The Penn's Grove record., 1905-06-16
ACCIDENTS PROVE FATAL
BROOKLYN Girl Killed and Others Hurt
in Collision.
DRAWBRlDGE BREAKS IN JERSEY

Baby Injured In Runaway-Trolley Car
smashes into Wagon Throwing Out
Simon Michaels and His Family
Child Has Narrow Escape at Dover
New Jersey.
New York City.--A Franklin avenue
car. in Brooklyn, daShing owe slippery
rails at high speed coll.ded with a
wagon containing Simon Michaels. Il
Gravesend fruit vendor, and his wife
and three daughters, at Avenue V and
Coney Island avenue. The wagon was
smashed and the occupants thrown
out, Sadie Michaels, one of the girls,
was so severely injured that she died a
few minutes after the accident.
Michaels and his family left the
GraveScnd race track about 6 O'Clock
for their home, on Avenue L, near East
Seventeenth street. Homecrest, Coney
Island, i'll their one-horse wagon. Mr..
MichaClS drove down Avenue V, and
when he came to Coney Island avenue,
turned east, to drive across the tracks,
remembering that all cars are required
to come to a stop just before reaching
this crossing. He was in the middle of
the south-bound track when Car No.
BIS, in charge of Motorman William
Hansen and Conductor James Wall.
came along. The car did not stop, and
a moment later crashed with a terrific
impact into the wagon.
The horse was killed instantly, the
wagon literally demolished and the oc-
cupants thrown in all directions. The
scene of the accident is in the centre
of q residence district, and in a few
minutes scores o. women were at hand
trying to aid the injured ones. OppO-
site the place is the home OF Mrs.
James Blute, and it was in her house
that Sadie Michaels died.
The police reserves from the Sleeps
head Bay station were summoned with
IN ambulance and 4 surgeon. DR.. Clay
found that Sadie MichaelS' skull had
been fractured and her spine broken.
He found that both of Sara Michaels'
legs and both of ESTES armS were bro
ken, in addition to serious internal in
juries and %contusions of the head and
body in each. case. Mrs. Michaels was
internally injured and suffered from
severe shock. Michaels escaped I'M
hurt.
The motorman and the conductor of
the car were arrested and locked up in
the Sheepshead Bay station, charged
with homicide. Hansen told the police
that he tried to stop the car, but was
unable to do so, owing to the slipper
mess of the rails. due to the rain.
Drawbridge Demolished.
Dover, N. IA down grade, slippery
tracks, and defective air brakes were
factors i'll the destruction of a draw
bridge over the Norris Canal lock east
of the Dover station OH the Highbridga
branch of the New Jersey Central.
Incidentally q camel-back engine
tender and gonGola were wrecked and
the after half of a canal boat was
sunk. In the cabin of the boat was
a child four years old, who was barely
saved from drowning, after an equally
narrow escape from being crushed to
death by the trucks of Tie wrecked
tender.
The drawbridge was at an angle of
about 40 degrees. and a loaded canal
boat was in the lock when an engine
drawing nine loaded coal cars came
along. Seeing the signals set against
him, Engineer Schaffer tried to stop
his train, but the brakes failed.
Within about fifty feet of the draw
Schaffer leaped, and in the next in
slant both engine and draw came to Il
StOD about 4 cars length tho other side
of the lock, the engine having carried
the bridge with it. A new bridge will
have 10 be built.