New-York tribune., 1902-08-20
TWENTY HURT IN CRASH
UNION RAIL WAY CAR TURNS
NEARLY SOMERSAULT.
LEAPS FROM TRACK IN GOING AT HIGH

SPEED DOWN IERCME-aA L HILL
Twentv persons were injured just before mid
night last night. when one Of the heavy open
streetcars of the Union trolley line left the
tracks in Jerorne-ave near the Mosholu Park
way crossing and turned almost complete
somersault in the ditch at one side The fol
lowing. persons were taken 10 the Fordhar Hos
pital where they were treated,
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Ss6th-sr 'n1uTi@- eoneasIa0s Of the side
taken 70 the hospital. both with fractured skulls
and both unconscious Their identity had not
been learned at 2 late hour Both men are in a.
serious condition. and at the hospital it is said
they win probably die
CAR LEAPS FROM TRACKS.
The big car contained about forty or fifty
passengers returning from outings of various
sorts in the extreme upper part Of the borough
Down Jerome-ave. for a distance of a dozen or
more blocks there is a steep incline It was
down This hill. and when well toward the
bottom Of II that the suddenly left the
tracks and the crash came Everybody was
hurled from his seat The car seemed 20 leap
entirely off the tracks and into the air
To the right OF the track is 4 deep roadway.
and into this the ~ar plunged. II struck on the
forward trucks first. SO great the impetus
that the car turned up end. and II seemed
for an instant that II would turn a complete
sonersault But il settled back partly and then
turned over on the right side and rolled over
settling in a gutter along the roadway. at an
angle of forty degrees.
Bernard Feenev. the motorman clung 10 his
post When the struck he was caught
underneath the wreckage and debris, and
pinned down in the mud Of the gutter. William
Flsiner the conductor was thrown some dis
tance into the air and struck his head and
neck in the gutter Both men were Ia ter placed
under arrest and taken prisoners 10 the Ford
ham Hospital
WORK FOR HALF \ DOZEN SURGEONS.
As soon AS those not severely hurt could do
50 they picked themselves out OF the WreckaEe
Of the car and hurried off 70 summon aid for the
injured Telephone calls were sent 10 the Ford
ham HospitaI and 10 the police Of the Kings
bridge station. An ambulance from the hos
pitsI quickly responded. with all the available
medical assistance in the institution Half a
dozen ambulance surgeons were kept busy for
an hour or more in attending those suffering
from injuries Of a minor nature. hut who re
fused to go the hospital
About dozen persons were treated at the
Mace of the accident and taken to their homes
in the best equipages that could be PROVIDED
at that hour of the night Everybody in the
neighborhood who had wagon or buggy was
asked to turn out and help get the injured to
their homes and they all complied with good
grace.
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT NOT KNOWN.
What caused the accident could not be def
nitelv ascertained last night. Some of the pas
sengers declared the plunged down the
steep Jerome-ave. hill at a rate of not less than
forty miles an hour They assert that the car
for blocks was running rapidly that It con
stantIy sv-erved and careened from one side TO
the other. and that it seemed in danger Of le7N-
ing the rails every instant.
The rnotorman and the conductor of the car
both declared they were in no way TO blame, and
asserted the accident could not have been
avoided
sand down over the rails, and in many places
there were small hillocks OF sand and gravel
across the rails. It is supposed by the railway
employees that the car struck one or these pies
of sand
The car when it left the track ran into an
iron trolley pole. The pole was torn rom the
ground and the trolley wires for some distance
we're torn down the ground.
The car was on it's way from Yonkers-ave TO
Macomb's Dam Bridge when the accident oc-
CURED.
CONGRESSnAN HIT OUT OF DANGER.
Chicago Aug 19.-Congressman r r. HIT. who
was taken seriously i'll in this city last night, is
pronounced out of danger. He expects to be able
To leave for his home at Mount Morris, Ill. soon.
Landmarks of History the famed Hudson
best seen from deck OF Day Line Strs Flre Or
chestra and Scenery New landing W. 18th St
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