New-York tribune., 1909-07-29
SURGERY In OPEN FIELD
WOMEN ASSIST DOCTORS.
Boys Leg Amputated While Cro7cd
of T1CO Thousand Looks On.

Thomas Carey, eighteen years DID, of No Psi
Gath street, Fort Hamilton. a brother-n-law of
George p. Duffy. who figured so prominently in
the events which led to the removal of Police
Commissioner Bingham several weeks ago, is
dying in the Kings County Hospital the result
of injuries he received by being struck by Man
haitian bound Bath Beach train last evening
Young Carey badly injured that ii was
necessary TO apputate his right leg as soon as he
taken from underneath the train. The opera
ton was performed in an open field by the
bulance surgeon from the Kings County Hospital.
DR.. Tenotype. assisted by Drs. Rothenberg and
Hansen. of Bath Beach It was also found that
Carey's left leg had been fractured and he had
received internal injuries
During the wait for the ambulance every out
going and incoming train stopped at the scene OF
the accident and in a few minutes there were
more than two thousand excited men and women
crowded about the PROSTATE form of the young
man. The crowd assumed such proportions that
the reserves from the Bath Bach police station
were summoned, and they were at once ordered
to form a great circle about Carey, under the
direction of Lieutenant Kennedy.
While the physicians working over the in
jured boy. Mrs. a. J. LosQuin, of NO 34o l4th
street, Brooklyn. and Miss Ruth Hazer, OF Egh-
teenth and Benson avenue Bath Beach,
stepped out from the crowd of spectators and
volunteered their services to aid young Carey
With the permission OF Lieutenant Kennedy the
women placed the boys head in their laps and sent
TO q drug store Tor cracked Ice. winch tlSS aP-
piled to his head. Despite the fact that their
dresses were covered with Careys blood they did
not shrink from the ordeal, and minisrered to him
until the arrival OF the ambulance surgeon from the
Kings County Hospital
AS soon the operation had been completed the
boy was rushed the Kings County Hospital.
where 1t is said that his condition is extremely
critical, and 1t is not considered possible that he
would survive the night. Just as Carey was being
lifted into the ambulance the Rev William j
"a fhT1fn n
Finbar on Bay Dist street, Bath Beach. admin
istered the last rites Of the Church.
Carey who drives a delivery wagon for a Brook
lyn firm. had Just driven his team Of horses on to
the eastbound tracks OF the Bath Beach line, on
Bay 18th street. when the train from the resort,
TANNED with passengers. came through the narrow
that point. Careys view of the tracks was
shut off by intervening trees and buildings. and
he made no attempt TO hurry, as he walked his
team across the tracks.
Just as the horses got to the centre ~ the tracks
the swiftly moving train appeared without warn
ing. The boy must have seen the impending catas-
trophe too late even TO attempt to save himself
for while he still gazed at the first car. as though
fascinated his wagon was struck and hurled almost
a hundred feet up the track Carey was thrown
directly under the front trucks of the hrst car his
body being jamrned between the wheels and the
brakes. and dragged for fully fifty feet
The women and children who nled the car in
stantly became panicstricken. and many Of them
tainted while others covered their faces with their
hands. in order to shut out the distressing sight
The train guards ran through the length OF the
six-car train shouting TO all 10 keep their seats
and restraining many hysteTical women from
ping the open
In the height of this confusion. some sent
in call for Fire Truck 143 at SSth street which
was the scene in three minutes The hremen
Immediately began to jack up the trucks OF the
front car. and thus managed to get Careys body
from beneath the wheels
While the physicians we're awaiting 'he arrival
an ambulance they asked Carey bis name and
address, and in shis way it learned that the
boy is the Of Policeman James Carey % the
Fort Hamilton station. and that his sister. Mar
garet {. Carey married George Duffy. Young
Carey was an usher at his sisters wedding
Duffy and is one of the latter's closest friends.
The motorman Of the train Henry Hartman. ~
No. 39s Hull street. Brooklyn. arrested
charged with feonious assault.