New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10
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CROWLEY. Katherine 2ss West l2jth St; lscsra-
tions.
CROWLEY. Mary. three years. old. 2ss West i25tl
HARLEM HOSPITAL.
HAGEN. Peter I4s West I6sih st. will die in
tsrnsl injuries ribs broken
LANzAIAN. Manuel 222 West lilst st.: coniusions
Of face and body.
HAHAN Herman. Isl Edgecomb sv.: lacsrations
o'KEEFE Luke. guard. 576 West lSlst St. frac'-
MAXWELL. John J.. s64 ST. Nicholas a1: In
ternsl injuries.
GRAMMAR. Emanuel eco West 1924 st.: con-
tusiOns.
o'DoNNELL. Ralph. a65 West l5Sd st contu-
MANUEL. Bertram les West i2sth st.: decorations
OF arms and legs.
STEWART. william. PA West teeth ST.: fractured
ribs.
The following were treated by ambu-
lance surgeons and went to their
homes. Thomas McMann, motorman,
157 Edgecomb ey., face scOrched; Pat
rick Wynn, switchmsn, II West l22d
St, COMMISSIONS, and Agnes White, 2l3
Lexington av.
The crash caused one OF the worst
passenger panics known in traffic acct
dents in the city. But for an interval
Of perhaps a minute, which elapsed be-
tween the time the express pulled into
the station and the moment the local
crashed into it, the casualties would
have been double what they proved
10 be.
The express which was rammed left
Rector street at 6:02 o'clock. 1t ran
as a local 70 Christopher St, and
then started on it's express run to
18th st. 1t used the centre track,
switching on to the northbound track
at ll5th 81. IL arrived at 10th ST.,
discharged its passengers and the guards
had just snapped the gates back in
1 place when the local doomed up behind.
Passengers went sprawling in seats
and in the aisles as the trains came
/ together. The first car of the local
and the rear express car came together
with a crash that reduced them TO
wreckage, tearing up the third rail as
their wheels left the track. Flames at
once sprang up in the debris, filling
the cars, in which were passengers
shouting and screaming, with smoke.
Sleuth Prevents Deaths.
But for the heroic work of Detective
Thomas Donohue, Of the First Branch
/ Detective Bureau, who was in the first
local car, many more lives might have
been lost, AS the flames shot up, he
yellod TO the men to keep quiet.
Come on, you men, don't lose your
/ heads" he shouted. Get the extin-
guishers out and help fight this fire.
/ Keep the women quiet"
| In the din score of men ignored
Donohue's advice, breaking windows
/ and fighting to get out on the rails.
I The detectives persistence at last rail-
/ lied the courage of some of the pas
sengers, who pulled down axes and
3 extinguishers and began trying to re-
store order. Windows were opened.
letting the smoke out and Donohue
began herding the mass Of men, women
and children back toward the rear of
the car.
Only the forward end of the local
train was even with the station plat
form. The rest of the cars, in which
there were more than 500 persons,
were far back on the tracks, the only
landing place being the narrow wooden
walk used by the roads repairmen.
Donohue drove all the persons in mis-
car back and out the rear platform
onto this walk, helping women out and
/ aiding other passengers.
! By this time the flames from the
/ burning cars were shooting up, threat
/ ening to envelop both trains. As fast
I IS the passengers got out on the walk
/ beside the track Donohue sent them
marching in single file southwark
toward the 10th ST. station. lie kept
at his work until all were out OF the
local train, and then got them moving.
The height Of the tracks above the
roadway at 10th st. is sixty-fve feet.
From there south the tracks rise grad
ually, until at the 10th st. station
they are 10 feet above the ground.
Along this narrow path, dark and slip
perry from snow and rain, Donohue led
his army, many OF them women, tottep-
ing and supported by those nearest
them. Several of the women carried
children in their arms.
Many Led to Safety.
Patrolmen jenkins and Manisof, Of
the West l23d ST. station, and Patrick
VIM, in charge of the switch house,
were Donohue's chief lieutenants. The
policemen got up 10 the station plat
form soon after the collision. threw