The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-11-01
Montgomery Street Trolley
Jumped the Track This
Morning at West Side
Avenue With Disastrous
Results.
VICTIMS IN THE HOSPITAL
AIR BRAKE AND SAND BOX. IT IS
SAID, REFUSED TO AcT-Mo-
TORMAN MANFuLLY STOOD TO
HIS PosT-PATHETIC SCENES
OF RESCUE.

OF RESCUE.
At 5.45 this A. NJ. trolley car No.
1901 jumped the track at West Side ave-
nue. and Montgomery street. 1t ran in
to telegraph pole and both the pole
and the car were smashed. The car was
crowded with workmen ON their way to
and from work. Most of them carried
lunch buckets and baskets A dozen or
more of them were injured, some of them
seriously. A number of them ere in the
City Hospital. The injured are
William Barnes, thirty-three years old,
No. 96 Palisade aveEue; body injured;
went home.
Walter Mannion, thirty-fye years old,
No. $50 Mannion avenue; body injured;
went home.
John Killen, sr., fifty years old. No.
SS9 Wayne street; injured about the
head; taken to City Hospital.
John Killen. Jr., twenty-four years old,
No. 3S9 Wayne street; injured about the
head and body; taken to City Hospital
John Kelly, forty-seven years old, No.
267a Tonnele avenue; injured about the
body; taken home by friends.
Edward Applegate, thirty-eight, No.
Y Henry street; injured about the head;
taken to City Hospital
Thomas Coyne, No. % Magnolia ave-
nue.; injured about the right leg: went
home.
William Burns, No. 50 Newkirk street;
injured about the body; taken to the City
Hospital by friends.
Thomas Laney, twenty-five years old,
No. 78 Thorn street, head injured; went
home.
Arthur E. Rowe, ffty-eight years old,
No. 1922 Storm avenue; injured about
the head and back; taken home
Harry Donlern, thirty-fve years old,
No. 249 Ocean avenue, injured about the
body; taken to City Hospital.
John O'Neill, No. 66 Ocean avenue; in
jured about the body; taken home
O'Neill was the motorman of the car.
He stuck to his post to the last. Like
many of the passengers his face and
hands were cut by flying splinters of
glass.
The accident happened so quickly that
none of the passengers had realized the
impending danger. The car was equip
ped with air brakes and it is claimed the
brakes refused to work. Another claim
is that the sand box refused to work.
The early morn was misty and the tracks
were slippery. The car was well filed
and the scene of men cut and bleeding
piling over others who were so seriously
injured that they could not move in an
effort TO get ont of the ear was both
tragic and pathetic. The car was
wrecked. One side was smashed in and
scarcely a window remained intact The
passengers were nearly all strong men.
Had the accident occurred an hour or
so later when the care are crowded with
women on their way down town or to
the ferries for New York. the disaster
would have been much greater.
The wounded men were nearly all
placed on other cars TO be taken to their
homes or to the City Hospital, and the
scenes in these cars are described by
other passengers as exceedingly pathetic.
Letter Carrier George Logan distin-
guished himself in assisting the wound
ed from the wrecked car.
A wrecking car was soon on the scene
and with much difficulty the demolished
car was lifted from the place of the ac-
cident and taken to the ear barn in
Montgomery street, near Bergen avenue.