New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-12
RUNS INTO DEAD TRAIN
FORTY HURT IN IL" CRASH.
B. r.. Il. Motorman, Blamed by Of
fcials, Dies on Way to Hospital.

In a rear-end collision on the Myrtle avenue IL"
road in Brooklyn. at 1880 o'clock yesterday after
noon, motorman was killed and about forty pas
sengers injured. On the straightaway stretch
of upgrade track between the Vanderbilt avenue
and Navy street stations. George Koellner. the
motorman, drove a well filled three car cypress
Hills train past the waving red flag of frantic
guard and into stalled string of six empty cars
Koellner's skull crushed and he died on the
way to the Cumberland Street Hospital. He lived
No. 20 Palmetto street.
The injured
ABATTER Gaspard twenty-three years old No 143
Hamburg avenue. conclusion of the brain; cumber-
land Street Hospital.
BERGER. Moarty. fftysi1 years old. No 75s Decatur
street. decorations Of forehead: Cumberland street
BRADLEY, Rose, years old. No. $50 De KaIb
avenue, scalp wound taken home
broadway, cuts and contusions; home.
CANNELI4A. Samuel twenty-nine years old; No 29s4
Atlantic avenue internal injuries: Cumberland street
cossEY Marion nineteen years old S No 7aS chaunoey
COSTELLO. James, twenty-one old. No, 416
Chauncey and bruises; Cumberland Street
DoNNELLY. Edward. twene-four years old. No. S12
Stockton street cuts and bruises; taken home
s nseed old and No internal
Cumberland 1rIo street Hospital '1 '--'-'''0
TsdoT street Of the face cumSerani
Street Hospital.
street cuts bruises and shock taken home 1'-0''
M os b1 ss R4oayn Old os9 HS 's
avenue. cut by glass; Cumberland Street Hospital.
1 street Ses Of head a6 S SG N aa lS hd@s
@ M ia sfs Ra MG $50 'ad
KIRsCH Louis thrtyOps years old No $50 Hinsdae
of back and head; Cumberland Street Hospital.
W I'll se 6as sen oo2 0d S so Elton
81 Macon street Commissions: taken home w.
RISE and h5ssa yf sF.D old home No 50 Catherine
ROBERTSON David B. twen a. years old No s64
ROBINSON sias. thrty-three years old. No. 1863
ferson avenue. broken; Brooklyn Hospital.
Nj shock r cox No 1
sfTERATT Mrs N thirty-three years old Ferris street
Brooklyn Manor. injuries to hip back and legs;
green Avenue cuts on face and hands: taken home
Of face 2d home i0'
M M Street cuts S56 Srnas, I9o old
Hospital. 'O'- ''9'' ri'OA-S"
Many others injured on the street below by
flying glass and splinters. They were treated by
surgeons from the Cumberland and Brooklyn hos
pitfalls.
Both the passengers in the train and the inspec-
OF the Rapid Transit company placed the blame
for the collision Koellner. There nothing to
obstruct MS view OF the train of six empty
which had been stopped by Kennealey, the motor
nl6n, on It's way 10 the treSn Pon0 ROAD yar0S so
that member of the crew might extingush a small
fire burning the ties William Fuchs.
guard sent back with danger flag, but
neither his activity in giving warning Koellner
the presence Of the long train at standstill
ahead was needed by the unfortunate motornan.
Had he been watching the track ahead Il was
said by the inspectors Koeliner could have the
stalled train for minutes before the crash came
They believe ne watching the workmen the
approach to the monument of the prison ship
1X-rS bpiO n nj The slO of Fort
Greene Park No other satisfactory theory has been
advanced for his failure TO notice the train ahead
When the flying front of the Cypress Hills
train ripped through the empty car the heavy
forward motor shot ahead scing through the
wooden work and burying itself in the splintered
mass TO which the rear of the "Iayup" train
reduced Passengers hurled from their
seats and fell in tangled heaps the floor. The
hysterical cries frightened and injured women
added TO the confusion Of breaking glass, crumbing
woodwork and the binding flashes OF electricity a
portions of the swaying trains bent and finally
severed the third rail. BY the greatest of good
fortune. of the tumbled into the street
below.
When the third rail split with a heavy detona-
tion fire alarm sent IN. F1remen, policemen
from the Classon avenue station and the phys
clans from the hospitals arrived about the
time and the work of rescue under way.
The Il structure reached by ladders. One
OF the fremen found Koellner unconscious in the
motornan's cab.
DR.. Pierce Of the Cumberland Street Hospital,
had a difficult time with Silas Robinson, OF No.
1859 Jefferson avenue, aged messenger for the
Union Bank. who his way from the main
branch Of the bank. in the Temple Bar Building,
to the branch in Broadway, Williamsburg, with
$4,000 in checks in satchel. He was rendered
unconscious by the collision. and when he came to
and found that his satchel gone he went into
Mysteries and two men were required TO hold him.
He was finally quieted, and half hour after the
accident the satchel, with all the checks, was
restored him by Patrolman Thomas Green. OF
the Classon avenue station.
A crowd gathered and watched the the
work of went on. The trains lying
the highest point Of the line, and physicians. po-
licemen and iremen were cambering up the tall
ladders and assisting and women down the
fraiI supports TO the street.
All the wreckage had been cleared away and
traffic was resumed the line at 4:30 p. IN.
In a statement issued by the company II
said that a careful examination of the by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit's equipment inspectors
failed to reveal any defect in the equipment, and
that an employe who riding In the
said that the air brake not applied.