The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-08
COLLISION IN SUBWAY
Serious Accident in Which
lWentY-nlne Are Injured
But None Killed.
FIFTEEN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
CRASH DUE TO INExPERIEHCE
OF TRAINMEN.

Many Of the Passengers Imprisoneds ana
Have to be Chopped 0ut-Eew Minor
Casualties During the Day-Trafns
Operated Both in the Subway and on
the sL' but All Lines Are BADLY
Crippled-Mayor Mcclellan onsrs
Services in Any Capacity to End the
strike-Many Strike Breakers cult
New York, March with one col
lision in which twenty-nine persons
were injured, but none killed, New York
has passed through the first day Of the
general strike on its Rapid Transit sys-
tenn. Beyond this accident and some
minor casualties due to the abnormal
conditions, the sum total Of the day
was annoyance and vexation to mill
lion or more people usually dependent
upon the Interborough company's lines
for transportation to and from their
business. So far there has been little
disorder. Sporadic encounters between
individuals, some bad language and the
action Of a few hoodlurns in throwing
missiles at passing elevated trains tells
this phase of the strike.
The annoyance to the multitude was
increased by a wet snow which began
falling this afternoon. Service on the
elevated roads and subway, while not
tied up, was crippled, and badly Grip
pied at that Trains were run on irreg-
ular schedules in the underground, be-
ginning with the early morning, but the
elevated lines did not fare so we'll. On
the East Side practically no attempt
was made to institute a service, while
the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines, which
serve the West Side, We're run in
fashion woefully inadequate.
In fact, the elevated system of the.
Interborough's lines was pretty well
paralyzed. The company's entire en-
ergy seemed to be directed to an effort
to maintain service in the subway, and
i nthis it was partially successfuls
Strike Breaker Farley and his crew OF.
seven hundred or eight hundred men
We're thrown into the tunnel. Officials
Of the company gave this system their
personal attention, and an enormous
number of policemen were detailed to
the trains and stations. The attempt
to run express trains was abandoned
early in the day. Every available man
was put on the locals and a fairly good
schedule was maintained during the
evening rush hour until the accident at
TWenty-third street took place. This
upset things, but after strenuous efforts
they were Strengthened out and q SER
vice was resumed on a headway Of from
five to seven minutes.
The accident at Twenty-third street
was rear-end collision, due, it is said.
to the inexperience Of the men on the
trains. Two cars had their ends smash
ed In, and there was a. panic among
scores of passengers OF the injured
fifteen We're SO severely hurt that they
had to be sent to the hospitals. Traffic
was delayed for over two hours from
o'clock until after Z.
| A five-car local train bound uptown
for Lenox avenue was in charge Of Mos
torman Charles Miner, Of Louisville
KY, and conductor named Beyer.
both new men. The train was crowded
when it reached Twenty-third street.
The last car of the train was one of the
new steel cars, and the car ahead of it
was Of the wooden type, with copper
sheathing. Samuel t. Bradford, a strike
breaker, was the guard between these
!. two cars. The front platform Of the
last car and the rear platform Of the
car ahead were SO crowded that Brad
ford had difficulty in operating the slid
ing doors.
The train had just drawn into the
Twenty third street station and some
fof the passengers were about to alight,
when there was a crash as a train
(which had left the bridge only thirty
seconds after the first train dashed intd
| it. The steel car on the first train WIS
forced into the rear Of the car just
| ahead.
| All of the lights Of the first train
went out, and a moment later were
heard the cries of the injured and pam
ic-stricken passengers. Those who were
standing in the two rear cars of the
first train and in the first cars Of the
second train were thrown to the floor.
The passengers standing on the plat
forms of the last two cars Of the first
train were caught as in a wise. It was
here that all Of those who were hurt
received their injuries.
Policemen and firemen were summon
ed to chop the cars apart and rescue
the imprisoned. 1t was fifteen minutes
, before the first Of the victims was re-
/ leased. Meantime, some Of the cooler
Of the passengers in the train had
lighted matches in the cars and We're
| assisting the women to the doors at the
! unbroken ends Of the two cars, and IN
a few minutes men and women We're
! being passed through the broken WIN
dows to the platform. Some Of them
were carried across the tracks to the
downtown station.
Many persons bleeding from slight
cuts and other trif1ing injuries left the
train in this way without giving their
! names to the police.
The firemen worked for over an hour
before they were able to cut the last
of the injured passengers out Of the
car Five ambulances responded to the
call for aid, and several physicians were
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