The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-08-25
BROOKLYN SUBWAY
TRAIN BLOWS OUT
TWICE ON ONE TRIP
West End Express Put in
Darkness Each Time of
Flare-Up.
SCORES ARE IN PANIC.
MOtorman Continues Jour
ney, Although Women Call
"Stop the Train."

Two more interruptions in subway
service Slded to the fears of the
underground travelling public to-day
when a b. r. T. West End express
train blew fuse when midway be
tween Pacific Street and De kalb
Avenue at o'clock this morning,
causing a panic on the train which
which bound Manhattanward.
With the blowout the train was
darkened and this set the women in a
frenzy, many of them rushing
through the cars while courageous
men attempted in vain to quiet them.
In the excitement panes of window
glass in some of the cars were broken,
such was the crush of humanity in
the attempts to get further away
from the particular car where the
fuse f1are-up was located.
Screams of the women and young
girls, mingled with shouts of some
men to "stop the train" were either
not heard by the motorman and he
continued on until the next station
There the emergency lights gave
some illumination and quite a num-
Der of passengers alighted and re-
sorted to some other means of transit
to Manhattan. In two minutes the
train restarted and, apparently. all
was well until the train left the Canal
Street Station, where a recurrence of
the blowout threw the passengers
into further state of excitement.
From S.15 to $40 the train was
stalled near the Canal Street station.
Transit Commission inspectors were
sent out to ascertain the complete de-
tails surrounding the double tie-up,
which caused delay all along the line.
| Trains were stalled as far out as
Pacific Street and the interruption
| had its effect on the Manhattan end
| as well.
Electricians and trouble chasers for
the b. r. r. found upon investigation
at Canal Street that the siX-car train
was stalled through the grounding OF
motor wire against the truck of the
third cur. The delay in the tube was
of twenty minutes duration and while
it was hot and sweltering on what is
otherwise humid day, the electric
fans were humning without Interrupt
ton and the lights were restored, all
of which allayed the apprehension
which had been acute on the Brook
| lyn side.
To alleviate the traffic jam the
TRAINS were rerouted from the Man
haitian Bridge through the Whitehall
Street tunnel and brought up Man
haitian toward Canal Street, where by
a process OF switching and more de-
Ilay the traffic was gradually but
slowly limplng along.
Chief Engineer Robert Ridgway OF
the Transit Commission will make q
| rcport to-day on the series of acci-
dents that demoralized east side In
| terborough subway traffic between
Manhattan and Brooklyn for almost
three hours at the peak Of the home
| ward rush yesterday afternoon.
The main tle-ups were from 3:05
| until 5.O6 and from 5:19 to 5:35. 1t
was not until after Z p. NJ. that train
| movement was normal. The B. r. T.
subway and the East River bridges
were taxed to capacity as a result.
Trouble was due to breakdown in
ca, and signalling equipment. M
passengers were compelled to walk
through tubes and although there was
much impatience and inconvenience,
There was no serious disorder Three
trains we're stalled under the river
in the Joralemon Street tunnels foi
periods of half an hour to forty-fi five
minutes. but all the lights remained
on and the fans were going.
There we're about 1000 passengers
on the cars Of the stalled trains. Two
of the trains broke down trying tC
push the one ahead, The passenger.
were all placed in eighteen cars
which finally got out. Later an air
nine on the signal system burst anC
Ian signals went automatically &c
"dangcr" on every track between At
lIantic Avenue in Brooklyn and tn,
lBrooklyn Bridge. Nothing coVll
move 10 or from Manhattan until tn,
lplpe was replaced