Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-12
twelve LIVES
ARE DASHED OUT
ELEVATED CAR PLUNGES TO
THE STREET
DISASTER IN NEW YORK CITY
Coach Filled With People Leaves the
Track and Crashes to Ground.
Attempt to Rob the Dead
and Dying

bodies were hurled through space and
with deafening crash the car fell to
the street. For an instant it stood
fairly on end. Then the sides gave
way as If they were made of paste
board. bursting out mass of human
ity. Those passengers who had not
jumped from platforms and windows
before the plungs came were thrown
into a mass at the forward end of the
car. AS the injured men and women
were struggling to free themselves two
heavy front trucks of the third car of
the train fell almost in their midst, as
the car itself jumped partly off the
against a building at the southeast
corner of Ninth avenue and Fifty-third
street.
Huge crowds were on the scene and
the first work of the hastily summoned
police reserves was directed to clearing
a way for the rescuing of the passen-
gers pinned down by the car Almost
every ambulance in Manhattan was
summoned, and the injured and dead
were hurried away with all speed.
Three alarms of fire brought many
engines to the scene. A slight fire
caused by burning insulation was
quickly extinguished and the firemen
set to work chopping out the dead and
injured. The task was not an easy one,
for the heavy car in falling had almost
completely buried pedestrians in its
wreckage. At least one was killed out
right in this way, while Policeman
Henry Atkins, who was standing di-
rectly under the elevated structure, is
among those most seriously injured
Eight persons were dead when taken
out of the wreck. and four died later at
hospitals.
List of the Dead
The dead:
JACOB NJ. ANSPACH, a merchant
and member of the Newark, N. J., board
of trade.
ERNEST P. sCHEIBLE. an cleo
trician.
THEODORE MORRIS, colored.
JOHN COCHRANE.
SOLOMON o. NEUGESS, employed
by the Mutual Chemical company.
CORNELIUS MCCARTHY, laborer
WILLIAM LEES, an electrician.
JOSEPH BACH, a policeman.
JAMES COOPER, employed by the
Fireproof Tenement House association.
EMMA CONHOVEN, died in Roose-
welt hospital.
ALBERT WEILsTEER, clerk, died
in Roosevelt hospital.
LOUIS ABEL, clerk; was married
and had two children.
OF the dead the most frightfully
mutilated was James Cooper, whose
head was completely severed from his
body.
The seriously injured are:
Henry Aitkens, policeman, fracture
of ribs and dislocated leg.
William Butler, fractured arm and
lacerated head.
Martin Fitzgerald, internally injured.
James Greer, leg crushed.
Patrick j. Gillian, left side crushed.
John Gansel, arm fractured.
Bridget Mcmahon, internal injuries
and injuries to head.
John T. McKenna, left shoulder dislo-
Gated and leg crushed.
William T. Niebuhr, skull fractured.
Henrietta O'Steerin, arm fractured.
Seymour Rowe, skull fractured.
Fred Wister, both arms fractured.
Unidentified man, fractured skull; un-
sconscious at Roosevelt hospital
Attempt to Rob Victims
Before the great crowds collected by
the news of the wreck could be cleared
away the police were compelled to use
their heavy night sticks on a number
of men who were attempting to snatch
jewelry or other valuables from the
victims. The officers had no time to
make arrests, contenting themselves
with clubbing the miscreants as heavily
as they could. Coroner Scholer ordered
the arrests of all those Immediately
concerned. Search was at once made
for the motorman, Paul Kelly, who Sc
cured a position on the elevated lines