New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-12

~ ooronsr Schoier. end the Injured were est-t-
Gated from the lower end OF tie smashed car. the
scenes were heertrendng in the extreme. One
man. dragging broken leg behind him, and
bleeding from cuts on the face and hands,
crswled about crying for his daughter She had
been with him IN the second car when the ac-
cident occurred. but had become separated from
him. He was finally taken care of by police
man. who said he would search for Nellie"
4 decapitated trunk was found in the wreck
eg. The head had been completely severed as
IL with knife Later the head was found on
the tracks above. 1t is believed that the jar
sent the mans head through the window. and
the glass severed It from his body. This body
was later identified as that of James Cooper,
painter, of No. 22s5 ed-ave.
Two priests worked over the dead and dying.
administering .he last rites OF the Church where
1t was necessary. and offering spiritual aid and
consolation. They were Fathers casserly and
ucMuller, wsio are connected with the Paulist
Fathers Church. at 59th-st and 9th-ave. Some
one had telephoned TO the reetory that there had
been accident. and the priests immediately
went to the place. When ali of the injured had
been removed 10 the hospitals they went to
Roosevelt Hospital where they continued their
ministration. Then they went down TO the
West 4Tth-st. station. where they did what they
might for those who seeking to identify
the bodies
MEN BRUTAL TO WOMEN.
In the rush from the third car of the train
OF the terror stricken passengers went
from the end Of the car hanging over the side
walk into the building over the drug store go
ing through 8 window of Mrs James @. Groves
apartment on the second floor and running
through her rooms and down to the street.
Most of those who came through were men"
said Mrs. Grove, s.but there were few women.
and they were treated brutally by the men
The men acted like maniaes. frenzied to a point
OF brutes. They thrust the women aside, rushed
through the room and down the stairs to the
street, with apparently nc thought for the safety
OF anyone but themselves. There must have
been fifty or sixty of them who escaped in this
manner. Just inside the two windows I had a
large cabinet which contained number of my
wedding presents some old relics OF my pa
rents families and other things which priced
very highly. This hurled to the floor by
the excited passengers and everything in ii de-
etroyed
-Some Of those who passed through my par
Tor left of their belongings there Among
these things was Knights of Columbus grand
masters pin and a worlar's pocketbook On the
street and sidewalk were other articles dropped
by the victims and in the excitement one
of the employees of the company eoolly pick I'D
several purses and thrust them into his pocket"
The wreck blocked the West Side elevated
lines for nearly four hours. causing great an
reyanee to thousands of people who wanted to
get downtown. and sending them TO the sub
way or surface lines.
Crowds bound for work continued to climb the
stairs of the elevated stations all the morning.
For time the agents assiduously sold ticket
to all corners but soon there was room on
the platforms for more. Then only, say wit
nesses. did they stop selling
AS soon as the accident was known at the
Offices Of the company a large emergency wreck
ing crew was despatched to the scene with
Jacks ropes pulleys, axes and everything need
ed The wrecked attacked from all
sides The fall had opened crack between the
side and the roof through which many of those
who were imprisoned escaped. and with this as
point of vantage. the men by IL o'clock had
cleared up every vestige of the wreck the pieces
being carted away, until there was nothing to
indicate what had occurred except the cracked
pavement broken window in Jones's drug
store and the broken ends of the ties, which had
been cut off by the third car.
While this work was going a workman was
standing on the bottom of the car, it lay at q
dangerous angie upside down. chopping away
the woodwork. The weakened car started to
slide to the street. The workman, feeling the
car settling beneath him. dropped his axe A
hundred men shouted to kim to jump, and jump
he did just in time TO save himself for in its
fall. the car righted itself and he would have
been crushed had he delayed a moment
CARS FALL THREATENS HOUSE.
In its fall to the Pavement the heavy car
struck the iron pillar which supports the corner
of the drug store building. Inside there were
dozen men, including Inspector Flood and Coro-
1aer Scholer, and for a moment it seemed as
though the iron pillar must snap This would
have caused the entire building TO collapse. The
pillar however stood the shock and strain, and,
though the house trembed to the roof IL stood
arm The heavy trucks were placed on carts and
taken away while the woodwork splin-
ters under the renewed attack of the men.
The work of taking away the third car, which
was held on the structure with its nose against
the corner building a more difficult job
Deprived of its forward wheels. it was impos-
ebIe even with several motor cars. to drag it
back TO the structure. This work was finally
accomplished with hydraulic jacks. The for
ward truck of the second car. which had re-
NAMED attached to the first car, was then
pushed back and placed under the body and the
wreck fowed north to the yards. This car
which was No. I'D. apparently uninJured
except for pane of glass. which was smashed
The police last night sent out an alarm Tor
Paul Kelly, the missing motornan. Police Cap
fain Gala CHER said that it has been learned that
after the accident Kelly went 10 the home of a
friend, Howard Hughes. at No 201 East 126th-
ct Hughes is a motornan on the 3d-aVe. line
and Is now i'll. Kelly remained there almost all
day leaving the house al o'clock in the after
room Kellyss home is in ST. Louis, and the
police believe that he may have started for that
city Detectives were stationed at all the ferries
snd railway stations, with strict injunctions to
watch all outgoing trains. especially those for
the West and South.