The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-02
CAR RUNS AWAY, MANY HURT.
DASHES DOWN STEEP GRANT
AND rs WRECKED. 4

Baby Killed ana More ThsD . Score a
PasseDEers Injured Tho Brake Block
Gave way on fine HlIl Struck Curve
ct Full speed Auto ~ Ambulance.
A closed trolley car Of the Yonkers line,
Bound north, was smashed almost 20 find
ers last evening at the base Of a steep in
cline in Lincoln Park. a suburb OF Yonkers,
and a seven-months old baby was killed,
several passengers were seriously injured
and more than a score cut and bruised.
About fifty persons were aboard the car.
filling IL to its standing room capacity.
Motorman Andrew ". Ulichnv, when he
found the car gathering unusual speed
going down the hill, after he had applied
the brake gently, started to jam II on 20 the
limit.
The handle merely whirlsd inene0tively
In his hand. He then reversed the power
hoping to check tho speed. The momentum
of the heavily weighted car was so greatthat
nothing could stop IL then. and the motor
man stuck to his post and prepared for the
worst. He had a faint hope, he said, that
the car would hold the track even at the
base Of the hill, where there IL a sharp curve
called the Horseshoe, the track after the
turn nearly paralleling itself for several
hundred feet. The strange feature OF the
accident was that nearly all the passengers
were unaware Of their danger, although all
were startled by the high speed Of the I'M
comfortable car.
On the enclosed front platform with the
motorman was a former motorman, Orren
Charlton, who said the oar was making
about sixty miles an hour down the grade.
He also had a hope that it would take the
curve without being dersiled and made
no attempt to save himself.
The moment it struck the curve the car
ploughed into the macadamized roadw ay
and tore along 200 feet on its two left hand
wheels at an angle of 45 degrees. Then 1t
toppled on the New York bound track
and all the superstructure went to pieces
like an eggshen. II was about $50 O'Clock
and the traffic was heavy in both directions.
There are few dwellings in the neighbor-
hood, brt folks ga ger to help ran from every
enc Of them. ANTS. Toy brought bandages
and somebody 10 the crowd that collected
later stole her watch. The first of thirteen
cars stalled by the wreckage on the track
was emptied in a iify OF its passengers,
who went to work taking the screaming
men, women and children from the tangle
of wood and iron. More than a dozen
were unconscious.
The first car that came along on the north
bound track was turned into an ambulance.
William Perot of Broadway, Yonkers,
speeding nome IN MIS- AUTO, bJOppSu duu LOOk
aboard four patients. He was permitted
10 iolat the speed law after turning his
auto load over TO the doctors and nurses
OF st. Joseph's Hospital. He dashed back
again and got others. A feed wagon was
also impressed into service, and the new
patrol wagon Of the Yonkers police, on duty
FOR the first time, took the rest Of the Grip
Piled either to their homes or to hospital.
After the police and the hospital doctors
had time to make out a list Of casualties they
found that only one passenger had been
killed, the seven-months-o sold child OF Mrs.
Barlach of 1871 NeppeThan avenue, Non-
kerE. The mother Is badly hurt about the
head. John Venogrocksky of Hastings
and a Mr.. Shaft Of Honkers may have
fractured skulls. Others who were taken
10 hospitals, are: Mrs. Henry Laverick
of l13 Ludlow street, Ionkers, broken
shoulder and commissions.
Mrs. Flannerv of South Broadway, lon-
kern. internal injuries; Mrs. Thomas Hard
ing and her daughter Margaret Of 81 JEFF
ferson street, Tonkers and Mrs. Ethelbert
Ewing Of 20 Ashburton avenue,
About fifteen OF the injured were taken to
st. Joseph's Hospital. The rest were at
tended by the hospital doctors and went
TO their homes.
Capt. Woodruff of the Yonkers police
made an examination Of the brake bar
OF the car and found that il was much worn
at the point where it had parted. TIN motor
man said he did not know what part OF
the brake gear had given away, but he
knew that something had parted that made
II impossible for him to stop the car. Be
ing on an open platform he jumped when
the car toppled and vas not hurt.