New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
IL" CRASH HURTS so
Hits another ON Third Avenue Rum
ming at Full Speed Doscn Grade.

More than fifty persons were more or less
seriously injured yesterday afternoon wheh
seven-car northbound Bronx Park Tram ran
bead-on into three car northbound 129th street
Third Avenue train at 1o1st street and Third
avenue The most seriously injured "eTe'
7orTnAS John No. 22s2 Second avenue. broken leg
internal injuries ~,
island. lacerations. head and hands
T,oNNFIIY Catherine, No. 81 Watts street. newark
T,o,4NrIJ5 KATHERINE. No. 217s Third avenue. in
Go1DBE2Rc. Henry, No 1895 Third avenue. injury to
knoll, Jacob. address unknown scalp wounds and
E1ETELMAN. David 500 East 14oth street. punc'urs
wKEEvER, Lizzie Unionport. n. r. l.cerations.
MOORE. Charles No. 2o7 East 1o4th street. cuts on
head and hands.
pr1rIIIPus, Fred De. No. aosa Third avenue. scalp
SHAW william address unknown possible internal in
juries
OF these Shaw, Bouman and Catherine Dom
nelly are In the Presbyterian Hospital.
1t was 4:2O O'Clock when train, composed
Of three cars running between City Hall and
18th street on the Third avenue elevated 1ine
with Matthew Kelly motorman, had drawn out
of the Goth street station and had approached
a. point Just south of 1O1st street when the
emergency brakes became locked and the train
came to standstill.
Before Kelly could send back one Of the train
Bronx Park train, crowded with nearly six
hundred passengers, coming down the grade
after leaving the Goth street station, crashed into
the rear car of the 10th street train. The I'M
nsct of the two coaches could be heard for many
blocks and no had the sound of the
splintering woodwork subsided than the air was
filed with frantic shrieks Of men. women ana
children who, imprisoned in the crowded cars,
were making terrified efforts to climb through
the windows and the doors
The force of the collision had jammed the first
car Of the rear train for nearly half of its
length into the rear coach of Kelly's train both
cars leaving the tracks, and the rear car, "hlch
had receved The full force of the crash, was left
ho,gine nart1v over the elevated structure, In a
perilous position
While the crowds in the coaches were battling
| their way out of the mass of humanity ana
wreckase some one passing in the street peio"
turned in an alarm of fire Within a few mln-
,tes Hook and Ladder Companies rs and lo
| were on the scene and quickly ran ladders UP
tn the tracks the firemen shouting TO the strus-
| cling passengers to take their time and they
| would be taken down to the street in safety.
| Many women and children. needless of this ad-
| Vie ran along the tracks. some to Chamber up
IN the pIatforn1 of the 99th street station, while
! others ran north to the 1oeth street station
| Still others, temporarily crazed by fear. at
+.ronted TO climb down the pillars Of the struct-
lre to the street
| SAFETY DEVICE WORKS.
| one element which might have caused far
more serious accident in the collision, the burn
| ing of the woodwork Of the trains by contact
/ with the third rail, was lacking. 1t so hap
| nened that when the crash came the shock OF
ths collision caused short circuit and this smut
| ofs the power from the deadly rail with the aid
4 Ie,rICe for n
| emergencies.
| simultaneously with the appearance OF the
| erenoen the reserves from three precincts-the
| E.s+ ssth street, the East 1O4th street and the
| East 126th street police stations-came down the
| ,.., IN the rum and for more than twenty
| .,;,,,ss .hev had fierce battle with the thou
| ,ds u,ho had turned out from the neighboring
| +arep,ents and were swarming about the street,
| ,n Imminent danger of being hit by pieces
| NJ the wreckage. much of which had fallen 10
the trolley tracks below
| .par ,emblance of order had been restored,
| evstematic search was begun Tor the more
| s.r,ousIv injured among the passengers by
| oa,s of the ladders the injured were conveyed
| IN the street and attended by q score OF ooctoIS
| from the Presbyterian and Harlem Hospitals.
| Drug stores and Railways were thrown open as
emergency wards.
| coon after the arrival of the police they placed
- uyIand motorman of the rear train, under
| arrest charged with malicious mischief "hlie
| Ia,r Endmsn the conductor on the same train'
| ,so held as a witness. Both men were
| - 90 the 1O3th street station and locked up.
| ,ryestigation by the police under the dl-
| Continued third page
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