New-York tribune., 1905-03-08

Tor ambulances and police reserves while
Roundsman Stanton telephoned for firemen and
truck company. Meantime they and people
from the street apd nearby stores summoned
by the crash and the screaming of women,
hastened to give aid. There was little they
could do for the injured, however. for it was
impossible to get at the telescoped cars which
were just beyond the end of the station plat
form
1t was not long. though. before Chief Croker.
Deputy Chief Langford and the fremen arrived
on the run. The power had been shut off from
that section of the subway The firemen
jumped 10 the tracks, and with their axes and
hooks cleared away the wreckage so that an
entrance could be made to the vestibules of the
wrecked cars. Other fremen and the policemen
had been working from the front cars of the
Broadway train. and got to the last two cars,
where most of the injured were.
STATION BECOMES A HOSPITAL.
Ambuances had responded from Bellevue and
New-York Hospital, and their surgeons. with
stretchers were ready before the f1remen had
got TO the injured. Physicians whose offices
were near by had reached the wreck even before
the hospital surgeons, among them DR. Carlos
Simon and DR.. G. s. Staniland. AS the first few
passengers. scratched and bleeding. with their
clothing in tatters. came crawling from
broken windows. they treated their wounds
Other passengers, refusing aid there went TO
nearby drug stores.
Thr2e Gle gs,ulea 'Hes1 "a hab3 before the am
4a!SlsRsss aihar Gonneii, or 81. rrarzis Nay
Iar's Church. and Father Mcdonald and Father
Ludlow, of the Church of the Epiphany. They
went with the 1ren1en into the wrecked cars
and gave spiritual comfort to the injured while
the physicians were dressing their wounds
For more than an hour the fremerl under
VT
Hussey. worked before the wrecked cars were
clear of the injured. Meantime. both tracks of
the subway We're tied up. and long line of
trains. reaching practically to the bridge. was
stalled When the wrecking forces got the pas
sengers out of the trains the downtown side of
the subway got into operation again.
When the result of the wreck became gen
orally known people palpably nervous
about riding in subway trains at the mercy os
green" oporat tives
TWO OF THE INJURED POLICEMEN
Two OF the injured passengers in the second
train were policemen. Edward Bunkhe of tba
44th Precinct, was guarding the motorman ~
the Lenox-ave. train. The man, he said was
about eighteen years old and green. with
the smash Bunkhe was pinned into the vesti-
bule, sustaining a broken shoulder and Internal
injuries. Joseph Cone of the 10th Precinct. who
Peculiar incidents were many. One man was
reading a newspaper. The collision threw an
other man into his lap, the elbow of the strap
hanger striking his nose and breaking it, An
other man. Standing the platform had Just
drawn his watch from his pocket The crash
threw it from his hand far into the crowd OF
people writhing the floor, He did not re-
cover it.
0. f. Konekle of No. 12O West S9th-st. was
a passenger in the second train. He said that
there had been much trouble all the way from
City Hall. The motorman would run slowly for
a few minutes, then stop altogether. then start
suddenly. running almost up to the train ahead.
then stop again.
At the height of the excitement Detectives
Kuhn and Kennedy arrested Harry Stone a
boy. who said he lived at No. % 2d-ave. for
picking pockets. He had a pocketbook in his
hand at the time, but he threw it into the
crowd when arrested
An electrical expert. who was sent by the
company TO investigate the collision, found
something suspicious about It, he said. He re-
ported that the track clear and that, rs
the motorman sDrang back before the co-
sion actually occurred and was not where he
should have been before he leaped off and dis
appeared, the man might have been ringer
from the strikers \ representative of the COM
pany said early this morning:
All that can be said is that the man has dis
appeared and that there is something suspl-
cious about the collision. We do not say that
he is a ringer from the union. but he has not
been found OF course, he may come to-day
with clean record and make "A satisfactory
explanation.