The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-27
THREE GRIPpBD IN WRECKAGE
CAR CRUSHES WAGON AGAINST
ELEVATED PILLAR.
Man Cries Out in Agony while Resouers
Chop Away Debris-He May Die
Young Girl and Child Also Badly Hurt
Hub Caught afwagon Left Track.

Mhu CrloS Out IN agony Wuu0 heSouoto
Chop Away Debris-He May Die
Young Girl and Child Also Badly Hurt
Hub Caught aSwagon Left Track.
Seven persons, were injured as a result
Of a northbound Third avenue surface
car crashing into a laundry wagon between
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets shortly
after o'clock last night Three Of the in
jured were removed to Flower Hospital
and two of them are in serious condition.
The car, which was in charge Of Motor
man Daniel O'Donnell, was proceeding
at rapid rate when the laundry wagon
was driven on the northbound tracks.
oDonnell rang his bell many times and
finally the driver Of the wagon, Antonio
Osso, 10 years old, Of 2o4 East io7th street
turned the horse TO the east side Of the track.
The hub Of the right hind wheel caught
an elevated railway pillar and brought the
horse to q standstill. Before O'Donnell
could apply the brake and stop his car 1t
crashed into the wagon smashing 1t to bits
against the pillar
Osso was thrown to the street and slightly
injured. Joseph Freund, "a years old, q
clerk, living at 22l East Thirteenth street,
was sitting on the fourth seat from the
front Of the car, the forward part Of which
was open. The force Of the collision threw
him half out Of the car, and the lower part
Of his body was wedged in between the side
OF 1t and the wrecked wagon. Nora Burke
II years old, of 72s Third avenue, was in the
seat behind Freund. She was also thrown
against the wreckage, and Joseph Smart
Of West 18th street, the conductor OF the
car, who was collecting fares along the
running board, was caught in the mass and
hurled against the elevated pillar.
Both the conductor and Nora Burke
were quickly extricated from the mass Of
wreckage, but Freund was pinned 30 tightly
that it was impossible to get him out.
He was terribly lacerated about the limbs
and abdomen and his cries Of agony could
be heard blocks away. Thomas McCusker,
an ironworker, living at 343 East Thirty
third street, who was passing, organized
rescuing party. They secured axes and a
crowbar from nearby stores. They were
Joined by firemen from the headquarters Of
Truck 2, at Fiftieth street and Lexington
avenue and all hands chopped away the
demolished wagon until it was possible to
drag Freund out.
Meanwhile, a call for ambulances had
been sent to Flower Hospital Freund
was hurried to the hospital, where it was
found that in addition to being badly
lacerated and confused, he had sustained
serious internal injuries. The doctors
have little hope Of his recovery. Nora
Burke and Conductor Smart were also
taken to the hospital. The girl, although
painfully injured, is not thought to be in
a serious condition. Smart received deep
scalp wound and the doctors fear his skull
has been fractured.
The ambulance surgeons attended four
others who did not go to the hospital. A
little girl, whose name neither the police
nor the doctors got, was thrown from her
seat and received cuts about the head and
body. The child was taken to her home
Young Osso received slight bruises and
was treated by the ambulance surgeons,
as were M. B. Fishbone Of rs Allen street,
a passenger on the car, and Daniel Schles-
singer of 1923 East Ninth street, who was
driving down the street and was struck
by flying wreckage.
Motorman O'Donnell was arrested after
the accident and locked up In the East
Fifty-frst street station. The collision
resulted in the cars Of the north-bound
tracks being blocked for half an hour.