The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-17
MONORAIL CAR WRECKED
PtSSENGERS VINO CROW DED ~
ESCAPED SERIOI ' ~ RT.
u Vas the PiPst TRIO sn the Cny island
Tine and was Made In Hurr, 90 Held
the Franchise n,rntOr. who nan
tue Tar. Biames Cav Elm for Accident.

memorial car ~ the Barlow station OF
the Y Y. y. II. 3 u X h got uucounted
little hurts ten minutes later Yesterday
afternoon when the car went "a the track
on a sharp curve half "a mile nearer City
Island. l. was a complete accident on
the memorial roads opening day Only
the fact hat the hundred passengers were
jammed in 80 that they couldn't 80 much
as turn around prevented them from
being seriously hurt According to How
ard Hanssl Tunis. inventor Of the unusual
railroad. the accident might no, have
hAppened a, all had he driven the car
at a higher speed around the curve
The car was the same On. that ran
for five months ~ Jamestown. Va. dur
ing the exposition there and then refused
10 carry Angus, Belmont and Mrs. Bel
mont further than three inches a week
ago Thursday. II has no gyroscope
Two small rails above the car steady il
aud convey the power
The franchise % the memorial company
which {. the - me company that operstes
NiN hOFsr litAr i~hWNFh ahN
city Island. was 10 expire tomorrow
II they didn't run their car 40 yesterday
Hon l.. Burrows. presidsnt % the cob
cern. went to Rartow with Fred Aik-ns.
his Superintendent 81 horse cars Howard
Tunis the inventor Of this particular
memorial. went along to act a. motor
man and brought his wife and siS-yesr
old da ushter Eugene To be- passengers
Mr. Burrows was aboard a. q passenger,
and Aikens as conductor took 10 cents
from each % the ninety odd folks who
scrambled aboard
The monorail road parallels the horse
car line as far as the City Island bridge.
whers It stops for the present Its route.
however - across lots Going round the
second curve the passengers felt no
OSCILLATION Absence u oscillation or
rocking motion il supposed 10 be- the chief
advantage Of this type of monorsil SO
SURE is the inventoy OF this feature that the
car has no straps inside SO far no one had
felt the need Of one
The third curve half mile from Bar-
tow 10 lees than either 81 the first two
The car was now moving rapidly After
the accident Mr. Burrows guessed Its
spes-d 20 have been between thirty and
thirty-fiv miles an hour Mr. Turns
said that he approached the curve at
twenty miles an hour.
AZ the car entered the curve the motor
man iuv-ntor felt an alien oscillation he
did not like The passengers seem not
to have noticed il. being well cushioned
upon each other
Mr. Turis said afterwari that a number
Of tho ties supporting the single ground
rail had sunk on the inside Of the curve.
making the tilt Of the track eight degrees
instead Of six degrees from the horizontal.
which Il should have been. This caused
the oscillation. which made him instinct
lively cut down his speed to fifteen miles
al hour.
In a second there came a SwayIng 10
and fro. the upper framework felt too
GREAT lateral strain. and one % the steel
h.ntA which support the overhead track
gave way on the outside ~ the curve
The one next 20 II carried clean away.
being merely spiked To the tie. not bolted
The gear above the car ripped and splin-
tered. the car left the track. and a. Mr.
Tunis shut of the pow er IL came 20 stop
in tho roadbed dirt. leaning over at an
angle Of forty-iive degrees. single fimsy
inside bent propping II 20 II didn't over
turn completely
The passengers inside all went over in
mass from a vertical to q horizontal
position They lay piled on each other
-,x deep The women began TO scream
Alkcns. the conductor. locked the
door and said Co the overturned carload
k~ap COOL
They did nothing 81 the sort The men
began to smash windows. whereupon
ryerybodv rolled out through IN" aper-
lures On- man IN smashing a window
struck Eugene TunIs IN the cheek with
his eltoU IL WAS the only hurt the little
glrl got Nr- Tunis was unframed Her
husband mad been thrown hard against
the motor hox, and for long time felt ne
carried broken rib
Nearly every one in the car got dent
or hrui@a or zorethng. A. the top layer
81 passengers rolled out 81 the windows
IN. ONES underneath arose and followed.
number who didn't arise wsr. hauled
cut 81 tn" car. whereupon they stood up
and gave their names and their injuries
and went away
The injured. Who we're attended by
an ambulance surgeon from the Ford /
ham Hospital. were J NJ Bach. 10 years
old. a salesman Of cal Wendover avenue. !
tn. Bronx. bruises % tn" left knee I
William X Russell. - years old.
machInist Of 10 Maoauley avenue. Jamaica. /
lac.rai ion Of the little finger IN the left .
hand. and Alfred Brown. 10 years old. /
a clerk 81 $40 Fast iSsth street. possible I
fracture ~ the right wrist None 81 .
the thrp. went 90 the hospital Several /
others Who we're injured refused medical 4
AID and went hoine
Tn" mutorman inventor. Mr.. Tuniz
said after tho accident that he was sure
II was due 90 the sinking ties Had he
not Inztirctivelv slowed down oil mil ht
have h+en well or better.
Tn. sunken ties mada the sup@r-
alevation eight degrees instead ~ siS-
said Nr Tuni- -Of courae what I ought
10 have done was 60 put on more power
At a greater speed We would probably
hay" taken tho curve safely.
But when felt tho car rocking I shut
~ some power almost by instinct. Then 7
the steel bent on the outside 81 tho curve .