The New York herald., 1922-01-04
TROLLEY MISHAPS
INJURE 19 PERSONS
Two Cars Meet in Collision ON
Manhattan Loop of Will
iamsburg Bridge.

Nineteen persons were injured last
night in three trolley accidents, eight
on the Manhattan loop OF the Williams
burg Bridge, when q Nostrand avenue
B. r. T. car rammed and shattered the
| rear platform of Grand street car.
Another accident in which six persons
were hurt was in Jamaica, Queens.
where trolley controller blew out and
the car with panic stricken passengers,
rolled backward down the tracks. Those
injured were hurt in the crush and In
jumping out. In the third accident five
passengers were hurt when a trolley
rammed a truck.
The police said that the accident on
the Williamsburg Bridge loop was due
to the Nostrand avenue car, but did not
arrest the motorman, Walter Gillen, who
apparently thought the Grand street car
was starting around the loop. When the
crash happened passengers were knocked
down and bruised. None was seriously
hurt. The noise was heard in Grand
street and a big crowd collected.
. Patrolman Sullivan of the Clinton
street station called an ambulance from
Gouverneur Hospital and the following
were attended
Alexander Schulman, 210 Penn street
injured left knee; Celia Shapiro, 649 De-
Kaib avenue, facial bruises; Fannie
Hatman 1852 Lee avenue, facial bruises
Celia Kokitznick 631 Marcy avenue;
Anna Nord $50 Tompkins avenue; Sarah
Gerstein, $50 Bedford avenue Sarah
Nadel of 199 Forsyth street. Manhattan,
back injured: Bessie Hefervich, IL
Chrystie street. face bruises. They were
taken home.
After getting half way up an incline
at Hillside avenue. Jamaica. a Flushing
Ior ico
troller. There was a sharp flash and
an explosion, and the car began slipping
backwards. Those on the platforms
threw open the doors and leaped OUT
and women in the car began scream
ing. In the rush to get out Motorman
John Thompson of 34S Bovine avenue.
Flushing, was knocked from his strip
on the controls and carried into the
street. where he fell and was trampled
on.
The car did not attain great speed,
but stopped on reaching the level track
at the foot of the incline. All the way
along people had been leaping off and
some fell and were injured. few pas
sengers were still aboard when the car
stopped.
The huge electric flash as the con-
troler blew out had set fire to grass at
the side OF the tracks and fire apparatus
was called in addition to ambulances.
Those attended for bruises and shock
were Joseph Segalski. 22s South Twenty
nth street, Flushing: Rowena Touriem.
Albany avenue, Flushing: Madge Cum
ningham, sos Clinton avenue, Jamaica (;
John Nelson, AIS Quincy street, Flush
ing: Eleanor Renck, So, 26 Eighteenth
avenue. Flushing. and Thompson. the
motorman. They were able to go home.
Five passengers were cut by glass and
bruised at Broadway and Twenty-etghth
street yesterday when a horse drawn
truck crossed in front of a Broadway
surface car, and crash resulted. The
horses were whirled about. and the pole
OF the truck thrust through a window
of the car. The crash was so sharp
that most of the passengers were
thrown down.
Those hurt were: Jacob Wasserman.
1867 Bedford avenue. Brooklyn: Miss
Clara Pascal, 312 Haven avenue: Helen
Carson, 213 West Seventy ninth street;
julius w. Baer. III Stockholm street.
Brooklyn: Maurice Katz, 14s5 Vyse ave-
rue, The Bronx.