The evening world., 1908-03-12
SEVEN MEN HURT
! BY TROLLEY CARS,
TWO May DIE
5ne Victim Buried Half an
Hour Unier Wreckage of
Smashed Wagon.
THE MOTORMAN LEES.
another Man Pinned Under
Car-Many Passengers Cut
by Broken Glass.

Speeding trolley cars in three acc!-
Gents caused iria"ics Of serious ma
fure to seven men early to-day, be-
u3des hurts % a minor nature to nu-
snerous passengers when windows were
Nroken AMI glass tumbled about their
heads.
The injured men are:
Herman PHucEer. Of No. 40 West
Forty-nfth street. driver for the
National Exprcss Company. Cut
about the head and bncI< in n col
ision nj Forty-sevcnth street and
Sixth nvenue.
Morris LeNinson. of No. 1910
First avenue. PflueEer's helper.
Internally injured and cuts about
the hend. VIII die.
Walter Barry, of No. 334 West
Tort.-seventh street. Also helper
to PflucEcr. had scalp wounds.
John Wilson, of No. 32O West For
tfcth street, driver for JOhn white
4 Sons. wholesnle butchers. Cut
about the head. back and legs in
q collision mt Fifty-fifth street
and Sixth avenue.
Robert Dolan. of No. 33f West
Nineteenth street. Wilson's help
er. Cut about the face and head
Patrick Thnlheimcr, motorman
Ot the cnr that hit Wilson'S wnS-
on. Cuts about the head. face ana
hands.
John Mccarthy, of No. 1855 Ann
sterdnm avenue. Run down while
Hundred and Thirty-iif,h street,
and pinned under the cnr. Ex-
pected To die.
The FIRST accident is declared TO have
been due solely TO the recklessness Of
q motorman who was coming down
Sixth avenue at breakneck speed.
Dicn't Stop Car.
Fo-ty-seventh street is tire-engine
street. and all cars are supposed to
stop before crossing Il. Phueger. driv-
dng two horses TO wagon loaded with
trunks. was going west and supposed
that the car would stop. Instead. the
car came on with tremendous speed.
When the motorman saw an accident
vas inevitable lie leaped from his plat
6orrn and sprinted toward Broadway.
The car struck the wagon in the CEN
ire threw the horses down and pinned
khe wagon and Its contents against an
elevated pillar after pushing the wreck
hDlf a block. Pfkueger and Barry were
thrown clear of the wreckage, but
a.svinson was pinned under the trunks
and broken wagon. The horses also lay
Struexling in the wreckage.
PnueTer and Barry were both uncon-
fhA
<.r. No one knew that Lev!nson was
snder the wreck until he screamed
"For Gods sake. got me out of here
~ hin me- can't stand this pain"
p>ao down under the pile of trunks
.rd the twisted wagon Levinsons head
could Be seen. The passengers tried to
,suoove the trunks and wagon, but their
serength was not equal to 1t. The
vrsoking wagon came and began the
work Of rescue. DR.. Cartnel. a surgeon
nom Roosevelt Hospital. pushed his
way IN among the trunks and admin
htred morphine TO Levinson while the
vreoksrs worked. Levinson was under
he trunks and wagon half an hour.
Two Other Accidents.
The wgecking wagon was still busy
when thsre came a call for 1t to go to
Fifty-dfth street and Sixth avenue.
where Wilson's wagon had been run
down by a northbound car.
The motorman, Thalhemer, stuck to
his post. or the second accident might
have been as serious as the first AS 1t
was. the wagon was wrecked and the
car badly damaged.
The third accident caused a block on
the Eighth avenue cars for half an
hour while the wreckers were jacking
up the trucks to get at Mccarthy.
While the car pinned him down Nc
Carthy suffered intensely. He was hur-
vied to Harlem Hospital.