The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-18
Derrick on Flat Car Strikes
Bridge Over Tracks at
Thirty-third Street.
FALLS ON THE WORKMEN
Great Crowd Assemblies in the
Street and the Reserves
Have to Be Called.

Because somebody wofuliy Numbered
two men were dashed to death and two
more so badly hurt that they may die
In a strange accident that occurred to-
day on the Sixth avenue elevated lire
at Thirty-third street where Broadway
crosses.
lowed south on a fiat car carrying tue
members of a repair crew struck the
hanging bridge that crosses the struc-
ture proper and connects the two plat
forms of the Thirty-third street station.
Crashing downward. the heavy timber
did instant. deadly work among the
twelve men on the moving fiat car.
The dead are:
HENRY BAUMAN, No. 2o5 Convent
avenue.
CARL HEINRICH No 1909 Second
avenue.
The injured are:
MARTIN COSTELLO, No. 402 East
One Hundred and Forty-siXth street
left side crushed and arm broken: seri-
Gus: removed to Bellevue.
THOMAS NOLAN. No. 2l2 East Nine
ty-tfth street; limbs crushed and inter
nal injuries: probably fatally hurt; re-
moved to Bellevue.
Seen by Many Shoppers.
The tragedy. occurring as 1t did in
the centre of the shopping and theatre
district. WAS Witnessed BY hundreds Of
men and women. Both the platforms
t.l OF trsv
for passenger trains when a tool car
under Its own motive power came sail
liz down the south track at a good rate
OF speed. In the wake of the tool car
were two fats bringing a force OF men
from the Harlem yards to do "A job Of
track mending further downtown.
The derrick which was to be used in
swinging heavy material, stood upright
in the middle OF the rear fiat car
with its boom hanging like the stuinpy
mainmast OF a stumpy craft. The work
men In their Jumpers and overalls were
mainly sitting in row on the edge Of
the second fiat with their feet dangling.
Whoever was responsible for the LASH
Ing OF the derrick to the fiat forgot how
closely the "cross-over"-as the Inter
borough people call it-overhangs the
tracks which 1t spans. The tool car. of
course. passed under the covered bridge
but the top OF the derrick smashed
against It with crash that could be
heard for blocks.
Crashes Down on the Men.
But a worse thing was happening I'M
derneath. The derrick broke part way
from its floor lashings and came hurt
ling down with a s!dewise swing, like a
huge fail, among the stunned and
startled repair gang.
Two of them-Bauman and Heinrich
never knew what hit them. Their bodies
were lifted off the fiat by the Irresistible
swing of the big stick and fell on the
track in the wake of the repair train.
Nolan and Costello, hit with a glancing
blow, tumbled over among their fell
lows,
The broken boom OF tho derrick fell
toward the east Just In time TO swIpe
tho side OF northbound passenger
train OF nve cars and rip every window
out OF the rear coaeh. Luckily for the
passengers none OF them sat on the
inner side Of the car.
Big Crowd Assemblies.
Almost instantly. 1t seemed, the plat
forms. the stairways leading up from
the street and the streets below were
filled with an excited crowd, liCh grew
until inside Of minute or two II num-
bered thousands Deputy Fire Chief
Langford heard the crash as he sat in
his Office In the engine house on Thirty
third street, just oil sixth avenue lie
came in his shirt sleeves, bringing with
him the men OF the engine company.
The nremcn helped three or four patrol
men 10 hold the crowd in check until
the reserves from the Yend"rioin station
arrived and took the situation in hand.
w. Schlagle. the foreman in charge OF
the repair gang, vanished, but the unin-
jured survivors Of the crew attended 10
their dead and wounded comrades until
two ambulances came from the hospital,
bearing Drs, McRae and I.ackey. The
bodies Of Bauman and Heinrich were
placed In the south waiting room until
the coroner arrived. The ambulance
surgeons. after attending 10 a lot OF hys
terical women. took Nolan and Costello
to Bellevue.
The firemen, the policemen and the In
terborough people did a quick job ,n
clearing up the wrecksge. Within fvt
minutes the north track was open
MHnin twenty minutes the south traC ~
MAS also cleared for regular trufiiC.
The mOtorman ~ the repair train
Gustav Zweil OF No. eO5 West one Hun
dred and foriy-ninth street, went g.
the station house az prisoner, charged
TECHNICALLY with homicide
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