The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
14HURT WHEN CAR
RAMS CONEY TRAIN
Vanderbilt Avenue Trolley
Passengers Are Injured,
Seven Seriously.
BRAKES SLIDE IN WET

Fourteen persons were injured. sever
of them seriously. when an open Van
derbilt avenue surface car smashed into
the rear OF a stalled Culver line three
car train at Van Sicklen station. Coney
Island, about o'clock last night. The
box, the force OF the crash being SC
great that passengers were driven
through the backs OF seats.
Seriously Injured.
AREsKoG. ALBERT A.. :s. ss Lawrence
street. Brooklyn; left hip broken and
right hip dislocated. Coney Island Hos
pltal.
DONNELLY. DANIEL IS, Ocean Park
way and Kings Highway. Brooklyn: IN
ternal Injuries. Coney Island Hospital.
GRASCH, MRS. ANNA. rs years old. lt
St Marks place. BROOKLYN; internal in
juries. Taken to Coney Island Hospital.
GRIMM. MISS DORA 27. AIS Bloomfield
street. Hoboken; left leg broken and In
ternal injuries Coney Island Hospital
GRIMM, MRS ELLA 5s, mother OF Miss
Grimm: possible fractured skull. Coney
Island Hospital
HELMISPELIER. MRS. EVA. 80, s5S
fremont avenue The Bronx; right leg
broken. Coney Island Hospital
MEYERS. LEWIS %. 1907 Sixtieth street.
BROOKLYN. Internal injuries. Taken to
his home by a friend.
The Vanderbilt avenue cars make their
entrance into Coney Island over the
Culver line tracks, and as the stretch
Just before reaching the Van Sicklen
station Is clear one they generally
go at good speed. The Culver lire
train was held up by a signal in the
station waiting for a Sea Gate car TO
pass ahead OF it on Neptune avenue.
The motorman OF the Vanderbilt ave-
nue. car. Charles Wilmot OF l05 Wyck-
off street. Brooklyn, saw the train
ahead OF him and says that he jammed
on his brakes, but, OWNS to the slippery
tracks, they would not work, The car
skidded ahead. sparks flying from the
rails. and slid into the train at almost
full speed. The whole front of the Van
derbilt avenue car was smashed IN, the
first six seats being broken and lifted
from their supports. How Wilmot es-
caped injury he does not know, for he
didn't jump.
When the crash came men and women
in the car had jumped to their feet ana
were thrown forward, breaking through
the seats as they went and piling up in
a mass of wreckage, The pole new on
and both the car and train were in dark
ness, through which the screams Of
women came as they struggled to get
free
Word was sent to the Conoy Island
police station and Capt, John Linden
and his men hurried over In a patrol
wagon. A few of the cars passengers
had been lifted out by some Of tho less
seriously injured, Some were lying in
the roadway alongside the tracks and
others were running aimlessly around.
The passengers of the train. save for
few women who had tainted, were night
ing 10 get out.
Linden and his men lifted the wrecked
seats from those who were still lying
unconscious on the floor OF the car and
made them comfortable on the roadway
until Drs. Held and Geraw arrived from
the Coney Island Hospital Lewis Movers
Was badly injured and the doctors
wanted to take him to tho hospital but
he refused tn 20. A friend finally got
taXicab for him and he was taken
homo in that.
Traffic on the limo was tied up for
about half an hour until wrecklng
crew got the open car back on the track
and moved II away.