The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-07
FREIGHT TROLLEY'S WILD DASH
DOWN A STEEP MILL AND INTO
TWO BUILDINGS.
Narrowly Misses Crowded Passenger Car
In Its flight and After shaving on n
Siice From CobbIer shop Bangs Into
Rarber's and Dumps Six Tons Of Ashes

SIice From a ('ODbler shop Bangs Into
uarber's and Dumps Six Tons Of Ashes
4 staten Island trolley freight car
heaped with six tons OF ashes refused to
respond 10 its brakes yesterday morning
when near the top OF Gryme's Hill on the
Richmond turnpike. in Tompkinsville.
From a creeping start it gained speed as
ii went down a mile oi stecpness. As if
by miracle it slipped by II switch point
keeping to the main line. a single track
and tipped safely past car loaded with
passengers that stood on the siding.
The car bounded and swayed past
another switch and then half block on
IT leaped the track and struck terror to
the heart OF Henry Siegel honest shoe
maker. as ii doomed its way into his shop
and smashed past him hardly three feet
away, carrying of in its whirlwind flight
the whole glass front and wooden side
of his little shop as If some monstrous
revolving knives had cut it all apart in
flash.
! II hadn't finished this first ruin before
the cracking and splintering Of the wood
of Louis De Martini's barber shop was
in the ears Of the bewildered householders
and Henry Razzo. journeyman barber,
dozefullv scanning his morning paper
III the back room. was suddenly thrown
into terror as If by Messina earthquake
as the monster crashed through the shop.
scattering splinters and shower of
ashes that looked truly volcanic. Then
Car 3ol Of the Richmond Light and Rail
road Company hrched over on its side
and dumped the rest Of it's six tons Of
ashes into the barber shop .nd the ad-
jacent shoe shop.
With all the cars fun on it's tear only
three persons were injured and they not
seriously except Barber Razzo. who will
have to stay IN the Smith lnirmary for
maybe TWO weeks with possibly y frnc-
tured jaw and cuts and bruises all over
his face and body Neighbors were count
ing up what might have been and they
decided that II the Midland Beach cars.
crowded as they usually are, had been
running over this part of the line. as at
SON" hours they do. tho consequences
would have been disastrous As it was
with tho wrecked shops and the thrcp
hur' and Mrs william Esterbrook bounced
of the chair on her porch nv the shock of
Henry Siegers shop in collision with the
runaway Tompklnsvilln was furnished
with plenty Of excitement; for one dav.
| Tn" car ives taking Fshes from the
! Livingston power house II Silver Ray. a.
! the top 81 the hill The ashee we're for q
sidewalk being built along the side of the
lake. Motorman O'Dwyer put on the
brakes near the top Of the hill. They
wouldn't hold. He called to Conductor
Dicerone To put on the emergency brake.
It failed He resorted to the power and
e fuse blew out Then he and his mate
werc helpless and tho mile long coast
began
The hill is 200 fec, high and the grade
3 pcr cent. O'Dwyer jumped before
rea ching the switch ha III fought was goin :
To he fatal to him and To the car that was
standing in the siding. All tho hurt he
got was n srrained foot The conductor
stuck on during al the fight After the
second switch was smoothly passed. came
the Jump from the track the razing of a
. telegraph pole and tho cyclone tactics
upon tho shops Of Segel 81 Richmond
. turnpike. and DE Martini. SO Turnpike
De Martini was ont Of his shop. Witt
tho lirchng of the car in one direction
Conductor Dicerone hirched OF in tn,
other ard had to have his HANDS and fac'
handa ged up IN the Smith Infrmary
He and tho motorman went To their home
' later.
Tho breeze of tho flying car on its cours
4 struck Letter Carrier Thomas Brennan
I The car lust missed him by an inch or tw
as he crossed its path.
. While they were pulling tho car out q
n its resting place. with one end in the har
a her shop and the other in the shoemaker
, traffic on tho line was held up from II 30 i
l. the morning to $40 o clock at night,