New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
II HURT IN TUNNEL
REAR-END COLLISION.
Safety Derices Avert Bad
Hrech. at 9Th .4ue. Terminal.

A resr-end collision in the Hudson Tun-
mel terminal. at Sixth avenue and Sd street,
demonstrated the practical Use of safety
devices, which. if lacking. would have
caused serious disaster shortly before
noon Yesterday, when a train Of two cars
crashed into a line of nineteen cars,
Thirteen passengers we're slightly injured,
The tro-car train, which entering
the west side PLATFORM track. got beyond
the control of the motorman when il had
passed over a switch Az it rushed down
grade for several hundred feet its speed
increased until it uas stopped by the long
stretch OF dark" cars that had been laid
up since the rush hour.
Although the force of the impact would
have been enough to telescope the cars
without the safety devices only one broken
window and few minor breaks in the
motors we're discovered after the collision.
The devices which vithstood the crash are
known "anti-telescore braces and
'anti-liftins equipments When the cras h
came these devices locked the cars to-
sether. and prevented them from s~ervlns
careenins from the tracks.
There were less than thtrtv-hve passen-
gers in the train. When the cars crashed
the men and women were hurled from
their seats. and in this rsv several we're
badly shaken. It was not necessary TO
carry any Of the injured from the cars.
Several an1hulances were called, and five
passen gers were taken to New York Hos
pital Later they went to their homes
after having received medical attention.
Those cared for by the an hulance surgeons
were:
BERUCH Edward. No 1o4 Maple street. Jersey
CITY: shock and broken nose.
BOYLE. Robert G. No SO Bergen avenue. les
city. bruised hodv.
coil. bartholomew. Nc . North 18th street.
Newark y ]: shock.
CRossMAN. Mrs Henrietta NJ. Il South street,
Jersev City; bruised hp
OF oZIER. Herman. No 213 East 1881 street;
bruises on left shoulder.
CUNNINGHAM James \. 10. los West 141th
street: shock.
DORRlEN Herman. No. 514 boulevard, Jersey
CITY. lscerated scalp. left shoulder srraired
GoLDsTEIN Louis No A6s Avenue {, Bsyonne.
Y. !; head and arm bruised.
IVES. Mrs Fred, No. go Eye avenue jersey
City. knees cut
KEANE. Mrs n. Y 21ea Roule'ard Jersey
KNAPP. William. No 1aa West 1921 street:
confusion of lett shoulder
MILLER. Mrs 9. No $50 Arlington avenu.
,Iersey city; iip cut.
MILLER. Thomas. guard. No. IS VaTne street
Jersey CITY. chest bruised and possible frac-
ture Of clayi"le.
PERI.MJ TIER, Miss Z. No. Paulnlier Place
Jersey city; fractUre NJ iar.
ROSS Miss Annie. 10 100 i4th street. Jersey
city: contusions If hand.
sCANIoN Thomas. svitchran Nc. 1876 Am
sterdan avenue. cuts on hodv-
SILVER, BENJAMIN Nc $50 Avenue {, Bsyonne
y. j bruised on head and arms.
George Phillips. motorrnan IF the two
car train. vas arrested on a technical
police station, ". G. Fisk. vice-president
Of the Hudson Tunnel Company, took
charge of the station after the accident
An Inspector from the Public Service Com
mission was also sent to the scene of the
collision.
With the arrival of smbuianCes q big
crowd of shoppers hocksd to the tunnel
stations The gates were closed and after
DELAY IF ten minutes the ca ST platform.
which is generally used for Hoboken trains,
was opened for traffic To all trains