Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-12
CAR PITCHED INTO THE STREET
Struck en- End and Sides Burst Open
Like Pasteboard, BeIchine Forth a
Mass of Mansed Humanity-switch-
man Held Under Big Bond, Charged
With Manslaughter.
(By Associated rrcss.A

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-rhc death
list of today's accident IN the Ninth
avenue elevated railroad when Il car
crowded with early morning workers
on their way down town, pitched head
long into the street, stands nj twelve.
Three men are in hospitals with frac-
tured skulls. One oi these, who ms YET
remains unidentified ut the Ronscvc!t
hospital. Is unconscious. AMI not OK.
pected to live. More than two scores
OF persons were injured, many of them
seriously.
The cause of the accident and tho,
immcliate responsibility remain Ia lu
settled. The motorman of the wrecked
train is IL fugitive. while swilchman.
conductor and four guards are under
arrest
Charged With Manslauohter.
The swift Gilman is charged with man
slaughter and the trainmcn are held
as witnesses.
Tonight Coroner Schollcr. who has
undertaken the work of fixing the
blame for The wreck. announced that
the switchman'S bond had been placed
at $4,000 and those of the witnesses
at 500 racil.i.at,.
Whatever may have caused the mis-
history OF the overhead railroads IN
New York, came when n southboun,l
train ON the Ninth avenue line was
switched OF To the Sixth avenue line
at the Fifty-third street junction.
The motorman, expecting Il clear
track on the direct line on Ninth ave.
nue., or disrcsarling the warming signal
that the switch was open, rushed his
train along NJ high rate Of speed.
Car Pitched Into the Street.
The first car swung around the right
angle curve holding to The rails he
cause OF the weight of the train behind.
Then the strain became too great
The couplings broke the second car
was whirled about almost end forward,
and 10 the horror of those who looked
on from below, pitched into the street
The first Indication people on the
sidewalk had of The accident, was Il
loud rlmbling along the overhead!
structure. Looking up they saw n
shower of sparks. then followed spin
tiers and the sounds Of Splntering tim
hers
Suddenly the outer guard rail of The
railroad structure gave way, Il score of
bodies were hurled through space. and
with dcatcning crash, the car fell ia
the street For an instant il stood
fairly OH end. then the sides gave way
is if they were ma,c of pastcboar,l,
helching out mass of humanity.
Truck Falls on Injured.
Those passengers who had not jump.
ed from platforms and windows before
tho plunge came, were thrown into a
mass at the forward end of the car.
AS the injured men and women wero
struggling Ia free themselves. the
heavy front trucks of the third car ON
The train fell almost in their midst as
the car itself jumped partly off the
elevated structure and was cwcdgcti
against building at the southeast cor
ner of Ninth avenue and Fifty-thirtl
street
Huge crowds were soon on the scene
and the first efforts of the hastily sum
muned police reserves were directed
To clearing away the debris for the
more effective rescue of the passengers
pinned down by tho wrcckagc.
All Ambulances in Service.
Almost every ambulance in Manhal-
tan was summoned and the injured
and dead were hurried away with all
speed
Three alarms OF fire brought many
engines to The scene a slight fire
caused by burning insulation was
quickly eXtingushcd and the fircmen
set to. work chopping ont the dead and
injured
The task was an easy one for the
heavy car in falling had almost com
pletely buried pedestrians in its wreck
age. AT first one was killed outright
in this way, while Policeman Henry
Athens, who was standing directly
under the elevated structure, is among
those most seriously injured
Eight persons were dead when taken
out OF the wreck and four died Mt the
hospitals.
List of Dead.
a. Corrected list of the dead:
JOHN M ANSPACH, n merchant
and member Of the. Newark, N. j.,
hoard Of trade.
.. ERNEST p. SCHEIBLE, an cleo
ttrician.G
THEODORE MORRIS, colorcd.
fn,JOHN COCHRAN
- SOLOMON NEUGASS, employed by
the Mutual Chemical Company.
CORNELIUS MCCARTHY, faborer.
bWILLIAM LEES, an electrician.