New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Two Crowded TrolleyCars
Manned by Strikebreak-
ers Collide Near En-.
trance to Ebbets Field
MotOrrnan Blamed
For the Accident
Driving at Terrific Speed
When Smasll-Up Comes {;
Reporters Barred From
Meetings of Strikers

One man was Killed and eighty
eight persons were injured-a score
Of them severely-in a rear-end COL
lision between two Flatbush Avenue
trolley cars of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company at Malbone Street
and Flatbush Avenue, yesterday.
Both cars were driven by strike
breakers.
The cause of the collision was the
terrific speed at which the motor
sman of the rear car was driving
ahead down steep grade leading
from Prospect Park Plaza to NAL
bone Street. The motorman is said
to be one James Mooney. He took
advantage Of the confusion which
ensued and escaped through Pros
pect Park. A general alarm for his
capture was sent out by the police.
The rear end of one car and the
front of the colliding car were de-
molished.
The dead man, Guam Hoo, a Chinese
fifty years old, of 1880 Bedford Avenue,
was on the rear platform of the car
into which MONEYS car smashed and
was crushed to death. His cousin; Wang
Kow, of % Pell Street, who was with
him, was injured. Frank Edwards. con-
ductor of the rear car, was arrested
Both Cars Crowded
Both cars were filled with passen-
gers, mostly men who were on their
way to Ebpets Field to see the bali
game. Thea screams of passengers and
: the terrible noise Of the crash at
tTaeted thousands to the scene.
More than fifty policemen, command
ed by captain Edward J. Burns, of the
18th Precinct, were required to quell
the confusion. Chief Inspector Lahey
arrived shortly after the accident in
an automobile and took charge of the
situation. Thirty of those injured
were were treated on the spot by physicians
from the Kings County, Norwegian,
swedish and williamsburg hospitals,
@ VINO arrived in eight ambulances.
Fifty-eight persons were taken to KINGS
county Hospital. There it was declared
shat M. Rickodina, thirty-two years
Sid' OF 1886 Seventy-fourth Street,
ssooklyn, passenger on one of the
ears, VINO suffered a fractured back,
would probably die
The accident, which took place not
more than fifty feet from the scene of
the Ma!bone Street tunnel wreck Of
toe B. R. T. in 1918, which cost the
,ves OF more than ninety persons, was
Lne most important development in the
strike situation on the B. R. T. lines
yesterday.
James Sheridan, chairman OF the
executive committee of the Amalga-
nated, last night unexpectedly mani
tested his displeasure with reportcrs
shc caused them to be barred from the
stsike meeting in the Brooklyn Labor
Lyeeum. No newspaper men will be
allowed at future meetings of the
strikers, it was announced, the report
eis being blamed for the loss of the
strike. viz
Strikers Raising Fund
Ahe strikers, in statement issued
!fem strike headquarters in Brooklyn,
ase!ared that they are determined to
ssasH ";s. ~ out Tor months il necessary and,
otlcT unions, are raising
fund of 100000 Both Judge julius
mayer and Receiver Lindley NJ. Car
iison, OF the B. R. T., maintained their
ATTITUDE ATTITUDE Of infiexible opposition to the
union. They declared that the inter
tention Of Governor Smith in the situ-
s:ion on Monday, when he is to meet
samuel Gompers, president Of the
american Federation of Labor, in an
.nefs to settle the strike. will not al
yer their attitude.
- Assistant District Attorney Nicholas
>Faivagei, who made a preliminary in
Mestigation of the accident and heard
Witnesses at the Prospect Park police
ststion, declared that the accident was
aee TO criminal negligence on the part
os the motorman" in driving his car at
terrific speed while conversing with
ssssengers assembled about him on the
rom platform. A dozen Of the pas
'ehgefs examined by Mr. Falvagci
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