The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-04
SIX KILLED
0NNEWYORK
CENTRAL By
GIANT MOTOR
Drawing Train at 20 Miles an
Hour 1t Crashes Into
LaborerS.
SEVENTH VICTIM DYING.
Foreman Arrested and Railroad
Officials Ordered to Pro-
duce the Engineer
SEVENTH VICTIM DYING.

The lives OF ak section hands az work
on the New York Central tracks, along
side the Harlem River, at University
Heights were snuffed ont in a moment
this afternoon by ono Of the great elec-
tric locomotives OF the system, Another
man was fatally injured and still four
others were painfully hurt.
The dead men are: P. Pozsella, E.
Railopiano, n. Barboro and F, Porella,
all Of No 2S North Main street, Yon-
niue, Yonkers. and n. Pierro, OF Albany
avenue, K!nxsoridge r. Muccho, OF Al.
bany avenue, Ktrssb'dge. was taken to
Tordham Hospital In dying condition.
Tho other four mon sustained only
bruises OF the six killed outright four
were caught and carried under the
wheels Of the heavy locomotive and
ground 10 pieces.
Tho tragedy was caused by the noise.
les approach OF tho great motor en-
sine, which was attached 10 long
string of empty fiat cars, combined
with the lack Of any protection OF a
nature to warn the to!le,s on the track
Of the approach OF train. The fore
man OF the gank. Joseph Wyanarle, Of
Yonkers, was arrested on the spot and
. notice was sent to the New York
Central officials ordering them to pro-
dice the engineer.
Twenty Mon at Work.
4 gang Of twenty men under wyan.
s1le's direction was at work on the third
rail at a point about 800 yards north OF
the University Heights Station. To the
north Of the spot where the men We're
working there is a sharp curve. A ma.
jor!ty Of the gang was at work on the
south-bound track.
Bound In for the Grand Central Sta.
ton was a train Of fiat cars which had
passed up an hour before loaded with
dirt and stone from the Grand Central
excavation. The train was running
about twenty miles an hour, witnesses
estimate. No whistle signal was sound
cd. II 70 claimed. and the bell was no,
ringing.
A., II was Lis o'clock The suppositlon Is
that when the train passed north an
hour before the section hands were AZ
their lunch and the engineer failed to
nots that they were working near the
station. Consequently. In ignorance OF
the toilins crowd around the curve, he
did not slacken speed.
Tho SIX nfortunates who were
KILLED were working at the northerly
end Of the Job They had no chance to
get out Of the way and were struck
with their tools In their hands. Tho
others struck were thrown aside. The
train ran Atty yards before It stopped
Hurry Call for HeIp.
serst. sutty and sergt Medboy. Of the
'Highbrldge station. happened to be close
10 the spot and were on the scene almost
as soon as the accident happened They
sent hurried ambulance calls and sum.
nioned twenty men from the Hlghbrldge
and Kingsbridge stations. Coroner Nc
Donald, OF the Bronx. was notified and
hurried to the scene with his stenogra.
pher and CHIEF clerk When he arrived
the bodies of the dead were piled I'D on
snowbank alongside the track n short
distance from the University Heights
station.
Wyanarlc. the foreman. sl.d he knew
very little about the accident. He saw
the engine sweep around the curve, ne
said. shouted warning to ms men
and jumped from tho track.
Didn't you have n nasnnn ont 10
protect Your men frUm that dangerous
curve? asked the Coroner
NO, SIR replied the foreman. Il
had no orders to put out naEman
The orders are not to pu, out a nag.
man except on 4 foggy day"
Before the Coroner arrived an of.
ficial of the road ordered the cOnstruc.
tIon train which had Killed the track.
men 10 proceed into thc Grand Contra
station. Coroner Mcdonald tclcphOncd
TO Capt. Langtry. of tho East tiity.
hrst street station. and asked him
send man around to tho Grand Cen.
tsAl and get the engineer.