The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-07
GIRLS SAY MEN
AIDED THEM IN
SUBWAY PERIL
Tell of Helping Hands EX-
tended in Escaping Death
From Smoke.
CHTNALROl'S CONDUCT
IN MANY INSTANC rs

Almost without exception those who
were overcome 10y smoke in the three
trains were go exhausted when hey
reached their homes that they wero
obliged to g1 to bed. Many were ordered
acre by physicians they had called To
i've them further treatment besides that
norded at the emergency hospitals and
IA the Broadway sidewalks. Many were
,ill 30 weak and shaken that they were
forbidden TO taik. Othcrs told in faint.
,ubdued voices Of experiences the memory
Of which. they said, they would carry
with them through life.
Dorothy Falk, VINO h. -. told at ner
home, 20 West ll3th street how She and
her sister Rosp. II. were carried from
m express train 10y two mon passengers
20 the Fifty-uinth street station where
both roscuers and rescued collapsed
THE men IN our express we're very
good To the women she said. when
we first stopped Rose and I were the
ruly girls standing. and men gave va
their seats - minute or two later. Two
men helped us out. aud [ saw lots Of other
men do the same for other girls. My
brother Max was In the train ahead.
Il think We were in that train two
hours. II seemed much longer, and the
guards kent the doors closed and wouldn't
let anybody out. Finally the smoke was
getting 80 thick that we couldn't ses
4 thing, aud several women tainted in
our car. ! think IL was worse further
back because | could hear screams and
grOans from there. II was terrible. but
the men kept trying to quiet us all tho
'.me. although could see they were
getting more aud more anxious.
Finally some Of them forced the guards
10 open the doors. and they took Us uI
al. inf ST. rot I mai n,
member seeing dinly the light OF the exit
there and lots Of firemen's lanterns, and
then didn't know anything until | found
myself In the Overland automobile store
! tried to 60 to work after that, but
got hvsterical and had 10 come home
Rose had already gone home"
Goes On into Thick smoke.
Lewis RosenfeId OF Is5 East llOtt
street was IN an express train that passed
Fl(ty-ninth street "A few minutes after
., stopped for twenty minutes, anC
then. he saws, went right into the thicl
smoke IN the tube at Fifty-third street.
When We first stopped" he said, "ant
tho power was turned on and the light,
cot dim. everybody took IT as joke
Nobody dreamed of what Was going on II
the tunnel ahead Of us We stayed Their
twenty minutes or more, and still nobody
got uneasy and We smelled no smoke tina
| could notice. Then the mOtOrmAn OF oul
train BOUNDED the whistle twice and wen
ahead. The power had come on again, bu
a minute later 1t stopped and NO wer'
right In that awful smoke,
II don't think we quite realized what ]
meant for a couple Of minutes, and then l
got so sitting that we tried to get tn
Guards to let as out At lirst they vouldn'
hut finally tho doors were opened. VI!
that time there was lot OF pushing an
some OF the people seemed TO have gon
mad ] punched two or three men I saw
pushing women aside. and helped severa
women out Of the car Then ! starte,
TO crawl for the emergency exit - Fifty
third street and made two girls oil
either side Of mo do ihc same.
"Onc Of them said to me, " you saw
me I'll pray fol you all the rest of NJ!
life ! got them AZ far az the gratinl
opening and then guess must hav
tainted All ] know Is that somebod,
grabbed me,
There was no excuse for the motor
man Of our train taking us right int
that smoke. lie should have known wha
was going on. We could have got on
and walked back a block or two TO FIFTY
ninth street while We were waiting tina
twenty minutes, and there would hav
been no panic AT all"