The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-17
REAR.END CRASHON ELEVATED
INJURIES 4 DOZEN AND STOPS
SECOND AVENUE TRAFFIC.
Motorman Runs Away and the Cause Isn't
KnOwn-None OF the Injured In had
ShApe-TwO cars Wreck ed-EnOrt
10 Clear the Track Before Morning.

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shApe-TwO cars Wreck eSi-EnOrt
10 Clear the Track Before Morning.
bad smash-up, the first Of any conse-
Quence that has occurred since the Man
haitian company began running electric
trains exclusively on the East Side roads,
occurred al the Thirty-fourth street station
OF the Second avenue line shortly before
3 o'clock last night. A dozen persons
were injured, but only one so seriously that
he had TO he taken to the hospital. The
others went home after an ambulance
surgeon had dressed their wounds.
The accident was a rear END collision, and
il there was any excuse for IL it was not
apparent to those who viewed the wreck
afterward Both trains were bound down
town. The first one had been at the sta
ton almost half a minute when the other
came up behind and crashed into it, just
before the accident the motorman Of the
colliding train sprang out Of his box-like
quarters in the first car and dashed down
the centre Of the car. He left by the rear
door and was not seen again.
Following Ii the list Of those who were
attended by DR.. Vose of Bellevue Hospital:
BRAppow, ALEXANDER Iss Allen street. right
shoulder crushed.
HISsross. SIoMr&p. $50 Attorney street. slight
internal injuries
GnLES. JACOB. 20 Attorney street, injured about
the head and jaw fractured.
GOLDBERG. BARNEY. 100 Henry street, injured
about the head and legs.
HARRIS. SIMON, 1853 Madison street hands badly
cut.
KAPLAS. WOLF. III Grand street, injuries 70 the
right side. Taken to Bellevue Hospital.
KARsEr. Dennis. ~ East fifty nrst street In
jurics 10 the head.
NADDEo. Fortunate, ass East Twelfth street.
injufed about the legs.
Rocco. FRANK. R,ckaway Beach. hands cut.
SINGER. MAxIMrIAS. t3ila Grand street, injured
about the head and neck.
SrRAus SAMUEL. Iss East Seventh street. injured
Internally.
Four or five others were slightly injured,
or said they were injured. but DR.. Vose
said that their hurts were 30 slight that they
didn't need any attention and they went
| away without giving their names.
Luckily there were not more than sixty
or seventy persons on the six carr that made
| up the two trains, and Of these only about
| five were women. The women were all
| in the first train, and in either the first or
the second car, and none was hurt. although
| all Of the passengers were badly jolted.
The trains were running on six-minute
| Roadway on the Second avenue line at the
| time and the rear train had no right to be
| anywhere near the one ahead. A series Of
delays to the first train. however, brought
| the other almost up TO it at Forty-second
street. The first train got into the Thirty
| fouGh street station at 7A5 o'clock and
| at mat time the other train was coming on
| at rapid rate and was about midway be-
| tween the stations. There were q num-
! Der Of persous waiting at Thirty-fourth
| street and AZ several men loaded with heavy
bundles got on few seconds more than
the usual delay resulted.
| The crash came just as the motorman of
| the first train had started out Of the station
! His train had lot moved six inches when
/ the one behind, in charge Of Conductor
Henry p. Lyons and Motorman Robert
| Sling, smashed into il. The collision lifted
Sings car into the air and then it dropped
with the wheels OF the front truck
clear of the rails.
| Ii splintered the front platform Of the car
into match sticks. twisted the ironwork
into a tangled ball, ripped on the roof,
knocked in the door and completely de-
| molished the little compartment where
| Sling had been seated moment before.
| Almost every window in the car was broken
| The damage to the rear car of the first
| train was not 80 extensive. Part OF the
platform was shattered, dozen windows
were broken, the iron gates were twisted
of and the roof was partly ripped away.
The panic among the passengers on the
rear train was very much worse than on
the other, because only the first car had
reached the station platform, and tho pas
sengers on the two others could not get out.
| All made rush Tor the forward car and in
the confusion that followed there was a
good deal OF smuggling done. The guards
| quoted the passengers after while. al
| though some were 40 badly scared that
when they did get out they ran for the street
without waiting TO ma out what had hap
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