The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

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A oes ~, lrrsl train ~ M sas H~seh
nrs approaching C,nev ialaHd Yesterday
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,iu~ ss'tias tho polr hack Neither Ne nor
James wuhiFson tho motptmHn thought
~ o. bach With = Hae ~ krep N the thirty
mite IN hour esprr-s trains
Around tho curve camc such = train,
through FROM Nov Yuth, driven by James
wilkinson " w Nichulss avenue. Cypress
HlIs H. prolably thought that the car
around tho cirv" was coming on the o'hcr
track A. any rate. be did not stack Until
nr wa nearly an ". Thrn he reversed
nut 'ho express smashed into the local,
blcaling tho platforms " both cars and
smashing the woodwork ~ tho local for
al.ou, ten feet The conductor ~ the local
qul, monkeying with his trolley and Jumped
ips, In time. The strength Of his cage
"a vcd Motornan Wilkinson. But thu pas
sengcrs u both wrecked cars we're tumbled
In every direction.
Tho passengers had no sooner piled out
than they heard groans from the wreckage.
They pulled away a few loose boards, saw
a man dressed az a laborer, and pulled him
out. His legs were horribly mangled and
he was practically unconscious Three
or four women, more shocked than other
xise hurt. were stretched out on the grass
beside him. AT about hat time the wreck
age caught fire. A few buckets Of water
from the creek stopped that.
The regular forces Of relief on their
vay to the wreck had many adventures.
The ne VS. az il came to the Coney Island
police station had il that six or seven people
we're killed. The patrol wagon was hurried
out. A II struck Surf avenue, lodging the
Saturday afternoon crowd, IL got tangled
I'D with a trolley car. The car got out Of the
way and the ambulance started mp, TO run
plump into three confused women. huddied
in the middle Of the street. The driver
pulled his team to their launches, but they
knocked over Mrs. Helen Carlson. Her
right leg was broken.
The ambulance from the Emergency
Hospital and the emergency wrecking
wagon, both tearing to the scene, met at a
street corner head on. The ambulance
was the lighter. Over the bank 1t went
with Driver Nobb and DR.. Rayner. The
dxiMaR-Sskasa ten feet down the bank,
sktnning himself pretty well all over. DR..
Rayner had several ribs broker He
patched up his driver and proceeded to the
wreck in the launch Govan, the ambulance
being knocked out.
DR.. John W. Pierce "a far down the
creek when he heard the news. He jumped
into a launch and arrived with DR.. Rayner.
=, They found the unknown laborer in a bad
way. DR.. Rayner decided to operate at
once and amputated the woret leg. The
man was too far gone, however, and died
soon. Nothing on him pointed to his iden-
tfty except a meal ticket made out TO George
Forman. He had no money In his pocket.
He was standing on the back platform OF
the local when the train struck.
DR.. Pierce found a young man cut about
\ tbs head, sitting with his arms about a
very pale and sick young woman.
"You need attention" said the doctor
sTake care Of her FIRST ga d the man.
sShe's engaged to marry me-
/ She is Miss Erne Liddell Of Newark and
he Ia W. o. Mcdowell Of 81 Liberty street.
New York. He ives in Newark. She
: appeared to be much shaken up and to be
j injured internally. He was bruised all
; over and his skull was slightly fractured.
. The regular hush -em-up emergency outf
Of the B.. r. T. was on hand early, and
~:smuggled away q good many OF the slightly
! hurt. The rest were piled back into the
express, whose trolley was still working,
and the train, pushing the local car, which
had been lacked back on the track, moved
on to Coney Island after twenty minutes.
The invalids were transferred to the Coney
Island hospital.
About twenty people got bruises and cuts.
The most seriously hurt are az follows:
Albert Jensen. rs Forsythe street, Man
haitian: arm broken.
James A. Brown. Jersey City Heights;
broken ribs.
Nathan Praschutz. 22s McKibben street.
Brooklyn, scalp cut.
Maurice Marjohn, same address. badly
bruised.
MIR. and Mrs. Michael scully. 40 Dean
street, Brooklyn. both cut about the face
and head and hurt internally.
SECOND REAR END COLLISION.
About three hour later a Culver line
train running on Gravesend avenue smashed
into q Reid avenue open car near the Neck
road in Gravesend. The Reid avenue car
had slipped it's trolley and just ahead Of
it was an open car Of the Nostrand avenue
line in the same fix. The motorman OF
the Culver line train, John McManus, either
m~isoalculated his distance or was unable
to stop after he had caught sight OF the
disabled car, and the train butted the Reid
avenue car with considerable force.
The blow sent the Reid avenue car ahead
and il in turn crashed into the Nostrand
avenue oar. The collision was sufficient
to orumple up the platforms Of both cars.
No one was hurt on the train and most OF
those injured were on the Reid avenue
car, which was sandwiched In between
the train and the Nostrand avenue oar