Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-08
STRIKE BREAKERS
WRECK TRAINS
MANY INJURED IN SUBWAY
COLLISION
TRAFFIC ALMOST PARALYZED
Officials Claim to Have Enough Men
to Resume schedule-Mayor
Mcclellan Calls for a
Conference
TRAFFIC ALMOST PARALYzED
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March Twin one COL
lision in which twenty-nine persons
were injured and none killed, New York
has passed through the first day of the
general strike on It's rapid transit
system Added to this accident and
some minor casualties, due to the alb
normal conditions, was the untold an
noyance and vexation to a million or
more people usually dependent upon
the inter- boroughs line Tor transporta-
tion to and from business.
So far there has been little disorder.
Sporadic encounters between indi-
viduals, some bad language and the
action of few hoodlums in throwing
missiles at passing elevated trains, tell
this phase Of the strike.
The annoyance to the multitude was
increased by a wet snow which began
falling this afternoon. Service on the
elevated roads and subway, while not
entirely tied up was crippled badly.
Trains were run on irregular schedules
in the underground, beginning with
lines did not fare so well.
L Roads Are ParaIyzed
On the East Side practically no at
tempt was made to institute a new ser
vice, while the Sixth and Ninth avenue
lines, which serve the West Side, were
run in a fashion woefully inadequate.
In fact. the elevated system of the In
ter-boroughs lines was pretty well
paralyzed.
The company's entire energy seemed
to be directed to an effort to maintain
service in the subway, and in this it
was partially successful. Strike-break-
er Farley and his crew of 700 or 300
men were put into the tunnel Officials
of the company gave this system their
personal attention and large number
of policemen were detailed to the trains
and stations. The attempt to run ex-
press trains was abandoned early in
the day. Every available man was put
on the locals and a fairly good sched-
ule was maintained during the evening
rush hours until the accident at
Twenty-third street took place. This
upset things, but after strenuous effort
they were Strengthened out and a SER
vice was resumed on a headway of
from five to seven minutes.
Trains Crash Together
The accident at Twenty third street
was in the nature of rear-end colli-
sion due, 1t is said, to the inexperience
of the men on the trains. Two cars
had their ends smashed in and there
was a panic among the scores of pas
sengers.
OF the injured fifteen were so severe
ly hurt that they had to be sent to
the hospitals. Traffic was delayed for
over two hours, from five o'clock until
after o'clock.
A local train bound up town had
just drawn into the Twenty-third
street station and some of the passen-
gers were about to alight there when
there came crash as 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 car on the first train was
forced into the rear of the car just
ahead. All of the lights of the first
train went out, and a moment later
were heard the cries of the injured and
panic-stricken passengers. Those who
were standing In the two rear cars of
the second train We're thrown to the
floor. The passengers standing on the
platform Of the last two cars of the
first train were caught as in a wise. 1t
was here that all of those who were
hurt received their injuries.
Injured Are Imprisoned
Policemen and firemen were sum
moned to chop the cars apart and res
cue the imprisoned. 1t was fifteen min
utes before the first Of the victims
were released. Meantime, some of the
cooler of the passengers in the train
had lighted matches in the cars and
were assisting the women to the doors
at the unbroken ends of the two cars
and in few minutes men and women
were being passed through the broken
windows to the platform. Some of
them were carried across the tracks to
the downtown station.
The firemen worked for over an hour
before they were able to remove the
last of the injured passengers from the
car.
A fve-car train on the North Avenue
elevated line ran away, going south,
soon after midnight, after leaving the
Ninety-third street station, and with
scarcely any lessening OF speed rounded
the two curves which form an S more
than 100 feet above the ground at 11Oth
street The train was brought to
stop one block south OF the 10th street
station.
Motorman crazed
The motorman was so crazed that he
attempted to jump into the street, but
was restrained by policeman. Women
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