New-York tribune., 1905-03-08
LEGS BROKEN, SKULLS CRACKED IN SUBWAY WRECK.
MOTORMAN, STRIKE BREAKER, CAUSES COLLISION
At 23D-ST:-FLREMEN CHOP OUT WOUNDED

Because of the Incompetence or carelessness
OF men hired strike breakers, a rear-end col
hsion occurred in the subway last evening ar
the 23d-st. station, in which more than score
of persons hurt, some so seriously that
they may die. The entire subway system was
tied up for couple of hours. the first real tie
up of the strike.
The motorman of the second train. the man at
fault. according to the stories of passengers on
the train. was a mere youth. He escaped in the
confusion. and detectives hunting for him.
The conductor and motorman of the first train
were taken by the police to the East 22d-st.
station for examination, but were released.
THE INJURED.
DE M s A. Tears 0d saISs ns5
crushed left foot; Bellevue
AUSTIN, Samuel No 81 Ienox-ave. compound fracture
OF right leg, and left foot crushed; Bellevue.
BoHNKE. Edward W, patrolman 44th Precinct guard
s and 4G31n ineTnai injuries s:'@ NewYors % S"S
BRADFoRp Samuel T twenty six guard on first train;
& sSt SewYG two 'e'eS'ed cars two nHseF' cut
coHgS Joseph + ffty four real estate dealer Surf
CONE, James. policeman 49th Precinct acting as a
guard to employees OF first train internal Injuries:
cEBaS Tn Wa :, .v No 5a West 4'ths
DlN@EF sered 9GR5s 5hga BseTas
DRAPER Mrs E D. thirty two No. 1913 Broadway
FER b4se s5sat a5es tePtnne b5 No 2i8 West 1aohs
FIzz James. coIored, wes; 15oth-st.: shoulder
sprained, ribs fraetured home
hRoSsI r. twenty four roa '7ist, NJ go Bleso,er
AsEnl issos-afs s :eaSsss5 ss r.
ont Of wreck by hrernen. beiferue a
TAYdoF Richard a e twentyslx electrical contractor
fracture Of the skull Bellevue in express wagon
at % facned MTs os s@ pyeF5BiS N j21 West ~
The rear car of the first train. broadway
local, was of the old wooden type. in defiance
Of the rule that the first and last cars Of each
train should be of the new steel type The
second train, Lenox-ave. local. had been fol-
lowing the first closely all the wav up the line
apparently running past the block signals for
men on the rear train said that at times It
was within fifty feet of the Broadway train.
The rear vestibule of the last car Of the Broad
way train was filed with people standing and
1t was said that people were crowded into th,
front vestlbule of the first car of the I,enox-ave
train, with the motorman
The Broadway train. thronged to its fullest
capacity. stopped at the 23d-st station lust
before P. IN. to discharge passengers. Charles
Miner was the motormau, Michael Boyer the
conductor. When the Broadway train stopped.
the motorman of the one following must have
lost control of his train or been unable 10
operate the mechanism. for he ran up to within
fifty feet of the standing train, then, apparently
gan to blow his whistle franticany He must
have jumped from the car before tho collision
for while Edward Bunllhe a patrolman of the
44th precinct, who in the vestibue guard
ing him, was pinned in and severely injured
the motorman was not found dead or alive
PANIC IN THE DARKNESS
With crash and splintering and rending OF
wood. the Lenox-ave. train smashed into the
Broadway train crumpling its own steel
sheathed front vestibule and shvering into
bits the wood of the car of the first train
All lights went out at once. Passengers in both
trains were thrown into wrthing mass on the
floors of the cars. Women screamed and tainted
Men, unnerved, jerked open the doors OF the
cars which were uninjured, and jumped out 10
the tracks. Those in the wrecked cars clambered
through the windows bare of glass
Almost before the smash came Patrolmen
Louis Hauptman and Thomas Leonard. of the
East 22d-st. station, detailed at the 23d-st sta
ton, ran out to the street and sent in call