New-York tribune., 1901-09-28
HURT in A CAR CRASH.
SEVEN INJURED IN BROAD
WAY COLLISION.
LEVER FAILS TO WORK on BROADWAY
MOTOR AND CAUSES WRECK AT
THIRTY FOURTH ST

A Broadway electric car crowded with pas
sengers, crashed into a Thirty -fourth-st. cross
town car early this morning, and several per
sons were severely injured. There was intense
excitement in the neighborhood. Women pinned
in the wreckage screamed frantically he
leased. The Broadway car wrecked bat
the Thirty -fourth-st. car only had its rear plat
form demolished.
Hurry calls for ambuances were sent to the
New-York Hospital. and three surgeons
sponded and attended to the wounded. Seven
persons removed to the hospital. but it is
not yet known whether anybody sustained fatal
injuries.
Charles Conway, the motorman of the Broad
way car had a narrow escape from death.
When the came together with deafening
crash he threw himself fiat on the platform, and
wedged In between the floor and the dash
board He escaped with contusions to both ;egs.
Conway told the police that he stopped his
al Thirty-fifth-st.. is customary Several
passengers got on board. and. receiving the
signal to go ahead, he turned the lever. The
full current The then shot ahead
at full speed. When halfway between Thirty
fourth and Thirty-ffth sts Conway said he
turned the lever TO bring the stop.
gaugng the distance required before the
could be brought to a standstiIT. To his dis~
may the lever failed toework and the car kept
on at the same full speed.
A Thirty-fourth- st. crossing the
tracks slowly, bound east. and before the tracks
could be cleared the Broadway crashed in
to il.
The known injured
New-Yori Hospital unconscious, internal Injuries ana
MCAFFREY. James. as Twenty y-four,h-
St: probable fracture Of the skull removed I, hi.
of No West
Thlrty-hrst-st
WE'LL Mrs. Mary. thirty years old address.
WEiI. Miss Bessie; contusons about the
head: Ne1-York Hospital,
NO BLAME ATTACHED TO MorORMAN
Several other persons whose names are not
known to the police injured and all were
removed in hurry to the hospital. where their
injuries were dressed
There were about forty passengers on the
Thirty-fourth-st. at the time but only two
persons on 1t were injured. The car was struck
in the part, ard the platform was torn
away. Every pane of glass was broken and
the persons who were wounded were cut by
flying glass.
Conway and Charles Wintgen, the conductor
of the Broadway car. who lives at No l 542
Third ave. were taken to the West Thirtieth-
ST. station, but were released later Conway's
story was believed by the police. as several po-
licemen who arrived on the scene soon after
the collision could see that the wheels were
revolving and that it not the motorman's
fault.
CAR MASS OF WRECKAGE
When the Broadway struck the crosstown
car II knocked it several feet away but the
momentum of the Thirty -fourth-st. car was
slow, and therefore it did not sustain as much
damage. The Broadway car suffered by the
speed that when it struck the other car it was
knocked about twenty feet across the downtown
tracks. 1t mass of wreckage and the
wrecking wagon sent for. 1t was then
lacked up and moved to the curb Traffic on
Broadway was delayed for some time
number of persons who injured re-
fused medical aid, and left the scene. The
police do not know exactly how many were in
jured.