New-York tribune., 1906-11-11
CENTRAL KILLS THREE
TRAGEDY IN TUNNEL
T,o;n GInds Workmen to Pieces
Officials Reticent.

10 had been working on the third
- -, entrance 10 the New York Cenrsl
~, "a" :, setb street and Park avenus were III
-. -, ~ pieces yesterday afternoon oy an
hound train.
-. a,,5 men were Charles Pearson. OF No.
200 uest 18Th street; John Ulrich. OF West
,oqs street and John Libirty. OF Fifth avenue
-,-.',,.n, ,,csorlev. Of No a22 Ninth avenue.
-. later arrested on a charge OF homicide he
=. ,he driver OF the engine OF the train which
a. ss,s 10 have killed the men. The arrest was
-..5a E, the freight yards al 72d street and the
Hudson River.
..5 tsken some horse cars into the Grand Gen.
81 S,ation and then back 10 spuyten Duyvil.
.ss s.a,ed that he ala not know that he had
ana The men. as he was driving his engine
LIZARD through the tunnel. He said. accord
a.. - ,be roIice that he saw no lights and moth
,-r - show that men were at work where the
accident occurred.
A. the Grand Central Station last night there
,ras no one willing TO give out any information
REGARDING n. accident
The men were last seen az 2:4o o'clock, JUST
before q northbound train passed into the SIDE
,,,ns, On the most westerly track Twenty
i-,,,e- later their rnangled bodies were found
-, tuo inspectors OF signals. They We're cut into
,lar., So small as 10 be unreoognizahle. and
,h.i- bodies had 70 be gathered up piecemeal
ana takar 10 the nearest signal tower in boxes
Patrolnoan Toomey Of the East 5lst street
carton sent for the reserves when he was told
:, the accident A curious crowd had assembled
s-ourd the entrance 10 the tunnel. and rumors
q. 9 disastrous wreck were rife.
To ssd ~ the excitement, local train. which
10. she Grand Central Station about 4:30 o'clock.
lsfi the tracks az 56th street the scene OF the
killing
The track on which the men had been Killed
vas no, opened AZ that time and all outbound
trains % the New York Central and the New
work New Haven Hartford Railroad were
tied UP.
In the Grand Central Station commuters We're
anxious over the delay. as among them the news
n the killing Of the men had been nnagniled
into great disaster, owing TO the refusal or the
ohcials 20 give any Information.
Superintendent Mccormick had gone 70 his
home. II was said az the station, and E. c. Smith.
superintendent OF the yards. was trying TO get
things straightened out outside. The people left
the train that had run of the tracks, and gave
The police already overtaxed, more trouble.
Tn TIE tracks about one hundred feet from
where the three men were killed is a signal
tower from which are displayed the signals for
an tracks The towermen declared that they
did not have a record OF the character OF the
trains that passed up about the time that the
men are supposed 10 have been killed. but those
familiar with the operation Of the road declared
this 10 be untrue.
one OF the said that light" engine
had gone UP the tracks about the time the men
were killed. He said that the engineer had found
that there was something wrong with his en-
CINE and had stopped IN the first light space
he had come to- perhaps three blocks from
where the men were killed.
Coroner shrady was indignant at the attitude
Of the New York Central officials. He found II
practically impossible 10 obtain any information,
and said that in his opinion attempt
being made 10 conceal the facts in order 10 pre-
vent knowledge OF the negligence Of the rail-
road becoming public. He denounced the rail-
road for its failure TO warn working in the
tunnel OF the approach OF trains by an efficient
system.
More arrests are likely 70 follow. as both the
coroner and the police are investigating the ac-
c!denj.