New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-09
POLE Of FIRE TRUCK
RIPS TROLLEY CAR OPEN
Passengers Dumped Into Street
as Vehicles Crash at
High Speed.
SIX HURT IN BRONX MISHAP
Impact of Collision Hurls
Crowded Car from Rails
Across Street 49, Fire
Captain Sent FLYING.

Six persons were injured. one 81 them
possibly seriously. last uirht when a IRE
truck and a crowded 18Th street cross
town trolley car crashed into one another
AZ Wales avenue aud 18th street. The
Bronx. Both were going al high speed
me pole Of the truck ripped ont the en-
tire side Of the car and dumped the pas
sengors into the street
So great was the impact that the trolley
car WIS shuntcd bodily across the street
and dumped up against the FAR curb.
where ~ las tangled mass ~ twisted
iron and -pllntercd wood. IL was consid
cred remarkable that several persons were
not killed Two ambulances responded
from Lebanon Hospital and the surgeons
treated the injured. an ~ whom We're sent
To their home,.
Truck 80 ~. stationed at Forest ave-
nue. and lslst street. was responding 10
an alarm az liith street aud Austin Place
and the three big horses. Yale Pied
mont and Sister. were racing az their
best speed. ears laid back and eyes diiat-
Ing with the yigof 81 their effort. There
is q down grade on Wales avenue as DO
truck rca he'd the northern side OF 18TH
street. the trolley car. wet bound. hove in
sight
Bin McDonough. driver Of tho truck.
Ndnkcd Ou the fclus OF the three powerful
horses boo an attempt to slew the truck
around toward the west and avoid the
car The distance was too short howev-
o.. and car and truck came together with
= crash
Richard Murray. th" motofman. OF NJ.
1888 Frisbie street. The Bronx shut OF his
power ana applied his brakes with all
hi. strength but the heavily loaded car
slid along the rails Wits unchecked speed.
The pole Of the truck struck the side
~ the car. and az the latter vehicle con
tinued on it, course. the pole ripped the
side from eud 10 end. as cheese Is cut
by q knife Before the passengers Of the
car could realize what had happened the
entire side fell out and they were dumped
into the street
rhe shattered glass and the stamping
og the truck horses injured those who
had been thrown from the ear. When the
car was lifted clear Of the rails and
hurled To- the opposite curb. the motor
man and Patrick Burke. the conductor.
Werc thrown to the floor and badly cut
10y flying glass.
Captain kennedy. OF the FIRE truck. was
standing on the running board as the
car and truck came together Tie was
catapulted through the air. went bodily
through the ear windows and landed on
the eastbound rails. lie had severe
bruises and shock.
Vivian I'm. fourteen years old. OF No.
SIS Southern Boulevard. The Bronx. was
the most seriously injured receiving Sc
we're decorations Of the head and breast
and possible internal injuries. She was
treated by the ambulance surgeons and
taken To her home In an ambulance.
Charles CHASER. of No. l5l West li3d
street. and Rudolph Flashner. of No. ~
West lHth street were also cut and
bruised.
Deputy chief Short raced to the scene
of the accident I'm his automobile and
took charge of the work II getting the
truck back To the fire house. Murray, the
motorman. will appear in the Morrisania
court this morning. To explain why he did
not heed the fire trucks bell