The Washington times., 1905-09-11
First Accident of the
Kind n the City of
New York.
FORTY BADLY INJURED
Motorman Was Trying to
Make Up Time He
Had Lost.

NEW YORK. Sept. 11.-A car on a
train on the Ninth Avenue Elevated
Railroad plunged into the street at
Ninth avenue and Frfty-third street at
7:S0 O'Clock this morning
Ten persons are dead. The number
OF injured will, it is believed. total forty.
The identified dead are:
HENRIETTA OSCERLEIN, 161st
street and Lenox avenue.
CORNELIUS MCCARTHY, forty years
old. AL West Fifty-third street.
S. NEI'GUS; papers found in the
pockets indicate he was a chemist, en-
pioyed by the Mutual Chemical Com
pany, of Jersey City.
THEODORE MORRIS, colored, 125
West 139th street.
JOHN LEES. Hammill Station. Rock
away. died at Roosevelt Hospital.
Policeman. unidentified. wearing badge
No. 1f23: died at Roosevelt Hospital.
Unidentified man, about fifty-1ve
years of age, head severed from body
and found in street.
Coroner Scholer has ordered the arrest
of the motorman, swi:chman. and con-
ductor. The latter. John ]. Johnson, has
been arrested, and the police are search
ing for Paul Kelly, the motorman. and
c. A Jackson. the switchman.
1t is the first time in the history OF
the elevated railroads in this city that
car has plunged into the street
Bound Down Town.
The train was bound down town
Every car was packed with people-men
women, boys, and girls-going to work
The train was delayed at the station
at 10th street and Eighth avenue for
several minutes When il finally go,
started. the motorman tried TO make Up
the time that had been lost =
AS the train approached Fffty-third
street, where the Sixth avenue elevated
railroad trains are switched off from
Ninth avenue and sent through Fifty
third street to Sixth avenue. the motor
man, thinking that the switch was prop
erly set for him, did not slacken the
speed OF his train.
Car No. 1,13S the first of the train
went around the curve into Fifty-thirC
street The switchman, seeing his mis-
take, set the switch for Ninth avenu'
train.
The second car, which was Just abou
humping over the ties for about twenty
feet. it crashed through the railing ant
plunged into the street below.
1t It's descent the car struck the from
window of j. r. Jones drug store a
the corner, wrecking 1t completely.
Coupling Broke
Fortunately the coupling connectinl
the car with those behind 1t broke. Th
Third and fourth cars remained on N
track.
AS the car left the track. men an,
women began to scream and attempt L
force their way through the window
and doors, but in an instant they fount
themselves being carried through tn
air and finally landed with a crash il
the street
Persons who were in the vicinity tool
in the situation at glance and hurr
calls were sent to the police station 70
the reserves and to all the hospitals 70
ambulances and surgeons. These wer
quickly upon the scene and the work o
removing the dead and Mysteries
wounded was begun
The first ambulance to arrive was frol
Roosevelt Hospital. only five block
away The wounded were gathered u
and the horses raced TO the institution
Telephone calls telling of the accideT
were sent to the hospital before III
arrival of the ambulances and the acc
dent room was made ready. In te
minutes IL was filed and more were b'
ing brought IN.