Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-09-13
TEN KILLED IN II" WRECK
Bad Accident On Ninth Avenue
Elevated Road in New York,
ERROR CAUSED ACCIDENT.
Forty Persons Were Badly Hurt When
Train Falls Into the
Street.

were killed and more than forty in
jured by the derailment of an elevated
train at Fiftythird street and Ninth ave-
nue. today.
The dead are:
member of the Newark n j., board of
! trade.
sCHEIBLE, ERNEST P, an electrician.
| NORRIS THEODORE, colored
| CORCORAN, JOHN.
,NEUGUS, SOLOMON, employed by the
Mutual Chemical company
MG LEA, CORNELIUS, laborer.
! LEES, WILLIAM, an electrician.
Bach, JOSEPH, a policeman.
! COOPER, JAMES.
AN UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
The train was a south bound Ninth
avenue local and should have continued
On the straight track instead of being
switched to the curve by which Sixth
avenue trains proceed on Firty-third
street from Ninth avenue to Sixth ave-
nue.. A Sixth avenue train had just
passed and the switch to the curve was
open. Owing to this open switch the
tirst car of the Ninth avenue train took
the. switch, just barely staying on the
rails and turning into Firty-third street
instead of going down Ninth avenue.
/ Caused by Switchman
The switchman, it is alleged, when he
saw his blunder, turned the switch back
again as it to send the train on the
straight track down Ninth avenue. AS
soon as this was done the train was
wrecked. The second car got around
the turn, but the third car, owing to the
switch being changed, was thrown off
/ the track. 1t fell into the street, turn
ing completely over and landing upside
down.
The fourth and fifth cars also left the
rails, but did not fall into the street.
The fourth car struck with terrific force
against the building at the southwest
corner Of Ninth avenue and rested
against fire escape This building IS
occupied in part by Mrs Grow, whose
family was at breakfast. The passen-
gers in the fourth and fifth cars were
able to save themselves and get to the
street in safety by climbing through the
windows of Mrs. Crows apartments,
from the fire escapes against which the
fourth car rested.
Policeman Describes Wreck.
Policeman Edward Moran, who was
injured, was standing beneath the struct-
ure when the accident happened. He
| leaped when he heard the crash over
around and saw the car coming to the
street." he said. 1T fell with a crash on
its forward end. The bottom cracked
and the sides shivered and opened out
The people were damned forward, hold
Ing to the straps and mixed up together.
when the sides broke out they were
scattered all over the street. These were
the lucky ones. Those who could not get
out were the worst injured.
! Il saw there was awful work ahead,
SO | ran to Fifty-frst street and turned
! in an alarm. Then | sent in a call for
all the ambulances and asked for police
reserves.
LAS | ran back l called for help from
wagons of all sorts When l got back
the street was strewn with injured peo-
pie. We lifted them into grocery wag-
ons, trucks, anything handy, and hur-
ried them to Roosevelt hospital. Many
Of them were women. They had tainted
and it looked as if nearly all were dead.
Dig Out the Victims.
when the fremen came they were
dragging people out of the car. The fur
Their down they got into the mass of hui
mainly the slower the work became and
the more serious were the wounds of
| those rescued.
FINALLY axes had to be used to get
the people from under the wreckage. At
that stage they began to pull out the
! dead"
The excitement among those in the de-
rallied cars on the structure as they real
lied what had happened became intense.
! In the forward car the men, deeming the
motOrman was responsible for the
wreck, attacked him and tried to
beat him. He was dragged from
his seat, but he shouted for fair
play and convinced the crowd that it
was the switchman and not he that was
responsible.
Arrest Train Crew
Coroner Scholler has caused the arrest
of j. w. Johnson, the conductor of the
train; Timothy HigginsOn, j. McDavitt.
w. L. Berry and D. Clark, the four
| guards.
Motorman Paul Kelly, address I'M
known, and c. A. dickinson. the switch
man on duty at Fifty-third street and
! Ninth avenue, have disappeared, the po-
lice say. and cannot be found.
Many persons were badly hurt. Among
them are:
Seymour Rowe, a bookkeeper, fractured
skull.
Rose Olmstead, scalp wounds, Commissions
Of body, and shock
Henry Akpoly, skull fractured and In
juries to chest and body Part Of the fall
! ing car struck him.
Unidentified man, about 35 years, uncon
SciOus, fractured skull
Barbara Grell, % years, Western Union
| Telegraph operator, suffering from shock
A policeman found the head of a man
lying on the elevated tracks. The head
was that of 4 man about 80 years old.
Joseph Bach, policeman, badly crushed
| will die.
Elizabeth Minor, Nyack, leg crushed sc
that amputation was necessary; will die
Pat J. Gilligan, 356 West Fifty-sixtl
street, left side crushed in.
F. Lincoln Eckstein, legs crushed.
Bridget Mcmahon, internal injuries and
| injuries to the head.
William Nieubeur, 2199 Eighth avenue
skull fractured
Wrong Signal Given.
During the coroner's preliminary ex-
animation, Conductor j. W. johnson
said:
Coroner you can go up on the elevat-
ed road at Fifty ninth street and Ninth
avenue and see for yourself. You will
find that The sioDoJ ic vaIlOuy oD1 ,rraan