
the advancing train. II Engineer Paul Mar
shall saw him he did not take any stock in his
mystic signs, lie says he did not see him
and the chances are he didn't for the platform
up. He swung on past the station and around
the curve.
There right in front of his eyes was the other
rain. He saw uniformed guard climbing
down on the rear car and he grabbed for his
lever, reversing to the limit. Then his big
engine IsInmed into the motor car The guard,
The car and all else but myriad Of stars dis
vcnea'ed ir9n the view Of Engineer Marshall
trouble, nut Just how much he didn't know
Tor minute or two.
When the crash came Young was stu TN
derneath his motor tinkerinx away. He must
across the inside rail for he went down on his |
lace and the wheels Of his car as they were
Jammed forward almost cut him In two. lie |
was dead when they got to him.
Mean le there was bedlam In all the cars |
especially In the Bay Ridge train, which was
lakeo tne very Ia Z strap-harger who could |
SaSeeze .aSs zl IN being aboard Many Of pas en-
snd faiht simultaneously. Heads were poked |
out windows and a scramble for escaJ began.
Inc guards kept their heads and refused to |
The tracks. Men and women fought for the |
privilege OF taking chaDre on the third raj l. |
Stay on the train, yelled the guards. There's |
no no "a danger now. You'll be killed If you step
foolish 'Ae ~0"N
"Lemme out O. here" bawled big man as
%sa H ReFE be Esd RsdF hs sqslsd sas the guard
lou never done nothin' to be electrocuted for.
say where YOU are"
Not on Ss yoas eupola, insisted the passenger
And he vent over In spite of the guard. As
1s picked his way gingery along toward the |
y ratpush avenue station the rest OF the prisoners
md n% Ttn Spt the guards by
ne windows had been little bigger and the |
toneh !, IN less OF hurry to get out merely some
y Them might have succeeded. but their own |
'olceman Coleman OF the Adams street station
lad heard the crash and seen the thousands of |
parks that tumbled through the trees and |
,o~n , onto the sidewalk below AZ the third rail
'esah cutting Its peculiar capers. He ran out
rom under the elevated structure and looked
y. ne saw women's heads In every window
,nt ,na 1ney were al making desperate efforts TO
lands for them to stay where they were and,
laving helped 10 quiet them, he went up on the |
Iuct.ire' There he found the Passengers
ION o, me Long Island train filing out, on to the
nhduorlh. he rear car was still abreast of |
ne e. upper end and thus they had an easy exit
coleman clambered down In front of the
,hsine i, and found Marshall, whom he arrested.
mons them Miss Della conneliy "Sfs of Bay ,s svsnas
ma bay twenty fifth street. Two ambulancee
y yers sent Tor but all the fainters had recovered
,ne ,ne, was Patted into consciousness by the
'Ioctors and she declined to 60 TO a hospital.
.1mionpg y n tho Injured were Arthur Robinson Of
,shsn fS bersen street, a passenger. and William
,ea,ner o was seriously hurt and both wont
ome. Youngs body was taken to the Adams
Tees TS s,ation fe hqs no relatives in this city.
rainmen started in to raise the blockade It
OOH them thirty minutes. The motor train
"a as assisted up to Flatbush avenue. whore
,e passengers got out, and wos then showed
= = TO where it could be switched of. The Long
sahd engine was badly crippled thnt II |
ou!dnt pnll any more. but II managed TO limp |
y, y. 10 Morris Park in charge Of Marshall Po-
Ue'hah ~ ran coleman went along in the engine cab
10 y Drought Marshall back TO the station house.
is y, was released shortly on IN order from judge
,prrrsi NE company having furnished bail.
NE pouer cars were run up TO Morris Park with
Moa1wh leltrafic had been badly congested.
wa nm convenient time 10 have such a
nng hapne1. Not only was the outgoing
~ iled M but the trains TO Manhattan were
pre."nt tying M the Rideewood branch.
ncn i,rlnS junction with the Fifth avenue
=" ~ HpdIoI street ani Myrtle avenue There
gre Uhola lCt Of passengers who were eager
W tod TO wn,,. They refused Not having.
ee, halI cared 70 death by collislo', they
.,n, ,,dHn listen 10 the guard, and several train
i,1 nv, otwren s,ran The Fla,bnsh avenue, and the
wv Track, When the railroad people saw
~ " ,Lv LLI"v couldn't keen them in the cars they