The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
CAR HIT FIRE TRUCK; ONE DEAD
WILLIAM DAYTON rs CRUSHED
AGAINST ELEVATED PILLAR.
Company no. Q, Answering an Alarm
turned In "for Fun" 10y u Young Man.
Is struck NJ Thirteenth street and
Third Avenue Many Receive Hurts.

Third Avcnue--Many Receive Hurts.
just az they got to Third avenue Lieut..
Sherlock saw trolley car coming rapidly
from the south. 1t wasn't more than thirty
feet from the truck then, and the motorman
was whrlng the brake desperately.
The car was jammed with passengers.
who saw that an acc ident was imminent.
They were all on their feet women scream
ing and trying to jump. men holding them
and trying to calm them.
Mangles, Knecht and Roach saw the car
as qui ky as the Lieutenant and jumped
and yelled to them. The men on the left
side didn't see it, and s;herlock's warning
came too latc.
The men of Fire Truck 3 turned out OF
their house, at 1903 East Thirteenth street,
last night at $50 o'clock, responding to an
alarm from the box at First avenue and
Seventh street.
Lieut.. Sherlock, in command Of the COM
pany sent the truck east In Thirteenth
street as fast as the horses could gallop.
Tillerman Haupt was driving Firemen
Heating, Barry and Dayton were on the
left side footboard and Manges, knecht
and Roach were on the right. every one
clinging tight as the truck went tearing
through the street.
The car, going still at good speed, hit
the truck just back of the front wheels,
jamming it against an iron pillar OF the
elevated structure with terrific force.
Fireman William Dayton was caught be-
tween the truck and the pillar and was
crushed. He died Instantly.
Barry and Heating who were on the
II To- ~ W. thrown
headlong to the street and escaped death
by the narrowest margin Both were
severely bruised and cut.
Tilerman Haupt was banged against his
steering wheel and hurt in the abdomen.
Sherlock, on the turntable, was thrown on
the truck but landed like cat on his feet
and escaped injury.
that the Orders Of the elevated road we're
bent. The truck itself was smashed in
the fore part and a couple Of ladders were
broken. The trolley car bounded back
ward and went of the track at right angles,
with the front platform crushed in. All
that saved the motor7nan, Christian Res
muss OF 557 West Fifty-hrst street, was the
metal controller box, which resisted the
blow. He was bruised. but was not seri-
ously hurt.
The passengers, particularly the women,
were in d panic. At the instant of the
collision many of them started to jump.
Acting Captain Carson of the Fifth avenue
station, Brooklyn, who was on the front
seat Of the car, siezed two women and
prevented them from throwing them,
against the front of the car and hurt about
the legs.
Mrs. Annie Rioorda of 7Os Eleventh ave-
nue., who was in the second seat, had baby
in her arms, She held tightly to the baby
when the crash came and was thrown
against the seat in front. The baby got
two black eyes and cut forehead, but Mrs
Ricorda wasn't hurt.
Several other passengers suffered bruises
and were treated by DR.. Bowman, who came
Motorrnan Reslnuss was arrested '!by
Patrolman Randolph Of the Fifth street
| station. changed with homicide. Several
witnesses, whose names the po!ies took,
| declared that the accident was the result OF
carelessness on the part of the notorHian.
| He had taken on dead car at Sixth street,
| thereby losing time, and was IN hurry to
catch up with his schedule.
The witnesses said the motorman seemed
| to be taking a chance to get across Thir...
teenth street ahead OF the truck. All
| crossings on streets where fire companies
are located are known as fire crossings,
| and cars are supposed to come to full
| stop.
II was false alarm that brought about
Dayton's death. The police, found out IN a
| lew fnlnuteS JTaJ ScIileDOuy puhctA
the box at First avenue and Seventh street
@for fun"
Frank Hand, who is ls years old and
lives at 213 East Seventh street, was pointed
out to them as the one who did it. They
arrested Hand charging him with mali
cious mischief. He was locked up in the
! Fifth street station.
| The fremen and street car men dragged
the truck away from the pillar and released
the body. of Dayton, the upper part OF which
was crushed as il by blow from gigantic
| hammer
He was IS wears old and had been on the