New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
FULL CAR TIPPED OVER.
Fyfy Bruised and .Shak-en--FreigM
Tran Hits FehiciC.

Three persons were perhaps fatally injured
and hfty-seven others bruised and badly shakeh
ND in a trolley car accident in WeehaWken at
midnight last night. The badly injured are MIS-
Lambert Smith wife OF a wealthy telephone IN
s+rur,en+ manufacturer, of Clregory-st.. Wee
havl<en. dislocated shoulder and internal in
iuries: Mrs F H Newkirk OF the Highwood
Park section Of weehawl1en. dislocated shoulder
and injuries about the head, and Mrs. A
Rohnor. Of No > Boulevard Weehawken' Skull
fractured and internal injuries.
The other passengers, mostly women. were cut
and bruised, but not seriously injured.
The accident occurred at Willow-ave. and
Fourteenth-st. The trolley car, which was Of
the Union Hill line left the Fourteenth-st ferry
Hoboken crowded with passengers, who mad
been 10 theatres in Manhattan. The trolley
company's tracks cross the tracks Of the Erie
Railroad at Willow-ave. and Fourteenth-st-
When the trolley car reached the tracks
the motorman stopped his car to allow a
freight train 70 pass The train consisted Of
nine cars and was moving along rapidly. The
last three cars of the freight train broke loose
some distance east Of the crossing. and were
not noticed by the train crew After the six cars
had passed by the motoTman Of the trolley car
thought il was the last Of the train and started
TO cross The tracks. When he got his car in
the middle of the crossing the three freight cars
which had broken loose from the train came
rolling along and before he could get his car
over the crossing it was struck with terIlhc
force by the freight cars
The trolley car was completely turned over
and the passengers thrown through the Win
dcws. up against the doors and on top of one
another They were struck in the face with
broken timbers, glass and everything else nova
BILE
Arnbulances were summoned from the North
Hudson. City and Union Hill hospitals, as We're
also all the physicians residing IN the nelshpor-
hood Those who were not seriously injured
and a crowd which had collected about the
scene started TO pick out those who were
caught in the wreck
Mrs Smith was the first to be taken from tle
wreck. Sne was unconscious. She was caIrleo
snto a nearby store and attended 10 py one Vi
she musicians Mrs. Newkirk and Mrs Ron
- --erA living alone beside each other, and
1ney. TOO, were unconscious They were taken
m a s+retcher to the same store TO which Mrs
Smith had been removed. The doctors in at
tendance. realizing that they were the most Sc
,go,,slv injured directed their efforts toward
reViving them. ;-;,,, +,,ar7
stiraulants they were removed 10 the NO, hoslSICo S
A member of each of the injured women IdiLi-
lies arrived, and refused TO allow mem mems - }
taken TO the hospital, ana they were ,i, 80
the anbulances to their homes, "hlch "eIe
The doctors had their hands full for the next
Now 5ressing the wounds of the other paSseh-
,yers who received cuts and bruises, but VINO
were not seriously injured. 1,,s
They were all able to walk TO their s MONIES;
Mrs Rohnor was the most seriously injured
nf the three women Little hope is entertained
1o7 Tvba+ 11 caused the train to become uncoupled
&c not known. The trolley car was coInpIelet1y
nolre5 Traffic was blocked both on the rail-
road and trolley lines for nearly two hours