New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
SCORES PINNED UNDER CAR
MANY NEW-YORKERS INJURED IN ACCI-
DENT AT LEONIA HILL.
HEAVILY LOADED TROLLEY LEAPS FROM
TRACK AFTER RUNAWAY DASH
DOWN A STEEP HILL.

DOWN A STEEP HILL.
Over a score Of persons living IN this city
We're injured in trolley car accident at Leonia
Hill. New-Jersey. yesterday afternoon. The car.
containing more than hundred passengers bent
on pleasure riding got beyond the control OF the
motorman and dashed down a steep hill at
speed OF forty miles an hour. At the bottom of
the incline It left the track and turned ever in
ditch. pinioning many of the passengers IN
derneath it and hurting others fence into
a vacant lot.
THE INJURED.
face and head 5 Bruised G SI 10 west
GReNN Miss Anna N No SO, 45 RgtseTsst foot crushed
hrst-st.; head cut.
MIR so!FS Body NJ bruised 2s West
EI-RIscH. Mrs D.. Nc. 50 Bowery; bruised about the
VoH Carl Gu, N b. S5 Stv1 ws' Ss
w ankle So orSSe Ss %est staG u and
JONES. Mrs. s., No West sixteth head cut
~cARTaE "a 5ody Mrs John No $40 sooO"dAvs injuries
PRITcHETT W. A. No. as Ninth-st. Brooklyn
REID. Mrs, T. S. No IS hundred and-t~enty
REEVE F. s.. hundred -twenty-ninth-st.
REEHoLz Carrie No. beo West Thirty-sxth-st- con
ROBINSON. Jessie ten years old No 2se St Nicholas
ROBINSON. Donald. eight years old. head cut.
RUSSELL Miss E. C. No. 10 Bethune-st.. head cut,
PULLMAN. L. H. No sls Madison-st. head cut.
scHINGLER, J. T., No. se7 Park-ave., cuts on wrist
sUNsTRoM Gus conductor. waveriey Place oontu-ion-
and possible internal injuries.
The car. which OF the large open type,
left the Fort Lee ferry at o'clock loaded with
passengers for Englewood. At Leonia Heights
the car descended a steep hill half a mile in
N al Newton,
motorman, Of Fort Lee. n. J.. and Gus sun
strom, conductor, OF Waverly Place. Get
ting beyond Newton's control, 1t dashed down
the hill at a speed Of forty miles an hour. The
motorman worked frantically at the brake, but
did not lessen the speed, and the car sped.
gaining rapidly in momentum. AS the car
struck the at the foot Of the hill II
jumped from the rails and toppled over into
the ditch Many Of the passengers were held
beneath the car while all about the road lay
cut and bleeding persons who had been thrown
out many OF them being hurled over fence
into a vacant lot on the west side OF the track
Women and children were buried beneath the
debris and many Of them cut by broken glass
The body Of the car was completely torn from
the trucks.
Following close behind was another car loaded
with passengers who saw the accident, ana on
reaching the spot hastened TO give aid to the
injured. Those imprisoned beneath and in the
car were speedily extricated. II was found
that save the conductor were seriously III
jured, though no one but the motorman escaped
without cut or bruse Several women faint
ed. and others became hysterical
Manager F. W. Bacon, Of the New-Jersey and
Hudson River Railway, soon on the scene
with a special car. in which the injured were
taken to Englewood. Some Of the more seri-
ously injured remained in the hospital there.
among them being a number of those living
here.
PASSENGERS EXPERIENCE.
c. w Irving, of West Sixty-second-st, was
one Of those in the when It down the
hill He received a severe scalp wound He
said:
The car was crowded its fullest capacity. Less
many a he ehlGren DR. me al Vent well until we started on
the down grade after leaving lie eona tr aeights h s W
tracks when the car began to travel faster than
and finally stood up and looked over the heads OF
those in front. l was seated In the next to the
occurring in front When stood up saw the the
9 %aS to m stop the car With the
power It was evident the brake not holding
on as the reverse did NOT appear 70 check the car
Impression There was some screaming and hys-
terics. but It lasted only moment -, .Ao I'm
travelling fast as ever travelled on a
trolley car There was fearful jerS ana ana TPPfing
minutes was that / few into the air | hit the the
hands and my head were cut ,wriggled my head
m and AID as Of b s h0g a w
and under the car That many We're were not ked lbs Is
seats and fonnd that many were pinned under the
side of the car Al who could got @ hold a. OF the TOP
meath to crawl out A carload OF men and women men
great Work in getting out the injured. The
attended them There was general scattering "a
injured cannot be told but think at least ninety
5 Do one ss wa e @ OF
taken out seemed dead and many unconscious but
want another such experience