New-York tribune., 1902-02-14
ONE EMPRESS

a panic and half hundred more or less Sc
Verely injured. last evening when two ex-
press Urains of the Third-ave. elevated road
met in a end collision just above one
hundred-and-frst Both trains were jammed
almost beyond their capacity having left the
City Hall terminal soon after ; o'clock, within
FIVE minutes of each other. That none were
injured fatally or killed outright is declared by
Some of those who We're in the wreck to he
miraculous. Some of the more seriously injured
were
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shock and coatus!ons: home.
STATION A TEMPORARY HOSPITAL
These We're all cared for 10y Drs Smith ard
Griel. of the Harlem Hospital. on the platform
OF the station at Thlrd-ave and One-hundred-
and-twenty- -ninth-st.. where a temporary hospi-
tai was set up by the ambulance surgeons
That not less than fifty persons were injured
by flying glass when the two trains came to-
gether IS the statement made by the ambulance
doctors and the police That more We're not in
tured or that some one was not killed outright.
they declare, due 10 luck more than any
thing else.
The accident occurred just before 6 o'clock
and was directly due the police say. TO the
carelessness Of switchman, who failed 10 open /
switch when he should The switchman is
missing. The police were unable 10 find him
up to a late hour last night and the officials
Of the Manhattan Railway Company would not
give out his name make any statement re-
garding the accident.
AT 5:19 o'clock an express train for the one
hundred and -sxth-st. station. without a ston
above Forty-secOnd-st., left the City Han sta
tion, 1t was pulled by Engine No. 23G in charge
Of H. Clifton, engineer Following il was a
Pelham-ave. local, and directly behind this
train was another express. which made no stops
between Ninth and One-hundred- and thirty
third st 1t due to leave the terminal at
5:21 p. m. two minutes after the One-hundrcd-
and-sIXth-st. train. John Caswen, Of No. ia
Eighth-ave.. and John Duane, Of No. 23G East
Fifty-fourth-st. engineer and fireman re-
spectively, were in charge Of Engine No. 243,
which pulled the last express
Everything went smoothly until the One
hundred-and-sixth-s express reached Ninety
ninth-st There it slowed down to take the
switch at hundred and -frst-st. that would
carry II from the centre track to the uptown
track It could then stop at the One-hundred-
and-sixth-st. station and let the passengers
get off
SWITCH NOT THROWN OPEN.
For some reason the switch was not open |
Below it, short distance, is the swtchman's
house. What happened, what wrong
seems to be q mystery. The police of the East
one hundred and -fourth-st. station unable !
TO find anybody last night who could would |
tell them The express train ran by the switch |
up the centre track 1t running slowly. |
Clifton at once stopped his train, and tried to |
back up and make another try for the switch.
Only two minutes behind came the other eX- |
press tiain. From about Eightieth-st there is !
a down grade to the north. With intention |
of stopping until he drew the One-hundred- |
and-twenty -ninth-st. station. Caswell came on |
with his train running express speed. He saw |
the signals OF the train ahead OF him the police
say but declares he could not bring his train 10 |
q stop.
While the one hundred -and-sixth-st train was |
backing slowly. trying to catch the switch |
CaswelTs train crashed into the rear car
Both trains crowded Men and women |
stood in the aisles clinging TO straps The i'm |
the rear train crashed through the rear plat
form of the rear car on the backing train The /
platform -spntered. the gates torn off. the |
door wrenched from its hinges and every win
dow and pane Of glass in the car was smashed /
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