The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
TWENTY HURT IN COLLISION.
GRAIN CRiSHES INTO JROLLEY
CAR NEAR CONEY ISLAND.
Passengers Thrown From Gar Into the
water At "Dead Mans Carve'.-POle
Was or the Wire Nnd Cur Was Dark
b. Launch Docs Good Service In Rcscu.
II ms People From Creek Policeman
F.! Onoufke Works l'ntil overcome.

b. Launch Docs Good Service IN ReScu,
II ms People From Creek policeman
! Onourke Works Cntil overcome.
score of persons were injured in rear
end collision between trolley car and a
Hre-car train of the Sea Beach line at Dead
Mans Curve" just this side of Coney Island.
mt $50 O'Clock last evening. About two
dozen men. women and children were
thrown from the trolley car or jumped
from the embankmcnt where the collision
took place into the muddy water of the
Coney Isili,d marshes Eighteen of these
while tho widest confusion was reignng,
werc rescued by party tina, was out in a
nnphtha launch.
The People who were injured were, with
one exception. passengers on the trolley
chr. Three are so seriously hurt THAI last
hight the doctors feared that they would
lie.
Tho accident. although it was not tho
first by any means that has occurred ut
Dead Mans Curve" was the first tina |;
I'ns happened since the installation Of
the express train service from the Brook
isn Bridge to Coney Island. 1t was one
of the most serious that the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit people have ever had.
The trolley. which was an opon car nf
the Third avenue lire. had just crossed the
first bridge over the Coney Island meadows
aud had run about fifty or one hundred feet
toward the second and longer trestlc on
which the cars and train Of the Sea Bencl,
line run into Coney Island Both the first
ard second bridges have recently been
lighted up adequately by incandesccrt
tights, but the space between has been left
in total darkness When the car got over
the first bridge. the trolley slipped from the
wire and left the car dark.
The conductor had rung up sevent y-ive
fares five minutes before at Twenty
second avenue, Three persons. including
Frank c. Bostock. the animal trainer, had
get on at Kings Highway. making total
of seventy eight passengers. dozen men
were standing on the footboard.
While the conductor was fussing around
~ the darkness trying to put the
trolley on the wire again, heavy
6re-car train express from the Brooklyn
Fridge Numbered over the trestle and
crashed into the rear of the car.
The train smashed fully a quarter Of
tie trolley car, pushing tile four rear
seats together. Several OF the men who
we're standing on the running-board of
tho trolley saw the train before the col
ii.ion md jumped of on the narrow cinder
-inbankment. the top Of which IL four feet
above the water on the marsh at that point.
Several of those who jumped fell into the
water. When the collision came all who
could get out Of the trolley jumped in the
same direction. Tho whole crowd finally
fell over one another into the three feet Of
muddy water on the marsh.
Among those who got intp the water
we're number OF women and they screamed
for help. Their cries were heard by party
Of three men who were in a naphtha launch
under the bridge that had just been trav-
versed by the trolley and train.
The launch steamed around TO the scene
pf the accident aud the men in it pulled the
people out OF the water Down in the water
wore Policemen Edward O'Rourke and Link
etter. They had been riding down - the
island to 60 on duty.
O'Rourkc was on the rear plat form OF
he trolley and was shot on into the water,
hut the shock of the cold water soon brought
hin to his senses.
\
have to be called to his duty He and
lifted several women out and put them
in the launch. Then they helped the men.
Soon they had eigh teen persons in the
launch and the little craft steamed with
The rescued to the foot Of West Twelfth
street on the Island They were taken
TO the Coney Island police station.
NourN-hiia Tho to ,,,ost ~, ., r,,,;,,>
among those Sho had been left on the car.
Six or eight passengers, who were in the
renr seats, had been pinned in, and they
were all shouting for help The train hands
PILED out and did all they could, and five
minutes after the collision train bound
from tho island to New York came along
and brought more help.
Behind this train came trolley car filed
with railroad employees who had heard OF
the accident and had fastened from the
Sea Beach line station.
Tho railroad men from the island per-
suaded many OF the trolley passengers
that they had better return to their homes,
and about twenty, some of whom were
slightly bruised and cut and otherwise
hurt, took the advice and went.
There were still many slightly injured
around and shouting for their relatives.
Joe, Joe. where are your one woman
kept shouting.
Joe, was evidently her husband She
found him At last near the long bridge.
He was searching for her in crowd Of
people who were too badly scared to stay
near the wrecked car and who were also
afraid to cross over on the narrow foot
path Of the second bridge toward the island
The whole crowd Of injured people who
remained were finally taken over to the
island in the trolley car that had brought
the railroad men. They left behind them
the reserves Of the Coney Island police
station who had been turned out by Capt.
Dooley. They were too late to do much.
but that wasn't their fault.
At the island tho car which bore the in
iured persons was met by ambulances
from the Coney Island Emergency Hos
pital, with Drs. Kane and Sayboldt in charge
Drs. John w. Pierce. Sgnund Beck and
John J. Hill, private practitioners at Coney
Island, were also summoned by Police
Captain Dooley. Dr. Pierce soon saw tina,
,he ,,,lir,e statihp WAS going 70 be crowded