The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-12

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1913 BROADWAY. NEW YORK CITY
Telephone No. 6S74 Murray Hill
100 miles an hour out of them on short
dash elong good dstraightaway roadi,edD.
tore away as il went over the vaduCt
a long section of steel girdeis and plucked
from their masonry settings dozen
square stones as big as packing boxes.
RNniNt TORN no JUNK.
As II bounced along the bottom of III.
cut for 100 feet or So IL dropped here and
there parts of its machinery. A cylinder
head came loose in cutting down a two
foot trolley pole. The steel drivers were
strcwn along the engines pathway The
cupol, decorated Mrs Nuran'a lawn and
the cab WAS dribUled in splnteiS along
the stonework Of the bridge. The Fish
cries Bureau car struck ground on its
fore end. which was crumpled; then came
he rest with u jar that luosened all Of it's
fittings and threw taukfuls Of infant
trout all along the cut. All Of the Fish
.res men We're hurt hut none oi the -four
was killed
The wonder Of the wreck was that any
body got ont of the dav coach alive
Catching ~ il did the pounding of the
heavy Pullm8ns. ts wooden structure
cr,iinpled like pasteboard There wasn't
"A sea- in II that held to i,s fastenings.
The floor was forced up when the car was
squeezed against IT.. viadlct and spinters
and broken metal fixtures transti>ed and
held many of the passengers Some were
fortunate in that only their clothing was
caught. but there was one woman through
whose body an oak splinter five ieet long
had been driven
The three Pullmans held together
better Of course than the comparatively
fiimsv dav coach. but their sides were
[ IA THAR rnnfS pa utrn,,I IA al
broken and the ironwork of the running
gear had jammed up through the flooring
In them people were hurt by being pinned
in berths. In some cases men and women
wer. fastened hopelessly with bed
clothing over their faces that suffocated
them as they lay. Axes had to be used
! to chop them free.
FIRE FIGHTERS ARRIVE.
II was Mrs. Horans son James.
together with IA friend Of his. Harry
Flanagan. who gave the alarm. They
pulled a tirebox near the house and tn"
crew of Bridgeport fire fighters; Captain
Dan had with him couple Of hook and
ladder companies and all the spare men
he could collect. He found his work
cut ont the minute ha turned mp in FAR
field avenue The difficulty Of getting
TO work ON the wreck was enormous.
The fr-inen had To nse their ladders Ia
swarm down into the cut from the high
embankinent. and after they began
r.scuing passengers they had TO shoulder
them and return the way they came
Abou' ia. tirst thing johnson did was
to stop tn. elrctricNi pranks. II wa1
dangerous to step around in the wre, ge
on account Of the live wires scattered
everywhere johnson sent a man to the
oil box u few blocks away to get the
power turned on.
Other trcmen called police headquar-
4
Blansteld and Pro'ity an idea of the size
of the job The sergean,s sent twenty
men in two motor patrols and assigned
| others to round ny all the doctors IN
Bridgeport, BY that time ot course
| the whole nei ghborhoOd Of the wreck wa-
awake and out. most everybody half
dressed but willing To do something
I Their. are good many automobiles
! in this city and most Of them seemed
| To h. on IN. iob AN hour after the Federal
wrecked herself The cars were mighty
useful carrying injured people to the
Bridgeport and ~, Nincent's hospitals.
hut before thar their owners We're toiling
with the policemen and iir-men and base
bah players assisting the many that were
hurt.
BAIIpIAYEgS To- EEsClE.
! The St Louis ballplayers were hard al
il when the police got there. Roger
Br.suahan and his team got IA thorough
step dance along the ties. but they hustled
mlt without taking time to change Their
pa jainas for more formal attire. They
| grabbed their shoes and slid down the
! embank inent without asking instructions
! from anybody. Slim Sallee, bresnahan +
star l-fthanded pitcher, emerged from
the rear sleeper a'tir-d IN a nightshirt
and II pair of patent leather shoes, bu,
nobody paid much attention Just then IL
| what Sallee or the rest OF the crowd was
or was not wearing
Br-snahan shouted orders above the
chorus Of cries and groans hat came from
the battered ears and the ballplayers
| Ii, int o the debris vii IA tremendous energy
Being husky young men accustomed tt
doing things they accomplished lot
before help came.
From the ruin, of the day coach they
removed fifteen or twenty men. women
and children who were badly hurt. Brrs
nahan and Harmon carried over to Mrs
Horau's lawn a youn. woman who had
Ga He'd 10 them "a they smashed II way int,
the back end of the day coach. Her heao
was cut deeply aud her legs wer. pinne,
down by the car seat. They freed hel
after five minutes hard work. Big 10
netchy. the first ba--,nan of the Car
catcher. ] and Golden. a rtfcAM tS. fou,
people ont of one of the wreck ed Pull
mans.
POLICE AND DOCTORS ARRIVE.
y II was 8 40 A. NJ. when the call for hslt
went from the firemen To the police. Al
4 A. NJ. the police were taking people on
OF the wreck and carrying them to the
broad lawn OF the Horan home. Thirty
five doctors were busy within an houl
after he derailment ana there was plenty
of work for all of them, Mrs. Horan',
home waA converted into n temporary
morgle ana hospital. Fight bodies wer,
| laid on the grass and everywhere yOj