The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-27
TEN HURT IN
A COLLISION
Trolley Cars Crash While
Going Down the Road
in Union Hill.
RAILS WERE SLIPPERY
Motornan Applied the Brakes
in Vain-Panic Follows
the Crash.
RAILS WERE SLIPPERY

A rear end collision in which ten per-
sons were more or less seriously injured
and two trolley cars badly wrecked, oc-
Cured last night on the North Hudson
division of the Jersey City, Hoboken and
Paterson Railway at Fourth street and
the Bulls Ferry road, Union Hill.
The injured were:
Ahrens, Frederick, No. sic Fourth
street, Union Hill
Daurly, Andrew, Polk street, West
New York.
I De Rizzi, Stephen Bulls Ferry road,
Hudson Heights.
Girscham, Thomas, No. us Franklin
avenue, Gutenberg.
ziely, Martin, No. % Second street,
Gutenberg.
Liess. Adolph, No. $50 Fourth street,
! Union HILL
Placke. Joseph, Bergenline avenue,
Gutenberg.
Rush, T. A., No. 95 Boulevard, Wee
hawken.
Tanfeld, Alfred, No. 743 Franklin
street, Gutenberg, arm broken and
shoulder dislocated
Tielman, Jesse, horse trainer, Gutten-
berg race track, North Bergen.
CARS CRASH.
The others hurt were cut and bruised,
but as their Injuries were in no way SER
ious the physicians failed to keep any
record of them.
The collision occurred at 7:30 o'clock.
A Hudson Heights car ran into the rear
end of car bound for Fort Lee.
The two cars left the West Shore ferry
about the same time, the Fort Lee car
being in the lead. Both were crowded
with men returning home from work in
New York. There were comparatively
few women among the passengers.
Having climbed the Palisades, the two
cars started west over Fourth street.
Between the Boulevard Loop at the brow
of the Palisades, Weehawken, and
Broadway, Union Hill, distance of only
two blocks, there is a slight fall in the
road.
The car in the lead stopped at the
Bullsferry road, which is about midway
between the Boulevard Loop and Broad
way to let off passengers. The car fol-
lowing was close behind. 1t did not
'slow up but, continuing on its way,
ran rapidly down hill and crashed into
the rear end of the car in the lead.
The front and rear platforms Of the two
cars were wrecked and many windows
shattered. The passengers standing on
the rear platform of the front car were
crushed in the wreck. Many of those in
the car were thrown from their feet. All
were panic stricken and made a wild
rush to get out. Some of the women
screamed and others tainted.
As soon asthe injured were extricated
from the wreck they were taken to the
Broadway Pharmacy, a block away.
where their injuries were dressed by DR..
Rhoades and Harry Gray Eakin. All
were able to leave for their homes after
their wounds had been attended to, ex-
cept Tanfeld who was removed in a
carriage.
MOTOR MANS STATEMENT.
After the wrecked cars had been taken
to the car sheds at West Hoboken,
traffic was resumed
The motorman in charge of the rear
car says he was unable to avert the
accident. He says he reversed his cur
rent and applied his brakes as soon as
the car ahead of him stopped, but that
owing to the fall in the road and the
fact that the rain made> the rails slip
perry, the wheels refused to take hold and
his car crashed into the one ahead of
him before he could stop it.
The name of the motorman in charge
of the car that caused the accident is
Albert Roffi. j. Eckel was the motor
man on the stationary car.
General Superintendent Warren Hall,
for the trolley company, refused to make
any statement concerning the accident. He
said the matter was in the hands of
Adiuster John P Feeney