Arizona republican., 1905-03-08
And Some We're Quite
 Seriously Hurt
IN MARLBOROUGH STRIKE
The First Day of the Trouble Between the Rapid Transit People and the Analgamated Association Was Very Annoying to New York.

New York. March With one col lision in which twenty y-nine persons were injured and none killed. New York has passed through the first day of the general strike on its rapid tran sit system By this accident and some minor casualties due to abnormal cru- ditiOns, the sum total of the day was annoyance and vexatiOn 10 a million or more people usually dependent on the InterborOugh line for transportation to and from business So far there has been little disorder.
 Sporadic encounters between lndi- viduaIs some bad language and the action Of few hOOdlums throwing mis- siles at passing elevated trains teli this phase Of the strike Annoyance to the multitude was increased by a wet snow which began falling this af- ternoOn. The service on the elevated roads and the subway while not tied up was crippled badly Trains Nere run on irregular schedules iu the un- derground beginning with the early morning but the elevated lines dzd nor fare so wall On the east side pree- ticaHy no attempt was made to ipsti- tute a service while the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines which serve fhr west side. were run in fashion woe fully inadequate In fact. the elevr ted system of the Interb0rOugh-s lines u-.ts pretty well paralyzed-
 The cOmpany's entire energy seem ed to be directed 10 the effort to main tain the service in the subway and in this it was partially successful Strike Braze- Farley and his crew of 100 OF 500 men. were thrown into the tun- nel by the officials of the company and they gave this system their per sonal atteQtiOn and enormous numbers of Doiicemcnt were detailed to The trains and stations The attempt te run express trains was abandouet early in the day Every available man was put on the locals and a fairy good schedule was maintained during the evening rush hours until the acci- dent a Twcnty-third street took place This upset the trains but after a strenuous effort they were straighteu- cd ont and the service was resumed at from five to seven minutes The ac- cident at Twenty third street was in the nature of a rear end collision. due it is said, to the inexDerience of the men on the trains. Two cars had their ends smashed in and there was panic among scores of passengers Of the iu- 1ured fifteen were so severely hurt they had to be sent to the hospi-als- Traffic was delayed over len hours The local train bound up town had just drawn into the Twenty-third street station and some passengers were about to alight when there came a crash @s 2 train which had left the bridge only thirty seconds after the first train dashed into the first train standing at Twenty-third street The rear ear on the first train was forced into the rear Of the car just ahead All of the .ghts of the first train went out end 9 moment later were heard the cries of the injured and panic stricken passengers Those who were standing in the two rear cars of the first train and the first two cars of the second train were thrown to floor Passengers standing on the platfeFus of the last two cars of the nrsr train were caught as in a wise IL was here that all those who were hurt received their injuries.