The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-03-10
SIXTY INJURED IN ACCIDENT
CAUSED BY GREEN MOTORMEN
Hell to Pay and No Pitch Hot Is the Way the
Situation Is PiCturesqueIy Described
Acts Of Violence.
FIVE THOUSAND NEW MEN AR At WORK

street construction, as was the laSI
car of the front train. According to
witnesses when the collision occurred
these steel cars sprang apart and
were only slightly damaged. The
copper bound wooden car ahead of the
last car of the standing train how
ever received the shock from the steel
car and was telescoped. 1t was here
most of the injuries occurred. 1t was
literally miraculous that none Of the
passengers were killed outright. The
steel platforms of the front and back
cars OF the two trains were bent and
twisted, while. the platforms of the
cars adjoining were smashed to kind
ling wood. The rear train remained
lighted but the last cars of the first
train went dark, and in the panic
which followed many were injured be-
fore cool headed men shouted the ter
ror stricken women into silence and
| lighted matches so that they could
see to get out. Many were pinioned
| by timbers, and their groans added to
the terror of those who were unhurt.
A fire alarm was turned in and the
| fremen assisted the reserves of the
Thirty-sixth street precinct in extri-
eating the injured. Captain Joseph
Walsh of Engine Company Ia had his
left thumb severed by broken glass
while removing an injured woman.
Fully an hour elapsed before the
tracks were cleared.
The 14-year-old son of one man who
was pinioned by a broken seat OBJ
tanned an axe and chopped at the
woodwork until his father was lib
Grated.
The first rescue work in the front
train was done by tbs light of match
es. AS rapidly as the injured were
taken from the cars, they were carried
to the street level and hurried in am
balances to the hospitals.
But one arrest was made by the po-
lice. John McManus, 81 years old
who gave his home as st. Louis, and
said he was now living in the Inter-
borough car barns at One Hundred
and Fifty-fourth street and Lenox
avenue He was the conductor of the
rear train. He was arrested as the
only man in authority, after the mo-
torman escaped,
Il don't know now the accident oc-
Cured" he said
Il came on here to take a job. and
went to work when the strike began
this morning. / started shortly after
l3 o'clock and was at work contin-
uously until the accident. / had not
anything to eat and was tired ant
hungry"
The failure to arrest the motormar
was due to the fact that the police.
man, Bencke. who was on the from
Of the train with him was dangerous.
ly injured and was removed from the
wreck in semi-conscious condition
by Police Captain Hesse, to whom hi
7 was unable to make any statement
In the confusion the motorman go
away. Policeman Cone was on duty
In the front car of the second trair
and he too was injured. Men who
saw the motorman said he was mere
boy, and strike breakers who worked
with him declared he too had worked
! all day without food OF rest.
The motorman of the front trair
was Charles Miner. of Louisville. Ky
The conductor was named Dyer. Boil
! were strike breakers and neither wal
arrested as no fault attached to thos,
In charge of the front train.
The accident blocked the uptown
line for two hours and half. mucl
time being lost in jacking up the tele
scoped cars so that they could be rur
through to the terminal. These tw,
hours covered the busiest period of tn,
day and practically NO traffic was car