New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-27
CARS CRASH ON BRIDGE
Tzcenty-fUe Inimed-Motorman OF
Runazgau Sticks to Post.

Running wild, a Christopher and 8th-st car
smashed into a 14th-st car early yesterday at
the Manhattan end Of the Williamsburg Briose'
injurng twenty-five persons, one propaoiy
fatally. and wrecking the 14th-st. car. In the
face of almost certain death John Holden the
motornan of the Christopher and Sth-st car
stuck to his controller trying to stop MS car IN
it's wild run of more than thousand feet. he
was taken out unconscious after the wreck, and
will probably die.
The collision occurred almost opposite the De-
lancey-st station. where the 14th-st. car was
stalled behind a. car with q burned out fuse
Holden has been unable to tell what was the
trouble with his since the accident, out II Is
thought that something went wrong with the
controlling apparatus at the top of the western
incline of the bridge. AS the car plunged down
the long incline at high speed Holden was seen
working his brakes frantically up to the mo-
ment he hit the other car
AS the two cars crashed together Holden was
thrown forward into the ahead. from the
wreckage of which he dug out by the police
The 14th-st car was teiescoped, its sides and
roof demolished, the bottom knocked out and
the mechanism reduced TO junk.
Most of the injured among the seventy
five passengers of the 14th-st car. They were
thrown forward and mixed up with the wreck
age. The men inside the car for the most part
behaved with extreme brutality and coWard;ce.
Without any regard for the women and young
girls, who formed large part of the passengers.
they fought and struggled until they were free.
Then few of them helped extricate the women.
The rear platform was crowded with men,
nearly all of whom jumped as they saw the ap-
preaching wild car and escaped injury. Many
of those who were not seriously injured went
home before the police the hospital surgeons
obtained their names. Those who were at
| tended by the ambulance surgeons are:
THE INJURED.
ALLEN Charles ST. forty-two years old. driver No SO
Halst.. Brooklyn abasOns of right Leg ATTENDED
BRYD Fred seventeen years old No ~ ss
| Confessions Gouvernear Hospital
CHARLES thirty old No 81 Itai-s. sr T,o
i bal a and sst q hom nsH0 ATTENDED at
saGEa sse hom old No sol
GAGEI Anton seventeen years old No II asnasd al
Gouverneur Hospital and sent home
GRRGUsoN. Robert thrty,seven years old carpsnter
leg: attended at Gouvernsur Hospital home
GIYNN Michael D. thrtyave years old No "a Cyms e
tended and sent home
Georgs thirty Years Gd M9 ~ 4g ba1
| tended IN home.
@ So36 hn Of Ga and st
| pound skull and internal injuries East
| ern District Hospital: may Gle.
KELLY Erark 20 years Old No. IA M sTs er n
| tured; attended and taken home.
KENNY. Edward, 20 years old carpenter No, so2 f
wrist: attended at Gouverneur Hospital and Sent
| home.
| LUsTER Edward, No. 300 Broadway. Brooklyn. con
tusions of face hands and body; Eastern District
| Hospital
| oDELL.. Emma So years Old No. 25s Hooper-st
| Brooklyn; shock. hysteria went home.
SHANAHAN. Joseph IS old, electrician. No. ~
| Ten Eyck-st, Brooklyn: lacerated scalp wound ane
abrasion OF left arm; attended at Gouverneur Hos
| pital and home
s1EBERT. Frank. No 26s Penn-st.. Brooklyn: con-
| tusions: attended and went home.
sPRUTE, William, 81 years old. packer No. 112 Bed
ford-ave, Brooklyn; Commissions OF thighs and chin
| attended and went home
STAPLETON. Annie. % years old. No 100 Havemeyer-
| St. Brooklyn; shock and hysteria; went home
SURIA. MAY % old. No. So Moore-st-, Brooklyn
| abrasons hands; attended at Gouverneur Hospita
| home.
TEsNA Michael. 81 years old, No. 164 North 4th-st
Brooklyn right knee, hands and face bruised; GOV
Hospital.
WILLIAMS Alexander j.. 20 old. No 26s Rodney
Brooklyn; Commissions; attended and went nome