Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-02
Ninety-Eieht Killed ans
More Than 100 Injured
in Brooklyn.
DOUBLE WRECK IN
TRANSIT TUNNEL
One Train Leaves Track and Can
Following Crash Into Wrsekaes.
Accident indirsctly Due TO Strike q
, Motornen--Grsen crsws Said e
Have Been in charss-Nis;d invss.
tisation Started.

New York. Nov. with the death
toll placed at ninety eighth BY the
Brooklyn police. rigid Investigation,
were under way today by the public
service commission. District Attorney
Lewis and Mayor Hylan to determine
the blame for the wreck last nisht OF :
Brighton Beach train OF the Brooklyn
! Rapid Transit Company In the Malbon
street tunnel Brooklyn.
Yesterdays strike Of motormen ana
motor switchmen Of the company v,s
settled during tho early morning hours.
company officials agreeing to REIN
state tweuty-nine discharged union
employees.
William Lewis. the train dispatcher.
pressed into service as . motorman.
and Samuel Ruffo. a guard on the
train. were arraigned in police court
today on charge Of homicide and were
held without bail for examination
Thursdy.
President Timothy s. willims, OF the
transit company. asserted. that altho
Lewis was a motor switchman, he was
q trained man" and capable OF run.
ming train. Lewis was pressed into
| count OF the strike.
Mayor Hylan instructed Police Com
missioner Enright to posi- men At al
terminals and startlnk plnces of thu
IL" trains in Brooklyn today With In
structions not to allow train to run
unless an experienced motorman was
in charge.
More Than 100 Injured.
More than 100 persons were injured
In the crasah according to police esti-
mates. and it was believed that a num-
Der of these will die. XII
Another phase Of today's investisa-
tion that attracted interest was tho
fact that the train was composed Of
wooden cars. declared to be Mt least
twenty-five years old
The crash occurred when the train
ahead. said to have been In charge Of
"A green motorman jumped the
track at n switch and another train
running in the same direction
plunged into the rear cars.
According to survivors. the motor
man evidently was unused to the
road, as he was compelled 10 back up
at one point when he had taken the
wrong switch.
Both Trains Crowded.
Both, trains were jammed with
passengers.
Immediately after the crash the
wrecked cars burst into flames adding
to the terror of those who had es-
capped injury and increasing the peril
Of those pinned in the wreckase.
Police reserves from dozen sta
ttons were rushed TO the scene and
they sent in calls for all the ambu-
lances In BROOKLYN. The fire depart
ment also was called.
Rescue work was retarded by the
fact that the crash occurred in n
deep cut. known as the Malhone ST
tunnel"
Tho injured and dead we're carried
up ladders taken from fire apparatus
Charrcd bodies were placed in burlan
bags to shroud them from the gaze OF
the thousands OF persons who gath
cred within q few minutes after the
collision.
Policemen AVID fremen we're liter
ally mohhed hv frerz!ad ,nen and
women. who feared thu burdens thev
carried might he members OF their
families
Hundreds Of reserves formed cor
don around the tunnel and kept
back the great throng from the long
line OF ambulances which came clanr
irc from every direction.
More than 100 members Of the
womcn's Motor Corps OF America re-
sponded with their cars
Survivors in Panic.
Survivors Of tho crash crawled from
the wrcckacc and ran thru the
tunnel. screaming and weapirc, ur-
mindful Of the danger from the live
third rails which bordered the tracks.
Passengers told the police the
motorman failed 70 slacken speed AZ
ne should nave done at tine tunnel.
suddenly the first car left the track
and PLUNGED into the concrete wall.
dragging the others behind with X,
The tragedy marked the hrst dav
Of strike called by the company's
motormen to enforce the reinstate
ment Of twenty nine discharged mem
bers OF the Brotherhood Locomo-
tive Engineers as ordered by the
tionaly war labor hoard.
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