New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-26
Lorgnette May Aid Identification.

Lorgnette May Aid Identification.
The dead woman was about forty.
five years old. She carried a gold lorg.
nette bearing the initials "s. F. r." or
IS. F. c."
Just before midnight the surgeon at
tending the woman in Bellevue Hos
pital said she came 20 her senses IonS
enough to say her name was Isabella
Homollston. few moments later she
lapsed into Inconsistencies and died.
The injured are:
Howard Cross, thirty-six, an cleo
trician, Of 259 West i53d Street Fall.
ing timber caught him as he was walk
ing through the excavation inspecting
the lights. In Bellevue. Probably will
die.
CHARLES Nelson. thirty.seven. clerk.
OF llS West Forty fourth Street
Bruises and lacerations and possible
internal injuries In St. Vincent's Hos
pital
John soler, thirty, chauffeur OF
Westwood, N. j. Both legs lacerated.
In New York Hospital.
NJ. Clark, forty-eight. Bruises and
lacerations. In St. Vincent's Hospital.
Not serious.
The United States Realty and I'm
provement Compsny's contract on tho
Broadway and Lexington Avenue sub
way covers, on this section, the work
on Broadway from Twenty-sixth Stree.
to about ten feet north Of where the
street and sidewalk gave way. On this
section the work has progressed 70 the
sub-grade stage and awaits only the
delivery Of steel TO complete the job.
For several weeks storekeepers in the
vicinity Of the accident have remarked,
it was widely stated last evening, tina.
whenever surface car or automobile
rumbled over the planking, the boards
bounced high. The planking extended
from the car tracks, between the rails
Of which the concrete held, to both
curbs. Ten feet beyond the walls Of
mica rock and sand the sidewalks ard
the street planking were supported by
timber columns fourteen inches thick,
which is two inches thicker than the
timber used for a similar purpose on
the Seventh Avenue subway.
Engineers Had No Fear.
The mica rock, William Hayward,
Public Service Commissioner. said last
evening. IS rotten. but public and pri-
vate engineers who had looked over the
ground prior to last evening enter
tanned no fear that traffic could loosen
it sufficiently to drive out the snoring
timer.
About half hour before the cave-in.
the police learned. pedestrians noticed
that the planking was beginning to sag.
but there has been so much jeSting
about the condition OF Manhattan
streets that no serious attention was
paid 10 the situation.
The motorman OF a southbound
Broadway car was the first 70 see the
trouble lie was Malachi Murphy, OF
1877 Columbus Avenue. In his open car
were ten passengers.
His car, proceeding at reasonable
rate of speed, was half way down the
block between Thirty-eighth and Thir-
ty-ninth streets, when the planking
from the northwc q corner Of Thirty
eighth Street and from the west car
raj. TO the sidewalk began 10 disap-
pear, plank after plank falling into
the excavation chamber with a roar.
Before Murphy could stop his car.
the forward truck. with its four wheels.
was hanging over the edge. lie swung
on the reverse and his car started back,
the ten passengers Alnging themselves
to the street in state Of panic.
Taxicab Plunges Into Hole.
Murphy leaped to the street and
then, having started his car out Of
danger. ran back u It and shut Oh he
power. Al. he vas sing tAss taaissS'