The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-08

beninu MoIoTIHhn OF NEAR iIah h'n
capped unhurt. and Nobody knows VII,
He Failed TO stop Sus. icious Facts
In His Days Record Several Of The
Injured May Die -Oaklcish Wander
pool, Former Yale Football star
AVerts second Catastrophe by
stopping Third TraIn--Trafic Tied Up
At least twenty-uine persons were hurt
MANY badly. in rear end collision between
local trains in the subway at the Twenty
third street station last evening az seven
minutes before o'clock. 1t is not I'M
likely that several OF them may die. 4
Broadway local, with one of Farley's strike
breakers handling the controller, crashed
into Ienox avenue local that was standin z
ut the static ready to take on passengers.
The motorman OF the rear train was not
hurt and he escaped. Passengers who
rot out Of the smash-up uuinjured saw
him lump from the car, run across the
tracks to the downtown side of the station
and up the stairs
John W. McManus. conductor of the
Broadway local was arrested and locked
up in tho Fast Twenty-second street sta
ton. He Is one Of Farley's men and gave
his address az the car barns at li5th street
and the Harlem River. He was brought
here from St Louis. McManus said he
did not know the motoman's name or
much about him save that he was young
fellow who came here with the Indianxpo-
lis detachment Of strike breakers.
Crowd Looking On.
The accident occurred when the station
platform vas jammed with people from
the shopping district They had BEEN
waiting about FIVE minutes for a train when
,he Lenox avenue local OF five cars pulled
in. already crowded IL was train s35 10
charge Of Conductor Byer and Motornan
harles Minor OF Louisville. The rear car
va. Of steel. the one Immediately in front
aas of The old wood construction. :" he =
the train came to a stop the rear car was so
'ar below tho station platform that the
guard did not trouble To open the gates.
Just az the gates OF the other cars were
about 20 be opened and the crowd on the
platform was pushing forward. fighting
for places. a whistle BOUNDED from a train
coming up in the rear. Right at that mo-
ment. before the crash came. the lights in
ihe Lenox avenue train went out and every
o. vas dark This is a circumstance
hat the police were ordered by Inspector
Walsh 70 investigate closely.
The first car Of the Broadway local was
steel and the second car of wood. The
train was comfortably flled. not so crowded
as the Lenox. II was running pretty fast,
perhaps fifteen miles an hour, some esti-
mated
When the Crash Came.
When It bit the dead weight ahead the
imract sent it bounding back fifteen
or twenty feet The fuses Of one or the
other train burned out. There was fash
II green fame that blinded people on the
station platform. and before they recovered
themselves the cries Of the injured fell
upon their ears.
Save for two policemen standing at the
side Of the motorman's box. who were in
terrally injured, no one was badly hurt
in the Broadway train. The passengers
we're knocked out Of their seats, however,
the window glass was shivered and num-
| er got slight cuts and bruises.
The blow drove the steel rear car OF the
Leno1 avenue local against the wooden
car with terrific force. Fifteen or twenty
had been riding on the platforms OF these
two cars and they were the ones who suf-
fered most The platform Of the wooden
car was crushed in and the back end OF tho
car was shattered. Many OF the injured
ere sitting Or standing in the back part Of
Ills car While the steel car resisted the
impac, and was little damag save for n
smashed platform, the passengers caught
the full force Of the collision. They were
thrown against the sides OF the car. hurleI
= gainst seats and cut by broken glass.
Wonderful Goodness.
~ both trains the passengers were fright
ned and unnerved. but they behaved with
lernal kable GOODNESS The lights on both
trains were out. The Broadway train went
9 ark when the crash came, but several
cool beaded men struck matches. held them
up and called out for every body TO keep
quiet as the danger was over.
OaAleigh Vanderpool, a Swapping young
fellow who used TO he star on the Yale
football team, picked himself out Of the
'angle Of injured people in the rear car Of |
he L0noK avenue train, got a red lantern |
from somewhere ran clear around the
Broadway train and tagged third north
bound train that was coming up behind. |
! Dung Yanderpool, who is son of Dr. |
JakeiCh 5. Vanderpool. says that the I,
Mid train would have run into the others /,
u It hadn't been warned.
Roundsman Stanton OF the East Twenty /
second street precinct. on duty with squad 4
IN Tho station, called for reserves and am |
hu'ances and turned in fire alarm. Police T!
officers holding themselves ready for in /
slant call were on the Some in a few min
u'es Inspector Walsh took charH" Of the .
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