The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-07
Subway traffic will be normal this morning.
Frank Hcdicy. manager Of the Interborouoh
Frank Hcdby. o.

One woman dead 172 and children so badly
injured they taken to hospitals where remained
last night and than 500 others partly aphyxaed bruised
battered in stampede of 1000 through choking poisonous
smoke the complete suspension of all traffic the entire sub
system of the city for eight and half hours and the Grip
ping of the plant for several days at eahese the
suits of the simultaneous burning of two big feeder cables fol-
lowing short circuit of the current at Ffthrd street and
Broadway yesterday morning.
That the city need not record another catastrophe vang
the Triangle Shirt Waist fire the Socum disaster due to
good fortune railway equipment and sheer defiance
death the part of the remen and the policemen of the city
cropping through thick killing burning
rubber carried or guided the hundreds to safety.
What Kept the Death List Down.
l. GOOD FoRTUNE-An instant before the turnout a
item train bearing 1000 passed the
spot Of the accident Had this train been stopped point
of the accident all the least three
have been ncneraed by the train in the
greatest danger local. stopped by its emergency brakes
sixty feet to the north of the flames with express
feet back of its forward The platform of the local
train stopped with the ventatng device Ffyfh
street and Broadway enabling $50 to climb be
ried to the upper air
q GOOD EoUIPMENT-The riot of current follow
ing the short crcuitng had effect and
sheahed and the prompt shutting electricity pre-
vented further accidents the screaming shouting passengers
through doors and poured through shattered windows
to the tracks
3. BRAvERY-Heedless the fumes more than 800
fremen and policemen in the ranks deputy chiefs
ion Chiefs and patromen dashed down the
laor swung into the tunnel Fftnnth Ffeth
and staggered back time after time carrying leading
those who had fallen.
d. EFFICIENCY-Aong with the fremen and the police
ambulances from the city hospitals all of them with all
their available all of whom went quietly
effectively administer resoraves gasping hundreds
5. HUMANITY-Every physician in the neghborhood
rushed the volunteer The Consolidated
pumotor and other device
with operate them and the Automobile
Agency open the doors of its establishment as an
emergency hospital.
1000 Persons in the Danger Zone
Although estimated that almost persons were in
actual danger probably will be days before
enough to breathe the fumes the
ing rubber will be able to tell the story.
One thousand more who trapped in the danger
may be able to tell it, for it delrum
in which ramped and little children;
fought climb through broken windows and dense of
humanity TANNED all doors and shouted through tunnel
all in darkness, which made if possible
few Pickering ncandescent storage battery lights
unable smoke and there only the
light of the Fy-ffth street ventator to show the way
safety.
Fortunate remen said afterward that panic
so many of fell There lay their
safety for rising left the air the bottom
tunnel degree cleaner and they lived.
The woman who lost her life identified last night in
the Polycnc Hospital Miss Ellen Grady of 897
North She was William E. Grady principal Pub
lie School made the identification She SO
old and lived with her parents two sisters and aunt at the
Crotona Park address.
Miss Grady employed downtown as a stenographer.
She brought the iron ladder at Fifty
fifth street alive when taken out She died in ambu
lance on the way to the hospital.
No could explain exactly last night Just what had