The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-24
4OMASHES, ONE DAYS RECORD
BRYAN SAYS SCALLAWAGS HAVE
TAMPERED WITH BRAKES,

There were three moro aocidents yea-
| terday at OF near the South Ferry terminal
Of the Sixth and Ninth avenue elevat9d
railroads, making FIVE that have occurred
there within the last two weeks. Al lsast
! two OF yesterdays accidents, like the pre-
vious ones, were caused apparently by
failure Of the air brakes TO work properly.
In two oasss the trains crashed into the big
bumpers at the end Of the line. Tia third
accident was a collision at q switch
A rear end collision also occurred IN the
subway IN the morning at the ii0th street
station.
Several persons were hurt in these 40
| oidents.
Vice-President f. P. Bryan Of the litter
borough company gave out statement
! to the effect that full service had been re-
stored on all the lines, under full power.
| incidentally, he said that in his belief many
Of the recent accidents were due to scala
! wags tampering with the air brakes. He
said that the old employees Of the company
were being taken back az the rate Of about
! $50 day.
The hrst accident at the South Ferry
terminal Of the elevated lines yesterday
occurred at O'Clock in the morning. 10
a Sixth avenue train Of iK cars. There
and nobody was hurt. The train was No
seriously damaged.
BRAKES DIDN'T GRIP
The second accident occurred shortly
after o'clock in the afternoon. II, too,
was on the Sixth avenue line, and the train
was made up of six cars, which were all
well filed. The air brakes. according 10
one passenger, were applied by the motor
man Just about as the first car Of the train
reached the forward end Of the platform.
but they didn't seem 10 grip the wheels 60
all. The train hit the bumper with great
force, and the passengers, many Of whom
were standing, were thrown in all direodonA
These persons were injured:
j. Z. Sheridan, back hurt: Merton Evans
800 West Twelfth street. bruised and internal
injuries; Mrs. Mary LurO. Boston suffering
from shock; Miss Anna lawson, Port Rich
mond. Staten island. wrist spralned ,. j.
Decker. Staten Island. knee wrenched.
Miss Evans was carried from the car
almost unconscious. but was revived 10
one Of the little fruit stores near the Staten
Island ferry house and taken home All the
other injured persons also went home.
The train was not seriously damaged.
and the accident caused a delay Of only
about ten minutes in the running schedule
Of the road.
Trafic on both the Sixth and Ninth avenue
elevated hnes WIS blocked for forty min
utes, from s:6t 70 ioSs. Iaat uiSht BY coll
lision near the South Ferry ststiap. A
Ninth avenue train with about 80 people
on board and in charge OF q new motor
man was just about 70 enter the South
Ferry station when the signal light was
set against IL. The motoTman brought his
train to Q stop. but he had gone Just beyond
the signal by the time he had done 30.
Before backing up il Is a rule Of the COM
pany for motormen TO give a signal II
was stated last night that the motormRn
in this case failed TO do 30. He backed his
train up anyway. and crashed into q Sixth
avenue train which was drawing UP Just
behind his.
The first car Of the Sixth avenue train
was wTenched from its trucks and lifted
about a foot to one side, 90 that 1t rested
in q slanting position. The force Of the
collision caused the Sixth avenue train
TO shoot back and bump into another Sixth
avenue train In its rear. Only the plat
forms Of the two colliding cars we're eighty
damaged in this second jar,
The people on all the trains were thor
oughly frightened, and many Of them lsit
NAlC NdAb anu hhAht0 " ALlN bOuAu INIIV
station. No one was injured, however.
Trains began to pile up behind the ooIlid-
ing trains from both lines. and in fifteen
minutes the elevated structure as far up -
Rector street was filed with delayed trains.
The car Of the Sixth avenue train that
was torn from its trucks scraped the plat
forms Of the Battery place and Rector street
stations when the train WAS taken up TO the
Rector street yard, damaging them slightly.
After this train was taken out Of the way
the block was quickly uutangled.
TWO HURT IN SUBWAY CRASH.
Two subway trains collided yesterday
morning at 1885 o'clock on the southbound
track, directly in front Of the platform at
lI6th street and Lemon avenue James
DAILY a motorman, had his leg broken and
Morris Musher, q passenger, who lives az
10 East i3lth street, had his nose cut By
broken glass.
A southbound express had started. but
had gone only a few yards when the motor
man finding he had not SUFFICIENT headway,
brought the train TO a stop. Meanwhile
DAILY had got his train. which was just
behind, under way and was unable TO stop
it In time 20 avoid a collision. The front
platform Of his train and the rear platform
Of the train ahead were jammed together,
and It was with some difficulty that be was
eXticated.
policeman Of the l25th street station
was on one Of the trains and at once 10
ported 10 the station. -Four OF FIVE men
were sent around TO preserve order among
a crowd Of 600 which congregated In and
around the station. There was some dis
turbance at first, but 1t quickly subsidized.
DAILY was taken TO the J. Hood Wright
Hospital. Musher's wound was dressed on
The platform by "a surgeon from the hospital
The accident delayed traffic half an hour.
NORMAL CONDITIONS RESTORED.
vioe-President Z. p. Bryan Of the Inter-
borough company said yesterday that not
,nly had normal trafio conditions bean
resumed on both the elevated and sub
way roads, but that the company was
aldng back it's striking employees at the
ate Of 100 day. In proof Of the asser-
ION that the traffic conditions were nearly
he same as before the strike began, he
a