The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-04
Van SIDEWIPES TROLLEY CAR.
SCORE SCRlPED OFF RUNNING
BOARD AND BADLY INJURED.
Passengers on Crowded Concy Island Car
Thrown into Panic by the Accident
The Horses Attached to the Van
We're Browsing Beside the Track.

We're Browsing Beside the Track.
Six persons were badly hurt and a score
OF others more or less injured. when a
trolley car bound for Coney Island side
wiped a moving van at Browns Jump,
a little settlement in the centre OF the
meadows between Timer Park and Coney
Island, at ! O'Clock last night.
The car was packed and jarsmed with
people on their way to the seaside resort,
and twenty men were standing on the
running board and clinging to the brass
upright ratings on the side Of the car.
The rear of the moving van stuck out along
side of the track and these twenty men
we're swept off in a heap. That more were
not seriously injured is due to the fact that
those on the rear part of the car heard the
warning cries in time 70 jump.
The badly injured were:
BURKE. JoHN. 40 years Old Of BAY Forty third
street. Timer Park fractured Jaw two ribs broken
and Internal iaiurles.
BURKE MICHAEL. a. years old, a brother Of John
and living at the same address. Commissions Of the
legs. arms and body and probable Internal injuries,
KANE. MICHAEL, 80 years old. Of ia summit
street. Brooklyn; contuslonS OF the legs sides and
back and internal injuries.
SHERWOOD, JAMES A.. % years old. OF AS DcKalb
avenue. Brooklyn: Internal injuries and severe con.
tusiOnS OF the left arm and side.
SwANsTROM J. p, q years old. OF a. Ovlngton
avenue. Ray Ridge. INJURIES to side and back The
doctors at the Reception Hospital, Concy Island,
hink that his back Is broken
wYcKoVF, FRED 10 years old. ofIl Bay sixteenth
street. Bath Beach: back broken two ribs f-Ac-
tured and Internal Injuries
All of these injured were removed To the
Reception Hospital, in Coney Island. -Four
ambulance surgeons who were summoned
to the scene OF the accident treated many
others suffering from slight cuts and bruises.
They went to their homes before the police
could get their names.
The moving van that caused all the
trouble was the property of Daniel Rear
don of l55 Bay FOrty-third street, Timer
Park. He was moving the effects Of a family
that had been living in one of the huts in
the squatter settlement at Browns Jump.
The wagon had been loaded and while
Reardon was quibbling over the price for
the moving with the family in the house
the team attached to the van wandered
away and browsed alongside the car tracks.
This is the West End line Of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company, and the trolley
cars from the Thirty-ninth street ferry
running TO Concy Island lse this line from
Bay Nineteenth street. Bath Beach, to the
island. At the point where the accident
occurred there l. a curve, and, 10 make
matters worse, there is a thick group of
pine trees just at the west end of the curve.
Motorman John Hanson of the trolley
car did not see the van until he was right
on top of il, and, therefore, could not put
on the brakes in time to avoid tho smash.
The car was travelling at a high rate of
speed. The end Of the van stuck out over
the edge of the ties just enough TO
cause it TO wipe along the side of the car.
IL is estimated that there were l25 persons
on the car all told.
The cries and groans of the injured as
they were lammed into "A mass caused a
panic on the car. Many that were safe
inside and could not see what bad hap
penad became excited and jumped out
the other side. In this way some were
slightly injured. None of those inside the
car who kept to their seats was injured IN
the least, except that several women tainted.
A more desolate place for an accident
could hardly be found around New York.
There was no place to take the injured and
no telephones within a mile of the spot.
A car bound west came along shortly after
the accident Isand the motorman Of il sent
it along at terrific speed to Timer Park,
where a telephone was found and the
Brooklyn police headquarters notified.
Four ambulances were ordered TO the
scene. two from the Norwegian Hospital
in Bay Ridge and two from the Reception
Hospital in Coney Island. All Of the am
ulances brought extra surgeons. who
treated the slightly injured on the ground,
while the others bundled the badly injured
into the ambulances and hurried with them
10 the Coney Island hospital. The re-
| serves of the Bath Beach police station
| rests. as they were convinced that the
motorrnan Of the car was in no way TO
blame for the accident.
The moving van and contents were COM
pletely wrecked, but the horses attached
10 the Jig escaped injury. Being freed from
the harness, they galloped over the mead
ows. Their owner, Reardon, was still
searching for the m at a late hour.