New-York tribune., 1906-10-02
FLYING CAR SMASHED.
SIXTY PASSENGERS HURT.
One Killed, Others Dying, in Crash
at Lincoln Park.

4 the Fordham line of the Yonkers
Railroad. through a broken brake last night
ran at top speed down the horseshoe hill at
Lincoln Park. jumped the track and turned
turtle Over sixty passengers were injured. A
seven-months- old baby died from it's injuries
Others may be fatally hurt.
THE DEAD.
DauEs on.ts sf No s tss
BADLY INJURED.
ALvERsoN Mrs. J. c.. No. 123 South Broadway. TOn-
kers; cuts and contusions.
BARLICK, Mrs. No. i31 Nepperham avenue. Yonkers:
BARLICK Miss Tera- address: internal injuries.
CHARLTON orrin Buena Vista avenue. Yonkers: arms
broken.
HARDING. Mr.. Thomas No 81 Jefferson street. Yon-
kers; cuts and internal injuries.
HARDING, Miss Margaret. same address; cuts and in
LAvERIcK. Mrs. No, l1a Ludlow street, Yonkers:
compound fracture of shoulder internal injuries may
LIST ,.s M s,oSss S @ sa street. rOnhers skull tract
PcKER ina. Mrs Ad0iph Hotel wynsy F0nker' internal
ably will die.
The car was a closed one. 1t left Bedford Park
at Dos p m. with Andrew Ulchery, of No. 60
Croton Terrace motorman. It was packed 10
sufocation After crossing Jerome avenue there
is a long, steep hll with a sharp curve at the
foot. A little above the curve the brake rod
snapped and the car shot forward. The motor
man realized that something was wrong and
tried TO put on the reverse, but before he could
do tho struck the curve, jumped the track
and shot across the street. There it struck a big
bowlder and turned over. buryng the passen-
gers in pile of broken glass and wreckage.
The motorman and conductor both stuck to
their posts. but unnjEed. When the car
sr.lcll there a wild fight the part of those
who could do so 10 get out of the car. Only those
on the rear platform were able to jump when
the car left the rails but the whole thing hap
pened so quickly that hardly any one realized
anything was wrong until the car turned over
Many were hurt in the terrible scrimmage to
escape. Broken glass and splintered wood. aided
by the darkness. hurt many more Nearby
neghbors, hearing the crash teephoned St
Josephs Hospital, and the work of transferring
the injured began. Three men in automobiles
who refused to give their names. lent valuable
assistance and carried many of the injured 20
the hospital. St. Josephs Hospital had forty-two
patients most of them, however. only suffering
from contusions or cuts
Had the car gone two hundred feet further
before jumping the track IL would have gone
over an embankment one hundred feet high to
the tracks of the Putnam Railroad
The Yonkers Common Council held a meeting
last night to consider application for extensions
Of the Union Railway Company's franchises in
Yonkers. Mayor Coyne called attention to the
seriousness Of the accident. and said the alder
men should demand that air brakes be substi-
tuted for the antquated hand brakes on the
trolley cars The aldermen adjourned without
giving the company the desired grants
The Lincoln Hill curve where last nights ac-
cident took place is the steepest part of heavy
grade from Jerome avenue TO Yonkers and Is
also the shaIpest curve of a horseshoe Although
the railroad orders call for reduced speed 9t
this point. the motormen frequently disobey
when they nave time 10 make up and nervous
passengers have often heaved sighs of reIier
when the curve was passed without damage