The evening world., 1902-06-18
ELEVATOR FALLS AT
MACY'S-- FIFTEEN HURT
Plunges from the Sixth
Floor tothe Sub Base
ment and Every Pas
senger Is Injured
Arms and Legs Bro
ken, but No One Was
Fatally Hurt.

peIsohe, nearly oil OF WHOM
were women, were seriously injured
at 2.15 this afternoon, when a pas
senger elevator in the Thirteenth
street en- of Macy & Co.'s store at
Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.
fell from the sixth floor to the cellar.
The accident is said to be due to
the 'udden breakage of the water
pressure. In the car, besides the
shoppers and the elevator boy, was
a colored man employed in the store.
The following persons, injured at
Mays. were taken to st. vincent's
and New York Hospitals
BAUGERT. MRS. j.. W., 23s East
Main street. Portchester, both
legs fractured.
BRANN. MRS. No. ISs st. Nicholas
left ankle broken, cone
fusion.
BURNS, OLIVIA. 30. No. los East
seventy-eighth street, both legs
fractured.
CADECk, MRS. ANNIE, Bay Shore,
L.. l., both legs broken.
COHEN. MOLLIE, No. S81 East One
Hundred and Thirty-fourth street,
right leg fractured.
DUGARTI, MRS. J. r., No. 3 CO.
lumbia street, Brooklyn, both
legs fractured.
FORAN, THOMAS, No. 4 West
Th~irty-eiEhth street, both ankle.
HAILORAN, MRS. MARY. No. 8
West One Hundred and Sixth
street, both legs fractured.
HILL, MIR MARY, Point-of-Woods,
L.. l., slightly injured, seEt home.
KAUFMAN, AMELIA, No. A East
fourteenth street, both legs
fractured.
PIERCE, MRS. JENNIE, forty-hve,
No. 8 West One Hundred and
sixth street, left leg fractured.
RATHERIN, EMILY, Bay
Shore IL. l., right leg fractured.
TOODE, r. AUGUSTA, thirty-two,
MorrIstown, n. j., right ankle
broken.
AMBULANCEs CALLED.
Almost a. soon as the accident hap
pened ambulances from st. Vincent's
and the New York Hospital arrived.
and the injured were hurried to the
hospitals.
Some of them had fractures OF
limbs.
All the reserves from the Mercer
street station were hurried to the
store.
At 3 P. NJ. Oscar S. Stratus made
this statement:
MY brother has just informed me
that a new elevator dropped at
Macy's this afternoon with eight per-
sons.
Thinking that the reports OF the
accident might be exaggerated he re-
quested me to that fortu-
nately no one was seriously injured"
CAPT. CHAPMAN's STATEMENT.
Police Capt. Chapman, of the Mer-
Ger street station, said that In his
work OF putting the injured on chairs
and rushing them TO hospitals III de-
livery wagons he was aided by the
employees OF the store, but that in his
investigation OF the accident and its
causes he was hampered in the per-
fnrnanNa nf HE dmtu
With commendable promptitude three
ambulances from ST. Vincent's arrived.
In charge OF Drs. Gates. Donovan aud
Garlgan, One ambulance came from the
New York Hospital. All were needed.
and the surgeons did yeoman service
Policemen Underwood and Conboy. OF
the Mercer 4-re"s station, had beau
apprised OF the accident. and after hay-
Ing cent word to the station for the re-
serves they devoted themselves TO help
ing ont the imprisoned PASSENGER. BY
main foHce the doors OF the olevator
were forced open and the wounded tnkan
out as tenderly AS possible. othefs were
removed from the top, the upper portion
OF the machine being but a few inches
from the first floor. The passengsss weEs
piled one on top OF the other. Some had
broken legs. Others broken arms. many
had their ankles ~spralnsd and all were
injured In some way or another.
INJURED aUICKLY REMOVED.
As the injured were remq ID they
were taken two by W to ~ ambu-
lances and conveyed TO the hibpitas. st.
Vineent's ambulances being the hrst 20
arrive on the scene. took away the ma
jority OF the wounded. though sons
Continued on ghiss v~sss