New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-04
NINE HURT IN CRASH
OF THIRD AVENUE CARS
Three Victims Pinned Between
Seats Taken Unconscious
from WreCkage.
LAWYER BADLY INJURED
Panic Among Passengers When
Northbound Car Jumps
Switch and Rams One
Going South.

Jumping the track between 65th and
Goth streets. a northbound Third avenue
surface car crashed into an oncoming
southbound car about 10 o'clock last
night. When policemen and railroad
employees forced their way into the
twisted wreckage they found three peo-
pie were unconscious. two OF them Sc
riously injured. and six others had been
hurt.
Jarvis p Carter member Of the law
firm of Edwards Il Carter. at No. s.
Liberty street. and living at No. S9o
Park avenue. was in the front seat OF
: the southbound car When taken out
he was senseless. At Flower Hospital
il was found he had suffered severe cuts
and bruises There was an eiSht-inch
rip in the flesh of his left arm. causing
hemorrhage
Pinned between two seats near Inn
was Mrs. Yetta Weinstein. of No. 4t6
Cherry street. She. too was unconscious
when taken from the car. She was taken
TO Flower Hospital. Her legs and body
were badly bruised, but no bones were
broken. DdNlQ NlllOlu, VI wv isp i>h'S
18th street who had been sitting in the
front seat of the northbound car. was
found in an unconscious condition, but
recovered. He refused to go to a hos
pltal, although his right knee was 50
badly bruised that he had TO be carried
to a taXlcab, and his right and left
{ hands were both severely cut by dying
glass.
Patrolman Flanagan. of the East G'th
street station. was on fixed post at 9th
street. He called out the reserves. who
rushed up about the time that Drs
Quaglia and Taylor arrived from the
Flower Hospital with ainbulances. The
wreck occurred just in front of the car
company's Third avenue barns. and a
host of employees ran out 10 aid In getting
the people out. Both cars mad been
iammeO. and there was pandcmonIum Tor
a few minutes. The platform Of the north
bound car had been smashed away. ana
there was a four foot cash ia the side Of
the other car
Among those whom Dr. Taylor treated
after Dr Quaglia took Mrs. Weinstein
and Carter 20 the hospital We're: John
Mccarthy. Of No. 80 East list street,
bruises of the arms and head; Louis
Teoshinsk of No 80 Henry street,
bruises Of the right knee. Salvatore Com
pagno. OF No. 1861 Second avenue con-
tusions Of the legs: Mrs. Bessie Lynch,
OF No PHI Amsterdam avenue. commissions
OF the chest: John r. Kahn, of No. 1871
Park avenue bruises of the right arm.
pfat
street badly bruised head.
Most of the material damage was done
10 the northbound car. which was in
charge of Patrick Kennedy. a motorman.
of No. l76 East 96th street. and Peter
Rcgan. OF No. 129 Eac; l0jth street. was
the conductor. The sOuthbound car was
driven by James Sullivan. Of No. go East
Z 6Sth street. Michael Lowenstein, of No.
s. East 18th street was the conductor.
\ dense crowd surrounded the wrecked
cars. and Captain Dominick Henry. OF
the East 67tn street station. had 10 sta
ton lines OF men TO keep the people back.
Alarming rumOrs spread through the
neishborhood. The lights i'm both ears
had gone out. and all that could be seen
was a struggling swarm of passengers
and rescuers
\ wrecking crew from the car barns
opened up traffic in about 30 minutes. ut
the barn "A man who said he was the
general superintendent of the system re-
fused TO give any information TO news
/ paper men. Captain Henry had theory
/ that the cause was due either to rock
/ on the track or bolt that had fallen
: from the elevated railroad. Others said
4 that one Of the switches in front of the
/ barns naI thrown the car from the track.