New-York tribune., 1919-01-31
w oman Killed.
Score Injured,
lin IL - Wreck
Steel Train Crashes Into
Wooden Cars on Third
Ave. Line, Near l74,h St.
Three Taken to Hospital
Impact of Collision Heard
Two Blocks; Motorman
Said He Was s'Creepins''

A scven~car all-steel train crashed
INTO train Of seven wooden cars at
6:lo last night on the Third Avenue
elevated line 200 feet north of the
114th Street station. One woman was
killed and a score of persons were IN
jured, three of them being sent to
Fordham Hospital.
The woman killed has not been den
tilted. Those who were taken to the
hospital are:
IRENE PERDIsHET, twenty four
years Old, cashier, coo Oaktrce
Place, The Bronx; decorations and
internal injuries
EMMA STOKES, nfty-two years
old decorations ofg the scalp.
JOSEPH OLEMEDE, train guard,
10 East 199th Street, The Bronx;
fracture OF left leg
Both trains were northbound. There
were about 200 passengers on each.
John f. Britt, motorman of the wooden
train, was inching his way along. set
ting his pace by that Of train ahead.
Albert Nogt. motorman Of nine years
experience. in charge of the steel train,
told the police he too, was Just "crcep-
ing along
Heard Two Blocks Away
Nevertheless, his car struck the rear
of the wooden train with am impact
which was heard two blocks away by
Patrolman Daniel Scanlon and caused
him t. telephone TO Fordham hospital
for ambulanccs and to the quarters Of
Hook and Ladder 27 and Engine {, in
10th Street Then ne ran toward the
wreck, blowing his whistle and rapping
on the sidewalk with his nightstick.
The rear car Of tho wooden train had
been raised clean off the tracks and
had bucklcd. The forward end T the
elbow il formed was jammcd into the
sixth car Of the wooden train and its
sagging rear platform rested on the
roof the foremost steel car, which
had stuck its nose under the rear plat
form of the sixth wooden car and
rooted that also rom the track.
Panic Among Passengers
Virtually every pane Of glass in both
trains was shattered The jagged apcr-
lures were jammcd with sarieking hu-
manity. Men and women were strug-
Cling to hurl thomsclvcs out of the
wrecked cars, and some who were hang
ing from window sils Of the topmosl
wooden car appeared to be on tho point
Of dropping when the police and fire
mon arrived.
The current was turned off promptly.
The fircmcn put up extension ladders
along the whole length Of the wreck
and began plucking out men. women
and children and passing them to the
street
The tumble Of stccl and wood APP
pearcd so impcnctrablc at the pon.
whore the two trains had met that
Battalion Chief Hayes summoned Res
cue Squad No. from its quarters in
Great Jones Street in lower Manhattou
Before its members arrived, however,
the iircmcn had chopped their way nto
the cars and cXtricatcd everybody.
The woman who was killed il be
lcved to have been standing on the
platform Of the sixth wooden car which
was crushed Ike nut between tfc
lower Jaw Of the steel car and the
upper jaw formed by the descending
front platform Of the bucklcd seventh
car Of the wooden train
Description of Dead Woman
She was five feet four inches tall
and weighed about 12o pounds. Her
hair was brown and she wore vine
colorcd coat trimmed with skunk fur. a
blue suit and brown shoes and stock
lngs. ring set with q small diamond
vas on the fourth finger OF her right
hand and she wore a brooch set with
diamonds
Her body was taken to the Bathgatc
Avenue police station and crowds
stormed the place for hours ccking TO
identify her. The wreck had caused
n block Of four hours on the clc> atcd
iinc and despite increased service on
me trolley lines, many honcGocrs IN
ne Bronx were sadly delayed.
Crowds gathered in the streets also
10 watch the work OF rescue and the
reserves Of the Morrisania and Bath
gate Avenue police stations wee called
out to handle them.
Captain Andy Wines, Of The Bronx
detectives, found Vogt, the motormnn
q the steel train, weeping in the s;a-
tton fnastcrs office at the l71th Street
station and took him before Assistant
Attorney Dclagi for examine tion. The
man appeared dhzcd and could only
say Tint he vas just "crcepinl along
"hon there was II crnsh and a beam
anashcd it's way into his apartment
He was not hurt. The night was
clear and the collision occurred on n
straight stretch Of track
what win the Colleges Iie In Fence Time I?
Dean II. w. itoe az the Univ OF WirconsIn
tells The need 0Y rem0uldinK our CollcEcn.