New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-29
THREE CARS In CRASH.
-FOUR MEN BADLY HURT.
ouccessiUe Wrecks on Steep Hill
Complaint of Poor Light.

Union Railway Company trolley car de-
scending at full speed of the steepest hills
IN The Bronx, in Westchester-ave.. at Inter
vale-ave., soon after O'clock last evening. hit
sirder weighing several tons on a six horse
truck at the foot OF the hill. The girder went
haf way through the car seriously injuring
the motorman and at least a score of passen-
gers. The car wrecked.
Another car. behind it, unable to stop hit the
hrst car, driving the girder further through 1t.
Then third car smashed into the second, COM
pleting an extremely bad wreck and blocking
the road for two hours. All except four of the
injured persons were taken away by friends
or went home unaided. Those in the Lebanon
Hospital are:
FEISTEbRgERG baR Joseph. motoIman. Bronx Place ase
s.sS56 e., PaGlG No sOs @ mo'oman of
GRIFFIN, Patrick conductor OF car. address
unknown; bruises or body, legs ami
kELLAk J. W. No. 1858 westchester-ave.; bruises
The steepness of the hill is shown by the
fact that the second car slid all the way down.
the brakes having been put by the motor
man as soon as he the accident. 1t was the
same way with the third car
A PREVIOUS DELAY.
One cause of the wreck was a delay on the
road at st. Ann's-ave. few minutes before
truck, with the girder on chains sticking out
behind it. going down the HILL bakery
wagon just behind it. and car No I2O of the
Westchester-ave. branch behind the wagon
The motorman did not notice the truck ahead
of the wagon, and after his constant Changing
Of the gong had got the wagon out OF the
way he shot his ahead at limit speed Then
seeing the truck he put the brakes turned
of the current and tried to stop his car. But
the momentum was too great.
The passengers had no warning. The big
piece Of steel shot through the door and front
OF the car and into the middle, carrying away
the under parts of the seats on either side and
sweeping women and men out of the way The
passengers were thrown into a panic the women
shrieking as they were thrown about Every
window in the car smashed, and many
were hit by flying glass. Woodwork was flung
about, many pieces striking passengers and
hruising or cutting them.
The passengers fled to the rear door and road
way: Had they seen the second car. No. =
coming behind, they might have been in such
terror that lives would have been lost. AS il
was. all were out in few seconds. They
limped out of harms way quickly The police
say they saw AZ least score with cuts or other
injuries. but they refused their names.
THE SECOND CRASH
While policemen were sending for ambulances
and iiremen. car No. S smashed into car No.
40
The second cars passengers saw that the col
lisior coming. They arose from their seats.
yelled and screamed, tried 10 get past each
other 70 Tho doors and then drew back be-
cause - ihe great speed OF the car. \ fev men
dared take the jump. Several landed on their
fee.. then sId. ther sprawleI on the ground.
There shrielSs of horror from the women
the landed with a crash against the first
one The motorman. Gallogoy. fung clear
over the dasnbord into the wreck Of the first
car. where ne lay stunned. In hunting for him
J. ". Kelar was found He had been jammed
into the wreckagc. and could not eXtricate him
self He was bruised ana cut and ii took twen-
~ minutes to pun the wreckage apart suff-
ciently To get him out. They sent him to the
Lebanon Hospital later.
All the second car passengers escaped with
nothing more than bruises and cuts.
Everybody partially recovering from the
shock Of the two crashes. when there were
the hill. In this. too the passengers were
standing up. some shouting and screaming. y
few men jumped from this car. also.
COULD NOT STOP II.
The motorman was able partly to stop the
car hut he could not prevent the crash. The
conductor Patrick Griffin. jammed behind
the dashboard of the second car, getting bruises
and cuts. None of the cars passengers We're
injured.
Many people were seen limpins away after
the accident.
The motorman Of the first car. Festerberg,
was bruised by the jamming of his car into the
girder He was thrown away from the wreck
and not pinned in. The six horses attached to
the truck were forced ahead under the rapid
transit structure there. and :he off horse Of the
first team was knocked against pillar and
Killed. The other animals were not nurt. The
driver, William Fritz. of No. 40 Eleventh-aVe,
was not hurt He said he was trying 10 get his
horses out Of the way when the crash came.
The reserves of the MOrrisania station hurried
TO the scene.
People in the neighhorhood complain OF the
deep shadow the rapid transit elevated structure
causes AT this point They cut off the electric
lights and under the structure it is very difi
cult to see ahead This was the cause OF the
accident many believe.