Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-11

the right of way and clear track. Coroner Scholer has caused the ar rest of Charles A. dickinson, the switchman on duty at Fiftyt-hird street; J. w. Johnscn, the conductor of the train; Timothy Higginson, J. Me Davitt, w. l.. Berry and B. Clark, the four guards .Motorman Paul Kelly address unknown, has disappeared, the police say, and cannot be found. The known dead are as follows: Jacob N Ausbach, merchant and member of the board of trade of New ark.
 | Ernest P. Scheible, an electrician. Theodore Morris, cOlored.
 John Corcoran and Cornelius Me Carthy, laborers.
 William Lees, electrician. Solomon Naugus, employe of the Mutual Chemical company. Joseph Cooper. Joseph Bach, patrolmen. Two unidentified, man and wo- man.
 The injured number forty ana among those identified are the follow ing:
 Seymour Rowe, bookkeeper, frac- tured skull.
 Charles Dobson, scalp wounds, in | jured back.
 Rose Olmstead, scalp wounds, con tusions of body and shock. Henry Atkins, policeman, part of | the falling car struck him. His skull is fractured and he suffered injuries to chest and body. Unidentified man, about 35 years, unconscious; fractured skull. Barbara Grell, 2S, Western Unior telegraph operator, suffering from shock.
 Elizabeth Minar, Nyack, leg crushed so that amputation was necessary; will die.
 Patrick J. Gilligan, 356 West Fifty sixth street, left side crushed in. Lincoln Eckstein, legs crushed. Bridget McMahon, internal injuries and injuries to the head. William T. Nieubuer, 2199 Eighth avenue, skull fractured. Coroner Scholer held an impromptu inquiry into the cause of the wreck as soon as he could get the train crew Into a drug store near the wreck. q am satisfied that the whole acci- dent was due to the criminal neglect of the switchman," said Coroner Scho- Ter. Tn the first place he made mis take in turning the Ninth avenue train into Fifty-third street and then added to his blunder by turning the switch back again in an attempt to divert the train into Ninth avenue again. The last mistake caused the terrible acci. dent and loss of life" One of the incidents of the disaster was the jump of James Bowen of 621 East Eighteenth street from window of the third car as 1t fell from the ele- vated structure into the street He landed In the street clear of the car but head foremost, and suffered frac' tured skull.
 Paul Blake, one of the passengers on the third car, said: v was reading 2 paper when suddenly there was a crash and I found myself lying on q pile of wreckage in the street. must have been thrown out of the tol of the car when the roof was torn off. v
 E. P. Scheible, one of the dead, came to New York a month ago from Chi cago. He was g years old, an em- ploye of the Western Electric Go, and lived at 4O9 West 127th street.
 Patrolman Moran, in giving a more detailed description of the car which fell to the street and narrowly missed him In It's descent, said: l"T heard a rumbling noise on the elevated structure over my head and looking upward saw millions of sparks flying. Almost simultaneously splinters began to appear and the outside railing of the track almost directly over my head was suddenly caved outward Over this toppllng railing 1t seemed to me that there was a rain of bodies even before the derailed cars came into view. These bodies were undoubtedly the passengers who were jumping from doorways and platforms.
 Just before this happened I had greeted Patrolman Harry Atkins, who was passing As I saw a car come crashing down I grabbed Atkins by the arm and shouted:
 "'Run for your life
 He started, but before he could gel out of the way he was caught and crushed. Later I loaded him Into s wagon and sent him to Roosevelt hos pital"
 Atkins's skull was fractured.
 Joseph Bach. policeman, died of in. Juries after having been taken to Roosevelt hospital
 General Manager Hedley explained that the switch In the tower was set for the Sixth avenue train to have an open track south bound. The train struck the switch at Ninth avenue at rapid pace. The first car held 10 the rails simply through the weight of the cars behind. The strain was so great that the car coupling broke between the first and second cars. As there was nothing left to guide the second car it plunged straight ahead and went over the tracks to the street. He said it was a physical impossi- bilIty for the svitchman to have turn ed the switch while the train was passing over it.
 The switchman. JackInson. said that he set the switch as indicated by | the train signals