The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-16
FIRE CHIEF HURT IN SMASH.
NORTON SHOT THROL On GLiSS
OF STREET CAR noon.
Throat slgshed In MANY Places and only
Prompt worn Saves Him From Bleed
Ink 10 Deaih--Man with Him Also In
Jured -Motorman blamed for Crash.

Thomas + Norton. acting chief OF the
third fire battalion drove out OF the nook
and ladder house at 700 Elizabeth street
shortly after O'Clock yesterday afternoon
TO 90 TO fire az Sll Fifth street, Chief
Norton was driving and with him in the
buggy was Fireman Thomas F. Murphy.
They went from Elizabeth street into
Blocker TO the Bowery The two fire
men started to GROSS the Bowery dlagonally
TO reach Second street just as southbounc
Madison avenue car came along.
Murphy said afterward that as soon az
he could see up and down the Bowery at
all, he saw the car bearing down upon
them. He said that the buggy gong was
sounding continuously. Motorman John
O'Tooe OF 1928 First avenue, later told the
police that he didn't hear the iremen's
gong but tried 70 stop his car when he saw
how close he was
The car was going 50 rapidly when II
struck the buggy that the latter was
smaahed 10 pieces 4 wheel was Knocked
or the seat WIS found IN the street later
and the body oil the rig became kindling
wood. Murphy, who sat at Chief Norton's
left, Nas thrown over the dashboard and
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Norton shot higher in the air and com
pletey cleared the car platform. He
struck the glass panes in the front door OF
the car and was hurled through tho doors
He was frightfully cut about the head, shout
ders and arns by the breaking glass. The
car ran fully thirty feet before the uotorman
could stop it,
DR.. Piloher. who came in answer TO an
ambulance call from Bellevue, found Nor
ton lying on the street unconscious and
bleeding profusely. The external carotid
artery. which supplies blood TO the neck
and head as well az three branches Of the
artery, had been cut by the broken gluss
After attending to tho man as best he could
Dr. Pitcher telephoned Bellevue 10 have an
operating table prepared for the patient.
On tho way 10 the hospital Chief Norton
lost nearly quart Of blood, the surgeon
said When he was removed from the
ambulance blood spouted from the several
arteries and covered the orderies who
carried him 10 the ward Saline solution
was given TO revive the fireman and after
considerable work the flow OF blood from
the arteries was stopped. There were SO
many cuts in the blood vessels that thirty
Two olamps had to be used while the
stitches were made II was said last night
that Norton would probably recover
Murphy was dazed by his fall and was
cut about the hands After he had seen
that his chief was attended 10 he walked
TO the Mulberry street police station and
reported the accident. Then he went 10
the Hudson street hospital to have his
wounds attended end later went bcme on
SICK leave,
Motorman O'Toole was arrested and
locked up In the Mulberry street station on
charge Of reckless driving. Witnesses
who had seen the fireman bleed thought
that his jugular vein had been cut, and
when some one told this to the motorman
ne began TO cry. Norton recovered con-
sciousncss in Bellevue after the operation
and said that the motorman was TO blame
for the accident
Norton ; foreman OF Engine Company IS.
but has been acting chief Of the third
battalion OH and on for several years lie
is 80 years old and lives at II Grove street.
He entered the department on June !, 1887.
The fire at sli Fifth street was on the
second floor Of a six story tenement. Tue
damage was trifing