Arizona republican., 1918-11-02

OVER 100 KILLED
 IN N. Y. WRECK
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women who had feared the burdens they carried might be members of their families.
 Hold Back Crowds
 Hundreds of reserves formed a cor don around the tunnel and kept back the great throng from the long line of ambulances which came changing from every direction.
 More than 100 members of the Womens Motor Corps of America re- sponded with their cars to the calls for help. All kinds of vehicles were pressed into service to carry the dead and injured to hospitals and morgues. Twenty five bodies had been received at the Kings county morgue at 10 o'clock.
 Survivors of the crash crawled from the wreckage and ran through the "tunner' screaming and weeping un- mindful of the danger from the Tive" third rails which bordered the tracks. Their cries quickly brought aid from persons living in the neighborhood who gave what assistance they could until policeand firemen arrived.
 According to the passengers it be- came evident soon after the leading
 
 motorman was unfamiliar with the line which runs on the elevated structure until it reaches Franklin avenue, where 1t descends gradually to the sur face and enters the cut.
 When the train reached the "tunnel' passengers told the police, the motor man failed to slacken speed as he should have done. Suddenly the first car left the track and plunged into the concrete wall, dragging the cars behind with it.
 James Monahan, Brooklyn fire man, who was standing on the rear platform of the first train and who saved his life by Jumping, declared h.. believed the motorman had lost con- trol of the train as it went around a curve into the cut. Looking back, he said he saw another train close behind. Just before the crash he seized two girls who were on the platform with him and leaped, landing in a pile of stones. Except for bruises, all thres of them escaped injury.
 Notwithstanding the statement of District Attorney Lewis and the as- sertions of survivors that the heavy loss of life was the result of a second train crashing into the rear of the on. | which left the tracks, reports reach ing the public service commission were to the effect that there was no col- | lision.
 It was said at the offices of the commission that in failing to take a switch which would permit another train from the opposite direction to pass the one bound for Coney Island left the rails and crashed at high | speed into the concrete wall of the | tunnel. Reports indicated that the trains carried about 300 passengers.
 Bursts Into Flames 1 The gloomy tunnel was quickly con- verted into shambles. The wreckage burst into flames increasing the inde- scribable panic among the passengers, Almost every passenger in the first car was killed or injured. Many of those unable to drag themselves free of the Wreckaee are believed to have been burned to death. Dozens of the bodies removed were charred beyond recog- milton and only few of them had been identified late tonight. The walls of the cars were crushed in as the train side swiped the tunnel wall and many of the passengers were ground to death against the concrete.
 Frantic survivors scrambled madly to climb up the side walls of the cut on either side of the tunnel. Their screams and shrieks of the injured brought l hundreds of persons living in the vii cinity to their aid. but organized rescue work was not possible until the arrival of police reserves and firemen, who lowered ladders to the tracks. Stretch CTS from the scores of ambulances which responded to hurried calls for help were lowered into the cut and the injured lashed to them so they could be taken out.
 Loved Ones Frantic The bodies were taken to the Snyder avenue police station until there was no more room for them there and then the platform of the Prospect park sta tion. a block below the wreck, was used as a temporary morgue.
 It was not until hours afterward when mothers and fathers, wives and husbands became alarmed at the ab- sence of their loved ones and learned oi the wreck that they besieged the morgue. Women screamed and fainted when they came upon the bodies they hoped they would not find and ii was necessary to establish a temporary hospital to care for those overcome bJ grief.
 In Embrace of Death r The rescuers who arrived first found women and girls with their arm: around each other pinned beneati broken seats. In the first car passen gers were crushed against the roof Some of them had been pierced witt splinters of wood while others had beer mortally wounded by broken glass. II the heart of the wreckage. under tom of debris, even the police and firemel were aghast at the carnage they cam' upon.
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