The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-11
MOTORMAN CRUSHED.
STUCK TO his POST AND WAS
PINNED UNDER BRIDGE CAR.

Brakes Gave Out as HIs Car Rolled Down
Manhattan End slope Early Yester.
day Morning MANY Persons More or
Less Hurt In Collision with Stalled Car.
A closed car Of the Bergen street line be-
came unmanagable at the Manhattan end
Of the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday morning
at 6:35 o'clock because OF a defective brake
and started down the incline toward Park
row. Motornan Julius Scharf, when he
found the brake would not work, turned
OF his power. He signalled the conductor
to apply the brake on the rear platform.
Scharff threw all his strength into a final
effort on the brake, but the car, gathering
speed, went on down the grade.
Then Scharf reversed the power. The
fuse blew out and the car raced on. II was
thronged with passengers, nearly all men
and boys, and as they saw that there was
going to be a collision with a stalled open
Court street car ahead they made for tho
rear door.
The Court street car was also damned
with passengers, and directly ahead Of it,
Park avenue car.
oCuAII Jukkou ILtllully ~ LIC urtlc5H
brake and stuck to his post. His car, with
a crash that could be heard a block away,
rammed the rear platform Of the Court
street car. The platform Of SoharT's car
and the rear platform Of the Court street
car we're shattered and twisted and Scharff
wa tumbled out and pinned under the
wreckage.
The front OF the Court street car was
crushed against the rear platform Of the
Park avenue car. In the scramble for
safety from the closed cars many were
injured. Richard Driscoll, motorman Of
the Court street car. was thrown over the
dashboard, but not seriously hurt. Passen-
gers VINO we're badly injured were either
standing on the front platform OF the Park
avenue car OF on the rear platform and run
ming boards of the Court street car.
Koundsman Mullarkey and Policemen
Schillip, Ryan. Dorsey and Meehan Of the
bridge squad helped half a dozen men out
of the wreokage and assisted many who
had fallen after jumping from the cars.
TWO ambulances were sent from the Hud-
son street hospital to take care Of the
wounded. DR.. Leslie crawled under the
twisted and interlocked platforms Of the
Bergen and Court street cars, where Motor
TiSbt Leg crushed and his EFT leg broken, and
administered hypodermic injections OF NOR
The police. assisted by civilians, made
strenuous but vain efforts to bodily lift the
rear OF the Court street car from the motor
man. A truck from Brooklyn then came
along and Roundsman Mullarkey ordered
the driver to unhitch, explaining that he
wanted the truck pole to pry OF the car.
The pole made. q 1ne lever and the rear
platform Of the Court street car was prted
on Scharff and he was taken out and re-
moved to the hospital. His right leg was
amputated above b knee. He has small
chance OF recovery.
The only other person seriously injured
was Charles Romer, a machinist OF 81 Fair
view place, Brooklyn, a passenger on the
Court street car, whose right leg was broken.
He also was taken TO the Hudson Street
hospital, but later removed 10 his home.
Nine others who were injured we're at
tended by Drs. Leslie and Bryant in a room
ION the south side OF the bridge entrance.
They were all able TO go home unattended.
Michael Mclean. conductor ofvthe Court
street car, was arrested, but was discharged
later In the Tombe court BY Magistrate
Cornell, who bad his chiafi clerk notify
Scharff, who was taken,a prisoner telthe
hoapitai, that there was no ocfnnlaIht
Tie accident blocked trolley tfxfaS On
the north roadway about forty minutes.