New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-17
CAR CRASH HURTS SCORE
HORSES FELL OTHERS.
Electric Rams CrOSstO1cn Car an
Sight of Fusion Meeting.

Three persons were seriously injured. a score
of others were cut by flying glas and badly
shaken up, and a panic ensued when a north
bound Eighth-ave. car crashed into an east
bound Fourteenth-st. horsecar at Eighth-ave-
and Fourteenth-st. las: night.
The injured
BERGMAN Dr. Alexander s. No. 145 West sixty first
ST.: contusions to left hip possible injuries
and bruises and about the face and head.
about body aad severs bruises and cut, on face
HAGAN Dr. Of the Pulitzer Building; internal injuries
Fully twenty other persons were injured but
none severely. and many had their hurts dressed
at nearby drug stores. while ambulance surgeons
from the New-York Hospital attended TO those
whose wounds were of a more serious nature.
The injured refused to go to the hospital, and
were taken TO their homes in cabs. The Eighth
ave. car contained about fifty persons. while
thirty, mostly women, occupied the crosstown
car.
The electric struck the hOrseCar amidships,
throwing it off the tracks and swerving it COM
pletely around. The motorman of the electric
car J. Hillman, of No. 81 Lawrence-st.. Brook
Ign. and the driver of the horsecar. T. Sanders,
of No SIT Second-ave.. were thrown headlong
to the street but escaped with slight bruises.
There was an open air fusion meeting at the
point and the sidewalks and street were crowded
with hundreds Of persons who were listening to
a campaign address from a truck. When the
crash came, the crowd set up a yell and scat
tered in all directions.
The passengers in the Fourteenth-st. were
huddled in heaps on the floor. while several men
who had been standing on the platforms were
thrown TO the street. The women were scream
ing frantieally for help. unable to extricate
themselves. while men opened the windows and
Jumped to the street, dragging after
them Six or seven women tainted. and the
crowd set up a cry that they had been killed.
The crowd in the meeting had prevented Hill
man from seeing the hOrsecar start and seeing
a clear road. he turned on the power. intending
tc go across the Fourteenth-st. tracks at full
speed. He had hardly turned the lever. how
ever when he saw the horsecar moving across
Eighth-ave. at a slow rate.
With 4 crash that was heard for some dis
tance the electric car struck the hOrsecar. STAY
ing large hole in the left side Every one of
the fifty passengers in the Eighth-ave car was
thrown to the floor. one man, who was stand
ing on the front platform of the FOurteenth-st ST.
car was thrown under the horses hoofs, but
several men dragged him to safety. The horses
Kicked themselves free and dashed down Four
feminist. at a mad pace. The crowd set up a
yell and followed in their wake Several per
sons were knocked down by the horses. but es-
capped injury. Inc ANIMALS were caught at
Ninth-ave.
The Charles-st station reserves were hurried
to the scene, and they found men and women.
with blood streaming down their faces, standing
on the sidewalks and going from one drugstore
to another to have their injuries dressed
Policemen who had been instructed in first aid
70 the injured" acted on their knowledge, and IN
a number of Eighth-ave. stores, where imprO-
vised hospitals had been established, those who
had been cut by the flying glass were looked
after Several of the passengers in the horse
car badly cut about the face and head, went
to physicians in the neighborhood.