The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-08

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| - after leaving the Ninety-third =.
= street station and with scarcely =.
| = any lessening of speed rounded the :.
| - two curves which form an IS" =.
| - more than 100 feet above the =,
| - ground at One Hundred and Tenth =.
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| - One Hundred and Sixteenth street :.
20 station. The motOrman was so =.
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| - to the street. but was restrained =.
| - by a policeman. Women tainted :.
! - and men shouted when the train =.
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nj EW YORK. March S.-with one
~ collision in which twenty-nine
persons were injured and none
| Killed, New York has passed through
| the first day of the general strike on
| It's rapid transit system. By this ac-
| cIdent and some minor casualties due
! tC the abnormal conditions, the sum
total of the day was annoyance and
| vexatiOn to a million or more people
I usually dependent upon the INTERIOR
! ough's lines for transportation to and
rom business. 20 far there has been
| little disorder Sporadic encounters
| between individuals some bad Ian
suage and the action of a few hood
| IumS in throwing missiles at passing
elevated trains tell this phase of the
| strike.
Snow Helped the Strikers.
The annoyance to the multitude was
increased by a wet snow, which be-
gan falling this afternoon. Service on
! the elevated roads and subway, while
not tied up, was crippled badly. Trains
| were run on irregular schedules in the
LnnRTPTOnnd
| morning, but the elevated lines did not
! fare so well. On the east side prac-
| tlcdIIy no attempt was made TO insti-
| Iute a service, while the Sixth and
! Ninth avenue lines, which serve the
| west side, were run in a fashion Woe
fully inadequate. In fact, the elevated
! system of the InUerborough'S lines was
| pretty well paraIyzed
The company's entire energy seemed
| TO be directed to an effort to maintain
| service in the subway, and in this it
| was partially successful. Strike Break
| er Farley and his crew of 700 or 800
| men were thrown into the tunnel: Off
| Gals of the company gave this system
| their personal attention and an enOr-
| nous number of policemen were detail
! ed to the trains and stations. The at
/ tempt to run express trains was ADAM
| doned early in the day. Every avail
| able man was put on the locals and a
| fairly good schedule was maintained
during the evening rush hours until the
/ accident at Twenty-third street took
/ place. This upset things, but after
| strenuous effort they were Strengthened
| out and a service was resumed on a
Roadway of from to minutes.
Serious Accident.
The accident at Twenty-third street
| was in the nature of a rear-end COLI
/ sion, due, it is SAID, to the inexperience
| Of the men on the trains. Two cars
! had their ends smashed in, and there
/ was panic among the scores of pas
| sengers. OF the injured fifteen were
| so severely hurt that they had TO be
| sent to the hospitals. Traffic was de-
] lsyed for over two hours, from 3 o'clock
| until after o clock. A local train
! bound up town had just drawn into the
! TWenty-third street station and some
/ OF the passengers were about to alight
/ there when there came a crash as
/ train which had left the bridge only
/ thirty seconds after the first train
! dashed into the first train standing at
| Twenty-third street. The rear car on
the first train vas forced into the rear
/ of the car just ahead
Cries of the Injured.
! All of the lights of the first train
went out. and a moment later We're
/ heard the cries of the injured and
/ Panic-stricken passengers. Those who
| the rear train and the firSt two cars
1 Of the second train, We're thrown to
| the floor. The passengers standing on
/ the platforms of the last two cars of
/ the first train were caught a in a wise.
] 1t was here that all of those who were
| hurt received their injuries.
/ Policemen and firemen were sum
| moned to chop the cars apart and res
cue the imprisoned. 1t was fifteen
minutes before the first of the victims
/ were rele ased. Meantime some of the
cooler OF the passengers in the train
/ had lighted matches in the cars and
| were assisting the women to the doors
at the unbroken ends of the two cars
and in a few minutes men and women
| were being passed through the broken
windows to the platform. Some of them
were carried across the tracks to the
downtown station.
/ The fremeu worked for over an hour
/ before they We're able TO cut the last
| of the injured passengers out of the
! car.
Mayor Interferes.
Mayor George Is. Mcclellan late this
! afternoon reached the conclusion that
the transportation question had as
sumed such a serious aspect that 1t
would be necessary to bring the two
/ factions to some speedy agreement. He
accordingly addressed a letter TO both
the marlborough company and the
Amalgamated association TO this end
No meeting of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION was held this afternoon and
Vice President May of that organiza-
| ton stated that no meeting would be
/ held until twelty-fOur hours had
elapsed II at the end of that time
SUPERINTENDENT Hedley was still un-
willing to accede TO the demands Of the
men. the engineers and fremen Of the
Electric and Eccentric union would be
called out The members of this or
ganization are employed in the vari-
Gus power houses.
Union Ready to Arbitrate.
George Pepper, president of the
Amalganeted association in a state
ment issued tonight, says the assOcia-
ton is caring for 125 men who say
they Mere hrnnght here TO work on a