The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-23

a.
'nan hfty persons In H. aitnoush the
register showed ina eVenty-eish Iares
iad oeen rung up since IL iei' the rerry
fell straight down. TO observers on
Inc street level II appeared that the
trucks had not left the trscks' Az
eltner end OF tne chasm 'he TRACKS nau
bent down"ard anu theh snapped on
under the strain. The SURFACE car Tell
girl caught under the front step 1t
clear just before the car struck the
bottom.
Those inside were terribly hurt. As
the fremen and the police ran toward
II. they heard cries and groans. Girls
shrieked that their arms and legs were
broken. capt. Ferdinand Butenschoen
or Engine ~ saw the girl who was
pinioned under the front step He called
Tor help aud two score mighty backs
bent to the burden OF the car. They
Itted the front end clear and Buten-
schoen picked up the dead girl That
was after the first rescue work had
been done
william thompson. chief engineer for
'ne Natohal CLOAK suit company.
was IN MS engine room at the south
east corner or the big building, which
sAtenus from rwenty-iourth street TO
Iw~enty-nfth street, when Irving Hall,
~ ''N''
~ "eeH an a'S'ueht III 'he SUBWAY.
Ihey GOT niteen men together and
satner,ns LADDERS ropes ana COILS or
WIZ 'hey hurried out Men VINO were
m.ne eNcaVa,loh ana VINO nadht been
nur, ias'eheu tne ropes ana wires around
"Vnn"en "nu t"lS' Hoh,e OF 'he1n nadiy
nsuuII.u ,nese were nauIeu up 10 the
'"ee' N'e' Wy i"oHlpsoh ana MS men
Ntntoh IneFf 0uNckIl.
Firo chic, kor,or baa 81.
nr., ai,rn- 4, ,as e., ~ W
samo enc ron, lin 49, ~
Are In Tho ta,non" p,a"o.a' III, y ~
nan ro"s,,r' " IN
comnap,.s arr,rtna a., nose
n.sn pressure was gone ana a call FOR
soanners was SEM IL Drought nineteen
" 'he Ola ehslhes' They got water
rroiu tne STAND pipes OF the National
SVoAs unu sun company TO put out the
IT, Una NAG started among the crushed
un'oes men 'hiei hehIon signalled
y auuI,Iohai heip-the s'snai known as
nc iour threes AND reserve hremen
sne rom every section or the city
'esvn's . mem IN an.
tue nreineh put DOW their long lad
rS1s 'h'o 'he excavation. ana after that
INC WORK OF settihg the injured and dead
Az surface proceeded rapidly. Am
uulshees had been summoned from New
'o.n iiosp'tdI' 81 N~lncents, Bellevue
anu fo'Sc'lnic' Betore their arrival a
4reat many persons had been carried
INTO the CLOAK company's building Theo-
oore =. MarseIes' the Vice-president and
general anage VINO arrived at his
once AZ $3.50 O'Clock. ordered the place
TO be thrown open to the injured. His
employees come in two shifts, one al S
0ClfANK and nnnfh4F NJ III All 81.
eariy rescue work was at Its height
hundreds OF girls came rushing in TO
learn about their friends or to report
Tor work. Only the rarest kind OF dis
cipline prevented a panic.
Woman Takes Full barge.
h'1s sirsihIa spencer. VINO Is In
SnaIse OF tne "eiiare work OF the COM
pans' Just happened TO get there at 5
ooioch. d hsit hour before the usual
'mne s"e reports she Immediately TOOK
SnAree OF everything. Miss Mary 7.
s~uaouen' mead nurse in the company
hospital ana Miss Caroline Peck. as
70 the injured ana made them As COM
the ambulance surgeons
Miss Spencer related several curious
Incidents to Indicate the conditions th,,
Sne ana ner assistants had 10 face. One
woman whose leg was broken ken, grab.
bing at the dress OF every attendan n,
that went by her as she Law on one N
the restaurant sofas. Another woman
insisted that she had lost her right eve
To quiet her they closed the other eve
and when she learned tina, she could
still see she became calmer. one man
an Italian. yelled loudly thai ne xould
lose his Job II he didn't leave for work
Immediately. They had 10 send for his
employer 10 quIet him and he refused
TO GO to the hospital until he had beer
assured that his lob would wait for biv,
Many girls were suffering .ImnIv iron
hysteria. One OF them. Dorothy Mad.
delena OF 277 Summit avenue Jersey
City, who had seen the accident from
the second story OF the building. broke
down completely. A sedative was ad.
ministered and she regained her com,
posure as suddenly as she had lost II
Thereafter, according to Miss Spencer
she was one OF the most efficient
workers In the place. attending at least
nifty OF the company's employees whc
suffered from hysteria.
Nan Helps Rescue Three.
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