New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-14
WORSE THAN IN STRIKE.
THREATS OF NEW MEN.
Series of Blocks and Accidents While
Thousands Cro1cd Stations.

o,g the strike breakers. and ii was reported
~, 400 Of them. who had been hired as motor
- had decided 10 quit when their time ex-
.n.rnorrow. In that case the INTERIOR
p.4,s only salvation would be to take back
- xtrfkers in body, and that would mean
=. continuance of their power as an organiza-
ton. -.
The prediction of the strikers that. as soon as
oa1 a,,-ount of traffic began to demand
r.rsno,tation in the subway and on the ele-
..,ed lines and more trains were run on
- schedule the new men would display their
.;,;,,, and cause numerous accidents, was
confirmed yesterday.
-,-.,,-.,5e svarraed to the subway and ele-
.o,e6 lines and the results were succession
- t,c,czs and accidents. above and below ground
-, ,,an one hundred strike breakers who
-, sfeAri,g In cars in the yards of the
-.-,a-soro,,gh at ad-ave. and 1T9th-st-. revolted
mn .be, we're awakened TO 60 to work yester-
-, The, declared that they had not been
.~oa.ea right. After an hour they went on the
trains grumhling-
Secretary Madden told two hundred strikers
.,a, # t7ev y,odld stick together for a few days
- chances Of getting back would be much
bstter than if they applied for employment as
Individuals for the green men would never be
sbe to run 1he trains up to schedule
The elevated trains ran very irregularly ana
mere delayed by long stops at stations The
subway trains for the most part ran on fairly
regular schedule, although at times there were
great gaps between trains, and the express
trsins ran at about the same speed as the locals
formerIy did. From O'Clock last night until
750 o'clock only two local trains and one ex-
prsss train. southbound, passed the S8th-st sta
ton.
On the 9tb-ave elevated trains passengers
v,are forced to climb on the roofs by the time
many of the trains reached 1O4th-st- in the rush
hours From 59th-st. down it was Impossible
10 open the gates, and one wishing TO get out
had 10 climb out over them. Many women were
forced to ride through TO the Battery.
green rnotornlan started a train at 33d-st-
without the signal. One woman was seriously
Injured and many thrown down and bruised.
On the 3d-ave line conditions were even
vorse. Between 7:3O and $50 a m only two
trains went downtown. The crowds on the sta
tons filed the stairwsys TO the sidewalk TICK
sts were sold until nc one could get up the steps
to the ticket Office. Passengers were unable to
ret their money back or to obtain block trans
fars Reserves from the Morrisanfa station
vera needed at the 166th-st- and 161-st- sta
tions TO control the crowds. Between l4sth-st'
and 1s1st-st. there are nearly forty cars idle on
the third track, the sight of which further ex-
ssperated the irnpatiert passengers
Miss Marion Crane, dry goods clerk Oh NO
szs Fast 145th- ST, tainted because Of the crowd
when train was nearing the lSth-st' soatioh
Nearly all the passengers had TO be driven from
trs car before IT was possible for the police to
get her out She was taken TO Bellevue where
she was resuscitated.
O,,rIng the evening rush hours big crowd at
tee Houston-st Third-ave. station started
small sized riot because none Of the uptown
trains would stop. blaming the ticket seller
Leonard Hirschfeld. Reserves from four sta
tions were summoned There we're six or seven
hundred people crowded in and around the sta
ton. and after waiting nearly an hour for
train TO stop the crowd tried to raid the ticket
Office. The police dispersed them.
A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS
Later in the evening fuse blew out on a
train above 1Sth-st., setting fire to the wood
work. AT I4th-st an alarm was sent in. and
the freulen put out the fire
The middle car Of q five car train on the
storage track at Sth-ave. and 151st-st., was
burned in the afternoon. The cars on either
side were drawn away and the flames did not
spread. There was g report that the fire was
the work Of strikers but there was no evidence
10 support IT.
TWO cars OF FIVE car train. run by green
Tnotorman. went off the track near the Bronx
Park station OF the 3d-ave. line in the morning.
Traffic was blocked tlaree-quarters of an hour
4 rear end collision occurred on the elevated
al the Bronx Park station in the afternoon. 1t
was laid to the inability of a green motorman
10 control the power and the air brake. No one
was seriously injured. The glass of two cars
was broken into bits and seventy-fve strike
breakers, who were in the cars bumped into.
were bruised by being tossed about the floor.
The two cars are used a lounging room for
strike breakers. Some of them were eating and
others doing when the collision occurred. Some
were cut about the face and hands by the glass.
Two cars were pushed full against the bumper
al the end Of the line. The platform OF the
motor car in front Of the train was crumpled
up and the motor booth wrecked.
COLLAR BONE BROKEN IN CRUSH.
William Mother, 2 truck driver. of No. SIC
west 42d-st. was crushed against a car on the
lsh-sve. elevated road last night in such a man
Ar as 10 fracture his collar bone. He stood on
as rear of a car until the crush became too
great to stand and then he sat on top of a gate,
where he was crushed against the side of the
car by the crowd. He was removed from the
train AT '23d-st and hurried in ambulance TO
New-York Hospital.
A series Of accidents was prevented by the
police stationed the uptown station OF the
Sd-ave elevated road at 2Sth-st last night
when strikebreaking guard signalled the mo-
torman of a train to ego ahead" before all of
the passengers were safely aboard the train and
the gates closed.
Two women we're getting on the train, one be-
tween the first and second cars. the other be-
tween the second and third. The crowd on the
Platforms was so great that the women were
einging by both hands and hanging out over
mo edge OF the train when it left the station
Women on the station screamed when they saw
Hhat hsd happened. Some Of those on the plat