New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-15
DOZEN KILLED IN
SUBWAY CAVE-|N
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rocks and beams that pinned some OF
the men down.
Coroner Holtzhauser. after coming 10
the surface for a breathing space, SAID
that if the snoring had been properly
put up the accident would never nave
happened. There was an interval be-
tween the top of the snoring and the
roof of the tunnel excavation, the Cor
oner said, that permitted the huge
mass Of rock to fall in. He will ques-
ton the officials Of the Bradley COM
pany on this point.
Thousands Crowd to Place.
The news of the disaster spread
through the neighborhood like wildfire,
and thousands of persons, drawn from
their evening promenade on the half
holiday, swarmed to the place. So
great became their numbers that In
spector Cahalane sent in calls for the
reserves from the East SSth and East
10th street police stations, making a
total Of more than three hundred po-
licemen on hand.
Even with this force at his command,
Cahalane found it hard work 10 keep
the excited thousands from encroach-
ing upon the walled off space about the
mouth Of the tunnel From the win
dows of apartment houses on both sides
Of Lexington avenue, and even from
the roofs, men. women and children
looked down upon the yawning mouth
of the excavation and strove TO see the
crushed and manned bodies as they
were lifted from the depths in the
steam shovels.
Almost simultaneously with the ar
rival OF the police reserves and the
firemen half dozen ambulances from
Flower Hospital appeared at the scene,
the white coated surgeons leaping from
the tailboards and jumping intoTthe
steam buckets.
Robert Ridgeway. chief engineer Of
the Public Service Commission, Dis
trict No !, was one of the first TO enter
the tunnel. He made special investi-
cation. with a view to determining the
responsibility of the contracting COM
pany General Superintendent Waller
OF the Bradley company was also
lowered into the excavation and as
sisted in directing the work of his men.
In spite Of the great number of res
cuers at work in the tunnel it was
found impossible to so much as bulge
the immense bowlder under which at
least six of the laborers met their
death. 1t is believed the only way the
rock can be moved is by blasting, and
this is regarded as hazardous. in view
of the condition Of the rock formation
in the excavation.
Death List Not Known.
Reports as to the number killed and
injured varied so greatly last night that
it was impossible 10 get an accurate
estimate. Latest reports, however,
were to the effect that the first three
bodies taken to the East 51st street
station were those Of a negro, forty
years old. with brass check numbered
| 775, and the bodies of two Italians,
about forty years old with the check
numbers 1921 and 1,O24 in their
pockets.
The two men in Flower Hospital are.
Doyle Daniel twenty eight years old,
Of Valhalla, n. Y; a driller. fracture
Of both ankles and possible internal
injuries.
| Fallon, Joseph, thirty-five years old,
driller., 35th street and Second avenue:
| internal injuries
Patrolman Daniel Lawlor, of the East
| 51st street station, was standing in the
street on Lexington avenue. between
seth and 57th streets, shortly before
$50 o'clock, when he says he was
| startled by a loud blast. few mo-
ments later he heard shouts and
screams coming from the mouth Of the
tunnel shaft, and saw several laborers
| swarming out Of the tunnel
Lawlor and Patrolman German ran
TO the shaft, jumped into the steam
bucket, and were lowered TO the tunnel
| bedrock, eighty feet below. There are
two levels in the tunnel. the upper one
for local trains and the lower one for
express trains. According TO Lawlor
the ceiling OF the lower level had col
| lapsed, bringing down a mass of rocks,
| beams and dirt forty feet in thickness.
Heard Screams in Darkness.
From this pile Of debris Lawlor and
German could hear the screams of
wounded men, but they could do moth
ing unaided. so they gave the signal
| to be hoisted to the surface again.
Lawlor then sent in emergency calls