New-York tribune., 1905-01-26

almost equally bad. Passengers who wished to
] travel either up down town waited long for
| cars. which did not come. and then sought the
/ elevated stations Cars on the Broadway line
| after halting progress for some hours came
almost to a complete stop about o. m from
/ 42d-st- to 50th-st. On the 59th-st. crosstown
line. the 5Sd-st. line and the Amsterdam
| line the cars were either not moving at all or
were merely creeping. In lower Broadway, from
the Battery up, the cars had practically stopped
running at o'clock
LIVES IN PERIL AT SOUTH FERRY.
Prompt action by reserves from the Old Slip
and Church-st. stations. under the command OF
Captain Farrell averted serious accidents on the
platforms and stairways and in the corridors OF
the South Ferry elevated railroad terminal at
$50 D. M So dense the crush of people
that the strongest could scarcely make their
way and women screamed and cried. Many car
windows and the windows In the terminal par
ttions were broken
From $50 to $50 trains had been arrivin, on
from fifteen TO thirty minutes headway and the
crowd Of passengers accumulated until at $50
o'clock the platforms and corridors were
thronged- About that hour passengers who
arrived on a ferryboat from Brooklyn spread
the report that the Brooklyn trolley cars
We're not running. and hundreds OF per-
sons in the ferryhouses made a dash for the
elevated platforms. intending to go to
Chatham Square. and transfer there to Brooklyn
Bridge. These added to the already overcrowdsd
platforms. To add to the confusion. a 3d-avs.
and 6th-ave train arrived almost slmuItane-
Ously.
The platform crowd surged and fought against
the train gates to hoard the cars. and simul-
taneously the passengers IN the cars struggled
fercely to dlight- Finally passengers In the cars
began TO make their exit through the windows
Some succeeded. but s window was opened byr
a passenger inside some one on the plat
form fought TO get in Window after window
smashed
Meanwhile word had been sent to the Old slim
station. Captain Farrell and the reserves and
several men from the Church-st. station reached
the stairs. then a dense mass OF struggling hu-
manity. Persons in the street below plainly
heard women screaming and men shouting on
the platforms above.
The police literally pulled and threw aside the
men and women massed on the stairs and fought
their way to the platform. There thew found
struggling hundreds Six men We're stationed
near the ticket choppers boxes with instruc-
tions to let nobody get to the platforms With
the remaining force the captain drove back into
the corridors enough people to give elbow room
for those who remained on the platforms The
minal We're able. with the help OF the police
to discharge their passengers.
POLICE USE CLUBS IN BRIDGE CRUSH.
At the Brooklyn Bridge the scenes enacted
under normal conditions at the afternoon rush
hours were made worse many fold by the condi-
tions which the storm produced. From $50 TO
$50 D. m. such mob stOrmed the elevated plat
forms in the attempt 20 board the few trains
that were running that the police. under Cap
tain Devanney were compelled TO draw their
clubs and beat back the more insistent to save
the people from injuring themselves. A thou
sand people strOve to reach the island" CEN