New-York tribune., 1903-08-08
LOCOMOTIVE TIPS OVER.
Strikes Open S7gitch IN Nezo-Yo orh
Central Yards.
PASSENGERS HURT IN BUMP,

PASSENGERS HURT IN BUMP.
Through what appeared to be the failure OF
switchman quickly to throw = switch In the yard
of the New-York Central Railroad at Forty-ninth-
ST yesterday the locomotive which pulls the White
Plains express due at the Grand Central Station
nj 1915 o m was thrown on it's side and the cab
slightly damaged. John O'Connor. the engineer
and his fireman. whose name could not be learned.
escaped injury, according to the police OF the East
Fifty-drst-st station and the officials Of the rail
road company. They also declared that no one was
injured.
1t is customary to detach the locomotives while
they in motion from incoming passenger trains
and to send them, by means of the flying switch,
onto other tracks, permitting the passenger cars to
continue their way TO the station. This was
being done yesterday when for some reason the
switchman not able to throw the switch
quickly enough. and the engine was thrown on us
side into the ditch Before tho hrakemen on the
passenger cars could stop the train it had bumped
into the rear end of the tender, giving the pas
sengers shaking up. All. according to the reports
of the police and railroad officials, escaped INJURY
although some of the passengers on the tram CON
tend that were injured.
portion of the railroad track was torn up nut
this was repaired as soon as possible. The engine
was placed on the track and taken to the repair
shops
Police Commissioner Conrad Dugan Of Mount
Vernon, who passenger on the tram, gave a
Tribune reporter the following version Of the aeci-
dent last night
Police Commissioner William HOBBY, DI ~ % trai,
mann w A Glover and 1 all boaroed the ualLl IN
at Mount Vernon, and <ere in the smoker III s IHe
rear when the accident occurred NatQIaLy We Sn5 SU5
the ysuip end of it We had turned the sGats am anu
all four were sitting facing each otneE' d Mie saIv
ceny there was a crash and JOLT, anu Sor SSr
Hobbys hat hy off and ne went throGsh 5l7 same
as though shot from 4 catapllt Al the tn sa4uo
time the rest OF US were thrown from the sf2aS: o
slruck my knee against the corner OF Iiie uoo.
and bruised it very painfully. When Lobby got got
up he found that he had wrench ms PACK al. al.
could scarcely walk. Cover had MS wrist oduly
hurt ana Dr. Baumann, who was the only one
of the four uniniuTed, and took him 70 q oTus
STORE on Lexingtou-ave. and had 1t oandaSed.
The worst part about the accident was tnat Whe4 men
we returned home we found that reports ma, nau
reached there that we had been kllleq IN an acci-
dent in the Park-ave. tunnel tonnd my Wtle 3 on
the verge Of nervous proStrauon. whoever SlaI Ceu
these reports should be punished.
This is the second wreck on the New-York Central
Mr. Dugan has been in. He on the Harlem
train which was in collision with the New-HaVen
local express in January, 1902, when several per-
sons were killed, and received severe bruises.
A. II, Smith general manager of the railroad
when seen, ridculed all the reports that several
persons aad been hurt and said:
ITO use an everyday expression, 1 would say
that not eyelGsh was scraped