Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-01-15
SCORES OF PERSONS IN HOS
PITFALLS AND ONE WOMAN 10
DEAD As RESULT OF
EXPLOSION.
RUM0Rs OF TERRIBLE
CATASTROPHE SPREAD
Underground Service Likely to Be
Tied Up for Several Days az Re-
suit Of Accident-This Would
Cause Congestion Without
Parallel in History Of City.

New York, Jan. Tone woman is
dead, ID other persons are in seri-
GUS condition and 700 are suffering
from after-effects of shock and smoke
asphyxiatton as result Of the worst
transportation accident in New York's
history.
Thousands of persons were SO I'M.
nerved by fright that they required
medical attention.
A blowout tied up the entire sub.
way system from the upper Bronx to
Brooklyn.
Between Fourteenth street and
Ninety-sixth street all stalled trains
were shrouded in darkness. One hour
and forty minutes later fire broke out
In the block between Fiftieth and
Fifty-ninth streets.
Directly under Fifty-fifth street a
northbound express train and south
bound local were stalled. Both were
damned with passengers. It was these
who suffered most
Many Rendered Unconscious.
Trapped in the darkness, with the
tunnel filling with the choking smoke
from burning insulation rubber, many
were rendered unconscious.
Others, utterly panic-stricken, tore
loose from the clutches of the more
cool-headed who would restrain them,
and attempted to find their way
through the dark, smoke-filled tunnel
to an exit.
Some fell by the way unconscious.
Others fought their companions in
frenzied panic.
That there were not more than 100
actually killed was due to the speedy
arrival Of the f1remen, who tore open
manholes and ventilator gratings, low
cred ladders and brought down lights
SO that the victims could see.
For nearly two hours. Chief Kenlop
and his men worked in relays, getting
the passengers to safety. Hardly one
was brought out conscious.
All AmbuIances Busy.
All Of the ambulances of the city
and all Of the pulmotors available
were rushed to the scene.
The streets in the vicinity resembl-
ed battlefield. Unconscious forms
were stretched out everywhere and up
and down the line the doctors hurried,
administering first aid.
Some were able to go home. Others
were made comfortable in theaters,
garages and private houses.
Yet, as an evidence of the magni-
tude of the disaster, the hospitals con-
tanned emergency patients, as follows:
Polytechnic hospital, 65 patients, Of
whom six were in serious condition.
Bellevue hospital, five women and
three men, Of whom two women were
in serious condition.
Roosevelt hospital, Is, of whome five
were in serious condition.
West Side Y. M. c. A., 10.
One Woman Dies.
The one death was a woman, not yet
identified, who died shortly after being
taken to the Polytechnic hospital.
The situation around the Fifty.ninth
street station was the worst on the
subway system, but under Central
park, where the tunnel is narrow and
low, hundreds of women tainted, and
there were serious panics. There was
no smoke panic here. however.
The subway service, according to
Commissioner Mccall Of the public
service commission, may be tied up for
several days as result Of the acct
dent. II this proves true, it will mean
that more than 100000 persons a
day, carried by the subway trains, will
be diverted to the surface and elevated
systems and cause congestion with.
out parallel in the history of the city.