The Red Cloud chief., 1905-09-15
CARFALLS TOSTREET
TWELVE PERSONS KILLED ON
NEW YORK ELEVATED ROAD.
Most Serious Accident Ever Happen.
Ing on Manhattan's Overhead Rail.
way-Bodies Of Many Of the Vic.
Tins Horribly MangIed.

aTHs F'oI'ip'y Wdn9'eus
New York, Sept. 12.-The death list
of the accident on the Ninth avenue
elevated railroad, when a car crowded
with early morning workers, on their
way down town, pitched headlong In
to the street, stands at twelve. Three
men are in hospitals with fractured
skulls. One OF these is unconscious
and not expected to live. More than
two score of persons were injured,
many Of them seriously.
t The cause of the accident and tho
Immediate responsibility remain to be
seen. The motorman of the wrecked
train Is a fugitive, while a %switchman,
conductor and four guards are under
arrest.
The switchman is charged with man.
slaughter and the trainmen are held
as witness.
Whatever may have caused the &C.
cident, the worst in the history of the
overhead railroads in New York, it
came when q southbound train on tho
Ninth venue line was switched off
to the Sixth avenue line at the Fifty
third street junction. The motorman,
expecting a clear track, or disregard
ing the warning signal that the switch
was open, rushed his train along at q
high rate OF speed. The first car
swung around the right angle curve,
holding to the rails because OF the
weight OF the train behind. Then tho
strain became too great. The coup
lings broke, the second car was
iwhirled about almost end for end,
and to 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 a
loud rumbling along the overhead
structure. Looking up they saw a
shower Of sparks, then followed splint-
ers and the sound of splitting timbers.
suddenly the outer guard rail of the
railroad structure gave way, n score
of bodies We're hurled through space
and with a deafening crash the car
fell to the street. For an instant It
stood fairly on end. Then the sides
eoNV "oy 40 IL lnty were Hdue vi
.pasteboard, belching out a mass of
humanity.
Those passengers who had not
Jumped from platforms and windows
before the plunge came were thrown
into a mass in the forward end of the
car. AS the injured men and women
were struggling to 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
wedgcd against a building at the
southeast corner Of Ninth avenue and
Ffty-third street.
Huge crowds were soon on the
scene and the first work of the hastily
summoned police reserves was direct.
ed to clearing a way for the effective
rescue of the passengers pinned down
by the wreckage. Almost every am.
bulance In Manhattan was summoned
and the injured n dead were hur,
ried away with all speed.
Three alarms of fire brought many
engines to the scene. A slight fire
caused by burning insulation was
quickly eXtinguished and the fremer
set to work %chopping out the dead and
injured. The task was not an easy
one, for the heavy car In falling had
almost completely buried pedestrian,
in its ~wreckage. At least one was
killed outright in this way, while Pc
liceman Henry Athens, who was
standing directly under the elevated
structure, is among those most serl
ously injured.
Corrected list of the dead: jacob
M. Anspach, a merchant of Newark
Ernest p. Scheible, an electrician
Theodore Morris, colored; Solomon
Neugass, Cornelius Mccarthy, William
Lees, Joseph Bach, James Cooper
Emma Conhoyen, Albert Webster,
clerk; Louis Abel, a clerk.
OF the dead the most frightfull.
mutilated vas James Cooper, who's,
head was severed from his body.
Before the great crowds ~collectc,
by the news of the wreck could b,
cleared away the police were com
PEELED 10 use their night sticks on
number % men who were attempting
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