New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-17
RIOT CAUSES 81" WRECK
THREESCORE INJURED.
Collision Due to Drunken Italians
Coming from Feast.

NaleQ trains last night, injuring threescore or
persons and probably killing at least one man.
The accident occurred at the platform of the
lOGth street station. The motorman of a South
Ferry train started to set his brakes to give d
hve-car City Hall train a chance to pull out or
the station, but the rioting Italians smashed his
little booth and pinned him in so that the brakes
could not be set. The trains crashed together
in front of the station platform, smashing the
platforms and doors of the two cars which
came in contact. the trucks OF both cars being
lifted clear of the tracks.
THE INJURED
BEGLow. NJ. sixteen. No. - Grand street; contusions
BIETRo Salvatore twenty-three No 437 112th
BILLoNE. Rose fourteen No. S25 East 2sth street
BoRZIO. Cornelius No 40 North Portland avenue.
Brooklyn; both legs amputated.
street; cuts and bruises; taken home.
CHRIST Charles. sixteen No 141 Mott street. in
DALEDERAT. James thrty-nlne no address: bruises;
taken TO Presbyteria Hospital
DEMARdA s,dt Maria No. Broad street. s'apletoRS
Broadway. Brooklyn: bruises about the body anu
DEEoNE Michael. SIX same address; internal injuries
badly bruised
FLoRIo, sanO twenty-eisht. No. 800 11th
fractured thigh: Flower Hospital
LACSE Clarence. twenty-six Cornelia street.
Brooklyn; both legs severed at the knee.
''I1tN FTeuerlck NO $50 Mott street. bruises
LoRiA seya twenty-eisht No 500 East 11th street.
LUTz Mrs C. J.. thirty-slx No 331 East 5lst street
street. Brooklyn: eft foot broken 'O
MARIO. John. twenty No 33o East 11th street
ured. Harlem Hospital
MIRALDO, Rose jorty-he No 7 Broad street Stable
ton Staten Island
MoNTRANo. Amelia. sixteen. No "a West Houston
street: loft leg bruised
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bruises about head; Flower Hospital
REQ Angelo. twenty-four No. 217 Brunt street
RossI0 Frank. twenty. No 1S5 Mott street: left leg
TANG Edward. twenty three. No 1905 Third avenue
Valerie. John thirty-nine No. 10 North Elliott
street Brooklyn' contusions OF back and head in
VALARIo. Jennie, thirty-nne, No 10 North Elliott
YARRI Jennie. twelve No 227 Van Brun. street
brooklyn
NEkLoNA Annie. seventeen. No. Nacdougal street
Women and children were trampled under
foot as the Italians fought for egress through
doors and windows. They punched gouged and
claWed their way 10 the open air. women and
children losing clothes and hats In tho mad
scramble. Every window In the two trains was
shattered. and tho flying glass flung loose into
the mob cut probably every person on board.
Many were flung TO the floor by the impact. and
they were trodden relentlessly under foot by the
panicstrIcken Italians
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rcscuing party frightened the story of the cow
ardice displayed by tho Italians. Or. Bsstor
and DR.. Case, of Flower Hospital. found Cor
neus Borzio, of No. 40 North Portland avenue
Brooklyn. hanging between the platform OF the
cars. The flashes of the short circuited contact
rail- were playing around him. but the rescuers
lodged in and got him 10 place of safety. His
legs had 10 be amputated at Flower Hospital
The crash OF the collision was heard for two
or three blocks and the cries of the injured and
tho shrieks OF the merely frightened could be
heard twice as far Fire and police alarms We're
sent in, and ambulanCcs summoned from Har-
lem. Bellevue, Presbyterian and Flower hos
pitfalls
More than score were found 10 be badly
injured that they had TO be sent TO the hospital
while there was scarcely who had suf-
fered some minor injury Both men and women
were helpless from fright and hysteria The
merely hysterical women were shaken quickly
into their senses by the surgeons. and they gave
their attention 10 the injured
Clarence Lause. of No. 200 Cornelia street.
Brooklyn, may die from shock and loss OF blood.
He was found hanging head down between the
two car Platforms his legs crushed through
where the two platforms had come together The
surgeons finished the work of amputating them
and rushed him TO the Harlem Hospital
In addition TO the police from all the upper
East Side stations and the Alexander ave
nue. station. in The Bronx. the work OF rescue
aided by the crew of Engine 20. which ran
ladders up TO the station. and the wounded were
handed down the ladders and down the narrow
stairways of the station
Inspector Dillon had two hundred men there q
few minutes after he had learned of the acct
dent. and between beating back the gang which
came down from the italian quarter and aiding
in the work of rescue, IL was the hardest night
they have had for months. The Italians full
OF cheap wine and Whiskey. swept down Third
avenue like avalanche. and for minute or
overran everything. Inspector Dillon took
fifty OF his men away from the wreck and told
them clean the street This they did quickly
sending a dozen more OF the more turbulent
TO the station house.
More arrests would have been made but the
police were anxious TO get TO work at the wreck
for the screams and means growing in
volume Nearly all those In the forward and
rear cars of tho two trains were penned in
scarcely able to move, and entirely unable TO get
out. Gangs of them in the other cars who had
not got out in the first rush were fighting to
climb through the windows. but the policemen
drove them back with their nghtsticks.
The injured were taken out first thanks to the
efficient work OF the police As fast they
could be lifted from the cars they were taken out
and laid on the station platform, where the sur
geons gave temporary relief and separated the
badly wounded from the merely cut and fright
ened. In such cases as were necessary the pa
tients were rushed down TO the street and into
the ambulances through blockade of ambu-
lance chasing lawyers and railroad claims agents
who seemed TO have sprung FROM the very stones
of the streets.
The seriously injured were all carried down
the shoulders OF the patrolmen. The flremen,
under Joe OConnor. OF Engine Company 20.
chopped the way clear with axes and hooks and
pulled many out of the wreckage.
On their arrival the police sought TO arrest
William /. Williams. OF No 1911 Clinton avenue.
The Bronx and Patrick Devereaux. Of No. 4OS
East 137th street. motorman and conductor. re-
spectively of the second train After they had
hunted around for him Williams appeared vol
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