The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-12

a EW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE death list
of today's accident on the Ninth
avenue elevated railroad. when a
car crowded with early morning work
ers on their way downtown pitched
headlong into the street, stands at
twelve. Three men are in hospitals
with fractured skulls. One of these,
who as vet remains unidentified at
Roosevelt hospital, is unconscious and
not expected to live. More than TWO
score OF persons were injured, many of
them seriously. The cause of the acct
dent and the immediate responsibility
remain to be seen. The motorman of
the wrecked train is fugitive, while
sWitchman. conductor and four guards
are under arrest
The switchman is charged with man
slaughter and the trainmen are held as
witnesses. Tonight Coroner SchOler,
who has undertaken the work Of fixing
the blame for the wreck announced
mat the sWitchman's bond has been
placed at $1,000, and those Of the VIII
rAsses at 500 each.
Expected a Clear Track.
Whatever may have cause the mis-
take the accident the worst N the
history Of the overhead railroads in
New York, came when a south bound
train on the Ninth avenue line was
switched on TO the Sixth avenue line
a the Fifty-third street junction. the
motorman, expecting a clear track on
the direct line of the Ninth avenue
without regarding the warning signal
that the switch was open, rushed his
train along at a high rate of speed. The
nrst car swung around the right angle
curve, holding 20 the rails because of
the weight of the train behind. Then
the strain became too great. The
couplings broke. the second car was
whirlea about almost end for end. and,
% The horror of those who looked on
from below. pitched into the street.
Crashed Into the Street.
The first indication people on the side
walk had of the accident was q loud
rumbling along the overhead structure.
Looking up they saw a shower of
sparks. Then followed splinteTs and
the sound of splitting timbers. Sudden
y the outer guard rail of the railroad
structure gave way, a score of bodies
were hurled through space, and with a
deatening crash the ear fell 20 the
street. For an instant il stood fairly
'on end, Then the sides gave way as if
they We're made of pasteboard belcning
out mass OF humanity
Those passengers who had not jumped
from the platforms and windows before
the plunge came We're thrown into a
mass at the forward end of the car.
AS the injured men and women were
struggling 10 free themselves the heavy
front trucks of the third car on the /
train fell almost i'm their midst as the
ear itself jumped partly off the elevated 1
structure. and was wedged against a
building at the southeast corner of /
Ninth avenue and Fifty-third street
Work of Rescue.
Huge crowds were soon on the scene /
and the first work of the hastily sum /
mOned police reserves were directed TO /
clearing a way for the rescumg of the /
passengers pinned down by the car. 4
Almost every ambulance IN Manhattan !
was summoned, and the injured and .
dead We're hurried away with all speed. /
Three alarms of fire brought many ,
engines TO the scene. 4 slight fire .
caused by burning insulation was
quickly eXtinguished. and the dremen
set 10 work ch0pping out The dead and .
injured. The task was not an easy one,
Tor the heavy car in falling had almost .
completely buried pedestrians in its I
wreckage. At least one was killed out /
right In this way While Policeman i
Henry Athens, who was standing di- .
iS0HS utiNel 'iO SIS' .''Su 9tl ~ uiV' Il I
among those most seriously injured
Eight persons were dead when taken .
out OF the wreck and four dieu later at .
hospitals,
The Dead. +
ne toLtetted Hst OF the dedd.
Jacoh N Ahspacn. "a merchant ana F.
menbef OF me newark y j., board OF (
traue ~
II EEhesI - 9tLelnle, au electrician
InSou ~ l, NJ us 0ololeu'
Solomon Oneugess. employed bv the Mu-
! o. GSnr,1dii,,l Ni.SSrIbV ~ 1.,t,o~or
William Lees an electririan
T0ssn6 Racb a ooticen7an
lanes CoODer omDfaved Inv I-fr..-r,,f /
Tenement House sssgciafior
Emn1a Conhoyen died I'm Roosa,elt hos
nitai ~
Albert Webster. clerk died at Roosa-
we'll boepifaI
4. ouis 1bei clerk was married and l,ad
t,vo children
nj the dead the most friobtF,4Il,, y,,1,tf
lated was lanes COOner Whose head J,as
cor,rletei, Severed frnn, his boI,- vas
seriously injured.
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William Butler fractured arm and lac
Nsrtin FITZGERALD internally, ini,,-ad
iames GreFT leg crushed az
Patrick J. Gillian. left side crushed.
Holm GenzeI arm fractured
Bridget McMahon. Internal inf,lries and I
nilIries 10 head
JOhn Z McKeuua left shoulder dfsIo- I