New-York tribune., 1910-07-17
OVER SCORE HURT
IN M0NOCAR WRECK
Crash Mars Opening OF Pioneer
Monoroad Between City
Island and Barlow.
TOO MUCH HUMAN FREIGHT
Designer. Acting as Motorman,
Among the Injured Persons
"A Hundred Passen-
gers Aboard.

- HOO0A6s
While rushing along through tAs
wooded road halfway between City ISL
and and Barlow yesterday afternoon
the first car ever used on the new mono
rail road between those two points tore
away part of the superst-ucture and
era sshed over the roadbed. sending more
than one hundred passengers fyins from
their seats and injuring more than 4
score Of them
The accident was said 70 be due to the
fact that the car was 50 heavily ioadeN
with its human freight that the HSnt
structure which held II in place over
head gave wav under the strain when
the car was rounding a curve.
One OF the two steel rails above tn
car pulled loose. and. lacking this sup
mort the car turned over on its side -
an angle Of - degrees. Had it not been
for the duickuess and cooiness Of How
ard Tunis. the designer OF the car VINO
was acting as mOtorman. IL - thought
that the results might have been seri-
Gus Tunis as soon as he felt the grind
ing and tearing Of the superstructuTe
needed the warning and instantly smut
off power and applied his brakes Ihis
brought the speeding car to a SHOP
within hundred feet and prevented
what might have been fatal conse-
qhences.
Passengers IN a Heap.
When the car had hraIly come 70
stor, il was turned so far over on It's
right size that the passengers. am0nS
whom were MANY women. found them'
selves living in heap on the side or the
car After the Iul that followed tus
crashing and grinding of steel and wood
there ensued the loud cries OF the I'M
prisoned men and women. all OF whom
wore struggling frantically % get OUT
II was only when some passing fisher
men from City Island happened aleHs
that the passengers Eere helped froH
the wrecked mOnorsii car
Among the injured who were trested
/ by ambulance surgeons from the Ford
ham Hospital were:
THE INJURED.
Each r. NJ of 40. tsI wendarer sysngc-
frsetrred rsnt les and contuslons Of BODY
Fordhan Hospital
BROWN Albert % No S56 Easr I5Sta stTees'
nose brossn. Forihsm Hospital
BUFKE Resnard \. aud bis brother HSrrs:
The face and cody; went home
BUsERNtN. Katherine, OF 80 i22.i Fif57 2 se-
GEATsf James % Long IsIaad city, cont1sions
and stT~sic1s about ths oody. tofdhah Hes
pitaL
GLINING Morris Il No sos vess.an sZsHas ,.s.s.
a1ost The body. Foriham Hospital.
HENRY. II. Of No 1855 Bathsats avenue r ne
Bronx. eontuslous face and body; Ford-
ram U-sTstaL
HCMPHEEYs. Ellen. o. No. 1885, Ba: a:hEals ave.
uue. Tue Eroax, cCncusious aHd abIssions
ABOUT the body. ven home
JOEL G. cf No. ~ 5th street Mount vernon.
cuts about the face and bands. went home
Wes' Chester. bruises on the chest taSsa
home
MARINER W. az So. s2os Third syeaus. con-
rlsioas and a5rasoas dDolr tHe cody taSea
iss5h. Gi.y Island. e-ntasious Of the body
SElso>. H r. o, 80 so w.,r ism Stree.
courusons ana aorasions about the body
went home
Is.snI cues slour the face AMI hsnd-:
went b-us-
PETERSON DR. = r.. or 70. 80 Ninnefor.i!
chest. attended and went n-ns.
FJsCOMAS X. OF No. f12a BROOK avsnus. rhe
Bronx: contgsions snd sCrasions' ts&so
RUSSELL " r. ot No. 70 Mrcausy. Place;
loGs Iz'sGa ;g,,.- c,,y. .''r'e nrEer or isf hAas
7J9,Is. Hovsrf. -tshf -Ip broken. refused
rIe1icsl afI and wsH- home
WERNER. W-. or 20 S2s5 Third s-snue. cor
tGsioEs am zo-asious about th- TOD vent
Roma.
WOOD P.e.-l q: V 10 re. street. ciz
6odv. 0ens Horue-
TIE people who live in City Island
have been watching the work Of con-
struction along the road with great in
terest for the last few morths. as it was
promised that they would be carried at
the rate Of eighty miles an hour for a
fve-cent fare. The construction Of the
read is very simple and can be quickly
installed
Two Supporting Rails
Although it Is known as a mOnora1
road. IN ne.. Line is really a ~trioralL"
In place Of the usual two rails on the
roadbed the mOnoran has but one
placed in me centre Of ths fouF-foot ties
tsed. Supported On iron braees running
% from and fastened 20 the ties how
ever are tHo rails used 20 balance the
car Al distances Of every eight feet
are iron traces . little higher than the
car Itself "a hich are fastened 90 the ties
Heegr tirnber= are stretched across
these braces. and the two supporting
rails are cIamred To these On the roof
of the car are four iron Wheels two m
+ front ard so IN the rear These Rheeis
1T into the rails. So tnet the weight -
the cs- is supported by the single rel
belog. While thc two upper rails steady
il and give it balance
The car Itself is forty seven feet N
length. six feet aide and pointed az both
ends. Ike z torpedo. The weight Of the
new invention is two tons, ard Il -
iea1.lpped with siG motors. Weighing
thousand pounds each The seats are
nIaced along each side of the car facing
each other With narrow aisle running
t.e length of tn coach- The motormans
6cx fs IN tHs extreme FROM Of the car
ard = tncIcsed- on 5ne two sides Of the
(c1ch are the doors. which are - tie
siiaing rariety-
Trip the First Public One.
Yesterdays tip vas tEe first public
/ one Of the new line. and excltsu1ent was
. high as IN. time for Il approached
When the train from New York arrived
A, the Bartou station hfty passengers
r,ilei agt and mace = rush for toe uonos
-oad 4 F Akins. superintendent of the
road vas in charge IF the l"sdiR. Ol
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