The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
THREE KILLED AS| COASTER" TRAIN HOPS ITS TRACKS Fourteen Others Injured in Rough Rider Ride" At
 Coney Island. CARS FALL FORTY
 FEET TO STREET Big Crowd Sees Tragedy in Mid air-P office Make
 Investigation.

Ewon1en were killed and fourteen -oth-, Iersg had narrow escapes at. Coney. Is l land last evening when a two car train on. the ocean Beach Amusement com Ii pany'ss scenic railway, the eRoughs kRiders,' at Jones Walk and. the Bow Iery,51unapedS the track forty feet in the .l air. The three who were killed were sIsshot from che track to the sidewalk of Ithe crowded Bowery below. Some of 3.thes fourteen were thrown out on the 4trestle of the roller coaster, but only one was badly hurt Ie The dead are James McDona1d, driv-s 1 Ter of the train, A years old, living at Twenty eighth street and Neptune
 avenue, Coney Island: Mrs. Annie
 Hartman, 65 years old, of 16s Gates avenue, Brooklyn, and Miss Ruth Cud- ldy, 40 years old. of 2S7 Jackson avenue I Long Island City.
 1 5 Mrs Clarence Moles of Spring VaT- ley. N Y, niece of Mrs. Hartman, was seriously hurt She was seated in the first car with her seven -year-old son When the accident happened she received a fracture Of the right arm, but was not thrown out of the car. The boy; whom she held on her lap, es- feaped injury.
 The accident occurred at 5:so o'clock. Only one train was being operated on the railway at the time, and the reg ular driver of this, John Clinton, who
 
 l Island, had left his station for supper 1 a, few minutes before, Mcdonald re- Heving him.
 In Full View of Crowds. The Rough Rider,'' which is one. of
 the swfftest and hiHiest rides on the
 island, makes a. trip from the front of the building on the Bowery. back down scuft on higher trestle 40 feet in the air. Almost at the end of the ride the cars pass through opening in the i arehway forming the face of the struc- ituEe, Whizzdng by in full view of the street.
 ] It was at this point that the car
 jumped. The first truck left the track
 on the curve The second truck, sup porting the rear of the first car and the front of the second also jumped, l but the last truck held to the rails. .l The first car was almost exactly in the
 centre of the arch, and. it turned over on its side, crashing against an iron railing that barred the opening and threw it back on the runway.
 Prfests at Dying Mans Side s s Tne screams of the 16s persons in the cars alarmed the crowd below. Mcdonald. who was in the front of the T first car, was shot head first to. the
 stone walk. In the crowd was the
 Rev. John E. Gallo of the Church of I the Sacred Heart, New burgh, N. Y.
 He hurried to where the driver lay,
 and finding his heart still beating, ad- f5ministered the last rites of the church. q Mcdonald was dead when, few min
 utes later. an ambulance from Coney
 Island hospital arrived with Dr.
 O'Reilly.
 Mrs Hartman and Mrs, .N1oles, who
 Were celebrating the latter,s visit from
 her upstate home, were with Joseph ! Scales. Mrs. Afo1e's father. He had T refused to go. on the ride and was
 watching the ride from the Bowery.
 The body of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
 Hartman, struck within few feet of where he. stood. : was near by,s summoned Policeman John Hubman and Detectives Charles Kellerman and Vite1li. They cIim bed upNto the arehwuy and pulled back to safety a. number of the occupants of
 the car who were hanging periIously
 over the side. They found one man hanging entirely out of the car, head
 downward, with 8 young girl who had been seated next him, despair1ngly
 c1utching his trousers legs. Shouting to l-her to keep her grip, Hubnan and
 Kelerman hurried to her and hauled scrambled down the stairs and disap- 5 peared in the throng that choked the Bowery for blocks on each side. Mean while ViteI1I and the others lifted Mrs. Moie's ch1fd rom her lap ano freed her. She was carried down
 stairs and treated by pr. o'Reilly. but
 insisted on going home,
 Woman Dies on Way to Hospital. , Mrs. Clddy, the third occupant, who was thrown to the street, was ? Hartman. The latter died on the ! journey, and Miss Cuddy died two , hours later from fractured jaw and : internal. injuries.
 Mrs. Celia Provenova, 50 years old of I'll Boerum place, Brooklyn, ge- ceived a severe confusion of the right
 shoulder when she declared, she was
 struck by McDonald's body as it fell
 She was taken to Coney Island hos pita1. Several minor cases of shock
 among passersby who were unnerved by the accident were treated, among
 them being Mrs. Mary Appleton and s Mrs. Katherine Skuey of 336 Fifty 7 fourth street, Brooklyn, with their t four children. Mrs. Appleton reported 2 that in the excitement pickcpocket . had stolen her purse, containing a 3 few dollars. The reserves, under In 3 spector Thomas Murphy, were called out to keep away the crowd. . Thomas Ward, the manager of the 3. ride, was arrested on a charge o1 s homicide He was relased on bonds = of $50 furnished by his brother . William J. Ward, partner in the com g pany. None of the employees was ar e rested. ~ Coroner Ernest Wagner o1 = Brooklyn and Assistant District. At . torney Reuben Wilson arrived. in g
 short time and held an investigation . The coroner refused to make any 9 statement, saying that his examina- g tion was not complete. MT. Wilson = said he had questioned Chief Building v Inspector John c. Snackenberg and e Inspector Patrick Smith, who re. 3 ported that they had examined the
 place and found nothing wrong 8 with it.
 : Inspector Smith declared he had
 made an inspection only three and g