New-York tribune., 1901-07-08
CARS CRASH TOGETHER.
FOUR PERSONS INJURED IN BROADWAY
MANY MORE HAVE NARROW
4, ESCAPES.

Four people were injured and many had mar
row escapes when southbound broadway cleo
tric car No ess. crashed into Canal-st. Sorse-
car. No II. at Broadway and Walker-st, little
before 10 O'Clock last night. Both cars were
crowded with passengers and the utmost ex-
eitement and confusion followed the crash The
fifty passengers in the Canal-st. car were panic
stricken. and fought madly in their endeavors TO
get out as the car was hurled from the tracks
10 the curb The injured are:
cEIsAER Charles thrtyone years old q no o. 81 III ss,
leg; taken to Hudson Street Hospital
Ey Is' ~ fa scalp 9f of and "a la
Hudson Street Hospital.
Union Hiil; !. j.; cut about face by flying glass;
STARK Joseph t~entythree years old the conductor
q me Csna-st car: lives at No llo Cllni9n td nso;
Street Hospital.
suffered from shock, but refused medical attend
ance. All were greatly agitated and it was some
time before the excitement subsided.
The Broadway car. hound for the South Ferry,
was going down Broadway at a rapid rate. The
Canal-st. had just made its usual stop east
Of the northbound Broadway track and had
started to cross to the other side of Broadway.
When in the centre of the southbound track IL
was struck broadsde by the Broadway car and
driven for about fifteen feet to the curb. where
IL would have toppled over but for lamp post.
As soon as his car was struck James Carroll.
thirty-hve years old, of No. 30 West Thirty
eigllth-st., the driver of the horse car, jumped
from the platform and unhitched the traces
freeing the horses which thus escaped injury.
Stark, the conductor, WAS hurled from the rear
platform and was picked up from under the
fender of the Broadway car in dazed cond-
tion and bleeding profuiely from jagged wound
,,,. If his head window in the
canaI-st. ear, which was a closed one. was shat-
tered.
George Robertson. thirty-six years old, OF NO
734 Ninth-ave.. the motorman of the Broadway
car was placed under arrest. and after he had
guided his car to South Ferry was taken to the
Leenard-st. police station and locked up on
charge of assault. AT the station he sald that
the driver of the horsecar had cut him off but
others say that Robertson at fault Police
men Lawson and Burnett who saw the acci-
dent, say emphatically that Robertson made no
attempt whatever to stop his car until it was
too late.
Robertson declares that when he saw that he
could not cross the tracks before the Canal-st-
car he applied his brake. but the momentum
of his car was too great, and ii was Impossible
TO avert the collision.
The Broadway thrown from the rails,
but suffered no damage other than a bent plough
which EXTENDED into tne Slol floDeft AudihSoh'
the conductor of the Broadway car. signalled his
motorman TO stop when he saw that collision
imminent.
Many of the passengers in the Broadway car
saw that an accident going to happen, and
they sprang from their seats and shouted.
Several wanted to leap from the car, but they
were held baC:I the going at such
rate that fatal injuries might have resulted
from jump. When the crash did come the
shreks of the women could be heard for blocks
away. Several tainted.
The demolished horse car was lacked up and
moved away. The right side completely
smashed and the platform battered out of
shape
At the Hudson Street Hospital IL was said
late last night that IT thought none of the
victims were fatally injured. but that Ceisner's
leg would have to be amputated. The sur
geons think that he viii recover. He was on
crutehes when the accident occurred, one leg
having been amputated { year ago.