The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-11
Il KILLED ON %
ROAD IN GOTHAM
Crowded Car Leaves the Rails
and Falls to the
Street.
OVER 40 INJURED;
DISPUTE AS TO CAUSE
Victims of Accident Killed by
Fall or Crushed to Death
| in Car.

New York, Sept. 11.-Eleven persons
were, killed and more than forty in
lured when the second car of a Ninth
avenue elevated train jumped the track
street at the junction of the Sixth and
Ninth avenue lines at Fifty-third
street and Ninth avenue today.
The car, the seats, aisles and plat
forms of which were thicklv packed
with humanity, was turned bottomside
up, its roof torn off and it was stood on
end in the street. The heavy truck of
the passengers. The car was badly
smashed
The Dead.
JACOB M. AUSPACH, a merchant
and member of the Newark, N. j.
Board of. Trade.
ERNEST P. sCHEIBLE, an cleo
THEODORE MORRIS, colored.
JOHN CORCORAN.
SOLOMON NEUFUS, employed by
the Mutual Chemical company.
CORNELIUS McCASKEY, laborer.
WILLIAM LEES, an electrician.
JOSEPH BACH, q policeman.
JAMES COOPER.
EMMA KoNHOEVEN, this city,
died in hospital.
Dispute as to Cause.
! Until late hour today there was
dispute as to the cause of the accident.
Coroner Scholor and some others main
tanned that the switchman at the juno
tion first set the switch so as to throw
| the train to the Sixth avenue track
and then, realizing his error, tried to
rectify it by moving the switch while
the train was passing over it.
| General MANAGER H pdlev of the In.
terborough Rapid Transit company as
serted that the switch was not moved
after the train reached it, and that the
train jumped the track because of the
was not banked and was intended to be
taken slowly. He said the switchman
asserted that the train showed signals
/ indicating it wanted the Sixth avenue
i line, and that the smotorman disre-
garded the signals indicating that the
/ switch was set for that line, and ran
the train sas~fast as tho he were going
i to run straight ahead down Ninth av.-
enue.
/ Car Left the Rails.
The first car of the train made the
curve in safety, but the second left the
rails at. the curve and the weight of
d the train behind it swung it around
end for end while still on the elevated
structure. Then it rolled over bottom
up and plunged thru the fimsy guard
railing and dropped end first into the
I street.
4 AS it went into the street some Of
its passengers jumped to the platforms
and windows either onto the elevated
structure or. into the street: Some
!, saved their lives in that fashion, but
the pavement. Then the trucks of the,
car behind fell upon the already
, wrecked car and helped to crush its inn
prisoned passengers to death.
, Fifty Hurled in Heap.
More than fifty persons who were
in the. second car were hurled into a
heap into the lower end Of the car,
where many were killed. Some who
were not seriously injured climbed
painfully over the seats and along the
interior Of the roof, which formed the
bottom of the car, to the upper end,
which rested against the elevated struc-'
ture, and were helped out by Conductor
Johnson.
The car following the one in which
SO many fatalities occurred jumped the
track and it's front end went off the
elevated structure, fetching up against
ing adjoining the track. The front door
: was within reach of the fire escapes
: of this building. The other cars were
:. not damaged.
J, Police and ambulances were hastily
! summoned and the dead and injured
4 were dug out Of the wreckage and hur-
$ ried to the hospitals or police stations.
Injured Thief Turns Ghoul.
One Of those badly hurt was a thief
. who attempted to rob one of the VIC
:, = tins. A policeman who caught him at
y it was too busy to arrest him, but left
: : him unable to get away.
= The switchman, Charles A. Jekinson,
\ and five members of the train crew
e e were arrested, but Motorman Paul
q Kelly disappeared. The switchman
g stoutly asserted that he. set the switch
e as indicated by the train signals. He
q blamed the motorman.