New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-23
TRAIN KILLS WOMAN
ON SUBWAY PLATFORM
victim Struck as She Leaned
out to See from Which
Direction 1t Came.
BLOCK INDIRECT CAUSE
,ocaI Service Tied Up Nearly
Two Hours-Death Dealing
Train Was Going South
on Northbound Track.

e,-,,ct by a train going south on the
.-.bbound local track just AS she
80 forward and craned her neck 10
from, which direction 1t was coming.
w.. Violet DARCY. stenographer. who
,,..5 IN boarding house at No. 10S
g. o,th street. was instantly killed
.,s,srdav morning at the sd street sta
49,, n the subway. she was struck with
,,rb force that her body was hurled
,.vsral feet from the edge Of the plat
..-- and those standing in the way
re-s knocked down like tenpins.
III. accident occurred at 1890 o'clock
ard was due indirectly to a block which
,.r,r AZ go. o'clock. when truck Of
l,e n the cars Of a uorthbound local
...,, left the rails at the Worth street
...,ior and lasted until 1915 o'clock.
yy..sn minutes after the block on the
,,,,l track had been lifted coupling
,fan express train, northbound. broke
=, ,be Brooklyn Bridge station, delaying
,-s4c for eleven minutes.
shortly before Miss Darcy was killed
.,s marlborough officials started TO run
,,,,,Is trains from the Grand Central
station To Blocker street. Below the
,r.r station the power was shut off, so
-. vrscking crew could work at Worth
street without danger. Meanwhile. sta
,,,, platforms were svarming with
fnf
rad been exceeded. Such was the con-
6,ion At the 23d street station when
Miss DARCY and John KeWish. a min
,rg broker Of 40. 165 Broadway, who
lives at No A. East 21st street. entered
The subway.
The ticket seller. chopper and special
officer pleaded ignorance ~ the cause OF
the block and could give no information
IS 10 when 2 local train might he eX-
ptced i'm response to many requests
The ticket seller said that he had re-
csyed no block signal and therefore
could not give back any money.
Crowd Continues to Grow.
At the same time others were buying
d,kets ard Miss Darcy and Kewish
bined these and pushed through the
uowds TO the edge Of the platform.
Tiey had been standing on the platform
about ten minutes. when a northbound
cypress came along and stopped. The
rotorm4n called ont To the waiting
crowds that It. might he some time be
t-s the trains could run. but still the
rsiority elected 10 remain until local
tain came along.
Hardly wore the words out Or tho mo-
trnans mouth when the whistle Of IN
spproachirc train sounded through The
subway a shuttle train running south
N the northbourd local track had start
81 from, the Grand Central station. In
charge Of a motorman named Grant, and
Win him as lookout was II Waidler an
Instructor in the use Of the Westing-
house air brakes. According 10 the In
,srborouch officials. the whistle Of the
'-alr was kept footing To signal its APP
Woach
WaIdlar saw Miss Darcy when the
font car was almost upon her, suddenly
t.nd forward and crane her head in the
opposite direction. Grant saw her al
most simultaneously and shut off the
power and clamped on the brakes Amid
arumbIus and grinding the train fairly
'sidded along the rails with speed an
t.rar.f. .... --1.--.f
Panic Follows Accident.
Miss D'Arcv's death came so swiftly
hat no ono realized she was i'm. danger
when she Was leaning forward She was
struck with such force that her body
went hurting backward, knocking Kew
isb 10 the concrete floor of the platform
md bowling over several mon and
women who were directly behind them.
The broker and the others escaped in
tUv. brf thcro was the widest kind OF
excitement following the accident
Women screamed and made a rush tow
ard the exits. while several swooned.
When tho train came 10 a stop Grant
md Waidler carried the body over To
he ticket oHco and call for an smbu-
hnce was sent 10 Bellevue Hospital
When pr Sweeney arrived he said that
'he woman had been killed instantly.
The right side Of her face was so badly
oushed that she was almost unrecogniz-
eele and her skull was crushed IN 4
Dozen places Tho body was removed IN
patrol wagon 10 the East 22d street
police station, and Grant and WaidIer
continued ON with the train without be-
hs subjected 20 arrest.
Mss DARCY had been boarding WIN
Mss + Walker at 40. 10S East Zo,E
FIeet for "a year. She was employed J."
sdoWntowu office. Her brother fltzroE
Darcy, is q public accountant. WIN an
@hce al 40 so Broadway ana nNcS
No. 80 Grant avenue, Roselle PARK y. -.
pe police informed him Of ms siStel siSte.1
oeslh and Nc went 10 the station an"
oaimed the body.