The sun., 1916-09-16
one KILLED, 81 HURT
IN CAR ACCIDENTS
Elevated Trains Crash. Caus-
ing Panic and Injury to
Many Passengers.
WOMAN HIT By A BRICK
Violence Decreases as Police
Send Squads to Roofs in
Turbulent Districts.

One man was killed and thirty-four
persons were injured yesterday in acct
dents on the Elevated and surface lines
Of this city. with this increase Of more
than 100 per cent. in the number OF
accidental injuries went a marked de-
crease In personal violence.
One feature Of the day was the estab-
lishment Of a patrol on The roofs OF
apartments and tenement houses along
Ninth avenue Repeated showers OF
stones and an occasional pistol shot
directed at the elevated rains have
caused 30 much trouble that Sergt.
Burns was sent out witt a squad OF
men.
The most serious accident Of the day
took pace at SOS =. NJ. when two seven
car trains. bound north. came into COL
lision on the Third avenue elevated line
at Fifty ninth street. One train wa dis
charging passengers. most OF them FAC
tory workers, at the station when the
second train. In charge Of Notorman
Charles r. Seeiig. a strike breaker. OF SIS
Forest avenue. The Bronx. ran into II
from the rear. Sceiig later explained
that the rails we're slippery from the
rain.
climb Out wiadows.
Twenty-seven persons had to be treated
by ambulance surgeons from Reception
and Fower hoepitas. When the crash
came and the front platform OF the Sec
ond train ground the rear platform Of tbs
first. men and women started climbing
through the windows and over the gates
Patrolmen Martin p. Dunn Of thu
Clinton street and John Flood Of th<
East Sixty-seventh street police stationi
were In the crowd at the time. The!
tried to prevent the crowd from warm
Ing down upon the tracks. but could not
! Many ran 10 the Fifty-third or sixty
event. street stations by way OF tn
tracks. and q few climbed down thu
pillars TO the street.
Flood sent a call to his police station
and Capt. Wall sent along fifteen men
Later Inspector Boettler concentrates
$50 more bluecoats at Fifty-ninth street
Reports Of many killed and injured ha'
made the crowd paricky and hard 4
control.
AmonE the seriously injured were An
nile Gleason Of sos Elton Avenue. tn
Bronx, whose right leg was broken an
who was taken to the Reception Hos
p!.a!. ard Michael De'riech of 10
Third avenue. several Of whose ribs wer
fractured. Patrolmen Dunn and JOSEPH
A. whitmore Of the East l:5th stree
police station both were hurt slight
and we're sent home.
car Hits lee Wagon.
Another acciden. earlier in the day a
Ninety-second street and Third avenu
injured two more. A Third avenue sur
face car ran into an ice g Ralp
Tossona Of l43 West Tooth street an
Mrs. Annie Schwart OF 2ol Eas
Eieh,ieth street both were treated by
surgeon from the Reception Hospital.
Antony RIFT. a cook for strike break
er.. was found dead on tn
tracks Of the elevated line q
I55th street and Eighth avenue las
night. He had been run over by
train. A woman was hit BY a brick a
i32d street and Third avenue as sh
rode in an elevated train yesierda,
Her forehead was cut and she wa
taken to her home.
SIN another accident. at kingsbridg
road and Kingsbridge terrace. caused In
juries TO four more persons. " sur
face cars were In collision.
The strike has taxed the police forc
TO such an extent that sixty-four rookie
who started In on a three months cours
At the school for recruits have been as
signed to active duty after only nv
weeks Of instruction. Forty-two men o
the mounted police who went up to syria
cuse on a hike are coming back by ra'
as fast as they can traVel