The sun., 1910-03-21
PTVB HURT IN ELEVATED CAR
SIx HCNpRED Mon THE rIcKEr
SELLER TO GET NICkELS RACK.
Psilce Ressrvss nssssea ths Ticket Ma1
ana Everybody wAS ws1sa Rake
Tssm Get NE nawmss and mls Ride
ESsasuaIlv-TSame mplayea % Hsoar.


EVsasuaIsy-TFams welayea % Bssar.
Thstr night to . ride Tor their nickel
asserted itsols In the minds of six or seven
hundred survivors survived
Who stosmsd the OEscs Of tho tickst seller
at the Forty-ascond street station Of thu
sscoOd avsaus slsvAtsd road yesterday
sftsSnooa seeking TO recover their car
fsrcs after their train aud another closely
following had been staIssd At the station
by q car jumping tho trGck. Five pas
ssngsrs were hurt. none % them ssgi-
o'rsly. and some Of the I've were able to
iein In the rS'sh upon tbs Tickle, window.
First there was q scare In the fourth
car of q ak car train running from South
Ferry to i2sth street when the forward
truck of the car left the rails half way
ssstween the Thirty-fourth and Forty.
second street stations and the car. jammed
TO capacity. went swinging and lurchinG
near the edge of tho treatle for three
blocks before the mOtormAn Of the train.
unaware Of the nature oG the trouble.
brought his train 10 a stop AZ the Forty
second street platform. Then fear dis
solved befors the ri Ghteosls desire for q fun
Eve oena ride for ave cents paid. and until
the reserves from two stations came can
tering up the long stairs 90 tho platform
the rallied space above the street seethed
with struEGlinG humanity insisasn' upon
i1s rights.
II was about half past tha, the HarIem
bound train. already hlled az Rivington
and Canal streets With crowds hound
for Sulzsr's Park aud the other river
spaoss 81 the upper END Of ths island.
took n. anotb~r hig instalmeut q; the
Thirty-fourth street trAnsfer station.
wbsre the shuttle train runs up from
the Long leland ferry. Es~h u the
ak cars had blocks of people standing
In the aisIes about both sO.zanoes.
When ths train was passing the block
hetween Thirty eighth and Thirty ninth
streats the Passengers in the fourth car
felt q jolt. then . Succession of jarTing
bumps that ast the grating bsneafh their
feet into terrifying tremors The car
began to rOck from side 10 eide ON its
springs and thsrs waa an OminolIs creak-
ing and smashing sounding from bsneaih
II. The elevated structure AZ this point
10 not hllsd in with reserve tracks be-
tween the upward and downward hound
trAelGs. ss it IL beyond Forty-secOnd
saFsst for q way Thoas who could lOok
out of the windows on tbs wesi side of the
car and note ths gradual approach %
THAR car TO the slender rail Of iron piping
Separating them from the ssFses began 70
ysll
Jipst before the train stopped at
Forty -secopd street the oiFHr whsela
OF the forward trVok. which had
been gouGing . furrow in the ties for
three blocks. had shifted with the turning
u the truck until thcy touch u and th'n
climbed over the third raj A. the in
stanI Of contact there was a r. port. much
snsoke and a fountain Of blue fame and
sperrks Npoutsd up along the windows
where the frightened passenErrs woSc
stsn dag OH each others feet. Wien the
train haltsd the front end Of the dsTAiIec |
car was veered away from the platform
ana out over the tracks TO q distance Of
three feet and more
Tho stopping was a signal for a general !
eruption from the fourth car and from /,
others ahead and behind. The people !
fought eech other st the gates and some |
through onto the platform by Others |
frantic in thsir haste. A woman who !
had Opsned a window near the from, end !
or the dsrailed car and VINO found a space !
separating hsT from tho platform edge. !
threw two bGN.ss and q lunch basast |
under the feet OF those who had already !
rushed out and were making for tho
exists
Nothing that had happened because Of |
the accident up TO This time had hurt /
anybody. but in the mad scramble foT
the platform tne five who gave their |
names TO tine police suffered injury |,
These were /
Cohen. pnv.I u Pr, Ires left leg
brri-ei
Iiupmsn Morris. sW Firs' Ateaue. left .
l!Gh vr,-n' 81 and lsft lee bruised
sieg-i. outs. :ts Fast Tenth stres' right .
wri~' wrsnrhed and cu'
Timmenblum. NOses. III Prince street /
right Nris, wrenchst AMI fingers ~ right
hand crushed
weisberg. Bertha. i2ss Webster avenue.
The Bronx shock and briise Of the body.
Within a urinute after the train had
sfopped another six car train came up
from Thirty fourth street and stopped.
80 that by walking through the forward
cars all OF 10 Passengers could ds'1ark
onto the platform This circumstances
doubled the difBrIlsy on the platform
where there was no. an inch ot elbow
room Thoae neares; the ticket Office
for their nickels tack those
b~hind pushed and vsy~ o'ished In turn
by the constantly augmented current
Of passengers. Some wonnen we're
'amn0ed against ths sides Of the wairine
room and q man pushed up . window
there and hVVied them insids tho room
without asntIsBsas. A shower Of DERBY
bats fell down so the street.
IL Wa half AZ hour before the be-
.eagusred ticket seller and his three STA
fioA aftsndanss could move tho crowd
The ticket man te.sphOned 70 the general
oGices Of the Third Avenue Railroad
Company and vas Instructed 70 escort
lbs eismSFiRE Psssssssvs over 10 the
Third avenue elsvaied. 4 blocz away.
where they could eonIinus their north
ward journey WishOut paying . SECOND