The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-20

priests were pulling me out Tor dead
when irfouud my vita.
~ The whrst focus OF death was the
spot whore the trolley car md the
ambulance eane together The seven
passengers were dumped To the un-
derside Of the car In tanglc OF iron
work. fragments uf glass and broken
panels
Woman Crushed to Death.
Miss Mary Popp was caught by the
bead between n 5tnnchIon and the
overturned automobile beneath and
crushed to death. Three other pas
sengcrs. all men. were overwhelmed
with wreckage and died before help
could reach them.
Twenty feet away Miss Edith Frig-
ner. IS years old. n stenographer In
a magazine Office, on her way To work,
was epoared through the head by Il
nying post. Policeman TOomey had
Just signalled 10 the trolley car TO
stop and was leading two little girls
across the street 10y the hand.
ChildS Right Leg Torn on.
one Yves torn from his hand by the
1rst blast OF air. and the other by the
rebound The second girl, Mary Gil
man. II years old. had her right leg
torn Off by a nying fragment of iron
railing surrounding the station. Sew
enteen men IN fire house No. were
shaken from their beds. Battalion
Chief Duty was sitting az his desk.
when the windows fell about him and
an iron girder burst through the wall
knocking him down and badly bruis-
ing him. He got the men 10 bandage
him and went to work Immediately.
In the Bible Teachers Training
school founded by Helen Gould, on
exirgton avenue, fifty Young men
and women were eating breakfast,
Children Cut by Flying Glass.
Those on the FAR side OF the room
first realized that there had been a
serious accident. when In looking to-
ward the street. they saw the napery
on tables nearest tho windows dabbled
with blood
Fully half the students were pain
fully cut by lying glass.
In the Babies hospital. at Fifty
ninth street and Lexington avenue,
the infants were being given their
morning bath. Nurses were thrown
to the floor. with babies in their arms.
and other babies were tipped out of
their cribs and In two instances,
babies were popped upward out of
their tubs as If they had been drawn
out by a powerful suction.
Railroad Company's Statement.
The following statement was issued
at the New York Central Offices:
Careful investigation made by
Chief Engineer Kittredge. Construc-
tion Engineer Harwood. Electrical En-
eineer Katie and Manager Whaley Of
the Grand Central terminal, indicates
that the explosion was the result Of
an electric train backing over a
humping post In the storage yard,
breaking a gas pipe. the escape from
which pcne rated the lower part of
the sub-station power house and be-
came ignited there from some cause
unknown
The Central officials at that hour
said that the fatalities from their In
formation stood at nine known dead,
with possible additions to the list of
missing employees. although search of
the ruins. which was approaching
had failed to reveal any
more bodies.
Coroner Holds Motorman.
Albert Scagroatt, the motorman of
the train that rammed the bumper
md broke the gas main. was beld by
-he coroner on a technical charge OF
He said he smelt gas after
The collision and notified the yard
master. Workmen were digging at
the ruins all night, looking fT the
four missing workmen, and Assistant
District Attorney George Lavelle, ac-
by Guy w. Culgin, an en-
sineer of the building department.
continued an investigation far into
he evening.