The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-29
ELEVATED TRAINS KILL TWO.
MOTOR CAR M rs OVER NAN VINO
FELL FROM CAR ~ FRONT.
Track Wa.,er struck and KILLED by Sinth
Avenue Train crowd That sers This
Accident sees Also DYING Nan
Carried From the Ioilowin; Train.

Two men We're killed by elevated trains
Yesterday. one a workman on the tracks,
the other, il il thought, a passenger who
had fallen from a train in front. Ia ad-
ditiou the platform crowd who saw the
first accident saw also a man carried dying
from the train Tia, followed into the stat
The passenger killed was young
laboror, apparently on his way home from
work He was run over by Third avenue
train abou' Gtj O'Clock last evening in
iron, Of the uptown station al Fifty-third
street
Jacob Gros-inau, newsboy, was stand
ing a, the northern end of the station when
10 heard n man ON the rear platform oi
an outgoing train shout 10 him:
Stop the next train There l. man ou
the track
Gresham ran a. fa.t a. he could to the
other end 81 tn platform where h' could
see the man stretched out on the track,
He seemed 90 ur daZ"d aud struggling to
get go his 'c"I.
\ train was just coming IN and Grossman
waved - arms and yrH'u N tn" TOP 81
his 20, q the motorman. The motor,nan
saw him and put on the brakes 80 suddenly
that passengers On the train were thrown
cot Of their seats. but il was too latetu bring
the train 10 a stop. and In" front wheels
Of the first car PASSED over III" man on
Alt TRICKS, cutting nun nearly III TWO ana
killing him Instantly.
The station agent notified the police
al once and called an ambulance. When
The body had been brought up to the plat
form he agent declared that he had not seen
the man pass the turn-tile VI" thought,
and the police agreed with him, that the
| man had fallen from the train that left
| The station Just ahead Of the one which
ran over him. Probably he wa- standing
! on the rear platform and lost his balance.
81 ,l,- L., L..
was unable to get out of the way Of the
second train.
The body was taken 10 the East Fifty
| first y, ret station until IL could be iderti-
fled. The dead man, who was plainly
dressed, was apparently abOu - year
! old, with light hair aud complexion. H.
| one of his pockets was found a meinorau-
| dun book containing the name Jo" log'!",
g. Third avenue. This was IN" only entry.
| William e. Hos~ Of lis Fast ll3th street
| Inotorman on the -"coId train. was booked
! NJ on a technical charg" Of homicide
The other accident occurred Yesterday
/ morning just abuv" the Say"ulv --"coud
! street station, when a ,ru'hb"und oA-
| pi"-~ tram on In" Ninth avrnu" lin"
| struck and killed a llbor'r 4
| crowd of waiting passengers ~aw n" ac-
! cld"ut. and several women tainted m he
| sight. shortly after the same persons saw
! Emanuel Dreyious of = West Nlncty-~"cond
| street carried from train TO the station
| The man killed 10y the train vas John
! Mclaughlin. who lived AZ 23l Hamilton
| avenue, Brooklyn. He was walking on th"
! centre track between Sevcn'y-third and
| SeveEty-iourth streets when the express
| train struck him from lshird and threw
| him about twenty feet, breaking most Of
| his bones
! The train rushed past the station a. if
nothing had happened and the polio" think
| that the engineer did not know that his
| n huI mob ,,st
| kear of the West SiSty-eighth street police
| station sent a detective 10 find the engineer
| and arrest him
| When the neV local train arrived a,
| tn" station. Passengers brought Dr"yfous
| to III" platform where lac died IN a few min
| utca. Dreyfous was a clerk in the com
| plant bureau and lad been employed
| IN the department since 1884 when he was
| appointed private secretary 20 Commits
| sioler stephen u French He had often
| 'pld lis friends that he was relative Of
| "a" French Captain Droyfus, though he
| spcllcd his name GifTer'utlv