New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-13

that the switch had been opened Immediately
applied the brakes. I did not use the emergency
brakes as to have done SO would have meant the
Wreckfng OF the entire train
1t was the tOwerman who was to blame After me
accident l went 70 the street. the advice Of
to do so. 1 boarded a surface and went north
TO TO as t h9gnes house All the way Up i zssnsd
accident; accident Every one seemed 10 be talk
ing Of the accident 1t nearly drove me mad
SURE KELLY IS IN THE CITY.
Coroner scholer said that the statement OF EaIly
seemed TO be true regarded the disks on the
motor car of the sth-ave. train. although Jackson
the towerman under arrest, had said the disks were
set to show 6th-ave. train. Jackson's mistake Ia
said, might have caused the towerrnan to turn the
switch wrong when the eth-ave. train was
53d-st.
The Staten Island police took man who thsy
thought was Kelly The prisoner was arrested
late last night on ths boardwalk at South Beach
He gave his Charles B. Branch. and said
he lived at No. 90s West 4sd-st Ths arress was
made for intoxication and disorder.
Patronlan Myers. on patrol at the beach cams
the prisoner and a who said be was John
Moore. OF No. 300 West 43d-st- The man were
having an argument and Branch. who was In
toxicated creating disturbance. Moore
after his companion had been arrested. told Myers
that Branch Kelly. and that he CMoore) had
been sent down to Kelly with money to enable
him to get away. The prisoner gave Myers some
trouble and by the time he was subdued Moors
TIE prisoner when taken TO the station said
he refused to talk He answered the description OF
hbeiy given In the general alarm except that his
Gated with Headquarters and reply was received
that men able to Identify Kelly would be down as
Police Headquarters were informed later that the
man suspected OF being the missing notorrlan
was not Kelly.
Hughes sad that after Kelly had refused to go
$. and 2d-aye with him There they had had drink
urging Kelly to give himself up. This. however
k,eIly continued to refuse to do 7 did not want
Hughes said. ',and he was only in my house about
half hour-possibiy hour. am sure ne is
Coroner schoIer asked Hughes to try to find
Re W Nfq nof BE- h n sd n s
win be in good hands. The company viii take care
Hughes added later that Kelly told him that a
similar accident had been narrowly averted a few
rraih to stop IN time me to save disaster which
There deaths yesterday OF persons who
were hurt id the wreck OF Monday. but some OF the
sufferers In Roosevelt Hospital were said TO be in
one Of the most difficult operations was that per
Sustained a fractured skull, and as several pieces
or 6Sn9 ger aa t on the brain the skull was
that the patients condition was good:
An operation also performed on William
Enge whose right leg was amputated above the
knee, while several pieces OF bone removed
geons removed the left arm OF John J. fowler
He stood the shock well. and 1t is said, VIII prob
The effect of Mondays accident was shown yes
Ierday IN the loss or patronage on the 6tl-ave.
and 9th-ave- elevated roads There sp-
preciable falling on Of passengers the express
and locals both lines. On the contrary, the
surface lines and subway seemed TO be getting
slightly than their share Of the riders. and.
result, there much discomfort by oyar-
crowdng in the rush hours.
At the scene of the accident a curious throng
has fingered since the Wreckage cleared
away. There is practically nothing to fndi-
cate what happened, except the broken windows
the drug store fractures OF several hagstoaes In
front of the store and broken cornics over the
store window, where the struck
The loss to the InterbOroUgh Rapid Transit Com
pany by Mondays disaster well informed
persons said yesterday. would probably be near
81 100000 on account OF the claims for damages
made by the relatives Of the twelve persons killed
and by the forty more persons who were In
iured seriously. The New-Tork Central. 81 Was
said had not finished It's payments Of CLAMPS
against ii on account of the collision in the Park
ave tunnel three years ago. but the entire amount
OF those claims said to be over G-0Oo,euos
while the number OF persons killed by the elevated
railroad accident on Monday less than In ths
tunnel disaster. the number OF injured was con
siderably greater. .
was said Yesterday, the total number OF persons
killed bv accidents on the elevated roads IN Man
haitian in fifteen years did not exceed twenty. In
the fteer years. computation shows the elevated
roads have carried average or over 20 COO 900
passengers a year, total OF over 1900 COO 600
making the percentage Of fatalities smaller than
on any railroad In the country.