The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-08
Strike Causes Great Interrup- lion in Traffic
THOUSANDS IN SCRAMBLE
Surface Cars Have Never Before Been So Crowded as They Were Yes terday Afternoon By Persons
 Trying to Get Home.
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New York, March With one colli- sion in which twenty-nine persons were injured and none killed. New York has passed through the first day of the gen- eral strike on it's rapid transit system. Beyond this accident ana some minor casualties due to abnormal conditions. the sum total of the day was annoyance and vexation to a million or more people usually dependent upon the Interbo- rough's lines for transportation to and from their business. So far there has been little disorder. Sporadic encounters between individuals, some bad language and the action of few hoodlums in throwing missiles at passing elevated trains, tells this phase of the strike.
 Wet Snow Begins to Fall.
 The annoyance to the multitude was increased by wet snow which began falling this evening. Service on the ele- vated roads and subways while not tied up. was crippled, and badly crippled at that. Trains were run on irregular schedules in the underground beginning with the early morning, but the elevated lines did not fare so we'll.
 On the Eastside practically no attempt was made to institute a service, while the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines, which serve the Westside, ran in fashion woe fully inadequate
 In fact, the elevated system of the Interborough's lines was pretty well paralyzed. The company's entire energy seemed to be directed to an effort to maintain service in the subway. and in this it was partially successful. Strike Breaker Farley and his crew of 700 or 800 men were thrown into the tunnel; officials of the company gave this system their personal attention and an enor- nous number of police were detailed to the trains and stations. The attempt to run express trains was abandoned early Fin the day. Every available man was put on the locals and a fairly good sched- ule was maintained during the evening rush hours until the accident at Twenty third street took place. This upset things. but after strenuous efforts they were straightened out and a service was re- sumed on headway from five to seven minutes
 Nature of Rear-End Collision.
 The accident at Twenty-third street was in the nature of a rear-end col 1S1On, que, IL IS Sdld, LOO the 1nexperlence Of the men on the trains Two cars had their ends smashed in. there was panic among scores of passengers. and of tho injured fifteen were so severely hurt that they had to be sent to the hospitals. Traffic was delayed for over two hours from o'clock until after 7. A fve-car local train bound up town. was in charge of Motorman Miner of Louisville. Ky, and a conductor name4 Boyer, both new men. The train was crowded when 1t reached Twenty-third street. Samuel T. Bradford. strike breaker, was the guard between the two cars. The plat form was so crowded that Bradford had difficulty in operating the sliding doors. The train had just drawn into Twenty-tbrd street station and some of the passengers were about to alight, when there came crash as the train which had left the bridge only thirty seconds after the first train. dashed into the first train standing on Twenty-third street. The steel car of the first train was forced into the rear of the car just ahead.
 The passengers standing on the plat form of the last two cars of the first train were caught as in a wise.
 It was here that alVof those who were hurt received their fpdrie,s
 Policemen and frek y Ire summoned to chop the cars av avaA lAnd rescue the
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