The evening world., 1913-09-22
THREE ARE KILLED, 50 HURT
{ IN LONG ISLAND ROAD WRECK

face and legs cut.
| WARRINGTON. p. train hand OF
MILESTONE: bruised about body.
| w,ASSERAfANN. FREDERICK. OF
whitestone: right leg broken. taken to
Flushing Hospital
WAYLAND. ARIES. Ninth ave.
nue.. whltestone; left leg broken. chin
| cut.
wE1sMANTLE. ADoLPH. College
| Point: decorations of face.
| wItITESIDE. FRANK, policeman OF
whitestone Landing; ribs broken. chess
injured.
WILkE. ALBERT. No 2aa Fourteenth
street. College Point. confusion OF right
leg
WOODS. ERNEST. Fourth avenue,
Whitestone. sprained legs. broken nose.
ZERDACH. WILLIAM. of whitest0ne.
out and bruised.
The collision occurred on . single
stretch OF track Just beyond tho over
head crossing at Third avenue, College
Point. and on a sharp curve where the
grade pitches sharply downward In the
direction Of whitestone.
Tho New York bound train, consistins
|
twenty minutes on Its way from the
city to whitestone Landing. where Il
turned back for the return trip to Man
haitian. A freight train at Flushing had
! blocked the track and Conductor
Thomas Condor and Motorman Hoehlein
supposed. as they left whitestone Land.
ing. that Loeder's train would be held
up at Flushing to allow them to pass.
BOTH SUPPOSED THEY HAD A
CLEAR TRACK.
They had made up two minutes and
were eighteen minutes late and were
bowling along at high speed when they
rushed into the other train. For some
reason no stop order had been given to
Loeder or to Conductor Jasper Bells
and they supposed they had Q clear
track TO the end Of the line at White
stone Landing.
The Manhattan bound train was
heavily loaded. Most OF its passengers
were men. and they packed the two
cars SO closely that the aisles wer,
filled. Som, had boarded the train al
College Point as It passed up the lin,
some minutes before. intent on gettinl
|
emptied at Whitestone Landing, ant
started back on tho return journey. Or
the train from Manhattan. composed o
Ave steel cars. we're probably less tina,
sixty persons oil told.
, The two trains came head.on With
roar that could be heard back at tn
College Point station. The first car O
the speeding west-bound train strucl
/ the front Of the oncoming east
bound train with tremendous impact
STEEL CONSTRUCTION RiPPEl
ON TWO CARS.
Both front cars reared from the track
like fighting bulldogs In q deith griE
The steel construction crumpled an
: ripped back for q distance OF five O
six seats In each CART looked after
ward az II some giant hand had skinne
I the steel plates back a. one would ski
a banana.
After hanging at poise with the fron
trucks Of both cars lifted high aboy
the tracks. the front car OF the east
, bound train wavered and then fell owe
, to ono side and the ramming ca
dropped down on the side OF tho d.
(; rallied car. There was q fash Of blu
fame from the third rail and the weir
play Of sparks that always accompanIe
J accidents on electrified roads.
Neither motorman had a chance I
; jump TO save himself. 80 sharp Is tn
curve upon which both trains came to
h gether In the cut below the Third ave
Z nue. bridge. Hoehlein Of the westboun
and Loede: Of tho eastbouEd trains wer
, caught In their motorman's boxes an
. Instantly killed. Conductor Boerckel O
tho westbound train might have escape
I death had 1t not CHANGED that Just be
}. fore the crash he walked through tn
train to speak to Motorman Hoeh,eir
|. lie stood near tho motorman's box .
. the moment Of impact
PASSENGER IN TERROR ATE
h THE CRASH.
For an instant after the crash the,
o was no sound save the grinding {
steel on steel As the crushed ends {
It the collidlng cars slipped In their hol
I. the ono against the other. Then fro
both cars came the terrified shouts {
II passengers and the cries Of the injure
:. Tho front car Of the train bound fro
/; Manhattan to milestone Landing co..
tanned very few passengers: the frol
., car OF the train Manhattan bound W;
ID crowded and there tho most injuri
were suffered.
t. Twenty policemen. ordered 10 Ne
n York to assist In handling the crow
at tho Gaynor funeral. were sitting I
,; gethcr in the rear Of the FIRST car OF Il