New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
HURT IN SUBWAY CRASH
uotornlen of Empty Cars Caught
r. coIIision at 207th Street.
ulIlL DING HID THEIR VIEW
Trains on Track at Same
Time. Owing TO Unexplained
Confusion Of Orders.

,,er we're injured last evening at
-.-est and Broadway when two trains
-, subway cars met in a fead-on
O. -, about one hundrsd feet south of
err street station. One of the men.
* - KirneH. OF No 500 West I45th
f .ra r1otcrnan of the south bound
se caught in his motor box Both
s-e broken and he may have internal
&c we1 He was sent 20 the Wash
ao heights Hospital. where his condi-
said 10 be critical The motornan
ue- -o~-b hound train was only slightly
- and after being treaped by an am
s-t.,oe surgeon vent home
=. z.hsr caused the accident is not vet
br- II Is said 10 have been due to
80. +rar a new apartment house re-
erected at the corner of Broadway
a7-.r street. shut of the view of the
.,--,s7. - the tracks at tha. point turn
= sharp curve
shortly after s o'clock when Kin
~ received orders 10 take q train of
= e-rn-v cars on the centre track OF
s.--ov-7 run a conductor and six
.s-5e besides Kinnell were on the train
lef- file centre track Just who was
e,,,1- has not been explained by the
-ho-ourb officials. but as kinnell took
-. .-e-r over the switCi7-over the north
- --s,r Of 7ve empty cars. in charge
~ansidine was shifted on TO the
,srrre track
rho subway al this point is an ele-
-.5 structure fully seventy feet above the
.s- and neither rnotorman knew that
~ trains we're on the same track. owing TO
.se sns-tr1snt house. which was between
-..n and the curve. The cwo trains were
-,i,r g orIy moderate speed at the time.
sns that prevented more serious results
4ue- Is the Two trains reached a point
,srr va around the curve and came into
,+su of the 1nororman. both kinnell and
5-,,sf5-re sp0l,ed their emergency brakes
md sbUr or power. They were SO close 20
ss-- other however. that they could not
-s--e--- rha smash. The momentum was
.-scie-t 10 telescope The forward cars for
s,nos- hsff their distance. At the moment
,r collision there was 2 brilliant shower Of
s-sct-ic srarzs. owing 10 the fact tiaat En
s-o7 rod from one OF the trains was broken
or 7-5 came in contact with the third rall.
-s-us-ks bl- feature of the accident vas
--s+ while Cousidine's motor box was
smashed To spIinrers and driven half way
h--i- through The length Of the car, he -
rzued serious :njurz. whil= hiunell- whose
rs- xgs not half so severely wrecked was
-t--e5 r-5e- the heavy iron bars in front
of his seat and badly crushed
Guards I'm the southhound train and other
sr71ov=S standing on the sta stion platform
heard The crash. and ran down the tracks
n -r= assistance Of KinneII. whose groans
could ~ beard Armed with Crowbars- the
-rscue-s started in 10 p-y Kinnell from his
i-o0 7-isor He was carried 10 the street
unconscious and sent 10 the hospital in care
Of D- Dvorerzky-
Tre force OF the collision lifted the front
of the H-st ca- Of the southbound train
-r-ee feet in the air. although the trucks
remained on the rails Because Of this
ihe --eck Itself cid not interfere with
traHc on the rwo regular tracks.
KinnefTs forward car soon caught fire
from the third rail. and started 10 blaze
hercsIv 4 still alarm was turned in TO
Engine Company s.. and the fremen strung
hose along the tracks and quickly put the
f-e out The hose on the rails blocked
irsTc north and south for about twenty
minutes