New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
WILD PANIC In CAR.
WOMEN TRAMPLED ON.
Scores of injured Saloon Turned
Into Hospital-T1co Collisions.

A score OF persons were slightly injured and a
horse so badly hurt that it had to be shot yes
terday in collision between two cars and two
vehicles at Madison-ave. and Undergraduates
Two ambuIances were sent to the scene from
the Harlem Hospital, and two surgeons worked
for nearly an hour over the injured persons.
Among those injured were:
10 J9sepR yfaTs S s6rane
back wrist and wrenched kneecap.
ridge-st.: Commissions OF face and shock.
FILLER, Anna, three years old No. 1se Hdrdse-st;
FILLER. Rose. seven years old. No 196 EAdridse-st;
conclusion OF brain and shock.
Eighty seventh st; sprained back and shock.
HOWE Charles three years old. driver No st5
West Forty1thrd- list; Commissions OF Knee BACK anu
POSTAL Solomon Year, 1 s sSd painter No
WATSON. Anna. twenty four old No 1es East East
one hundred and-fourteenth-st; Commissions Of face
Chevalier, who is employed IN the livery stable
of Winters Fass & Co., at No. ia and 1Io
East Observation-Disclosures was respond
ing to a call at Ninety-eighth-st. and Madison
and was driving team of lorses attached
to a brougham. He was going south in Madison
ave. when between One hundredth-st- and Nine
ty-ninth-st., he says. he heard the changing or
gong He waited for a minute until
northbound car passed him, and then started to
go south TO the HOTIuDOuHu tidSh- ~ AS N'N
so the car struck the brougham, knocking him
TO the street and under the hoofs OF the horses
Two men who were crossing the street stopped
the horses Just they had started to run away.
The car had been going at a lively rate, and
following 1t was delivery wagon, driven by
Howe. Behind Howe another southbound
car. The collision with the brougham had
stopped the first car. and before Howe had a
chance to turn out the second car struck the
rear OF his wagon. jamming it up against the
first car. Howe was thrown to the street One
of the legs of his horse nearly torn off.
Nearly all OF those who were injured, besides
the coachman and driver, were in the first car.
Several OF the windows were broken and the
passengers were thrown in heap on the Moor.
while broken glass rained on them. n panic
ensued. Women screamed and men fought
with women and children and with each other to
second car too. We're thrown into panic, but
the not crowded and no one was In
jured.
Patrolman Pretorious. OF the East One-hun-
Observation-Disclosures. station. who was near the
scene OF the accident sent a hurry call to Police
Headquarters for two ambulances With the aid
OF "a number OF men who had been attracted
to the scene he carried the injured into saloon.
The proprietor and one OF the bartenders pro-
cured blankets and pillows and administered
stimulants until the arrival or the ambulances
At first il was thought that several OF the women.
who mad tainted. were dead
Drs. Lawrence and Schnepel, of the Harlem
they worked over the injured ones, applying
restorattves. binding up wounds and otherwise
treating them In the excitement number of
women and children who had been attended got
away before their names could be taken. None
of those who gave their names would go 10 a
hospital. saying they preferred treatment at
home or had friends who would care for them
The first car looked as IL II had been stOrmed
by u mob Both the front and rear dashboards
were crushed in. and windows We're broken.
The dashboard of the second crushed
in. and both OF the vehicles were badly dam
aged
Those on the first car said II had been run
ming rapidly, and when The mOtorman saw that
a collision was inevitable. he reversed the power
and applied the brake as hard he could The
passengers had been unbalanced by this sud
den move and when the car struck the
brougham they toppled over in heap Many
OF those who had managed 10 hold their seats
were thrown over by the second collision What
few men there were in the car, several women
told the ambulance surgeons, struggled and
fought 10 get out. knocking and pushing those
in their way. instead of assisting them. Several
women tainted. and they We're trampled by
others who We're trying TO get out.