The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-22
TWOBUMPS FORSUDWGYTRAIN
LOT or PEOPLE CUT AND BRUISED
IN HRONX MIX-UP.

We're Getting the Evening Jar Habit"
said They. and Skipped Third Raii
Let's OF Green PlFe-IAve Train HIT
Dead One and Was Hit BY One Behind.
A six car subway train was standing
on the northbound track at 10th street
about $50 P. NJ yesterday, waiting TO 60
into the lAy-up track for the night. No
body was aboard but the motorman. Along
came another six car train, with fifty pas
sengers, bound north. The motorman OF
this one, Fred Cole OF 100 East l2Sth street,
was supposed 10 stop about 100 feet south
Of the dead train and wait until II entered
the centre track.
Cole says the rails were wet and that
the brakes failed to work. However that
may he, there was a collision. Cole saw
It coming and left his post, running through
the car, blowing his whistle and telling
the dozen passengers 10 run for their lives,
A majority Of them took his advice and
were in the second car when the crash
came. The train was going about four
miles an hour, and II smashed its own vesti-
bule and that Of the train ahead. The
passengers we're thrown 10 the floor and
showered with broken glass.
Just as they scrambled to their feet and
started for the doors the.e was another
and more serious shock. A third train,
with no pass ngers AGO I'd, whose motor
mans exou o was no. available la night.
had Jumped Goes train, driving II once
more into the dead train, tearing TO
flinders what was JEFF; Of the vestlbu!es
and tippi & q motor car OF thet'Cead
train on its side.
The fallen car brok, the third Il and
some ties. Then tn re VS. great cleo
trical displa~, green light firing high
enough 70 brins cops and others scurrying
rom afar. The wires Of the Uni Rail-
way ompany, which are carried In the
ele ated structure, got Going business
with each Their, and the switoAbosrds In
the company's stable hard by We'd with one
another in fir works.
All thii time there was panic aboard
the two trains. particularly the one caught
in the mid le.
George Williams OF 70S2 Honeywell ave-
nue., who had kept his cross seat in the
first car Of the middle train. was bounced
from one rattan seat back to another by
the second Jar and came TO the ground
with a sprained knee and badly bruised
face.
Miss Annie Duffy, - years old, Of $40
East Forty eighth street. cut her face on
the floor and tainted from the shock.
Robert Nolan Of 27pS East nth street,
who has a false leg. was thrown to the floor.
He was bruised and the leg was damaged.
In the train behind, Matthias Menchin Of
Eastchester and Pelham roads got cut
eve and a spTained sh0uldOr.
Fifteen OF twenty Otbsr passengeFS were
injured By beilG thrown - IL door eEpI
the rain Of glass from the broken windows.
All wsre IN q state Of terror, fearing that
more trains were running wild in the rear
and that the next bump might knock them
of the structure. They ran to the gates,
and, in spite Of warnings from the police
men on the platforms. opened them and
Jumped to the tracks, braved the third
rail and we're helped to the platform.
None Of the injured would accept an
offer TO be taken to Fordham Hospital.
Those most seriously hurt went 20 Miller's
drug store for temporary treatment. One
man who was 80 badly bruised that he
could not walk, but who refused to give
his name, was carried 20 Miller's and his
family in West Farms was asked TO send
for him. .
Don't worry about me. he said to those
who asked his name. I'm used TO this
sort Of thing. This collision business is
getting to be a habit with me- Pretty
soon l won't be able 10 eat supper unless
I've had my evening jar
The same spirit was shown by several men
and women whom the cops warned about
crossing the tracks from the wreck.
We've done it before they protested,
sand we're getting to be experts.
Most Of them refused 10 give their names
and many bandaged their own wounds.
Two men who jumped out Of window Of
the second train had quite time with cut
hands.
Patrolmen William and Reiss Of the Ire
mont station, when they had seen all
the passengers safely TO the platform,
tried 10 get some one TO make a complaint,
but none was made and there were no
arrests. II was said that Cole and John
Hickman, the motorman Of the second
train, were both green, They we're not
injured.
No one looked for the motorman Of tho
lay-up train, az Il was said that bis lights
we're all right and that he had right TO
be where he was. The terminal OF the
East Side subway extension Is lsot street,
but the trains lay up At night on the ceptP
track near 10th street.
The wreck caused a blockade as far
south as Westchester avenue until o. clock
although the dispatcher arranged for a
limited use Of the southbound track.
Coles excuse that the rails were wet
and that the air brakes refused TO work Is
the excuse that has been given for most
Of the wrecks that have enlivened Bronx
trafiic during the last few weeks.