New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-18
FlREuEN HURT IN CRASH.
HURLED FROM TRUCK.
Hook and Ladder apparatus Upset
Aroiding Collision zcith Car.

Two fremen we've injured yesterday afternoon
through the carelessness of motorrnan on nor'h-
bound sth-ave. surface car in not bringing his car
to a stop when sgnalled to do so.
To avoid collision and to save the lives OF pas
sengers Hook and Ladder Truck No. u was over
turned at the corner of Hudson-st and west
I1th-st.
The injured men were Lieutenant Leland Potter
of No 243 West 20th-st. and Fireman Andrew P
McManus of No. 9S7 2d-ave. Lieutenant Potter
sustained a broken coIlarbone. disioeated shoui-
der and severe Commissions TO his head rlght les
and body. Fireman McManus is probably fataly
injured. according to the doctors at 81 vincent
Hospital He has fractured left arm. some I'd"
bruises and severe internal injuries. -Four other
hremen sustained minor injuries
Truck No IL left it's house, No. 243 West 10Th
st. at 2:10 p M. in answer to an alarm from Green
v,icb and 11th SITS Fireman Donovan was driving
and Fireman Casson was at the tiiler. The truck
Of six TONS drawn by three gray horses turned
from West 20th-st. into shave, and at good rate
of speed went south
When the truck reached Hudson-st. both Don
ovan and Iiteuteuant Potter, who was standing
on the turntabe on the left hand side of the truck
noticed a rapidly approaching northbound sth-aVe.
car Just above 11th-st. both Donovan ana Lieu
tenant Potter sgnalled the motorman to stop real
izing that if he did not when the truck turned
into 11th-st A collision would be inevitable In
spite of the warning shouts of the fremen the car
kept
Donovan succeeded in pulling up his horses ana
them
not keep the alignment of the truck To swing his
truck out the street meant To collide with the
oncoming car, which did not slacken speed. and he
was forced to keep the truck of the appar-
atus close to the curb.
The car cleared the end of the long extension
ladder by ten inches the passengers lives in the
car were safe. but the truck was doomed for cas-
son could not straighten out the rear wheels IN
time to keep the topheayy truck rom me
were on it Lieutenant Potter was thrown TO the
sansh By tba H ms @ and pnoHsd
meath it. and, the frightened horses dragged 1t
for fifteen feet after the accident, he vas badly
crushed and bumped.
Donovan was strapped to his seat and was not
with the truck but he Rugged his tiller and
not The PSek fell on 9'fs it's m de With MManus
underneath it Many citizens surToHndsd the cap
T s5ae oe MsfR r ksPt 9g 9n of "
Lieutenant Potter was attended by DR.. Bur
the ambulance After his dislocated shoulder was
reduced and his colarbone set he returned to the
Or; Corcora9. of St; yincent's Hospital. attended
rious' hurried him to the hospital McManus has
been in the department less than one year
as usual in such cases. a trihing one 1t was at
No 33s West 11th-st.. and was among some rub
Chief Howe said last night that the fault for
the accident laid entirely with the motorman OF
! down behind the truck in his buggy and saw the
signalling the motorman and saw the motorman
ignore these signals and keep on with his car
The chief continued:
The New-Yorl City Railway Company, through
their motormen not obeying the rules, kills more
fircmen in New-York than all the hres I have had
a lot of trouble In my district with motormen
NIotormen are supposed to stop when they hear or
see the hre apparatus aRProach9E Ere aPP3[dr9s
This truck is IS feet long If Casson the tillerman
had not 6a e6e a a6e6 f a e end @ h
passengers would undoubtedly have been hurt